programmer interested in privacy/security. Mostly Go and Python
The post talks about software but does not specifically say online privacy. I think you're right but I also think if I had asked about defeating facial recognition cameras I wouldn't have been disregarded.
Private gun ownership e.g. via home manufacture (not illegal contrary to popular belief) or p2p sale. Also mandated gun registries.
Edit: so controversial I'm getting downvoted haha
Did you play that Army Men: RTS game or the other army men 3DO games? Though they probably don't hold up well, i thought they were very fun as a kid. Going to keep tabs on this game
technically there is a lot it could do, but it would not be a number 1 pick for any of it (even if you only have a $100 budget) so i agree, get rid of it.
you can still use a yubikey or even a password manager like keepassxc with passkeys, no need for any google/apple or even secure enclave.
it was always free for me but i think i was early enough of an adopter to be grandfathered in on some old setup
There is already gridcoin which is a cryptocurrency that awards boinc work, so I'd say this concern has already been addressed because of that.
xpra: it is like tmux but for X windows (works on wayland), but it can do much more than that. You can seamlessly run GUI programs from a container or VM on your main desktop while still sandboxing their X capabilities, forward windows from Windows desktops, and it has efficient encoding so it is usable over poor connections as well.
At least on my phone, rebooting also makes it require PIN
For those who don't remember, not only could signal be used for SMS, it used to be able to do encrypted sms convos.
As a Go dev, its simplicity is arguably taken too far. For example there are no union types or proper enums
The main benefit is since it is locally installed, it is harder for proton's server to access your encrypted data by serving you malicious JS. A malicious desktop app/update could be served too, but that may be trickier.
It usually isn't super hard to tell apart randomized junk like this from real human patterns. That is why Tor Browser for example tries its best to make everyone look the same instead of randomizing everything.
That said, for the mere purpose of throwing off the ISPs profiling algorithms, you could make a relatively simple python program to solve this. A naive solution would just do an http GET to each site, but a better solution would mimic human web browsing:
- Get a list of various news sites and political forum sites
- Setup headless firefox or chromium
- Use Selenium or similar to crawl links on each site. Make sure you have the pages fully load and wait a random amount of time that a human would before going to the next page.
- https://realpython.com/modern-web-automation-with-python-and-selenium/#test-driving-a-headless-browser
If you have no programming capability this will be rough. If you have at least a little you can follow tutorials and use an LLM to help you.
The main issue with this goal is that it isn't possible to tell how advanced your ISP's profiling is, so you have no way to know if your solution is effective.
Feel free to DM me if you go this route.
I do something similar with rclone and vultr's s3 service. I made an s3 remote in rclone and then a encryption layer remote on top of that.
You can make actual docker compose use podman by running a user podman docker socket and setting that as an environment variable (export DOCKER_HOST=unix:///run/user/$UID/podman/podman.sock)
https://brandonrozek.com/blog/rootless-docker-compose-podman/
Hello open source dev here (though no very popular projects), even relatively small donations are morale boosts (e.g, $5, $10), which is kind of sad but yeah. If you can't do that, at least put effort into bug reports and use good manners.
Just because you can't stop all the leaks in your plumbing doesn't mean you shouldn't fix the ones you can.