Dont beat yourself up over it

These things happen.

Maybe you was having a shit day.

we all have different ways to express our humour. I’m particularly shit at it to be honest.

I struggle too, half the time I cant tell the difference between real and ai.

Imagine being 69 years old and being called a script kiddie. Now that is something.

I think Ill get my flares and platform shoes and tie dye T-shirt out and start playing some led zeppelin and bob dylan over the weekend.

enjoy your weekend

My dear sewer rat

I am shocked that you failed to understand the humour in what I wrote

What you have written in reply is meaninglesss to me.

I do not understand what you are trying to say.

I do not to respond directly to the questions people ask me, if I consider them intentionally confrontational. like calling me a smug know-it-all to a smug script kiddie asshole.

that is awfully rude and judgemental when you dont know me

I will not reply to people, who, selectively pick one sentence, or a selection of my words, that do not conform to, or meet, their personal agenda, and who’s sole purpose is to create a passive aggresive fruitless argument.

Especially when they have not read and attempted to understand what I have tried to explain or expand upon.

Unless of course, you are willing to pay me £200 for every 50 minutes of therapeutic work we do together. You will then get my full attention, congruence, love, and undiminished empathy. Maybe we could dismantle your defence mechanisms, and point you towards a more productive way of life.

You could then be a useful and fully functioning member of the human race, and stop acting like a sewer rat consumed by anger, toxic shame and hate.

Until then. I shall look forward to reading with interest your next privacy post.

I want to see an episode of Dexter. With him monitoring an app that tells him if the body parts he has stored in the freezer, to dispose of later, is defrosting and starting to stink.

LOL!

They are sold out man.

still doesn’t beat my smart arse toilet.

Hey flatbield

Its the poor non techies that I feel for.

Buying stuff for convenience, being totally unaware of the data collection, lack of decent security and eventual enshitifictaion of the product range.

Thank you

Kokodayo, motherfuckers LOL

Hey Libb

all you write sounds like my home.

There are humans who live here.

Real books are the key to a wonderful life, Its the smell that gets me, they are especially easy on my eyes as I have gotten older.

I have a small library of my favourite books. I have just started to re-read, Écrits by Jacques Lacan, its a bit of a tome.

By the way. I do not own a TV, I have not watched any TV since around 2000,

I think thats called autonomy

Thank you

hey furry toaster

Its very frustrating.

People are very odd when it comes to privacy and tech in general.

I have convinced half my friends to move from text messaging to signal and encrypted email but the other half totally refuse. Some have even changed to SimpleX chat and others to conversations.

I have explained to them how, just having my phone number in their contacts list, is hoovered up by all the other apps on their phones.

I tell them I use opencontacts because I respect their privacy, and that I do not share their phone numbers with any apps, so they should respect my privacy too. which they dont.

https://f-droid.org/en/packages/opencontacts.open.com.opencontacts/

I put my foot down and say that I refuse to contact them or reply to any message they send, unless it is encrypted.

I also tell them to delete my number from their phones because I will not reply to them if they use my phone number.

they still cling on to gmail and the old text messages and dont bother messaging me at all.

very odd people.

Wow!

I was hoping that one day I could install edge on my arch distro and have the bestest ever, private and secure browser in the whole world.

But then I woke up from my dream. I told my psychoanalyst about my dream, and she said I was suffering from delusions and my dream was a narcissistic fantasy. Oh well.

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I use edge-frfox so I can have the edge experience without all the drama, surveillance, tracking.

http://aur.archlinux.org/packages/edge-frfox

https://github.com/bmFtZQ/edge-frfox

A Firefox userChrome.css theme that aims to recreate the look and feel of Microsoft Edge.

OH goodie.

glad to be of help

Hey eldavi

here are the guides to install e/OS on fairphones

https://doc.e.foundation/devices/FP3/official

https://doc.e.foundation/devices/FP4/official

https://doc.e.foundation/devices/FP5/official

https://doc.e.foundation/devices/FP6/official

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or use the e/OS installer:

Ive not used thos so cannot comment on how good or bad it is.

https://e.foundation/installer/

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or e/OS devices list:

https://doc.e.foundation/devices

I dont use the App Lounge or the e/OS launcher

I remove App Lounge via ADB and install either droid-ify or neostore, then install lawnchair

It a decent custom rom.

Its working OK for me.

No problems over the recent weeks for the family.

https://mullvad.net/en/check

You can check which DNS server you are using by expanding the DNS box in our Connection check.

If you expand the “NO DNS LEAKS” for the server info.

The API section next to the FAQ gives more info.

you have to register with your phone number.

But you dont have to give your phone number out to friends or peopole you meet.

Some family members use Molly-Foss and have no issues.

I use signal-foss from the Twin helix repo, A fork of Signal with proprietary Google binary blobs removed…

https://www.twinhelix.com/apps/signal-foss/

Signal from the F-droid - The guardian project repo, is just signal.

I read that the issue was with signal using google firebase, and that it was easier for the fascist piglets to track your messages through notifications.

I have found that you can actually delete a contact via molly but cannot do it via signal.

With signal you can only block a contact, which for me, is a privacy issues.

If I meet a random person, say on holiday, and we swap details, I want to delete them, not block them, where they remain in my block list forever.

I swap between Signal-FOSS and Molly if I want to delete a contact.

It doesnt effect me.

I haven’t used google search since windows 95.

I switch between Qwant, Startpage, Ecosia, ghosterysearch, mojeek and searxng.deliberate.world

The nearest I get to ai manipulation is when I use Gumtree.

ai is absolutely shit

an example:

I have been looking for a phone to install linux.

I settled on the Oneplus Nord N10 5G

so I searched Gumtree.

Nord N10 5G: is changed to: road nw10 5g, WTF

oneplus Nord N10 5G: is changed to: oneplus nord 110 5g, WTF

Gumtree boosts customer engagement by a third with Phrasee AI.

customer engagement, they got to be fucking joking.

https://lovelymobile.news/gumtree-boosts-customer-engagement-by-a-third-with-phrasee-ai

it seems like they want me to type mobile phone in the search box, and spend 10 hours looking at every fucking phone for sale in the entire UK, until i find the one i want.

proper customer engagement, I wont play that game.

so Gumtree can fuck off

Thank you

I will check it out again if and when I need to do a clean out.

I do create a lot of duplicates as I move and transfer files between 3 laptops.

Hey Dessalines

I never got on with rmlint. It never felt safe to me.

I found fclones to be much better and safer.

Plus there is a GUI version for those not using the terminal

Gui Version https://github.com/pkolaczk/fclones-gui

CLI version https://github.com/pkolaczk/fclones

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Usage

fclones offers separate commands for finding and removing files. This way, you can inspect the list of found files before applying any modifications to the file system.

group – identifies groups of identical files and prints them to the standard output

remove – removes redundant files earlier identified by group

link – replaces redundant files with links (default: hard links)

dedupe – does not remove any files, but deduplicates file data by using native copy-on-write capabilities of the file system (reflink)

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I did actually test this by creating a directory with duplicates.

test_dupes 186 files

scanned directory for duplicates and created dupes.txt

fclones group . >>dupes.txt

dupes.txt

remove duplicates to another directory

/home/user/Desktop/dupes

fclones move target_dir <dupes.txt

fclones move /home/user/Desktop/dupes <dupes.txt

test_dupes now has 173 files

Hey PragmaticIdealist

I dont like him because he seems to intentionally pick controversial subjects just to get clicks.

I mean. how controversial can you get by using the headline “LineageOS is apparently not private?” and then go about trying to prove your point by not referring to Lineage.

I can only assume that loads of non techy people would be put off by his claims.

Lineage does not send any information to google nor connect to google. However the apps you choose to install could connect to google. Especially if you use closed source apps.

if you stick to open source apps via Neostore, droid-ify and F-droid basic you should be fine.

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It is safe to disable Captive portal if it is already enabled on your phone.

I have disabled it on my aunts and uncles phones, they dont use lineage or any AOSP roms.

My aunt likes the idea of free wi-fi when shes out. she has a list of all the in-store wifi, in my local shopping centre, already stored on her phone, this means that she automatically connects to whatever wifi she is nearest to.

Lineage phones have captive portal disabled by default.

Looks like you are half way there.

A good VPN is also a good choice

Keep at it.

deepest apologies

thank you for the link

In my undergraduate mind I thought that the markdown language was an open source project

Hey illusionist

Thank you

I did try the three backticks but they remained in the post

I will try again

nope!

I was using ’ ’ ’ not three `

thank you

Excellent write up

Thank you