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Is there a problem with your Lemmy client? My comment renders fine on Raccoon.
Is there a problem with your Lemmy client? My comment renders fine on Raccoon.
Maybe Logseq, too.
+FOSS like Joplin and unlike Obsidian
+plaintext markdown files like Obsidian and unlike Joplin’s janky database
-less feature-rich than obsidian
-block-based instead of note-based, so a slight paradigm-shift is required
I was kidding, too! I’ve got a few thousand hours in Path of Exile. I just like to confuse the two when the opportunity arises 🤣
haha, I LOVE Pillars of Eternity! I’ll have to make a category just for that one!
You might start googling things like “OSINT handbook” or “OPSEC guide” and see what people put together to protect yourself from data-mining, fingerprinting, and various other ways to protect your personal information.
Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) is the practice of using freely-available resources to collect information on something/somebody. Learning about the tools used to perform OSINT searches is a good first step to determine which databases you may want to scrub yourself from.
Operations Security (OPSEC) is a military term that involves the security and protection of any data – classified or unclassified – that could potentially be used against you. OPSEC sounds exactly what you’re looking for, but I mention both terms because looking at potential attacks from both a red team (attacker) and blue team (defender) is a good practice to make sure you’re not missing any vulnerabilities (in other words, even if your only goal is defense, it is beneficial to think like an attacker and visualize how you would attack yourself).
One such result of a search shows John Troony’s Opsec for the Paranoid gist.
Some example of people-finder sites like LexisNexus from his document would be:
## People-Finder Sites
- BeenVerified: http://www.beenverified.com/
- DOBSearch: https://www.dobsearch.com/
- Intelius: http://www.intelius.com/
- LexisNexis: http://www.lexisnexis.com/en-us/products/public-records.page
- Spokeo: http://www.spokeo.com/WhitePages: http://www.whitepages.com/
- WhitePages: http://www.whitepages.com/
But the nearby sections in that document may be of use to you, like “Opt out of Data Mining”.
OSINT/OPSEC is a giant rabbit hole you can go down, and you can get as paranoid as you want – scrubbing social media sites or poisoning the well of sites that collect data indiscriminately and don’t let you remove it, all the way to the ultra-paranoid burner phones and entire false identities (as long as you hopefully stay within the bounds of what is legal in your country or at least keep your laws in mind when you do step outside of the law). If you are interested in stuff like that, you might start looking at things like The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Online Anonymity.
Oh, yuck. Yeah, I have a Samsung phone, too, and can’t figure out how to strip exif data from screenshots. You might be stuck with a third-party exif-stripper app.
What phone, what camera app, what Android version (and be specific if the manufacturer or service provider added their own customizations, as is common with Samsung and most major service providers).
Yes, I torrent Linux ISOs for any version or distro I want to install, and then I seed them until I download an updated version of whichever distro (and occasionally I’ll clean up old ones if I stopped using that distro but the version I have is ancient).
But of course when we talk about torrenting in public forums, it’s funny to only mention all the Linux distros we are torrenting and remaining hush-hush about other things we may be sharing.
Honestly, I just self-host. I download my ebooks, use Calibre to clean them, convert them to my favorite format (ePub), and tag the shit out of them with metadata. My Calibre library lives in a folder that gets synced to all my devices (I’m currently using a commercial cloud storage platform from one of the big providers, but working on spinning up a Nextcloud instance). Then I just open my ebooks in Moon+ Reader Pro on my phone and read away.
Also to be fair to this idea, the quality of human moderators on Reddit is drastically worse than it was several years ago.
oof :( sorry to see fellow lemmings falling victim to the AI movement.
Thank you for pasting the contents in the post. I refuse to click a link to a scummy site that uses AI art.
This.
My friends/family: this is amazing, you could sell these!
Thank you for the compliment, but no. Absolutely no. I make plenty of money at my day job. I enjoy making sawdust and wood chips, and want to keep enjoying it.
Privacy, FOSS, leftists – all of these communities have a very large presence here, and while I love all of them, they do tend to love their purity tests. Purity tests have been a constant in these communities for as long as I can remember them existing. Lemmy just has a high concentration of 'em.
My phone doesn’t have a 3.5mm headphone jack.
Hah, that absolutely makes sense. They should block these country-specific things from main so they don’t show up for random weirdos! Cheers!
We’ve got millions of the things in my country and I’ve never seen one with a helmet included.
In my country, while it is illegal to download or to share pirated content, our law enforcement really only goes after the big fish doing the sharing. Sites may go down, but as an end user, my only real risk is getting a DMCA notice from my ISP if I’m sharing data (seeding torrents) while not using a VPN, and possibly having my service disconnected if I continue. While technically I could be in trouble with the law, it is not really a fear in my country to be a downloader of pirated media.
Stronger legislation could mean laws that entice law enforcement to act on smaller uploaders or even downloaders.
Bookware seems to be audiobooks, but I’m surprised it’s so low on the list.
Oof. I did not know about that. That’s unfortunate!