Perhaps they simply took out the sim card and inserted into another phone, giving them access to contacts (that could have been saved into the chip instead of the original phone)?
I love bridges. If I see a cool looking bridge, I want to cross it, especially if it goes somewhere that I’m not familiar with. Same with stairs outdoors. They feel like an adventure to me.
I feel lost sometimes. I’m an ethnic minority in s country I consider my home, and in recent years I’ve seen conflicts surge especially with the rise of outspoken xenophobia paired with economic troubles. I thought I could change this when I was in my twenties. I got involved with migrants rights organizations. I volunteered...
Yes… I guess you are right. However, they were immature college kids when that talk happened and have since matured somewhat. I hope it doesn’t happen again. Thank you for the advice.
I’m sorry about being vague about myself. I’m worried of being identified online.
2.5+ years. I only spent like a year and it was horrible enough. We will get through this. A place that values us and also pays a dignified amount instead of chump changes.
In a similar situation as you (entire society revolves around whatsapp). I came to this conclusion:
Others won’t share my view on personal privacy at all will happily give out any metadata or data. No matter what secure channel we use, the destination (people) will always leak.
Because of (1), consider all communication with others as public, no matter the inferred intimacy, no matter the platform or its security.
Consider (2) as true even if they somehow used Signal or any secure platform, because of (1). (E.g. “Hey, did you hear about $familyMember? Yes, the weird kiddo who forced me to use some strange blue shit for chat. He got positive on blood exam for $badCondition. Go check on him”)
As for whatsapp itself, i use Android and isolate it in a separate profile, also frozen until opened. I also used a burner phone number for account registration, not my actual number.
People are more receptive of whatsapp accounts with “alternate” numbers when you explain you “got hacked in the past” or any plausible reason.
It’s not about having the option, I love having alternatives. It’s about 90s ways being the only choice when they could have better options. E.g. You need to send a form. It’s already a pdf file, send it by email, right? No, it has to be physical mail… or fax if they have a number. Oh, and you have to stamp on it. No pdf. Multiply that by time constraints and local bureaucracy mixed in.
For some reason Koreans across all ages write C instead of B by mistake. It became a national joke at this point and some do it ironically on purpose. I used to teach Korean. Imagine my face every time.
There are more but I’m on my phone. Will do more later.
Remember that banking and finance is full of regulations, and have moving speed of snail. Opposite of IT. When asked for something like this (open source or cross compatibility or anything nerdy) the first question is “who will be liable for losses and damages when something breaks?”.
Liability is probably the biggest factor. When something isn’t working properly, they want to be able to point fingers at someone and blame them. The vendor then blames someone else. Open source tends to be the polar opposite, which means huge red flags - hippie stuff, no payment, no liability, no pointy-blaming game.
Or so I’ve heard from people working in that sector. For places as conservative as them to deploy FOSS solutions, you’ll need the government branches cooperating with clearly worded laws and regulations, dragging them kicking and screaming into adoption.
And that’s assuming no one will lobby against in the process.
Recently discovered this. Molly supports link with existing device just like on signal desktop. It even has benefit of getting entire chat history unlike signal desktop. Just restore the signal backup file during setup and then click link with existing device. Then scan with you primary phone. Beauty of open source. Molly:...
pretty quiet week so far. incidentally, next week is election week in most of the US, so don’t forget to vote on November 7th (and vote early if you can–my ballot just has to be dropped off)
Been trying to contact some of my old college mates after years. It’s difficult. Some have changed their contact info or even scraped their social media. Totally understandable.
I managed to talk to one person from our old group. He’s been fine, he says. We’re meeting for food and drink next week. Let’s see how it goes.
Hi, I’m thinking of building a personal website about tech, privacy, open source, etc. Any recommendations about where can I buy domain? .com is taken, but everything else is not. Shuld I take .tech (few dolars more expensive) or something more basic?
Help me understand something, DNS records are the info (A, AAAA, TXT, etc) that’s modified to configure services like websites and mail servers to a specific domain, right?
Charlottesville was the wake up call for many. Never I expected nazis openly marching on US soil, chanting slogans straight from WW2… nearly a century after WW2.
It also must suck for the locals to have their town’s name being forever associated to those scums.
I wasn’t pretending racism just ‘went away’, but I had met so many bystanders (pretending racism wasn’t that big of a problem because they didn’t get to experience first hand) arguing it would eventually go away with the dinosaurs, until Charlottesville happened right in front of their eyes. That made even bystanders realize how serious it was.
I would love to try that, but the biggest issues are: safety and hygiene. Having a good parking spot can be a challenge already in the US/Canada where parking lots are everywhere and urban infrastructures were designed around cars. You can crash into a trusted someone’s backyard, but is that actually a van life then?
And hygiene. Not even getting into pandemics, you need to be really disciplined not to waste water and be close to somewhere you can actually shower without worry. Can’t rely on sponge baths forever.
Waste disposal is another issue. For van-lifers its simply discarding the nasty bag, but for garbage disposal? Not to mention the homeless opening up garbage bags to rummage through.
Iraqis need, like any other people, basic infrastructure like to make their society work. Propaganda or not, a school is a school. Children and adults getting educated and having chances of getting better jobs, instead of falling into traps like the so called Islamic State that brought only death, rape and suffering.
Now if the Iraqis themselves want to argue if they prefer watching their schoolchildren singing in English or Mandarin, that should ultimately be the Iraqis decision, not ours.
Looks interesting. The first glance it looks like “Yet another company trying to make Email what it isn’t”, which means breaking all compatibility with existing mechanisms (e.g. IMAP) at cost of getting locked-in into their own ecosystem (unless you pay premium and enable IMAP back like Proton does).
This is why while I want companies like Proton and Tutanota succeed, I don’t use their email products for business purposes.
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Man, a lot of what you said resonates with me even if I’m still sticking with this fediverse thing. It’s like the transition from the hopeful vision of the internet from the 90s to the cluttered mess we got around late 2000s and so on.
Lemmy and fediverse can grow in size and popularity, but so does the potential for harmful accusations from outsiders, using instances embracing extremist views as source. As long as Lemmy has members holding onto that rose-tinted Freedom Max ™ view, it can and will be an issue.
It should be perfectly doable. The only difference is that the server in on the local network (e.g. 192.168.1.101) instead of localhost (127.0.0.1). You might need to configure your OS firewall to let traffic through.
Humans have always adapted to their environments and some properties become inherited though genetics or culture. Enough difference in genes could mean alien anthropologists in far future separating future humans aside from current day homo sapiens, but that’s expected.
Evolution doesn’t imply “getting better or superior” like popular culture. If a disaster struck earth and we were forced to live underground, our eyes and sense of vision will eventually cease to be as relevant as other senses. People in our days might call it ‘devolution’, but is it? It simply means they adapted to their environment.
Wales’s minister for education and the Welsh language said he will write to the company to see how the government might be able to support the course’s continued development.
It doesn’t make you anonymous. Torrent protocol wasn’t designed with anonymity in mind and there are a million ways you’re going to leak your actual IP address....
There are many ways to solve this problem, with different degrees of acceptance: legally (arguing for personal freedom granted by basic laws, depends on jurisdiction), or technologically (tools to evade or deceive censorship techniques, could require technical knowledge for proper use).
We have the tools, but legal grounds can also play a greater role (e.g. declaring vpn/tor illegal causes a chilling effect for potential beneficiaries).
As the tittle sais, i was trying to create an instagram account and it is not possible without a phone number. Same with discord. Obviously i dont want to provide mine. Any working solutions to bypass this? not looking for alternative private service, i already use them.
The acc is more likely to be flagged the more ‘generic’ your fingerprint is. Accounts made using Mullvad Browser (Torbrowser without Tor network) on VPN was insta-flagged and disabled. When I did it from the official ‘lite’ app using a burner android phone, it went fine for weeks.
I wonder if such a platform will gain acceptance beyond “nerdy techies” like us. There could be a working platform with apps and all, but if the suits find it “not professional enough”…
It’s something I’ve been noticing as well. Ad- driven profit means exposure above all, which results in more provocative contents resulting in more engagement, positive or not…
There will be a time we look back at early 21st century’s internet and listen from the younger generations “how could anyone do this?”. In fact, lots of non-internet issues too, but…
I’m tired. I used to believe that more information always meant good and that free access for everyone will “free humanity from ignorance”, as the common narrative from 1990s went. Now? I am tired. I am tired arguing with my older relatives about something they read from ‘yet another obviously biased source’. I am tired of being called names and being threatened for trying to just l talk. I am tired of having my name and my face (as a naive social media user in 2000s) being plastered all over the place and have strangers come and say “why can’t you go back to $place, $racist_word”. I am tired of believing. It’s like people are, as Zuckerberg says, dumb fucks. Even proud of it.
I guess you’re right. I had a similar experience, but from the opposite perspective. There was a prominent case of racist attacks in my area and I was trying to talk about it, to my group of friends nonetheless.
I had to accept that other people won’t share the same exact values as myself, even if I believed it was the right cause. They were the 3rd party, the disengaged and occupied with their own life businesses. Its not that I “abandoned my beliefs”, but learn to identify proper audience and tone it down when it wasn’t the case.
It’s the modern life and it’s complexity I’m afraid. Salaries, taxes, credits, insurances, permits, licenses, etc - it’s too much to handle all at once. Some choose to focus on what they can afford to with what little remains of their energy after an exhausting work shift. I can’t really blame the individuals caught in this.
Sorry for the late answer. I ended up choosing Midagu for the time being. Unlimited inbox sounded attractive enough as using alias in my use case wasn’t cutting it.
Not many people admit to being offended by something that someone said. When was a time you actually felt hurt and/or insulted by someone?
Someone opened my phone
I’m running Graphene on a Pixel 6. I lost it and someone opened it somehow and called two of my contacts to give it back....
As an adult, what seemingly childish things do you get excited about?
I love bridges. If I see a cool looking bridge, I want to cross it, especially if it goes somewhere that I’m not familiar with. Same with stairs outdoors. They feel like an adventure to me.
Feeling lost sometimes
I feel lost sometimes. I’m an ethnic minority in s country I consider my home, and in recent years I’ve seen conflicts surge especially with the rise of outspoken xenophobia paired with economic troubles. I thought I could change this when I was in my twenties. I got involved with migrants rights organizations. I volunteered...
A question about secure chats (sopuli.xyz)
Two questions....
Japan is living in the future that the 1990s dreamed of. (startrek.website)
Speakers of non-English languages, what common mistakes do native speakers make that drive you crazy?
For example, English speakers commonly mix up your/you’re or there/their/they’re. I’m curious about similar mistakes in other languages.
You're just not yourself when you're experiencing the end of humanity, Rule (slrpnk.net)
Japan is on its own wavelength. (lemmy.world)
$1 grilled cheese (mander.xyz)
What's stopping banks from creating FOSS (or atleast open-source) banking solutions (apps)?
cross-posted from: fost.hu/post/226135...
CoD players roast $60 Modern Warfare 3 skin that acts as an endless flashbang - Dexerto (www.dexerto.com)
Scientific progress is declining due to bureaucratization of research. Scientific innovations should make ‘zero to one’ breakthroughs, instead making ‘one to many’ improvements to existing innovations (www.livemint.com)
What are your favourite things under 50$ that make your life a bit easier or more pleasant?
I need some holiday gift ideas (that I will probably gift to myself as well)!
Lemmy posts are starting to pop up on search results with Google (+ other search engines)
To see the original discussion, you can see this thread: lemmy.ca/post/8488573...
PSA: For those who want signal on secondary phone, use molly.
Recently discovered this. Molly supports link with existing device just like on signal desktop. It even has benefit of getting entire chat history unlike signal desktop. Just restore the signal backup file during setup and then click link with existing device. Then scan with you primary phone. Beauty of open source. Molly:...
'This is only the beginning': Metal Gear Solid fans lose their minds as David Hayter returns to voice Solid Snake in a new teaser (www.pcgamer.com)
Kenya to scrap visas for all African nationals (www.theguardian.com)
President William Ruto says change aims to boost trade and allow goods, services, people and ideas to move freely across continent
how's your week going, Beehaw
pretty quiet week so far. incidentally, next week is election week in most of the US, so don’t forget to vote on November 7th (and vote early if you can–my ballot just has to be dropped off)
Where to buy domain for your personal website?
Hi, I’m thinking of building a personal website about tech, privacy, open source, etc. Any recommendations about where can I buy domain? .com is taken, but everything else is not. Shuld I take .tech (few dolars more expensive) or something more basic?
Robert E. Lee statue being melted down; bronze to be re-used for new more inclusive art (www.npr.org)
Living in a van instead of an old-fashioned house
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hAFXPsh8L1w...
What do you think about the idea of creating a fan fiction network based on ActivityPub?
This thought arose when I tried to go to a site with fan fiction, but it was blocked....
China on track to complete the building of 1000 schools in Iraq (english.almayadeen.net)
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Where will we all be(e) next year?
In this post I am speaking as a Beehaw fanatic and not as an admin. That is why it is placed in the chat community. To be clear, I am not speaking on behalf of the Beehaw admin team nor the community as a whole....
[GUIDE] How to Use I2P on qBittorrent-nox v4.6.0 (strict3443.codeberg.page)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/6915117...
What do you think will be the next evolutionary step for our species?
Welsh government to write to Duolingo after updates to course 'paused' (news.sky.com)
Wales’s minister for education and the Welsh language said he will write to the company to see how the government might be able to support the course’s continued development.
PSA: Don't torrent over TOR (tor.stackexchange.com)
It doesn’t make you anonymous. Torrent protocol wasn’t designed with anonymity in mind and there are a million ways you’re going to leak your actual IP address....
RANT: I hate the fact that my ISP can restrict access to certain sites
How can it possibly be, that an ISP, which I’m paying for gets to decid, which sites I’m allowed to have access to, and which not?...
Heads up for Mullvad Users (i.postimg.cc)
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Tired of lately getting blocked to create accounts without a phone number
As the tittle sais, i was trying to create an instagram account and it is not possible without a phone number. Same with discord. Obviously i dont want to provide mine. Any working solutions to bypass this? not looking for alternative private service, i already use them.
My list of services I still miss in the fediverse
Hello folks...
The mind rotting, infuriating miasma of social platforms
I know there’s a bit of disconnect by me writing this on an actual social platform, but it’s Beehaw - so it’s cool....
what E-Mail provider do you use and why
I’m currently still using gmail unfortunately...