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2024-05-14 14:25:38

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Using such a DA from big Tech has the potential to become the ultimate tool of control: you don't just manipulate the narratives in public but you can create a personalized "reality" for every user.
However, I am looking forward building something like this in a sovereign tech stack on my own hardware, under my control. An ultimate ad blocker for online and offline. A bullshit filter, that helps me manage information overload and all the informational noise. An alarm when someone hostile approaches. You get the idea. Cool stuff!
The question is: who controls the stack? Which master does the AI listen to?
It all comes down the seizing the means of computation.

2024-05-14 13:49:00

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The fun brave new world of digital assistants. Daniel Miessler ties it all together in a blog post: https://danielmiessler.com/p/ai-predictable-path-7-components-2024

2024-04-12 05:14:54

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Sounds like you denied the network permission?

2024-04-02 13:23:43

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- They have their own Index, and don't just rebrand Google or Bing search (but they also consider other indexes for some results)
- They have Stephen Wolfram on their board and are integrating Wolfram Alpha in their search results
- They have no incentives to show you enshittyfied content (ads, sponsored content, affiliate links, SEO bullcrap) as they have a classical subcription model instead of data based one.
- They filter out sites with a lot of trackers and ads (20+)
- They boost pages from the "small web"

2024-04-01 11:49:26

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Best search engine by a lot. Really makes quitting the progressively enshittyfied Google Search easy to quit!

2024-02-22 11:58:49

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WhatsApp also has a built in function to send the last 5 messages to Facebook moderators...

2024-02-14 11:15:59

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The definitive read on ESG: https://medium.com/@sosofancy/the-secret-diary-of-a-sustainable-investor-part-1-70b6987fa139

2024-01-16 13:54:48

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"Nations are violent to the extend that they are powerful." - Chomsky

2023-12-11 16:00:06

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"[...] this vulnerability requires the ability and opportunity to install a malicious app on the target device, which would indicate a complete compromise or the ability to execute code on the targeted device."
Further, this applies while opening a login via Webview instead of your native browser.
You should be fine as long as you don't grant a shady app the auto-fill permission.

2023-08-21 07:46:58

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To put it simply:
- If you run even a single app with integrated Google Play libraries, running sandboxed GSF won't enable any more telemetry capability from Google.
- MicroG's spoofing approach means it will likely brake at some point and nuke your whole setup.
- Running MicroG as a privileged system app increases attack surface.
- Spoofing also means less app compatibility.
- MicroG still runs proprietary Google code.

2023-08-20 13:40:37

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From the official GrapheneOS account:
microG uses Google services and apps depending on Google Play still use the Google Play SDK and Google Play libraries. microG replaces the middleman (Google Play services) between the Google Play libraries and many of the Google services they use. microG downloads and runs Google binaries for certain components. It's not really a reimplementation of Google services.
microG requires privileged functionality for many of the basics. It needs to be able to impersonate another app for certain checks, which is privileged functionality. Those checks are likely to be expanded until the point that it doesn't work at all without that spoofing.
The whole point of the sandboxed Google Play approach is that it runs as regular apps in exactly the same app sandbox used for the apps depending on it where the Google Play SDK and Google Play libraries run. It provides absolutely no special access. This means it provides no additional access or capabilities. The Google Play libraries could do everything that it can do without it. In many cases, Google's libraries including the Google Ads SDK do work without Google Play. There is no inherent need for Google Play to use Google services. You can see for yourself that Google Maps works fine without it, although it depends on it for some functionality even though that could also work without it. Everything that sandboxed Google Play can do could simply be done by the Google libraries without it though.

2023-08-16 15:30:58

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Thanks for the great guide!
Here are some additions you could make:
- Sensors, network, scoped storage and scoped contacts permissions are unique to GrapheneOS, so it would make sense to mention them briefly.
- Your IMEI is exposed to Google during e-SIM provisioning. The e-SIM must be installed from the owner profile. After installation, you can delete Google Play Services again.
- For system-wide ad-blocking, AdGuard DNS can be used by setting `dns.adguard-dns.com` as the Private DNS domain.

2023-08-09 17:30:54

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- Organic Maps
- Breezy Weather
- Anonaddy (email aliases)
- Openreads
- Squaker (accountless Twitter client)

2023-08-09 17:21:31

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Works like a charm with Syncthing! Btw Obsidian is much more than just a notes app.

2023-08-09 17:17:18

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Geometric Weather isn't maintained anymore (since 2021). But there is a new fork with extended features under active development:
https://github.com/breezy-weather/breezy-weather

2023-07-22 16:37:25

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It's a bit hidden^^ Open the telephone app, go to Settings -> Calls -> Additional Settings

2023-07-16 08:34:45

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Wi-Fi and Bluetooth scanning for improving location detection are disabled by default, unlike the stock OS. These can be toggled in Settings ➔ Location ➔ Location Services ➔ Wi-Fi and Bluetooth scanning. GrapheneOS itself doesn't currently include a supplementary location service based on Wi-Fi and Bluetooth scanning. These options impact whether apps such as sandboxed Google Play are able to use the functionality if you grant them the Location permission. GrapheneOS plans to eventually include an OS service based on local databases rather than a network-based service giving the user's location to a server whenever location is being used.
If you enable the above, location works as well as on stock android.

2023-07-08 11:09:38

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This compilation is from a TED talk in 2015, and has nothing to do with Klaus Schwab or WEF. Harari warns of the possibility of AI taking away most jobs and thus making large parts of the population economically useless (in the sense that there is no demand for their workforce in the free market). Watch the original source video and don't let yourself be fooled: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzj7Wg4DAbs

2023-05-25 15:26:35

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They raised 25k via donations & 370k via VC. Longterm they plan to offer additional app icons and user profile badges to project sponsors (similar to Signal), and earn money by operating parts of the network (e.g. high performance & commercial servers) without owning the network. See the blog post for more information: https://simplex.chat/blog/20230422-simplex-chat-vision-funding-v5-videos-files-passcode.html#why-is-it-a-commercial-company

2023-03-09 00:43:54

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It enables bloat free internet resources of all kinds. It eliminates the need for visiting ad, tracker & JS ridden websites just to find a piece of information (like a recipe). Instead nostr + LN can create a bloat free information economy.
This means we can make the internet a fun & wholesome place again. A network of sovereign individuals.