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LunchMoneyThief

@ LunchMoneyThief @links.hackliberty.org

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  • Microsoft wants $30 to let you keep using Windows 10 securely for another year

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  • Thank goodness the clouds parted and his holy billionaire visage emerged with the gift of [angelic chorus] vaccines otherwise we would all be dead now (and he wouldn't have made a 20 to 1 return on investment). Thank god for billionaires and their unquestionable wisdom.

  • Intel losses hit $16.6B as restructuring efforts take a toll

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  • Microsoft and Google are at war again

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  • The schoolyard bullies are fighting each other again.

  • Sorry, I can't think of a good title for yhis post. I just wanted to share an anecdote.

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  • Horses were domesticated some 6000 years ago. I feel so old!

  • Inside the U.S. Government-Bought Tool That Can Track Phones at Abortion Clinics

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  • FWIW you're talking to someone who doesn't even have a credit score. You might see such things as a self-handicap, but I consider it an accomplishment that I'm very proud of.

  • Starter Kit to browse Web in 2024/2025 BUT BETTER! (Still Must-have)

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  • Privacy Badger has historically allowed tracking until it successfully identifies a domain as a likely tracker. Like the air bags going off after you've already wrapped your car around a telephone pole. But it's now been changed and is now closer to a list-based tracker blocker (enumerate badness):

    Privacy Badger no longer learns from your browsing by default, as “local learning” may make you more identifiable to websites.

    They've since corrected one of the core issues with PB by doing so, but it still it is very weak. To see why, please glance through The Six Dumbest Ideas in Computer Security.

    uBlock Origin in advanced mode, with default-deny rules (only allow assets by exception) is going to be much stronger at blocking crap.

    Personally, I use uMatrix with pretty much all asset classes blocked by default. I never see popups. I never see banners begging "please allow our cookies, pleeeeaaase!".

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  • This is because conservatives are technologically impaired.

  • No ads here!

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  • Because I frequently use mpv, yt-dlp or a combination of both, the value I find in Invidious is in being able to conduct video searches against Youtube. And luckily that still works on public instances.

  • Inside the U.S. Government-Bought Tool That Can Track Phones at Abortion Clinics

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  • To be fair, I don't go around in public telling everyone "I don't have a cell phone btw". So I suppose we are easy to miss.

  • Majority of Americans are stressed by the election, survey finds. Here's how to cope.

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  • We have noticed almost everything everywhere doubling in price. But that's more to do with the federal reserve devaluing the dollar, which will continue to happen no matter which tribe takes up residence in the white house.

  • YSK about JShelter, a browser extension that attempts to protect you from being fingerprinted online.

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  • The approach once worked, but that was back before browsers began including the likes of things like advertiser IDs and other extremely high entropy attributes that no average person would ever think to disable. Contemporary hide-in-the-crowd strategies are mostly curated within efforts like Tor browser where everyone is encouraged to use the exact same configuration. But then it's still a numbers problem. If only two attendees decide to hide their faces with party masks to a soiree of 100 people, one (large scale observer) only need check the guest list and use process of elimination to determine the identities of the 2% "hidden" attendees.

    Somebody can, and probably will, come along and refute this assessment. I am not entirely convinced myself that it is a losing strategy yet. I'm open to hear opposing takes.

    Privacy Badger: IIRC Privacy Badger operates by logging third party domains connections on a per-site bases, and only begins to actively block connections once a domain seen across multiple visits fits the profile of a likely tracker.

    Nvrmnd, they've changed how PB works and it is now closer to a list-based tracker blocker (enumerate badness):

    Privacy Badger no longer learns from your browsing by default, as “local learning” may make you more identifiable to websites.

    So they've since corrected one of the core issues with PB. Still it is weak. To see why, please glance through The Six Dumbest Ideas in Computer Security.

    uBlock Origin in advanced mode, with default-deny rules (only allow assets by exception) is going to be much stronger at blocking crap.

    Personally, I use uMatrix with pretty much all asset classes blocked by default. I never see popups. I never see banners begging "please allow our cookies, pleeeeaaase!".

  • Starter Kit to browse Web in 2024/2025 (Must-have)

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  • Ah, the beginner loadout.

  • 🚨🚨🚨DEFINITELY DO NOT DO THIS HIGHLY ILLEGAL🚨🚨🚨

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  • Wow that's a lot of effort compared to just blocking CSS and javascript with something like uMatrix.

  • Inside the U.S. Government-Bought Tool That Can Track Phones at Abortion Clinics

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  • You and I must live in two different societies then. I work with at least two other individuals who also don't have a cell phone (not just smart phone, but any cellular device), one of whom is also a millennial. My SIP number has never had any issues with online service auth.

  • Inside the U.S. Government-Bought Tool That Can Track Phones at Abortion Clinics

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  • If I were stuck in that position, then I would not hesitate to choose the postage method. That being an option does not comport with the assertion "if a person didn’t have a smart phone they literally can’t use it".

  • Linus Torvalds affirms expulsion of Russian maintainers

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  • I'm surprised to find somebody with some sense around here.

    I have never used a block or mute feature on any site or any service in all my life. It is wild to me that people today actually use those features, let alone to constrict the ideas that they allow themselves to be exposed to.

    I conducted a fun little experiment over at /c/asklemmy@lemmy.world in which I posited the question: "If it were possible, how would you deprogram an extreme conservative?". I then waited twenty hours before posting "If it were possible, how would you deprogram an extreme progressive?". The difference in reception between the questions exposed the intense lib-left bias that is pervasive on Lemmy, a byproduct of people constantly walling themselves into self-made echochambers.

  • Location tracking of phones is out of control. Here’s how to fight back.

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  • Laughs in no phone

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  • The smart ones will be unaffected as nouveau, as distributed through package managers, remains unaffected.

    And the really smart ones don't even have nvidia hardware to begin with.

  • New Kindle e-readers no longer appear on computers

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  • Specifically:

    When you plug them into USB into your PC or MAC, they no longer appear as external drives.

    For anyone else who's confused at the title