solilo guy @dirk@computerfairi.es

@justanotheranarchist Oh wow, I'm just back from traveling and had no idea!
Thanks, this made my day 🎉​

#Gaming 2021 – just helped a kid set up their brandnew #PS5, and boy, what a #privacy nightmare!

If you don't uncheck a box unmentioned during setup and hidden deep down in layers of preferences, the PS5 is always listening and remotely analyzing everything that is said to “improve its services”.

And to ensure this, yellow LEDs in your controller alarm you when the built-in microphone is _muted_, which was very counter-intuitive for the kid.

Yikes! Peak #SurveillanceCapitalism

@Gargron 3:00 am EDT = 9:00 am CET

@Gargron Iirc 3 am US East Coast Time

@volt4ire Irritatingly, no one over at Birbsite with the Sopranos quote I use most often:
"Where's my arc?!"

If like me you find yourself struggling in these trying times, know that you‘ll always have a room in my magnificent Elven Castle, waiting for you to get some rest. ✨​

#art #comic #comics #creativetoot #drawing #makingcomics #mastoart #panelpreview #penandink

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In a final step, the user took #SailfishOS X, same as before, and changed just a few lines in /etc/connman/main.conf
(removed all the FallbackTimeservers, Ipv4StatusUrl and Ipv6StatusUrl configuration)…

...and it does not connect *anywhere*.

Completely empty list of external connections.

Thing of #beauty.

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Further results:

- #UbuntuTouch – connections every several minutes to a few Canonical and ubports servers – probably tuneable, but behaving like this out of the box.

- #SailfishOS X – connects to some NTP servers, to ip4.jolla.com (detection of WIFI capture portals) and some AWS server, exchanges a few bytes and stops; repeats the same process after ~12 hours (probably network clock synchronization).

This is even less than #GrapheneOS‘ default connections.

Interesting thread in the #SailfishOS forum where a user set up the following experiment:

They flashed an Xperia X phone with different OSes, left them idle without running any apps and then saw how often and where the OS is connecting to by default (tcpdumps).

Results:

- #Android 8.1 from vendor – an expected catastrophe: within one minute, it „connected everywhere“.

Read on for #UbuntuTouch, #SailfishOS, and #grapheneos

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https://forum.sailfishos.org/t/privacy-and-security-of-sailfishos/6028/42

@kuketz

Huch, lang kein #ZDF mehr gesehen – und auffällig, wie das von der #NoAfD gefeierte, unsägliche Wagenknecht-Zitat ganz persönlich und nachdenklich vorgelesen wird, darunter sanfte Synthies wie beim Heterokuss in Rosamunde Pilcher-Filmen, während die grundsympathischen Wagenknecht-kritischen Tweets arrogant und verächtlich intoniert sind, bei knarzender Thriller-Musik ganz kurz vorm Mord bei Der (weiße) Alte.
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