No. You should not turn this feature off; no matter how infuriating you find it to be. You will eventually find it useful. It was put there for a reason; and your usage of the addon to find tab sounds is not a common thing people do. Additionally if your plugin begins to fail or is suddenly no longer maintained; you will have a UI element to immediately fall back on using to help you manage tab sounds.
As the Messages RCS implementation is supposedly E2EE from device to device; No. It is not possible that a log of your messages’ contents are being kept.
Can it stop them from storing your encrypted messages to decrypt later if law enforcement should be able to confiscate your phone and extract the encryption key? Also No. It is not possible for E2EE to prevent “Store ciphertext and decrypt later” attacks.
It also cannot prevent companies from logging who you are conducting an encrypted conversation with; even if the contents cannot be seen and this information cannot be used to infer anything about the contents. It cannot stop companies from making inferences about your messaging activity due to timing of messages sent or who they are sent to.
If these kinds of attacks are on your threat model; you need to ensure you are not sending messages or information via electronic means via your phone to begin with, wherever possible.
It is absurd to assume that they have backdoored the RCS protocol without proof or evidence. This isn’t saying it’s a verifiably secure or private protocol; but I think you could trust an E2EE RCS message for long enough to help you get someone else onboarded on to Signal or another more properly encrypted messenger without needing to worry about being put on a watch list. I would trust it with my grocery list or trivial communications with family; even if I wouldn’t trust it with my truly personal or private conversations.
Furthermore the article clearly states:
Testing on frozen shrimp from the distributor, Indonesia’s BMS Foods, also tested positive, the FDA said.
The shrimp was in fact contaminated. But as a precaution; with anything Radioactive, it is always presumed that anything that is in contact with a contaminated object, is also in and of itself inherently contaminated.
I recommend you watch some Kyle Hill on Youtube;1 he explains clearly how these things work. Radioactive contamination is no joke. It is handled with this level of caution for a reason. It kills people quickly if left unaddressed.
1 - I wish I could explain which “Half-Life Histories” episodes are most relevant; but I cannot. They all are; they all describe nuclear disasters and they all contain good explanations about what happened and how they’re contaminating things and such. It is much to watch, but very informative.
I do not expect the news or the government to tell the truth about the findings in general.
Nuclear stuff is still, to this date in the USA, treated as “Sensitive Information” which may be “Classified” under a number of laws which require gagging/nondisclosure/censorship under the guise of “protecting our National Security.”
My partner is a former employee in that sector. The amount of information that could be ordered to be protected in this way is likely more than you’d expect.
To be honest; I would imagine that the Cs-137 is a product of illegal fishing. Fishermen are told not to fish in contaminated areas; but may do so anyways out of desperation for a catch they can sell.
I remember nuclear disasters near SE Asia and Japan over the last decade. It is also true that Shrimp are also, not so unimportantly, Bottom-Feeders. As Bottom of the Ocean feeders. They literally hoover up the soil at the bottom of the ocean and eat the microbiological life living there. With recent nuclear disasters; I think it’s possible some orphan Cesium got down there.
Naturally this is just my theory; based on my limited college educated knowledge of biology and the food web.
I second tailscale. But this requires you to be using it at home as well.
I don’t like it. It screams “FINGERPRINT ME!”
A symbol for privacy should imply privacy. Not show things that which should be protected. (like your handprints or fingerprints)
Time to get some dumb Democrats voted out of office!~
No. Not without paying a hefty license upgrade fee (Retail copy) or doing something incredibly shady. (Piracy tools which I won’t specifically name but I’m sure you can find and likely know the dangers of obtaining for some users.)
Unfortunately no. Home edition will actively ignore Group Policies and Registry keys relating to privacy.
You would be better off using a 10 Pro license or pirating 10 Pro and keeping it from phoning home.
Our loaf here is Pumpernickel / Burnt (Very dark grey).
He is such a sweet cat.
You seem a sound and competent writer as well; have you considered writing your own content as well? Or are there challenges to that I’m not understanding?
If you have to ask that; you really must have been living under a rock for the past 3-5 years.
I personally use Firefox still; and keep a fresh copy in a (Pixel only feature) Private Space (Basically an implementation of Android alternate user profile) as well. It works and accepts any privacy addons I throw at it.
Currently using:
1 - May duplicate functions of other plug-ins; but provide additional protection layers and cover for the limitations of other addon(s)…
Being worried about addons adding to your fingerprint is something that I quite honestly find is not a significant issue usually…unless you’re explicitly doing something truly spooky if found out…then you should use Tor Browser ONLY.
As someone who formerly modded on reddit for over a decade; I do know what trips the alerts typically. The steps I give are important to establish a fresh account with nothing an idle internet sleuth can link back to you; as well as preventing Mod(Bots) from detecting you. Reddit Automoderator has ‘Admin eyes’…even if it lacks the permissions to act like one. It can, and will use algorithms on those eyes to assess your ‘threat level’. Knowing the trajectory of reddit when I quit; it probably uses AI now. Before it was a dumb blackbox of algorithmic rules the Admins never really made fully clear about how it worked. This dumb blackbox made frequent mistakes.
I’d say you can try do it; but I caution you on doing so. It will be problematic
You cannot be completely undetected if using the reddit app. You must avoid using a mobile device; these are too easily trackable and the browsers on mobile devices lack sufficient privacy protections.
I would recommend resurrecting it.
Once you do so; Lock it down, make everything private that you can.
Secondly change all the privacy settings and opt out of any AI training.
Then slowly go back through your history and scrub out your posts; replacing them with gibberish and junk. Do not use AI text IMHO; use something like ‘lorem ipsum’ or some kind of ‘Markov chain babbler’.
I would just suggest scrubbing back through your history slowly once a day; editing a few posts here or there. Look into what exactly the rate-limits might be; so that you can avoid triggering whatever automated suspensions that exist and edit one or two posts less than that a day.
Avoid using automation, as this too can be detected possibly…but do remember you can use other tools that run on your PC only to help streamline your editing.
In general, it’s better if you can manually review and scrub over your old posts slowly. That way you can best decide how each posting and image will be scrambled. Maybe one post gets lorem ipsum in strategic places and the other gets 1000xTranslated into a barely plausible word salad.
Perhaps other times you feed the post into a markov babbler and let it babble on for a few minutes. Perhaps you leave a few otherwise innocuous posts alone so that the poison doesn’t look so suspicious while you sanitize anything that you might consider sensitive.
Once a few months have passed and you’ve deleted all the sensitive information from the account that you can possibly edit or change; then you can proceed to deleting the account and waiting out that process.
If you main frustration is Youtube; I recommend trying Invidious or Piped, as these frontends for Youtube do not have such aggressive scripts; and can be hosted locally on your machine.
Hint: I strongly recommend self-hosting Invidious on your PC using Docker and Podman for ease of use and administration. You can also self-host other privacy oriented front-ends for other sites as well, such as redlib for reddit and any others you can imagine.
Seriously; don’t bother with the public instances. They don’t work well. Self-host the software on your local PC and use Tailscale if you need to help other devices access your self-hosted instance.
Similarly FreeTube would work as well and pairs nicely if you self-host Invidious locally.