use some random free XMPP Server to register at

Any recommendations? It turns out that it's hard to find a server with open registration which is fairly stable and keeps history.

And the client is smooth and simple.

We call it simple, others call it spartan. If XMPP won't work then try Matrix, the bridge argument usually works.

My posts are better.

Not sure who relied on apple for privacy in the first place, if you want privacy you simply have to go with open source, mainly for two big reasons :

1. You have no real way of actually knowing for sure that the OS isn't backdoored
2. The company responsible for programming that operating system can change their stance on privacy at any time, like apple is doing here.

Personally, i would never, ever lay trust on a closed source application or system for privacy, it's just asking to get fucked in the ass. if you wanna do private shit, use open source software exclusively for that, no exceptions imo.

I posted the same shit and got two upvotes. Somebody posts under "Hitler was right" and thinks it only stops on the race angle, and they get 4? This kind of shit is why I never believed in upvotes. The only posts I was ever proud of on Reddit were the ones that got -50 or better.

The ultrasound isn't nominally designed to harm hearing - the point they have for including it is spyware monitoring of "air gapped" devices. They seem to have turned it down a little - I remember ten years ago the ultrasound from my old computer was severe enough I could hear if a game of Dwarf Fortress had paused itself (a stupid thing it loves to do) despite it having sound disabled, the speaker muted, and the display window completely minimized out of sight. Well, either they turned it down or my ability to hear ultrasound is waning, but I still hear it when bringing the computer out of hibernation - it just seems more focused on transmitting some ID code and finishing. I assume it's part of the OS, or at least, I never found a visible sign of it.

The firms, which include Twitter (TWTR.N) and Alphabet Inc's (GOOGL.O) YouTube, share "hashes," unique numerical representations of original pieces of content that have been removed from their services. Other platforms use these to identify the same content on their own sites in order to review or remove it.

I can think of one way to get around this but it has some downsides for privacy so I think it should be used carefully and only when necessary.

You can open up a picture with Notepad++ or another text editor and add whatever text you want so that the hash will be different and not match what's in their database. You could even add a hidden message if you want. You could add hidden messages to other files too using steganography techniques and that would change the hash.

The downside is that now the file is more traceable. So lets say someone posts some meme about vaccines on poal but they edit it to include the text "Death to all jews" when you open it in notepad. Someone else saves it and shares it on Facebook without knowing about the hidden text. Now if this system is set up to track image hashes across platforms, the feds know that the facebook user either got that image from poal or got it from someone else who got it from there. The exact same picture could be on lots of other platforms but they would know from the hash where this particular user got it from.

They are finally admitting to the backdoor now.

For me it was very hard to avoid 4chan bans they must have strong invasive tools to identify you even if you delete your cookies and change your IP address.

Riddle me this: how come the only way for 4chan to see if you're a human is by demanding a Google "captcha" that invades the whole computer with spy scripts? If Google is hunting for clusters there, seems like there's a reason.

Strange coincidence, with the news of UK's journalist persecution under the idea his reports could be used for what they call "jigsaw identification".

I have to assume the ad gurus behind both are in the same milieu.

depends on what phone you use

I can on a desktop or laptop. Not so easy on a mobile.

Block Google from your life.

So, Google decides for themselves that they will be the internet police. I smell Nazism.

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.

That's really useful to know, and wish Samsung promoted that more. That's certainly something I'd consider buying then.

That's actually a good idea, thanks!

tuck the wire through your shirt

https://ramble.pw/f/whatever/3524/wireless-earbuds-are-stupid-change-my-mind

Can you please post a link to your rant. Thanks.

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.

They certainly have a place... I used to often have my wired one's snag on door handles in the house and that was plain irritating to me as I walk quite fast. That said, with wired you never have to worry about battery time or batteries that die after 2 years ;-)

Sadly, I'm not surprised Wikipedia is doing this. There are many malicious users who use VPNs, Tor, and other anonymity tools to put false information on their platform. By preventing editing of content by people who use these tools, platforms like Wikipedia is able to maintain their credibility.

Interesting - thanks, I might try this.

Very controversial article. It was posted multiple times on reddit where it got heavily criticized. Here are some threads I found ranged from most discussed to least.

(42 comments) https://old.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/he87m5/the_truth_about_protonmail/

(19 comments) https://old.reddit.com/r/PrivacySecurityOSINT/comments/ol7gth/anyone_here_able_to_evaluate_the_truthfulness_of/

(17 comments) https://old.reddit.com/r/LinuxCafe/comments/hetbh8/the_truth_about_protonmail/

(3 comments) https://old.reddit.com/r/AntiMSM/comments/l8tsdr/protonmail_is_cia/

It was also submitted to HN but didn't gain much attention.

Related discussion on raddle, which was apparently forked from this 4chan thread