I don’t consider successors to necessarily obsolete their predecessor. People still use and appreciate vinyl records despite having several successors (including magnetic tape which eventually lost ground to vinyl in the end, amid digital successors).

The story:

https://slrpnk.net/post/34202438

A commenter wrote:

“Just as stubbing your toe serves to remind you that you are real and alive, days-long server outages remind us that we are bare metal and not on a government-compromised cloud.”

Indeed!

Have you never heard SSNs called slave surveillance numbers? It’s the same thing. They are synonyms – borne from the fact that what was originally simply intended as a primary key in the DB of one gov administration became a global identifier ripe for abuse.

The US does not even allow databreach victims to become informed of who handled their data prior to the breach:

https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/39815800

Better headline / TL;DR:

🇺🇸 Entire US social security DB¹ was exfiltrated by Elon’s DOGE and leaked to Cloudflare². (¹ SSN, name, home address, medical+bank+credit card info, tax details, work histories,…; ² corp that already sees ~⅓ of all your web traffic)

Interesting extracts here.

Thanks, but it just went back up so it may have all sync’d up.

Graphene is Android. Why would a bank’s app not work? @TheHobbyist@lemmy.zip suggests that some banks proactively detect and block Graphene, while other banks’ apps simply accidentally fail on Graphene. Is accidental incompatibility really a notable issue on Graphene?

It’s no longer a bad gateway error, but it’s simply non-responsive.

No, I figured if I could recall the name I could get a nostalgic fix by searching it. I found this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DESQview

I recall DESQview was much lighter weight and better performing than Windows, but had limitations. I did not recall that the windows were text only within, but that’s starting to fill some holes in my memory.

To be fair, I was quite vague. I think there are multiple right answers… but I recalled one starting w/a ‘D’ and that’s what I was trying to recall.

In those days, DOS was the OS. Windows and DESQview were just window manager apps that ran other apps.

What is that? I don’t think that’s what I had in mind. I think it’s DESQview I was trying to think of. Anyway, not important… it was just driving me nuts I could not remember.

I saw nothing on f-droid. If there is no FOSS app on AOS, you might want to check app repos for linux phones, if you are open to migration. This FOSDEM presentation goes through them:

https://video.fosdem.org/2026/ub4132/VH3GYN-linux-phone-app-ecosystem-2026.av1.webm

Back down again!

Originally ZFS could not be a boot disk because of the license issue. There was some other important feature that was denied to linux users, originally (forgot what it was). Apparently the booting restriction was eventually overcome. I don’t really grasp how the licensing changed that made booting possible.

Conceptually ZFS was relatively superior to all other filesystems. If it’s fully liberated, I don’t get why it is not more popular. I might expect it to be a default of sorts when installing Debian.

I have one as well, mothballed, which is why the article caught my attention. Then I saw all the mention of Cloudflare and thought: oh fuck, so it needs a wheelchair with a mouth joystick, in effect.

What originally attracted me was running a full-blown ZFS, which was too license encumbered to be fully featured in linux or bsd, IIRC. I never got around to doing much with it. And now I wonder if ZFS is finally fully liberated on a FOSS platform.

B&M shops also implement dynamic pricing. So we must wonder if they grab MAC addresses as people enter and adjust cat food prices based on proportion of MAC addresses from customers in the Apple ranges.

One of the core purposes of Tor Browser is to reduce browser-fingerprint uniqueness. I can’t say whether the Apple version requires compromises on that, but it’d be alarming if TB on iOS failed to at least mask the Apple factor. Worth noting that adding extensions to Tor Browser can compromise the anti-browserprinting effect.

Tor Browser is not just for onion services. You should be able to reach clearnet sites using exit nodes and that should be automatic.

I would not worry about adding congestion to the Tor network. The Tor community relies on cover traffic to some extent.

it’s back up

FWIW, as someone working in fintech in the EU, that “KYC over-achievement” is not as overzealous as you think it is.

It is not as reckless in the EU as it is in the USA, but still overzealous in the EU. Examples:

• Guy in Finland was refused a home mortgage because his bank transactions revealed that he buys a lot of wine. Alcohol consumption was tracked and seen as a risk for lending.
• Some banks’ privacy policies openly admit that they keep records of the IP address for the purpose of tracking geolocation. Yes, in Europe. And yes, it violates GDPR Art.5 (data minimisation).
• No GSM number? No account. Some banks don’t even just accept what number you give them – they demand proof from the GSM carrier that the number belongs to the applicant (even in a region that mandates GSM registration).
• ID card on file at a bank expired. What does the bank do? They simply cut off the card, even if it’s a Friday and the bank doesn’t reopen until next week. That is how they communicate to the customer that they need to provide an updated document. No, people’s identity does not change. It is still the same person.
• Some EU banks now refuse to give customers a statement of account on paper, thus forcing them online.
• Some EU banks collect frivilous data for marketing purposes which they treat as “legitimate interest”. They write this in the privacy policy. People can opt-out, but for me it’s an abuse that it’s not the other way around. It should be opt-in.

Not KYC but still an abuse: All EU banks with mobile apps force customers to obtain their closed-source app from Google or Apple, who then collects the IMEI number of the user, their GSM number, and tracks which apps they download so Google or Apple has a record of where people do their banking. Likewise, some banks choose Microsoft or Google for their email service and they never provide a PGP key. In this case MS or Google sees where people bank and their msg payloads.

None of that privacy abuse is legally necessary or required to execute the contract.

And, at least at my place of employment, we take the PII protection very seriously because of GDPR.

You could only express that in terms of your own place of employment. The DPAs in most member states report annually being understaffed. They are up to their necks in an unsurmountable ocean of Art.77 complaints because the GDPR is widely ignored.