How to REALLY Resist Digital ID – #SolutionsWatch

Today James talks to Gabriel of the Libre Solutions Network about how to really resist the encroaching digital #ID grid.

https://corbettreport.com/how-to-really-resist-digital-id/

Red Hat Adding AI to Fedora Linux & GNOME

https://tg.sneed.cc/share/downloaded/youtu_be_s8BgXaBAr8c.mp4

https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/what-rhel-ai-guide-open-source-way-doing-ai

https://www.redhat.com/en/technologies/linux-platforms/enterprise-linux/ai

Its only a matter of time before it comes to all the systemd distros and gets normalized.

#ai #Linux

Net Switch: Isolate Apps from Internet Access

Net Switch is a Magisk module to isolate apps from accessing the internet on your Android device. This tool gives you complete control over which apps can send or receive data, improving security, privacy, and saving bandwidth.
Fully standalone, Operates fully on iptables.

More info :https://github.com/Rem01Gaming/net-switch

#magisk #firewall #privacy #afwallalterernative

If anyone hasn't checked out the new app release, there's a blog post released about the DrakFi app release:

https://dark.fi/insights/darkfi-app-alpha-release.html

- ditches the browser completely.

- a single, unified super-app.

- SAME app across ALL platforms.

- The design is highly extensible with user-customizable UI and themes.

- Uses pluggable app-on's, apps can be distributed in a fully p2p manner without hosting centralized website frontends.

- Devs do not host anything. They just write code but the add-on is hosted fully p2p and anonymously.

- Devs do not have to sign up to Google or Apple app stores either for browser or phone builds.

- Nobody is required to host an RPC just so users can access their app.

- no privacy violations (no add-on store, no browser plugin, no RPC or dev hosting the frontend). Software runs locally on your device.

- One single consistent experience. Write once, deploy everywhere.

- Full support for third party ecosystem of devs through APIs and CLI.

- App is fully customizable with themes and plugins to suit your desired look and feel. Users have full power over the software they run.

Spyware maker Paragon terminates contract with Italian government: media reports | TechCrunch

"Paragon Solutions, a startup that sells access to surveillance technologies including phone spyware, has cut ties with the Italian government, according to reports in The Guardian and Haaretz.

On Thursday, citing an anonymous source, The Guardian reported Paragon had first suspended its contract with Italy on Friday after WhatsApp said it had disrupted a hacking campaign leveraging the Israeli startup’s spyware targeting around 90 people. On Wednesday, Paragon terminated the contract once the company determined that the Italian government had broken “the terms of service and ethical framework it had agreed under its Paragon contract,” according to the British newspaper."

#Paragon #ParagonGraphite #Italy

Kiwi Browser Shuts Down, Extension Support Lives on in Edge Canary
https://ift.tt/HoQGU2T - FOLLOW: @reclaimthenet

#xmpp #im criticisms:

You can follow any advise on the client XMPP setup but the main issue with the protocol is not your endpoint. The issue is the is the XMPP protocol and related infrastructure.

There are two things you wana do

1. content of the message (privacy setup),
2. identity (anonymity setup)

Don't mistake those two things!!

Privacy
is ensured on XMPP with the OTR or OMEMO encryption. The issue is that the key exchange in between the communication parties is not foolproof. You both *MUST* check the fingerprints through a separate secure channel. This is in large scale not practiced. If you don't check it right, the underlying infrastructure of the XMPP allows the adversary to MITM you and read your messages.

2 Anonymity
is ensured with Tor here. Tor tries to conceal you IP only and nothing more. But Tor, as a low latency network, cannot protect you from revealing your behavioral patterns, your social graph, your login and log out time, the number of messages sent and received at any time, the sender and receiver of the messages, their precise volume and so on *from the XMPP server* and any adversary that can monitor that server.

Our advice is - don't use XMPP! if possible at all and use something more resistant like SimpleX, Briar, CWTCH... and similar solutions that mitigate those leaks and diminish or even make impossible those related attacks from the active as well as passive adversaries.

#Google Torpedoes ‘No #AI for #Weapons’ Rules

https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/05/google_ai_principles_update

#why

HOLLOW VAULT MANIFESTO: OWN Your DATA.

Telegram’s Double-Edged Sword.

Telegram has become a goldmine for data, video files, tutorials, leaks, gifs.

🚨 BUT STORING FILES IS A PROBLEM:

📥 Local Downloads: Risk malware, clog your device, mobile users cant download large files etc...
☁️ Telegram Cloud: Unencrypted, metadata exposure, and one mass report away from a ban, Your data isn’t safe here.

Solution: Your Private Cloud, ⚡️By Telegram

@hollowVaultBot is a privacy-first redirect system designed to break Telegram’s grip on your data. It acts as a silent courier, moving files, messages, and posts directly to your encrypted cloud—no storage, no log, no retained files.

Supported Vaults: FTP/SFTP/Mega_nz/Proton Drive

How It Works:

🔐 Connect Your Storage/Vault.
📤 Send It Anything: files/messages/videos etc..
🚀 Instant Redirect: Automatically redirect the files to your OWN cloud storage

Group Chats: The /backup Revolution

In groups, you rely on others to share files. If the group gets banned, everything vanishes.
The Fix:

1. Add @hollow_files_bot to any group.
2. Any user who’s configured the bot with their vault can use the /backup command on to reply any file/post/media.
3. Bot does not need to have access to Group Messages

No dependency on others: Your backups are yours, even if the group gets nuked.

FREE TO USE
NOTE: Each user Gets 20GB of Transfer volume each month, if you wish to extend this msg me @hollowXBT

Get rid of #WiFi, put your phone into airplane mode and hook it up to ethernet.

Original source: https://youtu.be/Q83Jnm1PO04

RXResu

Reactive Resume is a free, open-source resume builder designed to streamline creating, updating, and sharing your resume while prioritizing privacy—featuring zero user tracking or ads. Extremely user-friendly and self-hostable in under 30 seconds for full data control, it offers multi-language support, real-time editing, diverse templates, drag-and-drop customization, and OpenAI integration to enhance your content. Share your resume via personalized links, track views/downloads, adjust layouts by rearranging sections, and choose from multiple fonts and themes—including a dark mode for comfort.

🔗 Links:
- Website
- Features
- Screenshots
- Source code
Developer: Amruth Pillai

🏷️ Tags: #Website #AI

28 Hidden Roku Tips and Tricks You Won't Find in the Instruction Manual | PCMag
https://www.pcmag.com/explainers/hidden-roku-tricks-for-streaming-success

Samsung is one of the least friendly companies for modders. The US version cannot have the bootloader unlocked, so there is no Linux and no degoogled Android for it.

Thats not entirely true John. There are exploits, but its entirely dependent on the Phone Model, and which Bootloader it has. Samsung does monitor for exploits, and will issue a Patch immediately in the form of a "Security Update" (their security that your Phone will still be theirs).

There is a Channel here in TG for Samsung Modders, specifically, the exploit to unlock the Bootloader, and allow modding. It is here ..

https://t.me/Afaneh92UnlockChannel

From the Unlock Channel. Check the Model, and Bootloader Version.