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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Since when does a clock need a privacy policy?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  most logical take. people seem to forget that modern apps are tied into all kinds of features that regular users expect to just work. if you want a bare OS with minimalist apps, install lineage or Graphene and only use apps from F-Droid.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Has Google Search gotten so much worse in the last couple of weeks?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  yes. use any of the following, in no particular order:

  • ecosia.org - A non-profit certified B corp that plants trees by serving ads in your search results. Bing search underneath.
  • duckduckgo.com - A privacy friendly search engine. Primarily sourced from Bing but mixes in a few other sources.
  • any SearXNG instance - A self-hostable search front-end to various search engines.
  • marginalia.nu - specifically ‘random’ - An independent DIY search engine that focuses on non-commercial content, and attempts to show you sites you perhaps weren’t aware of in favor of the sort of sites you probably already knew existed.
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What the fuck happened to YouTube!?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Looks nice! A little too bare-bones and missing some features but thanks for putting it on my radar. I’m currently bouncing between duckduckgo and SearXNG.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PSA: Libraries⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Why do you think its absurd?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dead Monkeys Are Falling From Trees Amid Brutal Heat in Mexico⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  the worst part is this also applies to humans. We are COOKED.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨FireChat was a tool for revolution. Then it disappeared.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  For anyone considering Session messenger:

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  The Session developers dropped Perfect Forward Secrecy because it would be hard to work around it.

  First things first, let’s talk about what we’re leaving behind: Perfect Forward Secrecy (PFS) and deniability.

  Source: getsession.org/session-protocol-explained

  In plain English, they dropped a security feature for their convenience to the detriment of their users’ security.

  For anyone unsure what PFS provides:

  The value of forward secrecy is that it protects past communication.

  Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forward_secrecy

  The Session devs also claim:

  Session provides protections against these types of threats in other ways — through fully anonymous account creation, onion routing, and metadata minimisation, for example.

  Reading between the lines, we can interpret that as introducing security through obscurity, which is generally considered bad practice - cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/656.html

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨FireChat was a tool for revolution. Then it disappeared.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  What’s wrong with Briar? briarproject.org

  Censorship-resistant peer-to-peer messaging that bypasses centralized servers. Connect via Bluetooth, Wi-Fi or Tor, with privacy built-in.

  I think the reason these apps don’t take off is the compromises they make in order to work the way they do. When you do need them, you best hope you’re able to get them and get others to use them as well.