butternuts

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Good write-up and you've made plenty of fair points. It's a tricky topic and I'm personally weary of the business for their Mormon connections and plenty of other reasons. Safer to avoid them altogether to prevent a potential 23andMe scenario.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I believe this is innacurate. Do you have proof that ancestry is currently owned by the Mormon church?

Wiki says Ancestry is owned by GIC Private Limited and The Blackstone Group since 2021.

I know the Mormon company has their greedy little tentacles in many businesses so I wouldn't be surprised if they somehow are connected with Ancestry but I'd need to see that first.

Tangent - Fuck that business (LDS Church) that masquerades as a religion.

Source: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancestry.com

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Is this a rhetorical question? Or does this comes down to perspective? For the latter I would explain it as me seeing contempt from this person's messaging around their partner seeming OK with not achieving things she defines as important. She then takes, what I would consider a personal conversation, to social media for what I can only assume is support from like-minded people to validate her.

TL;DR the premise itself is belittling

[–] [email protected] 62 points 4 months ago (4 children)

What I read: I require external validation instead of finding it from within.

Realistically all these achievements mean nothing when you die and are forgotten. It doesn't necessarily invalidate the work and accomplishments but I'd argue it doesn't give an individual the "higher ground" to belittle a partner on social media; they may not value it the same.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago

Maybe it's the anabolic steroids RFK claims he takes. Steroids can cause flushing in the face.

Oh sorry, I meant TRT and totally not steroids /s

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

I bought the same scale off Amazon a year ago. I use it every single day for all my meals and it's still using the same batteries; not sure if I'm using the original batteries that came with the scale. I bought two more of these for family/friends. I'd recommend it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Maybe you have JavaScript disabled?

uBlock is not reporting anything weird and the network tab resources for the browser's dev tools show nothing suspicious. Combing over the JavaScript sources with the dev tools also show no privacy concerns on fingerprinting.

The posted link is using a FOSS project called markmap (https://github.com/markmap/markmap?tab=readme-ov-file) and the project looks solid from what skimming I did.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Saying something is "dumb" is too nebulous to derive any meaning. Could you elaborate more? If you have the technical chops/insight to provide critique or even alternative recommendations then that could really help to etify the community. These kinds of convos are great for understanding privacy better.

Edit: all bark and no bite. How unfortunate as I was hoping to learn something.

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submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/privacy
 

I came across this neat interactive spectrum on privacy. A decent insight into the depths you can go to achieve your privacy goals with examples.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

Good callout. I'd recommend this as a first step when downloading apps through Aurora.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

I understand the worry and depending on your threat model this could be an issue. But looking through the code I don't see anything personal being sent over to the exodus servers. If you're worried about sending data that could identify you, I don't see this app being a problem.

But OpSec is personal and multi layered so another less invasive option is to directly use the exodus website to look up any apps you have questions on https://reports.exodus-privacy.eu.org/en/

 

A good way to up your privacy on your phone. This app has been great for pushing me to find FLOSS alternatives.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

An alternative to using a VPN as your "privacy shield" could be the I2P network https://lemmy.world/post/19661215

I don't torrent so this may not be ideal.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

Banned for Rule 4 last week. Haven't used their community in 9 months so my guess is one of the mods parents forgot to microwave their chicken tendies that day and thus decided to take their frustration out on me.

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