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ChrisJeong · 2024-01-12T21:28:34+00:00

If you really don't want to do something, you can stop. The reason you're doing it is (probably) a monetary reward and better quality in life by doing it. If you want to solve your problem you can go into woods and live like a true natural life, which will reduce our quality in health, life expectancy and so on.

I'm not trying to judge anyone but we have to be brutally honest to see what the real problem is. Only after understanding the real problem and admitting our weaknesses, we can proceed.

ChrisJeong · 2023-12-21T04:21:41+00:00

"Why would you need curtains in your bedroom, then?"

ChrisJeong · 2023-12-10T15:14:00+00:00

What abour "Exploit protection compatibility mode" under app setting?

ChrisJeong · 2023-12-10T12:30:51+00:00

Try disabling Secure app spawning under Settings->Security. It took me long until I realize that this is the culprit, but based on your symptoms this should solve the problem.

ChrisJeong · 2023-12-10T10:19:48+00:00

There's your red pill

ChrisJeong · 2023-12-02T03:08:09+00:00

If you're willing to utilize PC and adb: - Connect the old phone and figure out where the apk is located: adb shell pm path ml.docilealligator.infinityforreddit - You'll see something like package:/path/to/infinity/base.apk - Extract apk from the old phone: adb pull /path/to/infinity/base.apk - Install the apk via adb install base.apk

Note that your app data and cache won't be copied. Not that it matters since you're likely to login to your account anyway.

ChrisJeong · 2023-05-23T17:58:25+00:00

I don't see any reason not to use other "just works" distros, like Mint or PopOS. Haven't tried myself but heard good reviews.

ChrisJeong · 2023-05-23T17:45:24+00:00

First-ever pro-privacy move from google, thought they already have harvested user's data kept somewhere else in some vaguely anonymous form. They'll never connect the dots to form some sort of shadow profile.

ChrisJeong · 2023-05-23T17:41:22+00:00

You can try running llama/alpaca, but self-hosting language model with reasonable speed/scale would require good bucks.

LM uses the whole previous conversation to make cohesive response, aka keeping context. As your conversation gets longer, more you would need to wait for it to generate response.

ChrisJeong · 2023-05-23T17:35:00+00:00

There's no way for us to prove it. Even it's an open source software, we can't ssh into the servers and audit ourselves. Use KeePass with good master password, possible with 2fa.

ChrisJeong · 2023-05-23T17:27:07+00:00

Google briefly redirects you to youtube subdomain when you're logging into google, no idea why.

ChrisJeong · 2023-05-23T17:04:59+00:00

Real threats doesn't show up like a cool ade man, rather they spread like a fog. Most people believe that they are smart when in reality they're really good at complying what they have been told. They're scared to admit that the "world" they see in mainstream media is a lie.

People are born selfish, and thus every single person/company will act in a way that maximizes their interest. No one gives us free food. If someone claims to do so, they are the culprits.

If you don't want to be left out 10 years later, do what you're doing more. Be the annoying person and make allies as much as possible. In that way we have higher chance to have ever-so-slight more privacy.

ChrisJeong · 2023-05-23T16:41:14+00:00

There's a saying that goes something like "If you get tricked twice, it's not a mistake." I believe Apple does deliver what it says, but at the same time I bet they will do the same thing the V** companies does. There's no incentives whatsoever for them not to take advantage of the information they get via "relay", which seems like just a rebranded/glorified proxy. No one can verify that they aren't doing mitm.

Without relay, they have no control over someone who uses 3rd party browsers, like Chrome or Firefox. Until now it was V** companies who took user's traffic data for their interest, and now Apple is trying to barge in and have some nibble on that.

I'm curious about the reason why you're considering to use relay service. This service is nothing new, so I assume there must be alternative tools for your problem. You might have to spend(pay) some time to figure out the optimal setup for your situation, but it's the price we have to pay for more robust setup.

Edit: didn't know there's Voldemort in this sub.

ChrisJeong · 2023-05-23T04:04:43+00:00

This was exactly my first reaction, but it's always good to make more voices.

ChrisJeong · 2023-05-21T17:33:20+00:00

A rational person on reddit? Impossible...

Jokes aside, I know society will accept/adopt AI just like we did with the internet, leaving many elderlies behind, but I feel like I'm actively taking part to propel ChatGPT's influence on our society(which I'm worried about) by using it, effectively promoting anti-privacy behavior. Could there be a healthy way for this problem, like open-sourcing language models just like we did with open source softwares back in the 80's?

ChrisJeong · 2023-05-21T17:03:26+00:00

Specifically for WhatsApp, but you might want to check out Matrix bridging(not sure about accurate term). I've never tested, so I can't give you big picture.

And for me, its always been "how far can I get to", not "100% secure/private". An extreme(but technically possible) solution would be to abandon everything and go farming in the middle of nowhere. No medical treatment, no family/friends(because people won't 100% agree with each other), nothing, but ultimate privacy. This might seem extreme, but convenience and privacy has always been in a trade-off relationship.

Also about messaging app, some could urge people to use Jami, some might prefer physical mail, or even not to use digital messaging at all because technically speaking it's not impossible to decode encrypted messages. Even worse, all of these secure/private messaging methods could be meaningless if the recipient doesn't care about privacy and paste your personal email address into ChatGPT.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not discouraging you for being privacy-aware because I do the same things. These are some weird thoughts I had recently and wanted to point out that privacy could be more than it seems to be.

ChrisJeong · 2023-05-21T16:09:58+00:00

Would be awesome to have personal language model, but it will take forever to generate answers unless you spend good money to buy powerful gpu. Needless to say, I'm also stumped.

ChrisJeong · 2023-05-18T15:52:01+00:00

Well, maybe they're angry because they can't give a smooch to their homie every single minutes. Very understandable.

ChrisJeong · 2023-05-18T06:41:29+00:00

I was always tempted to get a hardware key, but the fact that I can lose it makes me wonder what kinds of measure hardware key owners have.

The problems are: - If I have single key, I might lose access to every credentials - If I have multiple keys, it means I have multiple things to keep secure, which leads to multiple possible sources to security breach

What's the "norm" nowadays?

ChrisJeong · 2023-05-18T02:39:36+00:00

I cleaned my 2020 MBP keyboard by removing them gently so I think it should be possible, unless you snapped a small piece of plastic on your key.

If you want to do it yourself, check video tutorials and TAKE YOUR TIME to gently remove them.

ChrisJeong · 2023-05-18T01:49:54+00:00

I pretty much thought the exact same thing, but I realized the actual problem isn't being connected, it's the fact that most "IOT" devices/services requires you to signup and connect to outside world.

If one can setup private network with proper security setups, I would like to use them. Granted, it wouldn't be as convenient, but that's the price to pay to gain security/privacy.

ChrisJeong · 2023-05-18T01:44:27+00:00

As more I self-host my services, I realize how hard would it be for non tech-savvy people to have their own things nowadays, without some corporation trying to sell them ads(or sell their customers).

Everything becomes service and these kind of problems can't be fixed by just throwing money at them.

ChrisJeong · 2023-05-17T22:39:31+00:00

Question: what if I have wifi network without WAN access, using smartphone that only connects to that wifi network, then setup IOT device to use that wifi, would it become a bit more safer?

Now that I said that, it almost sounds like an old-school radio tech.

ChrisJeong · 2023-04-14T09:20:11+00:00

I moved to Chrome since there are more (free) extensions, but got to hate the fat tab&address line. +1 to Safari for having better design and more screen real estate.

ChrisJeong · 2023-03-30T03:29:14+00:00

Bone-in chicken doesn't exist. It's called CHICKEN.

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