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@ corvus @lemmy.ml

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  • How avoid spying by my phone and harden my LineageOS?

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  • Using vanilla LineageOS and apps from F-droid which are open source you are fine. Most spyware and malware come from apps so LineageOS with F-droid is huge step from stock android concerning privacy and security. And improved version is GrapheneOS but I don't think is a necessity for the average user, if that's your case.

  • Hanson & Stylish

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  • What kind of hair style are we looking for today?*You hand over a piece of paper with the surface equation on it.

  • Collecting Unruh effect particles

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  • Nature

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  • and crickets

  • How do I explain my reluctance to use generative AI in good faith?

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  • Most people are against AI because of what corporations are doing with it. What do you expect corporations and governments are going to do with any new scientific or technological advance? Use it for for the benefit of humanity? Are you going to stop using computers because coorporations use them for their benefit harming the environment with their huge data centers? By rejecting the use of this new technological advance you are avoiding to take advantage of free and open source AI tools, that you can run locally on your computer, for whatever you consider a good cause. Fortunately many people who care about other human beings are more intelligent and are starting to use AI for what it really is, A TOOL.

    "According to HRF’s announcement, the initiative aims to help global audiences better understand the dual nature of artificial intelligence: while it can be used by dictatorships to suppress dissent and monitor populations, it can also be a powerful instrument of liberation when placed in the hands of those fighting for freedom."

    HRF AI Initiative

  • How do I explain my reluctance to use generative AI in good faith?

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  • That's perfectly fine if anyone just doesn't want to use it, but he's "strictly against" it and he's searching for reasons. Pretty irrational IMO. It doesn't surprise me, it's the general trend regarding almost any subject nowadays, and you can't blame AI for that.

  • How to start as a not very tech savy person

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  • You should check Mint again, things in the Linux world are improving fast lately. Some people got their grampas into Linux and they are happy using it, with your use case it can easily also be the case, the terminal it's not needed, may be sporadically and to setup some things as you like at first, like changing settings to not enter passwords, may be it's not so safe but it's not as unsafe as using Windows. Just get used to the good habit of making regular backups. In any case just make a post asking and we will be happy to help. Just go ahead and slowly you will get confidence to do more difficult things. The freedom that you experience using Linux really worth it, but it can take time to appreciate.

  • Can Google read my Signal messages on stock Android?

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  • If you use stock android and proprietary software, YES. Everything you type can be recorded before it's encrypted.

  • What to do about being unable to use a custom ROM?

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  • Don't fall into the illusion that you can have privacy with stock android. Google has admittedly igrored user settings to continue spying them.

  • Fictional

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    Do you prefer natural immunity over vaccination?

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  • Our immune system is amazing? Yes, it is! Wiil it protect us against every pathogen in existence? No! Can vaccines help? Yes. Source: History.

  • Changes in Plasma 6 after some weeks using it

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  • Still can't place Kate in the system tray in that way, it doesn't allow me. Can you?

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    Weight Loss Isn't Essential For Reversing Prediabetes, New Study Shows

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  • "Restoring a normal fasting blood sugar level is the most important goal in preventing type 2 diabetes and not necessarily the number on the scale,"

    This is like saying that in order to prevent fever the most important thing is to keep the body temperature low. Pretty tautological.

  • What are you wrong about?

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  • You can't be consciously aware of being wrong about something. It's a contradiction. The moment you admit it means that you don't think it's true anymore, which makes you stop being wrong.

  • Biblical loophole Number 96

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  • Don't missionaries go to heaven as well?

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    If it ask for your phone number its not private.

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  • Signal would only shrug and hand them metadata

    So at the very least by using Signal the government can know everyone you communicated with, at what time and where. And still is considered a private messenger. Amazing.

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    If it ask for your phone number its not private.

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  • Obviously you are missing the point. Even Gmail is private if you are going to do the job of encrypting your messages by yourself, but that's irrelevant with what we are discussing here.

    What we are discussing here is that if you are a company offering a service of encrypted communications located in the US, the government has all the power to force you to shut down if you don't give them access to what they want. And that's not speculation, they're actively doint it because they are backed by the law.

    Why people are so naive thinking that the government are not going to do something to get what they want when the law is on their side, when sometimes they don't hesitate to do it even when it's blatantly illegal?

    The only way to avoid surveillance is with free, open source and descentralized software. If there is a company in charge of running the software that's a vulnerability and, like the cases already mentioned, those in power are going to exploit it shutting the service down if the company doesn't comply.

    It doesn't matter how much you like or trust the service, there's simply no reason why they wouldn't do it again when they already dit it successfuly. Why some people who care about privacy can't see this obvious fact is beyond my understanding.

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    If it ask for your phone number its not private.

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  • If it's so easy why Lavabit and Silent Circle had to shutdown?

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    If it ask for your phone number its not private.

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  • Since when is encryption dependent on the service’s jurisdiction?

    The US has a law that applies to any US company operating within its borders: it is illegal to tell your users that the US government has asked your company to spy on their behalf. This is called a key disclosure law, and the US's version of it, called National Security Letters, underwent an expansion with the PATRIOT act; by 2013, President Obama’s Intelligence Review Group reported issuing on average, nearly 60 NSLs every day.

    Companies that don't comply with this law are forced to shut themselves down, or remain open, and grant access to user communications to the US government. The Signal foundation is a US domiciled company and must comply with this law without being able to disclose that they have been issued an NSL letter.

    Luckily we don’t yet live in that world

    Comply with the government order of granting access to messages or shut down implies that we are already in that world, long ago. What makes you think that what happened to Lavavit and Silent Circle would not happen to Signal? Only wishfull thinking can make you think that, evidence tells you otherwise.