Question re Mullvad Browser
Hi there,...
Reddit CEO is doing an AMA today (www.reddit.com)
I first saw the announcment in r/save3rdpartyapps (my only sub). The AMA is taking place at r/reddit, no time was given, just says "today"
I’ve just created c/libreboot, please feel free to join! (sopuli.xyz)
How Do You Play Video Games While Maximizing Privacy?
I’m a firm believer that inching towards a more private life and future is a good thing in and of itself. However, I also believe that striving for a healthy social life and finding individual happiness is very important....
Alternative to Google Pay
I have to manage multiple bank cards, and if I lost them, I would have a major problem. I've been using Google Pay to pay via NFC....
YouTube legal team contacted Invidious (github.com)
You're hypocrites
Why do you use Crowdin (proprietary, bad for privacy) instead of Weblate (libre, privacy-friendly)...
Yahoo data breach settlement just paid out...
...but I apparently had opted to receive payment through Venmo. Now Venmo wants me to set up a business account. Any idea what's up with that?
Reminder to backup your cloud password manager
Never rely on any cloud service! A good cloud based password manager is end to end encrypted meaning the password manager provider cannot access your passwords and they are secured from the provider and any compromise of the provider. But you do not only need confidentiality but also reliability. The cloud is just someone else's...
Open source is no guarantee for security or privacy. It is a prerequisit.
Just because software is open source does not mean someone is actually looking at the code. But depending on the software there are incentives to do so. Some people might be technologically interested on the way a software does something and look at the source code for that. Some people might want to check the benignity for...
RSS Feed Generator
I am still new to privacy, please steer me. I see that many use RSS feeds to get their news. I was trying to use neuters as a front end to get my RSS feed started and cannot get it going....
Berty Messenger, a Cross-Platform Open Source Decentralized Messaging App That Can Work Offline Over Bluetooth (berty.tech)
Has anyone here tried the Berty Messenger app? It's a cross-platform encrypted messenger with the ability to communicate over Bluetooth. I'm really impressed with how capable it is already, but wouldn't rely on it for anything too sensitive in it's early state. To me, it looks like a great way to send offline messages in the...
uBlock Origin v1.50.0 released (github.com)
Pluralistic: Tiktok’s enshittification (21 Jan 2023) (pluralistic.net)
Compile with AI
Hello everyone,...
Has anyone heard of freenet? (freenet.org)
I saw a post on r/privacy from the founder, and it caught my attention. What do you guys think of it?
Try not to be evil (jottings.lol)
Millions of Gigabyte Motherboards Were Sold With a Firmware Backdoor (www.wired.com)
cross-posted from: https://feddit.de/post/721048...
I'm in. Welcome to the world of tomorrow!!
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Reminder to check whether you have old accounts that you might have forgotten about
You might have old accounts especially cloud accounts that are just idling abandoned while still holding personal information. They might have old weak passwords just waiting to get compromised. Same goes for old email addresses that you do not use anymore but are still linked to other accounts. This is a reminder to check...
Spectre Meltdown Checker (Linux & BSD) (gothub.projectsegfau.lt)
You can't have privacy without security...
What's actually going on with GrapheneOS at the moment?
I've seen the post saying that the lead developer is stepping down, I've seen his accusations of abuse. I've seen enormous write-ups which make questionable claims about how he's the devil himself. I've seen a lot of rumour and hearsay, and now I've got no idea what to think....