you’re posting about your blog here. This is the 2nd link to your blog. There are no sources, links, referrals on your blog. Why should we trust you? Where do you get your information from?

I’m an introverted individual who prefers solitude. Reading and writing are my favorite habits. I read about tech, online privacy, digital minimalism, philosophy, etc. This blog is my personal corner where I express my thoughts and reflections.

“i read and i write about what i read” isn’t enough for me.

I wrote a blog post about encryption.

who are you?

most of my apps have automated backups. That backup folder is synced to my laptop by syncthing. This way i always have an up to date backup of my mobile. Might indeed be what you’re asking for.

one question though, lets say my phone did get lost and I got a new one. Would I just put syncthing on the new phone to send it all back?

you will need to import those exported backups to your newly installed apps. You can’t sync android’s protected directories.

what makes them “failures”?

i hate windows and i don’t use Ubuntu but it’s difficult to consider Microsoft or Canonical as failures.

No it’s not. He can rush it through before the election. No political benefit for him, he can’t get reelected.

He is not alone there. Others around him would have prior preoccupations. I agree with quadrature on this:

Pas content, Macron a déjà annoncé qu’il demandait au gouvernement de revenir avec une nouvelle loi interdisant les réseaux sociaux aux jeunes. Une annonce qui ne sera sans doute pas suivie d’effet, tant le calendrier parlementaire français est bouché d’ici aux élections présidentielles de 2027. Mais c’est par l’Union européenne que cette mesure pourrait revenir. La Commission européenne planche toujours sur une loi européenne pour instaurer une interdiction des réseaux sociaux aux jeunes.

from https://www.laquadrature.net/2026/07/22/le-parlement-vote-linterdiction-des-reseaux-sociaux-aux-jeunes-de-moins-de-15-ans/#censure

Macron responded to the ruling by instructing Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu to rework the legislation to address the court’s concerns, with the government now targeting spring 2027 for a revised law.

spring 2027? it’s the end of his presidency. His ban is practically dead.

fuck ICE, fuck tasers but then why did tasers become insufficient and they had to invent electroshock gloves?

fuck compliance too

🤣

I mean take a look at smartphones, it is what most “normal users” prefer using nowadays.

prefer? Do you know how difficult (or often impossible) it is to modify your phone’s OS?

That’s not a ‘preference’, that’s an imposition!

beep.

for my OS i want complete mutability. I’ve spent the last 2 days learning NixOS because it’s bringing something completely different to the table. It made me like Arch more :)
Most of the “fork of a fork of a fork” distributions of today will probably disappear in a couple of years. At least you’ll learn from this endeavour.

☞ https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/23/cop-city-protester-phone or https://www.pcmag.com/news/grapheneos-defends-data-wiping-function-that-blocked-us-border-search

According to OpenAI, one of its GPT-5.6 Sol agents was being evaluated on a platform called ExploitGym, which benchmarks large language models by asking them to write proof-of-concept security exploits for known vulnerabilities. Normally, ExploitGym is designed to be a closed ecosystem for proof-of-concept testing only, and AI agents shouldn’t have access to the internet while being evaluated.

But this agent found a zero-day vulnerability in a package registry tool called Artifactory, then used it to gain access to the web. From there, the OpenAI agent gained access to Hugging Face’s company systems using publicly exposed credentials across four separate services. It went on to spend two days inside the company’s internal systems, managed to secure root access to several production servers, and even enrolled 181 attacker-controlled devices into Hugging Face’s corporate network.

😮

try newpipe to download

Jellyfin stop working each time I close my screen.

screen of what? Laptop? Phone? Tablet?

it may just be a background permission problem

“Once installed” is operative here. Pegasus isnt a magic wand that you can swish to read all text messages on every phone. It needs to be deployed.

indeed, unless you’re a target for a state or a company that cares to spend money to spy on you, you don’t need to worry about pegasus

While the capabilities of Pegasus may vary over time due to software updates, Pegasus is generally capable of reading text messages, call snooping, collecting passwords, location tracking, accessing the target device’s microphone and camera, and harvesting information from apps.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pegasus_(spyware)

Once installed, Pegasus has been reported to be able to run arbitrary code, extract contacts, call logs, messages, photos, web browsing history, settings, as well as gather information from apps including but not limited to communications apps iMessage, Gmail, Viber, Facebook, WhatsApp, Telegram, and Skype.

are they also blocking VPNs?

i don’t want to google.groups from lemmy to ask about it

hello cm0002

sorry to hear/read that you treat your books like that

How are cassette tapes organized? That phrase doesn’t convey anything to me…

:)

cassette tapes are organized like books

☞ https://f-droid.org/packages/eu.artectrex.bunny/

been more than a year since the last update but it works