The problem I have with zlib, is that it’s addictive… Always when I’m looking for a specific book, I find myself roaming the whole library for things I actually don’t need… (Cooking, crafting, knitting, catting…whatever)

Thankfully it’s limited to 10 books per day and I think it should be further reduced to 10/month or something like that. I’m a fucking hoarder and this thing would take my whole life in no- time.

Looks cool :)

typing tests

How can I say… My Android keyboard is probably lacking the proper dictionary and is probably less reactive than the native app installed by default. Not sure this test can be accurately (even professionally) tested on any device :/.

Even a typing test on a keyboard is odd. My grandma surely gonna fail this test and not because she’s old, but because she doesn’t know where the different keys/letters are placed on the keyboard.

Or am I missing something here?

I’m aware but why would anyone use the bleached flour? I mean are they marketed as bleached flour or are they just named white flour ?

Shouldn’t be it the other way arround? The unbleached flour is the actual normal flour and the bleached flour should be called “bleached flour” to make people aware of the treatment? Kinda wild…

But I digress, your cake still looks yummi and I still want to eat some ! 🥹

Looks tasty yummi!!

200g unbleached flour

Wait… What?

I do agree their web design choice is a bit to much :/. It’s also way to bloated and filled with to much marketing words…

I have also been lost a few times after finding out I was on the ProtonVPN page and not the main Proton website.

Give me a strange creepy feeling :/

If you’re running an Android phone, there’s RethinkDNS which can block every requests except those explicitly allowed by yourself on the DNS level and firewall your traffic based on your rules.

It’s very customizable but It’s not that easy to get it right. You can even hook up your own wireguard tunnel and add block lists similar to uBlock.

If you want to dig deeper into the DNS blocking you can have a look at PCAPdroid which allows you to peek into wich app does what on the DNS level. While it works without rooting your phone, if you want to use it in combination with your VPN, you need root access.

Thanks for the tip !! I will certainly give it a look, It’s kinda annoying for my family members to always connect via wireguard.

For me it’s fine though, I even route my traffic to ProtonVPN but my family is always nagging how they need to “do something” to get access to the hosted services or that it “doesn’t work”.

Except that everything is under your control and not managed by a third party, not much I think.

If this setup works for you and you’re happy with it, just keep it going.

If you have time to spare, want to learn new things, tinkerer arround with network security, certificates, DNS, reverse proxy and, and, and… You can give it a try in a virtual machine and docker containers. But keep in mind that’s not an easy way and involves a lot of personal time before you get a GOOD working self-hosted / exposed services.

I wouldn’t recommend to open any port on your router except for a secured tunnel like wireguard and connect to your services through that tunnel. Opening port 443/80 on your router is bound to some heavy automated scanning and brute force by bots. If you don’t have the necessary knowledge/tool/hardware, this is just going to put you at risk of ddos and remote attacks.

That’s way something like cloudflare is populare, they most of the time take care of that nuisance and also why something like wireguard is popular among the selfhosting community.

people cared about the environment

It might be true for people, but I heard that’s not true about their politics in general.

As long as the EU doesn’t reinvent the wheel, why not? I mean if they are going to fork Linux and rewrite a EU-based linux OS, this would further divide the community and make issues and security a lot more wacky… Not sure this is a good idea.

They shouldn’t bother paying customers… At least they could show some recommendations when your subscriptions is nearly at the end of it’s terms.

"Hello dear customer, we are happy to have you on board, however your subscription is ending soon, if you’re happy with our services here are some recommendations if you want to renew your subscription with us

• Family pacakage 1 price
• Package 2 price
• Whatever 3 price

On contrary wouldn’t you mind to give us any feedback on why you’re leaving us or how/what we could improve?

https://proton.domain.org/

Thank you"

Something along the lines :/.

Hahaha… What a stupid take. Yeah scientific research isn’t biased and hasn’t been poisoned by conflict of interest… never has been and never will I guess? Scientific research is the ultimate truth of wisdom and you don’t need your own critical thinking anymore 😮‍💨 (Yeah the tobacco industry was right, smoking is healthy !)

when the researchers themselves are saying the work isn’t over. why are all the super geniuses in this thread so smugly announcing this topic is wrapped up?

It’s better to be safe than sorry

Edit:

Therefore, the fact that no evidence for large-scale mobile eavesdropping has been found so far should not be interpreted as an all-clear. It could only mean that it is difficult – under current circumstances perhaps even impossible – to detect such attacks effectively.

https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-22479-0_6

Scientific enough?

76 up’s / 68 down’s on OP’s post.

It’s very close, still the majority wins, that’s how it works, if not happy change the system not the voters.

Maybe not 24x7 but this did happened and people have reported it multiple times. If you really think those multi-billion dollars companies are not capable of or won’t do anything so sketchy because it’s not “worth it”, then it’s time to open your mind to the possibility that those companies are not your friends.

While I do get most of them, I’m really confused by NOR and XNOR.

Why is there suddenly and out of bound mask outside the circles? (If that does make sense :/)

PS: sorry for the serious question XD I probably don’t get the joke?

I get your feeling :) Don’t worry the silent majority is on your side. However they won’t comment because they fear from being banned or backslashed…

While It can’t be proven or disapproved, I also had my share of strange coincidence where my mind goes “Huh? How is that even possible?”… Kinda strange feeling! But that feeling gave me the push to the privacy route maybe in a rather to extreme direction? Always follow your guts when there’s to much noise to make a clear decision.

• RethinkDNS (block every in/out request except those manually allowed)
• Degoogles android (Shizuku+canta, magisk, debloater)
• Only open source apps and delete everything else (no exceptions here) -…

You will never get full 100% privacy or anonymity, however you can make your data as much as difficult to get and waste some of their resource and time :).

Good luck !

Hummm… Guess you’re to sensible? I mean I’m die hard linux lover for 3 years now and will never switch back to Windows… EVER!

However, I found some of those posts quite funny !

I think it was… Cyberwar/crime is the new kind of war, it can be deadly and put a whole country/system on halt with a lot of consequences (human and resources).

Most people would call out conspiracy theory, but I do firmly believe that those higher ups are doing WAY more bad things behind our backs than we can imagine.

But hey we have no proofs, except those lost trails left by good people who need to hide their own asses because the government are looking for them for crime against the government?

That’s exactly why I value privacy and doing everyday my best to leave as less information about me as possible. Sure they have the mean/money to find where I live in seconds but they won’t get that information without a fight ! F#CK big corporations !

To bad Diablo 2 didn’t got that kind of treatment…

I Also heard they announced TQ2 (kinda excited), I really hope for a good sequel that keeps the good old ARPG feeling.

Yeaaah I hoped and prayed for a good Diablo squel but this is probably never going to happen any time soon… Like never.

I think right now it doesn’t mean anything :/. It’s more a ‘wait&see’ situation… However as many many other stories in the past, this doesn’t sound good and bitwarden is slowly and carefully following the ‘enshitification’ path !

Keep an eye open and get ready to switch to another password manager (maybe a fork?).

Rock & stone fellow miner !