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It's hard to make the full switch towards a more private life, but switching your mail already fixes a big underlying issue: that being, Google or other companies having access to all your emails. So, I'll cover the basics of making your online mailing more private.

Howdy everyone! I’m happy to say I’ve finally gotten off the iOS ecosystem and loaded into grapheneos! Does anyone have any recommendations for apps to get? I’ve been away for a long time and saw tachiyomi was killed so I’ve lost my edge on apps for this side of the mobile space. Currently I’ve got: F-droid (god I’m happy this has never died) Aurora store Obtanium Mihon (I think this might be a successor to tachiyomi) And the fossify communication apps (phone, messages, contacts) But let this also be a good thread for others like me having privacy back in their lives, even if a slow transition like mine.

Ive been using pangolin for a couple weeks now. So far so good. All my publicly exposed services work like a charm.

The ongoing discussions about age-verification and changes in Free and Open-Source Software and GNU Linux and related OSs made me realize a gross misunderstanding on my part. I think many other users may have the same misunderstanding (seeing many comments using the word “traitors"), and it’s important that we become aware of it. We must understand that using or saying “FOSS” or “Linux” does not automatically mean to stand up for human rights like privacy, for the community, against corporations, and similar goals and values.

I manage to recover an old main email and there was a Google acc tied to it that I haven logged in over ten years, but despite I having access to the email, I can’t access the Google acc because:

Just thinking about the way LLMs can analyze huge amounts of data to cross references and even use your writing style to dox you… well… seems like we gonna need some text spoofer tools that change each of your messages to a different grammar set and random typo generation so they all seem like sent by different users…

Software changes for compliance with age-verification laws are being pushed a bit everywhere in Linux-development; for example:

For those interested, the Systemd release that’s planned to include the controversial ’birthDate’ field to user records, complying with age-verification laws, is v261 (see ‘milestone’ in the pull request). This release seems to be planned for May.

I was watching a video yesterday which had a sponsor for deleteme which claims to go through data brokers to delete your info. I thought that might be a good idea, especially for those with radical politics. However it’s fairly expensive (~200$) and also I mistrust sponsored links by default.

I was checking a friend network over Tor and I was curious about the country that would show in his logs so I checked where my exit node was from…

I’ve seen this being discussed around here in the past but it wasn’t on a day I could engage, and today I was talking to friend of mine who is developing an alternative to chattable and he was going to link fonts from Google, so I told him to use Bunny Fonts instead because it wouldn’t be using the call to log IPs and track activity, he just had to change the domain name because the path was the same, and he joked about me being paranoid… I edited a bit of my message to put on a post on my microblog https://pxhc.neocities.org/

I’m installing Qubes OS for the first time, and I was wondering if there is any disadvantage to installing librewolf (or something similar) as my primary browser instead of default firefox?

To be clear, I don’t subscribe to the idea of “Nothing to Hide.” It’s a bullshit argument. The reason why I’m asking this is because I want to be able to explain why it’s bullshit. I don’t like the fact that many people, including ones in my family, are willing giving up their right to privacy simply because they’ve become accustomed to convenience that modern technology has afforded them. I, myself, have been guilty of these but I’m actively taking steps to take back my privacy and potentially help others as well.