wtf is up with this coordinated push to tie your internet accounts to your government ID.

what garbage international NGO is behind it this time?

you clearly don’t understand the infinite monkey theorem

monkeys do not have human rights so they do not have to be paid, thus infinite moneys with typewriters are cheaper than junior devs yet can literally solve every problem

I should enter the stalking industry. business will be booming

it’s creepy and masturbatury to talk to AI as if it was a human. it’s a tool that doesn’t care about you and will always agree with everything you say.

they’re not doing it to get you to turn it back on, but your mom who you turned it off for. drives me mad how often I have to redisable privacy nightmares everytime my mom asks me to help her with her phone.

VPN + DeGoogled Privacy Android ROM would be the most practical. That way you should br free from most if not all cross device tracking.

In general having a seperate device for that stuff makes total sense.

Get some sort of device that is compatible with CalyxOS or GrapheneOS, like an older Pixel

not sure what would be best to handle verification.

You also have to be careful to use totally new accounts for everything on this new device, different number, different email, different device, different sim etc

the only thing that can really stop it IMO is mainstreaming decentralized social media and messaging services.

You’d need to effectively replace Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, Whatsapp etc… The only thing that totally keeps us from 1984 is that all these platforms for now have decided to be relatively free and impartial (compared to how bad it could be). But that could change at any time if the powers that be decide to on a whim. They could completely ban all privacy, pacificsm or any kind of political opposition tomorrow.

“No one can have encryption backdoors except us”

I’d just like to interject for a moment. What you’re refering to as Gnome, is in fact, Clanker/Gnome, or as I’ve recently taken to calling it, Clanker plus Gnome.

why do they even care? they get to sell more power

I wouldn’t compare Rumble to the other two, it’s just yet another YouTube. PeerTube and Odysee are at least built with the idea of decentralization. Odysee has the best user experience.

just like the AI now except it is only used where it makes sense

no exomoons, smh

that is true, it is impossible for them to have more children. everyone knows a woman’s uterus falls out the second they get a divorce

Imagine if there was an uninterrupted net of wildlife passages over the city, like the edges of a hex grid or something. So all infrastructure needs to go underneath

more trustworthy than windows ≠ trustworthy

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if you think your average linux distro is trustworthy, you’re mad.

there’s a tons of binary blobs, not to mention all the known and unknown hardware backdooers that you can’t remove by running linux.

most of the software your average user installs is untrustworthy as well.

the security model of linux is outdated at best, no proper isolation of programs. the linux kernel is leaky as heck and filled with tons of bloat.

You can get a Intel ME disabled laptop or a 15 year old one one that never had it, then put on some FSF approved OS that bans closed source software and compiles everything from scratch, isolates every program like with jails or Qubes or one of the newfangled container based OSes and tunnels all your internet traffic through some sorf of anonymization layer like Tor or I2P and ideally it’s all happening in memory only and never writes to disk. But then again we know there are hidden microcontrollers with full memory access hidden behind obscure instructions in CPUs.

You can’t tell me those aren’t insane lengths.

Practically speaking there is no such thing as a “trustworthy” computer and suggeting linux magically makes it trustworthy is laughable. Completely ridiculous.

You need hardware disconnects on all sensors and physical obstruction of devices like cameras in order to have some level of certainty that they aren’t being misused.