GrapheneOS, other custom OSes, ability to hack/mod/repair.
Apple is one of the most scummy and anti-consumer companies in the world, they won't ever get a dollar from me or any endorsement.
Skooshjones
joined 2 years ago
The basic assumption every privacy-concerned person should have about email is that it's never secure. Unless you use an offline cryptography program to encrypt your email text and then paste it into the email body before you send it, your emails are insecure.
Email was never designed with that in mind. If you want to communicate securely with somebody, use a medium/method that has been designed from the start for that purpose.
I use ProtonMail because it's not a massive corpo and it's open source, but I don't believe that my emails are significantly more secure than on a service like Exchange or Gmail.
Finding a solution to an obscure computer problem in a YouTube video recorded with Unregistered Hypercam, Windows XP/Vista background, notepad instructions being typed at 15 WPM, playing Down With the Sickness, Breaking Benjamin, or one of those 009 Sound System songs lol.
I've been trying out Carnet for a few days, syncs with Nextcloud and has an app for the dashboard and a mobile app for android.
So far I like it, a little clunky in some ways, but overall solid and looks nice.
Yo ho! Yo ho! A pirate's life for me!
Planning on getting this myself soon, I'll let you know if and when I do how it is.
Thanks for your contribution! Ever since I started seriously transitioning to FOSS over the last few years, I've been happier and my enjoyment of technology has only increased :)
Glad he's having fun with it! I hope to share it with my kids one day. :)
True and true!
Daddy longlegs are not "the deadliest spiders in the world." No it's not just because their fangs can't pierce human skin (they can), their actual venom is no deadlier to humans than a mild bee sting.
Mythbusters tested the myth on an episode. (Don't watch if you're even slightly arachnophobic)
Would be cool to have a browser extension that can return searched terms from fediverse sources that you choose.
Yeah. In my experience, you have to be careful in the world of tech privacy/FOSS to not fall off a cliff to the extremes.
You can always find reasons to not trust some piece of tech hardware or software. It's all too complex and multifaceted to fully vett, and even when you can do that, there isn't anything that isn't touched in some way by mega-corps or glowie agencies.
Tor was developed by the US gov, same with the ancestor of the internet. Your network traffic runs on mega-corp wires, through mega-corp servers. Your hardware is developed, built, and distributed by mega-corps, as is most the firmware and microcode in them.
Even Richard Stallman, one of the most hardcore Free Software advocates has concessions he makes for firmware, microcode, and so forth.
The only way to be truly and completely secure tech-wise is to pull a Ted K. And go run into the woods and live in a little cabin, disown any tech built after the turn of the century lol.
It's "all or something" not, "all or nothing." Determine your threat model, your ethical bounds, and let those principles guide you. I think fundamentally what all FOSS folks have in common is the idea that the tech you use should serve your needs and desires, not the needs/desires of billion dollar mega-corps farming you as a product.