Privacy

I tried putting the name on my Microsoft account as "FUCK MICROSOFT" but it said "Your name can't include special characters." changing it to "Fuck Microsoft" gave the same issue. Only when I made up a fake name did it accept it.

Not sure if this is a bug or if it blocks swear words. If anyone knows why it does this please leave a comment.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/38375389

I'm currently looking to buy a new TV. While I do use Jellyfin to watch movies and shows stored locally in my network, I still want to allow the TV to go on the internet, because I (and my girlfriend) like to watch YouTube, Netflix and such on the TV as well.

My main issue is that I'm looking to buy a Google TV, mainly because I think it's easier to sideload apps like NewPipe or F-Droid. This is one thing that absolutely sucks on my current Samsung TV with its Tizen OS. However, like any Google service, giving it access to the internet is just asking to have your data exfiltrated.

So, I've been thinking about whether I can get a Google TV, but restrict its internet access enough to still use it normally, while blocking all telemetry. I don't have an OpenWRT router or Opnsense firewall (and currently I don't have the capacity, nerves and time to set one up), but I do have a pi hole. I was wondering whether a Pi Hole is enough to block any data exfiltration attempts of my TV? I could restrict the TVs DNS capabilities in my router, so it is forced to use the Pi for name resolution. Are the blocklists good enough for this?

I've also looked into de-googled Android TV builds, but I couldn't find anything conclusive about their capability to display DRM'd media. Do apps like Netflix still run on those OS's? Is a RaspberryPi enough to display 4K media, or would a more advanced mini PC be needed?

I'm a bit exhausted from my research into this topic, tbh, so excuse the rambly post. I just want help

Google Cartographer huh...

How can I check to see if a given Onion Service is still in-use?

To be clear: I'm not asking about just Onion Services bound to port 80. Of course I can just curl it, but that won't tell me if the Onion Service is running something on another port.

I'm trying to find an XMPP server that uses an Onion Service. I found several lists of XMPP servers and their .onion names, but I expect most of these services are offline.

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I don't want to eliminate them just for not running an HTTP server (eg port 80, 443, 8080, etc). Nor do I want to eliminate them for not running on a common XMPP port (5222, 5223, 5269, 5298, 8010). I'm trying to find something that checks if an Onion Service has been used in the past days/weeks without requiring me to test a connection on a given port.

My understanding is that Onion Services will (by default) generate and publish hidden service descriptors (HSDir).

Is there some way I can query the Tor directory of HSDirs to see if a given Onion Service is still active?

Idk where else to post this, but my fairphone 4 is acting a bit "quirky" spamming silent notfications saying "big brother is watching you" and "E/OS has blocked 100% of tracking attempts" along with flagging other apps for containing trackers.. Help?

For context, this popped up as I went to the youtube homepage. This is absurd. Of course, I have uBlock Origin, so it doesn't matter to me regardless, but there's no way to say no.

cross-posted from: https://discuss.online/post/29265892

Concerns over AI surveillance in schools are intensifying after armed officers swarmed a 16-year-old student outside Kenwood High School in Baltimore when an AI gun detection system falsely flagged a Doritos bag as a firearm.

Allen was handcuffed at gunpoint. Police later showed him the AI-captured image that triggered the alert. The crumpled Doritos bag in his pocket had been mistaken for a gun.

People are nosy and gossip a lot. Family, neighbors, strangers, members of the internet. This may seem annoying at first but rejoice.

For you see, even fools serve purpose. You can use these horrible traits of people to your advantage. Give your neighbors and friends your "new number" and have them save it in their phone. Now when they sync their contacts on social media your fake number will pollute the algorithm.

Post a photoshopped new hair color or haircut that looks real on some social media you still have for some reason. All those family members that creep on your page will talk about your new cut and maybe even share the pic being the gossiping peasants that they are.

This is good. Now they are spreading false but supposedly real info about you out into the social sphere. Now all their spied on text and messages by big brother will give big brother BS info.

Even Big brother has a purpose. Do a census and put all fake beliefs, info, party selection and what you like about politics on the forms. Donate less than $5 here and there to some harmless non profit that supports some BS you don't even care about. Let them build that highly inaccurate database.

Sometimes I go on Google and just let the most random things I can think of, that I have no interest at all play on auto playlist so that these creeps think they know my interest. Meanwhile I'm not even in the room.

In speak Russian randomly or French for several sentences just because. If you have no one to gossip about you. Buy a cheap phone put a Sim card in it, turn on it's GPS and tape it under 18 wheeler that is about to take off from the gas station. Let that bitch travel across the country.

Trick and deceive the enemy whenever you can. Always hide that you are the main character. When people believe falsehoods about you, encourage them to spread it by egging them on.

Even fools serve purpose.

• AtlasOS: https://atlasos.net/
• Amelabs Privacy+: https://docs.amelabs.net/privacy/_plus.html

I use a Windows VM for apps not available on Linux and just want to cut out all the telemetry possible.

AtlasOS is installed as a Ameliorated Playbook and makes a ton of opinionated changes that aren’t privacy or necessarily performance related. Disabling the Windows 11 right click menus in favor of the legacy one, disabling window shadows, changing the wallpaper, etc. Privacy+ looks appealing, I wanna know if anyone has tried both and can tell me differences, like if one or the other improves privacy more.

Hello, you see the 2 cameras at the top seeing all the way to the house and balconies of neighbours. His door is seen at the bottom right. Shouldn't the cameras only see the entrance? What can I do about it? He even sends pictures to neighbours showing people approaching his house and asking the reason because these cameras are sensitive to motion with night vision. Can you help me please? One option is to use ir or blue lasers to destroy the camera. The other is to go to municipality but he can evade it saying "I use them for my house personally". Obviously it is a lie as the cameras see everywhere except his house.

1 - Don't post personal information on social media. Names, addresses, selfies, photos with EXIF data still attached, etc. If you're posting irl photos, take it, sleep on it, and recheck it in the morning for reflections and shit.

2 - Use a separate email address solely dedicated to your vtuber identity that will serve as a nexus for all your accounts.

2.5 - Use a separate browser entirely for your personal life and your vtuber life. I use Firefox for personal use and my vtuber is a scrub who uses Microsoft Edge. This ensures zero possibility of an auto-fill, bookmark, or even social media account logged in yab. (Don't import settings from one to the other, obviously).

3 - Create a fresh Steam account and use the Steam Family Share feature to access games that are already installed on your computer (that you own on your Main). There will be no way to connect your new Steam account to your old account as Steam does not reveal Family Share status (unless you're screencapping the actual Steam window itself, which... why would you ever do that?)

4 - Write down a completely generic and random name that's not associated with you or anyone you know. Day[9]'s was "Felicity." Write that name on a stickynote and stick it on your monitor's bottom bezel. Whenever you tell a story about "someone", you're going to reference "Felicity" (or whatever other name). This is here to help you avoid naming real life people you know.

5 - Google search "Your Name" + "City". You'll find that there's like 20 different 'public info' database websites. They all have methods on opt-ing out and removing your data. Doesn't mean the data is gone, just means that the particular website you requested data removal from won't make it so obviously easy.

5.5 - If you're a resident of the EU, you may be able to take advantage of the GDPR laws and enforce the removal of your personal information from these websites. If you're not certain about a GDPR information removal procedure, do a google search, I'm just some anon and this isn't legal advice.

6 - Create a completely separate Windows User profile for your vtuber avatar and install all your vtuber related programs on here. This will ensure there is virtually no way for your files located on your personal profile to cross over. (Note: You'll have to reinstall all your games, and for Steam, reinstall a new set of games with your main, then Family Share it over to your vtuber account. This adds extra layers of clunkiness but provides a greater level of separation between your personal Windows profile and the vtuber one.) Note that certain games that utilize online play such as Dark Souls 3 and Garry's Mod have scripts that people can use to find accounts that are tied to your vtuber account via Family Sharing. If you are worried about this and want to be very secure, it is recommended that you buy games that use online play directly on your vtuber account.