MasterBuilder

@MasterBuilder@lemmy.one

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Well said… Two weeks before the equivalent i posted moments ago.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ll elaborate for him/her: mesh devices sold by untrusted companies with a profit model will almost surely be collecting your data.

  The problem is not “mesh”, it is the companies using a new, cool, buzzword to sell their spyware that is the problem.

  They are basically enhanced repeaters that don’t require a seperate network access point.

  If you get a device that is primarily marketed as basic hardware, like the Asus router, you are more likely to avoid the collection. Bonus points if you can flash FOSS software to it, also like Asus, so yiu know it is clean. Regardless, use a VPN for external communications.

  My home is small enough that mesh is unnecessary, but I’d buy another Asus device for mesh if it were necessary.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Day 7 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I’ve been playing until I forget to post Screenshots⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, i haven’t neen much of a famer for years (got too adicted to WoW), but just started again this year. I am amazed by Skyrim, and am now modding it up.

  I aldo jist got Cyberpunk 2077, and will get into it soon.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Automakers’ data privacy practices “are unacceptable,” says US senator⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  No, you aren’t. You just haven’t been conditioned your whole life to accept 100% surveillance.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It seems Gen Z is just fine with parents knowing where they are all the time⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  That is a trust based transaction when parent asks where their child is going as well.

  Putting tracking malware and using surveillance all the time is invasion of privacy, teaching the child that surveillance is okay, and completely lacking a trust relationship, which is bad within a family.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Privacy advocate challenges YouTube's ad blocking detection⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Anti-trust lawsuit in 3… 2…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It seems Gen Z is just fine with parents knowing where they are all the time⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  *rolls D-100* … I disbelieve!

• OpenVPN to server, then ExpressVPN to the outside?
  Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩ to ⁨selfhosted@lemmy.world⁩ | ⁨1⁩ ⁨comment⁩
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Spyware can infect your phone or computer via the ads you see online – report⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Any DNS based blocker will filter out anything from URLs at the source, so no data is received. I use AdAway with Magisk. Blocklists are updated regularly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨XMPP vs Matrix: Whose King of Federation?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Check out lemmy.ml/c/sopranica for full featured XMPP implementations.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨XMPP vs Matrix: Whose King of Federation?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Xmpp servers can be configured to log history. I don’t know if Matrix always logs history, but I’ve read that it keeps a lot of metadata.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨XMPP vs Matrix: Whose King of Federation?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks for enumerating the counter points. I’m immediately turned off by his vocal style, but I can look past that long enough to evaluate the content.

  I have two big issues with it:

  • His assertions lack references to supporting evidence
  • his political allegiance gives me pause

  I will check out his content more before I write him off.

  It appears the android client he used is Cheogram, which I use. It is forked from Conversations, and is excellent. JMP.CHAT maintains it, and pretty much supports all of the xmpp standards. Including gateways to phone PBX, SMS, and Matrix.

  They and sopranica offer fully compliant servers, including self hosting.