[-] communism@lemmy.ml 1 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

I assume they mean that this Lemmy is part of their fake persona, so maybe links to another social media account they use for this persona, or an email address, or the personal details they mention in their comments matches with their fake persona's personal life and not their real personal life. But yeah seems like overkill if your threat model is only your employer, unless you're employed by some military intelligence agency, in which case it's probably not enough.

[-] communism@lemmy.ml 3 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

Yes, I do this plenty. I have some SIMs I continue to pay for in cash (pay as you go) so I keep having access to the phone number, and it's not easily tieable to my identity (ie you'd figure out who it was probably through watching CCTV of me buying it which seems like quite a lot of effort, so good enough for people with lower threat models).

I don't know where you are but in terms of selecting a service or phone, I would just walk into a local shop and see what they have on offer. I can't imagine prices would vary that wildly between shops.

Edit: also no need to buy a whole new phone if you don't have a state threat model and just want to make it harder to track you for eg data mining corpos. You can just swap out the sim in your normal phone to receive texts then put your regular sim back in afterwards. Or if you have a dual sim tray. You could also anonymously buy an esim so it doesn't take up a physical sim slot.

[-] communism@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 day ago

Doesn't impact me so fine with it.

[-] communism@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

You haven't mentioned if there are any ethical concerns with this new meat; e.g. environmental cost of the production process, what kind of human labour is required to create it, who is providing that labour and under what conditions are they working.

Provided I had no ethical concerns with it, sure, but a lot of modern innovations tend to have these issues and I assume lab-grown meat would have these issues too.

Edit: Also, I'm opposed to animal captivity, so if there's an ongoing need to collect samples from captive livestock then no, I wouldn't. If it's a "collect it once then it keeps reproducing from the lab samples forever" type of thing then sure.

[-] communism@lemmy.ml 1 points 6 days ago

I feel the opposite just because I rarely find clothes that fit me well in person, whereas online they can have a broader stock. The sizing is not necessarily an issue because I know what my size is, and I'm hesitant to buy from online stores without a size guide (though my guess is usually right). If it has a size guide I just measure myself to check it's in line with their sizing.

[-] communism@lemmy.ml 4 points 6 days ago

Act to change it and be at peace mentally knowing that you have dedicated your life to the struggle and you have done all you can.

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submitted 1 month ago by communism@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

I was interested in hosting my own mail server that provides a similar level of privacy for users as Protonmail, ie the server admin cannot read any emails, even those which are not E2EE with PGP. Is there a self-hostable solution to this?

I'm aware the server admin can't read emails that were sent encrypted using the user's PGP key, but most emails I get are automated emails from companies/services/etc without the option to upload a public key to send the user encrypted email. If you're with a service like Protonmail, the server admin still cannot read even these emails.

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submitted 2 months ago by communism@lemmy.ml to c/linux_gaming@lemmy.ml

I don't own any controllers.

I started playing Dark Souls 3 which I now understand has a controller strongly recommended. I may as well just look into getting a controller of some kind as I have a few games that have somewhat janky kbm controls and are better enjoyed with a controller.

I just wanted to ask for general advice about what controller to get in terms of compatibility. Also if someone has made a controller that's more in the spirit of foss that also works fine with Steam and Proton games that would be nice?

I know Steam is pretty good with Playstation controllers and I used to use a PS controller (don't remember what generation) with some native Linux Steam games, not sure how the whole PS vs Xbox controller thing is affected by running games through Proton if at all? If it matters let me know, and I'll see if I can procure a controller for myself.

[-] communism@lemmy.ml 77 points 3 months ago

And yet I can't beat the CAPTCHAs because reCAPTCHA doesn't like VPNs lol

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submitted 3 months ago by communism@lemmy.ml to c/opensource@lemmy.ml

Hi, was wondering if anyone knew of an app where you can use your camera to scan documents (like Adobe Scan) which is FOSS.

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submitted 4 months ago by communism@lemmy.ml to c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world

You still have to pay for it because it costs money to make. But it's completely open-source beer so you can recreate it yourself if you don't want to buy it pre-made, or you want to modify the recipe.

I have no idea how to make beer otherwise I'd have a crack at this shitpost myself...

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[-] communism@lemmy.ml 65 points 4 months ago

Wow. At least it's easy to sideload apps in Android.

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submitted 4 months ago by communism@lemmy.ml to c/linux@lemmy.ml

I've only ever used desktop Linux and don't have server admin experience (unless you count hosting Minecraft servers on my personal machine lol). Currently using Artix and Void for my desktop computers as I've grown fond of runit.

I'm going to get a VPS for some personal projects and am at the point of deciding what distro I want to use. While I imagine that systemd is generally the best for servers due to the far more widespread support (therefore it's better for the stability needs of a server), I have a somewhat high threat model compared to most people so I was wondering if maybe I should use something like runit instead which is much smaller and less vulnerable. Security needs are also the reason why I'm leaning away from using something like Debian, because how outdated the packages are would likely leave me open to vulnerabilities. Correct me if I'm misunderstanding any of that though.

Other than that I'm not sure what considerations there are to make for my server distro. Maybe a more mainstream distro would be more likely to have the software in its repos that I need to host my various projects. On the other hand, I don't have any experience with, say, Fedora, and it'd probably be a lot easier for me to stick to something I know.

In terms of what I want to do with the VPS, it'll be more general-purpose and hosting a few different projects. Currently thinking of hosting a Matrix instance, a Mastodon instance, a NextCloud instance, an SMTP server, and a light website, but I'm sure I'll want to stick more miscellaneous stuff on there too.

So what distro do you use for your server hosting? What things should I consider when picking a distro?

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submitted 4 months ago by communism@lemmy.ml to c/firefox@lemmy.ml

I use a 14px bitmap font as part of my system theme. It is set to display at 14px in my gtk theme which works for tabs, bookmarks, right-click menus, and other parts of Firefox UI, but the Firefox address bar doesn't seem to be the same size and is blurry.

How do I change the font size of the address bar? Is there an element I can target in userChrome?

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[-] communism@lemmy.ml 167 points 4 months ago

Jerk your buddy off for him since he can't do that right now

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submitted 4 months ago by communism@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

I've been reading through Signal's government requests and couldn't find a similar section on Mullvad's website. I'd be curious to read about them if there are any. It would seem unlikely to me that Mullvad has never received any kind of court order for information about a user.

[-] communism@lemmy.ml 68 points 4 months ago

Tor Browser serves a different purpose/use-case to the first two. The first two are intended for everyday browsing while I've never heard of anyone using Tor Browser as their daily browser—and if you log into websites then using Tor Browser as your daily driver would defeat the anonymity purposes if you're logging in anyway.

I use librewolf for everyday browsing and Tor Browser for things requiring a higher threat model.

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submitted 4 months ago by communism@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

There are other FOSS real-time voice changers for Linux, but the others I found either seemed to have fewer features, be less polished, or be abandoned.

I'm not really a voice expert or anything so I'm not sure what aspects of voice a, like, forensic voice analyst or something would look at. I've just changed the pitch and I sound different enough that I wouldn't recognise the voice, which is good enough for me. Open to suggestions as to what effects would give the most privacy in terms of making it harder to identify your voice (while still being intelligible)

Also, for people's reference, if you want mic input to be changed for all apps, go to three dots > Preferences > General > Audio > Process All Input Streams and enable.

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submitted 5 months ago by communism@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

I sometimes get linked google docs links and would like to view them without visiting a google site directly.

[-] communism@lemmy.ml 71 points 5 months ago

My "I haven't been hacked by gay furries" T-shirt has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my T-shirt

[-] communism@lemmy.ml 129 points 5 months ago

I don't think there is a "dead giveaway". Plenty of kids can pass as adults online and plenty of adults seem like kids online. And sometimes with stuff like word usage/grammar/etc you can't tell if it's a child or someone who doesn't speak English very well or maybe an English-speaking adult who happens to type like that. There's a lot of different people in the world.

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