HiramFromTheChi

I’m tryna change this and raise awareness about the importance of privacy through this open source project called idcaboutprivacy.

Appreciate that. Got a backlog of 200+ topics I still need to write about, so little by little.

Fair enough. Sometimes it can make a difference though (speaking someone’s specific platform language). But yeah, I get it.

Me too. I wrote a blog post about it with a similar title and would love some feedback. I’m sure it could be expanded even more to include stuff like this.

Not just download the app, but sign up for an account (and the newsletter in the process).

Then grant permissions to your phone:

• camera (so it can watch you poop and train + analyze the footage with AI)
• microphone (so it can hear and analyze if your plops are optimal)
• contacts (to send out an invitation to all your contacts, along with a clip of your last poop sesh)
• photos and videos (to upload, store, and analyze your life since birth, along with everyone else who’s in your pictures)
• sensors (to see how you’re holding the phone, when, how much, how hard, etc.)
• notifications (to sell you the premium plan)
• location (for pinpoint accuracy of your 💩 locations)
• call logs (to see who you’re communicating with before, during, and after you drop your log)
• nearby devices (for accuracy and to silently communicate with nearby devices)
• calendar (for full history and to schedule your next mondo duke)

Cases like these are why this extension exists: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/don-t-fuck-with-paste/

At least you can say the experience was lit

Privacy is a fundamental human right. Plain and simple.

Online, offline, doesn’t matter. No one should ever have to pay for it. Especially not to a surveillance company.

Synology Photos. I’ve heard Immich is quite good too.

Who doesn’t like an underdog? 😤

I wanna preface this by saying that I run GrapheneOS (GOS), so idk if that has anything to do with the fact that nothing has flagged my version of KDE Connect. If it’s a Google Play Services (GPS) thing, then:

1. I guess it depends on whether you run GPS on your GOS phone, or
2. Maybe it doesn’t even depend on #1, since GPS runs as unprivileged. I put KDE it on my GPS profile, and didn’t get any notification about this.

Guessing this is just a Play Protect thing.

Nevertheless, if you’re installing FOSS apps, try installing them via Obtanium instead of the Google Play Store.

You can simply copy and paste the source code URL into Obtanium, and it’ll grab the APK, as well as notify you when there’s updates.

It supports F-Droid, GitHub, GitLab, and other sources.

I would stop using the internet

I would if I could, but I built it without writing code. So there’s nothing to upload to GitHub/GitLab.

The page asking for your email simply serves as the delivery mechanism since I can’t put it on GitHub/GitLab.

If you wanna keep your bookmarks and the subreddits (communities) that you’re subscribed to before deleting your account, I made a free tool to help you store and offload that data.

It’s called Reddit Account Manager, and it’s 100% free.

You can also use it to manage your Lemmy account(s), of course.

I love the Fair movement

I’m all for open source as well.

Ah okay. Guess it’s not much different than using Mullvad’s content blocking DNS then.

I’m guessing you can’t run it alongside a VPN then, right?

Why privacy matters, reason #854203

https://thedise.me/instander/