Minimo launcher is great.

ScreenZen, with specific times ranges allowed to use given apps.

Didn’t take long for Israel to murder their way out of the cease-fire.

This to me is the most exciting thing. And not just solar, but also modular nuclear power, fusion power, battery tech. The PRC is at the forefront of this green revolution.

navidrome + dsub2000 for android

Dang, never heard this one before but its believable. MJ did put his all into baseball tho, his managers and teammates were convinced he would have made the majors after a year.

This thread from a few months ago on hexbear has a ton of good ones.

Both, yes

Yep it does. The Obama admin issued ~60 NSLs every single day, and I’m sure the number hasn’t decreased since then.

Email is a really tough one especially, because it wasn’t designed with security in mind, and of course even if you’re on a secure email service, 99% of the emails you send and receive are going to be with non-secure services hoovered up by google or AWS.

Anything is better than google at least.

I have no reason to go back to it, and I switched away from it for the reasons mentioned: its grown very large, and has mainstream ads everywhere now.

The tor rabbit hole goes pretty deep, but ya based on the evidence I’d have to say its more a US developed counter-insurgency tool, rather than a privacy tool.

All speculation. You gave them your phone number (which also means your real identity), so you should assume they have it. And because its a US-based company, it must adhere to US laws including key disclosure laws, which make it illegal for any signal employee to tell you that any US government agency has asked for this information.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_security_letter

So the data that would be captured here is a network of hashed phone numbers and literally undecryptable messages

With this data you can build social networking graphs: who is talking to who, and when.

Also this is all the more suspect when you consider that US military / government agencies like OTF fund signal, and constantly try to push signal in privacy spaces.

Signal is def one, otherwise US government orgs like RFA and OTF wouldn’t be defending and pushing for it so hard in western privacy spaces, nor fund it.

I always assume the more popular it is, the more likely it is of being compromised.

I have no idea if it’s the case, but I switched away from mullvad after seeing billboards and ads of it everywhere, even on city infrastructure like trains and buses.

Thx. I’ll also check out the two writers you mentioned.

o7

There’s a tendency for “soft-leftists” to co-opt already existing terms in the Marxist canon, de-fang them of any revolutionary rhetoric, repackage them, and market it to the masses. Mark Fisher, Zizek, Naomi Klein, are the major culprits.

Yes, the best book on this is Yasha Levine - Surveillance Valley . You can find the audiobook on torrents.

The purpose the the very first DoD networks, was as an anti-communist counter-insurgency tool, mainly to aid in the collection of data and the fight against communists in SE asia, particularly Vietnam.

I’ve found this also. He’s a liberal with zero class analysis or materialist literacy. If you’ve ever read his books, like his main one, enshittification, it reads like a middle-school age baby leftist wrote it.

It’s a testament to the sad state of US and canadian education that he’s considered a pioneer in any field.