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- on GrapheneOS Isn't Happy With Google Over Pixel's Widening Head Start in c/opensource@lemmy.ml · 3h ago
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on Ban AI Slop? in c/opensource@lemmy.ml · 1d ago
Yeah that’s the problem: accepting that there is some other failure happening, broadly defined as a lack of “q” factor, forces people to grapple with the fact that open source has historically been the purview of the bad programmers self promoting their learning projects.
There are cases to the contrary of course and that’s not the rule, but no one cared about these behaviors until now and their care is all focused on ai use as opposed to the behaviors of the programmer in question.
Your response is a perfect example: even though you’re declaring what the person is responsible for you can’t articulate what the consequences of that responsibility are.
I’m not picking on you either, this has been a problem for thirty years, oh you just graduated? Grind away at the gnu tools or some open source stuff so you have something to point at in interviews. Youre reimplementing an x feature in windows having finished a book on c++? Throw it up on sourceforge.
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on What are the better places to get a domain without any selling data nonsense? in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 1d ago
What indeed!
Why what stops law enforcement from simply telling dns providers, with the force of a judges order behind them, that “your” domain should point to their servers which proclaim it to have been seized, or which clandestinely record the comings and goings of “your” visitors?
Has this ever happened in the past, and if so, what resources and mechanisms were put into play to accomplish it? Is this series of events a concern of yours?
These questions and more, not answered by me!
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on Ban AI Slop? in c/opensource@lemmy.ml · 2d ago
Since speaking directly to the proposed change didn’t do much, here’s an alternative to “banning ai slop”:
Ban the thing that’s happening. If there are too many “low effort” posts, ban low effort posting. If there are too many posts about non open source packages, ban posting about non open source software. If you really don’t want people self promoting with open source (a thing they’ve been doing for decades!) then ban self promotion.
The problem with all the things I just suggested is that they require serious consideration on the part of a moderator. “Is this post too low effort?”, “is this person promoting themselves in a way the community doesnt want?” and “is this post even about open source?” Are questions that require moderator effort. “Was the repo signed by Claude?” Takes no effort to answer.
Of course kicking kids out of the sandbox for not playing right kind of defeats the purpose of a sandbox and placing unnecessarily high barriers to entry on the commons defeats the purpose of a commons but what the hell do I know…
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on good private vr? (i hate meta but im not rich) in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 2d ago
Our self perception can sometimes betray us.
I believe myself to be a kind and thoughtful person who earnestly tries to help others but it doesn’t always come across that way to them, especially in text.
I’m afraid you might be experiencing the same thing I do. While it’s incredibly clear to you what you’re asking about in the post titled simply “good vr?” with two short sentences for a body that give no indication what you’re actually asking or hoping to accomplish or under what constraints, it’s basically indecipherable to other people.
People reading what you write don’t know what you know, and can’t know unless you tell them. It can be a lot of work to do that, but people use that work to judge how serious you are about getting their help and for that reason you will get more and better quality help if you take the time to write out clearly what you want.
The people who have lots of experience will also be able to understand what you want and be able to use their experience to help you instead of just ignoring your incomprehensible requests.
A long time ago when irc was the norm for linux support chat there were very explicit rules about asking for help intended to curb people logging on and asking “it doesn’t work, what do!” At the time I struggled to adapt to the extremely formal constraints placed upon me when asking for help in that medium. Now, with the ability to analyze and describe problems myself I can quickly get assistance in that medium (and still do, I used irc help to resolve an issue last week) on the off chance that my problem solving skills don’t cut the mustard.
You are able to simply blast out quick posts but you may find that taking a little more time nets you better results :)
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on What are the better places to get a domain without any selling data nonsense? in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 2d ago
If you want to actually “get” a domain name from icann, you are required to give them identifying information. There is no way around that. Except for the part at the end of this reply.
You can go through incognito or njalla and maybe even someone else, but at that point it’s “their” domain and you’re just renting it. The difference may matter for your purposes. Think critically about what you are trying to avoid and accomplish.
It’s not clear to me what you as a self identifying European expect to accomplish by not verifying your id with a group that asks for it in order to comply with the privacy law you imply you’d prefer to have the protections of. This is another area where I would encourage you to think critically about what you’re trying to accomplish and what material conditions surround you.
If you don’t want to do all that, just break the law. There’s a bigass database of ids from a breach of some company that does in person id scanning. Each one is a few bucks and you could easily pose as one of those people.
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on good private vr? (i hate meta but im not rich) in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 2d ago
I don’t vote but it’s an ambiguous title and post body that really seems low effort.
There’s forums where low effort is accepted but they seem to be the exception rather than the norm.
It could also be that everyone is on a witch hunt for ai agents and posing as a child is a great way to get away with doing agent shit.
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on GrapheneOS Isn't Happy With Google Over Pixel's Widening Head Start in c/opensource@lemmy.ml · 2d ago
Huh?
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on Ban AI Slop? in c/opensource@lemmy.ml · 3d ago
Because someone will just make c/realopensource and more people will post there than here.
You’re describing a situation where fewer people adopt ai tools for programming or the adoption rate stays the same. That seems unrealistic. I guess you could also be describing a situation where lots of lemmy users start programming and avoid this community because of its ai ban. That seems like it would be bad though, surely you don’t want a bad thing to happen…
Basing the path of a community on what will be tolerated or even boosted by its most vocal members is not necessarily the best choice.
A better path is probably to make a dedicated hand coding community and use that instead of hijacking the extant open source community.
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on GrapheneOS Isn't Happy With Google Over Pixel's Widening Head Start in c/opensource@lemmy.ml · 3d ago
I honestly see it the opposite way. Graphene is doing their level best to turn Android into iOS with none of the benefits.
They’re doing all the stuff apple did for hardware except they can’t make their own so they’re chasing stuff with the security features of iphones, they’re rewriting the system apps to take advantage of those features (like apple did) but they don’t have the benefit of a cloud data system or oversight of their app marketplace.
I use graphene and ios daily. It’s really interesting how they’re going about all this.
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on Ban AI Slop? in c/opensource@lemmy.ml · 3d ago
If you adopt a hardline anti ai stance you will just have to reverse it or become an unused backwater.
E: tagging is also stupid because a tag is self imposed and doesn’t discriminate between a person who is careful or otherwise.
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on GrapheneOS Isn't Happy With Google Over Pixel's Widening Head Start in c/opensource@lemmy.ml · 3d ago
I use both graphene and ios and graphene on pixels is even slower than pixels are by default.
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on Letsencrypt is under US jurisdiction. Is there a free-er alternative? in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world · 3d ago
You need to restructure your priorities.
Or use a ca, vps and dns provider that’s hostile to the west.
It’s not a question of supporting “freedom” and if you insist that it is, I will gladly provide all those services to you for a slight markup (price of freedom!).
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on What do you do for a modern car? in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 6d ago
Toyotas after around 08 have a bunch of telemetry.
That’s not to say your family shouldn’t get one. Often people need a recent car from a reliable manufacturer that will hold its value. Just that you gotta be aware of it.
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on Which VPN do you use and why? in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 17 Sep 2026
You can add “mixnet often not the right choice and available for free through tor if needed.”
Even compared to companies owned by former idf cybersec unit members nym feels the most like a honeypot. Historically speaking that means it’s probably a bunch of true believers being manipulated by a handler working fifteen minutes a day on them.
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on What do you do for online shopping? in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 15 Sep 2026
P.O. Box is good advice, blind boxes are better, not being a paranoid schizophrenic and recognizing that you exist and interactions with other entities prove your existence is even better than that.
Possibly best is just making a deal where you have packages delivered to your neighbor in exchange for mowing their lawn or something.
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on Which VPN do you use and why? in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 15 Sep 2026
Mullvad is what I point people at when they say what you just did.
It’s simple to use, straightforward in pricing and you can’t screw up signing up in a way that surfaces more of your personal information than is necessary. The apps are also actually good if you need to use them which shouldn’t be as big of a deal as it is but speaking from many years of experience with different VPNs, it is.
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on Which VPN do you use and why? in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 15 Sep 2026
Mullvad for stuff that matters. Which is 24/7 on all devices.
Airvpn for piracy and only for piracy.
Ivpn, windscribe, proton or whoever else isn’t obviously an idf cutout and running a deal for scraping and bypassing geoblocks.
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on Suggestions for service for real time collaboration in spreadsheets in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 15 Sep 2026
You’d probably be surprised.
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on Suggestions for service for real time collaboration in spreadsheets in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 15 Sep 2026
Pen and paper is probably the right choice here.
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on What do you do for email? in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 15 Sep 2026
Mainly ignore it till someone calls me and asks “did you see that email?”
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on how to dns over https in tor? in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 14 Sep 2026
You can’t do that with tor browser.
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on OC: How I Removed the Mic Component from 2 Remotes in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 13 Sep 2026
I have never seen any implementation of a microphone that has “critical” components in series with it.
I’d advise against that from an engineering perspective because microphone failure is often a break in the conductive path and standard troubleshooting of non audio in failures generally doesn’t place a high priority on checking mics for continuity.
Even on a throwaway component like a remote, requiring microphone continuity would introduce unnecessary complexity and more chance for problems.
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on What to do with photos? in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 13 Sep 2026
Settings -> your name -> icloud -> saved to icloud -> photos “off”.
Turn on advanced data protection.
Back up your photos first.
I also do not store photos on icloud so I understand that a person might want that.
Why do you want that?
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on OC: How I Removed the Mic Component from 2 Remotes in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 13 Sep 2026
I feel like I’m taking crazy pills reading all these threads where people take pliers to their tv remotes.
Just use a razor blade to cut the traces. If you don’t know that you got them use a multimeter beep test to measure on either side of your cut.
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on should i worry about a microphone in a third-party usb tv remote for a mini pc that im planning on using? in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 13 Sep 2026
The remote requires host device intervention in order to trigger recording so unless you plan on enabling recording functionality the lg remote should be fine. Assuming you like the lg remote.
Of course, there’s nothing wrong with using an ir receiver on your mini pc and your existing tv remote, especially if it has the device selection buttons at the top like “tv, dvd, etc”. In some ways that’s easier to understand and handle for an end user.
I have done Linux media pcs for the past 25 years. If you want a project you will indeed get a project. It is not fun. If you have a specific goal in mind for your Linux streaming box I can most likely offer experience and insight.
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on I am asked for Gmail in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 13 Sep 2026
The way to solve the problem you have is to maintain a receptacle specifically for untrusted interactions. You might try to minimize them but they will eventually become unavoidable like now.
Back in the day before email it was called a blind box and you’d rent it at the post office.
In your situation you’d just keep a second phone/number.
It costs more money, there isn’t a free alternative or do it yourself method.
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on Phone for travel: Samsung Galaxy A10e in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 12 Sep 2026
I hope you encounter no problems.
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on Phone for travel: Samsung Galaxy A10e in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 12 Sep 2026
I’m really trying to be super nice here so please give me the benefit of the doubt and read this post in the kindliest voice you can:
The generation of data transmission standard supported is separate from the band of radio frequencies which are allowed in a given jurisdiction. You can do 4g lte for example over several different swaths of the spectrum with no problem as long as the devices are all talking on the same frequencies.
Not all phones allow for transmission across all frequencies. This means that a phone could have a radio chipset that’s band limited in such a way that it can’t function in a different country where the electromagnetic spectrum is portioned up differently.
When I say radio here I’m talking about transmission of data in the range of frequencies used by mobile phone wireless carriers.
I’m, again, trying to be kind and helpful here: if you haven’t already, it may behove you to directly contact the company you intend to buy a sim from (or purchase an eSIM from) and verify by checking your device’s imei or serial that it is 100% compatible with the radio spectrum used for cellular data transmission in your destination.
Manufacturers use the same model number with different radio capabilities or even radio chips all the time.
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on Phone for travel: Samsung Galaxy A10e in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 12 Sep 2026
I mean the cell frequencies.
They’re different from place to place and if your phone doesn’t have a compatible radio (cell data signals are radio waves) then you won’t be able to connect to the towers where you’re going!
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on should i worry about a microphone in a third-party usb tv remote for a mini pc that im planning on using? in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 12 Sep 2026
The magic remotes work on Linux without an lg tv but require an lg tv if you’re not hooking them to Linux. That means you won’t have the gyroscopic cursor control if the remote is communicating directly with the non lg tv but if it’s communicating directly with your Linux computer then you will have gyroscopic cursor control.
If you don’t understand that distinction or how to handle it I recommend you don’t bet on having that feature.
You can’t remove or destroy the mic without taking the remote apart. Often remotes use many mics because it’s cheaper to use four shitty ones and run them into unused dsp channels than to use one good one, so you don’t even know if you got em all. The other benefit of many mics is that they work even when one is not in the optimal position to receive inputs like left handed holding or in a bin of other remotes.
Even if you did take the remote apart there’s no guarantee you would correctly recognize the microphones. On this very site is a highly upvoted post of a person triumphantly holding a resistor network and proclaiming they removed the mic from their remote. Next to the populated component labeled “m3”. M for microphone. 3 for the third one…
That person isn’t stupid and I’m not making fun of them. That resistor network may have been connected to the mic and removing it may have achieved what they wanted. My point is that it’s hard to read and interpret a pcb and it’s silkscreen especially when you don’t have specialized experience.
What you may have overlooked is the appletv4k. It’s really cheap and very functional. It is generally considered the most privacy respecting off the shelf streaming device. It doesn’t require any fucking around.
However you’d have to have your own jellyfin or plex server. Not that that’s hard, I got a sixteen year old pc in a closet that serves multiple streams very easily.
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on Phone for travel: Samsung Galaxy A10e in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 12 Sep 2026
Does it work with the radio frequencies used in the area you’re traveling to?
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on I got a new router,what do? in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 11 Sep 2026
I think that dnssec link is broke.
Also vlans for devices that aren’t trusted. Mac filtering is for sorting and automatically appropriately provisioning the good boy things you want on the network, a derek zoolander vlan for untrustworthy devices that need their requests selectively dropped is for everything you hate.
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on I got a new router,what do? in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 11 Sep 2026
Cake aqm and doh+dnssec
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on GrapheneOS defends use of AI for coding in c/technology@lemmy.world · 10 Sep 2026
Hey, I think ai can be a useful tool and I use both cloud hosted and local models.
The ecological impact is god awful.
Datacenters run on fossil fuel turbines to meet demand when there isn’t enough capacity on the grid or just 24/7 because the residents of the nearby municipality said they don’t want brownouts.
Fundamentally ai datacenters transform expensive to transmit electricity into cheap to transmit data, financializing what was previously a relatively insulated commodity whose pricing and production reflect local demand into a globally traded commodity whose pricing and production reflect global demand.
If you don’t have a background in the history of industry and environment: that’s bad news for the environment (and anyone who relies on stable power rates).
Production of ai computing components requires mining rare earth minerals and phenomenal amounts of power. This is the same process with nearly the same inputs as the production of general purpose computing parts (if you leave off the increased rare earths needed to mitigate electromigration in single digit nanometer processes!) but the increased demand has already brought more fabs up to meet it meaning more use of resources and energy in production before the first kilowatt of inference is run on those chips.
Turbine blades for datacenter generators are also limited by production and are currently years out for delivery. These are components produced by advanced aerospace manufacturing shops which use massive amounts of energy to shape alloys of metals that have to be yanked out of the ground and smelted into some esoteric type of steel or aluminum first.
So even without the water concerns datacenters have tremendous impact on the environment.
But the water concerns are legitimate. Swamp chillers divert flowing water into the air where it is blown anywhere but where it would have flowed. Which is fine if you aren’t downstream of one I guess.
All this is to say: if you don’t care about the impacts you can rationalize that however you like, but they exist.
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on Your reminder to remove the microphone from your TV remote today in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 9 Sep 2026
“Nx” is usually a resistor “n”etwork. The mic is probably something else, it could be the M designators or even a “t”ransducer.
Anyway you may find that the remote uses a bunch of mics. Once you’re no longer trying to catch sound in a way that will be discernible to human ears it can become an order of magnitude cheaper to send several fraction of a cent mics into the 69 dsp channels every fucking soc has nowadays. You’re getting the silicon for free, might as well use it.
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on Your reminder to remove the microphone from your TV remote today in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 9 Sep 2026
Uhh, did you remove “n2” or “m4” lol?
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on Your reminder to remove the microphone from your TV remote today in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 9 Sep 2026
Minidisc headphones did this. I did it as a project as a young child.
They’re the same.
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on Anyway to install Linux or some other OS on my smart TVs? in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 9 Sep 2026
lol at the whole thread full of incorrect no answers. This place is Reddit as fuck.
Tell me your model and I can look around for more specific resources.
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on How to safely use javascript? in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 8 Sep 2026
Just change your definition of safety.
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on For those looking to migrate away from Mullvad VPN, what are some alternatives that the community recommends? in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 7 Sep 2026
Mozilla vpn used to be a rebrand of mullvad. Might still be.
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on Shutting down our public encrypted DNS servers and sponsoring Quad9 instead | Mullvad VPN in c/technology@lemmy.world · 7 Sep 2026
There isn’t a comparable service.
If you don’t need what mullvad is selling then there are others out there but the landscape is hard to navigate if you don’t understand what you’re there for and how to choose what you give out.
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on SHOULD you use vpn and tor? in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 6 Sep 2026
You just need a vpn. Based on your other tech support threads you need the one with the fewest ways to mess up (I do too). You should try mullvad. If it turns out that you have to shuffle around different servers too often and can’t tolerate being blocked, switch to a geofencing bypass style vpn like nord or something.
Bear in mind I’m recommending mullvad because it’s really hard to use it in an unsafe way, which it unique in the vpn world. If you go with something else you’ll have to make sure you understand the choices you’re making which is often a tall order.
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on Looking for a secondary cheap phone for travel, any recommendations? in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 6 Sep 2026
If you want to have a different Android device then your only real choice for crossing a border is graphene, assuming you care about not being detained the maximum amount of time that is legal while they apply celebrite to your phone.
In this circumstance it’s not out of the range of possibilities for dhs to get a warrant (they don’t need it if the place is close enough to a land border or international airport) and search your home or business where you left your current personal phone. They will have the home address from your passport (it’s illegal to not update it!) and will likely have no problem locating your place of business.
The problem with graphene at border crossings is that it’s made the news a bunch lately and an agent could see simply having a phone with graphene as probable cause, especially if you act like a weirdo.
The above is the reason I suggested ios devices. They resist cellebrite and look normal.
If you literally just want an android phone that you can use on vacation instead of your usual one, I hope you find some good input and resolve your needs.
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on Looking for a secondary cheap phone for travel, any recommendations? in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 6 Sep 2026
It kinda depends on what your goal is. I tend to point people towards iphones in this situation because they don’t attract attention and can be easily secured. If you absolutely gotta have Android the best choice is a pixel with graphene. You gotta make sure the bootloader and carrier are both unlocked so you can install graphene though, so that’s something to navigate.
You said elsewhere that you don’t use eBay because of their age verification. It may be worthwhile, if you are underage, to think critically about what you’re trying to accomplish here.
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on are phone calls private? in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 5 Sep 2026
No they are not. Famously last year it became public knowledge that the built in lawful intercept hardware backdoors across the entire cell phone network and pstn were compromised by “the Chinese”.
FaceTime audio, signal calls and perhaps WhatsApp use encryption in transit, so those backdoors don’t affect them. I don’t know about other data calling methods.
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on For those looking to migrate away from Mullvad VPN, what are some alternatives that the community recommends? in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 5 Sep 2026
Air is my go to piracy vpn. Their app is garbage, use the config file generator instead. Air is my go to piracy VPN because it is a piracy vpn service. I would not use them as a shield from any sort of serious threat.
I use windscribe for stuff that doesn’t matter like bypassing geoblocks. I don’t trust them, their abilities or my ability to limit my own exposure to their malice, compliance or incompetence. It’s a confusing service.
People are suggesting ivpn and I have used it. It’s a downgrade from mullvad in every way but it might be safe. I can’t say because it hasn’t been tested in the same way.
I use mullvad when it actually matters. It’s really hard to screw up and they have the best app of any vpn service I’ve ever used.
There are a lot of people saying why they would want to move away from mullvad, why do you? What devices and operating systems do you use it on? How do you pay?
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on PCCONTACTS - What do you think about this app? It safe? in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 5 Sep 2026
I wouldn’t use a package that does that because it breaks the security of proton, but tbh it’s email who cares.
As far as that package in particular who can say.
From a more 10,000 foot perspective: if you have to ask on a public forum if an application you give access to your secure email account so it can copy and paste contacts into your os address book is safe it’s probably worthwhile to figure out what you’re trying to do and under what constraints.
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on Minimal Phone 2 will have unlocked bootloader and a rom without google in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 4 Sep 2026
I’m gonna go out on a limb and guess that if they had a lockable bootloader or sandbox they’d be saying so.
Would be nice to be wrong though…
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on Does anyone know of a Tile alternatives? in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 1 Sep 2026
Identifying lost or unknown trackers would fulfill this persons needs in my experience.
It wouldn’t locate the lost keys across the street unless they were using an apple device though.
Can you articulate why?