Which distro does she have installed?

Take the Fairphone over the Pixel since you’re in Europe

I use Librewolf and TBB. Both have NoScript enabled and JS turned off by default. I never turn on JS on TBB obviously, and for the few sites that I frequent on Librewolf, I tweaked it by hand. It’s not that hard.

I will look to also use Mullvad browser alongside Librewolf maybe, not sure which one of them is more private since Mullvad browser comes straight from the TOR project and has their security settings.

1. Purchase spare chromebook (with cash)
2. Purchase spare SIM (cash)
3. Get TOTP working with spare SIM, link FOSS authenticator app, delink phone number.
4. Throw away SIM.
5. Get a flash drive, wipe, load videos on it.
6. Go to public location, sign into Google account from there, upload video.
7. Remove battery from Chrome book after uploading video, only ever plug it into power in the proximity of WiFi hotspots which can’t be traced to you.
8. Preferably don’t bring your phone with you since they can track you through that

Has worked mostly fine for me, YMMV

Jerboa here but same

I’m pissed off because he didn’t limit it to just being an init and made it into a much bigger mess

Running FOSS and taking control of your network will do a far better trick of privacy vs convenience than most people can imagine

I’m still baffled at how good Ollama is on working on paltry hardware like ARM and small VMs. Give it GPUs and it’s amazing.

The next step should be to encrypt information at Transit and rest to as to purchase GPU power from the cloud but maintaining client-side encryption throughout. That’ll bring even more power to the masses: imagine giving Ollama a Cloud endpoint to remote GPUs which it can compute on without the consumer purchasing any hardware.

I love these guys. Let’s see if somebody can just bootstrap the FOSS framework directly on TCP to work on the internet without a VPN. Fantastic project

Very nice read, I look forward to posts with detailed explanations of realistic privacy setups!

With that said, here we go:

1. TOR has been compromised. It likely doesn’t matter if you’re not doing anything that nations would be interested in, but something to keep in mind.
2. True nerds/privacy hobbyists always have multiple browsers for different use-cases. Bravo! I need to take a look at Mullvad myself, I really don’t like Brave anymore.
3. Do you host your SearXNG instance? It should not be very hard to do on the cloud.
4. Which DNS resolver? I’m assuming this is upstream to your Adguard setup, which means the latter acts as the recursive resolver in your setup, if I understand correctly.
5. Didn’t hear about SecureBlue before this, good distro in theory. Thanks.
6. Ever thought of getting a 10-year old Thinkpad yet to get rid of that pesky BIOS? \s
7. Do you have DoT and DNSSEC set up for your “private” DNS? Also, is this something like Quad9?
8. With the combination of flight mode and a Faraday bag along with not having a SIM, I’m assuming that people don’t reach you using traditional means (calling). How do you stay in contact with others?
9. Define “locking down” of public accounts.
10. I have been thinking of AI for a bit, and you can get a P40 with 24GB VRAM for about $100-$150 on Ebay. Put that in an old computer and fight with licensing for a bit (Craft Computing has a good video on getting VFIO working on Nvidia cards by tricking the software) and you’ll have a great setup for AI.
11. I’d stop with the subscriptions and start sailing the high seas, personally, but I understand if the sentiment does not sit well with people here. Piracy simply gives you more control and privacy. Look at LocalMonero to try and get monero without leaving a trace (directly converting fiat to XMR and exchanging for gift cards online after churning).
12. You must be using an old TV, but if you really need to purchase a new TV at some point (and it’s very likely to be “smart”), you can simply disconnect the WiFi antenna from the back of the device. If you’re really good at embedded systems, you could find the flash chip that holds the BIOS/OS of the TV and remove it (and edit the boot sequence) or flash it with something else. This is true for everyone who has a smart TV.
13. Holy shit this guy programs games to play them what a chad.
14. Please switch to Codeberg, Gitlab is annoying.
15. How do you coordinate local time with other people if your clocks are set to UTC?

That was a lot. Thanks for reading!

I think you replied to the wrong comment haha

The NSA has always had multiple 0-days for TOR, but that’s beside the point. The current rumour is that the NSA controls more than half of the traffic on the TOR network, courtesy of them owning a massive number of high-performance nodes.

I’m going to read more on how i2p works, but if I see more NSA involvement I’m bucking out of that too

1. Use DoT
2. Use Librewolf
3. TOR has been compromised, use it sparingly.

Understand the fight. We have three major pipelines for leakage of inferences/data on the internet:

1. IP
2. Metadata
3. Content we produce

I’m interested in the problems you faced. I have realised that I will need GMS/MicroG for maps, and am unclear if I can get a FOSS app to host my local mail inbox without GMS. Other than that, everything else can be done in the browser (technically even maps can be used in the browser but I digress).

Would like to know which services prevent you from leaving Google

I completely agree with your statement (that’s how my day goes too), but I wanted a mobile device. Thanks

Essentially, your usage of your mobile ends with calling?

Unfortunately, that won’t work for me since I need a browser to check my accounts and other needs on the move

How do you like the software support, and which OS are you using?

How do you do instant messaging? Isn’t typing with that harder than average?

Yes