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relic4322

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  • Life360 Secretly Sells Users’ Geolocation Data to Third Parties, Class Action Claims

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  • I just got implemented it a yesterday. Let me check out pangolin. Im just running the traccar server instance in docker on an old laptop and connecting through tailscale at the moment. need to look into a FOSS vpn probably. WIP XD

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  • FWIW, traccar seems to be a great alternative. Set it up today. Docker and app on the phone with tailscale. Works well. Can share docker compose file if there is interest.

  • Life360 Secretly Sells Users’ Geolocation Data to Third Parties, Class Action Claims

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  • Will check it out, thanks!

  • Use X without an account (if you really want to ig)

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  • I don't use it. But sometimes you may find a need to read or search for something that is only on there.

  • Palantir's Shadow War On Iran

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  • this, 100% this. be afraid.

  • Life360 Secretly Sells Users’ Geolocation Data to Third Parties, Class Action Claims

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  • exactly. I have kids. I got it to keep them safe. had it up till today, so for years and years. pisses me off to no end. I will find a FOSS self hosted solution. There has to be one. It may not be friendly, but it has to exist, lol.

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  • Yeah, that was going to be the second part of the question. Was it an all in one solution. There does seem to be a server side ulogger component but it may only be for viewing the data. Ill have to dig into the whole thing more to see what kind of FOSS self-hosted solution makes sense.

  • Which Distros Are Doing Best Currently?

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  • If the only thing holding you back from NixOS is my python comment, my issue was with Numpy, which really really demands that you install it globally. Pretty sure you can make it work by using a dev-shell, installing it globally in that shell, then doing everything else in that dev environment normally. I was newish to nixos at the time.

    Otherwise I tend to fall back to ubuntu server, but only because it was something I knew. I prefered Centos7 back in the day before RedHat killed Centos. NixOS was my move from there. Been using Alpine as the os in my docker images, but havent really explored a lot of other recent linux os's at the moment.

  • Life360 Secretly Sells Users’ Geolocation Data to Third Parties, Class Action Claims

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  • looking at uLogger now, that looks pretty interesting. Having used it, any reason why I shouldnt give this a go?

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  • I think an important distinction here is that in that statement its saying when you are using services from within the platform. the class action lawsuit is saying they were selling the data prior to this, without notification, without consent, and beyond this scope. Hence why they are in court.

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  • You are right, I mean, everything thats free isnt free. I am just radicalized now by how awful everything is and how invasive everything is and so I see it and I share it.

    Figured since this is an app that ppl use for children and what not that this community would want to know.

  • AI to make us more private?

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  • Ok, got another one for ya based on some comments below. You have all the usual addons to block ads and such, but you create a sock-puppet identify, and use AI to "click" ads in the background (stolen from a comment) that align with that identity. You dont see the ads, but the traffic pattern supports the identity you are wearing.

    So rather than random, its aligned with a fake identity.

  • New VPN Service Can't Log Users by Design - TorrentFreak

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  • Pretty interesting. It is a rabbit hole, you say well I dont trust this so I secure it here, and then you have to trust the next layer down. Eventually you have to have some level of trust. But I think its pretty cool none the less.

  • AI to make us more private?

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  • This is like chaff, and I think it would work. But you would have to deal with the fact that whatever patterns it was showing you were doing "you would be doing".

    I think there are other ways that AI can be used for privacy.

    For example, did you know that you can be identified by how you type/speak online? what if you filtered everything you said through an LLM first, normalizing it. Takes away a fingerprinting option. Could use a pretty small local LLM model that could run on a modest local desktop...

  • Which Distros Are Doing Best Currently?

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  • Ton of comments, and I havent read them all, but I wanted to ask if you really meant popular or if you wanted something for a specific reason. Easy for new ppl to linux, good for desktops, etc etc.

    I dont really use GUIs on linux, except for when I want to have a fancy pants riced network monitor type situation. I am a big fan of NixOS except for python Dev stuff. Big fan of being able to clone a machine or recover a machine with a single conf file.

  • De-Shittify your YouTube Experience with FreeTube

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  • Checking it out, thanks for the recommendation.

  • [Ukrainian] Border guard escaped from service and sought asylum in Slovakia: journalist reveals details

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  • I have heard that Ukraine is a crazy fascist state. This seems to support that.

  • [niri] Gruvbox Setup

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  • Looks fantastic, great work!

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  • I will also say that what I have listed is for my known digital foot print. If you catch my drift.