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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Privacy Friendly QR-Code Scanner by the research group SECUSO (Security • Usability • Society) at Institute of Applied Informatics and Formal Description Methods (AIFB) of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT). They make a bunch of simple privacy respecting apps.

All it does is display the text of the QR code for you so you can copy investigate it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Check these out:

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

And remember there's a Duck Duck Go onion service: https://duckduckgogg42xjoc72x3sjasowoarfbgcmvfimaftt6twagswzczad.onion Proof: search on duckduckgo for "duckduckgo onion" and a widget appears in the search results.

Alternatively, set your tor browser to always prioritize onion addresses in the settings.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Wow this is great I am surprised to see people talking about this (let alone even being aware of it).

Really refreshing to not have it to be a contest to follow random dogmas.

Lemmy is refreshingly smarter than I was used to seeing on Reddit.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Oh my god I remember this too. It looks like there's a revival project. https://www.cybertownrevival.com/

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Tangential, but Lemmy is filled with smart people so I'm going to ask: is it possible to legally make it impossible for wireless signals to work within your own home? That is, how would one dampen access to wireless networks? Would this require illegal use of signal jamming devices as I imagine a Faraday cage would be too difficult to make in a room.

Edit: where else on Lemmy could I ask this sort of question?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yeah they (Facebook) chose the word as a form of marketing to rebrand something that already existed. It's similar to how we went from "machine learning" to "AI".

[–] [email protected] 91 points 1 year ago (11 children)

It never died, because it already existed for fucking years: Active Worlds from 1995 is where I started, Second Life later, now the dominant "metaverse" is VR Chat.

The corporate simpletons just never did their homework to see what the market is like for this.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah basically if you want free stuff, then you're incentivized to leave good reviews so that they are more likely to send you free stuff. Plus, there's a cognitive bias where you didn't pay for it so even if you would have been critical you're more likely to say something positive.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I agree with you. Email is flawed and not appropriate for modern communication.

If you want the messages to be written in letter-like format, then you can write them that way. No need to make it chatty if you don't want to communicate that way.

Email shares far too much metadata and should be used just for account-updates, account-control (password reset, MFA, and so on), etc.

Otherwise I just push everyone to Signal, since it's normie-friendly and already using quantum-safe encryption.

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To the OP's question: yes, I trust Proton. They can't access my data if they wanted to. They're a lot better than competing companies.

Check out some of the steps they've been taking to improve OpenPGP and go down to "Upcoming improvements" to see their future plans: https://proton.me/blog/openpgp-crypto-refresh

And, remember, they are more than just an email company: https://proton.me/blog

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

The information provided in the public hearings.

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