I use controld.com DNS over TLS. They have a free ad blocking and malware blocking DNS that works incredibly well.

Never been so jealous of a hand in my life.

I have recently started using pass keys, but only because my keepass password manager supports them. Since the database is local to my device, I’m okay with it. I definitely wouldn’t be using any kind of cloud thing for those though.

Since data only sims allow you to access the data network without having a phone number, can you guys get them without doing the KYC process?

I mean, the answer to stopping spam calls seems obvious to me. Allow the user to choose whether they receive incoming calls from anybody or contacts only, in which case the only people they would be able to receive calls from would be those who they’ve specifically allowed. So the network would still carry the call but the call would come to your phone and if you weren’t in the allow list and it was set to allow list only your phone wouldn’t even ring it would just immediately hang it up or send it to voicemail. My experience so far is that spammers don’t leave voice messages.

I feel as though the government is just trying to implement this to have further surveillance, in which case, they would probably want data-only sims to also have the ID attached to them. But if it’s truly to stop just robo calls, then they might stop at only doing it if you have access to a phone number. Of course, it’s totally unnecessary, since you could just do the allow list, as mentioned above, and stop spam calls right there. But hey, government wants more information, and they’ll come up with any pretext to get it.

I suspect they will be subject to the KYC requirements as well if they end up going through because the OIP providers is what they want to avoid because that’s how a lot of spam callers get into the phone system to begin with.

You know, I’m not honestly sure if our ISP does offer phone service because they are just our local fiber internet provider. It’s something I’ve never thought to ask about.

My primary thing is trying to figure out how to live without a phone number at all. I think that it’s absolutely ridiculous that I would have to give an ID to have phone service and then them have to keep my ID for four years after disconnection. As I said in the post, that’s just a honeypot for hackers.

And this is why if you’re going to post something like this, you host your own git. Or use something like codeberg.

Um, no. I am perfectly happy to use 5 MBPS Tor Hidden Services. If I didn’t want privacy, I would just use the fucking clear net because it’s so much faster than Tor.

I so want to like I2P, but it’s so difficult to do so.

As an example, I set it up on my 100 MBPS fiber connection and it wanted to contribute like 300 KBPS with the automatic configuration and if I wanted to contribute more, I had to manually configure it up.

I run my own Monero node as a tor hidden service, for example, and connecting with my phone to it over tor I get 5 MBPS. I tried an I2P Monero node from a person I trust, and was getting 40 KBPS. At 5MBPS, Monero is perfectly usable. At 40 KBPS, it is totally unusable.

Oh, I know exactly where you’re talking about. As I said, I used to live in Southeast Minneapolis over by the U of M, but I used to work near Franklin and Nicollet. There was this pizza place I used to visit on 24th and Nicolet quite often. And there was also a place called Glamdall Donuts on like 26th and Nicolet that I used to visit pretty often.

I used to take the MetroTransit 2 bus to and from work.

I do it all the time and it works fine. I designate my phone as my primary computing device and I always update my password database on that device and then synchronize it across to my computer using these things called USB flash drives

I lived in southeast Minneapolis right near the U of M. I wasn’t there for the winter of 2013-2014 as I originally came in October of 2014 and lived there until 2019.

I remember it got cold enough during that winter polar vortex thing that the power company was asking people to keep their homes at like 60 so that we didn’t overload the power grid and gas pressure. I want to say that was like 2016 or something when I used to live there.

Yeah, fair enough.

In that case, could you put them in Minneapolis and run them in like January?

I used to live there, and during the winters it can get brutal. During one of those polar vortexes is the first time I ever saw an air temperature of negative 50 with a wind chill of negative 70.

I agree, and this is strictly because Google wants to kill forks like Graphene OS. Anybody who implements this is going to get their tab immediately closed on my browser and I’m never going back. I will have zero tolerance for this.

I was just thinking this exact same thing.

Keepassxc (linux, winblows, crapple) Keepassdx (AOSP, spydroid) Keepassium (SpIOS)

I use a combo of osmand and gps-coordinates.net. osmand generally does not do good with addresses, so I put the address into gps-coordinates.net and have osmand navigate me to the coords. I find if you’re looking for a business, you might be able to do it. But if you’re looking for residential addresses, you can generally forget about it with osmand.