AdventureSpoon

Always. Everything besides the cell tower connection happens wired. No Bluetooth or WiFi .

What’s an O-counter?

From their point of view, blocking ads probably equals fraud.

Can’t fix everything, but Google drive is easily replaced by proton drive. Google notes/keep or any kind of note taking is easily replaced (and improved) by Obsidian, and on android you can install f-droid as an alternative store.

Downside is that these thinks cost money. But everything has a cost, and at least here the cost is clear, and upfront.

Since you opened up to a response; Yeah. A little bit gibberish. But thats okay.

blockchain is a public ledger. There is no increased anonimity in it. Its core essence is that it is open and public, and everyone can check and validate it. The privacy part comes from not knowing which person is behind which wallet. But hey! You can do that here! Or anywhere.

Looking at the article:

According to Kolektiva, the seized database, now in the FBI’s possession, includes personal information such as email addresses, hashed passwords, and IP addresses from three days prior to the date the backup was made. It also includes posts, direct messages, and interactions involving a user on the server. Because of the nature of the fediverse, this also implicates user messages and posts from other instances.

Focussing on that last part first; Posts, PMs, and other interactions are open and public in the ActivityPub protocol (which lemmy and KBin and Mastodon work on). If the FBI wants that, they can just go to the website and make an account, no raid needed. Blockchain tech wouldnt chance that.

Focussing on the first part: email addresses, hashed passwords, and IP addresses, those are not all open to the public. And you may want to protect those better. But as I said, you dont need hip blockchain for that!

• Dont use your primary email directly when making an account, but hide behind an email-alias. SimpleLogin, HideMyEmail, Guerilla Email, 10minute mail, Proton Pass, are all services that let you provide an email that is not your own, but does connect to your actual inbox.

• Dont reuse passwords. Use a password manager to generate random ones for each website. Bitwarden has a good rep. LastPass is still used, KeePass exists, Proton Pass is new and promising.

• Dont browse without a VPN.

• bonus (use a privacy focussed browser with extensions that block un-whitelisted javascripts, block trackers, and block canvassing/fingerprinting).

Can your private info now still be obtained? The answer ranged somewhere in between possibly and probably. But you’ve made it a lot of work. Work that almost only a governmental agency can perform, in a way that takes manpower time and warrants. You’ll have to have them very interested in you as an individual to go through all of that.

I compare it to going outside. You wear clothes so that you arent naked, shoes that protect your feet, and if you touch something icky you’ll want to wear gloves. The internet is basically the same. Just remember, like outside, most of the internet is a public space. Information that you volunteer, conversations that you have are public. And differently from the real world, they are recorded forever. Need to discuss sensitive stuff in private, switch to “private places” such as encrypted email, Signal, or Matrix based platforms like Element.

Now this post probably isnt complete, and flawed. So I welcome anyone who wants to build further from it.

Isnt that like, a usual part in the game development cycle? I’ve seen news reports like this for over 15 years now. Developer starts with ideas for a new game, small team. Developer starts actual production of game, team grows. Developer realizes how much work there actually is to be done, team grows even further. Game is almost done and in a good state, team starts to shrink since there is no longer enough work for everyone. Part is laid off and part is reassigned to early development of DLC. Game is released, and smaller team is able to do patchwork. Developer starts with idea for new game, cycle repeats.

Perhaps the main reason we havent seen a lot of these news blurbs over the past few years is that A: CDPR is a good punchingbag. Common memory of the target audience hold the bad release of CP2077, so its easy to get back in the habit and haul in these clicks. And B: TripleA game development mas mostly conglomerated into a few big developers/publishers with several teams around the world. That means that when one project winds down, surplus personnel might be easily integrated into a different team that is just winding up. CDPR is one of the few tripleA developers not able to do this (yet).

Yeah that was an instant purchase. Thanks OP!

Second? Third? Or fourth? Have they ever made it to the finish line the past 13 years?

Before too many people come in saying she needs a longer sentence just a quick reminder; The singular only reason she is serving time at all is because she stole money from other rich assholes. Had she just scammed the poor rubes likes us here as the top class is supposed to do she would probably still be on several boards and gotten press coverage as the “inspirational power woman who bounced back”.

Can you elaborate?

The mental image of me looking at a qr code on my phone screen, and only then wondering how I would catch that on the phone’s camera did make me laugh.

It needs an account to be fully readable

why nvida sprecifically?

as in, actual post originating from people using a lemmy based instance, or all fediverse ActivityPub entrances?

I get that. I’m all for viewing then with suspicion. Rightly and justifiably so. I don’t have Facebook or Instagram except for contained osint work. I value privacy and understand it’s importance.

But I’m personally not in favour of wildly quarantining every instance that doesn’t fully block them before I have had more time to understand the risks and options here. And I think a lot of people here don’t do. Not really. In that regard its just classic social media with people stoking each others fears and feasting on it.

And I guess a lot of people are here, fresh from reddits corporate ego trip only to immediately feel the worry of their next digital home inevitably meeting the same fate. I think that fresh trauma is directing a lot of the current discourse here. And I think it would be wise to revisit the subject again when we’ve settled and understand our new surroundings more.

tl;dr: don’t trust facebook, but also don’t burn half the street down because they bought a mansion down the lane.

Im not going to deny the threat of Extend/Embrace/Extinguish, but everyone defederating now, and threatening to defederate all other instances that dont do so as well, comes across as an incredible hasty and mostly an emotionally driven decision.

AskWomen felt to me like the kind of place where the mods always set out with clear and understandable intentions, but where the end results became less than the sum of its parts. They wanted to create a safe space and they had all the rights and arguments to do so. And they succeeded. And it became so safe that its practically living as a bubble-boy now.

if we really want useful AI tools they need to be open source and customizable by the user.

That would be now

My god…I could block the porn gifs at the source. Ha ha! Get less fucked, timeline!

In all meanings of the phrase, in this case apparently.