Great news for online privacy!

BeReal is not good (most appropriate way i could say this). It is a Privacy nightmare. Just think about it, a bunch of random strangers are getting access to every single day what you and your family are doing. I know nobody is concerned about privacy anymore. Seems like we have lost that but still Also BeReal has a bunch of Ads. And since the inclusion of Ads bereal has quickly lost in popularity. If you are searching for a Alternative, you should try out DD-DigitalDiary It doesn't have a lot of the features like social sharing. It is basically a journaling application. But still could be a good alternative. Also there was another app Minutaie which first started this trend so i suggest you should also check it out

Hi guys I was thinking of installing either Calyx OS or Graphene OS on Pixel 7 I got from secondhand.

Meanwhile I was also wondering which one of these is most private but also best usable; Aurora Store or Google Play Mirror (Graphene OS) or Micro G?

Edit; Thanks for all info guys. I will take it into consideration and probably always first use F-Droid and web apps.

Hello there!

just updated a previous mentioned tool which has been in discussion here and wanted to share updates on the software status.

The software is in my opinion finished for now and tutorial videos are available, do not hesitate to ask for features if anything is missing.

Github URL: https://github.com/bugfishtm/bugfish-nuke
Documentation: https://bugfishtm.github.io/bugfish-nuke/

Features

• Instantly erase user data, application traces, and sensitive files in a single click.
• Secure deletion: Files are overwritten, not just moved to the recycle bin.
• Clear clipboard contents
• Flush DNS cache
• Erase event logs
• Delete most recently used (MRU) lists
• Remove thumbnail caches
• Empty the recycle bin (system default)
• Set overwrite passes (1 or more) for each deletion:
  • 1 pass: Fast, effective for most cases
  • 3+ passes: Higher security, slower
  • Warning: 0 passes disables overwriting and is NOT recommended
• Add your own scripts (e.g., batch files) to run alongside the deletion process
  • Example: Dismount VeraCrypt volumes automatically
• Optional: Corrupt Windows login files after deletion to prevent further access
  • Use with caution: This will render Windows unbootable and require reinstallation
• Play a custom or built-in music track during deletion
• Music stops when deletion is complete-useful as an audible signal if you step away
• Overview of selected actions before launch
• Settings for post-deletion behavior: auto-close, force restart, etc.
• Direct links to tutorials and help resources

Security Notes

• Overwriting: Files are overwritten according to your settings, making recovery nearly impossible.
• Recycle Bin: Emptied using Windows default; secure overwrite for the bin may be added in future versions.
• Custom Scripts: Scripts run independently and can be used to automate additional emergency tasks.
• File Deletion: Files are securely overwritten (unless you set passes to 0), making recovery extremely unlikely.
• Music Player: It provides an audible signal when the deletion process is finished, useful if you need to leave your computer during an emergency wipe.
• Use with Caution: Bugfish Nuke is designed for emergency situations. Use with care, especially the destructive system options.

Have a great one
Bugfish

Please sign this petition to get this topic discussed by the UK government.

Well, just that. Wich is stronger against trackers, hackers and doxxing threats? Proton VPN (I'm using this one actually), or Mullvad VPN?

I remember a time when visiting a website that opens a javacript dialog box asking for your name so the message "hi " could be displayed was baulked at.

Why does signal want a phone number to register? Is there a better alternative?

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/29414662

A massive aviation industry clearinghouse that processes data for twelve billion passenger flights per year is selling that information to the Trump administration amid the White House’s new immigration crackdown, according to documents reviewed by the Lever.

The data — including “full flight itineraries, passenger name records, and financial details, which are otherwise difficult or impossible to obtain” for past and future flights — is fed into a secretive government intelligence operation called the Travel Intelligence Program and provided to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and other federal agencies, records reveal.

Details of this program were outlined in procurement documents released Wednesday by ICE, which is a division of the Department of Homeland Security.

Hey folks, over the past years I changed all my stuff step by step from big tech to open source and europe alternatives. I came from Google Workspace to iCloud with advanced protection to Proton to kSuite. (I left Proton cause of the lack of webdav, caldav, carddav)

I did this with all my stuff. From Instagram, X, Facebook, to Fediverse. And I like it.

Now I heard that Swiss is planning to add laws which are able to identify me, even as a German, and have all the rights to read my drive stuff if they want to. It’s not possible for me to trust them anymore.

So they choice is really thin out there. I could host my own NextCloud instance, and I did A LOT of times on my webspace and every time an updates comes, it brakes and I loose all my stuff. I don't want this and I don't want the overhead to fix this stuff or make sure, I can go back. 99% of all updates didn't even let me login anymore. No login at all. Whatever ... I thought about a NAS. Before the NAS, there is an OpenWRT router with AdGuard Home and Wireguard VPN.

So. Is this the end for my chase of a trustworthy Contact, Calender, Drive? If I buy this, I am on the most independent stuff possible? (I don't want a big server or something like this - I just want to settle down and don't switch companies because their country decided to get the next NSA).

And if so: Which one is good in terms of privacy? Synology? QNAP? I would buy a 2 bay NAS where one drive is the clone of the other, so I can change drives, if one is dead, without worrying at all.

Thanks for reading, excuse me for my bad english, and thanks for your ideas in advance.

I'm currently running Deepseek on Linux with Ollama (installed via curl -fsSL https://ollama.com/install.sh | sh), and I specifically have to run it on my personal file server because it's the only computer in the house with enough memory for the larger models. Since it's running on the same system that has direct access to all my files, I'm more concerned about security than I would be if it was running on a dedicated server that just does AI. I'm really not knowledgeable on how AI actually works at the execution level, and I just wanted to ask whether Ollama is actually private and secure. I'm assuming it doesn't send my prompts anywhere since everything I've read lists that as the biggest advantage, but how exactly is the AI being executed on the system when you give it a command like ollama run deepseek-r1:32b and have it download files from where it's downloading from by default? Is it just downloading a regular executable and running that on the system, or is it more sandboxed than that? Is it possible for a malicious AI model to scan my files or do other things on the computer?

I have been upset recently by a colleague googling me and found my full name on several 3D Printing sites I used to use. I guess I signed in with my google account and so it just pops up now that I've deleted all my socials.

I have a fairly uncommon first + last combo so the cursory google search and then sending "delete my data" emails from the email they know from the 3 data brokers who popped up seems good and now just my linkedin is showing (this is the ideal state).

Is there more I'm missing? should I go for a deleteme subscription in case I missed anything? Other sources I should go to?

I really don't mind sending my own emails to these pests, but is that really all the services are doing? Or is there a backend I'm missing?

Is T-Mobile Fiber (in the US) friendly to Wireguard, or am I going to have blocking issues?

T-Mobile is installing fiber throughout our neighborhood. While I'm not a huge fan of T-Mobile, I actively loath Comcast, and that (or DSL) are currently our only options. At less cost for guaranteed Gb up/down, it's a no-brainer switch.

Except that we're always on VPN. I've got a perma-connection through Mullvad on the router, and a bypass for VPN the company my wife works for uses; there's no unencrypted anything going through the network provider. Comcast has never been an issue, but before I go through switching to T-Mobile it'd be nice to confirm that they aren't going to try to block VPN traffic.

As in the title, it's Wireguard; does anyone use anything else anymore? Don't answer that; it's rhetorical.

Can anyone in the US confirm they're successfully using Wireguard on T-Mobile Fiber?

Since Monero is a privacy coin, why is there no libre monero app available without any anti-features? There's a Zcash app, a couple of bitcoin apps, who no Monero?

https://search.f-droid.org/?q=Monero&lang=en

I don't use the standard that if something is on F-Droid then it's private. I check that an app does not have any anti-features to know that it can be used anonymously

The scariest part of this recent news is that TM Signal seem(ed) to be interoperable. People using TM Signal could interact with actual Signal users. How are you to know whether or not your groups have people using bastardized versions of Signal? Are things like Session interoperable with Signal?

cross-posted from: https://feddit.org/post/12078124

The author addresses the issue.

So, first off, to make it for daily browsing use I did some basic alterations to the browser by allowing it to keep history, caches, cookies, disabling always-on incognito, and so on. I also installed my favorite addons (Dark Reader, Sponsorblock, I try to be as minimalistic in my choices as possible). This of course harms the privacy, but you can just ctrl+shift+p to basically turn all of that shit off when you decide you need to get serious. I kept the letterboxing on, its hard to get used to initially but after about a month of using Mullvad as a daily driver I got used to it. It seems most sites aren't able to detect my alterations to the browser.

I don't think any other privacy browser spin (Librewolf, Waterfox, Brave, Tor Browser etc) comes anywhere close to the snappiness and privacy intersection of Mullvad Browser. I'm able to skirt bans due to using anonymity services trivially and the captchas are short and quick and not a never-ending slug fest. Its good enough at faking a unique identity out of the box that most things cannot tell that its fake. I'm in such love that I'm going to swap away from my current vpn (IVPN, sub should end in November) to Mullvad due to how well polished this project is. I'm really interested if their multihop service can get around VPN IP bans better than Tor can.

Kudos to the Mullvad team 🥂 I hope you make an android version soon!

hi, are there any cools peeps here that use RSS feed for news articles? like say i only wanted to read news about "red bees" how would u do it pls?

I've seen a lot of people on the community say that brave is bad and has made quite a lot of questionable decisions. But Firefox itself also has made equally bad decisions. Mozilla has faced ongoing criticism regarding their default settings, their approach toward users, the high compensation of their CEO at over $3 million USD annually, and their investments in various companies that may not align directly with their core mission. Additionally, there have been instances where Firefox has implemented a temporary, one-time tracker that transmits certain data to Google during the initial installation on Windows or Mac systems. Brave has also undoubtedly made such decisions as well but the point here is that Both Firefox AND Brave have made questionable decisions and to specifically dunk on brave just because it's chromium is unfair in my opinion. That's all, thanks for reading my post :)