- They lost interest in Ruby
- Go forth Mozilla, deshitify and enshiyify at the same time!
- Not a bad idea!
- It isn't, they have so much knowledge experience and foresight that has a significant gap in many ways.
- be sure to add iptables to drop packets if there's no back and forth exchange of data, then you're good2go as fake/wrong keys don't use resources to determine if a key is legit or not. not that big of a deal and wg just doesn't reply anyways
And good choice on the wireguard only, only issue I had is devops/testing things and not being connected to the wireguard because I'd be connected to another wireguard and couldn't ssh in to the server.
WireGuard _all_ of the things
- Good read.
- They didn't 'win' - use a laptop. Phones are decent for certain things but no, you don't need to use WhatsApp, IoT apps -- most have bluetooth, and you don't have to 'interact with modern society'
Interact with good circles of people and stuff. I mean, it's cool that my pixel is some mini high powered TPU computer that can run apps, F-Droid etc, but I only really care about the 5g data link within it.
If any app refuses to run due to rooted phone -> open a browser go to the web version.
I know that you know these things and I'm not trying to make any point other than: no, you don't have to use those things. but if you want to, you can.
the next big thing to come is already here, Linux with its infinite mix of desktop environments, user environments, distros with pre-set up things. You can have a device use your SIM/e-SIMS.
Google and Apple's push notification system being locked for what they deem allowed and control the push tokens, browsers have push notifications too.
All I'm saying is: Google and Apple didn't win anything and there's great things like GrapheneOS, plus Google's TPU chips are awesome.
But, they most certainly didn't 'Win' and 'modern society' is crazy.
- LibreWolf ftw, I switched to it, installed my extensions and am not looking back. Would be nice to have a mobile Firefox(LibreWolf) with all extensions, I should go look around F Droid again.
in ff if you're reading this go to about:config and type privacy - why these aren't immediately obvious in the Settings is beyond me
- That's one way to look at it, mine is no data goes out or in unencrypted, and for me it's simple. Adtech? "No." - let packet kiddies get my home IP address? "No."
It's as simple as that: No thanks, then I slide the slider on WireGuard and then I have an encrypted tunnel that all of my devices can communicate with each other, use a DNS through the tunnel with domains blocked and I can control what phones home and what doesn't. I'm not concerned with foreign governments, snoopy neighbors, war driving, or anything.
I can't solve all the problems but there are no what ifs on my end, *What if" -> No.
I'm not a number in some algorithm or malicious because I route my data securely, I'm a human being.
- Should be interesting to see how the internet blocks those of us who don't want to be fingerprinted, ID'd, or reveal our home IP addresses. YouTube already blocks embeds to login and prove I'm not a bot, funnily it doesn't work and embeds never play. Reddit will block me unless I'm signed in which I don't mind too much, but the daily beast and many others block me which is a shame because I'm a real human being using the internet as intended.
Instead of blocking or limiting features to whitelist users with approved behavioral patterns and limit / block those that don't -- such as loading a page and immediately commenting or doing things that normal humans don't do, they block IP addresses and ASNs.
I just close the browser tab and remind myself not to waste my time caring, there'll be other platforms.
My router is setup for WireGaurd and it'll never be disabled.
Shame on SoundCloud
- Naw you'll have to email dang and ask him they have a auto system, I got auto shadow banned once and had to email them, they said I didn't do anything wrong and then restored all my comments. I went like 3 months thinking nobody liked my comments enough to give me an up point. Worth reaching out about their auto mod is sensitive
- Enough to buy like 512MB of DDR5 RAM maybe
- Any hops along the paths and whatever they split off to by whoever. And of course they can, even with HTTPS the Client Hello is unencrypted.
Unencrypted data transmission just isn't a thing I'm interested in with it being 2025.
- They're not useless. And I'm well aware of how MITM attacks work. Any hops along the path from my VPN endpoint to the server unencrypted can be, and are: viewed with plaintext. With a self signed certificate I can choose to accept the certificate or not. I'm not arguing to use them, I'm saying I've moved on from http, which is reasonable for me to do in today's 'get all of their data' age.
- I enjoy this person's writings, and contributions. I am Linux's biggest fan and research cyber security daily.
I would prefer https.
Deplatforming removes a voice to a captive audience where one has entire lively hoods taken from them, their viewpoints suppressed and are forced to other platforms where the userbases are questionable offering their own infinite scrolls and dopamine hits and their own cancel cultures.
It is what it is.