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joined 1 year ago
 

Please no self hosting or stuff of that nature I don't have the time to deal with that.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (5 children)

privacytests.org is ran by a guy who works at Brave, and they test all browsers in default settings, so for Firefox and Vivaldi all the tracking protection is turned off hence why they do not score well. Vivaldi with the settings turned on and Ublock Origin installed in my opinion is better than Brave.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You could get used so that Google does not get any money. It is also more environmentally friendly

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

90% of their money comes from Google funding them so that they are the default search engine. The rest of the money comes from their VPN, Pocket and sponsored shortcuts, and voluntary donations.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

While that is true, someone who is privacy conscious and is even going to the point of considering ditching a smart phone, probably knows better not to install privacy invasive applications and use secure end to end encrypted communication as much as possible

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Dumb phones have zero privacy.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yea, works great I have no complaints. Connects very quickly has multi-hop supports custom DNS and even has a built in speed tester. Just use an email alias and pay with a virtual credit card for more privacy

[–] [email protected] 56 points 1 year ago (16 children)

If Edward Snowden uses Signal, we as regular people should be just fine.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

So I attempted to run a crontab and for whatever reason it does not do anything. What I put was * * * * * /usr/bin/sct 2750 after sudo crontab -e just to see if it even runs but it does not do anything. I rewrote and added multiple crontabs but no results. Any help would be appreciated.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I am seriously confused because I follow multiple Youtube videos, and also came to the solution you suggested which is to run "which sct", and it ended up being /usr/bin/sct like you said but the command just does not run when the time comes. I am not sure what "X with environment variables" means so I would appreciate if you could explain and I can research further

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

To everybody who says ohohoho Vivaldi can't be trusted because it's proprietary...

Yes under the DEFINITION it is not Open Source because it misses ONE of the required categories to be Open Source, and that is the licensing which prevents users from customizing the UI and releasing a fork of it.

HOWEVER, the code IS there, it IS source available, and it CAN be audited.

Link for more info: https://piped.video/watch?v=oCyIzqmc_PQ&t=0

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Never, considering how shit ProtonVPN is on Linux

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (16 children)

Any tutorials or links on how to do so? I am still a noob so I apologize in advance.

 

I am on Mint XFCE and Redshift is just so inconsistent and I have tried its forks, also inconsistent. So instead I have been using sct in the terminal to adjust the temperature, and have set a command that resets it back to normal every time that I log on. However, I was wondering if there is a way to make it so that "sct 2750" runs every day at 10 pm or during a specific period of time.

Edit: I figured out the solution which was to create a crontab with the following line in it: 0 22 * * * env DISPLAY=:0 XAUTHORITY=$HOME/.Xauthority /usr/bin/sct 2750

 

You may or may not have stumbled across my comment on a post from a few days ago, mentioning how I fake banned my account on WhatsApp (attached below) when in reality I just deleted it.

Well, it worked like a charm. I got my close friends and my significant other to switch to Signal, I told them we have no choice since I got banned and won't get my account back, and told them that Signal was developed by the same people who once worked at WhatsApp before Facebook bought them. And it worked.

Just for your information, I am a zoomer in the US, the group which is probably the hardest to do this with, yet I did it (although granted we all used Whatsapp before which is also not very common in the US especially among zoomers who love Snapchat and Instagram DMs)

 

I hope they can bring the site back up soon and that it is not gone forever.

 

I actually enjoy pocket and is one of the features that I don't want disabled when using Arkenfox, but I can't see to figure out what thing in the user.js file caused it to disappear from my home screen. I already have all the pocket settings enabled in the settings menu, so it has to be something in the user.js file. Any help is appreciated.

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

Recently switched to Xfce from Cinnamon, and I am loving the old school aesthetics, reminds me of Windows XP.

 

I just don't see it happening. Shit I have a hard time getting them to use god damn Whatsapp or Telegram (still bad but at least better than Instagram).

They are all iPhone users in the US so as you may expect they are too damn lazy to install another messaging app despite having Instagram Snapchat Tiktok BeReal and whatever shitty social media app that exists on the App Store.

For the love of god don't just say "you need bettee friends" 😂 cause let's be honest finding a privacy conscious person that you also can get along with in the US as Gen Z is practically impossible.

 

Is there any news from Vivaldi for the possibility of a Flatpak release for Linux?

 

What is the best Android client for PeerTube? I would prefer if it is easy to switch instances

 

Aurora store has been constantly getting attacked by Google and has become unreliable as such despite being a great project for a very long time. I believe it is time to stop relying on the Google Play repository as a whole and my solution to that is Obtainium.

Obtainium has the ability to track applications for the latest updates and download them from several websites, including the F-Droid website, APKMirror (tracking only), APKPure, and most importantly, Github, Gitlab, and Coreberg, meaning you can download the applications directly from the source.

While it is a bit more DIY, you will always have the latest updates as early as possible, with the developer's signature, without relying on the google play store in any way, and can replace both Aurora and F-Droid apps, reducing the number of apps on your phone.

I am in no way associated with the developer and just really enjoy the project and wanted to shine some light on it.

 

Aurora store has been constantly getting attacked by Google and has become unreliable as such despite being a great project for a very long time. I believe it is time to stop relying on the Google Play repository as a whole and my solution to that is Obtainium.

Obtainium has the ability to track applications for the latest updates and download them from several websites, including the F-Droid website, APKMirror (tracking only), APKPure, and most importantly, Github, Gitlab, and Coreberg, meaning you can download the applications directly from the source.

While it is a bit more DIY, you will always have the latest updates as early as possible, with the developer's signature, without relying on the google play store in any way, and can replace both Aurora and F-Droid apps, reducing the number of apps on your phone.

I am in no way associated with the developer and just really enjoy the project and wanted to shine some light on it.

 

If I HAD to use one, which one would be better? While Whatsapp is owned by Facebook, they have end to end encryption for the messages, while the metadata is not. However, on Telegram, nothing is end to end encrypted unless you use a secret chat which most regular people are most likely not going to use. I have a feeling Whatsapp would be better but I wanted to hear your thoughts.

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