hiramfromthechi
@hiramfromthechi@lemmy.world
- Comment on Apple Pulls Encrypted iCloud Security Feature in UK Amid Government Backdoor Demands 2 weeks ago:
Interesting… I like the idea of referencing, or creating some sort of tagging/category system. I’m not sure about pushing it to limits like a Wikipedia, solely because it’d be so much content to manage.
But hey, that’s why I made it open source. With the help of the community, it makes a lot more feasible to create and handle. So never say never on that.
- Comment on Apple Pulls Encrypted iCloud Security Feature in UK Amid Government Backdoor Demands 2 weeks ago:
Thanks. All links have been just me so far, but I do think the project has some real value and would benefit from contributions.
What kind of wiki did you have in mind? What would it do?
- Comment on Apple Pulls Encrypted iCloud Security Feature in UK Amid Government Backdoor Demands 2 weeks ago:
Added this article to idcaboutprivacy.
The project is open source and only requires basic Markdown knowledge to contribute.
If you have any other privacy-related articles (especially those that talk about consequences), it’d be great for you to contribute.
- Comment on The one change that worked: I set my phone to ‘do not disturb’ three years ago – and have never looked back 2 weeks ago:
I can’t emphasize how important it is for you to control your phone, especially notifications. Every notification is literally a mind hijacking attempt. Regardless of the type of notification, it’s something that disrupts our thinking and our flow.
Some of them are necessary—but most aren’t.
All the native apps will of course try to get as much permission from you as possible, including notifications. Don’t allow this permission freely.
Get really strict about which apps need to send you notifications, and when. Take it from a dude who used to give free reign to all apps for notifications.
Once I started thinking in a more digitally minimalistic way, it made a huge difference. Running GrapheneOS actually helped with this a lot. But you don’t need GOS to do this and feel the difference.
I got some notifications turned on, but most of em are silent. So they still get delivered, but they’re not time-sensitive. They’ll be there when I check my phone next. I don’t need em interrupting whatever I was doing or thinking.
TL;DR: Be strict about which notifications you allow, and when. It’ll do wonders for your thinking, productivity, and mental health.
- Comment on Forget security – Google's reCAPTCHA v2 is exploiting users for profit | Web puzzles don't protect against bots, but humans have spent 819 million unpaid hours solving them 7 months ago:
There’s nothing that can express my disdain for Google’s reCaptcha.
😒 We’re training its AI models 😒 It’s free labor for Google 😒 Sometimes it wants the corner of an object, sometimes it doesn’t 😒 Wildly inconsistent 😒 Always blurry and hard to see 😒 Seemingly endless 😒 It’s the robot asking us humans if we’re the robots
- Submitted 8 months ago to youshouldknow@lemmy.world | 0 comments
- Comment on As a long-time user hearing YouTube wants to play ads when I pause a video 10 months ago:
Hence why we need to remake the internet.
- Comment on As a long-time user hearing YouTube wants to play ads when I pause a video 10 months ago:
That’s nice of you, but it appears that the ad-supported business model doesn’t work. It just results in enshittification and surveillance.
“We cannot have a society in which, if two people seem to communicate, the only way that it can happen is if it’s financed by a third person who wishes to manipulate them.”
- Comment on Meet ‘goldene’: this gilded cousin of graphene is also one atom thick 10 months ago:
We gonna see a GoldeneOS?
- Comment on YSK : Dark patterns among large companies are becoming more mainstream 10 months ago:
Don’t worry, it’s not complicated at all. A little inconvenient maybe, but that’s always the trade-off when it comes to privacy and security.
Here are the two most convenient ways that I can think of on each OS.
iOS: Bookmark the frontend URL. When you get sent a link, pop open the page and paste the TikTok URL.
Android: Get Firefox and set it as your default browser. Install the LibRedirect add-on (browser extension). Whenever you get sent a URL, just tap it and it’ll automatically get redirected to the privacy-friendly frontend.
- Comment on YSK : Dark patterns among large companies are becoming more mainstream 10 months ago:
Only time will tell.
I know this one also went down recently for Instagram: proxigram.privacyfrontends.repl.co
But I’m not sure if it was an Instagram change that did it, or Replit took it down or what.
- Comment on YSK : Dark patterns among large companies are becoming more mainstream 10 months ago:
See my comment above
- Comment on YSK : Dark patterns among large companies are becoming more mainstream 10 months ago:
Most of my friends know better than to send me TikTok links. But for the few who still do, I use this open source frontend called ProxiTok.
To get TikTok links to redirect automatically on couch, use the LibRedirect extension.
- Comment on me too 11 months ago:
But is it prettier than the Puteketeke?
- Comment on EU Watchdog Urged To Reject Meta 'Pay For Privacy' Scheme 1 year ago:
Privacy is a fundamental human right. Plain and simple.
Online, offline, doesn’t matter. No one should ever have to pay for it.
- Comment on On social media we have these huge conversations where nobody involved has any actual experience. They're just repeating what other people said. Isn't that literally insane? 1 year ago:
Source: trust me bro
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
For those of us who can’t code their own extensions: LibRedirect does this for other sites as well, not just YouTube.
- Comment on Google Photos Alternative 1 year ago:
Synology Photos. I’ve heard Immich is quite good too.
- Comment on VW Is Putting Buttons Back in Cars Because People Complained Enough 1 year ago:
A great reminder that your voice does matter. Apply it other things as well, and things can actually improve…
- Comment on Relative size comparison of social media platforms (December 2023) 1 year ago:
Who doesn’t like an underdog? 😤
- Comment on Is there any Lemmy app/client that allows you to comment from a different account? 1 year ago:
Yeah, I mean changing accounts right before writing the comment would work. Doesn’t need to be able to switch in the middle of writing the comment.
- Comment on Is there any Lemmy app/client that allows you to comment from a different account? 1 year ago:
👀
- Comment on Is there any Lemmy app/client that allows you to comment from a different account? 1 year ago:
Confirmed Eternity does it, thanks
- Comment on Is there any Lemmy app/client that allows you to comment from a different account? 1 year ago:
Do you need to enable the setting anywhere? I’m not seeing it.
- Submitted 1 year ago to fediverse@lemmy.world | 22 comments
- Comment on Firefox now supports clean URLs with the new "Copy link without site tracking" option 1 year ago:
Not on Android yet. In the meantime, I would just use the Clear URLs extension.
- Comment on Firefox now supports clean URLs with the new "Copy link without site tracking" option 1 year ago:
What type of link was it?
- Comment on Firefox now supports clean URLs with the new "Copy link without site tracking" option 1 year ago:
Did you confirm this? I tried a handful of different links, and it retained certain necessary parameters. Might depend on the link and how Firefox reads the link. Guessing it’s using regex.
- Submitted 1 year ago to technology@lemmy.world | 54 comments
- Comment on YSK: Social media platforms attach trackers to the end of share URLs (which you can and should delete) 1 year ago:
Indeed, not all UTM tracking parameters are harmful. For example, you could have parameters like
?src=email&campaign=summer2023that would denote how users engaged with the URL, without necessarily identifying them.Many platforms, however, will try to identify you and collect as much as possible.
