I warn FBI. Fuck you.

Oh, sorry. I didn’t realize you were on Windows. That’s a Linux command. I haven’t used Windows very much since about 2018, so I don’t even consider Windows anymore unless it’s brought up.

Weird. I can’t even tell you how many times I’ve used that command. But it’s probably been several thousand. And I’ve never screwed up a flash drive that way.

There has been once or twice where I’ve pulled the flash drive out too quickly after it finished writing and it actually hadn’t finished writing and had to redo it, but other than that, I’ve not actually screwed up any drives beyond repair or anything.

Lol, nice one

Sudo dd if=tails.iso of=/dev/sdb

This is exactly my stance. If your website does not load because I have an ad blocker on then I don’t load your website because it’s clearly shit.

Interesting. I am blind and therefore use the TalkBack screen reader and it does not say the O’s because they are not in English. It reads that as PRTN.

Same here. I had a bank where you could do most things from the website, but it turns out you couldn’t do a few things without the app, and so I got rid of them and got a new bank.

Either use the website if it’s possible or switch banks. Those are about your only two options.

Controld.com is what i use and it works great.

They have one server that blocks nothing, one server that blocks known malware, one server that blocks known malware and advertising and tracking, and a server that blocks all of that, including social media. And they are all free.

You can get airguard from fdroid, and it does periodically scan for trackers in this way.

Yeah, it could definitely use some work. So far, my favorite is English HFC female.

As a talk back user, this is really handy. However, I will say that these speech models do not work very well at high speech rates, which is what I need for a screen reader user.

It is definitely much better quality, though. That’s for sure.

Also, for some reason it seems to skip letters sometimes. As an example when I turn on TalkBack foss or turn off TalkBack foss, it says “alkback foss turned on” or when i first opened thunder (lemmy client) it said “under”. Or at least that’s what it sounded like.

I will have to play with different models, but so far my favorite is English HFC female.

I am not sure whether I will use this as my day to day text a speech engine with my screen reader as of right now but I will definitely be keeping a close eye on this one because I really do like what I hear so far.

Edit: It could be that the model is trying to start talking before the speaker is ready, because it seems like it only has a big effect when you’re moving to a new element in TalkBack, which means that the system has to turn on the speaker first.

I get very few privacy vibes from this post. It seems like you are more interested in tinkering. Which is fine, but has very little to do with privacy directly.

Examples, you don’t need to know how the IP stack works in order to have privacy. You know that a VPN is just a shifting of trust and something like the tor network would probably be better.

You mentioned flashing routers and DDWRT is open source router firmware and you should be able to add DNS blocks like a pi-hole or equivalent block list into that kind of software in order to stop ads and online tracking.

Export them as a VCF file and put them on a flash drive.

Don’t use Reddit.

Briar or meshtastic

I’m in one room with 1,500 people and it uses about 7% of my battery. Mind you, that is a lot for a messenger. But I can deal with that.

signal or SimpleX.

I’m starting to move away from Matrix, primarily because its metadata is not encrypted. So you might have a message that’s encrypted, but the emoji reaction like a thumbs up is not encrypted, and the time it was sent and received is not encrypted, and who it was sent from and to is not encrypted.

Not to mention that in Matrix, private key management for encryption in rooms and stuff like that is quite frankly a pain in the ass. Even I as a cryptocurrency user have trouble making sure that my keys are properly stored without fucking them up.

I would not recommend my friends or family members use it for these reasons.

Osmand