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Cider9986on 500k facial scans at UK stations yield no arrests, 1 false positive

I mean a lot of our lives, resemble 1984, but this is literally the UK, where 1984 was set. And then they are doing all of the 1984 activities with no shame whatsoever.

Hitler was elected democratically. Democracy is non-excuse for the complete destruction of civil liberties.

Cider9986on Does Reddit have an astroturfing problem? What the data suggests

You may be out of date. I haven't heard anything recently. Are you thinking of this?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49880630

Cider9986on Does Reddit have an astroturfing problem? What the data suggests

It takes a ton of work to run a forum. In the case of the two examples I linked, there's simply no alternative on Reddit, so it's not an option to use Reddit. Those communities are vastly more knowledgeable, organized, kind, fairly moderated, etc, compared to r/privacy.

I guess you get what you put into it in terms of community.

I used to be more interested in succulents. It's a shame mine have to stay under grow lights to not stretch out. It would be cool to have them scattered around...

I could see succulents benefiting from a Discourse forum, but Reddit likely does the job pretty well with photo sharing. The nice thing about Discourse is, I feel like threads are more permanent.

A forum I would want is a modern cooking forum for homecooks with a slight focus on science. Although I have not actually searched for one. It comes up on HN from time to time.

Cider9986on Behold the pawpaw

I can't say definitively about the taste because I've only had Pawpaws a few times [1]. They're like a slightly less ripe banana taste in a less satisfying mango texture and less sour. I'm not a huge fan of the flavor but they are good ecologically, are native, and it's just fun to be able to eat fruit growing on trees.

Has anyone else noticed how good fruit has gotten in the past years? Sumo Citruses are amazing, strawberries have gotten sweeter (it depends which ones but generally). They used to always be white in the middle but now they're often have more red.

I just had some insane blueberries where they were all perfectly sour, firm, and there was only one bad one.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IgZkMRfnomI

Cider9986on Does Reddit have an astroturfing problem? What the data suggests

> Bring back forums.

Here's an active and good privacy forum: https://discuss.privacyguides.net

Here's an active and good private OS forum where privacy is discussed along with Android apps and the OS, ofc: https://discuss.grapheneos.org

Cider9986on Flock Wants the Most Detailed Map of Its Surveillance Cameras Taken Offline

Government officials should be highly transparent. Privacy for the people, transparency for the government.

Cider9986on I switched to Brave

>Brave Experimental Adblock rules for blocking twitch.tv ads

Those work now? That's impressive. I used to VPN to some east European country after I couldn't get adblock working.

Cider9986on I switched to Brave

Ironfox has been well received and will be added eventually, from what I skimmed.

https://discuss.privacyguides.net/t/ironfox-a-new-mull-fork/...

Librewolf has community support as you can see here.

https://discuss.privacyguides.net/t/librewolf-firefox-based-...

They don't do anti-recommendations on the pages but you can see the discussion for things on the forum.

Cider9986on I switched to Brave

Not FUD, just oudated. I wasn't around then but privacytools.io, now, is definitely not trustworthy.

https://www.privacyguides.org/en/about/privacytools/

https://www.privacyguides.org/en/about/#history

Cider9986on I switched to Brave

Brave is the only Chromium browser recommended by Privacy Guides which is why I chose it. It has a good update schedule and I never have problems with ads.

Once I set it up, it's been just a clean, ad-free browser. Based on Little Snitch, which is free on Linux, like Brave Origin, Brave has a clean list of default connections.

While Firefox may be considering shipping Brave shields for ad block, wouldn't Brave be more opposing to Google's monopoly considering it blocks their business model? Firefox is funded by Google and has bad privacy by default. It connects to Google servers when you first set it up.

https://www.privacyguides.org/en/desktop-browsers/

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47697870

Cider9986on Prompting Claude Opus 5.5

> it was done with the new suno

https://nitter.tiekoetter.com/slimer48484/status/20977525692...

Cider9986on Prompting Claude Opus 5.5

This is the video (I think) in case anyone's wondering: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8j-hR4fJywU

Cider9986on Self-Hosting on the Dark Web

Can you buy one of these in XMR?

Cider9986on Banks and Credit Unions to Team Up Against Apple Pay Fees

Yes, those as well. But I think only a few European banks have that.

Cider9986on If we do not stop to help each other, what do we become?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49622042

You can't steal something that's infinitely duplicatable. Also, AI training is fair use, not that I believe it should have to be.

Cider9986on If we do not stop to help each other, what do we become?

On the GrapheneOS forum, I enjoy answering the questions in a post of user who just set up their phone.

AI does not have as good knowledge of the OS as frequent forum contributors. I'm sure plenty of people get by with AI help for their questions and there's likely little questions that hasn't been already discussed, but I love to see new people using the OS and it doesn't take long to give them an exact answer. The Flarum software that the forum runs is very fast, as well.

Cider9986on Sousveillance

https://sunders.uber.space/

https://deflock.org/

I'm opposed to public security cameras. No expectation of privacy in public does not mean we should surveil everything in public.

Cider9986on Japan Suddenly Paused All Social Rules [video]

Dang, the title filter made the title more clickbait.

Cider9986on Tx.taxi: I forked mempool.space, but for (soon-to-be) every blockchain

Monero.forum.

Other places crypto is discussed that are not crypto spaces is discuss.privacyguides.net.

I will use it in the future when I look up transparent addresses to snoop lol.

You could post it on privacyguides but idk if they will let it through, I saw they said they get a lot of showcase submissions recently. No harm in trying though.

You could submit to get it listed on Monerica, fmhy.net.

You can submit a few times on HN (at least with Show HN, I think they're moderated more)but I wouldn't do more than 2-3. You might get auto-banned if you do that on a new account without other posts.

Unrelated, you might consider removing the Cloudflare analytics.

Cider9986on Tx.taxi: I forked mempool.space, but for (soon-to-be) every blockchain

Love to see Monero right up there.

Unfortunately crypto is not very popular on HN. Personally I do think crypto is mostly a scam except Monero but it still is better than banks.

Cider9986on Japan Suddenly Paused All Social Rules [video]

Original Title: *That Time Japan Suddenly...

Cider9986on US jury says Apple owes record $5.7B in haptic technology patent case

While consumer related payouts are way lower.

https://www.enzuzo.com/blog/data-privacy-lawsuits

https://openclassactions.com/news/apple-siri-settlement-paym...

Cider9986on Banks and Credit Unions to Team Up Against Apple Pay Fees

I hope we get tap to pay on GrapheneOS in the US soon. You can already use it in the EU with Curve and PayPal. It's a blocker for a lot of people.

Hacker News seems generally not interested in private payments or how terrible the banking system is, which is disappointing.

https://eylenburg.github.io/payments.htm

Cider9986on Breaking Up with Google Play: Why Conversations Is Now Free

With accrescent.app you will be able to sell apps or distribute closed source apps in a privscy-focused way.

Cider9986on PipePipe: NewPipe hard fork implementing SponsorBlock

If you want music I've found Metrolist to be the nicest frontend.

https://github.com/MetrolistGroup/Metrolist/releases

Cider9986on One Piece of Flock Camera Data Put This Innocent Woman in Jail for 13 Days

They assembled the avengers.

But seriously, privacy must not become a sided issue. Attacks on privacy are bipartisan, the defense of it would be weakened if it was not bipartisan. Civil liberties protected by the constitution should not be controversial.

Cider9986on Jury finds Facebook liable for deceiving users in Cambridge Analytica case

> Cambridge Analytica, the organization, of course, loves to claim that they're the dark evil viziers behind the Trump campaign and they've advertised themselves as such to dictators all over the world.

Aren't they defunct [1]?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambridge_Analytica#:~:text=De...

Cider9986on One Piece of Flock Camera Data Put This Innocent Woman in Jail for 13 Days

There was a senate hearing a few days ago where this woman testified. Also Benn Jordan and Chad Marlow from the EFF were htere. I was happy hearing them put into words the problems on the national stage.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=klE498xFjOY

Cider9986on Security auditing in the age of (good enough) AI

FHE would be nice, but there's a lot of products that could be E2EE today. Plenty of breaches are just server-side files and dumps, there's no excuse for not using E2EE cloud storage.

Databases are much more tricky, but if we're talking a significant shift, it is as good a plan as any. Clearly server trust is not working.

AI is accelerating both sides for defenders and attackers, but mobile clients are already way ahead of typical desktop. Android's desktop mode exists in the OS now but needs a lot of work and more powerful chips before it can replace desktops.

For security against remote attacks, I'd rank clients roughly: GrapheneOS, iOS/iPadOS, stock Android on Pixels, ChromeOS, macOS, Windows, desktop Linux. Prefer more secure clients, always, but now the client is all that's left to trust for content.

Native clients avoid the web E2EE problem and are easier than ever to build. With AI, you can audit the source as often as you want and reproducible builds mean you know that's what you're running.

Cider9986on F-Droid 2.0

Why would that be better than my GrapheneOS phone?