lemmyreader

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What are the most private social media platforms?

I've been feeling uneasy about the privacy implications of using Lemmy and similar platforms. The ability for anyone to view your entire posting history feels to me like publicly sharing my browser history. In contrast, most other social media platforms allow you to limit your feed visibility to just friends or followers....

lemmyreader ,

On Mastodon (and maybe also Akkoma/Pleroma/Misskey/firefish and so on) there is an option in the settings to auto delete your posts (formerly known as toots) with fine tune options if you for instance want to delete your posts but save your favorites and boosts. Several people have their toots older than one month automatically deleted. Before this was an option in Mastodon, people already did this with help of other software.

Lemmy is not very similar as StackExchange/SuperUser/Quora but in some threads Lemmy resembles a Q&A site so it makes sense to leave the conversations as is.

Regarding the most private social media question I'd think of Friendica, Hubzilla, and Pixelfed as best.

lemmyreader ,

That is true to some extend (Though search engines would afaik correct 404 pages and delete the old fetched data), but the automatic deletion does stop part of the audience of having a lot of data to create a fingerprint.

lemmyreader ,

I've read on several websites that Nokia comes with pretty much stock Android.

lemmyreader ,

Is that the same one that brought down the Linux Mint forums ?

16 years of CVE-2008-0166 - Debian OpenSSL Bug ( 16years.secvuln.info )

Today, 16 years ago, Debian published a security advisory announcing CVE-2008-0166, a severe bug in their OpenSSL package that effectively broke the random number generator and limited the key space to a few ten thousand keys. The vulnerability affected Debian+Ubuntu between 2006 and 2008. In 2007, an email signature system...

lemmyreader ,

You want to try something interesting but want to dual-boot. That last bit could be difficult or "impossible" but using a VM or running from USB stick are options.

  • https://www.haiku-os.org I've run it from USB stick on some older laptop.
  • https://chimera-linux.org FreeBSD user-land with a Linux kernel.
  • https://nomadbsd.org FreeBSD which can be run from USB stick with persistent storage. Has a version with ZFS support.
  • https://nixos.org Very interesting concept.
  • https://www.gobolinux.org GoboLinux is an alternative Linux distribution which
    redefines the entire filesystem hierarchy. Doesn't seem up to date but quite interesting. If I remember well you can have different versions of software installed at the same time. Let's say (making this up) Bash 1.1, 3.1 and 5.2
  • https://bedrocklinux.org Bedrock Linux is a meta Linux distribution which allows users to mix-and-match components from other, typically incompatible distributions.
lemmyreader ,

Yes. Haiku is quite light weight, small and snappy. One drawback is that it has not yet multi user implemented (everything still runs as root! But so do old DOS flavors :-) ) but imho it is fun to play with and check which software packages it has (it has several emulators packaged).

lemmyreader ,

Did you install LibreWolf system wide or user ?

lemmyreader , (edited )

Tested here with LibreWolf installed with Flatpak system wide. Up to date Arch Linux, installed xfce4 and xfce4-goodies packages, logged in to the xfce-session, started LibreWolf from the menu, downloaded something to ~/Downloads. No issues.

lemmyreader , (edited )

Maybe it is just your LibreWolf profile (in ~/.var/app/io.gitlab.librewolf-community/) that is giving troubles.
You can create a new one with :

/var/lib/flatpak/exports/bin/io.gitlab.librewolf-community -P and see how it fares.

lemmyreader ,

Glad to hear this. I get very sad about the increasing popularity of GitHub for new projects and the huge "importance" of GitHub stars :( It's like YouTube videos with "Hi! First : Don't forget to like and subscribe!" and now "Hi! We're on GitHub! Stars will motivate us to spend more time coding". Yeah right, how about a no nonsense approach ? And on the way there boycott big tech surveillance capitalism like Micros~t.sft [8.3]

lemmyreader , (edited )

Yes, Waydroid uses lxc containers.

lemmyreader , (edited )

I like rdiff-backup (like someone already mentioned in a comment) for some things but if you want a GUI :

Tested them both. First one can scheduled backups and iirc it will ask you to insert the USB disk you used when the time is there.

lemmyreader ,

/e/OS is based on LineageOS with microG. They did make a choice for Magic Earth as maps app which is not open source. For "normies" /e/OS seems a fine choice to me to De-Google.

lemmyreader ,

Have other comments made you dislike /e/OS ? microG, which /e/OS uses is not using Google but a replacement for the Google Play framework if you would for example need location feature for some of your apps.

lemmyreader ,

Yes.

lemmyreader OP ,

Did you check what the connections are about ? Maybe it is only checking for new updates ?

lemmyreader ,

Did you do a sha256sum or md5sum checksum after downloading the iso file and after copying it to the Ventoy pendrive ? (Linux uses caching for copying. Taking the pendrive out before your system has done a "safe remove" can cause problems)

lemmyreader OP ,

👍 Interesting idea.

lemmyreader OP , (edited )

Honest question: Why?

You missed the StackExchange and AI story this week ?

lemmyreader OP ,

robots.txt may help : https://neil-clarke.com/block-the-bots-that-feed-ai-models-by-scraping-your-website or blocking by IP addresses.

lemmyreader ,

Clonezilla and Rescuezilla The Clonezilla method takes a bit time to get used to (but I like it). Rescuezilla comes with a GUI.

lemmyreader ,

Take a look at the fog server project.

Thanks. https://fogproject.org

lemmyreader ,

😀

lemmyreader ,

What ? You did not obey the surveillance capitalism overlords ? :-) /j

Thanks for sharing, good to know!

Is PixelFed https://pixelfed.org a good alternative for privacy minded people out there ?
I know that PixelFed users can be followed from Mastodon which seems nice to me.

lemmyreader ,

If you don't mind reading a little bit and "work hard" to get some things done and "have fun" then I'd suggest to try :

  • NixOS (it can do magic!)
  • Arch Linux (easiest is the Arch based EndeavourOS and the shiny colorful Garuda Linux), learn some pacman and AUR.
lemmyreader ,

Indeed. GoboLinux is neat last time I tried it. Although it's not clear to me how active its development is.

lemmyreader ,

I've read that GIMP developers refuse to change the name despite complaints since a long time. A fork of GIMP (Glimpse) is discontinued. Luckily there's other names in that area :

lemmyreader ,

To get some more Linux good vibes watch and listen to the BDFL /j

lemmyreader ,

https://github.com/KDE/latte-dock

lemmyreader ,

After not touching my desktop for several months, I now see that I absolutely hate Windows even more.

Welcome to the club :-)

Currently, I’m a student in Mathematics and Computer Science.

In that case I would certainly toy (but maybe not daily drive) with Nix or NixOS. Its concept is stunning.
For daily driving Linux it depends on your hardware (x86 or arm).
Debian is rock solid as daily driver on x86. If you need some newer software you can use Flatpak or the Nix package manager, or use distrobox or toolbox though beware of its drawbacks.
Another good choice is Arch Linux. Since a while the install iso comes with an installer so that you no longer have to read documentation. The Arch Linux wiki is very often a superb source of information.
But depending on your hardware there's Asahi Linux : https://asahilinux.org

lemmyreader ,

https://blog.paulbiggar.com/meta-and-lavender might be worth reading.

Encrypted services Apple, Proton and Wire helped Spanish police identify activist | TechCrunch ( techcrunch.com )

By the way, the earlier posted article https://restoreprivacy.com/protonmail-discloses-user-data-leading-to-arrest-in-spain had an update starting at the paragraph with title Update: Statement from Proton and additional commentary

lemmyreader OP ,

👍 Here's a written piece from Lavabit founder : https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/may/20/why-did-lavabit-shut-down-snowden-email

lemmyreader OP ,

Exactly. What makes this a bit complicated and maybe interesting from a historical point of view is that this is about Spain. A country which has been very slow with removing some of the "relics" from the fascist Franco era (Franco died in 1975) and at the same time having regions that long for independence like Basque country and Catalunya (and the post topic is related to that, Catalunya aiming for independence). Since the Twin Towers attacks in 2001 the words "terror suspect" and "terrorists" have been used much more often (also by ordinary "normies" people that I knew) and maybe not always rightly so.

lemmyreader OP ,

You're welcome.

lemmyreader OP ,

Cool, that works. Thank you.

lemmyreader ,

Well, people in the USA probably do know one German name related to NASA :

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