The webshits are making it impossible for us to keep our privacy, guard our sensitive data, and generally be left the fuck alone while carrying out mundane tasks in an increasingly digitized world. Let's find ways to find alternatives or entirely omit software from our daily lives.
Communications: XMPP Jitsi IRC rolodexes snail mail Tutanota >Cockmail roll a mail/xmpp server yourself on an RPi stop creating dozens of unique snowflake "open source social media" and promote/contribute to the existing ones, there's already more than enough out there
Memos, reminders: buy a damn paper notepad, they're practically free
I know this may be blasphemy here. But consider downgrading to a flip phone. The peace of mind has been nice. I don't really feel compelled to look at it and I know that I'm not being monitored by the tracking device in my pocket at all times.
I know that the gov can watch whoever they want. It's companies like google and amazon spying on me that bothers me the most. I'm fairly confident my iphone is listening to me at all times.
>Kingpin: How One Hacker Took Over the Billion-Dollar Cybercrime Underground en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingpin_(book) >an embellished recount of how several people "carded" for years with FBI unable to catch up, and almost got away with everything
Jaxon Garcia
I would add: carry a map in your car to look for directions. They can do the job pretty well if you use them correctly, you don't need GPS.
Parker Bailey
How about disconnect yourself from the Internet? No irony here, what about this part of downshifting? And use computer without connection to the Internet.
Joshua Ross
I already do. But sometimes you just need it.
Ayden Adams
I like Sup Forums for this. I can browse here relatively anonymously. I use vpn anyway.
Jaxon Smith
>I know this may be blasphemy here Gadgetfags are just a small minority of Sup Forums. I think most of us *want* the computing convenience of a smartphone without the corporate surveillance that comes with it, hence the several free mobile OS projects floating about.
It's increasingly difficult to do simple tasks without the internet, and we should work to avoid cutting ourselves off from the largest repository of human knowledge in history if we can avoid it. The point of the thread is to stay connected, but avoid entities/softwares that exist solely to package our data to be sold to the highest bidders.
Luis Ward
>non-comprehensive diagram of """analytics""" companies, circa 2015 There's no guarantee that your data will be handled with care and not rolled into "assets" to be liquidated when some of these companies inevitably go under.
Jackson Thomas
I was surprised to find out recently that it's impossible to find property management companies that accept rent checks or rent APPLICATIONS purely on paper. I had been renting a room from a family friend and paying under the table for a while, so I had no idea that things that ought to be done in-person and with paper (such as renting a fucking place to live) is done entirely online, and require a terrifying amount of personal info to boot.
Not even a day after I digitally "signed" my rental agreement, lo and behold, I began receiving telemarketer calls on my mobile. Fucking reprehensible.
Angel Rivera
>I think most of us *want* the computing convenience of a smartphone without the corporate surveillance that comes with it, hence the several free mobile OS projects floating about. GPD Pocket? It's even on x86, so it makes the task of mobile computing easier.
John Mitchell
Call me an idiot, but I don't think x86 belongs in the pocket where battery life is essential.
Mason Perez
Casual.
Joseph Gonzalez
My commodore 64 reloaded mk2 is coming in 8 weeks.
>Memos, reminders: >buy a damn paper notepad, they're practically free
This. No internet bullshit will ever come close to actually writing something on a piece of paper and keeping it in your pocket except for quite specific cases.
I've got a palm treo that I switch to every once in a whIle. May not be a flip phone, but it's enough of a dumbphone to feel cozy
Jason Rodriguez
For years I have had a rented postage box, half because I work away at times and half I like to keep my residence private, however in the last two years or so I have noticed a real trend of places not shipping to PO Boxes.
I tend to cancel orders if this happens or look elsewhere. Very frustrating nonetheless.
Anthony Harris
In my country, you can sue the company or opt-out of telemarketing. I have been at peace since the law has passed. You burgers need something similar.
Cooper Morales
pumb
Luis Reyes
is this some kind of tech Amish movement?
Brandon Thompson
also don't afraid to buy really old processors and mobo (which includes simple and actually functional firmware). They are mostly free of CIA nigger technology of today for gaymers but sufficiently strong enough for both shitposting and developing. I bought two 3.4GHz dual core cpu for CAD$6 and don't plan to upgrade my system for next 4 to 5 years and even longer if possible. Hopefully we will be able to salvage our PC technology from UEFI and intel smart connect
Caleb Brown
yo i really like this thread make it daily or something
Alexander Brown
Recently set up an old netbook to run PiHole. Want to set up some sort of self hosted Dropbox replacement. Any suggestions?
Samuel Cox
nextcloud
Luke Myers
>Bills, payments, interacting with the financial world: Buy with cash. Insist on using cash. If you find yourself needing to build credit for future big purchases, buy gas or other ubiquitous items with credit card. The fact that someone in America bought gas on such-and-such days is worthless to an ad company.
Buy booze and cigarette with cash. Buy unhealthy purchases (candies, fast food) with cash. We're potentially facing a future where your daily purchase data will affect your insurance coverage. Don't give those medical industrial scrooges any excuses to weasel themselves out of paying your medical bills.
Treat all point-of-sale kiosks as compromised machines.
Jayden Ortiz
Similar thread
I normally like to use cash for most purchases. Unfortunately, gf wants to get PR in my country. To do that we need an electronic record of our shopping.
Sebastian Morris
Which country is that? Doesn't printed receipts count?
James Green
Did they fix IRC so it doesn't leak your IP yet?
Adrian Mitchell
some networks did
Anthony Ross
No, we just want the software we use daily to do only what it says on the tin, no more and no less.
Josiah Cooper
Australia. Electronic better because it shows use of a joint account (showing relationship is genuine).
Samuel Sanders
This is because the larger items go much cheaper through UPS and FedEx. I have contacted stores and asked to ship to my PO Box for extra $ and they did it.
Brayden Ward
>booze and cigarette Or don't buy this shit at all. It's made to kill you by the same people you are trying to hide from in this thread, moron.
Blake Sanchez
thats a good way to put it specially considering the changes were going to see in a few decades.
Joshua Reed
What are the downsides of opting out of the credit Pre-screenings?
For example a of a benefit of the system for me is by monitoring my youtube advertisements to see what categories google is placing me into right now and what they should sell me
Daniel Bennett
This thread is useful; therefore, I bump.
Camden Thomas
>Or don't buy this shit at all. Its much easier said than done
Joshua Brooks
The battery life is fine, the botnet IME is not
Jeremiah Martin
A huge chunk of data hoarded by Equifax were from pre-screening. No other explanations are necessary.
Joshua Ross
I don't have any suggestions for prevention for the individual but there is a company I buy from that keeps your credit card number on a machine that is offline. I know there are security risks aside from that but at least they are trying and imo have actually decreased their attack surface by their own effort.
Connor Russell
can you explain what info equifax was hoarding? Im new to Sup Forums so im not up on the news.
Colton Barnes
Everything from home addresses to SSNs..
Elijah Hall
Guessing you're not USian. They are a company that collects financial info about an individual. When that individual goes to a bank/car yard/phone company etc they send a message to equifax saying 'is John Smith of 123 Apple Street Montana tax number 123456789 credit worthy?'. Equifax replies, 'no, that person has a credit score of 100 because account number 456 with Bank X is bad'.
So hacking them gives all personal details for basically everything important.
Jack Brooks
ProtonMail for email.
Ayden Perez
I thought protonmail was botnet
Justin Thompson
Pretty sure those are memes.
Lucas Gutierrez
honestly i dont know anymore, everything is a fucking botnet
Jayden Evans
Everything is a fucking meme.
Hunter Perry
cock mail?
Matthew Torres
no it's just people who watch anime getting worked up over nothing
the only people extremely worried about privacy are either doing something weird like trading child porn or are trying way too hard to make themselves look more important and that sums up like most of Sup Forums
Evan Ross
Equifax would like to thank you for your considerate and sensitive post on behalf of all the datamining community.
Ryder Turner
What's wrong with having your own mail server?
Oliver Flores
Spam filters
Ian Butler
For roughly the same cost of having a VPS you can get ProtonMail Plus and use your own domain name. Technically it's cheaper since you waste a bunch of time with your own email server (unless you don't actually give a fuck about security, in which case what's the point).
John Smith
This. Read his article
Aaron Green
He's got lots of writings. Not sure which article you mean.
Nathaniel Gray
Spam filters are white-lists now?
Evan Long
bump
Noah Miller
>The main appeal is support for NTSC and PAL in a single board. Do PAL and NTSC C64 really differ very much, so you should have computers for both TV standards?
