viking @ viking @infosec.pub

Posts

3

Comments

1,812

Joined

2 yr. ago

Yeah what I also saw in the terms was that they reserve the right to sell their company without informing users other than through an update in the terms & conditions, and based on play store reviews, they terminate lifetime accounts if they find that you upload copyright protected files, even if you don't share them with anyone.

Indexing my stuff and comparing it against external databases is a big no no for me.

So far I'm quite happy with sync.com, been using them for well over a decade. Data is fully encrypted during upload, so no matter if the server is ever breached, they wouldn't get anything useful out of it.

I also got my own nextcloud instance up and running, but it's with a shared hosting provider where I don't feel as secure.

They have servers tagged as p2p enabled, those work fine. Only in the paid plan though, free is not meant for that.

Proton and Astrill are very good as well.

True, I meant anonymous in the sense that participants are not generally identifiable by one another.

pCloud, under business terms fairly towards the end:

Term & Termination

This Agreement may be terminated by either party at any time, for any reason. This Agreement will remain in effect until Customer's subscription to the Services expires or until the Agreement is terminated. In the event of termination by the Customer, the Customer will remain responsible for payment of all fees and charges applicable to the period during which the Agreement was in effect.

To an extent. Lemmy is a useful substitute for reddit because it's anonymous, so I don't know and to an extent don't care who I'm talking to. With messenger services it's a different use case, I need the exact people I want to talk to on there, or it's essentially worthless.

What does magic the gathering have to do with this photo?

That's what YOU get since you're neither in China nor Japan. They only get to see their relative government's name. China in fact gets to see nothing since they block Google, but it you happen to be in Hong Kong or Macau, you would.

Nah. I'll start boycotting google when there are useful alternatives. Amazon, facebook, reddit - no problem.

Google search - fine, I can get by with DDG or Yandex. Gmail - sure, whatever. Maps? Organic Maps (and other openstreetmaps front-ends) works alright for getting your bearings, but it's a far cry from useful for finding businesses, and terrible for navigation. Waze used to be the only viable alternative, but ever since Google bought them, it's hard to justify a full boycott without massively inconveniencing myself.

Same for meta as a whole. Facebook and Instagram, sure, no need. But living without whatsapp is simply impossible in some countries, where it's the de-facto standard for communication, and even used as the only means of contact with government agencies.

I've had them in Nigeria where you basically just boil them peeled in salt water and then mix into freshly boiled rice and eat it with some type of beef stew as a main course, and in China where you boil them with their shell in a mixture of water with black tea leaves, dried chillies, Sichuan peppers and salt, then let them cool down and eat as a snack.

Fully agree, ideally sardines in oil or mackerel in tomato sauce with peas (not sure the latter is a thing outside of northern Europe?).

Toast needs a health layer of butter to keep the sauce from mushing it up as well.

Didn't actually know about Aqua Panna, that's the only one I occasionally consume when going to a fancy Italian place where this is the default when ordering still water.

I'd say a good 90% of the rest is completely unknown to me. All the rest that I do know seems to be overprocessed junk food that's easily avoided by buying fresh ingredients exclusively.

What screens are you talking about?

My pleasure :-)

Triggered me to do a quick check:

Their privacy policy looks alright; and while I don't like ads, they are gone in the minimum donation package of just 1 EUR, I think I did that just shortly after I started using them. https://www.lonelycatgames.com/docs/xplore/privacy - all the other parts seem privacy respecting, and the company is based in Slovakia, so has to respect GDPR by default. Website looks very dated and some of the other software has been abandoned a while ago, but they clearly state that and offer it as-is. Funny enough, I've also been using Disk Map for ages and never realized it's from the same developer.

Because it hasn't been update in half a year, or is there something else I'm not aware of?

X-Plore file manager, been using it for a solid decade. Can start an ftp server locally as well as connect to outside servers, really versatile.

Alternatively: Google pushes a totally innocent app with full access to all current and future photos amidst a digital arms-race of a fascist technocracy.

Ah, that's kind of important info that should probably be in the post.

So that means someone deliberately crashed into your van? Should be straightforward to investigate, plenty of cameras in industrial areas, plus paint residue on your van as evidence and such.

What did the cops say?

I don't get it, how can someone drive into your home without breaking their car? And even if you're non-confrontational, did you get the plate and call the cops?