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[–] [email protected] 42 points 2 months ago (7 children)

Mullvad, IVPN, and Proton are the top tier for privacy respecting VPNs.

Windscribe and AirVPN are also decent options but do not have the audit history to be in the same tier as the other 3.

Most other VPNs people mention either have a dubious history or no real proof of their claims to be privacy respecting.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Your a massive a-hole if you get amusement out of people getting screwed out of not being able to use a product they paid to use.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

3 minutes in before its revealed its actually a sponsored video to advertise daily.dev

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 months ago

Tor cant save you from bad opsec.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

It sounds like they just report the number they are sure of at the time and update the filing later. Very high chance the number of affected is much more then 1.3M - the number of unique email addresses alone makes it pretty clear its more.

The situation doesn't come without precedent either. It's not uncommon for organizations disclosing data breaches with US state officials to update those filings down the line as investigations into potentially compromised data continue.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I admit this is not a helpful answer but...

If you want to have hundreds of gigabytes or more of media storage plus backups, its going to be expensive. There is no secret cheap way.

This is what makes debrid options so appealing. You can amass terabytes of media data for a cheap monthly cost.

You can then supplement that with a small nas or drive of rare or hard to find media / offline selection in which case you could probably run raid 10 with the small amount that you would actually need to backup.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Would be basically impossible. Most of what is leaked these days is just rebundled from other leaks. For example if you listened to MB on this its only a small % of data from new leaks that actually ends being new info.

Any attempt of doing something like this would prove to be trash data pretty quickly and would not have a major effect.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

That's fair, and the reasons why someone buys a phone is a personal choice.

I would suggest with things like a headphone jack that, while its annoying to buy an adapter (usb-c to headphone) it may be worth the cost vs sacrificing something like hardware security.

Sadly a lot of the time consumers are forced to choose between security and privacy or convenience.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (5 children)

If the security benefits of a pixel is less important then the fact Google made it then GOS is simply not meant for you.

Its silly people complain about it being only compatible for pixels but never seem to blame other android brands for making significantly less secure phones. The responsibility should be put on phone makers to create secure phones that meet GOS requirements, not to expect GOS to make a less secure OS.

The whole AOSP environment is very Google centric so its pretty weird to think because your not buying a pixel that you are somehow avoiding Google.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Honestly i found that whole excerpt to be pretty nonsensical.

Don't see how that relates to what i said and then you quoted but reworded (why?). Plus it all just circles back into "its bad cause the UX is slightly more inconvenient".

If the author had any substance to his argument it wouldn't require laying out a ridiculous scenario just to get the reader to understand what in hell he is trying to say.

He basically tldrs the whole article a few sentences later with " I want it to be easy to use." The author never seriously considers if that's worth the cost.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (3 children)

Author seems to ignore that FOSS projects tend to be much smaller teams without budget to create the user experience that private VC funded projects can.

Ths whole accountability argument seems to be pretty disingenuous, allowing anyone who wants to evaluate the source code is about as accountable as it gets.

The not-so-subtle "you will be lazy about what your doing if someone is not paying you not to be" vibe throughout this article is off putting to say the least.

I also find prioritizing user experience over the sharing of source code to be misguided. Allowing folks to gate keep knowledge and hide what they are doing is a big price just for a better user experience.

The real issue with FOSS is the same as with P2P networks. Most people are leechers whose only contribution is lip service.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

No worries, I've done a ton of times!

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