there are some cheap services on kycnot.me

1. move your closed source messengers to another phone
2. keep it always turned off additionally with all the graphene features, always at home, somewhere inconvenient
3. open it once a week, and you will see who needs to contact you will ask you for a better way to communicate

alternative in Europe: revolut is pretty popular, also it’s a good cheap way to buy xmr dexes

system of a down

my opinion about nym VPN for now is… it’s not very stable, and it was very unstable up until recently

before two things were very very annoying that tree me off, first is the connection was getting stuck after exactly one hour saying that everything is connected when it wasn’t, and the second issue is partly of too many reconnects was that my *tb allowance was exhausted after 60gb which happened many months in a row

there are not as many nodes for the same country as I would like to have, and many nodes have not really good health (like websites ask for captcha or don’t let you in)

on the other hand, if without tax and paying for two years with crypto, you can get it very very very cheap

and nym promised to be very secure and etc, and with more development the whole experience will get better

pho ga inspired mien ga tay 😅 (or… it seems like your noodles have pho shape, but not sure if it’s like pho, so it coulb be not mien)

like the meaning of the dishes in Vietnamese is just a list of ingredients. so mien is the glass noodles, and ga tay seems to be the turkey

there is a real common pho ga tay in Vietnam, and also there is mien vit/ga and optionally tron (like mien vit tron)

Next step is to make it public to help other people and blend your data/traffic

I see too much useless reddit lately, please stop

Comparing telegram to WhatsApp is something really 2015 😅

Now we have many alternatives, and let’s just switch, fb and telegram both suck compared to signal, simplex, session, or even matrix (wait for the new matrix’ update where they add some new encryption stuff)

There’s gos’ camera already preinstalled, no need to download anything 🫣

They discourage fdroid because it’s not very secure, until it ever gets better

There’s the secure Accrescent, but it has almost no apps in it

(Yeah, but actually you can just use obtainium, this is probably the future)

I didn’t see this one, perfect to show people why 👍👏

Also, fuck gitea, long live forgejo

Yeah, but most of the password managers are a security risk too

I would actually be happy to see a good airgapped password manager working with qr codes, or NFC, or something like that

Maybe as an app for an old phone, or a raspberry pi zero

Ok, I didn’t know, it’s just usually I see some notifications like “priv app is the same as root, be careful”. Thank you

About the apps, I recommend switching, it’s not as scary as I sounds, most of the apps have an alternative or sth like that

Some people say it’s your IP, but actually IP is rarely used for tracking

On the way to privacy there are some things you should know:

1. Companies know who are your friends, especially if you communicate on the same messaging apps, etc
2. Also they have your location
3. And it seems like apps and Instagram are always listening (so if you say “pizza, pizza, pizza, I really like pizza, I really want to buy pizza now around me” you will get an ad with pizza)

They are priv apps, I believe it’s the same as root

Most of the privacy apps don’t require you to have gapps and their notifications

Spell the words with mistakes + add numbers and symbols with a rule, capitalize with a rule too

But lyrics of a song is an really obvious target to get to a dictionary(if it’s a dictionary attack)

More interesting would be encrypting name of the service, maybe with you login or something

So “gooey” + “lemmy”, let’s say we take three first letters and three last

“goommy”

Create a dictionary in your head only you know:

go out out mom mom yes (for an example I used short words)

Make mistakes that you would:

go oud oud mam mam yess

Add some numbers and symbols, capitalize

gO Oud Oud mAm mAm yEss (o, a, e are capitalized)

You get the point

It’s still metadata, ditch google play services all at once

If you’re ready to put on tinfoil, signal is not the way to go too

Phone number requirement is a big no-no in privacy community, plus signal wants to centralize more and more, when they could actually make it possible to selfhost signal

Of course you can, I can’t tell you exactly how because:

1. I’m really bad with iOS, I can’t even navigate to open the camera there
2. I mostly share subscription calendars, and one calendar with two users, but both users are from nextcloud

But in any case, caldav like the oldest and the most used calendar sharing protocol in existence Even google and other corporations use just caldav, there’s like nothing more than caldav