Waldschrat

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[–] Waldschrat@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

You could use regular Syncthing for any device other than iOS. And for iOS you could use Sushitrain/Synctrain: https://github.com/pixelspark/sushitrain

[–] Waldschrat@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Sushitrain/Synctrain might be what you looking for. It’s a libre and new app for putting syncthing to iOS: https://github.com/pixelspark/sushitrain

[–] Waldschrat@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I get that some things like screen resolution and basic stuff is needed, however most websites don’t need to know how many ram I have, or which CPU I use and so on. I would wish for an opt-in on this topics: So only make the bare minimum available and ask the user, when more is needed. For example playing games in the browser, for that case it could be useful to know how much ram is available, however for most other things it is not.

[–] Waldschrat@lemmy.world 9 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

I know that it has that in theory, but my Firefox just reached a lower score on https://coveryourtracks.eff.org/ (which was posted in this threat, thanks!) than a Safari. Firefox has good tracking protection but has an absolute unique fingerprint, was 100% identifiable as the first on the site, as to Safari, which scored a bit less in tracking but had a not unique fingerprint.

[–] Waldschrat@lemmy.world 28 points 3 days ago (16 children)

It would be nice to hammer a manually created fingerprint into the browser and share that fingerprint around. When everyone has the same fingerprint, no one can be uniquely identified. Could we make such a thing possible?

[–] Waldschrat@lemmy.world 10 points 3 days ago (7 children)

But why would any browser accept access to those metadata so freely? I get that programming languages can find out about the environment they are operating in, but why would a browser agree to something like reading installed fonts or extensions without asking the user first? I understand why Chrome does this, but all of the mayor ones and even Firefox?

[–] Waldschrat@lemmy.world 26 points 1 week ago

Hmmmm, money

[–] Waldschrat@lemmy.world 16 points 1 week ago (5 children)

What happened 2023?

[–] Waldschrat@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

These are problems for all people, not just the young ones.

 

If you are living in a country that is not save and free from politically motivated prosecution or other dangerous pursuits, all activities, messages and so on, that are critical of that country could be seen as dangerous to said system and therefore illegal. So making them public puts you in great danger. By “public” I don’t mean publicly available, but readable for state actors.

If you are living in a currently safe system, the internet does not forget things. So when it flips to an unsafe country, all your previously save thoughts, messages and so on are now illegal and are already out in the net. That puts you in great danger if you ever in your past had interactions which are now seen as illegal. And you can never know which topics could be illegal or dangerous by then. 

Another example would be traveling to unsafe states that you were ever critical of. 

All of those (and possibly more) scenarios are dangerous for you as the actor, but for any family member of yours in the future (or past) as well. 

So would it not always be in your interest to hide as much as possible, not just depending on your current situation or the assumed threat level? I have a hard time wrapping my head around statements like securing oneself depending on one’s threat level.

[–] Waldschrat@lemmy.world 25 points 2 weeks ago (8 children)

Return it. If you hold on to it (even if you block the ads and all) it will signal the manufacturer, that this practice is fine.

[–] Waldschrat@lemmy.world 9 points 2 weeks ago

Steve Bannon said six years ago on Bill Maher: "You seperate the signal from the noise. Watch the signal. There's a flashbang grenade every day as far as noise goes. Watch the signal."

[–] Waldschrat@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

It is great that the firmware is open source. However their customer support is utter shite. I have given up several times hoping for help on a keyboard bug.

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