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  • マリウスtoPrivacy@lemmy.world•Places to do a private chat among friends? (Web)English
    6·
    1 month ago

    You and your friend should…

    • create and exchange a set of Age public keys
    • use them to encrypt a simple text file
    • bzip the encrypted file
    • convert the binary archive to base64
    • embed the base64 using Pixelknot into a photo downloaded from unsplash that contains a distinct object you both agreed on (eg a windmill)
    • upload the file to imgur

    Now you both can privately chat with each other by monitoring imgur’s latest uploads, downloading every image that contains a windmill, read the base64 string, convert it to its binary bzip form, unpack the encrypted file and decrypt it.

  • マリウスtoSelfhosted@lemmy.world•Anybody out there self hosting Searxing?English
    2·
    1 month ago

    I have been hosting multiple SearXNG instances, the newest one (https://マリウス.com/be-your-own-privacy-respecting-google-bing-brave/) being a private instance for my own community channel, and it has been relatively smooth sailing.

    Some niche engines, like e.g. Mojeek seem to be notoriously slow, but that might also depend very much on the VPS that your requests are coming from.

    If, however, big engines like Bing or Google are blocking/throttling you, it might be due to your IP/subnet reputation and it might be worth switching your host.

    Alternatively, you could overengineer a setup in which you round-robin route your SearXNG request through a number of simultaneously running Wireguard tunnels from a VPN provider to obscure your traffic.

    However, if my experience, most VPN providers suffer extremely from Cloudflare and ReCaptcha blocks, hence ymmv.

  • マリウスtoOpen Source@lemmy.ml•Austria's Armed Forces Gets Rid of Microsoft Office (Mostly) for LibreOffice
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    4 months ago

    They contributed code that they needed, that is not giving back. I am speaking about actual long-term maintenance and/or money, which isn’t mentioned anywhere.

    See, the problem with these code contributions is that they are just that: One time effort. In most cases, this code will be handed over to the core maintainers, who will then have to deal with it for the rest of the project’s lifecycle. There are many documented instances in which FOSS projects are actually suffering because of contributions like this, as they are struggling to maintain the added features long term.

    But all the people downvoting this care about is that a public money drain like the military writes some code and throws it into the faces of FOSS developers, even completely disregarding whether these improvements are actually relevant for the everyday user of the software. And again, by contributing I am referring to actually funding the project with significant amounts. We are speaking of a public entity that spends multiple millions on a single fighter jet.

  • マリウスtoSelfhosted@lemmy.world•Can I self-host on old iPhones?English
    19·
    6 months ago

    If it has a decent camera, use it as a dedicated webcam. If the camera is just okay, convert it to a car dash-cam or a home security camera with integrated UPS, storage, and even fallback connectivity via mobile networks. Use it as a dedicated gaming device, or a music player for non-IoT speakers. Convert it to an LTE modem and make it a fallback for your home internet. Run a Monero node on it. Or a Briar mailbox. Host a personal website on it and make it available via DynDNS. Make use of the phone’s sensors, e.g. the light sensor or the microphone for home automation. Connect it to speakers and use it as a Bitcoin price monitor that plays “You Suffer” by Napalm Death every time BTC passes a certain threshold. Or just use it as a digital photo frame on your desk.

  • マリウスtoPrivacy@lemmy.world•Mozilla Backs off on Data Collection: Firefox Labs to Not Require Telemetry or Studies in Future UpdatesEnglish
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    8 months ago

    You are right, I am speculating, as was the poster of the parent comment. I certainly didn’t mean to muddy any waters, but you have to admit that there have been things going on within the EU, that paint a bit of a bleak picture of how the table might turn if the EU had greater influence/power (in terms of aforementioned platforms and software) on the global stage.

    And while you’re right that the examples I gave didn’t become actual law just yet, it’s certainly not due to the EUs benevolence that proposals didn’t materialize, but instead very much like in Mozilla’s case, that the outcry from people had them reconsider.

    However, I believe there were proposals that were put into law even though the outcry was there. (eg. Article 13?)

  • マリウスtoPrivacy@lemmy.world•Mozilla Backs off on Data Collection: Firefox Labs to Not Require Telemetry or Studies in Future UpdatesEnglish
    31·
    8 months ago

    European companies and governments regrettably aren’t better, they simply don’t have that many eyes on them because, well, they don’t have much to show for to begin with. Name a production-ready made-in-Europe browser/browser-engine. Name a widespread European messenger. A European smartphone platform? European Facebook or Twitter? Anything?

    Even the few small scale European examples that you might come up with had an absurd amount of controversy to them. Remember that Tutanota thing? Remember Chat Control?

    The reason people believe that Europe is so much more privacy respecting than the US is simply because there aren’t many services to exercise the same level of invasive, authoritarian control over than in the US. If 60% of the world however would be using a Nokia minäPuhelin you would see the same, if not worse, privacy-invasive regulation and controversy popping off every other week.

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