No. At least not in the way most people expect.

It does block some tracking and ads that Chrome alone allows or explicitly adds. But it simply shifts that tracking to Brave. The idea was that you’d still get the benefits of that tracking by giving all of your data to Brave instead. I honestly never was convinced by this considering your data is still being sold, just by a different company so it doesn’t sound much better to me. Supposedly, according to them, Brave is more trustworthy and gives you more control over what they track and sell, but I don’t trust that business model. There’s no real incentive for them to do what they said they would.

Right, but not all have fixed that. I still see lots of cases where I have to turn off several options individually. Though these could be sites outside of the EU jurisdiction, so they just don’t care, or sites that make enough money off of the tracking data, that the fines would be insignificant even if the EU were to get around to fining them.

And again the comment stands that it’s not the law, but the implementations that are bad. The law requires it to be simple, but that’s not what was implemented.

Problem is not the law, but that the companies implemented it in as annoying of a way as possible to get people pissed off about the law and force it to be dropped, or for what actually happened which is that it’s too much work to not opt-in to the cookies which essentially makes it opt-out not in.

And the idea to remove the requirements for “simple statistics” or whatever terminology they use will just get abused by using other illicit tracking tech to link the cookies to uniquely identify a person anyway. So it will effectively make the popups unnecessary in any circumstances and still allow tracking for marketing and surveillance.

It’s become a pretty standard practice on Apple, Samsung, and Google devices as well as many other Android manufacturers to enable data sharing by default in the US. Especially the last few administrations want as much data as possible about the people, and in the US pretty much all of the companies share this kind of data pretty freely without requiring any judicial oversight since the supreme court has been corrupted. And the current administration HSS basically cut all investigation into any corporations that are friendly to them, so there’s no essentially no risk in collecting, leaking, or selling this data, so why bother making it opt-in. And recently, it’s explicitly risky to not collect and share as much data as possible with the government.

Yeah, forgejo will give you many of the features of GitHub. Not the proprietary ones like the Actions Marketplace of course, but a lot of equivalent features. It’s lightweight enough though that even if you never use it for anything beyond git, creating pull requests, and some basic CI, it’s not going to require much power to run it.

Do you need the public to have access to it? That would be the only reason for federation that I could think of.

I self-host forgejo, it’s one of the easiest systems I self-host.

But which features other than a plain git repo are you looking for? That will mostly determine your options. There are tons of git repos, and even just a plain git repo on a server with an ssh tunnel is enough if you don’t need anything beyond that.

I’m just talking pure cost to manufacture for each. The cost of the hardware is higher: faster CPU, faster GPU, additional RAM, additional storage, higher end cameras, etc. That is where the cost of the phone comes from, so you can’t compare cost of a Fair Phone to this one any more than you can compare the cost of a Pixel 9 to the Pixel 9a. Both have basically the same software, warranty, parts availability, etc., but the 9a was about half the price of the 9 because the “a” series is a lower-end phone overall.

But the specs aren’t comparable. The Murena phone is a higher-end device than the Fairphone. And the Fairphone does get incentives/subsidies for the Android version which is one of a few reasons the Android version is cheaper than the version sold with /e/OS.

The cost of the device is not being subsidized by all of the bloatware installation income, selling of personal info, etc. I think a lot of people don’t realize that inflation really shot through the roof on the last decade and it’s only because products are subsidized by the sale of your data and other unethical practices that product prices didn’t go up. Food uses shrink-flation to hide inflation, tech uses selling your personal info.

Mostly because rehab is very profitable and data brokers want that kind of info in your advertising profile just like any other trait that is easy for their customers to exploit for profit.

Depends on what you want. You can have the application have an https certificate which could either be one issued my a globally trusted issuer or could just be a self issued certificate that caddy is configured to trust. And caddy can then add the globally trusted certificates from let’s encrypt or whatever. But that definitely requires extra steps. Just, how secure do you want to be?

Right. Instead say “here you can use this as you like, and if you improve on it, share that with everyone in the same way so we can all benefit from it.” Is why GPL is better.

I use forgejo on a raspberry pi.

It definitely depends on the application. But when you’re installing it, it should yell you if it’s installing other things. Otherwise you’ll have to look at the actual files it installed. There should ne documentation you can read on the site or st least it should have given you a readme to look at when you install it that has the info or links to a website with the info. There also should be a privacy policy in the application or on its site that describes what info it collects and tracks assuming this is from a reputable company. I’m just not familiar with it.

Don’t include the non-encoded part of the data or it will corrupt the decryption. The decoder can’t tell the difference between data that’s not encoded and data that is encoded since it’s all text.

Anti-cheat software in either testing or gaming as well as employee productivity monitoring software (which is similar) generally has wide ranging permissions to do its job. So without doing research to confirm, I’d assume it has full access to everything you do across all applications, including when it’s not running in the foreground if it has background services running.

Personally, I never install that stuff on my primary operating system. I either use a dedicated device, dual boot, or if it is less sophisticated, use a virtual machine with only Windows and the necessary software. Of course I don’t use Windows for any personal computers anyway, too inefficient, and these days, too unstable and too much spyware built-in. I only use Windows on my work laptop these days which spys on me constantly to the point of crashing a lot as it collects all of its info when I use development software at the same time as WebEx or other necessary software.

If you want to know details, you need to look at the software they had you install as well as the dependencies it might install.

Still pretty limited set of supported devices, but it’s not really mean to be a defensive tool. Would be nice if this results in a way to detect and prevent your device from connecting to them, someday.

https://efforg.github.io/rayhunter/

Because you trade privacy for convenience. You could have a totally private communication platform, but you’d need to trade current IP addresses of your devices if there’s no users and no centralized routing server or at least a list of what device is associated what person.

It’s secure because people can’t read the content of your message. It’s not private because people can find you with your phone number or username and associate encrypted message packages with the sender and receiver so they know who you called and when, but not what you said.

So if your contacts are tech savvy enough to call you to get your current unique IPv6 address, something that Android doesn’t really support out of the box, and IPv4 often won’t work due to layers of routing caused by the world running out of addresses, or some other unique network identifier, and there are no firewalls between you or they’ve all been configured appropriately to allow the particular message protocol then you could send simple IP Messages to each other.

But as long as you want to use a system that routes messages and has a user database, that central location will always be a privacy hole.

Still are, though most often it’s heat rather than photons from sunlight since it’s not really necessary to disassemble hardware to that extent these days. And there’s available processing power to retry or do other error handing for any interference. Like running an unshielded Ethernet cable through a wall next to a power cable or through a room with heavy machinery can definitely cause data corruption from EM interference, but it will likely manifest as slowness rather than crashing a whole system. But there are lots of things that still cause computers or applications to crash that are related to stray energy, we just are so used to buggy software now that it rarely is noticed. 😁

Problem is many Android apps require Google Services and none of these will have it. So things like banking apps, parking payment apps, RCS text messaging apps, and even dating apps these days are going to refuse to run. Grapheneos has the advantage of the Google services sandboxed to reduce the impact of having it if you understand the implications, as well as features keeping other apps from talking to each other like how Facebook was caught using their apps to identify you to your web browser to allow every site you visit to identify you that has Meta provided services, even in incognito mode or when you opt out of or block their or third-party cookies.