Lucy :3

I always found it weird for people to recommend BitWarden … it just FELT like a company that’ll go completely off track sooner or later. And it did. Oh wonder. KeePass ftw!

I maintain a server with 1922 days uptime, debian kernel 4 and a 5+yo old django version running on Python2 with tons of RCE vulnerabilities. Fun times.

Honestly, paywalls. I’ll just not use anything not FOSS then. Ads are much more annoying and 99% of times brainrot.

I can block ads 100% reliably, and haven’t seen one, except in streams where the streamer had to watch one, or someone else’s device, in years. Paywalls are much harder to circumvent and need a whole plethora of extensions and 3rd party sites, instead of just uBlock + FF.

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Does any Linux distro have autorun? Because Windows isn’t really an OS anyway.

In the end they won’t notice it. It’s just files named backup. No way for them to prove this isn’t only files for the club.

Transparency from a police force that, historically, was not transparent but arbitrary, and again reverts to that.

We could argue it’s legit backups from everything involving it, and that’s kinda true as it also contains stuff for the club. Just all other files of my server too, which includes the backups of all my other devices.

My dad has 100 TB free drive storage due to being a non-profit club. I’m happy to fill that nearly to the brim with my encrypted backups. I doubt they’d ever think someone can really use that space, especially as a small non-profit, but considering daily full-disk backups of several hundres gigabytes … it’s gonna be easy. On the contrary, I’m happy to pay for my 1 TB Hetzner Storagebox. Because I know exactly where my data resides, I can ssh into the box and even use rsync (to some degree).

Ok, but WHICH site did they take down? Any names or links?

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Any name of the website, for reference, or any links to further statements? Just because our police claim they achieved something does not mean I believe them at all. And even if they actually took down something, a forum style site very likely means all content was hosted externally. Essentially, the site could be rebuilt in a few days in that case.

Just stating “we took down some bad CP site” without ANY further explanation is worthless, because websites and especially darknet services are much more complicated than there being a single server, you plug that off and you saved the day. If “the internet never forgets”, the darknet even gains from such events. Each piece of content will be locally stored by at least a dozen of the hundreds of thousand of members. And after that, it will be uploaded to new services (if it wasn’t just spread out to dozens of 3rd parties anyway), and more people will download it. So the situation could be worse now. Doesn’t matter for the stats and publicity of course. But being able to comprehend their claims and actions would at least give one either the satisfaction that cops achieved something and those fuckers were taken down, or another reason for facepalm.

The most important thing with such an event here is transparency. And in history, recently and nearly a century ago, it’s not like blindly believing cops was a good option.

Google will have to distribute rival third-party app stores within Google Play, and it must give rival third-party app stores access to the full catalog of Google Play apps, unless developers opt out individually.

Both of those are completely irrelevant tho. Nobody cares about other app stores being available in the playstore, and aurora already can install any app of the playstore.

You should.

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n00bs

“Allah is above them”

Maybe, but the flying spaghetti monster is even higher!

C++, with some Skill

/s

but seriously, I don’t know any language with a good, C/Cpp-like Syntax (so not Rust), with a good compiler (again not Rust). So I’m sticking to Cpp.

Doesn’t Graphene not support Gapps at all?

And then just setting a private DNS and checking “the little lock at your address bar” fully prevents any digital sniffing of your credentials. No VPN needed.

If it works for you, and you found a VPN provider you can trust, or at least have the feeling of that, great! That is one of the very rare use cases where VPNs are not only useful, but actually have a purpose.

On a broader scale, most people won’t find a trustworthy VPN, and would use it for way more than they need to, essentially giving all data to the VPN company now, instead of just to the local Café or google.

And for the bank app, there is no replacement. Google’s camera can be replaced by OpenCamera, or just disallowed to access the internet, and google maps can almost perfectly be replaced by organic maps

If you’re not relatively tech savy, a typical VPN IS the man in the middle. That’s the problem. A VPN, in itself, is very good. But as you said, non-tech savy users won’t be able to set up a VPN themselves, so they need to trust a company to route all their traffic, be their DNS server, not log anything, not be hacked and not give any data to current or future totalitarian governments. Not even I could recommend any VPN company that fulfills enough points there, especially the security related ones.