theres also nebula and netbird

gemini protocol

guarana tea

oh shizz
really? i was just kidding. aah ITS EVERYWHERE

Analogy

Imagine a restaurant where diners place orders through a discreet slot on the kitchen door.

• The web user is the diner who slips a note into the slot asking for a specific dish.
• The web‑service backend is the chef who receives the note, prepares the meal, and slides it back out the slot for the diner to collect.

Now, the diner adds a bizarre request: “Please serve the food, but I never want you to know you ever cooked it.” In practice, the chef can’t fulfill this—once he’s touched the ingredients and used the stove, his hands are inevitably stained, and the kitchen’s heat tells the story. Likewise, when a web user asks a server to fetch data, the server must process the request, so it inevitably knows it handled that request, even if it can’t tie it back to the individual’s identity.

Ad‑blockers, cookies, IP addresses, user‑agents, and browser signatures are like the various “fingerprints” a diner might leave on the restaurant’s doorstep:

• Cookies are tiny crumbs the diner drops on the floor while walking to the slot. The chef (or later staff) can later sweep them up and infer that the same person visited before.
• IP address is the diner’s shoeprints on the hallway carpet leading to the kitchen—an easy way to trace where the diner entered from.
• User‑agent / browser signature is the unique style of the diner’s napkin (its color, fold, and logo). Even if the napkin is discarded, the pattern tells the chef which brand of napkin was used.
• Ad‑blockers are like the diner wearing a cloak that blocks the kitchen staff from seeing the crumbs he drops, trying to keep the chef from noticing the usual “tipping” (ads) that would normally be left behind.

Just as no chef can truly be blind to the fact that he cooked a dish, a web service inevitably knows it processed a request, and the “fingerprints” left behind (cookies, IP, user‑agent, etc.) let it—or any intermediary—recognize or track the diner unless the diner takes strong steps (like using a cloak or wiping the floor) to hide those traces.

https://f-droid.org/packages/com.fauxx.full

if theft is a concern. record IMEI number and they(carriers etc) will probably blacklist the phone from mobile networks and maybe aid the tracking(investigation…if any). which, afterwards, lowers resale value

is that like google??

great post. im glad it has so many upvotes.
additionally:
i think it ties back to many issues:

• privacy
• stance and dividend of LLMs
• online culture. digital communities
• citizen rights
• and lots more!

thats good. but it doesnt cover behavioral fingerprints(indications).
fyi i have seen some moderately effective tools that help to fight against this. but generally rare. people understimate how much their data is worth and the amount of development, that companies are willing to invest to break every privacy tool

i think the reason reddit deleted both my accounts, was so that i couldnt modify or delete my contributions.
after the accounts are deleted, they probably still have copies saved somewhere. but it revokes my access to remove or tamper with my content.

https://lemmynsfw.com/
fyi: they really need need need MORE contributors 😮‍💨

i think browsing webpages should be the same.
load it once, then store it locally andor host a torrent for it

to me, relationship(or love) entails … <summary> making the most of bad situations </summary>
another theory: being bold and available.

the article seems pretty partisan and populist. selectively chooses facts for discredit while omitting any admission of credibility. does not address the problems or issues with a proposed solution. lots of suspicion, unfair assumptions about motives, and irrelevantly keeps tieing back to the trump administration. the highly partisan angle seems to discredit arstechnica as an intelligent unpreferential information source for productive discussion.

i think climate would be one of the the biggest & obvious un-modifiable factor.
if solo camping, then somewhere warm but not prone to extreme deadly heat spikes.
assuming the west is undeveloped and rugged, then probably that. (based on the premise that the eastern half is overcrowded AND thats a bad thing(?))
i would try to hit exurbs but be nearby civilization. else… just be inside a city or near a friendly town.
its extremely complicated to forsee from an armchair. would require testing,optionality, and careful decisionmaking(and research&valid+complete_data), plus low-stake trial&error(also risk assesment, risk mitigation, safety procedures).

purification straw is a must-have for any questionable water source

intended for an unrelated(independant) topic: i would estimate that americans average daily allocation for being in public is 1.25 hours.
which is why i think alot of public space in cities are messed up, "IF you actually LIVE in them (not just drive past, from point A to point B . or spend all your time in the house/working/sleeping)
from my experience, that one hour is probably in a privatized space. and there also possible distraction/competition from smartphones or music.

the point im trying to argue: the streets are scary… i get it. but if ppl only spend less than 1 hour a day in public, then essentially the streets become neglected anarchy space. its not suprising that the problem becomes a spiral. nobodys living, watching, or experiencing it.

i was thinking this would be related to ontology
“What ontologies in both information science and philosophy have in common is the attempt to represent entities, including both objects and events, with all their interdependent properties and relations, according to a system of categories. In both fields, there is considerable work on problems of ontology engineering (e.g., Quine and Kripke in philosophy, Sowa and Guarino in information science),[5] and debates concerning to what extent normative ontology is possible (e.g., foundationalism and coherentism in philosophy, BFO and Cyc in artificial intelligence).”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ontology_(information_science)

slightly offtopic:

thats an interesting question.