Hey eelectricshock
I know what you mean
It does make me wonder about Airstrip One, the government, palantir and GCHQ.
Do we really believe that they stopped all that invasive surveillance after Edward Snowden.
I doubt it very much. They just renamed the programs, got microsoft, google and meta and the rest of the sycophants to run them, hidden behind private enterprise out of public sight, instead of Homeland and the CIA.
I am a right muppet. I recommended e/OS a few days ago.
heres me old 12 year old Samsung S4.
Its got the e/OS, recovery-e-2.2-r-20240719418592-dev-jfltexx running with android 11
Those were that days. 16gb with 2gb ram, a fucking powerhouse, and more importantly, no fucking ai shit
I should say its my kitchen timer.
No more udates.
Working like a charm, battery last a week.
looks like I wont be using anymore of e/OS roms.
Half my family have e/OS installed.
I will be busy removing e/OS, and that ai shit with it, over the next few days.
Hey Zerush
Safety first
that sounds like hell to me.
If that ever happened, I for certain would stop using the internet, cancel my broadband subscription, buy a dumb phone and act like a dim wit, who hasnt got a clue.
You forgot about a compulsory little placard proclaiming the wonders of our political leader.
Something like;
I love The Rt Hon Sir Keir Starmer KCB KC MP.
Now that is a muppet if I ever saw one.
It could be a trumpian version of course for USA residenst.
I love Big Don
your a star ScoffingLizard
keep at it
We could send in the passports of our entire family by post.
With the names and adresses of our children’s school’s and school teachers.
you could then contact the teachers directly to confirm that the children are of age.
Then, Go online and spread the “we have nothing to hide”, “we must protect our children” mantra.
yep! thats sounds about right, for a one eyed, single celled mollusc, living under a nuclear radiated rock.
LOL!
To the legislators of Mississippi.
one of my favourite songs: Tough shit wilson by Splodgenessabounds. great band
Tough shit was born in Mississippi (orignially Tennessee*) He was deaf and dumb, he measured 4 foot 3 He had one arm, one leg, no teeth, and one plum He married a girl in 62, she was a 60 year old leper, called Mary Lou But she died of cancer on her anniversary
[Chorus:] They call him toughshit, toughshit Wilson Toughshit, thoughshit was his name Toughshit was left with a baby son, who died on leukemia, at the age of one And toughshit was left with his guide doggy called roach Till one day crossing with his dog on a wee doach But roach didn’t see the coach approach And the wheels rolled gently over toughshits head
I think a doach is a railway track, but Im not sure, its scottish. Who the fuck can understand those bastards.
[Chorus:] They call him toughshit, toughshit Wilson And toughshit was his name They call him toughshit And toughshit was his claim to fame At tough shits funeral, no one came The vicar was late and it poured with rain They dropped the coffin down a flight of stairs But let us not forget toughshits pain And perhaps he never died in vein but when it comes to that Who fucking cares, not me I don’t See upcoming rock shows Get tickets for your favorite artists
I must say you guys in the USA do have a hard time with your shit carriers.
I would never root any phone, there really is no need. I have bricked many rooted phones and it is totally unsafe and insecure. I think its the equivalent of using windows XP.
Here is a guide; It might give you an idea. Its quite a simple process to follow.
https://droidwin.com/unlock-bootloader-and-root-samsung-galaxy-s25-plus-ultra/
the “Unlock Bootloader on Samsung Galaxy S25/Plus/Ultra” section.
I feel for you.
training ai on your photo’s without even asking. wankers
I have just copied my elderly friends 2000 photos from google photos to my desktop, then deleted all of them from her phone. Had to do it with my browser, they only allow you to delete 30 photos at a time on the phone. tossers.
Installed droid-ify, installed lawnchair, fossify gallery, fossify messages, fossify contacts. perfect.
imported her photos back on to her phone:
Intentionally painful but its done.
bring on ADB, I have deleted everything with a G in it.
first one: I wrote a simple little bash script for these:
adb shell pm uninstall --user 0 com.android.chrome
okgoogle, xgoogle, Gmail, calender, Calendar Sync, videos, googlequicksearchbox, youtube, music, Google Contacts Sync, googleassistant, Google Digital Well Being App, Google Duo, Google Pay, google photos and Google Drive with adb so its doesnt happen again.
This poor women is 84, WTF does she know about modern tech, google are tossers
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I would get rid of fairphone rom and install another rom:
unlock your bootloader. easy guide from Fairphone.
then install lineage or E/os custom rom
Hey ScoffingLizard
I am always the sceptic, but I have read that the monocles browser uses the monocles webview.
https://f-droid.org/en/packages/de.monocles.browser/
It says here: In the defaults, the monocles browser uses the monocles webview
here it is more in depth:
basically they are saying that unless you are using an up to date custom rom, currently android 15 on my lineage phone, there maybe security issues with webview
https://docs.monocles.eu/apps/browser.app/
Limitations and Known Issues#
Security Issues#
As monocles Browser is based upon the WebView component, it is dependant of the underlying Android ROM and it’s updates.#
We thus recommend to use the latest available Version of Android for your device and - if necessary - upgrade to an aftermarket ROM like:
DivestOS
/e/
LineageOS
If a device has no modern firmware updates anymore and Aftermarket - Firmware is just not available, then please consider a different Browser like Fennec, which is privacy-enhanced version of Firefox for Android nee Firefox Mobile or Tor Browser which you can also get via F-Droid by adding or enabling the Guardian Project repository.
My bank alone has closed 99 of its high street branches this year.
I used to do a 2 minute walk to my local bank, then they started closing them further and further afield, until I now have to drive 20 minutes to my bank.
I am predominantly a cash man.
I dont buy anything online from any of the big names like Amazon etc. I search around until I find what I want in a store that I can drive to.
To be honest I would rather spend an hour driving to a store, and pay the extra money on petrol, than pay poxy rip off delivery charges and waste my valuable time waiting in for the wankers.
I also avoid all banking apps like the plague, in fact all apps that are recommended by any store staff. not that I can install them on lineage phone anyway.
I can only login into my online bank via VPN if I am using French server. I dont know how long that will last. I refuse to allow my ISP access to my online habits.
I am gutted that the UK government closed down all our bitcoin ATM’s. This was the first warning sign something was going to change. Take away our freedoms yet again
At least when bitcoin was cheaper a few years ago, I could spend some money out of my state pension, buy £20 worth and save for the future.
I would be a zillionaire by now Rodney! LOL
But this ultimately leads us into the government crypto currency (Central bank digital currency) when we will all be fucked, because they will control everything.
I recently changed my gas and electricy supplier because they would not let me pay online while I had my VPN on, even if I was using a UK based server. wankers, didnt want my money, so I dumped them. My new provider is better and I can pay anywhere in the world.
All they want is everyone to have a fucking smart meter installed, so they can rip us off and charge extra for using gas and electricity in the early evening peak period, when we are cooking for our families, and bathing our children. Wankers!
FOSS browser, FREE browser, Privacy browser and monocles browser are all pretty similar to me.
For basic browsing I am sure they are all OK.
monocles browser will switch to a custom WebView called Privacy Webview.
https://www.stoutner.com/privacy-browser-android/core-privacy-principles/
I use the monocles browser (rebranding of Privacy browser) for quick searches with javascript and cookies turned off as default.
For instance, if I am searching git for something and I see what I want, I enable javascript with the button, to see the latest releases and download sections.
I like the turn on javascript button. and the selection of EasyList , easy privacy, fanboys annoyances list, Ultra list and Ultra privacy list for adblocking and tracking.
From what I remember they all have the Delete browser data on exit. Monocles Browser makes it easier to “clear and exit” for me.
To clear, history, cookies etc. The “CLEAR AND EXIT” button is at the top of the left side drop down menu, so it is easier to find. unlike the others where it is at the bottom of the drop down menu.
I suppose its all about choice and personal preference.
Hey utopiah
It does seem pointless to me that people get hung up on browser loading speeds.
Its like that old Bruce lee quote from Enter the Dragon:
Don’t Concentrate On The Finger Or You Will Miss All That Heavenly Glory.
Ironfox again.
Ironfox with uBlock Origin is far superior to Brave.
I also use monocles browser. a simple browser, I like that java and cookies are turned off and you can activate them with a button on individual sites.
https://f-droid.org/en/packages/de.monocles.browser/
I would never ever use Brave or any chrome fork.
I’m not a fan of the Brave web browser and do not recommend it. Chromium codebase is always unsafe.
Brave talks up how privacy and security focused they totally are, and it’s mostly hot air for their user base of infosec mall ninjas.
Brave blocked ads, then they replaced the ads with their own ads. Brave set up a weird cryptocurrency scam, the BAT token. Brave hijacked affiliate links. I do not consider Brave a trustworthy organisation.
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my browser is faster than your browser, fantasy penis envy,
and not cubensis penis envy.
why are people so fixated on browser speeds,
A millisecond is imperceptable to the human eye.
can you type faster on an android keyboard than the page loads. NO!
Its all BS, how do you deternmine that one browser is faster than another.
From slowest to fastest, the results were as follows:
Zen Browser: 2.20 seconds
LibreWolf: 2.16 seconds
Chromium: 1.95 seconds
Firefox: 1.93 seconds
Arc: 1.81 seconds
Microsoft Edge: 1.31 seconds
Safari: 1.29 seconds
Thorium: 1.23 seconds
Brave: 1.17 seconds
Opera: .81 seconds
Chrome: .70 seconds
This is also my worry.
But it is also about taking personal responsibility for our privacy.
Its like having your home continually burgled, while you continue to refuse to install new locks.
So you install a ring doorbell instead, Amazon will keep you safe!
Again this is not taking personal responsibilty for our privacy and safety, but relying on big tech’s surveillance answer.
The incessant belief that you must use an app for convenience, is beyond me.
We have our bank cards and cash to buy stuff from stores. Personally I go to the bank each week and get enough cash to last the week. pay everything cash.
I pay all my bills online, use my bank, manage my direct debits, transfer money to my kids, all online with my linux laptop, Librewolf and a vpn. Takes 30 seconds to login.
I do not need to authorise my login with an app. I told my bank I do not have a smart phone.
I could use Ente Auth or KeepassXc on my desktop for 2FA. no phone required.
Plus being an old git, I dont have to piss about with a tiny phone screen and keyboard with my gnarly fingers.
I absolutely refuse all offers of apps.
When asked by check-out staff if I have the app, or, do I want their app.
I say: I dont do apps! I do not give up my privacy or share my personal data.
As Mat says. I too worry about the future of custom roms. I managed to get all my family on custom roms.
It is a great shame that Mozilla gave up on the Firefox OS phone. Great little phone.
Hey Zerush
I feel so much better now.
With the existential inevitability of death just round the corner.
I needed a good laugh this morning.
Thank you
Thank you glimse
I Know. Lame duck.
I completely messed up my post. I got severely distracted ranting on and on.
Thats the main trouble with getting old.
Forgetting starts slowly, then all of a sudden you are rushed to hospital unable to remember your name.
I was talking about haventgotsacluetube (youtube) and not boatracecrook.
I do hope people will see through my obvious error
For me.
This is how we all give Boatracecrook the cold shoulder and leave. The more people they block the better.
Boat race, is cockney rhyming slang for face.
At the very minimum, to protect future generations and our grand children and their children from; the banal, brainless, brain dead, manipulative surveillance.
I have never used Boatracecrook.
I must admit that as a new user on Lemmy, I do take umbrage at all the links to Boatracecrook videos that people feel they need to share and promote.
I trust people to watch the video and give a short written description, not add a poxy link in the avatar image.
I have got caught out more than once clicking on an user supplied avatar and I have been taken to poxy Boatracecrook.
To be honest, I was under the impression that lemmy was different and did not engage in the anti-human practices of Boatracecrook.
I cannot understand why anyone watching a Boatracecrook video, then suddenly decides to add a link for Lemmy users.
Then manipulatively hides the link in the avatar of the post, when the link could be added to the main text body for all to see, and give people a choice if they click on it.
I can only assume this is about self promotion and not about supporting the Lemmy community.
As a retired psychotherapist I can tell you, that every single person on this planet has something to hide.
Obviously, psychotherapy offers a safe, private and confidential space to speak about those things. Society does not offer this safe space. So Humans hide things.
Sometimes these hidden things are even hidden from the person.
we have all broken our own, and societies, moral codes, the things we do not share with other people.
Our own sexual preferences are the most hidden of all subjects. Even in this so called Enlightened age. Sexuality still reigns supreme as the most hidden of all subjects.
I always say to people spouting the “I have nothing to hide” argument.
If you have nothing to hide!
Why do you continue to wear clothes when you go out.
Clearly it has nothing to do with the fact that: a CCTV camera on the corner of your street, a camera in a passing car, a RING doorbell facing towards the street, school kids filming with their phones, will film you and intrude upon your private life.
It is because you have something to hide.
For instance: Examples of the things that people hide.
As we see this quite regularly with our politicians and those generally in powerful positions:
The Pro family values political evangelists who espouses that homosexuality is a sin, and then gets caught with a male prostitute.
In psychoanalysis this this called “Splitting”. Its where the politician projects all his hidden, unacceptable parts of himself, in this case his homosexual preferences, and projects them onto other people in society. Those bad bad people who are homosexuals.
Or the pro child protection evangelist politician, who gets caught with gigabytes of child abuse images on their laptop. Same thing.
Its the same with the recent rise in the Right Wing anti-everything brigade;
anti-immigrant, who most likely had a foreign girlfriend when they were young, and are now ashamed of it because their mates are anti-immigrant. Group think.
anti-abortion, probably got a girl pregnant, wasnt man enough to support her, and left her no choice to get an abortion. Misogyny
anti-homosexual, probably a repressed homosexual who fantasises about sex with same sex partners. Far too ashamed to come out.
anti-this anti-that; Oh the shame!
This always speaks more about the hidden belief systems that those people carry. It is not about the people onto whom they are trying to project there own personal stuff.
To be human is to have a private life, and to keep it secret.
I do like surprises.
I am a retired psychotherapist, so I value all person to person contact.
Anything else is just not human nor fulfilling for me.
you are correct.
here on Airstrip one, we are the most monitored country in the world, with one cctv camera for every 14 people. very scary indeed.
I am an old geezer, nearly 70, so my car is very old, no tech.
On linux you can access your Signal messages in db.sqlite.
once you delete a message from signal, either through disappearing messages or manually, all those messages are deleted from the db.sqlite.
They are stored in an encrypted db.sqlite here:
/home/user/.config/Signal/sql/db.sqlite
you can also extract it from you phone:
only the messages that you can see when you open the Signal app are visible there.
to access the messages:
install:
signal-bakcup-tools-git
https://github.com/bepaald/signalbackup-tools
and
DB browser for sqlite
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The most straight forward way is to create an output file to html.
copy the db.sqlite to a new directory
open a terminal and run
signalbackup-tools --exportdesktophtml signal.html
this will create folders of all your contacts and messages and media.
easily acessible. open the signal.html files in your browser
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To open db.sqlite as a Sqlite database;
first you need to get the key:
copy the db.sqlite to a new directory
then run in terminal:
signalbackup-tools db.sqlite --showdesktopkey
OpenSSL 3.3.2 3 Sep 2024)
Signal Desktop key (hex):
58bfa167bb66b2b13b2ca6eadc33f4bf7275c254006d17ae5e3de5356c60f0b7
copy the key to a text editor
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you must now add 0x to the beginning of that line:
0x58bfa167bb66b2b13b2ca6eadc33f4bf7275c254006d17ae5e3de5356c60f0b7
then open db.sqlite with the sqlitebrowser
right click db.sqlite, select open with DB Browser for sqlite
select RAW from the dropdown menu
input the passphrase from above. make sure you added the 0x to the beginning.
The entire database opens.
you can view all the information that signal collects. phone numbers, messages, images, media etc
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this is the difference between Molly and signal.
In Molly you can password protect db.sqlite, Signal removed this a while ago
I find wireshark too confusing unless you have a lot of experience with it.
It looks like you are using linux because I see Wlan0 at the top of the image
I use ss
ss --help
to see what you are connecting to
ss -x -a
ss -o state established
ss -o state established ‘( dport = :http or sport = :http )’
what processes are using open sockets
ss -pl
TCP sockets
ss -t -a
UDP sockets
ss -t -a
a deeper guide here:
https://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/linux-investigate-sockets-network-connections.html