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by newscracker 1mo ago
Meta would have a field day with this change, since it was the company that was most upset and angry when ATT was introduced. Considering that ATT was about sharing an identifier to “track across other companies' apps and websites” (te
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by newscracker 2mo ago
My use of Reddit also drastically reduced after Apollo stopped working (I didn’t follow the instructions that many others have been to sideload the app, configure with an API token, etc.). But I found a couple of ways to browse without usin
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by newscracker 4mo ago
> The attack seems to work by spanning various instructions that if run through macOS’s Terminal utility could steal stored credentials from Chromium-based browsers along with data from cryptocurrency wallets, placing them into a zip arc
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by newscracker 5mo ago
I’ve used Wire in the past and liked that it uses email addresses for registration (as pointed out in this article). Wire also had multi-device message sync long before Signal did. But on a different point, Wire is inferior to Signal. Signa
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by newscracker 6mo ago
> But when readers realised that Meta was trying to suppress it, the book became a global phenomenon. To date we’ve sold almost 200,000 copies. The number of copies sold seems quite low for this book. It’s difficult to believe that acros
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by newscracker 6mo ago
> HTML entities are often decoded automatically by server-side libraries, which means that even the most basic harvesters can get your email addresses without any special effort. This technique should be worthless—and, yet, it still stop
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by newscracker 6mo ago
The promise is that it informs you quickly about flight delays, flight cancellations and gate changes. In my limited experience, it didn’t work satisfactorily for a flight delay of a few hours. It could not provide any reliable updates. It’
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by newscracker 6mo ago
In a way, this is like saying that one trusts total strangers in some random large tech company and total strangers in government agencies to read and/or manipulate conversations that kids have. This also paves the way to disallow E2EE
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by newscracker 6mo ago
> “My Location Ledger” https://apps.apple.com/us/app/my-location-ledger/id675780680 ... How can anyone trust such an application that declares in the App Store listing as “Data Not Collected”?
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by newscracker 6mo ago
Do you have any recommended links for such a setup? I don’t connect my TV to the network and use it with an Apple TV. But I’m interested to know more on this.
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by newscracker 6mo ago
> Is there any smart TV that I can actually just use a TV how I want? I’ve heard that large computer monitors and TVs intended to be used as displays can be used without connecting them to a network. > Or am I reduced to buying an App
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by newscracker 6mo ago
But the Nvidia Shield has (or had?) ads from Google, right? I recall there was news coverage and some uproar when this happened a few years ago.
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by newscracker 7mo ago
This is quite surprising to me, since I thought the percentage would be a lot lesser. But I don’t really know what the Firefox team does with crash reports and in making Firefox almost crash proof. I have been using it at work on Windows
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by newscracker 7mo ago
> Try to beat this: https://fingerprint.com I don’t know, but it seems like it’s overselling its capabilities. I tried with Firefox Focus and it said I’m using incognito (private mode) and assigned a unique visitor ID. Immedi
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by newscracker 7mo ago
When I use Windows, Everything is one of the first tools I install. I also disable Windows search and indexing. I use this with Keypirinha [1], which is a launcher (kinda like Quicksilver [2] on Mac) that integrates with Everything using th
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by newscracker 8mo ago
It doesn’t explicitly state anything about the email contents in the privacy policy page. People generally trust their email providers to not snoop in their emails. I wonder why anyone should trust a cloud based service (such as this).
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by newscracker 8mo ago
If you have a Pro or Pro Max model of iPhone from the last several years, it has a LiDAR that allows the pre-installed Measure app to measure lengths/heights, etc., using the camera. Several higher end Android phones may also have the
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by newscracker 9mo ago
> You can search "!w Gabriel Weinberg" and it will open the Wikipedia article because of the leading exclamation mark and w Just for anyone else who isn’t aware, the bang commands can be anywhere in the search string, and need
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by newscracker 9mo ago
I love that duck.ai provides a more private way to use different smaller and medium (?) scale LLMs. I don’t like the duck.ai interface much (choosing a different LLM is not easy once you’re already in a conversation), but I use it a lot mor
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by newscracker 10mo ago
A couple of quick observations and comments after skimming through this (some of these are mentioned or hinted at in the RFC). With HTTPS used almost everywhere, using this QUERY method (when standardized) could prevent bookmarking specific
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by newscracker 10mo ago
I read through this. I don't think Proton Mail is a good replacement for Signal (it's worse because Proton does log and share IP addresses of users with a court order). One thing I dislike about Signal on its privacy posture is th
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by newscracker 10mo ago
Never on iOS or any other Apple platform. Signal is designed not to be able to backup to iCloud either. The only option iOS users have had over the last few years is to do a device to device transfer where both phones are expected to be in
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by newscracker 10mo ago
> Wherever you can host something like WordPress, you can host Campfire I’m going to be pedantic here, but this statement is not true. I host a website on a provider that allows WordPress (PHP) along with MySQL, but > System requirem
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by newscracker 11mo ago
I feel what this article says based on some recent (non-catastrophic) experiences. I think I’m probably an above average user when it comes to Excel skills. I love spreadsheets. But I struggle with formulas like index, match, vlookup&#x2F
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by newscracker 1y ago
Authenticate where? How does the authentication prove that the intended recipient is the one who has clicked on the link and should be able to view? What happens if the email is forwarded with the link? What should one do to forward the ema
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by newscracker 1y ago
Last I checked, Proton Mail does not support standard email client protocols. So you’re stuck with its apps and a browser interface or with buying a paid subscription and using a bridge software on desktop to use a client like Thunderbird.
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by newscracker 1y ago
The one thing I don’t like about both Proton and Tuta is that they don’t support IMAP. Users of these platforms would find it a bit more difficult to move their emails out of the system if they wish to.
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by newscracker 1y ago
For mail hosting, take a look at Posteo.de (no custom domains though), mailbox.org, runbox.com, mailfence, migadu, and cranemail. All these are cheaper and a lot more affordable than something like Fastmail. All of them support IMAP, using
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by newscracker 1y ago
Chat messages with some people can hold a lot of value. Nostalgia, recalling past incidents/events, missing someone, etc. Sometimes even the most trivial of messages can be looked at with fondness and longing. I’m personally very glad
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by newscracker 1y ago
I feel there’s very little hope for privacy and freedom if people like the author — who claim to be for privacy and understand the implications of digital payments — choose cards all the time “because it’s convenient”. Convenience and coerc

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