How do yall go about meeting new people while still maintaining a decent level of privacy?
This is what happens when you don't have moderation tools on par with Mastodon or something moderated.
This is also what happens when mods don't moderate; when they write unclear, vague rules and don't have the power to enforce the rules anyways.
Seriously; a mod on lemmy can't do much. You don't like it? Go back to reddit; I hear they just introduced a really communist CQS system to allow the mods to really chill speech.
I'm going to quote another comment but not ping them; I don't want to argue with them; but instead provide counterpoints for the OP to consider.
Most people aren’t going to install Signal just to talk to you because it does not fit their use case.
This is false. While it does take more effort; it can be achieved. I can compose an SMS with an install link for the appropriate app-store and in-person assist you and tell you my ID on my privacy respecting apps of choice. Bluetooth transfers and QR codes also work too; so we can exchange other contact details as well.
I’m also gen z and from the US, I go to university, and most people who I know use Whatsapp or Discord to communicate.
Telegram is far superior to Whatsapp and close to Discord in features. Your generation is capable of using it; I see Gen Z on there all the time. Signal closely mimics iMessage in features; and it's available on both Android and iOS.
Bonus for the privacy-conscious; It has better privacy and cryptography. MProto isn't the most respected but it's sufficient for most day-to-day conversations.
I don't know the exact requirements but I'm literally running a locally hosted one on a much more previous generation CPU (i7-7820HK) and I appear to be using no more than 4GB of ram including Podman Desktop, WSL and the Docker image itself not seeming to consume that much RAM.
I don't feel as if you could possibly lack the system resources needed to do it comfortably if you have at least 12GB of ram (for locally hosting on Windows 10) or 4GB of ram (Any flavor of Linux probably, if you wanna throw an old PC or rPi/rPi-like at it.)
You should look closely at https://github.com/searxng/searxng and find out what the exact requirements could be by asking the maintainers.
Crypto is a scam. It's yet another example of a pyramid scheme usually that seldom pays off.
I'll start taking crypto seriously when you stupid shills stop trying to get rich off of that shit and actually fucking achieve something useful with Crypto that isn't enriching yourselves or others in the hopes that you too will be enriched.
I've been using a SearXNG locally-hosted instance using WSL/Podman. Behind a VPN of course; and also using TrackMeNot to generate a steady slow stream of garbage searches to block general query tracking.
I'm loving it to bits; as I don't have bullshit in my search results and I immediately find what I need; as I can query all the engines I want.
Stop defending the indefensible.
Please. Stop defending Chrome. It needs to do way better than what it is doing currently; which is utterly disrespectful and malicious to all users.
It's because ANY COMMERCIAL TRACKING AT ALL is unacceptable!
Chrome is trying to have it's cake and eat it too by removing 3rd party cookies and baking in another tracking methodology anyways.
The User Has Spoken and we DEMAND that there be NO TRACKING! The browser devs are complying with that demand in various ways to various degrees.
Firefox complies with this demand openly and honestly. Third party cookies are not a thing much anymore and the browser actively tries to punish companies who try to do it anyways; while also allowing us to turn to other plugin developers to further punish companies who try to aggressively invade our privacy.
Google Chrome, on the other hand, complies very maliciously because it's made by one of those companies who are trying to track us anyways. It removes third party cookies on the one hand and on the other hand tries to introduce other tracking technologies and WebDRM while also trying to severely curtail browser plugins that we choose to install to assert our rights to privacy our way.
You can't tell me that's not an evil dick move on the part of Google and the Chrome team. Chrome needs to clean up it's act and the development team of Chromium needs to forcefully eject it's Google developers and find new ones to retake the internet.
Google developers cannot be trusted not to put the interests of Google first; it's literally what they're paid to do.
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You Will NOT Find A Search Engine That Does Not Geo-Locate You. They DO NOT Exist.
Why am I so bold in my statement? Because they don't exist. Please oh please try to prove me wrong, it will be very entertaining, and I promise I will find that every engine you recommend will be caught red-handed doing this by the time I complete 100 searches specifically crafted to bait this behavior out.
How do I know? Been accessing the public internet since 2004. They all have been doing so since then; and those who failed to do so have ceased to exist.
How do I evade it? Unfortunately, you don't I recommend using either Tor; or a VPN. Then you'll know what region and possibly city your accesses will appear from; and the blatantly localized results will be irrelevant to you.
But XYZ has an option!~ No, they do not. You will still receive data relevant to your language and country as determined by your IP Address' Geo-Location. You can't turn that off; and engines won't give you the ability to ignore fine-grained IP location either if you ask for something local; which still localizes you to the city level.
Geo-Location is a core feature of all search engines. So good luck trying to avoid it.
Not gonna lie; everyone seems to be over-reacting to what is common practice in law documents; terms are overly broad for a reason, and undoubtedly if you dig in the case histories; you'll probably find an absurd lawsuit or two on the books.
That said; I doubt the car is capable of collecting this data; but they can collect information you freely volunteer to them.
Please just direct link to articles; or provide per-brand links to individual articles. Some of us use browser settings that do not fully render pages because Javascript cannot always be trusted completely to run without guardrails.
your link is broken and does not take us directly to an article :/
I was similarly not particularly concerned by this breach; my iterations value was set much higher a long time ago, my master password was bordering on insane; as in greater than 16 characters, Mixed Case, includes symbols, has XKCD-Style word patterns and contained non-english/unexpected words/patterns.
I also had migrated away from lastpass and prior to the breach had Deleted my account.
Since then, a steady trickle of six-figure cryptocurrency heists targeting security-conscious people throughout the tech industry
Seems they only targeted potentially accounts that might've contained some MONEY (Cryptocurrency)
Then on Aug. 28, Monahan said she’d concluded that the common thread among nearly every victim was that they’d previously used LastPass to store their “seed phrase,” the private key needed to unlock access to their cryptocurrency investments.
It seems that in particular "Secure Notes" containing crypto seed phrases seem to have been compromised. It's pretty silly to have not migrated your old crypto wallets by now though.
In a December 2022 blog post, Palant explained that the crackability of the LastPass master passwords depends largely on two things: The complexity of the master password, and the default settings for LastPass users, which appear to have varied quite a bit based on when those users began patronizing the service.
...If you have/had an older account with potentially a very weak Master Password... Your password would be considered Weak if it was Less than 12 characters & did not not contain Uppercase, Lowercase and Symbols & was not an XKCD style password that *isn't * "Correct Horse Battery Staple" or some other combination of those exact four words...
But Palant said while LastPass indeed improved its master password defaults in 2018, it did not force all existing customers who had master passwords of lesser lengths to pick new credentials that would satisfy the 12-character minimum.
...Older than 2018...
Palant noted last year that for many older LastPass users, the initial default setting for iterations was anywhere from “1” to “500.” By 2013, new LastPass customers were given 5,000 iterations by default. In February 2018, LastPass changed the default to 100,100 iterations. And very recently, it upped that again to 600,000.
...Or worse yet, 2013...and you didn't change the iterations setting(s), which most people probably did not.
TL;DR: This article is misleading and sensational. Do not take it at face value.
The cups were placed in temperate water or sediment and left to leach for up to four weeks.
This isn't how the cups were intended to be used. Yes this can be used to model a threat caused by cups littered into our environment; but this article tries to spin this out first to scare you.
Coffee cups are made of a complex mixture of synthetic materials and chemicals. Manufacturers add processing aids, heat stabilizers, and other substances, many of which are known to be toxic. Even if plant-derived materials are used—such as polylactic acid, a material derived from corn, cassava, or sugarcane that’s used to coat paper cups—cup makers often add a number of other chemicals during processing.
More scare tactic information; preying on your lack of familiarity with how these things are regulated or tested. Scaremongering continues for two more paragraphs before it abruptly changes tone midway.
Improving recycling practices would be a logical step in trying to keep harmful chemicals from ending up in nature, but researchers say it’s best to retire disposable paper cups altogether. It’s difficult for most recycling centers to separate the plastic coating from the cup’s paper. In the UK, for instance, a mere handful of recycling centers take paper cups. Many coffee shops will collect them for recycling—but having to drop paper cups off takes the convenience out of a single-use product. Today, only four out of every 100 paper cups are recycled in the UK.
By now the author hopes you're scared enough to do as they ask; but if you weren't convinced; they threw in some other statistics at the end, and even breaks their suggestion by showing how inconvenient and impractical it is to recycle them.
In 2019, a research group from India filled paper cups with hot water to see if plastic particles or chemicals were released. “What came as a surprise to us was the number of microplastic particles that leached into the hot water within 15 minutes,”
They're still not done scaring you though.
On average, there were 25,000 particles per 100 ml cup. The researchers also found traces of harmful chemicals and heavy metals in the water and plastic lining, respectively.
They dump some number of particles on you; giving you zero context, and zero information about how dangerous that is. They only mention in passing the "harmful chemicals and heavy metals", giving no specific concentrations nor giving you any clues as to how much of it is in there.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0304389420321087
Unfortunately the above article is pay-walled; and is difficult to access. I doubt the journalists read the full paper. Everything mentioned in the article is accessible from snippets on this exact webpage; which may mean things are being taken out of context.
Your mobile device cannot sleep like your desktop can.
It can however, sleep it's own way. Typically this involves CPU throttling. Android does enter a "Deep Sleep" state, minimizing all power consumption, and even switching it's CPU to a completely idle state where it only periodically "wakes" to handle synchronization and other needed tasks.
https://developer.android.com/training/monitoring-device-state/doze-standby
3-6 months and remove; no warning/action unless very frequent or persistent.
It's called not being a toxic reply guy. You should try it.