#internet storage

[nolan-sims]

Happy New Year ✨️

[agir1ukn0w]

no joke y'all---I just got back from a walk to get some ice cream in town, and I happened to glance in the window of a house that's near where I live (their curtains were wide open so I wasn't being a creep or anything), and LO AND BEHOLD this random person just happens to be watching the latest episode of severance...and it's this scene

and I was like

[unquietspiritao3]

somewhere, sometime (pretty recently i’d say), the taskmaster team had an actual series of meetings about how, as a marketing strategy, they were going to lean more into the greg/alex shipping

and the thing is, what they’re doing—the seth meyers fic reading, the nyc date video, the valentine’s day video, etc.—could’ve easily come across as cynically contrived and uncomfortably forced if not for the fact that it started organically. greg and alex are clearly fully on board bc why wouldn’t they be? they kept bringing up the fic before they even knew it was good marketing

i would kill for a recording of those meetings though

[amalgamasreal]

On Personal InfoSec

Been awhile since I've had one of these posts but I figure with all that's going on in the world it's time to make another one of these posts and get some stuff out there for people. A lot of the information I'm going to go over you can find here:

So if you'd like to just click the link and ignore the rest of the post that's fine, I strongly recommend checking out the Privacy Guides.

Browsers:

There's a number to go with but for this post going forward I'm going to recommend Firefox. I know that the Privacy Guides lists Brave and Safari as possible options but Brave is Chrome based now and Safari has ties to Apple. Mullvad is also an option but that's for your more experienced users so I'll leave that up to them to work out.

Browser Extensions:

uBlock Origin: content blocker that blocks ads, trackers, and fingerprinting scripts. Notable for being the only ad blocker that still works on Youtube.

Privacy Badger: Content blocker that specifically blocks trackers and fingerprinting scripts. This one will catch things that uBlock doesn't catch but does not work for ads.

Facebook Container: "but I don't have facebook" you might say. Doesn't matter, Meta/Facebook still has trackers out there in EVERYTHING and this containerizes them off away from everything else.

Bitwarden: Password vaulting software, don't trust the password saving features of your browsers, this has multiple layers of security to prevent your passwords from being stolen.

ClearURLs: Allows you to copy and paste URL's without any trackers attached to them.

VPN:

Note: VPN software doesn't make you anonymous, no matter what your favorite youtuber tells you, but it does make it harder for your data to be tracked and it makes it less open for whatever network you're presently connected to.

Mozilla VPN: If you get the annual subscription it's ~$60/year and it comes with an extension that you can install into Firefox.

Proton VPN: Has easily the most amount of countries serviced, can take cash payments, and does offer port forwarding.

Email Provider:

Note: By now you've probably realized that Gmail, Outlook, and basically all of the major "free" e-mail service providers are scraping your e-mail data to use for ad data. There are more secure services that can get you away from that but if you'd like the same storage levels you have on Gmail/Outlook.com you'll need to pay.

Proton Mail: Secure, end-to-end encrypted, and fairly easy to setup and use. Offers a free option up to 1gb

Tuta: Secure, end-to-end encrypted, been around a very long time, and offers a free option up to 1gb.

Email Client:

Thunderbird if you're on Windows or Linux

Apple Mail if you're on macOS

Cloud Storage:

Proton Drive: Encrypted cloud storage from the same people as Proton Mail.

Tresorit: Encrypted cloud storage owned by the national postal service of Switzerland. Received MULTIPLE awards for their security stats.

Peergos: decentralized and open-source, allows for you to set up your own cloud storage, but will require a certain level of expertise.

Microsoft Office Replacements:

LibreOffice: free and open-source, updates regularly, and has the majority of the same functions as base level Microsoft Office.

OnlyOffice: cloud-based, free, and open source.

Chat Clients:

Note: As you've heard SMS and even WhatsApp and some other popular chat clients are basically open season right now. These are a couple of options to replace those.

Signal: Provides IM and calling securely and encrypted, has multiple layers of data hardening to prevent intrusion and exfil of data.

Molly (Android OS only): Alternative client to Signal. Routes communications through the TOR Network.

Briar: Encrypted IM client that connects to other clients through the TOR Network, can also chat via wifi or bluetooth.

Now for the last bit, I know that the majority of people are on Windows or macOS, but if you can get on Linux I would strongly recommend it. pop_OS, Ubuntu, and Mint are super easy distros to use and install. They all have very easy to follow instructions on how to install them on your PC and if you'd like to just test them out all you need is a thumb drive to boot off of to run in demo mode.

If you game through Steam their Proton emulator in compatibility mode works wonders, I'm presently playing a major studio game that released in 2024 with no Linux support on it and once I got my drivers installed it's looked great. There are some learning curves to get around, but the benefit of the Linux community is that there's always people out there willing to help.

I hope some of this information helps you and look out for yourself, it's starting to look scarier than normal out there.

[ramenheim]

Hey what's the best way to ask around for fellow trans+queer roomies; we've two rooms that are tentatively offered, but the guy we asked isn't gonna give us an answer for a few weeks I fear. 😬

[doukeshi-kun]

downloaded love&deepspace and it was fun (i just played the tutorial). where's sylus tho. how do i get that ass. how much do i have to spend. how many meals i can skip to get him lmao

[mollypaup]

Sometimes I think "perhaps I am engaging in some needless paranoia by compulsively downloading all of my favorite things and making a personal archive of them all" then something I like stops being available online and I go "oh, no I am extremely reasonable about doing this"

[pbs-princess]

shoutout to my thousands of screenshots #myscreenshots

[stcries]

bless my internet mother, @prsonatm, for logging into my zzz account for the anniversary and FINALLY BRINGING MY MANS HOME.

[catboywizard]

me telling my dad that we’re not doing anything for my birthday so i don’t have to see him hehe

[blogginbogg]

oobh i got plany off time.

[darkshrimpemotions]

Heads up, if you need cloud storage, iDrive is cheaper than OneDrive, better value, and provides encryption for your stored data.

A year of iDrive is $69.95 for the first year and $99.95 after that. For 5 TB.

I'm currently paying almost $150 a year for 2 TB of OneDrive storage and the "privilege" of Microsoft trying to trojan horse AI into my life every fucking other week.

For less than half that I can get over double the storage, encryption, and no more Microsoft having all my data.

[sarcasmchandlerbing]

Filip Gustavsson living in a lodge

Elvis Merzļikins as a tattoo artist

Andrei Svechnikov as a cowboy

Joel Eriksson Ek as a magician

Cole Caufield as a birthday clown

Kirill Kaprizov as a chef

[blackmoreops]

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[sanguineshade]

I have wifi at home yippee

[running-in-the-dark]

had to delete the tumblr app from my phone a few days ago - I kept automatically opening it up, and it used up all my data (so I kept having to pay for more) 😬 right now I've got wifi so wanted to check in lol

we got our kitchen a couple of days ago and we're building it now - it's going well, we should be done by the end of next week I think (since I can't do everything on my own while my partner is at work during the week)