Soatok also has a very good post about XMPP

https://soatok.blog/2024/08/04/against-xmppomemo/

https://soatok.blog/2024/08/14/security-issues-in-matrixs-olm-library/

Matrix is great, but not the best, recently, less than a week ago, the Matrix.org server went down due to a drive failure, so they had to recover all the server data using a backup, so you are better off using a homeserver that is not matrix.org.

Also, all clients of matrix kind of suck. Element desktop is extremely laggy and sluggish to use. Element for Android is deprecated, ElementX, their new android client is not completed and lacks basic features. There is other clients but all of them have their downsides.

Access is restored tho: https://mastodon.social/@netblocks/115170319982458225

Weird move

There is no Steal a Brainrot 🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺

Use bandwhich to see which programs are using traffic ;)

Samsung used to be good. I used to always buy samsung but since I can’t affort a “high end” device, I go with the medium end ones, and samsung medium end ones are terrible for the price. So instead of getting a medium end samsung, you can get something better and cheaper on another brand

Note: When using a pruned Monero node you can reduce the size from 80GiB to ~25GiB

I don’t think taking screenshots of everything you do every few seconds is telemetry.

:3

And what if I have Instagram but I don’t publish anything on it? lol

+1. Mullvad browser is the best when it comes to browse the clearnet (not Tor). Also, if anyone reading this, do not compile Mullvad browser yourself, only use the official binary from the Mullvad site (or the -bin variant if you use Arch Linux AUR) since from my testing, different compiled versions of Mullvad browsers come with different fingerprints.

Using an optimized build from CachyOS and using it on CreepJS will give you a low amount of visits, same goes with the Flatpak build, but the binary from the Mullvad site gives around 2k views, which means that at least 2k people have the exact same fingerprint as you, but of course, it counts the people that have visited CreepJS to test their fingerprint. There is also fingerprint.com which seems to be wayyy more advanced.

Soooo, how do I access the full article? I have to pay? Lol

Ads on child focused apps should be banned. Because big tech literally doesn’t care about the content of the ads and they don’t regulate them. They are full of malware and there was even an ad on YouTube recommending people to install an Adblock.

Get kids out of social media

hehe

RECURSION!!!

Thanks meow

I don’t trust cloudflare. That is just a JS CDN that pulls a file, but is still gathered from an external server. In my case, when I have to use CDNs to use a JS library, I just download the file and host it locally.

You don’t own the CDN, is controlled by other people, which means that of course is less private to the end user, and more insecure since you rely on the people running the CDN and the author or the library. What would happen if the library author/authors get hacked and they add malicious code to the library? (Asumming it doesn’t contain a integrity attribute like the one on your example).

Is better to trust yourself, it doesn’t cost you anything to download a few kB of a JS file and serve it directly from your server. The page is not going to load 2s faster if you use a JS CDN

And no one wants this to occur to their websites: https://fossa.com/blog/polyfill-supply-chain-attack-details-fixes/

How do you guys can see a deleted comment wtf. I deleted it for a reason, because I noticed that my comment was dumb and stupid after I posted it

Radicale is good, but EteSync is better, although EteSync has not been updated for a long time (as far as I know), the data is encrypted, which is way better if for some reason, the data of your server/VPS gets compromised.