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I use Safari with Wipr and iCloud Private Relay, better than FF if you have Apple devices.

- June 2024. Mozilla acquires Anonym, an ad metrics firm.

- July 2024. Mozilla adds Privacy-Preserving Attribution (PPA), feature is enabled by default. Developed in cooperation with Meta (Facebook).

- Feb 2025. Mozilla updates its Privacy FAQ and TOS. "does not sell data about you." becomes "... in the way that most people think about it".

nukeron Lights, Camera, Tobacco? Smoking Scenes by TV Show, Network [pdf]

Truth Initiative's sixth annual analysis of tobacco imagery in popular entertainment finds increasingly pervasive smoking imagery in 2022's most popular streaming shows among 15-to 24-year-olds, music videos, as well as youth-rated movies.

nukeron NIST ion clock sets new record for most accurate clock

> ... vertical shift of a few centimeters could be measured

In what amount of time? Not instantly, right?

nukeron Let me pay for Firefox

The risk with paid Forefox will be privacy loss, because the app will need to verify somehow the paid status. So there will be some unique, personal licence on the device and Mozilla can identify users using payment info.

The licence will be likely checked via remote API on app start.

nukeron GPX Studio. Show, edit GPX files, route planning, file processing tools, MIT Lic

Awesome thing I use to plot my Garmin activities. Just sharing.

nukeron Blind to Disruption – The CEOs Who Missed the Future

> He founded Buick in 1904 and in 1908 set up General Motors. ... In 1910 Durant would be fired by his board. Undeterred, Durant founded Chevrolet, took it public and in 1916 did a hostile takeover of GM and fired the board. He got thrown out again by his new board in 1920 and died penniless managing a bowling alley.

There is no hope, after all :(

nukeron What would a Kubernetes 2.0 look like

No one yet mentioned AWS ECS and Fargate?

nukeron Websites are tracking you via browser fingerprinting

> What makes you disqualify Firefox from being a "proper open source browser"?

- June 2024. Mozilla acquires Anonym, an ad metrics firm.

- July 2024. Mozilla adds Privacy-Preserving Attribution (PPA), feature is enabled by default. Developed in cooperation with Meta (Facebook).

- Feb 2025. Mozilla updates its Privacy FAQ and TOS. "does not sell data about you." becomes "... in the way that most people think about it".

nukeron GPS Needs to Toughen Up, or Get Trampled Down

But how wide is the signal? How much of spectrum should one jam?

nukeron Covert web-to-app tracking via localhost on Android

> 1. User logged into FB or IG app. The app runs in background, and listens for incoming traffic on specific ports.

I happened to be immune, I disabled Background App Refresh in iOS settings. All app notifications still work, except WhatsApp :(

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/any-reason-to-use-backg...

nukeron GPS Needs to Toughen Up, or Get Trampled Down

Should use CDMA, better resistance from jamming

nukeron YouTube's new ads will ruin the best part of a video on purpose

And Safari with Wipr. uBlock Lite for Safari is in beta too.

nukeron Ask HN: Email Provider for Main Account?

What if you lapse domain renewal for some reason and someone buys it? Some serious accident or life event? I do the same but i use icloud as main one.

nukeron Google has most of my email because it has all of yours (2014)

> just a waste of life to spend so much time to de-google, de-openai, de-meta, de-microsoft your life.

Glad you did not include "de-apple". iCloud is now my only email provider, I moved to it many years ago. With my own domain too.

nukeron I've largely replaced Google with ChatGPT for looking things up

But you can still search without being logged in on Google, privacy wise it is better. All my browsing is in Private tabs with iCloud Private Relay on.

nukeron How I blog with Obsidian, Hugo, GitHub, and Cloudflare

> GitHub and Cloudflare can do these things at any moment

I hosted mine in AWS S3 with CloudFront for Https and custom domain. Using Hugo too. I wrote Cloudformation template for whole setup [0], just create the CFN stack using template in AWS. Then copy public html to S3 using "aws s3 sync" and done!

[0] https://github.com/neutor/bite-sized-aws/blob/main/static-s3...

nukeron Apple iCloud Mail not pushing new emails to device on iOS 18.3.2

Also

https://old.reddit.com/r/fastmail/comments/1i8qyul/push_emai...

https://old.reddit.com/r/ios/comments/1fnnmh0/email_no_longe...

nukeron The DOJ still wants Google to sell off Chrome

I'm not sure what exactly Doubleclick network is, but my proposal is - Google keeps Search + all Ads related stuff, including whatever doubleclick is.

What Google loses is everything client (user) side: Chrome, Android, Gmail and other personal cloud services. Lets call it Foogle :)

Foogle can charge Samsung et al. for its Android and personal cloud services it is running. And use it in its own Pixel devices too. And may elect to make it hard for Google to sniff it, like droppung doobleclick cookies in Foogle Chrome, provide "Foogle Private Relay", et cetera.

nukeron The DOJ still wants Google to sell off Chrome

> what is the business model that will sustain [Chrome] development

Separate Search + Google Ads platform as company A, Android + Chrome + Gmail as company B.

It will choke the user-data flow that Google Ads platform is feeding on. This opens doors to new competing search engines!

Android + Chrome + Gmail needs to be bundled with hardware purchases, licensed by HW vendors. Like Apple does with Safari + iCloud. This will create incentive to make them actually privacy focused, and could be its selling point.

nukeron The DOJ still wants Google to sell off Chrome

> Keep Google Chrome. Separate search. Sell it to private equity.

This. If Search + Google Ads is independent from Android + Chrome + Gmail, it will choke the user-data flow that Google Ads platform is feeding on. This opens doors to new competing search engines!

Android + Chrome + Gmail needs to be bundled with hardware purchases, like Apple does with Safari + iCloud. This will create incentive to make them actually privacy focused, and could be its selling point. No need to feed Google Ads with data anymore!

Yeah, dreaming.

nukeron The DOJ still wants Google to sell off Chrome

Please don't lump Safari with the rest of them, drunk on ad-based revenue.

nukeron The DOJ still wants Google to sell off Chrome

I use Wipr in Safari on both, iOS and Mac. Small one time purchase each. And i enable only passive filters, not the active one, that requires page access.

nukeron Salt Typhoon hacked telcos in dozens of countries

This is big, right?

nukeron Build a Low-Cost Drone Using ESP32

> Telemetry is typically separate from control, which is separate from video. Everything is very short-range and non-IP.

Check out ExpressLRS, very long range, everyone is using it today.

https://www.expresslrs.org/

nukeron Nokia 5110 – Back from the Dead (2022)

Yep, all bait, no meat

nukeron 2400 phone providers may be shut down by the FCC for failing to stop robocalls

I think most numbers are scavenged from shipping details. Just delete or put an obvious fake phone number in address book of your online shop accounts. Valid address and email is enough for delivery.

nukeron Protecting undersea internet cables is a tech nightmare

Awesome long read about cable repairs. Ships, stories and people:

https://www.theverge.com/c/24070570/internet-cables-undersea...

nukeron Romanian court annuls result of presidential election first round

Yep. I just read this, following the wiki link of OP, and it starts make sense :(

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ia%C8%99i_pogrom

nukeron Forget CDK and AWS's insane costs. Pulumi and DigitalOcean to the rescue

> we run 2 stacks. One that basically cannot/should-not be deleted/refactored. VPC, RDS, critical S3 buckets

Why, dear god, you put VPC and RDS in one stack? They are much better off as separate CFN stacks.