• @M600
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    52 hours ago

    I tried to go hard on privacy, but the more you know the more you realize how difficult it is.

    So, the best thing to do if figure out who you don’t want to see your info. If it’s the government then you are basically out of luck in my opinion.

    I stopped stressing about it when I decided to not let my need for privacy to interfere with my work.

    In my personal life, things are more private luckily.

  • @[email protected]
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    1311 hours ago

    I’ve seen this dude’s videos before, it’s always the same. Whine about how hard privacy is in a monotone voice.

    He’s not wrong, but goddamn is it monotonous content.

  • Vanth
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    612 hours ago

    Fun story, my neighbor locked himself out of his house last night and knocked on my door to borrow a cell phone to call his wife. I trotted over with a Costco card, slipped it in the door, and had it open with 30 seconds of jiggling.

    Sometimes people need to chill and learn to prioritize their security efforts. There are compromises to be made, lines to draw and accept that sometimes where they are is “good enough”. No sense self-hosting stuff, losing contact with friends and family because they won’t install fb anywhere, while they leave windows and sliding doors open to the house.

    • @[email protected]
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      In Italy we have a weird culture of “porta blindata” as main house door.

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      Basically evry house has it. I’m not saying is super secure but at least you would need some lockpicking skills to open it, it’s not something you can knock down with 1 shot like you see in the movies

  • HubertManne
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    2216 hours ago

    Thats the idea. make everything difficult unless you do it the way they want. Have to call my insurance today to find my account number for sending a payment through billpay as they are basically hiding it because it necessary to pay outside of putting something on their system. don’t want you paying from your system (bank) must put in your card in theirs.

    • @[email protected]
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      22 hours ago

      at this point, individual effort wont cut it beyond making people feel better. a big collective push for laws, open software, reform or whathaveyou is what it would take to move the needle.

  • Autonomous User
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    16 hours ago

    Tries soloing everything, then cries they’re tired…

    Tech bros can’t think beyond themselves. When will they say work together, make a group, make your own little groups.

    Start with stuff that affects others, like escaping Discord (or only keeping it to help more escape).

    • @kopasz7
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      One of my dreams is the internet becoming peer2peer, cutting out the big players.

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          I don’t know about you, but I’m not a datacenter or server farm. (Yet?)

        • @grue
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          48 hours ago

          The internet is supposed to be peer-to-peer

          FTFY. Megalomaniacal corporations, especially advertisers and the copyright cartel, are Hell-bent on “fixing” that so they can better control and exploit everyone, though.

        • sunzu2
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          913 hours ago

          Yes…

          Google Data Center is a peer and so is an online shitposter!

      • sunzu2
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        813 hours ago

        Decentralization is the only way to fight corruption which is essentially the result of centralization.

        But this requires adult people to have personal responsibility to improve their lives and then having solidarity for other like minded people AND the under class.