I wanted to list and ask for platforms that can substitute YouTube.

Here it's:

• NASA+, Space and Astronomy Videos.
• Vimeo, Professional Videos and Documentaries.
• TED, Talks and presentations.
• PeerTube, there is not a lot of videos, but some creators upload there.
• ARTE, Euro documantries and analysis.
• RedBull TV, Sports related videos.
• RTE Player, Journalism.
• BBC videos, diverse topics.
• NFB Films, Canadian Films.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/27168042

Eric Murphy makes good videos regarding internet privacy and they have helped me slowly switch from certain services.

My words of advice: start small and make weekly goals to migrate from services, as some progress is better than no progress.

Go to:

https://gemini.google.com/extensions

https://myactivity.google.com/product/gemini

We are excited to announce that F-Droid has been awarded $396,044 from the Open Technology Fund’s FOSS Sustainability Fund. This grant is specifically designed to support free and open-source software (FOSS) projects in addressing long-term sustainability challenges, and we are honored to be among the recipients.

cross-posted from: https://leminal.space/post/8396158

I've used LineageOS with microG on my Oneplus 6 for years — so happily, in fact, that I haven't bothered with major updates since version 17 (Android 10). Oops!

Now I've been flashing updates to an older phone, and I might as well continue getting my daily driver up to date. I'm going to dirty flash my way up to the current version (21). But I'm rusty as all heck, and the upgrade instructions seem to have changed since last:

1. Back in '21 I recall being recommended to disable screenlock (fingerprint/PIN/pattern, etc) before upgrading. Is that still a thing?
2. With a/b slot devices it used to be necessary to flash ROMs twice or use a copy-partitions or simiilar zip file. The instructions make no mention of it, is that rolled into the upgrade package now?
3. Finally, is it safe to just upgrade directly from LOS/mG v18 to v21?

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/17202620

I have OnePlus 7 Pro that I successfully flashed with LineageOS 21 with MicroG. Do you have some interesting apps or ideas to take advantage of it? I thought of some Magisk modules. Maybe someone is more experience than me! This is the spare smartphone, the main one is GrapheneOS, so I don't mind breaking stuff.

Some companies are easy to quit. If I decide I don't like Coca-Cola anymore I can simply stop drinking Coke. Sure, the company makes more than just Coke, so I would need to do some research to figure out which products they do and don't make, but it's theoretically possible.

Quitting Google isn't like that. It makes many products, many of which you depend on to live your digital life. Leaving a company like that is like a divorce, according to an expert I talked to. "It's not easy, but you feel so much better at the other side," said Janet Vertesi, a sociology professor at Princeton who publishes work on human computer interaction. "Think of a friend who gets a divorce and is so happy to be out. That could be you. That's how it feels to leave Google."

She'd know. Vertesi researches NASA's robotic spacecraft teams and also publishes work on human computer interaction. In March 2012, after Google significantly changed its privacy policies, she decided to stop using Google entirely. Ver

cross-posted from: https://sopuli.xyz/post/13155149

other people’s iPhones more intrusive than other people’s droids

According to the linked research, all iPhones are spying on everyone within Wi-Fi range. If your phone of any kind is squawking wi-fi, all in-range iPhones are grabbing various bits of data like your MAC address and the SSIDs your phone normally looks for (e.g. your home SSID) and reports that back to Apple along with time and location data. The same study could not say the same for Google. So other people’s iPhones are more of a privacy intrusion to you than other people’s droids.

your own iPhone is less intrusive than your own droid when navigating

However, another study shows an inversion between Apple and Google when it comes to what you own and use for navigation. If you use an iPhone for navigation, the iPhone will only send one or two BSSIDs near you to Appl

The GPS receiver in Androids takes a long time to acquire satellites. I find that suspicious because back in the days of TomTom and Garmin, satellite acquisition was only slow on the first bootup or after being powered on far from home. But those dedicated satnavs seemed better at remembering satellite data. It seems like Android might be deliberately slow in order to incentivize users turning on “Google Location Services” (GLS). I also notice OSMand sometimes thinks I’m moving along a few meters away, sometimes on another parallel street. I did not see that degree of inaccuracy on TomTom or Garmin.

I will not agree to GLS because I will not feed Google. So how can I improve the speed of getting a fix and the accuracy?

I know there is an app that uses the phone’s other sensors to track position from an origin that you specify. It claims to not even need GPS. I still have to try that. But it might be useful if it would use GPS to periodically recalibrate.

Is there any free-world way

I am trying to take control of my digital footprint and not trust big tech with my privacy.

The big step is to #degoogle my life. In order to do that, ironically, I need to buy a google pixel😁

I would like to collect the scenarios in which people are forced to enter Google’s #walledGarden (that is, to establish and/or maintain an account).

If someone needs a Google service to access something essential like healthcare or education, that’s what I want to hear about. To inspire a list of things that are “essential” I had a look at human rights law to derive this list:

• right to life
• healthcare
• freedom of expression
• freedom of assembly and of association
• right to education
• right to engage in work and access to placement services
• fair and just working conditions
• social security and social assistance
• consumer protection
• right to vote
• right to petition
• right of access to (government) documents
• right to a nationality (passport acquisition)
• right of equal access to public service in his country

Below is what I have encountered personally, which serves as an example of the kind of experiences I want to hear about:

• Google’s Playstore is a gate-ke

geteilt von: https://feddit.de/post/9709788

"Thema: Ungoogle Your Life oder Reduziere deinen Datenoutput

Kurze Begriffserklärung: Was ist Tracking

Wie Tracking in Apps die Sicherheit und den Datenschutz unnötig gefährdet Was mit den gesammelten Daten noch verfolgt wird Was trackt Google an Daten Zusätzliche Probleme (Cloud Act und Freedom Act: in den USA) Was bedeutet der Verzicht auf die Google-Dienste? Die Liste der Dienste ist lang. Hier nur die Wichtigsten der weit über 100 Dienste: Suche: Text, Bilder, Flüge, Bücher, Reisen, Videos, Finanzen, News, ... Kommunikation: Chat, Classroom, Fonts, Meet, VoiP, Messages, ... Produktivität: Gboard, Gmail, Kalender, Charts, Docs, Drive, Translate Karten: Maps, StreetView, Sky, Earth Software: PlayStore, Chrome, Android, Wallet, Auto, Pay, Firefox, Flutter, Gemini Hardware: ChromeBook, Pixel Phones, Nest, ChromeCast, FitBit, Glass, Stadia

This is the ASN script by Mike Kuketz and maloe. It is used to block the IP address spaces of Google and other companies. Originally it was developed for IPFire. However, it also works with AFWall and iptables.

I also have a modified version for macOS pf if anyone needs it.

Terminal:

Download:

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        curl -O https://notabug.org/maloe/ASN_IPFire_Script/raw/master/asn_ipfire.sh
    chmod +x asn_ipfire.sh


  

Run:

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        ./asn_ipfire.sh --add "Google,Facebook,Twitter,Oracle,Acxiom"


  

If it is to be used with iptables then --iptables must be used instead of --add.

For AfWall use --afwall.

Any major company can be selected by typing in the appropriate name as shown here.

At the end the output file will be generated.