Couldn’t agree more.
Jason2357
joined 2 years ago
Most people have absolutely zero idea how much data they put out there
As evidence, I've heard people talk about worrying their phone is listening to their conversations. It's not that they don't care about privacy, it's that they don't even know what's possible. With all the data collection that is happening, the data brokers are already selling a dataset predicting that you are going to be shopping for new baby items and what types of manipulative tactics are likely to work on you well before you talk to your friend about it.
There's certainly also the aspect of simply "nerds who want to experiment." I know I've tried out weirdo encrypted messengers and such in the past, just to never actually use it for anything and delete it. If you are smart, you know the difference between an experiment and sage advice. Boring stuff like the EFF's Surveillance Self Defense suggest the reasonable tools for a spectrum of people's threat models, but those things were all once experiments too.
Does this extension affect other browsers that are embedding safari as the rendering engine? Curious.
Yeah, basically. It does bundle wireguard so that it can reverse proxy services over that. That’s probably what you were thinking of.
Pangolin Is a reverse proxy for TLS/https. Headscale is the self hosted Tailscale.
That argument is straightforward and clear and should be spread more widely than it is.
Indeed, the "evilness" of apple is really directed more frontally at app developers. That's their cash cow.
That's a bit extreme to worry about. If the app is disabled and has no permissions, it can't run or share your data with Meta. It's just sitting there wasting storage space.
I have Tailscale (actually headscale) set up on all my devices and the performance is good enough I don’t turn it off when I’m home and on the same lan as my server. The connection is p2p so it’s just a little encryption overhead. When I travel to other networks like my mobile network, or various corp wifi networks, it continues to try to get a p2p connection. Only sometimes corporate wifi networks block p2p and the traffic round trips through my VPS. It does take a lot of load off the VPS compared to the old way with openVPN. It also continues to work “for a while” if the VPS is down.
Exactly. Plex could have been “profitable” in the sense that revenue covered infrastructure and paid a handful of full time employees, but that’s not what VC money needs.
That’s not an issue with a custom domain name, but one of the other parts you run into, SPF and DKIM dns settings being correct and the reputation of whatever SMTP server’s ip address is. No one spam-bins based just on random domain names, or every business would freak out. You can also use your own domain on Google, Microsoft, or Apples ecosystems, not that you need to, there are plenty of providers that will host your email. I like runbox.