NewOldGuard [he/him, they/them]

Trying to read more theory

I love technology, FOSS, learning languages, history, and philosophy

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Cake day: October 28th, 2024
  • NewOldGuard [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.nettoPrivacy@lemmy.ml•How do you find the compromise between privacy and daily phone usage?
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    5 days ago

    1. I keep my options open. I default to signal or matrix if that’s available, then my fall back is iMessage which I run on a macOS vm, and finally id relent to proprietary services like discord, groupme, etc. I minimize my communications on unencrypted and non-private channels, and only talk about benign things there if I have to use them. But I don’t let my commitment to privacy completely isolate me, I know my threat model and change behaviors depending on the environment.

    2. My banking and money transfer apps all work under grapheneos in a user account with Google play services installed. I mostly manage these things on my computer though to minimize tracking and remove the need for safetycheck compatibility before it ever comes up.

    3. I never use these services but pretty sure they also work on Graphene with sandboxed Google play services installed

    4. Other users have posted programs to convert these coordinates on the fly, I have never needed those personally. When I need GPS I usually go for Organic Maps but thinking of switching to OSMAnd+ soon

    5. Yes and this is an area where I need to improve my privacy more. I just use the garmin connect app with a garmin fitness tracker I got for cheap. I think it partially supports gadgetbridge so I might look into that but haven’t had the time to investigate.

    6. Pixel+Graphene is really the gold standard for privacy, security, and compatibility. I’ve heard ok stuff about CalyxOS so that’s worth checking out. Also FairPhone devices tend to have good support for custom ROMs like Calyx and /e/os which are degoogled, but I don’t have personal experience with those so definitely research those topics before making any decisions

  • NewOldGuard [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.nettoWorld News@lemmy.ml•Donald Trump tells Canada to become a state to avoid his tariffs
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    6 days ago

    “People are surprised, they become indignant. They say: “How strange! But never mind-it’s Nazism, it will pass!” And they wait, and they hope; and they hide the truth from themselves, that it is barbarism, but the supreme barbarism, the crowning barbarism that sums up all the daily barbarisms; that it is Nazism, yes, but that before they were its victims, they were its accomplices; that they tolerated that Nazism before it was inflicted on them, that they absolved it, shut their eyes to it, legitimized it, because, until then, it had been applied only to non-European peoples; that they have cultivated that Nazism, that they are responsible for it, and that before engulfing the whole of Western, Christian civilization in its reddened waters, it oozes, seeps, and trickles from every crack.”

    • Aimé Césaire, Discourse on Colonialism