tmerriam @tmerriam@librem.one
Joined Apr 2021
@hn500 This shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone, especially their customers at this point. Everyone wants the "convenience" instead of the security right?
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📢 Exit relay operators, we need you to upgrade to Tor 0.4.7.7 as soon as possible! This is the first stable Tor release with support for congestion control, which will result in significant performance improvements for users. Upgrade to 0.4.7.7 now.
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Do you authenticate to various websites with your Github, Google or Facebook account? Be careful, if you get blocked by these companies, there's virtually no recourse and you might have a serious problem!
https://nextcloud.com/blog/big-tech-accountability/
@thisisthebreath It's a good thing vaccination started at the same time the number of cases started going up or it could have been much worse 🙃
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Virginia police routinely use secret GPS pings to track people’s cell phones
Link: https://www.insidenova.com/headlines/virginia-police-routinely-use-secret-gps-pings-to-track-people-s-cell-phones/article_e9c5e028-bbd4-11ec-8934-ab3eea0e9aa5.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31054432
@hn50 Stablecoin = shitcoin. You expect your money to keep it's value because it's always worth the same amount of a currency that is constantly going down in purchasing power? Utterly insane.
@adam SearX just aggregates search results from some other search engines, it is not itself a search engine. The only open one I'm aware of is Yacy. With Yacy Grid, which distributes and dedeuplicates the index, it may become much more usable.
@hn50 Email is obsolete
@hn50 I've lost control of a couple accounts and am steadily migrating away from the last one. I can't imagine getting locked like that, going through all that trouble, and staying with Google. This guy is insane!
@hn50 This sounds interesting and I'd love to have a look. Brave missed the mark. The release date is passed and there's no download or source. What's going on?
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The Impervious Browser: Your Portal to the P2P Internet
Link: https://newsletter.impervious.ai/impervious-browser-functionality-overview/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30968715
@hn50 The main problem I have with Google is that so many of the results seem to be designed to game the SEO to push ads. That's Google's business model; it's an advertising company that has a search engine. Alternatives need to find things based on actual relevancy - not the money they bring in for Google's true customers: ad buyers.
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The Next Google
Link: https://dkb.io/post/the-next-google
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30921628
@hn50 This is not even the first time they've done this. When Apple fanboys talk up macOS security, I point to situations like this. Apple's response to vulnerabilities needs improvement.
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Apple Neglects to Patch Two Zero-Day, Wild Vulnerabilities for Big Sur, Catalina
Link: https://www.intego.com/mac-security-blog/apple-neglects-to-patch-zero-day-wild-vulnerabilities-for-macos-big-sur-catalina/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30920648
@adam I finally got around to listening to this and have to say it completely lives up to the hype. Having so much of the narrative put together in one piece really helps to see it for what it really is.
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YouTube cancelled my Nextcloud installation how-to
Link: https://mccormick.cx/news/entries/youtube-cancelled-my-nextcloud-how-to-video
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30886834
Joined Apr 2021
