trippingonthewire

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trippingonthewire,

I have to buy older cars. I wish there was a car company making new cars that were older fashioned. Or I wish cars were simplistic enough to DIY.

trippingonthewire,

Well, if you didn’t take all the precautions you took, over a 1000 data brokers could’ve had access to your address, and so much more about you.

And while I most certainly don’t like it, I know that I’m still stopping them from learning even more about me, and my search results are still secure.

Everyone I get to talk to me on Signal is having a secure conversation with me.

Everything to an extent is a win, so don’t give up king.

trippingonthewire,

What communities are there on Revolt? Anything big? Like GrapheneOS, Linux Mint, Signal, Monero?

I know that Matrix has their communities.

trippingonthewire,

I find that interesting, as there should be ways to only use email.

I’d say your IP or DNS is freaking them out. Sometimes when you have really good opsec on a browser, they can tell and will ask for weird shit like that.

I’d use a different browser, like maybe download Brave or Chromium or Librewolf (leave it out of the box) specifically for this stuff, assuming you use FireFox.

You can also download 3rd party clients for Facebook on Android, Insta is kinda a lost cause tho.

Edit: It’s not on F-Droid, you gotta hop on Github, but there is a client for Discord known as Aliucord on Android.

trippingonthewire,

Shut up hivemind conformist

trippingonthewire,

I’d talk to a counselor about it and explain how it makes you feel uncomfortable.

trippingonthewire,

For me, it’s more about consent, they really just did that, tf?

trippingonthewire,

Fair, but even using your normal router without a VPN isn’t good imo. Even if it’s not as bad as public. And VPNs are usually an extreme measure. If I was using public WiFi, and doing stuff on my bank account, then yes, VPN all the way, but I usually don’t feel that I need it.

trippingonthewire,

It’s even worse as an associate. They make us sign up for some social media I never use, download apps on our phones, and make us give them our handprints for a machine to take out our tills. And we’re getting face scanned by cameras all day. Dystopian nightmare and it makes me feel ashamed to have accepted the job here.

I use GOS and therefore believe that I have some level of protection on the WiFi level based off of that, and I have their apps on a separate profile but it’s getting tougher on privacy here at Walmart.

Edit: That’s also why I have no pictures of me in my socials and deleted my Facebook, Instagram, and twitter, so they shouldn’t have too many ways to market to me aside through my debit and credit cards possibly.

trippingonthewire,

2 GB data limit, need a different provider honestly…

trippingonthewire,

I needed a job, alright. I usually shop at hannaford although it’s expensive. I wanna farm someday.

trippingonthewire,

Public WiFi would make me skeptical when I always put in my passwords.

trippingonthewire,

So if https is all that’s needed, why do VPNs recommend using them at public locations? Just false advertising? I click on my bank app and it always wants a password and I guess I don’t know enough about network engineering. I’m interested in Android Development but don’t know much about WiFi I guess.

trippingonthewire,

I have all of their apps on a separate profile. One app I do sadly need data for to check my schedule and look up prices of things.

trippingonthewire,

So more for privacy than security, so it would make sense to use a VPN depending on your threat model I suppose, or how much you care.

trippingonthewire,

More of shock value of them announcing it and requiring an email now.

trippingonthewire,

I’ve never had this happen before so I didn’t know. I just thought it was interesting how they’re requiring this now though.

trippingonthewire,

It’s a good thing I don’t have any socials for them to trace me back to. And since I work there, I’m always looking at shit that will prolly throw them off.

trippingonthewire,

Time to turn to glass instead of plastic

I'm not worried about saving my location. Are you? (upload.wikimedia.org)

In the privacy community there are services, programs for private maps use. Some even suggest using the phone without a SIM card (which is quite possible, but you can get into trouble). But I don’t use them, as my geolocation is already tracked by an advanced camera system in my city, by my cell provider via triangulation....

trippingonthewire,

Leave the city.

trippingonthewire,

Obviously it’s not something you can get up and do but it’s something I’d plan out.

trippingonthewire,

piped.video/watch?v=ZvLmmbyEfGQ&t=0

trippingonthewire,

Stop caring about opinions.

trippingonthewire,

I’m just saying do what you think looks good instead of what other people tell you. If you like that rice, don’t let someone not liking it change your opinion.

trippingonthewire,

I was in preschool when Android came out, crazy how far times gone.

trippingonthewire,

It’s always worth it, that’s less money they’re getting. Join the movement. They won’t learn anything new about you or your life in the future.

trippingonthewire,

Guess V for Vendetta will come true as the U.K. has fallen to Fascism.

trippingonthewire,

Sorry for asking, but what even is the use of having a Wireless Access Point? If you have a router then you should be all set, no?

trippingonthewire,

I just want to say that all of your efforts put into this are not going unrecognized. This is really awesome.

It’s even so organized too. If I could make recommendations in the future, I’d look at private OS’ designed for smart watches. And I might’ve missed it, but I was curious about your opinion on pine devices, and Ubuntu Touch.

trippingonthewire,

A signal of hope

trippingonthewire,

I used to be addicted to Signal on Stock Android, but I’ve been sober for over a year using Molly on GOS.

trippingonthewire,

Yes it should although you may not get notifications of emails. I’d use ProtonMail or Tutanota instead anyway.

trippingonthewire,

It works but the main issue is that full screen crashes the app. It never used to, but now it does so I use Clipious for my Android TV.

trippingonthewire,

I’d just use a FOSS SMS app like Simple Messenger from F-Droid or if you have GrapheneOS or CalyxOS, use their default messengers.

trippingonthewire,

I use Vanadium and sometimes DDG or Tor. Mulls a good, hardcore browser as well.

And for vanadium, I use an ad blocking DNS, which is dns.adguard.com/dns-query

Isn’t perfect but it blocks some ads

trippingonthewire,

Brave is alright for normies and maybe as a secondary browser.

I’d try a SearX instance or SearX.be and use FireFox or Librewolf as a browser, at least as a primary way to look things up.

Is privacy possible with smart TV?

I’d like to start a discussion about TV privacy in 2023. I’ve never been interested in having a TV, but recently I was thinking of getting one. Looking into it, the privacy implications seem horrible. All the major brands seem to have cameras, microphones, and content recognition software. I can’t believe how dystopian it...

trippingonthewire,

I always wondered if I could install a private OS on a smart TV but never found one.

I like Android TVs because I can install f-droid apps on them. Like Cloudstream. I tried to debloat my TV by connecting my laptop to it and running the adb command to remove any bad apps I noticed, but even that’s not perfect.

I wanna become an android developer someday and I might look into developing privacy apps focused on Android TVs.

Edit: I removed google play and it’s services, so spyware shouldn’t be getting updates on my TV and I got it a few years ago now, I think it’s ok for privacy right now.

trippingonthewire,

Maybe have them pull out the router at the dealership. I think they have to listen to your request. They may argue with you about it and be like “yeah but you won’t have internet and all this cool stuff” but yeah whatever people have phones nowadays anyway.

trippingonthewire,

In 2008 they knew about this? Holy crap I need to do some research.

trippingonthewire,

I get that argument on paper but I think it’s more of the government’s doing. Hear me out first, we could live off the grid, build our own house, our own farms, never work for a job, but the government stops us, they are the weapons of the banks and rich who enforce authority.

They gave the housing market and land to the banks. I understand many blame minorities for taking our jobs, when in reality, capitalists just hire whoever works for cheaper, and yes, that’s true. But if wasn’t for government regulations, more jobs could exist for everyone, or you could live off the grid.

I like to cite how many despise healthcare being tied to your job, but government involvement caused that in the first place.

We live under corporatism/fascism. Yes, the rich run everything, but they have the government be the ones to control us. You must first get through the pawns if you want the king.

trippingonthewire,

Let’s try to elaborate more.

We live under corporatism where the rich have bought out everything. The banks own the land. Big Pharma runs the medical industry. And the military industrial complex runs NATO and such. We call this money lobbying.

It doesn’t just affect politicians, even agencies and armies. The FDA and CDC for instance are owned by big pharma. Big pharma lobbies to these agencies to create more regulations, yet, these regulations the agencies make never seem to hurt the big guy, only the smaller companies starting up. They want to kill the competition. That’s why medicine and insulin can be so expensive.

Banks like JP Morgan financed the war on terror. We came into the middle east to help their people rebuild, instead, we expanded JP Morgans banks, and drew out the war to finance them better, among many other terrible things.

There could be tons of jobs right now, but people lobby to have regulations crush the smaller guys so few monopolies have power. The government enables the rich.

So, when someone is in poverty, let’s ask why from every angle possible. Why can’t they have a house? Credit scores, banks owning everything, and blackrock eating up the housing market. Why can’t they get a job? Not enough jobs available. Why can’t they find food and temporary place to stay? Inflation, which is the silent tax making food more scarce, and no one wanting to give the poor a place to stay and help them get off their feet and become independent.

When you see all of these things, you realize that the powers that be don’t want us to be self sufficient and independent from them. I don’t see it as just “housing codes.” More as government control. Think of the banks as the king, and the government as it’s military.

trippingonthewire,

I’ve talked with socialists before. They had interesting reasons to justify socialism. They talk about how minorities come over the boarder and steal jobs, but claim that it’s because the rich hires who works for cheaper, that’s why this happens as minorities will work for cheaper. At first, I thought it was an unbeatable argument. But, if it wasn’t for such government regulations, more jobs and competition would be available for these people. And if things didn’t work out for people, they should just be able to homestead like what people once did.

Some socialists believe that late capitalism has caused our recessions. They see value in work, but not the dollar. My argument is that if it wasn’t for the FED causing inflation, things wouldn’t be so bad. Woodrow Wilson created a centralized bank, worse thing possible. And we had presidents ban the gold standard to top it all off, that’s why money feels useless. If it was a finite currency (like bitcoin aims to be) then I see great value in it.

Honesty, I’d consider myself to be libertarian at the level of federal government. But less libertarian and more constitutionalist the closer to home it gets. I don’t necessarily support government, but definitely governance if so to speak.

People like Ted K were definitely smart. He believed we should go back to the Neolithic era in the sense where we have our small local communities with direct democracy. In terms of freedom, and maybe happiness, that’s the best option.

trippingonthewire,

No one ever gets my points. No one can build off grid if they want to because they have to buy the land. It was never like that if we were to go back to the U.S. in the late 1700s.

Property tax and income tax I’m against. But I said that I do believe in governance at the local level, and as long as it’s constitutional. So taxes on gas for instance to pave the roads is sorta ok in my book.

trippingonthewire,

Hey just wondering, what communities does revolt have. Any Youtubers on there?

trippingonthewire,

Journalism is so paid off at this point that it’s became normal to see. We need to support independent journalists or do our own research.

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