It’s hard to do stuff like that reliably. New bypasses are found all the time. We see that all the time even for stuff running in web browsers. For native apps it has to be worse.

https://xvpn.io/resources/can-apps-and-trackers-bypass-your-vpn#the-common-bypass-paths

This is about mobile apps. Stuff for your home router isn’t really relevant here. And anyone that vigilant about their home router won’t be installing those crapware apps in the first place. But, we all know people who do have those apps.

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Um what are these things and who should care? That info would help a post like this.

“Beszel” is Hungarian for “speak” if anyone cares.

The real culprit sounds like web itself, being designed so that browsers can deliver 0-click spyware. Once that capability exists, of course baddies will use it. Surprise directed at the baddies is almost completely misplaced.

What? Lol. FBI raid incoming. Or treasury dept or whatever.

Privacy policies are worthless. The only way to know they won’t misuse information is for them to not get it in the first place.

This sounds spammy. If either of these is totally offline (not internet connected), just say that in the first sentence and then maybe talk about features. If both are connected, they are invasive, so say that and end the article. Not worth a click as far as I can tell.

I have a pair of $5 wired iem’s and they’re fine. Besides privacy, there’s also fewer things to go wrong with pairing, less audio latency, less batteries to keep charged and to fail, etc. And they’re cheap. No idea what an airpod is but if you mean those ones with a separate radio and rechargeable battery for each ear, with the additional carrying case with its own rechargeable battery, I’d just stay away.

Yeah figure I’d rather have a spare phone on hand as I sort of want one anyway. I don’t have any google play store apps as it is now, so I’m sort of partway there.

A $449 or $550 phone with a 4 inch screen whose “key specficiations” don’t include the size and weight, meh. Still looking towards LineageOS on my Moto G. It’s supported now but I have cold feet about the reinstall til I can get a backup phone just in case.

If the recipients are too lobotomized to accept donations other than through patreon, well you tried. Archive.org will accept crypto donations. Dunno about fsf.org but they will take cash.

Seize devices yes, but after they have it, it’s not going anywhere. There’s no sign of imminent danger either. So they can apply for a warrant just like for any other search.

I just use directories but yeah it would be good to have some kind of metadata repo. Calibre is ok if you sit around curating it. Trouble is a lot of my downloads are arxiv PDFs with nuneric filenames and cataloguing them would take some effort. Meh.

Only Criminals Will Try To Hide Their Conversation

Jokes on them, pretty soon everything will be a crime.

Any Recommended Stratergy To make them ditch Meta ?

I would say just quit facebook yourself if you want to quit (and you should). Trying to get other people to do things they don’t want to do is obnoxious, short of staging an intervention if it’s serious self-harm. They can quit when they’re ready to.

They’ll start to understand once a few of them have been rounded up for liking the wrong brand of breakfast cereal.

Can the feature vector be used to identify someone if it escapes somehow? Can it be fooled by images constructed from surveillance video? Overall I’m skeptical but it’s interesting.

I had a scheme a while back to turn anonymous nonprofit cash donations into login credentials, or you could just collect the cash yourself to help fund your service. Person would enter the serial number of a 10 dollar bill when they enroll an account on your server, and either send you the bill by snail mail, or send it to a participating nonprofit (the FSF was at one point willing). The nonprofit would receive the bill, accept it as a donation, and post the serial # someplace on their web site. Once you saw the ser# appear there, you’d activate the account.

If the person abused the account and got banned, they could re-enroll the same way, but it would get expensive after a while. I had a domain for this but eventually let it expire. We referred to the scheme as a “money-burning service”.

Proxy through a VPS, or use dynamic DNS if you don’t mind occasionally waiting for TTL expiration when your address suddenly changes. You can set it to 1 minute and that often works these days (it didn’t always).

Will your ISP give you a static IPv6 block? It’s v4 that’s scarce, but if it’s just for your own stuff and you aren’t worried about users on old v4-only networks, it’s fine to just use pure v6.

If you want a super cheap VPS with static ipv6 and NAT v4, try tierhive.com.

Why would I want my life managed by a computer? Also, org-mode. ;)

There might be other buses ahead of the one you are on, en route to that stop. You really want the phone GPS to figure out what bus you’re on, maybe showing a selection of possible bus numbers or route numbers. It would be great if you then see a route map showing your location as you move.