he stepped down a while ago

some users solve that with keyword filters, but be careful not to block too broadly

except that the new subscription costs more, and has AI features. now the line did go up, and investors can be told that people want AI

these methods are available to anyone. if a person is bothered by the constant video surveillance of public spaces, they probably also care about other sources of data leaks, against which they can protect themselves.

there’s no need for defeatism.

neighbors, just visually seeing him with their eyes

sane neighbors won’t take notes if you, they won’t build a profile of you that can meaningfully be used for nefarious purposes.

mobile operator via their 5G/4G towers

5G, yes, but how accurate is 4G for that purpose? 4G transmitters are not placed as densely as 5G, and the frequency range it uses also makes it less suitable for that, as I know.

for that you can limit your phone to 4G, it may even save you power. and you always have the choice to put your phone to airplane mode. if you find it useful and you are a little determined, you could even automate it with tasker.

mobile OS via their positioning data

you can choose a mobile OS that doesn’t do that. for now…

• WiFi hotspots

• ISP via WiFi hotspots

you mean by your MAC address, when your phone is scanning? better android roms randomize that too, maybe some phones do that on stock OS too.

any app with geolocation tracking and any of their commercial partners purchasing that information

you can win a lot by not installing any app a shop wants you to have. they are taking advantage of the gullibility of the average person. lots of those bait apps are just a website anyway, and if you use them in a browser, they have access ro much fewer things.

but you are talking about apps with location tracking. which ones you mean? I only allow that permission for apps that I trust. on modern android, you can can give only approximate location, which is somewhat better.

connected devices via BT scanning potentially sending back data to their manufacturer, assuming most are connected

I don’t get this one. your devices, or those of others? BLE 5 has MAC address randomization

governments with abilities to get information from ISP, mobile operators, mobile OS maintainers

the government can barge in my door. does that mean I shouldn’t keep data brokers out of my life? to me it doesn’t. I think we already tackled network operators and OS maintainers too.

So… the question IMHO is : is there are NEW data with or without the camera network? I’d argue marginally more.

yes, there is, I think

all IoT devices can if they have any wifi functionality. they can even see the MAC addresses of the devices connecting to these wifi networks. if some of these devices are set to use their original MAC address instead of the randomized address on a network, IoT devices in signal range can see that too.

Your neighbors might know you are around, their doorbell cameras might have footage of you doing so… and what?

its not about the neighbors knowing this or that, but the cloud processing systems of these devices.

they aren’t. one of them is an AP from another phone, so I believe that one couldn’t even be configured as hidden by accident, because the phone does not offer it. another is one I sometimes use, and it’s not hidden either.

almost worthless. I just learned that the android 13 xiaomi phone of a family member broadcasts some of the wifi AP names it knows when scanning for available networks! constantly! why the fuck it does I don’t know because neither are hidden networks that would need this, and there’s no setting for it

well it seems they are not using Industry Standards

Piefed.social is the flagship instance, comparable to lemmy.ml.

comparable in status, or in opinions?

my point is that it makes no sense for a couple to announce that they just started having sex and there’s no pregnancy yet. when there is now, or if they have been trying for long without success, that could be newsworthy, but otherwise it’s literally just announcing that you two started having unprotected sex.

they did not say they’re having a baby. they’re trying to have a baby. no baby yet, but they are doing things to have one

When I ran rooted Android, I used AdAway to keep my HOSTS file up to date. You can’t do that without root, though. At least AFAIK.

you can, not with adaway but others like rethink dns that function as a VPN, without actually using a VPN provider.

when you do that, you can’t use any other VPN apps. though some (including rethink) have additional functions, like an outgoing firewall, wireguard, proxy support, …
though if your company requires a different VPN app… then get a company phone, probably.

Full thoughts on my TT

holy shit I did not expect it to go that low

I kind of understand what’s the use of BGP, but the article was lacking too many details even for me. cloudflare has a better article, their conclusion is that this was probably an accident and not an attack, because the leaked routes were so low priority that it couldn’t cayse traffic to be rerouted.
they didn’t say but I think perhaps what it could have done is overload the venezuelan state ISP with traffic they shouldn’t handle, but I don’t know for sure

https://blog.cloudflare.com/bgp-route-leak-venezuela/

recommend trying Jitsi to your therapist. the main advantage of it to me is that it’s not made by big tech, who may be snooping in on the session. I love it, it has all the features and more

oh and also firefox. jitsi and firefox.

4 GB is not enough for web browsing

well there’s a firmware selector page, wherr you can request additional packages. maybe it can also be used for removing some?

but if you build it yourself you can do any changes you want, too

Don’t expect good Wi-Fi if you went with devboards like OpenWrt One.

why is that?