And just like Jarvis, he’ll have access to that commenters personal data, and so much more! Fuck Google. Fuck a lot of them but fuck Google in particular.

I used to be the same way where I utilized LinkedIn and I’ve been on the platform for a long time, but the hoarding of data and now their partnership with Amazon to access that data, I’m just sick of being for sale, especially since we don’t even profit from it ourselves! It’s OUR data from OUR lives, yet we’re not allowed to keep it ours. So, I finally ditched it a couple months ago.

I know it has value, but I’m going to utilize a federated version or stand up my own Domain and link it that way.

What do you do for people with no social media? And I’m not talking its private, or hidden, I’m straight up talking someone does not exist online. I’ve got no SM for 10+ years, within the last year no reddit, Imgur, not even a LinkedIn or indeed anymore. Honestly, when I had LinkedIn, its full of self-righteous assholes, humble bragging, and corporate brown-nosers. It’s toxic work culture IMO.

But say I found a job posting or heard of your company and applied directly on the portal, is that a deal breaker?

You honestly could get a Lenovo tiny PC with 2 bay so-dimm RAM. I’ve got a i5-10500T and 32GB DDR 4 RAM with 2TB NVMe and 2x 2TB SSDs for various stuff. You can loaf A LOT on those since it’s not Windows. Maybe lol into Yunohost for apps, or ZimaOS.

Wouldn’t surprise me. It’s a good thing the attic at work is a graveyard of old servers and PCs…I might rehome some

Feels like a class action waiting to happen… However, it’d likely only result in a slap-on-the-wrist fines and no action taken.

I’m off all social media (over 10 years) off reddit for 6+months (banned), closed LinkedIn (2-3mo ago and sick of the data siphoning) closed Imgur about 4-5 months ago (just because). It- honest to God, is SO freeing!

I’m only on my phone for work calls, maybe a few email (use rotating addresses to cut spam), and a game or two from F-Droid if I have spare time. Otherwise it’s just a few Lemmy pages about privacy, security, or self-hosted… My 4+ year old phone battery still lasts about 1.5-2 days with mostly WiFi and BT, some GPS and data. It’s nice it lasts so long.

Most other free time is family or maybe hobby stuff.

Yes, just like political and racial divide, it’s all a distraction from class warfare happening.

This is a “trust me bro” vibe from Google. Guess sites will just have to deal with a drop in traffic. Cuz they’re not getting any more data from me if I can help it

My recommendation to many newcomers:

Setup Yunohost, which gives you a custom Debian-based OS that’s easy to deploy tested builds, like Rustdesk. You can configure your Domain info, DNS, etc pretty easily, and if you decide, a dynamic domain or Porkbun (cuz is cheap plus free private WHOIS and SSL certs).

Yes, a small learning curve, but easier than building from Docker when you know nothing about Docker nor have the time to learn. I can fumble through a UI, I can’t fumble with commands or code that I don’t instinctively know. Others who day “just take the time to learn Docker”… But I’ve got 2 jobs, kids and their activities, pets, and other hobbies, so not much time for other stuff.

You know how bad it was to buy just a SIM card lately? Really hard! Walmart doesn’t sell them, Best Buy doesn’t have just SIM card for sale anymore unless it’s “Simple mobile” “Ultra wireless” or some shoddy NVMO. or Mint, but Mint doesn’t do mobile hotspot plans 😮‍💨.

My best guess, I’m going to buy a Tracfone SIM probably, bc it supports T-Mobile, AT&T, and Verizon, and their cheapest plan is $10/mo for 1GB data which is mostly for emergencies anyway since I use WiFi at home and work.

I think people reject that it’s as bad as they’re told because that don’t like to believe it’s that bad, or that there’s no way companies would do that to them. People don’t accept being told “you’re making a big mistake” and to feel dumb about it.

That’s my take. I had somebody at work ask what I do regarding privacy and I realized I lit up with excitement to share and had to immediately dial it back to not freak them out. I started out small and simple and emailed them since basics after chatting. Said, if they wanted additional info let me know " so that it’s up to them to continue the journey (down the rabbit hole lol).

But just glad to see others gaining the knowledge. My journey wasn’t immediate, it’s gradual, so I have to be mindful of their process too.

A 5-day, 40 hour work week “standard”

Somebody saying “bless you” to someone else who sneezes

The president

Someone should do a write up for pihole vs adguard vs technitium vs eBlockerOS

https://eblocker.org/en/ (German product?) (BTW you’re all welcome that I showed you a new thing)

Edit May 7: eBlockerOS seems geared towards better packet* inspection, hidden trackers protection, and fingerprinting. You can install a HTTPS cert* on your current machine so it does MITM packet inspection where it can scan*, inspect, and reencrypt from the looks of it.

Im probably going to run this at work on my test environment to see how well it does overall. Maybe less granular control, but I like is more* than just an adblocker like pihole.

Bitdefender has a good free version, and so does Sophos (or at least they used to)

Ah, good catch. Well it’s too bad.

Do you have a reading mode button at the top? I just enable reading mode (But in Waterfox) and it starts to function without paywalls or popups.

Wants privacy and security, posts in GitHub lol. Jk sort of. In all seriousness, it’s an interesting project I’m going to check out. Thanks for the hard work.

Edit: fixed your link https://github.com/pablo-chacon/the-substrate

2 solutions:

1. I’m the same way but on my end table or night stand or whatever, I just scoot my phone towards the top enough so several inches of cord are supported.
2. Charge it before bed or while you get ready in the morning. It’s not good to leave it sit on charge all night anyway. My phone down to maybe 20% in the morning, and the hour I get ready and 20 minute commute, I can get to 70-80% NP.

I always feel if the cord goes over the top when you wake up to grab it and pull down you end up pulling the cord out of the phone anyway because the cord has resistance hanging off the end. Though, the cord I use is a heavier duty one I’ve had for years with a braided sheath to protect it, that might also add weight making it difficult and drag more.

That’s an unfortunate waste of cheese