idcaboutprivacy

You can also be a jack of all trades, master of some. Or a lot. Or most. 🤝

Here are 28 arguments for you to use.

I’d consider Signal to be the gold standard of secure communications.

You can describe it to them like WhatsApp, except it’s private, secure, not Facebook-owned, nonprofit so it can’t be bought or sold, etc.

Here’s the blog post that I share with my friends comparing Signal to iMessage and WhatsApp when they ask me about it.

It usually answers most of their questions.

No idea. Gonna try to stick to the web app instead and hold off updating the native mobile app for as long as possible.

I’ll have to try next time and report back. Honestly don’t use ride sharing too often. I prefer public transport.

I can’t prove it, but I’m 99% sure Lyft did the same thing. Had a perfect rating (and was even a driver at one point), and they banned me without explanation right after I switched to GrapheneOS.

Emailed them a few times asking for the reason, and they refused to tell me.

_"Legally, we cannot release any additional information except that we found your account to be violating our Terms of Service.

We will be in touch if we are able to reopen your account in the future."_

There’s absolutely nothing else that they could’ve misconstrued as “violating the Terms of Service.”

If Uber’s going down the same path, no more ride-sharing for me I guess. ¯_(ツ)_/¯

A rip in the multiverse. Source: trust me bro

But is it prettier than the Puteketeke?

Selena - No Me Queda Más

Arctic Monkeys - 505

Eminem - Headlights

GnR - November Rain

Daily:

• Signal
• GrapheneOS
• Bitwarden
• Firefox/Mull
• VPN
• Baserow

Not daily:

• Lemmy
• Mastodon
• Pixelfed
• Invidious
• Cryptomator
• Aegis
• Penpot
• Aurora
• LocalSend
• OSM
• Obtanium
• Voyager
• Open Video Editor
• OpenScan
• Cryptee
• Element

How did you pull Mull into Obtanium? When I paste the GitLab URL into Obtanium, it says that there’s no APK found.

For some people it’s easy, for others it isn’t, and/or they’re afraid of messing it up.

This is the secondary reason why I created SwapMyOS, a GrapheneOS installation service that kicks back a percentage of every order to the GrapheneOS nonprofit to keep it funded.

Primary reason was to keep GrapheneOS alive and funded.

I got someone to use Signal recently, because I don’t text outside of it. Last week, she asked me why that is. I sent this Bruce Schneier essay on the eternal value of privacy to someone who knows absolutely nothing about tech, and she understood.

I’m gonna try it again next time it comes up with someone else. I think this essay does a really good job of putting it into perspective, so I’m hoping this is the silver bullet I can continue to send when someone asks.

Overall, in general, I try to keep it in real world terms. Why do you close the door when you go to the bathroom? Why do you lock your doors? Why do you have curtains/blinds? etc., along with what some other intelligent people responded here.

I’ve never understood this either, given the whole notion and enthusiasm behind decentralization. I get the trade-offs regarding privacy, security, and convenience, but if you’re really tryna start a movement, and you really believe in the concept and principles of something like cryptocurrency, it seems like your communities and communication channels should also reflect similar values.

I think about this Jaron Lanier talk a lot.

KDE Connect?

Risk it for the biscuit

Maybe a good idea for a blog post, but the general gist is this:

1. Buy an old/cheap Mac mini
2. Set up AirMessage or BlueBubbles (open source)
3. Run a command or get an app so keep your Mac mini (or whatever other Apple device you’re using) awake 24/7

The messages will get delivered to your Mac, and then forwarded to your phone via AirMessage or BlueBubbles.

Signal for everything.

There are a couple people who are too lazy to get Signal, and they got iPhones, so I set up an iMessage server to forward messages to my GrapheneOS phone.

But the communication there is extremely sparse and surface level. It’s basically just a touch point. The real conversations all go through Signal.