No, I didn’t let him take the picture and send it to who knows who :P

He also wanted me to sign up because he would get a referral bonus, but I’m good.

I wouldn’t be surprised if they have managers and assistant managers, with junior vice managers and branch assistant junior vice executive managers, with some millions of budget for market research and ads, and it was the unpaid internship guy that handled the YT acc though

Kinda funny they probably have a huge department with a huge budget made specifically for YouTube and whoever was handling uploading stuff failed to tick a box lol

My biggest beef when someone asks a question about improving security and privacy on a commercial OS and people say “just buy a Pixel/Fairphone” is that, besides not really answering the question, it complete ignores reality outside first world countries.

Mastodon has a lot of users, but I’d block the most political instances if that’s something that could ragebait her. Fediverse mods aren’t paid to give a fuck so the ban hammer comes easy… just block instances that are pro stuff she doesn’t like.

I’d rather play with sticks from my backyard than install epic launcher.

The data they can hand is your acc creation information and which IP accessed the email. They can’t hand email content because of zero knowledge encryption, and they can’t hand VPN traffic because it’s not logged and they can’t be forced to log it. https://protonvpn.com/support/no-logs-vpn/

I don’t get why they never suggest making it completely public every email, phone call and bank transaction of politicians and judges then… also, please, force them to wear a chip so we can always know their location… it’s ok to give it some hours of delay for security reasons, we just need to know where you have been to, no need to worry if you have nothing to hide.

Short, concise and precise, pretty much gold standard for a title… everyone accusing of clickbait, what?

• yes, he is going to prison for building a privacy tool, I’m sorry that you have read actual clickbait titles before, but he was not charged with money laundering, he wasn’t even charged of being involved with any money laundering scheme, the sole reason he was arrested was for building a tool that can be used for illegal activity. Let’s hope they don’t go after the Tor Project and Tails OS with such claims too.
• yes, OP could have made a short description in the post like saying who, what tool, what charge, etc.

Why the massive downvotes here? I think bitcoin is bullshit as much as the next lemming, but the whole situation you may cheer now because it’s a cryptobro getting fucked is what is going to happen to you tomorrow.

Summary: Guy basically made a Tor for crypto so transactions can’t be directly linked between users, and the government charged him with a bunch of bullshit claims and completely ignored the law to destroy it. Yeah, there is some PR stunt going on now with a presidential pardon, but that doesn’t mean the service is going back up.

In countries like mine, subjected to USA imperialism, USA puppets are already equating drug dealers to terrorists, and they also equate immigrants and refugees to drug dealers, so guess what?

If you visit the Tails website you are already put on a list of extremists, probably if you use Tor as well, it won’t be hard for any of the privacy tools you like to make you be called a terrorist too, Graphene is for criminals, isn’t it? We are just on whim away from a powerful asshole to decided that, because even if you believe you are “playing by the rules”, laws don’t matter. If it didn’t matter even for rich cryptobros trying to secure privacy for their users, imagine for you and your wishes of privacy?

I wonder how long before someone says “Having to wait for security patches to be made only when new exploits are discovered is inefficient, we need an AI agent running all the time, inspecting every command, to respond immediately if an exploit is found.” and then they just stop security patches and you need that AI crap consuming ram and energy like hell while sending all your data to the mothership.

I absolutely disagree about unplayable

Last month it was about 50 movies and it was a high number - I also don’t download horror or Hallmark-like stuff.

Manually. There is this group I follow, every end of the month I check what they uploaded throughout the month (their posts have the IMDB score).

I pirate monthly every IMDB 6+ movie and series that got dubs in my language and send an HDD to my father, who only has a cheap cellphone internet plan.

lol the AI toy teaching kids how to BDSM, and yet that’s one of the least dangerous things about letting AI raise our kids

I just rebooted to give an example… in less than 1 minute Edge WebView alone tried about 400 connections (everything red in the graph was blocked)

In the last few months I saw so many new services being added to Win11, connecting to so many new domains… WindowsSpyBlocker, that a lot of people use with the DNS, is awfully outdated, and unless stuff like Sophia Script, Win-Debloat-Tools, winutil, O&O Shutup were updated recently (like 1 or 2 months tops) it’s also outdated.

Microsoft is also constantly changing how stuff works, intertwining stuff so you can’t fully remove without breaking functionality. You used to get media expansion packs (stuff like av1, avif and webp support) through updates or you could download them from their site or use a Powershell command to install them, now you are forced to do it through the MS Store, and guess what happens if you uninstall the MS Store? (at least, a few months ago when I got a new Win11 install, removing MS Store removed the packages). Probably a lot of Edge removing tools are broken by now too, if you watch your network you gonna see Microsoft Edge WebView 2 calling tons of domains all the time, and if you remove it you kill your internet connection entirely (you can, however, block it on the firewall. It used to be just one service, but with some recent update it’s four different services you have to block now).

What I’d recommend is manually uninstalling all the bloat you can, then running Get-AppxPackage on Powershell to find whatever crap is still lurking and removing it with Get-AppxPackage -Name “PackageName” | Remove-AppxPackage (don’t remove what you are not sure what it is for, search or ask AI when in doubt, and some stuff you won’t be able to remove anyway), then execute msconfig to disable other crap you may also find there (again, be careful with that) and lastly get a program like simplewall or Portmaster to block Windows communication at firewall level (Portmaster has a very friendly UI) - the problem is, each update Microsoft includes new services, and you should let stuff like Wuauserv, Do Svc, Crypt Svc and BITS open because they handle updates, but always check what the domains they are connecting to are for… still, even though they may not be for telemetry, they could totally be sending telemetry data through them, so there is no way to use Windows safely.

simplewall/Portmaster can completely cut the communication of Adobe, Nvidia and whatever other program you use, so you’d technically look like you are offline to them - if you need to use their online features, or they need online authentication to even run (evil as fuck), I don’t think you will be able to escape data collection.

I gotta move out of lemmy.ml. It took me a while to understand it wasn’t “removedat” but “bit chat” :P