I hope they FAFO the wrong McAfee type
I hope they FAFO the wrong McAfee type
Google did it too for a decade
Flush that turd.
Money Talks, Bullshit Walks.
I’m pretty sure my Arches with PipeWire audio don’t have it if that’s of any use to you.
I have used PulseAudio and PipeWire for years and the last few years have preffered the latter when installing all the optional dependencies.
Then again if it ain’t broke 🤷♂️
I thought signing up for Signal required a phone number and phone app – and all phones have IMEI besides many other nightmare anti-features.
For the normies it’s fine but tbh I’m not sure it’s as advertised.
What ever happened to that odd old app called tox?
Honestly I could see a version of DeltaChat + GPG make some gains in popularity but I would argue the email relay servers and spam lists are rigged for max surveillance.
Are we at the point where tech from 20 years ago may be the way lmao.
XMPP, IRC, ICQ /s
Matrix is probably the best bet but some of their apps and clients seem like dogshit. And I am saying that as someone who uses them daily. And the whole “server” thing is a PITA, or it used to be at least.
I guess we’ll just have to use carrier pidgin and cypherto encrypt the cat gifs /s
It may be a little too late but if you have a chance to use a feature like btrfs snapshots (+time shift) it can be a game changer.
Any time you need to do something risky to the OS you can just snapshot before like installing 1000 packages, or Nvidia driver update, you can just revert to the old working version by swapping the names on the snapshot and is subvolume.
If you dislike telemetry,
Audacity => Tenacity
Firefox => LibreWolf or FireDragon (GraudaLinux default, good in telemetry respects IIRC)
You may like btop, Mission Control,
Avoid any terminals and editors that advertise as “AI” – there were some big ones recently but the community thankfully overall was like nah.
Get some decent browser extensions, ublockorigin, privacy badger, libredirect
some people like to pihole their network, opensense/pfsense/ddwrt router is nice to have
AVAHI broadcasts your services on the LAN IIRC.
Obviously vscode has telemetry, if you use that try vscodium IIRC, personally I use neither but that’s just me.
Due to Wayland naming schema I’m having trouble decoding this title.
So Wayland, a protocol, is needing the addition of other protocols?
Is this like how we call Linux and Linux distros both Linux?
Does this make it a Wayland Distro?
Do either of you know of a great warrior by the name of loves2spooge?
First I heard they even had a fedi.
PLZ Add Publisher Launcher, it’s unfair that friends find me on steam and not my super favorite publisher fancy go clicky web 3.0 cloud store with digital lucrative dlc lootboxes for my simple consoomer satiation.
PLZ make it so if cheats r detect that GameApp.exe explodes the battery in their laptop.
Scratch that, explode the Solomonite.
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Step 1. Built Internet to get away from TV
Step 2. Corporate Greed TV moves over and ruins Internet.
Step 3. Build New Internet to escape Old Internet Ruined by TV bloodsuckers.
Step 4. Go back to step 2 and replace tech names with next itteration.
Even owning Smart devices and having them always plugged in may potentially be a vector, Rob did a good breakdown on how this is achieved.
https://odysee.com/@RobBraxmanTech:6/radio:64
Did you know that your IOT devices are secretly communicating with each other? This includes IOT devices that are not in your home. Did you know that what your IOT devices do may be transmitted to third parties? Did you know that your TV may also have the capability and may currently be transmitting your activity far and wide?
There are secret communications occurring between IOT devices using protocols like Bluetooth LE, Zigbee, Thread, 802.15, and LoRa that you likely didn’t expect or was not explained when you bought these devices.
Just like Amazon Echo has been conscripted to work with the Amazon Sidewalk Mesh network, other networks are in operation
Yeah I would definitely skip out on Mastodon and Lemmy directly. They’re fine as a temporary visit but long term nah.
Dickhead meet Dickbutt, sounds like reddit poetry to me
I think your best bet is to assume that everything you don’t control is a vector.
The modems run binary blobs you don’t control.
A standard modem with a singular hookup to a router is as good as it gets. Maybe you are contemplating the modem as a combo – if it is also a router and wifi, you can bet the ISP sees that as “Their Network” and not “Your Network” and any WiFi capabilities could be used to reverse hack insecure devices theoretically like smart TV or IoT.
You could put the modem router combo in a Faraday cage to dampen the signal theoretically.
That may not be answers to the query but I think the smart short answer is: yes, unless verified no.
Edit: to go further, theoretically they can capture any traffic and if they get the encryption key decrypt the traffic.
Or maybe with a quantum computer decrypt with ease. And if you have any leaks or there are backdoors then who knows what the consequences could be, cough cough xz
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