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[–] zdhzm2pgp@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 week ago

It would be nice if Leta had tabs for images, videos, etc.

[–] zdhzm2pgp@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 week ago

StartPage should be !sp.

[–] zdhzm2pgp@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 week ago

This is unfortunately the same type of experience I've had with SearXNG. 🙁

[–] zdhzm2pgp@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 week ago (12 children)

I haven't really experienced a worsening of DDG, and this is a bit off topic, perhaps, but—

I have yet to find a better alternative to Google's video search. Google Books also remains valuable in many ways, since it will give you different "search inside the book"-type search results than the Internet Archive will (and they also have some books that IA does not).

What's annoying to me is that StartPage, which is supposed to have Google search results, and by and large does, does not give the same video results as Google (go ahead, try it). It would also be nice to have an Invidious or FreeTube type front end for Google Books, and I believe there used to be something like that, but not any longer.

Some Google products still have definite value, it's just important that they derive no benefit from us using them.

[–] zdhzm2pgp@lemmy.ml 18 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

Unfortunately PCs don't have very big back seats...🙄

[–] zdhzm2pgp@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 weeks ago

This would effect Mullvad, right?

[–] zdhzm2pgp@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 weeks ago (6 children)

Could you explain/elaborate to a know-nothing (me) on the following from your link?:

Caveats of federation: Metadata leaking

When using federation, Matrix’s room states (containing a lot of Metadata) get replicated and stored indefinitely on every homeserver any user connects with or connects to. While this is a feature for enabling distributed chat rooms, it comes at a serious privacy cost.

To avoid this, you can either disable federation, or make sure that your users signed up with no linkable identifiers other than their user names.

[–] zdhzm2pgp@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

Last time I tried SimpleX, you had to scan a QR code to go from Desktop to mobile and vice versa, any chance of them changing that? Otherwise it did look promising.

 

While I'm waiting for the Linux desktop client for Proton Drive . . . does anyone have any experience with Filen?

https://alternativeto.net/software/filen/about/

https://tosdr.org/en/service/6820

 

Up until recently there used to be these special batteries you could put in your fire/smoke/CO alarm that would contact you on your smartphone if the alarms went off while you were away.

They don't make them anymore, and if you want anything equivalent, it seems like you have to buy into an entire "smart home control system" or whatever they're called, and I don't need or want that.

It doesn't have to be a battery, but is there some way I can set up my alarms to contact me without surrendering all my privacy? The alarms I have now also aren't hard-wired into the house, which could present a problem, but that's why the Roost batteries were so nice!

 

Asking because USPS's frequently doesn't work.

 

SearXNG does, I think...any others? Looking around for other engines that aren't US-based, though I guess DDG is still considered acceptable for LibreWolf's default engine. Bangs are incredibly useful!

 

I was able to change the new tab favicon on LibreWolf with CSS:

/newtab favicon/ .tab-icon-image[src="chrome://branding/content/icon32.png"] { content: url("librewolf-NO8X71.png") !important; }

But I'd also like to be able to change the logo that appears on the "about:logo" page (looks like lemmy.world's CSS page is locked for now, so I'm asking here). Anyone know how to do this?

I kiped the logo from LibreWolf's reddit page, it's by u/NO8X71; tell me it's not the coolest thing you've ever seen! Wish I'd done it.

 

The link squares are smaller, and the grid of all the shortcuts has been moved down so that there's a big gap at the top and the page scrolls.

 

Joan Westenberg mentioned this in her "Trump-proof tech stack" post; anyone have any experience with this? It says it's open source, self-hostable, and based in France.

Unfortunate Andy Yen comments aside, a big plus is that cozy actually has a Linux desktop client (!), unlike Proton.

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submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by zdhzm2pgp@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml
 

Such a minor quibble that I'm almost embarrassed to mention it, but it would be nice to have these if possible.

I've migrated the search.json.mozl4 (I think?) file I had in my FF profile folder, which has quite a lot of custom search engines I've accumulated over the years, so that may have something to do with it, but I think the favicons might have been missing out of the box? Anyway, like I said, a minor quibble.

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