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mr4channer wrote
Reply to Favorite Online Password Manager? by J0yI9YUX41Wx
keepass or bitwarden if you want to sync between devices.
Wahaha wrote
Reply to Favorite Online Password Manager? by J0yI9YUX41Wx
I'll echo that Bitwarden seems pretty good. If you're the only user it might be somewhat overkill, though.
I'd recommend https://www.passwordstore.org/ but I don't think it satisfies the online requirement out of the box. But it's likely a problem someone else solved if you look around.
Rambler wrote
Reply to Favorite Online Password Manager? by J0yI9YUX41Wx
BitWarden seems to be pretty well liked and lately it seems to be more preferred than LastPass, and I assume with LastPass adjusting their tiers that more people will flock to BitWarden. You can self host it, as well. I believe it's all open source, unlike LastPass.
There is also KeyPassX which is pretty popular. It's not an online password manager, however. Still a pretty good option for general password management.
newhere wrote
Reply to Dark Web Social Media by dnsmith
Great site! don't let the javascrip bs talk get to you..... i visited your site, it has potential!
most of these people who keep using the same excuse "reguires javascript" doesn't even know what that means...
div1337 wrote
Reply to What features do you look for in a VPN? by Rambler
Covers or at least block ipv6. Some VPNs are leaking out the real ipv6!
J0yI9YUX41Wx wrote
Reply to Your Cellphone Is Recording You 24/7 by Hitler_Was_Right
"See this flashing IR light? It's recording. If you're recording, you need a flashing light. Them's the rules. You can't just record without a light on. That'd be against the rules."
J0yI9YUX41Wx wrote
Reply to comment by BasedPatriot in Your Cellphone Is Recording You 24/7 by Hitler_Was_Right
Yep!
BlackWinnerYoshi wrote
Reply to What features do you look for in a VPN? by Rambler
Those are the essentials I think that any VPN provider, and any provider of any service, really, should have to be even considered by me:
- Tor support - that means having an onion mirror for the VPN site itself; Tor with the VPN itself is not necessary, as Tor is kind of easy to set up, at least on Linux
- If it's paid, Monero acceptance - obviously, one might not want to be using some kind of anonymity-hating VPN, like with the point above
- No personal data for registrations - that means confirming your phone number is out
- Compatibility with standards - in the case of VPNs, that's OpenVPN or possibly WireGuard
- No Cloudflare - MitM, especially Clownflare, likes being a honeypot: https://codeberg.org/baobab/cloudflare-tor (clear net only)
- not a privacy-related issue, but if the service likes to go down often, it goes out too
Okay, I don't actually pay with Monero or any other cryptocurrency, but other people might, so if I'm going to recommend a service, I want to check that.
BasedPatriot wrote
Reply to Your Cellphone Is Recording You 24/7 by Hitler_Was_Right
Isn't IR used to measure distance too? I thought that was just to determine if the phone was pressed up against your face or something.
Wahaha wrote
Reply to Dev creeped out after he fired up Ubuntu VM on Azure, was immediately approached by Canonical sales rep by Rambler
What is Canonical even selling? Isn't ubuntu open source?
burnerben wrote
everyone in russia mad
Rambler wrote
Reply to comment by burnerben in is wordpress(.org) a secure software to use? by burnerben
Wordpress CORE is relatively secure. They've got a giant team that is always pushing out updates. The trouble usually comes from a variety of plugins and users not updating their Wordpress or not changing default values.
I'm not sure what a good alternative would be unfortunately. I have a HTMLy flat-file blog instance running on I2P that I never update and it's... okay. Pretty simple.
burnerben OP wrote
Reply to comment by not_bob in is wordpress(.org) a secure software to use? by burnerben
got it. any alternatives you could think of?
not_bob wrote
No. So many exploits.
riddler wrote
Reply to This is how we lost control of our faces by Rambler
Many years ago I needed a face database for some AI work. Everything I could find for free was crap and it wasn't worth the price to pay for any of the better ones. For a few weeks I took a two hour lunch in the tourist area of town at the busiest fast food place. I parked right by the sidewalk and had a camcorder record HD from my car. I filtered out people who didn't look at the camera or who's face was partially covered. Lighting was consistent because it was always recorded at the same time of day. I probably had 5-10k faces of usable quality though I never tried training with the full data set. A few of the other grad students in my lab asked to use it when they found out about it. As far as I know my filtered version of that database is still floating around at the university.
In short, there is way more data than can even be identified floating around. That being said, the Facebook dataset is likely a treasure trove of interesting stuff. I can't imagine what deep learning on millions of pictures with their associated metadata could figure out. It's sad that data isn't being used for good.
hideyourlies wrote
Reply to Dark Web Social Media by dnsmith
JavaScript on, for privacy and TOR?
Can't see this going well, I'm sure elgg allows JavaScript off.
burnerben wrote
i dont use facebook services (yk cuz i have half a brain) but ending anonymity is the worst idea ive heard in a long time
burnerben wrote
Reply to comment by Rambler in Clearview AI’s Facial Recognition App Called Illegal in Canada by Rambler
indeed except lyme
Rambler OP wrote
Reply to comment by burnerben in Clearview AI’s Facial Recognition App Called Illegal in Canada by Rambler
i believe im moving to the land with the second best maple syrup and legal weed
Maine is pretty awesome.
burnerben wrote
i believe im moving to the land with the second best maple syrup and legal weed
DcscZx5idox wrote (edited )
Search Engines - which one to choose? (onion service mirror) (eepsite mirror) - DigDeeper website
DigDeeper website tells that there search engines are weak of privacy or usability. The parsons another pages tells that Email providers and browsers instance a case of evil. However, alternatives are better than Google.
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Reply to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg Says Apple's Privacy Changes are Self-Serving and Anti-Competitive by Rambler
Faceberg complaining about other companies' privacy policies.
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burnerben wrote
Reply to Amazon’s Ring now reportedly partners with more than 2,000 US police and fire departments by Rambler
good ol amazon
Wahaha wrote
Reply to comment by !deleted152 in UnGoogle yourself; The complete list of alternatives to all Google products by ____
For anime there's even better stuff incorporating saucenao: http://iqdb.org/
mr4channer wrote
Reply to The I have Nothing To Hide Argument Is Flawed by Rambler
based