Thorned_Rose
@Thorned_Rose@kbin.social
- Comment on NSA ’just days from taking over the internet’ warns Edward Snowden 7 months ago:
Uh, yeah it does. Not to meting the US has killed more people through colonisation, direct nd proxy wars, etc. than any other nation in human history.
- Comment on NSA ’just days from taking over the internet’ warns Edward Snowden 7 months ago:
Because the US is so much better?
- Comment on Mozilla Firefox is Working on a Tab Grouping Feature 8 months ago:
My use case is probably a bit more niche but I have Memory Impairment and bookmarks don't work that well for me. I'm a very organised person and did previously use things like bookmarks extensively. But since my memory has gotten really bad I need more visual representations. Visual bookmarks could kinda work for this but I am yet to find something that's private, easy to set up (or just works out of the box) and isn't fiddly to use. Bookmarks that aren't visual, don't stay in my memory so I forget about them. Search bar helps a bit but sometimes I also can't think of the right words to use to get Firefox to bring up the right bookmark (even with extensive keywords - because I also can't always think of the right keywords to set).
So I have heap of tabs open. I need things to stay in my recent memory and recent use, otherwise they just get forgotten. It does mean over time more and more tabs get left open. But I do fairly regular sort throughs where I go through each tab to make sure it's something unimportant where I've just forgotten to close the tab or something I am actually using/working on.
It's not ideal but it's the only thing that works for me right now. I have so many things going on at once, it sucks that I have to remember so much at once when I have memory issues but such is life when disabled folks aren't properly supported, lack of volunteers means I have to take more volunteer work that I should, western society sucks for supporting parents, and sexism means that I'm still default parent (mother) despite my husband being more progressive than most hsubands/dads are (he's also woefully disorganised which is in part just him and also in part how boys and men are socialised). Anyway, this isn't meant as a commentary on the differences in organisations levels and how that affects tab usage between mothers and fathers lol.
- Comment on Mozilla Firefox is Working on a Tab Grouping Feature 8 months ago:
Ditto KDE
- Comment on Menstruation cycle tracking app breached users' privacy, B.C. class-action lawsuit alleges 8 months ago:
I think you may be way underestimating the number of people who have no idea the software they use is spying on them.
- Comment on Spam posts 8 months ago:
That sucks to hear. Back when I migrated here, I chose Kbin just simply because the interface suited me better. Frustrating when aholes ruin a good thing.
- Comment on Spam posts 8 months ago:
I might just be really tired and feeling dense this morning, but what do you mean about kbin.social?
- Comment on Plex for books? 9 months ago:
Calibre Server
- Submitted 9 months ago to privacyguides@lemmy.one | 31 comments
- Comment on Haier hits Home Assistant plugin dev with takedown notice 10 months ago:
I'm so sad about Fisher & Paykel. It was a local (New Zealand) manufacturer that prided itself on quality. It had such a great reputation for quality it eventually took that great quality internationally. And then capitalism and eshitification got its grubby hands on it and turned it into another trash brand. Yet another quality local company disappearing off overseas, screwing over local workers and trashing the quality in favour of profit.
- Comment on Epic Win against Google 11 months ago:
The Epic Games that ironically has monopolised exclusive titles on their platform? That Epic Games? The same Epic Games done for violating kids privacy rights? Epic Games that makes it hard to get refunds? The Epic Games partly owned by Tencent who are known to be in bed with the CCP? That one? Epic who my be selling user data to the CCP and broke GDPR laws? And the Epic Games CEO who actively shits on Linux gamers? Are we talking about that Epic Games?
Meh, they can go to hell along with Google.
- Comment on My new favourite password manager 1 year ago:
It's been years and I have Memory Impairment so I'm not sure but I think part of the issue with syncing was that we had a 'family' database which made for multiple devices and several people needing to sync that while frustrating at times was OK, until we had an episode of data loss that just killed it for us. Enpass had built in sync, a nicer UI, more features and jut more cohesive across devices.
But again, my memory is very fuzzy and it's worth looking into again because as good as Enpass is, it's not open source.
- Comment on Inside the deadly instant loan app scam that blackmails with nudes 1 year ago:
I agree. I call myself a closet naturist because I'm all for the human body just being a human body and not ridiculously hyper-sexualised. But I'm also a sexual abuse survivor and that same western hyper-sexualisation makes me very wary and anxious around people who are not also naturists.
I've been assaulted way too many times WITH clothes on to trust the general population who can't comprehend that a naked body =/= sex and an open invitation. - Comment on My new favourite password manager 1 year ago:
I used to use Keepass (thanks person who said keep ass, I can't not see that now) for many years but started to get frustrated with stuff not syncing properly and a few other reasons I can't remember anymore. But I think I'll have to give it a go again. I've been using Enpass for a number of years and it's been good but I've never liked that it's close source.
- Comment on Which one do you trust the most for your privacy? 1 year ago:
I still have Silence installed on my phone because of that. It's not being maintained any more though so it's only a matter of time before Silence stops working or has some security vulnerability (if it's doesn't already.
I still feel really disappointed that Signal (and the apologists) don't seem to understand that for many countries SMS is still the go to.
- Comment on The price gap between renting and buying has hit the widest point since 2000 1 year ago:
What country?
- Comment on Plex will be blocking access from at least VPS provider 1 year ago:
More reasons I'm glad we switched to Jellyfin
- Comment on Printer Ink, It's a SCAM 1 year ago:
I'm out so can't watch the video but did he open the cartridge that came with the printer or a replacement cartridge? Ones that come with printers regularly have less ink than the replacement cartridges. So if he got the ink volume from the website or whatever he my have gotten the replacement cartridge ink volume amount.
Printers and their replacement ink cartridges are absolutely a scam, just wanted to ndering if thi person is making an accurate comparison which could lead to people thinking they've been more ripped off than they actually have.
- Comment on CNET Deletes Thousands of Old Articles to Game Google Search 1 year ago:
Google is supposed (SUPPOSED) to serve up closest to what you search for. SEO is the antithesis of this - it games the system to get a given website closer to or in front of your eyeballs even if it's content is less relevant. And Google has allowed this to continue (or more likely encouraged it on the down low because businesses that are SEO obsessed are more likely to be send money Google's way) because Google isn't a search engine anymore - Google is an advertising company with some internet services slapped on. Google 'search' is just a clown face for one of their advertising strategies. It doesn't serve up what's relevant - it serves up as much results tgt generate it revenue as possible without being so obvious about it that users get pissed off and switch search engines.
- Comment on CNET Deletes Thousands of Old Articles to Game Google Search 1 year ago:
I've already noticed this being a problem. I search for a specific issue that's recent. Set the search as past year or month. See a search result that looks relevant and the date on it (according the search engine) is recent. Click on it only to find its a 5yo article.
- Comment on CNET Deletes Thousands of Old Articles to Game Google Search 1 year ago:
I don't think they're necessarily so much the number of search engines that currently exist (there's already currently several) but rather that not enough people use the alternatives that Google had the monopoly. (Also helped by Google actively railroading users into its products and suppressing the competition)
- Comment on Privacy is a collective concern 1 year ago:
Thanks for introducing me to 12ft.io 😊 Nice to have something to use when I don't necessarily have a browser extension to rely on.
- Comment on What are the best zoom alternatives? 1 year ago:
I've found Jitsi to be a great replacement. The only shortfall I found is that most folk don't know about it and can be resistent to trying it.
