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GadgeteerZA wrote

Reply to comment by BlueHat in The Truth About Protonmail by Hitler_Was_Right

Yes it is interesting... What I really detest though are people who speculate something controversial without any actual evidence. Dots often are connected where there is actually no thread. Of course ANYTHING (literally) is possible, but I like to see why exactly and what was found. What some present as "evidence" is too flimsy.

Take just providing information to the Swiss authorities - of course any legal organisation will have to state that, but they require formal warrants, and they can only provide what they have. It does not mean they can actually decrypt the contents of your mail and provide it. Which is why many organisations prefer to have as little access as possible, and not be able to decrypt information. Outside of the USA, Russia, and China, most countries legally do not allow fishing expeditions by the authorities to just see what they can fine, there has to be something of legal substance against an identified individual.

I look rather at examples like Facebook's Cambridge Analytica - broadly reported with the evidence found to actual events and outcomes. That was one of the vents that made me leave Facebook altogether. WhatsApps' terms and conditions that stated they would share my metadata to Facebook as well as their 3rd party partners - I ledt WhatsApp.

I'm certainly going to keep an eye open anything that does develop around ProtonMail though, and see if anything in that report actually gains traction.

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awdrifter wrote

Reply to What phone do you carry if any? by burnerben

OnePlus 8 Pro. The hardware is good (except for overheating when recording long videos), the software has many small issues that makes it hard to recommend. Switching apps sometimes it'll freeze and you have to press the recent button (square) then back to the app to make it respond. The phone will become laggy after 1-2 weeks without restart. The screen turns yellow whenever an HDR video is played. It also doesn't have a one-handed mode, since it's a big phone, makes reaching the corners with 1 hand almost impossible. Also VPN app gets killed randomly, so you lose connection without notice.

This phone is 8/10 hardware, but 5/10 software. Maybe when there are stable third party ROM for it that solves these issues, then it'll be worth buying.

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Rambler wrote

Reply to comment by sitefights in How about lemmy? by sitefights

I'd like to think most people here are inherently good. In fact, I'd say people in general are inherently good regardless of their political beliefs or their anonymous online personas.

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burnerben OP wrote

Reply to comment by BlackWinnerYoshi in What phone do you carry if any? by burnerben

I was planning on getting a Pixel 4a running grapheneOS then i remember i still had my old burner taped to the ceiling in my closet so and my phone was becoming a time suck so i switched to the flip phone. the flip phone has a modern os/rom i could browse the wired but i don’t. i just use it for simple texts but mainly calls. i do miss having a good camera in my pocket though. so i wouldn’t be suprised if in a couple months i switch back to a dumb phone.

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Rambler wrote

Reply to What phone do you carry if any? by burnerben

Galaxy S10. Pretty standard. I replace my phone maybe once every 5 or 6 years, when using it becomes cumbersome. To put it in perspective, my first smart phone was a S3 which I got as a work phone, then I replaced it with a Huawei something or another (yeah yeah, China bad. I got it. ) and then this S10.

When it comes time to replace it it'll probably be with something I can harden a bit more. I don't use much of the 'smart' features of the phone anyhow, outside of browsing the web, Signal or the camera which I still think is fantastic for a phone.

Though I do sort of miss the simplicity of my old Nokia brick and Cingular (remember them, anyone?) flip phone. I've had a few random dumb pre-paid phones years ago too since I was always too poor to afford a proper phone on a plan. I know that they still make and produce flip phones too, my old job had shared flip-phones for the shift supervisors to carry around and used in some other cases for like emergency or if the phone system went out. I remember when the old ones with the broken buttons, cracked bodies and fucked up screens got replaced with brand new Verizon flip phones. I felt like was a teenager again.

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burnerben wrote

Reply to comment by GadgeteerZA in How about lemmy? by sitefights

Fair point. This could be truly free reign but then this site would just be flooded with cp and honeypots. Rambler will do what he has to do to not get in legal trouble. I think the level of freedom we have on this site surpasses a lot of other sites while still maintaining quality.

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GadgeteerZA wrote

Reply to comment by burnerben in How about lemmy? by sitefights

To be fair, Ramble also has some limitations, so neither platform has "anything goes"?

From Ramble's rules: "some things are just plain illegal and the owners of this community do not wish to be held legally liable to those who misinterpret this website's accessibility via 'the dark net' meaning that it's some sort of unmoderated free-for-all".

Legality differs from country to country and in my country we have very strict laws for example against any form of discrimination, incitements to violence or crime, selling stolen goods, etc. So this does restrict many then fully participating on a "free for all platform". So every user does need to make a judgement call based on their own values and what their country's Constitution or laws state.

"Any form of censorship" in my view then includes the removal of such attempts to sell illegal goods, to someone discriminating against another based on age, gender, sexual preference, religion, political beliefs, etc. Censorship is just a loaded term for moderation. They are exactly the same thing based on rules that exist on a site or within a country.

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9995Deluxe wrote

Reply to Your Wireless Earbuds Are Trash (Eventually) And Will End Up In A Landfill by GadgeteerZA

At the time of making this comment, Samsung's Galaxy Buds and Galaxy Buds+ are the most repairable true wireless earbuds I've seen. Their batteries do not require any soldering to replace.

iFixit has made a good guide on how to do this. https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/Samsung+Galaxy+Buds+Battery+Replacement/127556

Props to Samsung for their repair-friendly design.

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