Nick (Alatar the Blue)

@jik I mean, also keep in mind that push notifications are generated and sent server side, not on device, so if you’re seeing meaningful content in your notifications Apple (and others) have a copy also. Forensics from  device in hand is just faster than a warrant to corporate entities. Turn off notifications on everything.

@hacks4pancakes@infosec.exchange My working theory is that the Epstein files are an Eldrich horror that is beyond the comprehension of most people who at this point are ingesting multiple similar horrors and simply trying to survive. At that point, human survival kicks in and the brain eliminates the item that feels like the least immediate threat to self/community.

@davetortoise @Tutanota @noybeu Interesting - that’s not an opt-out; it’s an objection and a statement of “we’ll attempt to limit based on information you provide us.” I’d also be curious if this covers WhatsApp.

@leymoo I can't answer your question, but I'm going to drop this link to info about the Mojave Phone Booth here, because this thread seems to have turned into a "remember this similar thing" place, and I like the lore. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mojave_phone_booth

@FediTips No one controls the Fediverse Not exactly - each instance admin controls their instance, and as such the experience of their users. That’s a critical difference for two reasons It means you can join an instance that you jive with, and don’t have to “put up with” things you don’t like. It means that in order for the Fediverse to continue to have diverse information and viewpoints, people need to avoid congregating on a few large instances.

@benbrown Now that you’ve put it out into the universe? I’d go over/under 48 hours….

@faduda The ghost documentation is some of the clearest technical documentation I’ve seen in my 25 years of managing IT “things.” That said - it’s technical documentation, and absolutely assumes that you have technical knowledge. If it’s above someone’s current technical abilities to run and install something, that’s not a bad thing - but it does leave you with (roughly) two options: Acquire technical knowledge. There are loads of people in the world that will happily help interested parties do this, assuming the interested parties are willing to learn and not just “do it for me.”Pay a trusted service for their knowledge (hosting). There are loads of options there, from various cloud providers to paying an individual to host and manage on your owned hardware; each comes with varying degrees of cost vs. liability, but in all cases you’re paying for someone else’s time (both directly spent to manage your service and historically to learn how to do so). I absolutely agree that, “just install ghost” has become the new, “just install Linux.” @FediTips

@faduda @FediTips @gbargoud Hosting on your own server is inherently not plug and play, and requires technical knowledge. The “plug and play” solutions are companies providing a service to do it for you.

@piegames I mean, most people (like 99%) don’t strip the metadata out of smartphone images anyways, so geolocation from those has been simple for a long time. It didn’t even require skill - just load it into a stock phone app, and the app will generate a map. LLMs suck, and there’s threat model - this one just isn’t a huge uptick other than awareness. Let’s fix the real problem - people should be safe.

@rl_dane I stopped using Facebook in 2019 - by that point it had just become a cesspool of nonsense that I couldn't curate away from. I log into the account once per day to check the memories to see pics of the kids, and then log it back out. It's unfortunate, because most of my extended family is spread across the country and I would like to be able to talk to them, but even if I attempt to scroll the timeline 3 out of every 5 "posts" is an ad and/or from someone Facebook promotes into my feed for some reason. I had to scroll 3+ pages just to find something from a person that I knew, which was crazy. I held out on instagram for a few months after, but that became just as bad. We'll see what happens with ActivityPub / mastodon / etc. What I'm really trying to avoid as much as the corporate nonsense is the herd echo chamber USPOL arguments, which is becoming more and more difficult.

@rl_dane I'd like to move my network off of it and onto something federated, but the moat and historical gravity are real...

@Tutanota @davetortoise @noybeu I don’t use meta or WhatsApp for any type of messaging (or anything, actually), but I know a lot of people that use it almost exclusively.

I’m late to the party, but @pluralistic@mamot.fr was on Trevor Noah’s show a couple of weeks ago - and it was a good interview. People should watch it. https://youtu.be/CK8M5sKWRkc

@aparrish@friend.camp Better question - what if instead of spending $500 billion on GPUs and datacenters we invested in people?

@pip@infosec.exchange @lukasz@blaszkiewicz.me @kagihq@mastodon.social @Tutanota@mastodon.social Can you elaborate on Kagi’s sketchiness? I’ve been considering using their search, and the small web project they run is cool.

@pip@infosec.exchange Hmm. An interesting read. Not sure how much I agree / disagree, but good to have the perspective.

@hacks4pancakes@infosec.exchange I’m not suggesting it’s right, just that I think it’s evil to a magnitude most people can’t comprehend as “real,” and therefore de-prioritize.

@Natasha_Jay@tech.lgbt I’m embarrassed to admit that the headline didn’t surprise me at first….

@MostlyHarmless@thecanadian.social It seems a badge well earned…