gibson

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[–] gibson@sopuli.xyz 4 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Did you play that Army Men: RTS game or the other army men 3DO games? Though they probably don't hold up well, i thought they were very fun as a kid. Going to keep tabs on this game

[–] gibson@sopuli.xyz 5 points 1 month ago

technically there is a lot it could do, but it would not be a number 1 pick for any of it (even if you only have a $100 budget) so i agree, get rid of it.

[–] gibson@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

you can still use a yubikey or even a password manager like keepassxc with passkeys, no need for any google/apple or even secure enclave.

[–] gibson@sopuli.xyz 5 points 2 months ago

it was always free for me but i think i was early enough of an adopter to be grandfathered in on some old setup

[–] gibson@sopuli.xyz 4 points 4 months ago

There is already gridcoin which is a cryptocurrency that awards boinc work, so I'd say this concern has already been addressed because of that.

[–] gibson@sopuli.xyz 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

As a Go dev, its simplicity is arguably taken too far. For example there are no union types or proper enums

[–] gibson@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Just because you can't stop all the leaks in your plumbing doesn't mean you shouldn't fix the ones you can.

[–] gibson@sopuli.xyz 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Its best to have some defence in depth. Ideally you would have a firewall on your network AND your local machine. If you are running a laptop definitely have a local firewall on that as you cannot trust random networks you connect to when out and about in the world.

firewalld is sufficient, i suggest learning its CLI as it is not super complicated. ufw is ok if you are allergic to command line.

[–] gibson@sopuli.xyz 9 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I believe he does extend it to JavaScript however, so if he were required to run unfree javascript on a webpage relating to his treatment that could be a problem.

[–] gibson@sopuli.xyz 10 points 1 year ago

One Hour One Life is open source, it is a 2D hand drawn survival game where you have 1 real life houre to live from a baby to an elder and contribute to the player-made society in your life as best you can.

You have to pay for an account on the official servers, but i recommend you do to support the development.

Not sure if the dev accepts community patches or not, but the game is public domain license.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Hour_One_Life

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submitted 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) by gibson@sopuli.xyz to c/privacy@lemmy.ml
 

Over the weekend i made a simple read-only frontend for Imgur in the spirit of Invidio.us and nitter

It doesn't support gifs/videos yet but it does handle albums. It is open source under AGPLv3 https://git.voidnet.tech/kev/imgin and has 0 javascript. It has a configurable cache.

Here is an example gallery view https://imgin.voidnet.tech/gallery/9wkPUsZ

The reason i made it is because for me, at least on desktop Imgur craps out on Tor Browser even just for viewing. You can append /layout/blog to albums but that still requires JS. Imgur also has lots of trackers and junk by default.

I still need to add tests and clean up the code, so it may be buggy. The idea is that it would be eventually added to privacy redirect addon to auto-redirect imgur links.

It is pretty small Python code so if you want to help me you can reach out.

Sopuli isn't syncing comments for some reason, i'll reply from onionr https://lemmy.ml/u/onionr

 

Greetings Lemmy

I have been developing a Firefox addon to throw off keystroke fingerprinting

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/private-keyboard/

I suspect most people on lemmy are aware of browser fingerprinting, but i think alternate routes of fingerprinting are less talked about. Basically, websites can track your keystroke timings which are fairly unique to each person.

Addons like Ublock origin can address this problem, but that is inherently a blacklist approach which is not a good security method. I suspect that sites could do it partly server side anyways by using legit features like typing notifications on chat sites.

I developed this addon to defeat basic keystroke analysis by randomizing the time it takes keystrokes to be processed by a webpage with a floor of 150ms and a max of 300ms. I'm working on improving the UX, so i anticipate the typing speed to be increased eventually (I admit it is frustrating to type currently). I may add an iframe overlay approach/option that is mildly less secure but much more usable. You can whitelist sites that you trust. I tested it on typingdna[.]com and keytrac[.]net which are two spy companies that advertise keyboard biometrics as an alternative to 2fa (cringe) and for anti-fraud or creepy test proctoring purposes.

This is experimental and may not solve all issues (in particular it doesn't prevent stylometry analysis yet). Also it may be possible for spies aware of the addon to account for the randomization.

There's a downside aside from the frustration of slow typing, which is cpu spikes during typing, which is a side effect i haven't been able to avoid due to JS limitations. If i'm able to make the iframe approach that would be fixed. Ironically the cpu spike may make it easier to use power analysis

Other software that attempts keystroke anonymization is the kernel level Kloak project and the Keyboard Privacy chrome addon that doesn't seem actively maintained.

If you know JS and want to help shoot me a message.

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