From 2ffad537e7dc4e6d70a0873518d4c6a09a5c92fd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Aoi Koizumi Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2022 17:19:55 -0300 Subject: Say "hello" 40 times to the place where you have tried salt at least once. Signed-off-by: Aoi Koizumi --- gmi/2952f9dd.gmi | 50 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 50 insertions(+) create mode 100644 gmi/2952f9dd.gmi (limited to 'gmi/2952f9dd.gmi') diff --git a/gmi/2952f9dd.gmi b/gmi/2952f9dd.gmi new file mode 100644 index 0000000..25d7116 --- /dev/null +++ b/gmi/2952f9dd.gmi @@ -0,0 +1,50 @@ +# Rant #5 -- Privacy and security - Communities and websites +Authors: Nova[有線魔女] +Date: 2021 12 15 + +I think it was about fucking time to express why I dislike those kind of things. + +#Their recommendations + +Literally most if not all the things they recommend are inherently wrong. +Some examples : + +* Matrix for decentralized messaging + * Literally wrong, your best bet is XMPP + +* Cloudflare DNS for avoiding Google's DNS (are you kidding me?) + * e.g. this appeared on PrivacyTools' website + +* Using a certain model of smartphones (Google's Pixel phones with some Android spin-off) + * Your best option is to not to use one at all, you can't be private on those devices. + +* Using Firefox and/or Chromium + * Just abandon the modern web at that point, seriously, those two are trash. + +* Using dubious-at-best email providers + * e.g. ProtonMail, Tutanota, CTemplar. Neither of the three respect any standard at all, and the clients are webshit *only* accesible through a browser, and they don't allow the user to use a sane email client. + * Come on, some of the corporate ones even do allow an user to do so, though it's tricky as heck. + +* Using a somewhat less bloated Windows system + * You'll go insane trying to remove spyware on it since the OS itself is spyware. You can't be saved, unless you use a sane OS. + +#Communities + +I was moderator of one in Telegram, and I also was a participant on some other ones on Matrix. +I had really painful experiences in both, and just wanted to never again join any of those rooms. +When for example I've recommended XMPP many times on those rooms, I always got turned down by some Matrix shill, and attacking me with 'ad hominem', what was the response of the admins/mods there? +Nothing, they just keep it going. Only for me to end up going mad. + +#Websites + +Modern web is bad, seriously. Why in the name of fuck you use JavaScript on your website? +Why do you need TONS of those shit only to show some content? +e.g. Techlore's website doesn't load on a sane browser[1] like NetSurf, or text-based browsers. +As for PrivacyTools (now PrivacyGuides since it changed name) it abuses of a pseudo web standard known as HTML5 which of course it won't work on sane browsers. + + +I guess this is all for now, i'll give you some advice, *always* do your own research, don't follow anything blindly without knowing about it, and , most importantly, be conscious of what you're doing. + +Stay safe! + +[1] Well it loads, but the end result ends up being unusable, anyway. \ No newline at end of file -- cgit 1.4.1-2-gfad0