Shamar @Shamar@qoto.org
Joined May 2019
I've had to buy an #Android phone for reasons and I decided to NOT setup ANY account. This means no properly working browser (as the preinstalled #Chrome cannot be considered properly working without #uMatrix and it doesn't let you install extensions without logging to chrome store) and no #Google Play Store, that require you to autheticate even just to download a #FreeSoftware #APK.
Well, with careful use of #FDroid, #HashDroid and #TorBrowser, #Firefox (obviously with uMatrix and proper tuning), #K9Mail, #Tutanota and few other tools... it's working like a charme!
I planned to root it and install #LineageOS (which is still an option) but not giving it any account and using TorBrowser (still with uMatrix) for anything that does not require authentication seems really... enough to get rid of Google!
Am I missing something obvious?
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"The tech industry as a whole is having its own Eternal September. The world, with all its experiences and opinions, has come flooding in, and technologists are now reassessing the consequences of the systems and structures they have built or inherited. Some of these systems are social, and include the general modes of thought and expression that Hacker News embodies."
I'm mystified by this trope that hacker culture and Silicon Valley startup culture are one and the same.
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Una bella scoperta: https://learning.garr.it/ e poi https://garr.tv formazione su tanti argomenti: #moodle #didatticaadistanza #h5p molto interessante
There are several cheap laptop that completely rely on WiFi. Chromebook are the first that come to mind.
As for smartphones, I have never seen one with ethernet either, but... why?
We are used to trust the air, but actually it'not that safe. One could argue that etherner connectors are huge compared to a 2020 smartphone, but if we evolved USB so far we could also build tiny ethernet connectors.
@elliptic@mstdn.io
I understand that uMatrix is an advanced tool, but I find NoScript' UI totally unusable.
I wonder how a normal user could comfigure it properly, if it's so confusing to me.
Take for example #Twitter: in the default #Tor's configuration, #NoScript doesn't block #Google #Analytics (!!!) and totally disabling it is several clicks afar.
Also, #uMatrix have a setting to delete cookies 60 minutes after it's last use.
Also it spoof referrers.
Now I think such features should be part of #Firefox itself, but at least #TorBrowser should implement them. At least on mobile, since few really click the Exit button (required to clear cookies on exit).
Worst trap is buying wireless-only laptop. Actually I why we still accept to buy smartphones without ethernet port. If we have USB-C, we could have a small ethernet connector too.
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Google Analytics is the most prevalent tracker in the world. During our last crawl, we found it on 64.2% of web sites:
https://better.fyi/trackers/google-analytics.com/
Developers: every time you add Google Analytics to a site, you are helping build the global panopticon. Stop it!
Every time I install #TorBrowser, I give #NoScript a chance.
Every single time I wonder "Why the hell Tor's people prefer such shit to #uMatrix?"
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RT @copernicani
#dialoghicopernicani con Romano Prodi. "La politica ambientale è una priorità assoluta. Ma occorre essere coerenti. I protocolli si firmano ma poi non vengono rispettati. L'Europa deve essere all'avanguardia, dobbiamo essere attivi e innovativi. Non abbiamo scelte alternative."
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@Shamar It's going quite well!
I'm now working on an auditory web browser, which is a surprisingly elegant design. Both it and Odysseus are nearing completion on their basic featuresets!
Then I'll tackle a smart TV browser, possibly preceded by a print one!
I've decided to target unusual devices to better show the power of HTML/CSS, give myself a better sense of progress, & to try bending IoT hype to combat JS hype.
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Dominijanni su Internazionale racconta della nota corrispondenza tra Indro Montanelli e Clare Boothe Luce sulla creazione di un'organizzazione "terroristica e segreta" di picchiatori che avrebbero dovuto compiere azioni in caso di una vittoria elettorale dei comunisti con l'appoggio di Carabinieri, monarchici, industriale e gli Stati Uniti https://www.internazionale.it/opinione/ida-dominijanni/2020/06/23/montanelli-intoccabile-statua
Hi @alcinnz how are you?
Don't know if you've already seen these, but maybe you might find these threads interesting. They remind me our #PostJS reasonings.
https://lobste.rs/s/dl6ijz/create_no_javascript_friendly_sites
https://lobste.rs/s/zztnen/why_forking_html_into_static_language
https://lobste.rs/s/79pu7o/gemini_protocol_inbetween_gopher_web
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@honiden@mastodon.bida.im @quinta
D'altronde... siamo nel 2020... la fuffa #Blockchain non tira più.
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Web Analytics, GDPR and is Google Analytics compliant?
New post in which I list all the steps you need to take to make Google Analytics GDPR compliant so you don't need to ask for visitor consent. There are many steps!
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I've implemented a naive p2p system which can be both federated or fully decentralized, something in-between #ssb and maybe #activitypub:
https://github.com/adzialocha/beep-beep
Added many comments in the source-code itself if you want to check it out.
The main ideas are:
* Not invent a new protocol but patch something together of great components
* Keypairs live in the clients, where messages get signed and then posted to the "home-server"
* Home servers are the actual nodes of the network, find each other and replicate data with each other
* All data is stored in append-only-logs of every managed key (https://github.com/AljoschaMeyer/bamboo)
* Clients can be simple browser-based interfaces without any heavy crypto-crunching or file system access needs (which forces us to live in Electron etc.)
* .. still one could simply build a client which comes together with the Node itself
Happy to hear any comments/ideas or projects which already do something similar in this direction?
Thank you!! 🎈
Joined May 2019
