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Cake day: June 5th, 2023

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  • Just gave it a try… Doesn’t appear to work for browser default search settings? I do a search and see results for about 2 seconds before it then shows their search page. I used https://www.qwant.com?q=%s for the query. Liked the search results I tested it with but not being able to use the search bar for quick searches is a deal breaker for me :(


  • What I did was just buy the tv I wanted for the hardware and block it from internet access by Mac address, then plugged it into the network with eth. I then put dns blocks on every request it made (I log things before blocking them, and did this on the scenario a kill switch gets messed up or something) and installed the media software from there. Smart tv made private.




  • If you’re very technical and understand Linux, security, etc in great lengths (such as how to setup your own iptables rules with looking for help or creating your own scripts), and really know what your doing, a rooted non-gapps lineageos (optionally microg) is a great choice, as long as you install things like AFWall+ and such to lock it down a ton. Heavy emphasis on “understanding” what you’re doing here, since if you don’t, a rooted device could be bad on security.

    If you’re not at that comfort level or have the time for that kind of stuff, GrapheneOS (unfortunately on pixel) is the best option.

    If you don’t want to give Google any of your money, and you don’t want to go into the super low level system control with root, the best option is probably still lineageos with microg (or without if you don’t need push notifications for anything).


  • Who knows, guess we’ll find out. The only point I was trying to make is the title of the article being misleading to an assumption rather than fact. It’s very possible what you just mentioned is the case, but we won’t know until later. My personal concern is the fact Zoom is used for work for many and getting around that for most folks will be the hard part. I hope the terms for free users vs business agreements differ.



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    1 year ago

    Title probably needs to be reworded. Terms clearly mention they won’t use it without user consent, not that they MUST use it. Doesn’t mean it’ll stay that way, but just don’t consent for it when asked and you’re probably okay (I’m mentioning this for those who have no choice but to use it, for things like work)




  • Why not just self host? What happens when/if their service goes down without any warning? You lose everything?

    Got my things all on a server with RAID for redundancy and backup weekly to an external (encrypted) device, monthly to another that doesn’t stay at home. Also means I don’t have to rely on the Internet to use all my services if the ISP goes down, the firewall explodes, etc. Self hosting is the way to go!






  • Meanwhile I just ignore sms messages for a week, then respond, then ignore again with an occasional reminder I don’t use sms and signal or something else is better to reach me with. Only a couple people left to convince… The most stubborn of the bunch.

    But yeah as others said, lying like that ain’t going to be good down the road, especially when they’re close people to you. Hope this doesn’t come back to bite you.



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    1 year ago

    Unless referring to encryption, can you expand on why NC with Dav isn’t private? I’ve got both selfhosted (in home) and haven’t picked up on any traffic sharing my calendar to third parties through my logs and alerts, so would like to know more of what you’ve seen to see if I have a gap in my automated alerts.

    Edit: unless your answer was just in response to the OP wanting an already hosted system, then yeah I can understand what you mean there.