We could send in the passports of our entire family by post.

With the names and adresses of our children’s school’s and school teachers.

you could then contact the teachers directly to confirm that the children are of age.

Then, Go online and spread the “we have nothing to hide”, “we must protect our children” mantra.

yep! thats sounds about right, for a one eyed, single celled mollusc, living under a nuclear radiated rock.

LOL!

To the legislators of Mississippi.

one of my favourite songs: Tough shit wilson by Splodgenessabounds. great band

Tough shit was born in Mississippi (orignially Tennessee*) He was deaf and dumb, he measured 4 foot 3 He had one arm, one leg, no teeth, and one plum He married a girl in 62, she was a 60 year old leper, called Mary Lou But she died of cancer on her anniversary

[Chorus:] They call him toughshit, toughshit Wilson Toughshit, thoughshit was his name Toughshit was left with a baby son, who died on leukemia, at the age of one And toughshit was left with his guide doggy called roach Till one day crossing with his dog on a wee doach But roach didn’t see the coach approach And the wheels rolled gently over toughshits head

I think a doach is a railway track, but Im not sure, its scottish. Who the fuck can understand those bastards.

[Chorus:] They call him toughshit, toughshit Wilson And toughshit was his name They call him toughshit And toughshit was his claim to fame At tough shits funeral, no one came The vicar was late and it poured with rain They dropped the coffin down a flight of stairs But let us not forget toughshits pain And perhaps he never died in vein but when it comes to that Who fucking cares, not me I don’t See upcoming rock shows Get tickets for your favorite artists

I feel for you.

training ai on your photo’s without even asking. wankers

I have just copied my elderly friends 2000 photos from google photos to my desktop, then deleted all of them from her phone. Had to do it with my browser, they only allow you to delete 30 photos at a time on the phone. tossers.

Installed droid-ify, installed lawnchair, fossify gallery, fossify messages, fossify contacts. perfect.

imported her photos back on to her phone:

Intentionally painful but its done.

bring on ADB, I have deleted everything with a G in it.

first one: I wrote a simple little bash script for these:

adb shell pm uninstall --user 0 com.android.chrome

okgoogle, xgoogle, Gmail, calender, Calendar Sync, videos, googlequicksearchbox, youtube, music, Google Contacts Sync, googleassistant, Google Digital Well Being App, Google Duo, Google Pay, google photos and Google Drive with adb so its doesnt happen again.

This poor women is 84, WTF does she know about modern tech, google are tossers

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I would get rid of fairphone rom and install another rom:

unlock your bootloader. easy guide from Fairphone.

https://support.fairphone.com/hc/en-us/articles/10492476238865-How-to-unlock-and-re-lock-the-bootloader

then install lineage or E/os custom rom

https://wiki.lineageos.org/devices/FP5/

https://doc.e.foundation/devices/FP5

My bank alone has closed 99 of its high street branches this year.

I used to do a 2 minute walk to my local bank, then they started closing them further and further afield, until I now have to drive 20 minutes to my bank.

I am predominantly a cash man.

I dont buy anything online from any of the big names like Amazon etc. I search around until I find what I want in a store that I can drive to.

To be honest I would rather spend an hour driving to a store, and pay the extra money on petrol, than pay poxy rip off delivery charges and waste my valuable time waiting in for the wankers.

I also avoid all banking apps like the plague, in fact all apps that are recommended by any store staff. not that I can install them on lineage phone anyway.

I can only login into my online bank via VPN if I am using French server. I dont know how long that will last. I refuse to allow my ISP access to my online habits.

I am gutted that the UK government closed down all our bitcoin ATM’s. This was the first warning sign something was going to change. Take away our freedoms yet again

At least when bitcoin was cheaper a few years ago, I could spend some money out of my state pension, buy £20 worth and save for the future.

I would be a zillionaire by now Rodney! LOL

But this ultimately leads us into the government crypto currency (Central bank digital currency) when we will all be fucked, because they will control everything.

I recently changed my gas and electricy supplier because they would not let me pay online while I had my VPN on, even if I was using a UK based server. wankers, didnt want my money, so I dumped them. My new provider is better and I can pay anywhere in the world.

All they want is everyone to have a fucking smart meter installed, so they can rip us off and charge extra for using gas and electricity in the early evening peak period, when we are cooking for our families, and bathing our children. Wankers!

I got used typing “sudo service --status-all”

then got used to typing “sudo systemctl list-unit-files --type=service”

now a new one to learn “sudo nitroctl list”

looks simpler

That can only be a good thing for my gnarly arthritis fingers.

This is also my worry.

But it is also about taking personal responsibility for our privacy.

Its like having your home continually burgled, while you continue to refuse to install new locks.

So you install a ring doorbell instead, Amazon will keep you safe!

Again this is not taking personal responsibilty for our privacy and safety, but relying on big tech’s surveillance answer.

The incessant belief that you must use an app for convenience, is beyond me.

We have our bank cards and cash to buy stuff from stores. Personally I go to the bank each week and get enough cash to last the week. pay everything cash.

I pay all my bills online, use my bank, manage my direct debits, transfer money to my kids, all online with my linux laptop, Librewolf and a vpn. Takes 30 seconds to login.

I do not need to authorise my login with an app. I told my bank I do not have a smart phone.

I could use Ente Auth or KeepassXc on my desktop for 2FA. no phone required.

Plus being an old git, I dont have to piss about with a tiny phone screen and keyboard with my gnarly fingers.

I absolutely refuse all offers of apps.

When asked by check-out staff if I have the app, or, do I want their app.

I say: I dont do apps! I do not give up my privacy or share my personal data.

As Mat says. I too worry about the future of custom roms. I managed to get all my family on custom roms.

It is a great shame that Mozilla gave up on the Firefox OS phone. Great little phone.

Hey Zerush

I feel so much better now.

With the existential inevitability of death just round the corner.

I needed a good laugh this morning.

Thank you

Thank you glimse

I Know. Lame duck.

I completely messed up my post. I got severely distracted ranting on and on.

Thats the main trouble with getting old.

Forgetting starts slowly, then all of a sudden you are rushed to hospital unable to remember your name.

I was talking about haventgotsacluetube (youtube) and not boatracecrook.

I do hope people will see through my obvious error

For me.

This is how we all give Boatracecrook the cold shoulder and leave. The more people they block the better.

Boat race, is cockney rhyming slang for face.

At the very minimum, to protect future generations and our grand children and their children from; the banal, brainless, brain dead, manipulative surveillance.

I have never used Boatracecrook.

I must admit that as a new user on Lemmy, I do take umbrage at all the links to Boatracecrook videos that people feel they need to share and promote.

I trust people to watch the video and give a short written description, not add a poxy link in the avatar image.

I have got caught out more than once clicking on an user supplied avatar and I have been taken to poxy Boatracecrook.

To be honest, I was under the impression that lemmy was different and did not engage in the anti-human practices of Boatracecrook.

I cannot understand why anyone watching a Boatracecrook video, then suddenly decides to add a link for Lemmy users.

Then manipulatively hides the link in the avatar of the post, when the link could be added to the main text body for all to see, and give people a choice if they click on it.

I can only assume this is about self promotion and not about supporting the Lemmy community.

Hey SteveTech

I dont use internal or external SSD’s.

It maybe because I am an old greybeard, but I prefer to suffer the slight loss in speed of a HDD, so I can dd/erase/wipe them and reuse them again and again.

Though I have been using “disktest” to erase SSD’s and HDD’s recently and it has been working great. Much faster than zeroing with dd /dev/zero, shred or wipe.

https://crates.io/crates/disktest

https://github.com/mbuesch/disktest

However, I digress, I had not heard of f2fs before.

Ive been having an intersting read online.

It appears that it is a default for android phones.

I do have a few SSD’s laying around from when I replace them with HDD’s. So I will test f2fs on one of those.

Thank you

Thank you Eugenia

Compressisng the files sounds a great idea.

I have in fact compressed a 12Gb file that I split into 10Gb chunks that still decompresses without problems.

This is particularly annoying when I have to upgrade my distro and all my files have to be moved to an external drive.

Unfortunately some of my files are up to 10Gb. thats why I stayed with exFAT.

I will certainly try Ext4 on my external drives. I will test it this week

People in the USA do have more rights than people here on Airstip One.

Though we are both under the big black boot of government friendly fascism.

Since October 2007, we have had Section 49 of the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 or RIPA.

We cannot refuse to give up a password or access to an encrypted device.

Section 53 of RIPA makes it a criminal offence to not comply with a Section 49 notice, carrying a sentence of up to two years in prison, and up to five years in cases involving national security, terrorism or child indecency.

We have no Fifth Amendment covering self-incrimination laws to protect us from over zealous police and state.

Who in society is going to argue against laws that are sold to us to protect our children?

I am an old retired psychotherapist. I remember the introduction of the CRB (criminal records bureau) check, here on Airstrip one in the early 2000’s. Now called a DBS check.

The CRB scanned the Police National Computer for any criminal offences that you had committed, this also included juvenile, aged under 17 offences. Which empowered all employers to use the CRB checks to get rid of staff and refuse to employ certain people. Discrimination was rife.

You were now judged, not on your competence to do your job, but whether you had a criminal record.

I would not have minded so much if they solely searched for any offence that were linked to child abuse, terrorism or national security, but they provided your entire life criminal offences.

My enhanced CRB check showed that I had gotten fined £3 for riding my bicycle on a pavement in the mid 60’s when I was 11 years old. My mum had to pay. My dad earned about £10 per week as a lorry driver.

What a danger to society I was! An employer could refuse to employ me just because of that little bit of information.

Sold to the UK population as a means to protect our children from sexual predators. Of course no one complained.

Yet, forward just a few years and you needed a CRB check to work at:

The airport, the local supermarket, as a gardener in a school, as a handyman sweeping the car park of the local doctors practice.

you needed to have a CRB check if you came within 100M of a child or vulnerable adult.

Even University students now have to have a CRB checks if they are on a psychology, counselling or psychotherapy course, because they may come into contact with children and or vulnerable adults.

This is the slow creep of government policies expanding, with no oversight, sold to us under the guise that they are protecting children and vulnerable adults.

fear is a great driver for change. scare someone enough and they will give up their granny.

I think this is also linked to Airstrip One’s governments, continually attempting to remove all encryption from devices by using child protection as a reason

As a retired psychotherapist I can tell you, that every single person on this planet has something to hide.

Obviously, psychotherapy offers a safe, private and confidential space to speak about those things. Society does not offer this safe space. So Humans hide things.

Sometimes these hidden things are even hidden from the person.

we have all broken our own, and societies, moral codes, the things we do not share with other people.

Our own sexual preferences are the most hidden of all subjects. Even in this so called Enlightened age. Sexuality still reigns supreme as the most hidden of all subjects.

I always say to people spouting the “I have nothing to hide” argument.

If you have nothing to hide!

Why do you continue to wear clothes when you go out.

Clearly it has nothing to do with the fact that: a CCTV camera on the corner of your street, a camera in a passing car, a RING doorbell facing towards the street, school kids filming with their phones, will film you and intrude upon your private life.

It is because you have something to hide.

For instance: Examples of the things that people hide.

As we see this quite regularly with our politicians and those generally in powerful positions:

The Pro family values political evangelists who espouses that homosexuality is a sin, and then gets caught with a male prostitute.

In psychoanalysis this this called “Splitting”. Its where the politician projects all his hidden, unacceptable parts of himself, in this case his homosexual preferences, and projects them onto other people in society. Those bad bad people who are homosexuals.

Or the pro child protection evangelist politician, who gets caught with gigabytes of child abuse images on their laptop. Same thing.

Its the same with the recent rise in the Right Wing anti-everything brigade;

anti-immigrant, who most likely had a foreign girlfriend when they were young, and are now ashamed of it because their mates are anti-immigrant. Group think.

anti-abortion, probably got a girl pregnant, wasnt man enough to support her, and left her no choice to get an abortion. Misogyny

anti-homosexual, probably a repressed homosexual who fantasises about sex with same sex partners. Far too ashamed to come out.

anti-this anti-that; Oh the shame!

This always speaks more about the hidden belief systems that those people carry. It is not about the people onto whom they are trying to project there own personal stuff.

To be human is to have a private life, and to keep it secret.

Hey arsus5478

There are instructions to install with wget on the git page as you mention and you seem to have folowed that guide, but the easiest way is to use APT.

For debian I would add the PPA repo:

There are clear instruction on the git page to install from apt.

About half way down the page you will see APT.

https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/wiki/Installation

APT

You can download and install yt-dlp for recent Ubuntu and other related Debian-based distributions by adding this PPA

Add ppa repo to apt

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:tomtomtom/yt-dlp

Update package list

sudo apt update

Install yt-dlp

sudo apt install yt-dlp

Your system’s package manager will now automatically download the correct dependencies and keep the package updated with the rest of your system whenever you update:

Done

this is a good introduction to adding an external PPA repo to apt and getting to know debian

I do like surprises.

I am a retired psychotherapist, so I value all person to person contact.

Anything else is just not human nor fulfilling for me.

you are correct.

here on Airstrip one, we are the most monitored country in the world, with one cctv camera for every 14 people. very scary indeed.

I am an old geezer, nearly 70, so my car is very old, no tech.

On linux you can access your Signal messages in db.sqlite.

once you delete a message from signal, either through disappearing messages or manually, all those messages are deleted from the db.sqlite.

They are stored in an encrypted db.sqlite here:

/home/user/.config/Signal/sql/db.sqlite

you can also extract it from you phone:

only the messages that you can see when you open the Signal app are visible there.

to access the messages:

install:

signal-bakcup-tools-git

https://github.com/bepaald/signalbackup-tools

and

DB browser for sqlite

https://sqlitebrowser.org/

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The most straight forward way is to create an output file to html.

copy the db.sqlite to a new directory

open a terminal and run

signalbackup-tools --exportdesktophtml signal.html

this will create folders of all your contacts and messages and media.

easily acessible. open the signal.html files in your browser

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To open db.sqlite as a Sqlite database;

first you need to get the key:

copy the db.sqlite to a new directory

then run in terminal:

signalbackup-tools db.sqlite --showdesktopkey

OpenSSL 3.3.2 3 Sep 2024)

Signal Desktop key (hex):

58bfa167bb66b2b13b2ca6eadc33f4bf7275c254006d17ae5e3de5356c60f0b7

copy the key to a text editor

===========================

you must now add 0x to the beginning of that line:

0x58bfa167bb66b2b13b2ca6eadc33f4bf7275c254006d17ae5e3de5356c60f0b7

then open db.sqlite with the sqlitebrowser

right click db.sqlite, select open with DB Browser for sqlite

select RAW from the dropdown menu

input the passphrase from above. make sure you added the 0x to the beginning.

The entire database opens.

you can view all the information that signal collects. phone numbers, messages, images, media etc

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this is the difference between Molly and signal.

In Molly you can password protect db.sqlite, Signal removed this a while ago

Reading stuff like this reminds me of why I have been a linux user for over 20 years.

Its why I only use AOSP roms on my phones.

Its why I have never used any USA surveillance companies. No one needs any of that shit!

Its why I get in my car, and visit people I care for, and not send them a message or use facebook to see what they are having for dinner.

I wouldnt even know how to turn a windows machine on. My last windows experience was with windows 95.

Do you still press a button?

I am a retired psychotherapist, 69 years old now, and have seen the devastating loss of our freedoms in my lifetime.

we all need to get back to being human again. We are human beings not human doings.

My display avatar is in fact a photo from a StoneHenge free festival in early 1980’s. A time when we actually used the word freedom and meant it.

I do fear for you younger people and what lies ahead. What will be like in 20-30 years when I am long gone.

Hey BCsven

We definitely do.

“Some people go their entire lives without hearing news that good” – Neo

I only use Lineage and have done so for years without any problems since CyanogenMod 10.1.

Do remember that it is the choice of the developers to use google services and nothing to do with google.

When you say “Le Chat”, do you mean Mistral AI assistant/chatbot? Its probably stopped working since GPT‑5.

Currently it is not possible to run “Le Chat” ai on a phone without google,

Again its the devopers choice. They could develop a non-google Le Chat.

who on earth needs a chatbot on a phone?

I have never have any problems finding open source alternative apps.

MAPS: Comaps, Organic Maps and MagicEarth, all provide Turn by Turn navigation

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turn-by-turn_navigation

I dont use any Banking Apps. Why do you need a banking app? I login to my bank in the comfort and safety of my home.

Lineage:

https://wiki.lineageos.org/devices/

If you must use google try E/OS. It Uses MicroG and works very well.

microG is a FLOSS implementation of Google play services

https://doc.e.foundation/

I am sure it will creep back up once the MX 25 has been released with Debian 13 on 9th August.

https://mxlinux.org/blog/changes-coming-with-mx-25/

Optional distro downloads for Systemd or sysVinit.

use Mx-Linux on my old T450 laptop.

works great for my needs.