Your Android knows everything about you š
ā Where you go
ā When you go to sleep
ā What you search for
ā Your habits
... and more! š
Take back your privacy & change your Android settings!
Find out how: tuta.com/blog/android-settingsā¦
#Android #AndroidPrivacy #AndroidSettings
If you're an Android user, you don't need to share your data with Google. Change these Android settings to better protect your privacy and security.Tuta
Your smartphone surveils you by design. GrapheneOS transforms a Pixel into private hardware you actually control. Here's why it matters and how to do it.Habla
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Quite a few of #deltachat #chatmail and #webxdc folks are already and will be around #39c3 -- on-site you can join a group chat (or send us a DM upfront) where we announce dynamically scheduled sessions. You'll find us mostly around Komona but also other places ... for more info:
PSA: Influenza is spreading heavily currently, and 30% of people are infectious without symptoms. Please maintain hygiene and at best test yourself before entering premises. Thanks!
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āItās always DNSā is a famous meme among network people. Name resolution is technically quite simple. Itās ājustā translating a hostname like jan.wildeboer.net to an IP address.Jan Wildeboer (Jan Wildeboer's Blog)
I went by registering a domain and use FQDN inside my homelab and use certbot with dns01 challenge.
Downside is that you either have to put internal machines in authoritative DNS or use a subdomain internally and intercept all of those internally via your piHole server.
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@bjoern@sengotta.net @homelab @homelab_de I can only underline what @jwildeboer@wildeboer.net already wrote - install your own CA using #step-ca.
Once all is up and running, SSL certificates and warnings turn into a no-issue in your home network. I've done that a few months ago and have not thought about them once since then.
Install step-ca and look no further.
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@homelab@fedigroups.social_de itās fairly straightforward to set up your own internal CA and add it to your system / browserās trust store. You can do it with openssl or with a GUI tool like xCA.
Or, apparently, step-ca is a thing, which should let you use an ACME client to automate issuing internal certs hub.docker.com/r/smallstep/steā¦
Iāll revisit the dns challenge when letsencrypt adds the static entry option DNS-PERSIST-01 [1]. Right now you need to dynamically update dns for this to work.
[1] letsencrypt.org/2025/12/02/froā¦
@abulling @interpipes @jonathan859 @bjoern @homelab
Letās Encrypt will be reducing the validity period of the certificates we issue. We currently issue certificates valid for 90 days, which will be cut in half to 45 days by 2028.letsencrypt.org
jep my public servers also use the DNS Validation and that works. Question for me is: do i need TLS in my Home Network?
@bjoern @jwildeboer @interpipes @kate @homelab
Indeed. You can disable certificate verification for most services but not for all.
high recommend on this short and succicnt take on LLM/AI from Joseph de Weck, tracing longer paths back to Kant and his arguments for making up your own mind to obtain freedom, and Erich Fromm who highlighted delegating authority and responsibility to "others" is a major factor in growing fascism
theguardian.com/commentisfree/ā¦
Since the Enlightenment, weāve been making our own decisions. But now AI may be about to change that, says Joseph de Weck, a fellow with the Foreign Policy Research InstituteJoseph de Weck (The Guardian)
I just woke up this morning to an email saying my BuyMeACoffee (aka Stripe) account was suspended for adult content.
Merry Christmas.
I'm going to appeal it. I've never taken payment for any adult content, nor have I posted any, or made reference to any on my BuyMeACoffee page.
Yay puritanical capitalism!
Update: started a GoFundMe at folx suggestion: gofund.me/bd5f770fd
I contacted customer support and made an appeal. They very quickly responded that I'm permanently suspended from the platform (and Stripe) because my *Mastodon* profile (@alice) associates me with @AltAfterDark.
So, that's that.
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... your account has been permanently deactivated due to a violation of the Terms of Use related to adult content. Please note that even if adult content is posted on other websites, it can still lead to account review and banning...
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I'll be looking for another way to accept tips (as it's kinda my lifeline); if you have any suggestions that *don't* involve platforms that'll ban me for posting some wholesome-ish adult content *on my own social media profile*, I'd live to hear them.
Update: started a GoFundMe at folx suggestion: gofund.me/bd5f770fd
Watch BuyMeACoffee/Stripe send me a cease and desist for posting about them banning me.
Then watch Fedi Streisand Effect the shit out of that.
I'm sure they're already going to lose a (insignificant to them) chunk of money over this, because not only will they not be taking 10-20% of my tips, but whenever I call out a company here for being shitty, I get dozens of replies from folx canceling their accounts there.
My 92 year old aunt: You do the Leenux thing, right? You need to come over sometime and install it for me, because f#ck all I ain't gonna update to Windows 11.
Me: .... ?!#!?
I explain what the change-over entails and that I generally don't recommend it just because...
Aunt: No, f#ck that, f#ck capitalism, my laptop is still fine, so come over and set me up with that Leenux thing.
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Lately I have noticed that when you purchase a ticket you donāt get a static PDF/PNG anymore.
Increasingly often, you get a .pkpass file, which is supposed to be opened in wallet apps (like Google Wallet or any 3rd-party wallet app).
Since I donāt like to share information about the events I attend with strangers on the Internet, I have decided to take a closer look at these .pkpass files.
They are just zip files that contain a background image, an icon and a pass.json with the actual information about the ticket. Nothing that canāt be handled by a script rather than a 3rd-party 100 MB mobile app.
I have thus put together a simple #shell script that does exactly that.
Dependencies:
jqzintmagickunzipcurl or wgetgist.manganiello.tech/fabio/pkā¦
Usage:
pkpass2png <a href="https://domain.tld/myticket.pkpass" rel="ugc">https://domain.tld/myticket.pkpass</a> ticket.png
Buenos dĆas desde la AdministraciĆ³n PĆŗblica.
Ćltimo dĆa de mi aƱo laboral. Que frĆo hace.
š» **VĆ”noce za socialismu: SplnÄnĆ© plĆ”ny, obchody plnĆ© zboÅ¾Ć a mĆ”lo snÄhu.**
#mujrozhlas
mujrozhlas.cz/rapi/view/episodā¦
*VelkĆ½ vĆ½let do rozhlasovĆ©ho archivu a poslech Å”tÄdroveÄernĆch zprĆ”v ze 60., 70. a 80. let odhalĆ, jak tehdy rozhlas o VĆ”nocĆch vysĆlal.*
- BuÄte rĆ”di, že vĆ”m v domĆ”cnostech o vĆ”nocĆch vÅÆbec pÅÆjde plyn a elektÅina.
- Jak je to hroznĆ½ v zemĆch krachujĆcĆho prohnilĆ½ho ZĆ”padu.
- Co je ruskĆ½, to je nejlepÅ”Ć. SrovnĆ”nĆ s dneÅ”nĆm ruskĆ½m faÅ”ismem se tak nÄjak nabĆzĆ samo.
- ZkrĆ”tka obludnost totalitnĆho režimu v celĆ½ svĆ½ vĆ”noÄnĆ krĆ”se.
**Komunisti vÅ”ech zemĆ, vyližte si prdel!**
Å tÄdrĆ½ den je pÅeci jen tak trochu jinĆ½m dnem. SvĆ”teÄnĆ atmosfĆ©ra, umocnÄnĆ” oÄekĆ”vĆ”nĆm veÄernĆ nadĆlky, se projevila i v rozhlasovĆ©m zpravodajstvĆ. VelkĆ½ vĆ½let do rozhlasovĆ©ho archivu a poslech Å”tÄdroveÄernĆch zprĆ”v ze 60., 70. a 80.MÅÆjRozhlas
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āØ FUTO klĆ”vesnice pro Android se nauÄila pÅidat obrĆ”zek do pozadĆ
infoek.cz/futo-klavesnice-pro-ā¦
āØ FUTO keyboard for Android has learned to add a background image
infoek-cz.translate.goog/futo-ā¦
#FUTO #Opensource #Android #Mobileapps #Privacy
SoftwarovĆ½ch klĆ”vesnic pro mobily existuje nÄkolik, ale drtivĆ” vÄtÅ”ina uživatelÅÆ použĆvĆ” ty pÅednastavenĆ© vĆ½robcem. TakovĆ© klĆ”vesnice jsou sice kvalitnĆ a d ...Adolf PupĆk (Infoek.cz)
my five steps to getting out of bed in the morning:
1. pretend you do not hear the alarm.
2. verbally deny that it is time to get up. hit snooze.
3. negotiate five more minutes with the nearest person or deity.
4. express intense anger in your words and tone to demand that it not be morning.
5. accept it with a big sigh and stand up.
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Can you imagine if the billionaire tech bros were spending all their energy developing solutions to clean the planet and distribute resources better instead of incessantly enshittifying our lives and trying to devaluate labour?
What a different world that would be.
I wish them all a Ghosts-of-Christmas experience.
The 2024 Annual Hope Valley Carol sing, submitted to us by @jcast, is already in progress, immediately followed by the Lessons and Carols service @coasterfreak88 submitted.
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@Friendica Support i really wish there was another option for having a dark theme in #Friendica. i would like having a multi-shade black / charcoal page, with lavender / violet accents, but so far have not found a way to achieve it (note, for many years i used to use the #Stylus AddOn, with which i created numerous custom themes for many sites, but a year ago i disabled it & others as part of my desire to begin minimising all non-essential AO attack surfaces). Though in many ways using #DarkReader for Friendica is quite good, overall i tend to eschew it being on for this site, coz it hides that handy temporary shading highlight of posts in a thread for which a Notification was received.
The small number of current dark themes offer me a rather unappealing colour choice.
The custom theme option initially excited me, til i realised, afaict, it is based on the Light theme, with no Dark theme option, so that all the dialogue boxes & dropdown menus remain eye-piercingly bright white, that hurts my eyes. The least-worst i could conjure was
{"nav_bg":"#54207b","nav_icon_color":"#f3d0f1","link_color":"#5b38a6","background_color":"#5b4d71","background_image":"","contentbg_transp":"42"}inevitably then, i keep returning to the so-called Black theme, but it is... quite boring. the entire page is simply all a single "shiny" black tone, with my chosen accent relieving the monotony. compare this to the so-called Dark themes, to see the difference; they use different shades of the base colour, which is more visually appealing, creating a "panelled" effect.
@Droppie [opensoc] Because I wasn't satisfied with the color theme, I created a GNOME variant.
If theming weren't so complicated, I'd like to create a theme from scratch that's more dynamic for the end user.
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Bluesky suspending antifascist researchers for sharing publicly available information about literal nazis.
Should be no surprise considering bsky constantly protects nazis, the far right, and all flavors of bigotry at the expense of Palestinians and trans women.
Fortunately, their information already spread so far and wide that at least half of the Blood Tribe nazis lost their jobs following the mass doxx. Chris Pohlhaus, leader of BT, estimated financial losses at over $2 million lol. Happy holidays!
#AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/?radd=1ā¦ today brings you 15 updated and 1 added apps:
* Auto Light: a specialized replacement for the standard Android adaptive brightness feature š”ļø
6 #Magisk modules have been updated at apt.izzysoft.de/magisk
Enjoy your #free #Android #apps with the #IzzyOnDroid repository 
This is a repository of apps to be used with your F-Droid client. Applications in this repository are official binaries built by the original application developers, taken from their resp. repositories (mostly Github, GitLab, Codeberg).IzzyOnDroid App Repo
I suspect far too many of us are trapped in cycles of escape that consume all our time, attention, and energy rather than the things we would like to create.
I'm hooked on watching hours of YouTube videos, and I justify it by clinging to the positive that is that it feeds my 'random number generator' and allows my brain to do a lot of thinking in the background.
But I have all sorts of projects that I'd like to develop and work on that I never seem to have the time or energy for.
I talk myself out of blocking time for things because my attention might be called away or I will spend the next 82 hours working on it because of hyper-focus.
I'm personally averse to routine, and that's something I'm working to change, or at least do in moderation.
Then, I feel overwhelmed and reload the YouTube tab, and queue up another video.
Problem for future Bob. ;)
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in reply to Tuta • • •Leander Lindahl
in reply to Tuta • • •great post! I'd like to add:
ā and consider Fairphone w eOS (or the equivalent) next time you get a new phone.
#decolonializeEurope
shop.fairphone.com/the-fairphoā¦
The Fairphone (Gen. 6) now with privacy-first /e/OS
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in reply to Tuta • • •RE: mastodon.social/@Tutanota/1157ā¦
In some cases you may want to remove an application entirely from your phone. If you are a bit tech-savvy you can enable USB debugging, plug your phone to the computer, install ADB (android debugger) and then remove the APK (best case) or if that's not possible, totally disable it for your user.
Here's the command to do it for Google's password manager, for instance:
adb uninstall --user 0 com.android.credentialmanager
This is one of those that cannot be removed completely, only disabled.
Tuta
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Okuna
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in reply to Tuta • • •1 use canta with shizuku app and uninstall all goo(š©) gle things like : maps, browser, files, messages, Google, playstore, play services (if possible or just disconnect full internet connection a'd no update) Gmail, gemini, photos, utube, utube music, Google contact & dialer
Now remove all unnecessary permissions from gallery phone message.
Remove location permission
Set camera & microphone permission to ask everytime
Use opensource apps from f-droid
š±š“āš °ļøš³ļøāā§ļøš§š Ambiyelp
in reply to Tuta • • •Some other simple things
8. Disable google advertising ID in phone settings
9. Install F-Droid where you can discover many FLOSS apps deliberately not published on google play
10. Switch from a fingerprint to a pin (added bonus that police in several countries can legally force your thumb onto your phone but cant legally force you to give up a pin)
11. Switch from google notification servers to something else like microg and/or set notifications to not display message content or at least not display message content when the phone is locked (Im pretty sure all that can be done from notification settings)
12. Switch from googles keyboard app to an open source alternative from f-droid (google has been fined millions before for illegally and secretly tracking geolocation it wouldnt surprise me if they do the same with keystrokes, and also mic and camera)
13. There's a bunch of other phone-home features spread across the settings but mostly under privacy category and accessibility category that you might want to turn off if you have no use for
#Google #Android #Privacy #PSA #FLOSS #FDroid #Advertising #Microg
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in reply to Tuta • • •Guillotine Jones, FlĆ¢neur
in reply to Tuta • • •(How to add some privacy to Android.)