hiramfromthechi
@hiramfromthechi@lemmy.world
- Comment on The EU still wants to scan all your chats – and the rules could come into force by October 2025 3 days ago:
That’s dope, glad it could help 🤟
- Comment on The EU still wants to scan all your chats – and the rules could come into force by October 2025 6 days ago:
I’m starting to edit idcaboutprivacy more and more often (and that’s not a good thing)
- Comment on Study Reveals How Mobile Apps Track Users Through WiFi and Bluetooth: 86% of these apps collect at least one type of sensitive data, such as GPS location or unique device identifiers 1 week ago:
Don’t mind me, just adding it to idcaboutprivacy
- Comment on "Tea cup" app - user database leaked today (incl. drivers license & IDs). Daily reminder not to give your ID to online services [THEY DO NOT PROTECT YOUR INFORMATION] 2 weeks ago:
Thanks. Built from scratch.
- Comment on "Tea cup" app - user database leaked today (incl. drivers license & IDs). Daily reminder not to give your ID to online services [THEY DO NOT PROTECT YOUR INFORMATION] 2 weeks ago:
Gives me no pleasure to add it to idcaboutprivacy
Free and open source—feel free to contribute.
- Comment on Feds in Catalonia, Spain think everyone using a Google Pixel must be a drug dealer 3 weeks ago:
You can technically put GrapheneOS on a Fairphone, but it’s not officially supported.
Long term, the GOS team is looking to branch off from their reliance on Pixels.
- Comment on Feds in Catalonia, Spain think everyone using a Google Pixel must be a drug dealer 3 weeks ago:
Shameless plug for SwapMyOS
- Comment on Exclusive: Evidence of cell phone surveillance detected at anti-ICE protest 4 weeks ago:
Done. Good lookin out.
- Comment on Exclusive: Evidence of cell phone surveillance detected at anti-ICE protest 4 weeks ago:
I am once again recommending idcaboutprivacy
- Comment on WhatsApp is officially getting ads 1 month ago:
WhatsApp was charging $1-$3 per year before Facebook’s acquisition. They had 600M+ users and a team of twelve people. It was beautiful while it lasted.
Hopefully we can carry out the original mission with Signal.
- Comment on ‘The Worst Internet-Research Ethics Violation I Have Ever Seen’ | The most persuasive “people” on a popular subreddit turned out to be a front for a secret AI experiment. 2 months ago:
Added to idcaboutprivacy (which is open source). If there are any other similar links, feel free to add them or send them my way.
- Comment on Facebook Allegedly Detected When Teen Girls Deleted Selfies So It Could Serve Them Beauty Ads 2 months ago:
Added to idcaboutprivacy (which is open source). If there are any other similar links, feel free to add them or send them my way.
- Comment on YSK: You can block almost all cookie popups with Ublock Origin. 4 months ago:
Not all heroes wear capes
- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
I’m tryna change this and raise awareness about the importance of privacy through this open source project called idcaboutprivacy.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
It’s widely regarded as the gold standard for secure communications.
- Comment on Apple Pulls Encrypted iCloud Security Feature in UK Amid Government Backdoor Demands 5 months 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 5 months 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 5 months 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 5 months 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.