I’m unfamiliar with your work, what’s the goal of it?

If this is your first time hearing about me, welcome! :) I enjoy making informal articles about various privacy and security related topics. Whether it be a call to action or just fun thought experiments, I just enjoy sharing my viewpoints and ideas with the world. I hope that maybe one day someone will find a use for them. Yesterday, though, I asked Lemmy for some controversial privacy topics with the goal of settling debates in the privacy community, with the goal to help new people come to privacy, or to strengthen the privacy of existing privacy enthusiasts.

As mentioned in the post, the question on its own has different meanings. It’s not one single issue, but rather many smaller issues that are answered here.

The fake progress bar isn’t even 99% full, which is funny. Even funner: 4852.3 MB out of 5000 MB is only 97%

Horses can run between 25-30 MPH, a class 3 e-bike caps out at 28 MPH. So, they’re about the same.

I once had a conversation with AI to see what the fastest form of transportation is, that didn’t absolutely require paying any kind of insurance, like cars do. I did not expect the response at all: the AI told me horseback riding. The thing is, it’s completely right, but it’s something no human would ever have given as a response. Anyways, if anyone has a horse you don’t want…

I’m not sure if this is good or bad.

“You don’t want to go down that road” taken literally

Usually I tend to avoid sarcastic responses, but since no one mentioned it, how about the game of Telephone?

SearXNG also lets you use Google as one of the engines, allowing you to obtain Google search results anonymously.

I made my own list of software, and most of those listed are software I use daily.

I made a list of open source software that you can use in the future when looking for software! My list recommends OpenStreetMap, OsmAnd, and Organic Maps under the “Map Services” section.

I do not know, sorry. Someone who does know is free to answer this, otherwise you could try researching using some of the sources listed in my previous post, or contact some knowledgeable people such as the GrapheneOS team, Mozilla, etc.

Some good, open source TOTP apps to use are Aegis and Ente Auth.

Chrome sounds more secure

Chromium is not the same as Chrome. I highly suggest reading the previous posts.

yet I don’t want an advertising company looking at my browsing habbits

There are more privacy respecting options such as ungoogled-chromium and Brave (which can be configured to minimize data collection and bloat).

In the end, the choice is yours.

Having worked in penetration testing before, one tool I used to query SQL databases represented unknown characters as an underscore (_) before the character gets brute forced.

Bonus story: I used to set the hostname for my phone as a transparent character, so it wouldn’t visibly show up if someone ever did a network scan. I accidentally fooled myself with this while doing a network scan, and got frustrated why the “mystery device” wouldn’t load a hostname.

Nitrokey sells laptops that let you remove all wireless connectivity. They are also Qubes OS certified.

It really is a great choice! :)

Donating to for-profit companies isn’t inherently bad. While there is more value in donating to non-profit companies, I support all causes equally and want to show my support accordingly.

While Lemmy is not a dedicated service for privacy protection, it has certain features that respect user privacy more than mainstream social media platforms.

Thanks, I will be sure to redirect my donations! :)