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daveyOsborn

@ daveyOsborn @infosec.pub

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  • Boycott And Delete Google Maps

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  • I should also mention if you boycott Apple (thus Apple’s maps), the SSID must end with _optout. If you want to boycott both Apple and Google, Google’s optout tag must be at the end of the SSID and Apple’s optout tag can only be followed by Google’s optout tag. So something like foo_optout_nomap. At least that’s my understanding.

    (edit) FWiW, I’ll cite the source for Google if anyone is interested. AFAIK, Apple’s opt-out flag is just a rumor.

  • Boycott And Delete Google Maps

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  • PSA: one way to boycott #GoogleMaps is to append your SSID with _nomap. This opts out of Google using your access point for navigation.

  • To drive up demand for old computers and laptops, we can simply inform the public about specific CPUs made before the spychips (~2008 for the Intel ME & 2013 for AMD PSP)

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  • Arm has trustzone, so you can’t simply nix x86 chips and be done with it. We would need to do the same research for arm chips.

    This means we could create a demand for old phones by separating those without spychips from the rest. Although it’s a bit sketchy when considering all phones have a dodgy gsm stack designed for remote compromise, IIUC. Maybe Osmocom neutralizes it - not sure.

  • zerowaste @slrpnk.net
    daveyOsborn @infosec.pub

    To drive up demand for old computers and laptops, we can simply inform the public about specific CPUs made before the spychips (~2008 for the Intel ME & 2013 for AMD PSP)

  • OSHW - Open Source Hardware @scribe.disroot.org
    daveyOsborn @infosec.pub

    Is there a spychip in any of the AMD Steamroller-based chips? Kaveri? Wikipedia apparently has misinfo on this.

    en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_AMD_processors_with_3D_graphics
  • AMD @hardware.watch
    daveyOsborn @infosec.pub

    Is there a spychip in any of the Steamroller-based chips? Kaveri? Wikipedia apparently has misinfo on this.

    en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_AMD_processors_with_3D_graphics
  • zerowaste @slrpnk.net
    daveyOsborn @infosec.pub

    USB-PD PSU almost thrown away because it would not charge a simple bicycle light

  • So apparently Google will SPAM your self-hosted email just cuz **** you, that's why.

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  • Oh I didn’t think of that. It’s native French speakers who use “mail” for “email” (when speaking english).

  • So apparently Google will SPAM your self-hosted email just cuz **** you, that's why.

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  • Interesting to see his take on “e-mail” vs “email”. I bet he changes his tune on “email” vs “mail” -- where gen-z has decided that it’s okay to save keystrokes by dropping the “e” because no one uses snail mail anymore. Indeed I am always disguested when someone says “send a mail”. I have to ask for clarification and they always confirm that mean email.

  • So apparently Google will SPAM your self-hosted email just cuz **** you, that's why.

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  • AT&T is the worst of the worst. And I boycott them for countless reasons like snooping on their own customers voluntarily without a warrant. It’s really a hard-right corp. In any case, never tried them so I didn’t know they blocked egress 25.

    One trick that works if truth-in-advertising laws are in force: ask the sales people before subscribing if the block port 25. They always say “no, we block nothing” (in my experience). So you subscribe and sign the contract. Then when you see they actually block 25, you have a false advertising situation and also a contract violation (if either verbal contracts are enforcable or if you can get it in writing that nothing is blocked). So you complain. In my experience, they give a gratis upgrade to an enterprise level of service that generally has a static IP and no blocks -- for the price of the residential plan you signed up for.

  • So apparently Google will SPAM your self-hosted email just cuz **** you, that's why.

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  • I can’t speak for @ShutUpWesley@piefed.zip, but I boycott both Google and Microsoft. This means 95+% of prospective people, corps, and gov agencies I would exchange email with are not getting email from me. They are also not getting an email address out of me.

    I have been done with email for nearly a decade now, mostly. So, to answer your question, I use fax and snail mail. Not joking. I feel liberated and don’t give a shit about postage or inconvenience. There is still that exceptional 5% or so who I will exchange email with, which does not have GAFAM in the loop.

    (edit) should add that I give friends and family an XMPP address (of my own, but often I also give them an XMPP acct for themselves). Google bounced from XMPP a decade or so ago and AFAIK Microsoft has no XMPP service. So it’s mostly snail mail and fax for govs and corps. XMPP for people.

    Any friends or family who resist XMPP are mostly stuffed. They can either proxy through a mutual friend or call me if they are local.

  • So apparently Google will SPAM your self-hosted email just cuz **** you, that's why.

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  • Maybe the way to fight GMail’s outsized power is to stop using GMail.

    Stopping your own gmail use is trivially easy. It just scratches the surface. In order to not lick Google’s boots, you also need to stop sending email to gmail users. That means doing an MX lookup before emailing to see if their vanity email address is on a Gmail host. And of course this also means not sharing an email address with gmail users.

    I do that, in fact. I also boycott Microsoft. In the end, this means I am not using email much at all.

  • So apparently Google will SPAM your self-hosted email just cuz **** you, that's why.

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  • They claim its for spam prevention which is why most ISPs actually also block outgoing SMTP port 25.

    European ISPs block egress port 25, not American ones, generally. Not sure about the rest of the world.

    In Europe, one refuge is to send using the GSM networks, which tend not to block egress 25 for some reason.

  • Cloudflare blocking Pale Moon and other browsers with smaller user bases

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  • Very happy to have learned about tildeverse.org. It gives a great refuge from a lot of the garbage. But I have to ask, if you are part of the tildeverse project why are you on lemmy.world, a centralised exclusive Cloudflare instance? I realise tildeverse does not have a lemmy node but there are many decent ones and LW is probably the most contrary to the tildeverse philosophies.