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I’d just like to interject for a moment. What you’re referring to as “Android,” is in fact Android/Linux, or as I’ve recently taken to calling it, Android plus Linux kernel. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather a kernel—a core component that manages hardware resources. Android uses the Linux kernel, but replaces the traditional GNU userland with its own runtime, libraries, and system framework.

Many users run Linux-based systems every day without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the Linux kernel combined with Android’s userspace is often simply called “Android,” and many of its users are not aware that it is built on Linux at its core.

There really is Linux in Android, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use. Linux is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine’s resources to the other programs you run. The kernel is an essential part of the system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system.

Android is normally used in combination with the Linux kernel: the whole system is basically Android/Linux, a Linux-based operating system with a distinct userspace, not a GNU/Linux system like traditional desktop distributions.

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privacyishuman··on Claude Fable 5.2 and Mythos 5.2
They still need a response to Opus 5.5
privacyishuman··on Claude Code sends your email address to websites
They all forward to your main email.
privacyishuman··on MCP Explained
Depends why they're banned. Sometimes a vouch will fix it straight away. I think detective AI writing is hard to restore with vouches.
privacyishuman··on Claude Code sends your email address to websites
If you're not using email alaising yet, what are you doing? You'd still probably not want your Claude email leak even if it's an alias, but it'd still be an improvement.

And even if you don't care about privacy, it's just so much more convenient. DuckDuckGo is a good free one.

https://www.privacyguides.org/en/email-aliasing/

privacyishuman··on Residential proxies detected on White House network
I was just thinking, what company's reviews could you trust the least than a residential proxy provider.

https://www.trustpilot.com/review/myxproxy.com?languages=all

privacyishuman··on Residential proxies detected on White House network
This one actually works: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49713037
privacyishuman··on Ask HN: What has been your favorite VPN provider?
Nym, IVPN, and Obscura are what I would consider for you. IVPN is the most similar to Mullvad while Nym and Obscura make improvements on the traditional VPN.
privacyishuman··on Digital minimalism
No tribalism here. If another cryptocurrency provided low fees, privacy-by-default, and a good track record I would totally use it.

I'm simply curious as I've always seen defi as weird because nothing i've seen seemed useful.

privacyishuman··on Digital minimalism
Programmable doesn't mean anything to me. Is there any useful things made with Ethereum for privacy and self-custody?
privacyishuman··on HackerTube: YouTube built from videos recommended by HN
I like this a lot. I was just thinking about a site where you could share your YouTube cookies and then use anybody's curated algorithm because you can curate it quite fast in signed out mode.

Could you block all the trackers from loading from https://www.youtube-nocookie.com on your side?

privacyishuman··on Molly (Signal fork) has not been updated since 3 months and is vulnerable
https://github.com/privacyguides/verified-apps-android
privacyishuman··on Molly (Signal fork) has not been updated since 3 months and is vulnerable
Thank you for all you do. All of my grandparents joined Signal to message me and they have no issues for the most part. Although, one of them didn't know to press the download icon on photos I sent. I'm not sure why they weren't downloaded automatically.

Also please accept cryptocurrency for buying username-based accounts. The overlap between people that want to buy an account and those that want to use a fully identified payment method is not a lot.

privacyishuman··on Digital minimalism
Personally I find the friction of a factory reset to be enough, but yeah this doesn't work if you don't. I'm pretty sure [1] can be set up not not be bypassed but I don't know for sure.
privacyishuman··on Digital minimalism
You can use Ente Auth if you want to use TOTP cross-platform.
privacyishuman··on Digital minimalism
He goes about it in more ways beyond the initial thing about twitter. Like airplane mode and offline maps.
privacyishuman··on Digital minimalism
The only crypto I'm interested in is Monero. What's do you like about Ethereum?
privacyishuman··on Digital Minimalism
Wifi is much less of a concern than cellular. The phone only connects to networks you choose, and MAC randomization keeps it anonymous. GrapheneOS also fixes VPN leaks that stock Android has, which helps on wifi too. Linux, Windows, and MacOS are not good at preventing VPN leaks.

Phones are not inherently bad for privacy. The cell connection, telemetry, and default apps are the main problems. The first can be solved with airplane mode, and the latter two with a custom OS (or an iPhone to an extent), just as you’d install Linux for those advantages over Windows. Due to their security model (app sandboxing, permissions, exploit protections), they’re a much better place to start for making a private OS that protects user data. GrapheneOS with airplane mode is more private than most desktop setups.

privacyishuman··on Digital minimalism
This is a great blog post. I do a lot of similar things on my phone (GrapheneOS, airplane mode, CoMaps).

The thing that I’d been looking for on this minimal setup was a way to prevent access to the browser or installing apps at will. It was easy enough when I was on iOS. I just used Apple Configurator [1] to block Safari and the App Store, but on GrapheneOS, there was no great option.

Recently I made a device owner app [2] which allows hiding any UI app and locking itself. It ended up being quite an elegant solution as it allows full access to app stores for updates (new apps you install are hidden until you unlock and approve them). The only way around it is with the lock code or a factory reset.

This makes my phone a quite private device whose functionality I intentionally set ahead of time. It can only do what the apps I’ve chosen can do. I prefer browsing and similar on a computer.

[1] Apple’s Mac MDM app anyone can use. You need a Mac and to factory reset your phone first.

[2] https://beeswax.getflourish.org/

privacyishuman··on Binance-hacker-1029 – $5.6B stolen from Binance
I vaguely remember actually the number 1 and 2 "rule" of Monero to not say how much you have. We're lucky how dumb many cybercriminals are.
privacyishuman··on Binance-hacker-1029 – $5.6B stolen from Binance
I expect Monero to be a good investment going into this LLM era.

It always pumps after hacks when they swap to clean it. But it is also just the only crypto that makes sense to be used by regular people.

privacyishuman··on Why is this fingerprinting script creating bioweapons?
Sending Claude this article along with the fingerprinting script, it interacted fine with it.
privacyishuman··on Discord will soon let anyone find public server messages through Google
Fluxer is what people should look at if they're trying to get off discord.
privacyishuman··on Meta employees say Lula’s accounts restricted in Brazil election: Report
Glad to have been proven wrong for trusting prediction markets.
privacyishuman··on I refuse to accept a censored Internet. Join Me at FOSDEM 27
Illegal, meaning There's laws against it, like being gay in many countries. Not morally wrong, although there is a lot of that.
privacyishuman··on Online censorship is crushing indie webcomics
https://xmrchat.com
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cool thanks!
privacyishuman··on Meta employees say Lula’s accounts restricted in Brazil election: Report
Well that sucks then: https://polymarket.com/event/brazil-presidential-election

80% chance Bolsonaro wins.

privacyishuman··on Danish Government silently drops plan to dump MS Office
https://wallhop.io/https://www.computerworld.dk/art/297226/d...

Does this work?

privacyishuman··on Around a dozen banking apps began specifically permitting GrapheneOS
I’d just like to interject for a moment. What you’re referring to as “Android,” is in fact Android/Linux, or as I’ve recently taken to calling it, Android plus Linux kernel.

Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather a kernel—a core component that manages hardware resources. Android uses the Linux kernel, but replaces the traditional GNU userland with its own runtime, libraries, and system framework.

Many users run Linux-based systems every day without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the Linux kernel combined with Android’s userspace is often simply called “Android,” and many of its users are not aware that it is built on Linux at its core.

There really is Linux in Android, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use. Linux is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine’s resources to the other programs you run. The kernel is an essential part of the system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system.

Android is normally used in combination with the Linux kernel: the whole system is basically Android/Linux, a Linux-based operating system with a distinct userspace, not a GNU/Linux system like traditional desktop distributions.

privacyishuman··on Sam Altman: 'I No Longer Think We're Gonna Be Able to Just Patch All the Bugs'
He used to at least: https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=sama
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