if I had the skills I would program a lemmy version of this

I don’t get this one

I’d like to see a list of apps/internet services that are EU owned. Know of any?

BINGO!

I feel confident that I’ll be running a RISC-V based home pc within the next 5 or so years. I just saw the new BeagleV-Ahead and was intrigued. This is definitely the brightest star in the future of open hardware.

Use a VPN always, use a privacy browser on mobile that blocks crap by default and prevents cross-site scripting, setup 2FA on all accounts, preferably using an authenticator app instead of an SMS code/email, especially your email account and login at your mobile provider, bank and other vital sites, clear browser cookies constantly, clear clipboard constantly, use dedicated browsers for dedicated tasks, install as few apps as humanly possible on your phone, use an email forwarding service and create a new email address for everything you do or sign up for and keep good records and password lists and multiple BACKUPS of your records, don’t install random addons to your browser for one small feature that you hardly use, research every piece of software you install and always prefer open source, avoid software that is no longer maintained, pay attention to the apps on your phone: do they have too much access to your data? Is it worth it to run the app? Can their website work instead of their app? Can you survive by just installing it for the occasional time you need it, then deleting it right after? If so, do that. Apps have way too much access to your info. Voyager PWA is nice because when you dismiss it, it can’t run on its own in the background like a traditional app can. Prefer PWAs over true apps whenever possible for this specific reason, among others.

Make sure your phone isn’t putting too much metadata into the photos you upload. Many people have no idea that the photos they text and post are showing their precise location on a map, so disable location tagging for images on your mobile. Reputable services will strip this data from your images upon upload, but you can also count on some places like Instagram to keep a copy for themselves.

On pc, use a hosts file to block out millions of privacy invading URLs instantly, here’s a constantly updated source for one https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts and keep it updated!

Use Linux on desktop where possible, at least use a live OS for special tasks, use a firewall and install some software that lets you control which applications on your pc are allowed to access the internet.

Understand the EULAs and TOSs that you agree to! They are legal documents. Reading some of them is horrifying, and they’re long to prevent you from understanding them. Firing up a new windows pc is fun for this exercise, because their license agreement literally lets them look at anything you do on the machine. Don’t believe me? Go read it! But most won’t. They’ll just click ‘agree’. Sigh.

Avoid public Wi-Fi at all costs and don’t plug your phone into random ports to charge it, it may be getting hacked while you sip your boba. Instead carry a charger with wall socket if you travel a lot

Turn OFF Wi-Fi and Bluetooth as you move around the world because both of these may be leaving a trail of places your phone attempts to communicate with. Use corded headphones to avoid Bluetooth while roving.

Check the settings for every device, every app on every device, smart tv, every app installed on your smart tv, computer, phone, every service you use like Amazon or Ring or your mobile provider and look for ‘privacy’ settings. Most everyone has an option to ‘not track’ or not ‘share telemetry’ or not ‘help improve our experience’ or other similarly worded nonsense that enables them to slurp your private data. NO! Turn all this off everywhere.

Each of these subjects can be explored more deeply, this is all surface info. Happy to answer questions too

Remember that without using a VPN, your home ip address can likely be connected to your PHYSICAL location, so use a VPN always. Did I already say that?

Not really understanding the distinction in the beginning, I asked chatgpt a lot about math and gave it formulas to solve, asked it questions about very large numbers and things like this. I then did the DD on its answers, which overwhelmingly turned out to be spot on.

Then, like is being reported elsewhere, the thing got progressively worse at math and its results seemed to get randomized. I could ask it the very same math questions as I did in the beginning, but now the answers were garbage. It has 100% been ‘smoothed’ out in the thinking department, likely because people were finding ways to monetize it that its creators hadn’t even thought of, so they backpedaled.

https://technomagnus.vercel.app/posts/gpt-for-all--hacked-no-signups-logging-in/

It’s the cash crunch. Nobody wants to give away the fruits of their labor for free anymore, so the ‘open’ industries will start to suffer from IP lockdown. It makes sense right now, if you think about it

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so, it IS human-like

Added description to the sidebar. Definition is interpretable and a bit fluid

it was a surprise to me too.

isn’t this for shitposting?

if you can’t downvote in private, how are the poor lurkers supposed to get involved? Lurkers don’t comment because they want to stay invisible. Now they won’t even be able to vote! man, that’s gonna sting some people

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So explain to users why it’s like this. Problem solved

I would prefer if my lemmy account at lemmy.world had an encrypted area visible to nobody but me, admins excluded, that stored things like my: saved posts so those could stay private and which posts I up or downvoted because that’s my business. This I consider to be MY information

Edit-I’m being told nostr is what I may be looking for here, as it lets you own your identity instead of relying on instances

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I get how simple that would be. What I’m saying is: is it that simple? Because if it were, I’m sure the Voyager folks would have enabled this.

Are you defederating the users on that instance too? Is it simple to remove their comments, or deal with the inevitable broken links to communities at instances you’ve blocked, but not others on YOUR instance. Coming from a software programming point of view, I just don’t think blocking an instance is as simple as blocking a community AT an instance

Do they explain anywhere how they do this?