bluemoon

StartMail, netherlands. runs StartPage, a searchengine. politically engaged company in europe. pro GDPR & eu politicians being educated more than they have been.

MullvadVPN, sweden. have been raided by police and have hade no data to disclose. 5€ a month for up to five devices. does DAITA and multihopping. has own client, streamlined to use, also performs as well with wireguard.

read cryptographers blogs. kike Saotok the furry iirc. also simplex has a cryptography report that it has failed and not implemented.

corporations are powerful in weak states and srates are weak without citizen participation in politics (parliament & streets) /nordic centric view

it doesn’t need that. use Kitsu or selfhost using NeoDB.

get the physical button-device sent to you by ypur bank

list on wikipedia of open source hardware phones

handheld linux device

i am reminded of the Linux.Conf.Au 2017 seminar “how to disappear” (iirc) which lists all the then existant ways of tripping up surveillance (physical device • AI processing • identifyability of your personhood) involving atleast reflex-trinkets to disturb surveillance cameras especially at night, secondly wearing stickers that trip up AI models and inducing hallucination as well as shining blue light on points of your face to appear as a different person entirely to the AI model, thirdly either covering specifically the nose & eyes since these contained the most identifiable points in a face (according to seminar speaker’s presentation.) just recollected off the top of my head.

also dot-matrix writers to ward off printer software.

also also remined by my converting image files to plaintext formats like .xpm .xpg .xpb .ppm .ppg .ppb et al. that strips away all meta-data in the image file from my testing. then altering it. then converting that altered plaintext image file to whatever desired fileformat.

as for recordings of the space you’re in: i recall that noise-jammer that obfuscates AI models fed the recordings. just a background noise to play. i forget the channel that presented this, professional musician with a company that also develops anti-AI treatment to audio files like nightshade or glaze but actually unstrippable. he showcased the anti-AI audio jammer.

as for actual listening in… blankets covering both of your faces, loud music in background that plays at the same tones you’re speaking in, then your company whispers?

theoretically: do clothes with metal fibres woven in (faraday cage style) hinder Pulse-Fi & WhoFi ? is there a way to trip up detection by appearing as many heartbeats & a mass of people? that same conference talk brought up textile pattern with facial prints that get recognized by AI models as additional people.

truly appreciate the post

also time to put gradients on images with text like it’s a pre-Y2K slide

i mean strong emotions lead to collective change. telling a person they should Not express all this emotion and Not talk about it like they do just isolates the person into not feeling it’s a big trend. also increases self-shaming. then it never happens for those who obviously have been unsuccsessful so far. /info

i mean culturally i also relate to the older generation in the case of digitalization if i grew up rurally with poorer parents. so a zoomer in a millenial cultural upbringing since poor + rural = lagging on trends. i’d call it millenial

as others’ve typed out: not a zero sum act.

just below two hours a day and brain isn’t rotting.

also i’d reformulate: not necessarily simultaneous, just some time. can be disjointed in time: to look up or record and to do in the everyday groove.

be, you will

you are cool and i am proud of you, random person online

How to Disappear Completely - by Lilly Ryan
Linux.Conf.Au (2019)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOulCAz4S0M
https://lca2019.linux.org.au/schedule/presentation/250/

i’m late to post this…!
there are all the techniques known since 2019 about disabling surveillance cameras
takeaway:

1. disrupting the camera itself
   1.a) wearing reflexes around your head
   1.b) shining blinding lights into the cameras

2. disrupting the gen AI calculations
   2.a) shining small infra-red lights onto your face, which makes you appear as someone else completely
   2.b) wearing face patterns all over your clothing
   2.c) wearing pins which make the AI hallucinate once processing the pin’s image

3. disrupting the recognition of personhood
   3.a) goggles or glasses to cover eyes & nose region of face, where the most data points are.