Don't worry guys its only for specific high-danger events like 'crowded areas', easy enough to avoid

I think people who've had bank accounts frozen or seized by their government for attending a protest might disagree with you

I haven’t tried them for online shopping yet.

They mostly work from what I've used, but since websites are able to tell them apart from regular credit cards it's up to them to decide. YMMV but most subscriptions won't allow a prepaid card to be used as payment, but for one-off purchases they typically work fine

It is getting worse though. I'm getting more and more "payment processor declined card" errors while using them even on sites that used to accept them. I think in the past they've been kinda obscure but now they're rising in popularity as people try to protect their privacy. And so more sites are cracking down on them

It's kind of like VoIP numbers. They used to work for SMS verification everywhere but now it's pretty rare to find any website that won't detect and block them

In this day and age if you don't see the value of a decentralised currency that no government can control, you're very naive

It has to be a mobile device with a phone number. When I tried this out a while ago the QR code prompts your phone to open its SMS app to send a text message. It can't be opened on a desktop

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Lmao fuck them 😂 the grapheneOS forum is exactly where this info belongs so the devs can patch any vulnerabilities. As if companies like cellebrite care if (other) malicious actors get their hands on the exploits. They just don't want the the vulnerabilities to be fixed so they can keep using them

• You have to hand over a huge amount of personal info about yourself & others to estate agents when renting a property - which they then sell to advertisers & you have no opt-out
• Similarly, landords can require you to use a proprietary app for rent payments, which of course collects & sells your private data too
• Burner phones are effectively illegal (telcos are required to collect & retain ID of every phone number they register)
• Telcos and ISPs are required to collect & retain logs of all your activities for a minimum of two years
• In some cities police can detain & search you & your property for no reason, and require you to remove any facial coverings
• It's illegal to refuse to hand over passwords to cops (6 years jail is the max term I think)
• Police can hack your device, take over your social media, delete or modify your data for an investigation, or survey any digital device if they "think it is likely to be used by someone subject to a warrant" (this particular bill was announced and then rushed through parliament in less than 24 hours to give the public as little time as possible to protest it
• Some social media sites (including github(wtf)) are now required to age-verify all users beginning next month. Which will obviously lead to mass leaks & breaches of private data which the gov will turn a blind eye to

This is Australia. I hate it here

It's the same with ID verification. For your safety you need to start giving random websites your drivers license or passport..

Shoot the cameras down

Exactly. Kmart did a similar trial a while back. This ruling will just open the floodgates for every company to roll out AI-powered facial recognition cameras everywhere

This might be a stupid question but when using ashai can you run any normal linux software or does it have to be specifically built for arm64/apple silicon?

The threat of public wifi isn't as big of a deal as it used to be. Before widespread VPNs and when internet traffic was unencrypted, anything you transmitted could be read by someone else on the network. But nowadays all an eavesdropper would see is what websites you're connecting to (without a VPN) or the VPN if you are using one. Happy to be corrected if I'm mistaken though

Make sure you don't drive either. They scan number plates too

At this rate we might finally see the year of the Linux desktop. I don't know anyone who likes Windows 11 it's been bad enough to convert even die-hard Windows fans to Linux

I was talking to a friend the other day and she mentioned she'd searched for a product online and then started getting ads for it, and asked how often it'd happened to me. She was very surprised when I said never and I explained that I'd been using an ad blocker for the last 15 years. And by the end of our conversation I'd walked her through setting it up on her devices and now she's one step closer to regaining her privacy

I often find people really aren't happy with their privacy being undermined but they don't realise there are things they can do about it. They'll say things like "well it's happening to everyone else too" as a coping mechanism but it's not something they want. More education is critical

I still remember the Mozilla Internet Application Suite before the browser part was spun off into Firefox and the email into Thunderbird. Some of their moves have been disappointing but I'll still never use Chrome

See people here want gambling ads banned, but the PM has ties to gambling lobby groupa so the gov won't touch it. But when it comes to laws nobody wants like giving cops more invasive surveillance power the government can suddenly expedite them at record speed. We live in a fake democracy

You think this isn't coming to other devices? Google will presumably add this to Android and apps will follow suit by looking to the OS to verify your age so other forks will probably have to add it. Linux on smartphones is dead in the water so what's the alternative?

This is pretty much every government's response to a big sensitive data leak. Draft laws requiring companies to collect even more of it to be stolen

There's a reason prices for everything increase after they announce inflation is up