Category: Privacy / convenience vs surveillance / Orwell

Paying taxes is no fun Paying taxes double and tripple is even less fun. Because let’s face it: when buying a pair of NEW shoes in Germany the average German Joe already pays at least 19% MwSt. plus the income […]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UheOilps2zQ “know in some countries they believe Telegram is safe. I will show you how safe it is,” he said, before showing a screen in which he appeared to scroll through the Telegram contacts of one Kenyan strategist https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/feb/15/revealed-disinformation-team-jorge-claim-meddling-elections-tal-hanan SS7 […]

it is no news: that at some tasks computer+programs have outperformed humans, that is: at math and remembering things 1997: Deep Blue “AI” outperforms best human player at chess (at those times it was just called “a program”) 2016 (19 […]

in 2021 wrote this article. “Open Letter to Mozilla – Google’s Browser dominance – is Firefox not listening to user’s needs/requests?” They at least – pretend to. Google says: Thank You Mrs Baker – you successfully destroyed the Firefox browser! […]

the positive: Okay let’s ALWAYS focus on the positive first: data, the web, free flow of information has given mankind new abilities: online learning-from-each-other (“social learning” one of said to be strong points of humans vs animals) better decision making […]

have to give a HUGHE praise to the Tor Project! just checked and they DO AN EXCELLENT job at keeping the user private the developers who constantly work to make the system better the thousands of volunteering admins that run […]

“Von der Leyen under pressure: The head of the EU Commission refuses to release text messages about the expensive vaccine deal with Pfizer. She is accused of lack of transparency.” (src) (here is the full New York Times article on […]

both are centralized Messengers meaning: the user is in control of the device + software (to the extend that the user can understand the src) Android-Client “the client” 100% Open Source (Java 70.8% Kotlin 29.1%) iOS-Client 100% Open Source (Swift […]

“know in some countries they believe Telegram is safe. I will show you how safe it is,” he said, before showing a screen in which he appeared to scroll through the Telegram contacts of one Kenyan strategist https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/feb/15/revealed-disinformation-team-jorge-claim-meddling-elections-tal-hanan

this has to do with Caja calculating thumbnails for EVERY (!!!) picture ever found in a folder that matches the “below this and that file size” settings. having a picture “preview” possibility in a file manager is neat but if […]

mass surveillance is real & cencorship is real: Why does Google hate Tor? Because Google is a mass-surveillance AI. And surveillance hates anonymizing networks such as Tor. That’s why the visitor of this website SHOULD donate to Tor and Signal […]

one fine day, DNS stopped working. the reason this time was NOT on the server-side, but on the Google side, blocking all DNS servers that are NOT google. while this can be understood in the terms of CyberSec: + (manipulation […]

“the internet”, “wifi”, all “electronic communication via air and wires” As with all new technologies, Einstein was hopeful, that this new technology will be used for good to bring peace by better understanding between nations and individuals alike. Of course […]

if there are problems… run this one-liner… and ESPECIALLY with let’s encrypt… watch CAREFULLY… as not all errors might show up in a nice red color as errors might NOT be reported for the domainX.com that causes the error… but […]

Efficiency is good in terms of: saving resources. Same results with less (power and other) input. BUT: good people need to be cultivated, by culture. Culture does not simply mean “gifts on Christmas” and “Lederhosen”. (that’s what it has become, […]

want to make this world a better place? want to support true alternatives? gcc makerz https://my.fsf.org/donate Debian, the still superb miniamlistic universal (runs-everywhere and anywhere) GNU Linux Distribution that is heavily how to documented in this knowledge base 😀 (never […]

correct if wrong but… checkout this picture, just uploaded to this self-hosted wordpress instance recently: it “suddenly” and without consent it also exists on this server i2.wp.com, the “cool” wordpress CDN, that is supposed to speed up loading time of […]

let’s face it: the internet has become a gigantic surveillance machine, with hundreds of private companies, trying to collect as much data on the user as possible in order to “predict the market” while also using with AI to analyze […]

0) for security: keep all internet connected devices as up to date as possible! “Freifunk updates its router firmware and closes a critical security vulnerability that could allow attackers to install their own firmware on the devices” (src: heise.de) Also […]

the risks of all digital (no cash) payment systems & amok AI: “This happens quite often with customers of the Cashgroup banks (@DeutscheBank / @Postbank / @Commerzbank / @Comdirect) as soon as their algorithms hit your account is directly without […]

everyone hates em…. cookie banners it’s “funny” (no actually not and forbes.com is not a site this user is visiting very often, it was this article that the user was interested in: https://www.forbes.com/sites/elizabethhowell1/2022/01/04/spacex-starship-orbital-launch-delayed-further-into-2022/), https://www.space.com/author/elizabeth-howell is actually writing for space.com, so […]

all those surveillance and “in app trying to sell something”  make it way slower than Win 7… which is not good for a company that want’s to be productive (security, reliability, speed, speed, speed) get a bit of free tuning […]

what is great about books vs blogs? (+) paper books don’t need electricity and hightech to function. energy grid and tcp networks (up to now) have worked pretty reliably, but at any given day, a massive solar flare or a […]

criminals abusing tor for malicous behavior should be blocked, right? “50% of the attacks are leveraging the Tor anonymity service to mask their true origins” https://thehackernews.com/2021/12/new-local-attack-vector-expands-attack.html this could destroy the “honest” part of the network that truly exists, because it […]

If the user got the time, watch parts of the full uncencored & uncut (thanks C-SPAN!) interview-testimony: https://ytpak.net/watch?v=GOnpVQnv5Cw Facebook/WhatsApp/Instagram and Telegram sideffects may include: ellection manipulation & manipulation of the masses massive intrusion of privacy (collect as much info as […]

the positive vision (always start with something positive) if big data about every keystroke every step we make (the police: every step you make) algorithms determine how mankind will live and thus: technology is “neutral” until it is used for […]

app only? no browser support? not exactly click here: any tag topic can be seen in browser via: https://social.librem.one/tags/librem5 so it seeeems like these service are aimed at selling and be used mostly by app with the pretty expensive Librem […]

in short: humans per default, without an education might just be “better” apes. Some parts of mankind behave very primitive and clearly show no signs of higher intelligence or education. The troubles start, when the tools become more and more […]

every user want’s a fast & responsive internet. BIND and DNS – the Phonebook of the internet – Berkeley Internet Name Domain – how to benchmark dns servers (find fastest) – LibreDNS There is nothing more anoying than slow loading […]

harddisk encryption is important from critical data to get physically stolen (can’t do much about data that get’s stolen while DEcrypted) (except: to not have any physical network connection while the data is in DEcrypted state?) hostnamectl; # tested on […]