trippingonthewire

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A Federal TikTok Ban is a 'Misguided Detour' from Doing What’s Needed to Protect People’s Privacy and Safeguard National Security in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago

even worse, this may very well become a "let's ban whatever we want" type of power to their disposal.

Not Good.

Under the FISA expansion, what exactly should I worry about, how do I manage privacy? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I would, but I'm worried that somehow I can get in trouble for harassing a government official.

Under the FISA expansion, what exactly should I worry about, how do I manage privacy? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (4 children)

I tried calling my state's senators, they voted yes anyways...

Establishment

Under the FISA expansion, what exactly should I worry about, how do I manage privacy? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

That you Ted?

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Under the FISA expansion, what exactly should I worry about, how do I manage privacy? (lemmy.ml)
 

Hello everyone, with the unfortunate passing of the FISA expansion, I was left with a few questions. I tried to research it, and to me, it seems like they are beefing up surveillance with routers and ISPs (correct me if I'm wrong.) Aside from having businesses stalk you when you use their WiFi (connected with ISPs.)

And if that's the case, should I just always use a VPN? And furthermore, shouldn't you have always used a VPN prior to this anyways?

That's why I'm confused because I already thought that other businesses were collecting data and our ISPs were already sending our data away, so I'm partially confused about what the real change here with FISA is.

Any clarification and advice is greatly appreciated, thank you.

NSA ’just days from taking over the internet’ warns Edward Snowden in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 20 points 7 months ago

He likely doesn't want to get too involved with social media. Stuff easily consumes you. Twitter is just good to reach out to people, which is kinda bad that Twitter got that big.

Android 15 will run Bluetooth with your phone still turned off. in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

How effective do you believe that a Faraday cage would be against this mechanism?

Android 15 will run Bluetooth with your phone still turned off. in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

It's honestly Doublethink.

Whenever Google gets exposed for bad practices, people ignore it. And they believe this stuff is good or don't care.

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Android 15 will run Bluetooth with your phone still turned off. (security.googleblog.com)
 

I saw this on infinity for Reddit earlier, I don't know if there's a workaround for this or not.

Discord to start showing ads in the coming week after resisting for almost a decade in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

APRIL FOOLS!!???

No....?

Oh, okay..

How can you clean your phone number (2nd upload) in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

Trying to erase what I once started

How can you clean your phone number (2nd upload) in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

They do work for other companies, Telegram says on the app they're texting my telegram specifically. I can't change it to SMS.

How can you clean your phone number (2nd upload) in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

OG post got spammed by a bot

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How can you clean your phone number (2nd upload) (lemmy.ml)
 

Hello everyone! I have a small issue. I wanted to remove all media accounts associated with my phone number. One account to remove was Telegram, I deleted the app long ago, but never my account.

So, I downloaded Telegram again, tried to log in, and it keeps texting the login code to my number on Telegram, it won't do SMS. And I have no other telegrams sessions anywhere else where I can log in. I'm stuck, can't log in to delete it.

I went on their support website to file a complaint, and they never got back to me. Is there another way for me to delete my actual account if they won't let me log back on?

I guess I have 2 questions at this point, either how can I deal with Telegram, and or is there way to clean my phone number of all accounts at once? Any ideas are appreciated.

TL;DR Can't log in to Telegram, want to delete account, how can I achieve this?

Lockdown Mode for Android? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (3 children)

You'd need to always keep your phone in airplane mode, and maybe either use a mobile provider that works horrible with GrapheneOS, or change your mobile strength to like 3G, you can completely lose calls and texts when in airplane mode at that point, you'll never get them, maybe you can stop the Pegasus attack.

Or, don't use a phone number, rely on encrypted messaging. But if you must have some number, you could have 2 phones, one with just the phone number and sim card, then the other phone with Signal so your private phone shouldn't be compromised.

Those are the only ways I can think of trying to resist it.

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PDF editor on Linux? (lemmy.ml)
 

Hello everyone, I was wondering if anyone knew of a FOSS editing app to use on PDFs, just to add text and and mark things out, I tried GNU image editor but it just works on images exclusively. Any ideas are appreciated, thanks.

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What PC is like the "thinkpad" of PCs? (lemmy.ml)
 

Hello. Many of the older thinkpads were regarded as being peak for the ability to repair and easily see into them at both the hardware and software levels.

I was wondering, what PC, if any, is similar in this regard? Aside from building your own PC ofc. Any opinions are welcome. Thank you.

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FOSS app like google scan? (lemmy.ml)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
7 comments fedilink
 

Hello everyone, I have a few old pictures I was hoping to get scanned onto my phone, I know that Photo Scan by Google does a good job, but I was hoping for a libre alternative to use first. Would anyone know of any?

Worst case scenario, I don't give Photo Scan internet access, but was still wondering what else is out there. Thanks!

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Usually connect to Walmart's WiFi but they changed their policy I guess, won't be doing that now... (lemmy.ml)
 
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Will Google Play Services compromise my privacy on GrapheneOS? (lemmy.ml)
 

Hello everyone. I have a separate profile for my proprietary apps on GOS, yet some of these apps don't work, so I'm thinking I need to enable Google Play Services.

Was wondering if this could hugely compromise my privacy, and if I could uninstall GPS later on. Thank you!

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