Create a file config/initializers/zzz_local_patches.rb: require Rails.root.join('app/validators/status_length_validator.rb') if ENV.has_key?('MAX_POST_CHARS') && ENV['MAX_POST_CHARS'].to_i > 0 && ENV['MAX_POST_CHARS'
rclone copy --fast-list --copy-links -P \ --max-backlog 10000 \ --order-by size,mixed,75 \ --transfers 32 \ --s3-chunk-size 16M --s3-upload-concurrency 8 \ ./live/public/system/ remote:media-bucket/ * fast-list is compatible with Garage S3 * max-backlog queues up to 10,000 files at a time * order-by size,mixed,75 takes those 10,000 and sorts them by
It seems Apple is releasing a new privacy feature exclusive to iPhones with an Apple-designed modem: Limit precise location from cellular networks - Apple SupportWith the limit precise location setting, you can limit some information that cellular networks may use to determine your location. Available on compatible iPhone and iPad
I love networking, a lot. So much so that I've run my own ISP since 2024, complete with its own ASN, IPv4/6 address space, fiber optics, etc. However, do this and you quickly realize how reliant you still remain on central service providers. The internet is a
Transcript I hate to be a naysayer, but I’m concerned about Phreeli. If you haven’t watched Louis Rossmann’s recent video or read about this carrier on the Privacy Guides forum yet, Phreeli’s a new cellular carrier in town that’s making bold claims about privacy. You
This video was based on my recent article at Privacy Guides, included below: Memory Integrity Enforcement Changes the Game on iOSApple’s new support for ARM’s Memory Tagging Extension in iOS and their A19 SoC is an underrated feature for journalists, activists, and other high-profile figures.Privacy GuidesJonah Aragon
For most protesters, activists, and journalists, your smartphone is an essential tool you depend on for organizing with your peers, accessing and distributing information, and helping others. It also represents a great risk, as a tool that is easily appropriated by authorities for targeted and mass surveillance. The perennial question
"No shady privacy policies or back doors for advertisers" proclaims the Firefox homepage, but that's no longer true in Firefox 128. Less than a month after acquiring the AdTech company Anonym, Mozilla has added special software co-authored by Meta and built for the advertising industry directly
After installing torrc and pointing your hidden service to your Caddy server: # Redirect base domain to www subdomain http://example.onion { redir http://www.example.onion{uri} } # Proxy all subdomains of example.com http://*.example.onion { @hostnames header_regexp hostname Host (\S+)\.example\.onion # note the backslashes before the dots
Today I'm going to walk you through running a local Monero node on your Synology NAS using the Container Manager app on the Synology DiskStation Manager 7 operating system. You will need to enter this text in Container Manager when you get to the compose file creation step
My latest video in which I talk about Mozilla Monitor Plus, a new automatic data broker opt-out tool from the creators of Firefox, and the ridiculousness that having to deal with data brokers legally sharing all your personal information in the United States is a thing at all. Video Notes
Privacy advocacy groups like the EFF and Fight for the Future have been warning about the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) since 2022 now, but it's still been working its way through Senate committees despite this, and it's never been closer to passing than now. To
Apple's press release yesterday reads with the professionally and poise of a teenager throwing a tantrum, it's amazing really. Apple announces changes to iOS, Safari, and the App Store in the European UnionApple announced changes to iOS, Safari, and the App Store impacting developers’ apps in
A browser tier list that actually has more than just the 10-15 usual suspects? Yep, I'm sharing my thoughts on a lot of browsers today. Let me know in a comment where your daily driver ranks and what you think about it! This whole list will of course
The recent move among U.S. states to add digital "age verification" to websites which serve adult content is a troubling one. Digital age verification systems are rife with privacy concerns, many requiring you to upload your government ID to third-party vendors or even directly to the website
The latest iOS 17.2 update arrived this week, bringing Contact Key Verification to the public. This feature, announced a year ago, promises to drastically improve the security of your iMessages through two technologies: Key Transparency, and Contact Key Verification. In this post I’ll talk about why this added
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I can honestly say I didn’t see this coming. On August 29th, 2019, Apple announced they would begin not only selling original OEM parts to independent repair businesses, but also provide them with the tools, guides, training, and diagnostics required to complete repairs on out of warranty iPhones. This
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Outline is a suite of open-source software developed for journalists to safely access their network and the internet while traveling in countries where their activities may be monitored or censored. Despite this, the Outline platform is ideal for a wide range of users, especially less technical users, and users in
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If you run servers for public services, like I do with privacyguides.org, you definitely want to monitor them for any successful logins to user accounts (via SSH, et cetera). The way I plan to accomplish this is to set up an automatic notification to the Pushover app on my
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Some people called for me to write a more technically detailed/in-depth guide to setting up Tor with alt-svc after we set it up on privacyguides.org, so while I do it all over again on our Mastodon server, I figured I’d write this post! Plus, it’ll make
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If you want to install Mojave from scratch, or you need to install it regularly or on multiple Macs, using a USB installer is the way to go for an easy installation. This method requires no third-party software, just a Mac that already has macOS installed and some basic Disk
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Now that you have PowerDNS installed on your servers, you may be wondering how you and your users can create zones on your servers. Well, PowerDNS-Admin is a web-based control panel that makes managing PowerDNS a breeze. It has support for multiple accounts with varying privileges, domain-based user access management,
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It seems object storage is an integral part of any cloud-based web technology these days, but sometimes offloading that aspect of your work to a provider like Amazon S3 or Azure Blob Storage just isn’t feasible or possible. Enter Minio, a self-hosted cloud storage application with a simple interface,
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I recently had to setup DNS servers for a project, so I figured that today’s as good a time as any to start documenting what I do. The goal of this guide is to have PowerDNS configured with a MySQL backend, and then use MySQL replication to sync information