Digital fingerprinting has been around for a while, did google not use it? Or did it not allow others to have access to their data collected this way?
Fingerprinting.. some types can be easily circumvented, others are more painful. But yeah, librewolf + ublockorigin is decent. Chameleon is an extension specifically for spoofing your browser and OS info, it can add delay to key presses so keypress data becomes useless, etc. But having too many extensions also makes you stand out, so that has to be balanced.
1. Use non-chromium browser and block 3rd party scripts & frames + google domains via ublock origin (enable some of it back for a specific site if it gets too broken); 2. Do not use gmail, google search, google drive or any other of their services; 3. Watch youtube videos from alternative front-end solutions (like piped, vanced, grayjay, invidious, etc - until they get blocked); 4. Use de-googled smartphones with f-droid store (or at least with microg + aurora store); etc. #fightback
Why does your link automatically send me to the Spanish version? I don't like to read IT stuff in other language than English.... And I cannot see the English version no matter what I do.
I wonder if digital fingerprinting could be thwarted with a browser that picks a bunch of the parameters that trackers use to identify people, and then lies about them randomly.
and people ask me why I yearn for the old days... I would gladly turn back time, have a 90s internet, even if that means I have to use a 56kflex again.
Not that I doubted the post or other users’ comments but I was curious if my current browser is doing similar things like FF or librewolf and what Erklarbar said about fingerprinting was echoed by the vivaldi team some years ago. Although it’s recognized as a chrome browser, that info coupled with the os, language, and time zone (not to mention a number of customizations I’ve made to the ui) I’m definitely easily identifiable 😰☠️
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"Many privacy laws, including the EU’s GDPR and California’s CCPA, require user consent for tracking. However, because fingerprinting works without explicit storage of user data on a device, companies may argue that existing laws do not apply which creates a legal gray area that benefits advertisers over consumers."
@dyani > no one has explained to me very well is if there are yet ways to block fingerprinting?
The blog piece by @Tutanota suggests it's not possible, although I'm sceptical. On the internet no one knows you're a dog, and all that.
Plus from the replies I've had, it may not be a legal grey area at all, at least under EU law. Question is, what happens if EU prosecutors take a case against companies owned by US oligarchs friendly with the regime? Trade war?
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Is there some magic making three times, or even pi, the number of times you need to write code for it to be good? So what am I talking about? Let's rewind and start with talking about writing code.
I heard an old saying about doing things like building houses or painting walls, or anything that's there to stay once done:
When you do it for the first time in your life, do it for your enemy. The second time, do it for a friend. Only the third time should you do it for yourself.
for me its 3; 1) figure out what to do 2) figure out a way to do it 3) figure out how to do it better( so I can be proud of my solution; software is a craft)
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Still using OpenOffice? It has unfixed security issues over a year old: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_O… – So all users are strongly recommended to update to one of the actively maintained successor projects, like LibreOffice. (Please share and help raise awareness about this!)
@TritTriton It’s a sad reminder that Oracle really screws up everything it touches. Did they donate the IP and code to the original fork made up of a lot of OOo developers? No, they gave it to Apache that literally did the equivalent of “uhhhhh… thanks?” and didn’t really want it.
@zilti @TritTriton Yep. Honestly, I would just love to see the project officially ended at this point so it can end with some dignity. I don’t know why Apache keeps dragging it along. Just take it out back and put it out of its misery.
@travis @zilti @TritTriton We don't know why the Apache Foundation keeps serving it to users either, despite the vulnerabilities. Try contacting press@apache.org and asking why it isn't in the Attic despite unfixed security holes over a year old – would be interesting to see what they say!
@travis Looks like your email was forwarded to their dev@ list, and there they are accusing you of being a "sock puppet", ie a fake account: mail-archive.com/dev@openoffic… – How awful, that they can't take any feedback and accuse you of being a liar.
Wow, I shouldn't have to dig up old emails from 2004/2005 to prove I was a member of the project. I just lost all respect I had for the Apache Software Foundation as a whole. And when people complain about "open source being bad," well, Exhibit A right there. I have much more respect for The Document Foundation and LibreOffice now. You guys are awesome.
@zilti Agreed. It's so irresponsible to still be serving up this software. Please contact press@apache.org and ask why they are still doing it, and let us know what they say!
Wow, for CVE-2021-33035 beyond just the difference in time when it was fixed, the differing commit messages and implementations speak volumes to the overall code quality and amount of care being put in.
Apache should just take down open office, or redirect the site to libre office.
For some reason people still seem to remember the open office name as an alternative to MS Office, and then download and install it. I had to direct a few people to use libre office instead.
@lindarosesmit Not sure what that issue is as other macOS users aren't reporting it, but maybe the steps towards the bottom here will help you on your setup: support.apple.com/en-us/102445
Finally, I have managed to make an hybrid ISO live image of GNOME OS that uses the same UKI and /usr partition as the main image. That is without using dracut. So now we will be able to test GNOME OS on Boxes without going through the installation.
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A brutal, gory fanfiction is perhaps not the best choice when you can't sleep because of a headache, but I remembered this one was short, intense, and just the sort of thing to suck me in when I needed to focus on something away from my own pain. reread from March last year, so it's been about 12 months...
The Unforgiving Minute, by Voice of the Nephilim. Broken and defeated, the War long since lost, Harry enacts his final desperate gambit: Travel back in time to the day of the Third Task, destroy all of Voldemort's horcruxes and prevent the Dark Lord's resurrection…all within the space of twelve hours. fanfiction.net/s/6256154/1/The…
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I'm confused, how does this metric work? 😅 Is that the + lines of a diff divided by the total lines before the diff? Or lines added compared to a pre-2001 version? ...I mean, it surely doesn't mean that the codebase quadruples every commit, right? 😂
@bojidar_bg it's the total number of added lines compared to how many lines are still present. We have added 3.5 times the amount that exists now. It thus means we have changed every line 3.5 times on average
#XMPP enthusiasts out there: what would you say the ultimate Achilles heel of the XMPP ecosystem is, at present? Fragmentation of clients? What?
My sense is that it's this: when one goes to store an XMPP address in one's addressbook, there doesn't seem to be standard way to store an XMPP address. #Android doesn't have that as an allowable field, and #Thunderbird and #Nextcloud have an "Instant Messaging" field, where the type can be set to "XMPP". But are these two compatible with each other when trying to sync between them? Edit: Yes, but there's a catch: *the XMPP address must be prefixed with "xmpp:"*
So "user@foo.bar" is not an OK XMPP address, but "xmpp:user@foo.bar" is.
Then to make matters worse, now there's a wish to change the labeling of "XMPP Address" to "Chat ID": gultsch.social/@daniel/1140129…
It might be a long time before the address synchy-ness ever works again between Android <-> #Davx5 <-> Nextcloud <->Thunderbird
Note: Android allows a "Jabber" type for an IM address, where you *don't* prefix the address with "xmpp:".
(#DeltaChat gets to gloat hard here, as they have plain-old email addresses)
The address book field is a non-problem for most users IMHO. If you have a single XMPP account, your roster effectively act as your XMPP addressbook and non-tech savvy users do not look further.
Krásné dobré ráno mastodoníci! 🙋♀️🐶🐈 Včera jsem byla u zubaře. Já se od dětství, po špatných zkušenostech strašně, ale strašně bojím zubařů. U toho včerejšího jsem byla poprvé. Dlouho jsem hledala. Ale tenhle kluk, a záměrně píšu kluk, protože byl hodně mladinký, bude nejspíš výhra. Poprvé jsem u zubaře úplně v klidu jenom relaxovala. Měl puštěnou hudbu, kterou poslouchám i já a do rytmu si pokyvoval. Pohodář. Tak snad HU-RÁ! Vy mějte dnes taky jen čistě pozitivní den! 😊 #dobre_rano #dobréRáno
Takhle už je to několik posledních let, že zima je veskrze nad nulou a pak přijde po novém roce pár dní, kdy se to musí na sílu zase dostat do rovnováhy.
Takhle se prostě projevuje globální oteplování. Ne tím, že je tepleji, ale že jsou častější extrémní epizody. Klimatologové na to upozorňovali dost dlouho, že to tak dopadne ...
No nechtěl bych v takových mrazech přežívat pod mostem :(
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I wonder who might be willing to fund an overhaul of Java accessibility on Windows, particularly for frameworks that run on top of AWT like Swing and the desktop version of Jetpack Compose. The old Java Access Bridge for Windows was necessary back when there was nothing but Microsoft Active Accessibility (MSAA). But today, Java should implement UI Automation.
It's too far back in my timeline, but I just installed blip, a free file transferring application on Windows. It works on other platforms too. The link I used was on a blog post where they discussed how it worked with Voiceover on the Mac. On windows? 100 percent inaccessible. I can't navigate anything at all. I pushed enter and it took me to a license agreement page. That's all I can get it to do. What a blah. I imagine it works fine on Android. How is there anything on Windows that is just 0 navigation at all. I can't move the navigator object in NVDA or anything. Absolutely nothing, like it's a video game. That's pretty rare to find something that bad.
If I were to take on this project, I would probably use my own AccessKit (accesskit.dev/) as a basis for a new Java-to-native accessibility bridge, at least on Windows. That would save the effort of doing a new ground-up UI Automation implementation. Then we could see how AccessKit compares to the existing Java accessibility implementations on macOS and Linux. Judging by the post I just linked, Java accessibility seems to be in better shape on macOS than on Windows.
@pvagner Linux does not seem in a good state either. On Archlinux, I was not able to make say, Ghidra talk, even that the java ATK bridge was installed and seemingly even configured to be loaded.
So I've been working on combining all of my Discord servers for Techopolis into one server, and I am very excited about it. I'd love to see everyone there. Use the link below to join. discord.gg/ugH9xwFd4N
It's too far back in my timeline, but I just installed blip, a free file transferring application on Windows. It works on other platforms too. The link I used was on a blog post where they discussed how it worked with Voiceover on the Mac. On windows? 100 percent inaccessible. I can't navigate anything at all. I pushed enter and it took me to a license agreement page. That's all I can get it to do. What a blah. I imagine it works fine on Android. How is there anything on Windows that is just 0 navigation at all. I can't move the navigator object in NVDA or anything. Absolutely nothing, like it's a video game. That's pretty rare to find something that bad.
It's a Java app, apparently using the desktop version of the Jetpack Compose UI framework. On Windows it uses the Java Access Bridge, which NVDA supports automatically. But something is preventing focus events from getting to NVDA. Blip is packaged with a tool called Conveyor, which uses the MSIX Windows app packaging technology which, when applied to desktop apps, adds some partial sandboxing; I wonder if that's screwing with the Java Access Bridge. I'll contact Blip about it.
@Matt Campbell @valiant8086 Nice to know compose apps can run on windows. Reading this I'm wondering about two unrelated things:
Can java jetpack compose apps run on linux too and how much accessible they are? I imagine java atk wrapper feels somewhat rough from my users point of view.
On an unrelated note is there a filesharing app that allows me to publish my directory listing and my peers will choose what they would like to download? I'd prefer a P2P apps similar how DC++ or IRC file servers operated back in the days.
@pvagner @matt resilio sync. I could use selective sync. It would give me the entire structure of your folder on my drive and I could manually grab what files and subfolders I want, or the whole thing, etc.
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Around 108% speed-up parsing many large hexadecimal numbers:
original speed:
120000000 nums in 10.56473 secs, 88.0 ns/nums, 11358547.605 nums/sec
patched speed:
120000000 nums in 5.06768 secs, 42.2...
The other secret trick is to pick the right definition of "performance" -- improve performance by 108% is much more impressive than reduce execution time by 55% 😉
@nekohayo pointed me to this slashdot article - tech.slashdot.org/story/25/02/…. Woo, it has all the old hits. It's the Princess Bride of threads with conspiracy theories, systemd hate, X11 romance, GNOME 1 supremacy - it's like I stepped back in time largely because they are still battling old grievances from 20 years ago.
Longtime Slashdot reader BrendaEM writes: Command-line aside, Cinnamon is the most effective keeper of the Linux desktop flame -- by not abandoning desktop and laptop computers.
it's been nearly 15 years, and these people are still absolutely obsessed with the 3.0 release. It's hilarious how much we live rent free in their head.
@ebassi Oh there are so many wonderful hilarious quotes from that thread. Makes me laugh. "MATE and XFCE are fine for the vast majority of users. For everyone else who needs that last 3% of functionality there's KDE. GNOME has run its course and should be allowed to die in irrelevance for what it did to us regarding systemd."
KDE is only worth 3% over the functionality of MATE and XFCE.
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in reply to Tuta • • •Digital fingerprinting has been around for a while, did google not use it? Or did it not allow others to have access to their data collected this way?
Fingerprinting.. some types can be easily circumvented, others are more painful. But yeah, librewolf + ublockorigin is decent. Chameleon is an extension specifically for spoofing your browser and OS info, it can add delay to key presses so keypress data becomes useless, etc. But having too many extensions also makes you stand out, so that has to be balanced.
Drey
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in reply to Tuta • • •2. Do not use gmail, google search, google drive or any other of their services;
3. Watch youtube videos from alternative front-end solutions (like piped, vanced, grayjay, invidious, etc - until they get blocked);
4. Use de-googled smartphones with f-droid store (or at least with microg + aurora store);
etc.
#fightback
tea
in reply to Tuta • • •my favourite resource on digital fingerprinting
coveryourtracks.eff.org/
Cover Your Tracks
coveryourtracks.eff.orgJohns
in reply to Tuta • • •I don't like to read IT stuff in other language than English.... And I cannot see the English version no matter what I do.
Tuta
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Bastet 魔王様 😈
in reply to Tuta • • •Jimjam
in reply to Tuta • • •Not that I doubted the post or other users’ comments but I was curious if my current browser is doing similar things like FF or librewolf and what Erklarbar said about fingerprinting was echoed by the vivaldi team some years ago. Although it’s recognized as a chrome browser, that info coupled with the os, language, and time zone (not to mention a number of customizations I’ve made to the ui) I’m definitely easily identifiable 😰☠️
vivaldi.com/blog/shared-networ…
Shared networks, tracking & fingerprinting | Vivaldi Browser
Tarquin Wilton-Jones (Vivaldi Technologies)Strypey
in reply to Tuta • • •"Many privacy laws, including the EU’s GDPR and California’s CCPA, require user consent for tracking. However, because fingerprinting works without explicit storage of user data on a device, companies may argue that existing laws do not apply which creates a legal gray area that benefits advertisers over consumers."
Hanna, #Tuta (@Tutanota), 2025
tuta.com/blog/digital-fingerpr…
Evil, but smart. Time for a broad brush ban on surveillance advertising?
#privacy #surveillance #AdTech
Digital Fingerprinting: Google launched a new era of tracking worse than cookie banners | Tuta
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in reply to Strypey • • •@strypey Agreed, ban targeted ads: tuta.com/blog/ban-targetedads
Thanks for sharing & spreading the word! 💪
You are being tracked, profiled & targeted online. It's time to ban targeted advertising. | Tuta
Tutadyani 🫠
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> no one has explained to me very well is if there are yet ways to block fingerprinting?
The blog piece by @Tutanota suggests it's not possible, although I'm sceptical. On the internet no one knows you're a dog, and all that.
Plus from the replies I've had, it may not be a legal grey area at all, at least under EU law. Question is, what happens if EU prosecutors take a case against companies owned by US oligarchs friendly with the regime? Trade war?
Making popcorn as we speak ...
Tuta
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in reply to Tuta • • •@brave will actively eff up the fingerprinting by returning slightly obfuscated data each time. Like the with of your browser and stuff like that
Not by much. Just enough to make sure there won't be a match
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in reply to Tuta • • •I never used these scans - on any device.
Simon EI3JDB
in reply to Tuta • • •"no escape" isn't correct. Don't use Google services (e.g search,) don't use Google software (e.g Chrome.) De-Google your life.
Posted from a phone using a non-Google OS called #GrapheneOS
Virginicus
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in reply to Tuta • • •While not applicable in all scenarios, one solution is to leave this whole polluted protocol behind.
Check out #geminiprotocol with gmi.skyjake.fi/lagrange/
The experience is like early web, in a good way.
#smolweb
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in reply to Tuta • • •Am I Unique ?
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in reply to Tuta • • •Nice article summarizing dangers of browser fingerprinting tactics, now adopted by Google.
Use a browser with anti-fingerprinting features.
A number to use. I use Mullvad browser(Tor based).
Edwinek
in reply to Tuta • • •I've been using Brave browser for some time now, for now it's effective against browser fingerprinting. And a great browser with built-in ad blocking
Tested with:
amiunique.org/fingerprint
coveryourtracks.eff.org/
@JohanDiederik
Cover Your Tracks
coveryourtracks.eff.org