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Cake day: July 20th, 2025
  • infjarchninja@lemmy.mltoPrivacy@lemmy.ml•Should I use Zen or Floorp Browser ?
    1·
    1 minute ago

    I tried zen but it was annoying me.

    It changed my settings every time it updated, so I abandoned that.

    went back to trusty old Librewolf.

    Librewolf has vertical tabs and looks identical to me.

    about:preferences

    BROWSER LAYOUT

Horizontal tabs
Display at top of browser

Vertical tabs
Display on the side, in the sidebar

Show sidebar
Quickly access bookmarks, tabs from your phone, AI chatbots, and more without leaving your main view.

    Isnt that the same as floorp and zen browser.

  • infjarchninja@lemmy.mlOPtoPrivacy@lemmy.ml•The increasing use of apps to connect your white goods and home appliances to wifi or bluetooth.
    11·
    2 days ago

    My dear sewer rat

    I am shocked that you failed to understand the humour in what I wrote

    What you have written in reply is meaninglesss to me.

    I do not understand what you are trying to say.

    I do not to respond directly to the questions people ask me, if I consider them intentionally confrontational. like calling me a smug know-it-all to a smug script kiddie asshole.

    that is awfully rude and judgemental when you dont know me

    I will not reply to people, who, selectively pick one sentence, or a selection of my words, that do not conform to, or meet, their personal agenda, and who’s sole purpose is to create a passive aggresive fruitless argument.

    Especially when they have not read and attempted to understand what I have tried to explain or expand upon.

    Unless of course, you are willing to pay me £200 for every 50 minutes of therapeutic work we do together. You will then get my full attention, congruence, love, and undiminished empathy. Maybe we could dismantle your defence mechanisms, and point you towards a more productive way of life.

    You could then be a useful and fully functioning member of the human race, and stop acting like a sewer rat consumed by anger, toxic shame and hate.

    Until then. I shall look forward to reading with interest your next privacy post.

  • infjarchninja@lemmy.mltoPrivacy@lemmy.ml•Is Signal messaging really private?
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    4 days ago

    hey furry toaster

    Its very frustrating.

    People are very odd when it comes to privacy and tech in general.

    I have convinced half my friends to move from text messaging to signal and encrypted email but the other half totally refuse. Some have even changed to SimpleX chat and others to conversations.

    I have explained to them how, just having my phone number in their contacts list, is hoovered up by all the other apps on their phones.

    I tell them I use opencontacts because I respect their privacy, and that I do not share their phone numbers with any apps, so they should respect my privacy too. which they dont.

    https://f-droid.org/en/packages/opencontacts.open.com.opencontacts/

    I put my foot down and say that I refuse to contact them or reply to any message they send, unless it is encrypted.

    I also tell them to delete my number from their phones because I will not reply to them if they use my phone number.

    they still cling on to gmail and the old text messages and dont bother messaging me at all.

    very odd people.

  • infjarchninja@lemmy.mltoPrivacy@lemmy.ml•Is Signal messaging really private?
    192·
    5 days ago

    you have to register with your phone number.

    But you dont have to give your phone number out to friends or peopole you meet.

    Some family members use Molly-Foss and have no issues.

    I use signal-foss from the Twin helix repo, A fork of Signal with proprietary Google binary blobs removed…

    https://www.twinhelix.com/apps/signal-foss/

    Signal from the F-droid - The guardian project repo, is just signal.

    I read that the issue was with signal using google firebase, and that it was easier for the fascist piglets to track your messages through notifications.

    I have found that you can actually delete a contact via molly but cannot do it via signal.

    With signal you can only block a contact, which for me, is a privacy issues.

    If I meet a random person, say on holiday, and we swap details, I want to delete them, not block them, where they remain in my block list forever.

    I swap between Signal-FOSS and Molly if I want to delete a contact.

  • infjarchninja@lemmy.mltoLinux@lemmy.ml•rmlint: Extremely fast tool to remove duplicates and other lint from your filesystem
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    6 days ago

    Hey Dessalines

    I never got on with rmlint. It never felt safe to me.

    I found fclones to be much better and safer.

    Plus there is a GUI version for those not using the terminal

    Gui Version https://github.com/pkolaczk/fclones-gui

    CLI version https://github.com/pkolaczk/fclones

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    Usage

    fclones offers separate commands for finding and removing files. This way, you can inspect the list of found files before applying any modifications to the file system.

    group – identifies groups of identical files and prints them to the standard output

    remove – removes redundant files earlier identified by group

    link – replaces redundant files with links (default: hard links)

    dedupe – does not remove any files, but deduplicates file data by using native copy-on-write capabilities of the file system (reflink)

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    I did actually test this by creating a directory with duplicates.

    test_dupes 186 files

    scanned directory for duplicates and created dupes.txt

    fclones group . >>dupes.txt

    dupes.txt

    remove duplicates to another directory

    /home/user/Desktop/dupes

    fclones move target_dir <dupes.txt

    fclones move /home/user/Desktop/dupes <dupes.txt

    test_dupes now has 173 files

  • infjarchninja@lemmy.mltoPrivacy@lemmy.ml•LineageOS is apparently not private?
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    6 days ago

    Hey PragmaticIdealist

    I dont like him because he seems to intentionally pick controversial subjects just to get clicks.

    I mean. how controversial can you get by using the headline “LineageOS is apparently not private?” and then go about trying to prove your point by not referring to Lineage.

    I can only assume that loads of non techy people would be put off by his claims.

    Lineage does not send any information to google nor connect to google. However the apps you choose to install could connect to google. Especially if you use closed source apps.

    if you stick to open source apps via Neostore, droid-ify and F-droid basic you should be fine.

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    It is safe to disable Captive portal if it is already enabled on your phone.

    I have disabled it on my aunts and uncles phones, they dont use lineage or any AOSP roms.

    My aunt likes the idea of free wi-fi when shes out. she has a list of all the in-store wifi, in my local shopping centre, already stored on her phone, this means that she automatically connects to whatever wifi she is nearest to.

    Lineage phones have captive portal disabled by default.

    Looks like you are half way there.

    A good VPN is also a good choice

    Keep at it.

  • infjarchninja@lemmy.mltoPrivacy@lemmy.ml•LineageOS is apparently not private?
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    7 days ago

    Hey PragmaticIdealist

    The video guy is talking bollocks: plus he has about 50 crypto links to pay the wanker.

    Honestly, I have install lineage since 2018 and installed CyanogenMod way before that.

    He talks about “Removing bloatware Google packages” from Lineage, there are no bloatware google packages in lineage.

    I have just plugged my oneplus 5T with lineage installed into my laptop, and typed this into my terminal: to give me a list of all the packages installed on my phone.

    adb shell pm list packages -s >oneplus5-installed.txt

    I have 213 packages installed. THERE ARE NO GOOGLE PACKAGES installed.

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    Captive Portal is simple to disable using adb. Its not scary.

    I have 5 family phones with lineage installed

    I have just checked Captive Portal on all 5

    db shell settings get global captive_portal_mode

    all 5 phones the output is:

    null

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    you can change your dns rather than rely on your carriers DNS. I use Mullvad DNS

    https://mullvad.net/en/help/dns-over-https-and-dns-over-tls

    The eu has public dns servers:

    https://european-alternatives.eu/category/public-dns

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    not much info on itel-p55-5g on xda

    https://xdaforums.com/t/i-want-a-vbmeta-img-and-boot-img-for-itel-p55-5g.4737042/

    if you want to find out about Lineage, use their forums or use the https://xdaforums.com/ as above and have a good look around to see what people say.

  • infjarchninja@lemmy.mltoPrivacy@lemmy.ml•Getting rid of techofascist services
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    7 days ago

    Hey irotsoma

    I do feel your dilemma

    I would drive for an hour to buy anything from a small store rather than buying from amazon and increasing their profits. Obviously one person has no impact upon their obscene profits.

    Amazon is the curse for small business and all its employees, drivers, sellers and customers.

    good reseacrh here:

    https://www.yalelawjournal.org/note/amazons-antitrust-paradox

    The authors conclude that getting the best price on Amazon requires that you “first spend considerable time searching through pages of results and then utilize, at a minimum, spreadsheet algebraic capabilities to determine the product’s full price…[and] somehow de-bias from the psychological effects of anchoring, and labels such as ‘limited time deal’ and ‘Best Seller,’ as well as many other subtle psychological influences.”

    Amazon says it’s entitled to use the consumer welfare cheat-code to get out of antitrust enforcement because it has so many bargains. But to get those bargains, you have to pay such minutely detailed attention – literally spreadsheeting your options and hand-coding mathematical formulas to compare them – that you’ll almost certainly fail. The price of failure is incredibly high – a 25-29% overcharge on every purchase.

    The Amazon Paradox has dropped, and it drills into another way that Amazon overcharges most of us by as much as 29% on nearly every purchase, disqualifying it from invoking that consumer welfare cheat code. The new paper is “Amazon’s Pricing Paradox,” from law professors Rory Van Loo and Nikita Aggarwal, for The Harvard Journal of Law and Technology:

    The authors concede that while Amazon does have some great bargains, it goes to enormous lengths to make it nearly impossible to get those bargains. Drawing from the literature on behavioral economics, the authors make the reasonable (and experimentally verified) assumption that shoppers generally assume that the top results in an Amazon search are the best results, and click on those.

    But Amazon’s search-ordering is enshittified: it shifts value from sellers and shoppers (you!) to the company. A combination of self-preferencing (upranking Amazon’s own knock-offs), pay-for-placement (Amazon ads), other forms of payola (whether a merchant is paying for Prime), and “junk ads” (that don’t match your search) turn Amazon’s search-ordering into a rigged casino game.

    From 2023:

    https://pluralistic.net/2023/11/06/attention-rents/

    https://www.theverge.com/2023/9/22/23885242/amazon-prime-tv-movies-streaming-ads-subscription-date