Comments by "Northern Chimp" (@NorthernChimp) on "Rob Braxman Tech" channel.

  1.  @WANDERER0070  CCP respecting privacy, really?
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  2. No. A computer running a mainstream Linux distribution like Ubuntu is still a computer. It's like moving to another house. You already know how to live in a house.
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  3. Rob, you give us a lot of valuable advice on how to protect ourselves as general public, I would love to hear more from you about what developers can do to avoid exposing customers.
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  4. Very interesting, but what about: - Facebook (for ex.) which 'needs' your ID, so then your 2FA phone n° is matched to your person isn't it? - if a stranger becomes a friend or a pro contact, you give them your real n°, and BigTech record the change, don't they?
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  5. I don't think your edit will show in his notifications. And yeah, the other day a comment of mine started a long thread, I could see that several rather normal replies were hidden, while really offensive ones, that violated YouTube guidelines, were left in plain sight.
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  6. Those TVs run similar OSs as phones. So why not a de-googled Android TV?
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  7. He usually says Apple, especially the iPhone, is even worse. Here he's talking about activity segregation, but he does make it clear that using an iPhone for that is an unsatisfactory stopgap.
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  8. If while browsing you see a notification telling you that you need to clear your phone, it does not come from your phone but from the website. If you click on it, that's when malware is installed. Just leave the rogue site forever. If you ever once agreed to "clean your phone", I'm afraid that's where all that comes from.
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  9. Check his video "Setting Up Your New Computer Safely".
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  10. 4:22 sounds really fun to do, but wouldn't it be an easy way to get into trouble?
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  11. Is it sure VirtualBox, of all VM solutions, isn't somewhat oracular?
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  12. Interesting. I can see another reply here that is in my notifications but invisible in the thread itself. And guess what it says? R. Stark replied: "They are deleting the Internet. And depending what you search on Google, they are suppressing information." 🤣🤣🤣
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  13. In the time of East Germany "they" would get bored, but today "it" cannot.
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  14. If you do it that way, 1) you're giving your other email away to goggles, 2) you get a gmail anyway automatically, your other mail account is now tied to it. Congratulations, by using this kindly provided feature you're now carrying your goggles ID stamped on your forehead wherever you go with your non-goggles address.
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  15. Yes and we read you to the end 😆
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  16. Rob, you say that Session is 100% open source, but why does F-droid mention as anti-feature that "The upstream source code is not entirely Free"?
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  17.  @keejefferys2372  This explanation should be added to the description of Session on F-droid.
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  18. 3:57 Why not those millions of still working Androids that get dumped every year?
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  19. It seems that there is a proper way to root a device, that is reversible. I think Terry is right in principle, but if you need an "official" phone for a reason, maybe this could be a middle ground, locking it back after cleaning it up?
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  20. This is completly coherent, and it's also how you can shut the mouthes that smear you as a fear-mongerer.
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  21. The same happened to me, but I heard it's possible to avoid if you don't connect the device to the internet until the first user account is already set up.
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  22. It depends on the app.
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  23.  @AbelosAlithini  YouTube's automatic subtitles are more often nonsense than translation in my experience, so I think it would be better if someone volunteered to translate.
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  24. What is it?
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  25. Yes, but what's the point of taking your phone with you, if it's in a Faraday bag?
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  26.  @robbraxmantech  You mean that only on a normie phone, right?
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  27. Read his answer to user @dansw0rkshop
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  28. That last sentence
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  29. Some people say they could set up Windows 11 without an account, by starting offline.
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  30. I never activated it, mainly because the TOS are 3km long and only in German (on my phone brought in France), and selecting is disabled when I view them, so I can't use any translating software.
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  31.  @RetroCaptain  I agree, but the idea that one could rely indefinitely on vintage stuff from before a fixed moment in time seems unrealistic to me. They will not be available in large numbers forever.
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  32.  @happyjoyjoy6976  I think there's a world-wide war of psy ops going on. They're not all from the same source. But ideologies are not a good indicator of intentions, because they are used as tools, only the disagreements count, not the contents.
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  33. He presents his products at the end, but I find the sequence well distinct.
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  34.  @robbraxmantech  Maybe a mistake in F-droid. If so, it's a pity, as it can put people off on a wrong assumption.
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  35. Actually in F-droid docs "This does not mean that proprietary software is included in the app. Most likely, the F-Droid build has been patched in some way to remove the Non-Free code/libraries, and/or some functionality may be missing." But the interface doesn't make this very obvious.
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  36.  @keejefferys2372  This makes more sense. Thank you.
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  37. Rob, at 16:57 you are wrong afaik. On my normie Android 10, Google Chrome, Firefox, Duckduckgo browser, Lightening Browser, Privacy Browser (Soren Stoutner's), all show certificates natively. Some others do not, though, like Samsung Internet (quite of a concern imo), or Firefox Focus.
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  38. 7:05 Cambridge Analytica.
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  39. Idk about cats or pigeons, but other people have their own tags anyway and are happy so.
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  40. Kudos @Stark-ek7mh 
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  41. If they are all politically 'liberal', why are they acting so typically like a liberal's idea of a far-right regime?
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  42. What am I reading then? Not really a troll question, but it does look contradictory. What did you mean?
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  43.  @crazysquirrel9425  Yes, but I think you do "do social media", you're just not walking around with them.
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  44. The easiest yes, but definitely not the best unless you are a hermit on an asteroid.
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  45. Disable sync and then you can remove the excess stuff from your account.
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  46. How do you drag them?
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  47. Lunr Tech's open source hardware?
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  48.  @Truth_Teller_101  This sounds somewhat better.
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  49. If you could show me
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  50.  @DamjanDimitrioski  How's your project going?
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  51. I think so too. But I don't know how easy it would be to start this as a niche before outgrowing the PKI, since websites need the browser's trust. I understand Rob is planning a video about how he would change the PKI, so I'm waiting for that.
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  52. That's why quantum noise is silence at the same time.
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  53.  @MadCowMusic  Did I say anything about myself lol? But now that my ph🤕ne is in hospital, it's because g👀 has my data somewhere that I can follow Rob... the real world is complicated 🤯
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  54. Interesting question. By basic logics no, but if someone is aware of a plot twist, I would like to know. Could the news be in the first answer here, that is hidden to me?
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  55.  @linsqopiring6816  yeah, but then your phone carrier is your ISP, or you are using someone else's ISP.
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  56. This is just a basic, common obfuscation technique, exactly what he said AV can detect. Btw there's no virus in your snippet.
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  57.  @robbraxmantech  If one flashes them to PostmarketOS? That's Linux.
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  58.  @robbraxmantech  Thank you for answering my noob's question. It's much clearer now.
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  59.  @nedmilburn  You can sign up with just a random username and password
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  60. Log in to your YT account only in Chrome, and watch YouTube in Brave only logged out. That's what Rob call's browser isolation.
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  61. You have "nothing to hide? OK. Take your clothe off.
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  62. He's teaching us how to take a tangent trajectory to the wall the world is heading into perpendicularly.
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  63. Those games are a much bigger issue, with their kernel-level 'anti-cheat' monitoring features.
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  64. Wow that would be a real 'kill switch'.
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  65. You're in yet another vault, behind the Wall.
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  66. A VPN hides your IP, but nothing else. And else is a lot.
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  67.  @paulrun111  Openly?
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  68. I will.
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  69. And now, news: Threads will be part of the Fediverse. That instance will be radioactive.
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  70. ​ @linsqopiring6816 And I suspect 'top comments' censorship to target such suspitions LOL.
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  71.  @Provocateur3  but how is it recorded, from inside the bag?
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  72.  @Provocateur3  If the aggressor is kind enough to tell you he's going to start.
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  73. Of course it does, but also what you like, your subs, your comments and simply what you skip and don't skip. Seems obvious, though we don't know exactly. Their government classified the algorithm as a national interest level secret.
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  74.  @timtimini7641  That's not it
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  75. In case of the other scenario (app hates root), it could think you rooted your phone because: 1) it is de-googled, hence not a 'standard Android' (some apps like banking ones only 'trust' normie phones), this would be normal; or 2) it is rooted without your knowledge, this would be concerning. I would check device status in settings.
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  76.  @10.11.9  A case where payment authentification should be enough.
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  77.  @Disabled_fandom  But, what is your LibreBoot booting Void Linux upon?
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  78. ​ @robbraxmantech  Is it possible to multiply Let'sEncrypt independent clones and kin so none is irreplaceable?
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  79.  @teresajackson5859  A beep is a notification, isn't it? Did you look in your received notifications, and in your notification settings?
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  80.  @thebrowns5337  If you access anything online, you are using a browser. That's how it works. When you use the "Google" app on your phone, for example, it uses the System WebView, a faceless browser engine that all non-browser apps use to access the Internet. (Same for YouTube, Spotify, your bank...) And links you open use your default browser, even within the app. (I managed to have no default browser, so I have the choice every time.)
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  81.  @thebrowns5337  What do you mean by 'search motor'? A search engine (called "moteur de recherche" in French)? Unless you have the whole index stored at home (a massive data center) you need to send your query to a remote server. Using a browser.
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  82. Have you watched Rob's videos on i devices, specially those from 5 months ago?
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  83.  @robbraxmantech  That's strange, all I can find online is Finland being a massive producer of those! Maybe do they have different packaging/labelling regulations?
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  84. ​ @50-50_Grind  He can just c&p your comment into the description, he only needs to add "0:00 Intro" at the top and there are chapters 👈 @robbraxmantech :)
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  85. Good. Don't forget to cover it with some non-shiny layer. You can be seen from too far right now.
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  86. It depends on whether you can unlock the bootloader or not. As far as I know Galaxies are unlockabl in their international versions, but not in their US versions, or at least the option is obfuscated (I have read things like it appearing only a week after the dev options are opened or smthng like that; Idk I'm not in the US). After that you need to find a ROM compatible with your device model. Some Galaxies have them others don't. I'm still looking for one for my A31, although very close models like A32 have them.
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  87. Don't you have your setup saved on some drive (or in the cloud)?
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  88.  @RetroCaptain  Or degoogle it
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  89. You mentioned Goggles and Meth, but did you forget Bizzos?
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  90.  @terrydaktyllus1320  ofc not deliberately, but who uses external webfonts, integrates easy login with your zucking id, that f, like button, Disqus comment box, etc.? They don't come on their own. I can see a few things that can be done, like self-hosting anything that you can. But I expect Rob to have some extra insight.
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  91.  @robbraxmantech  Is VirtualBox trustable, knowing it's from Oracle?
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  92.  @SpaceCadet4Jesus  For the IP: you can use a VPN; for browser tracking: you can separate your activities. Are you assuming people who do one random thing always think it solves everything and don't know anything else? And is someone who appears as Space Cadet instead of John Doe paranoid or just reasonable?
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  93. In this other Rob's video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3v6bvqiErWQ&t=419s
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  94.  @robbraxmantech  Twitter not a concern?!
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  95.  @practicalthinker5545  Yes, and the background flips, so this part is clearly separated.
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  96.  @Inphinityproductions  Everything he said in this video can be found on each app's website. The ranking is from his own reasoning, which he expressed in full words. So as I understand the principle in your comment, I don't see how it applies to this video?
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  97. It's easy to find on F-Droid.
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  98. China Uncensored can be expected to be hyperbolic, but I can also imagine the app to be normal for the general pubic, and then be weaponised against specific targets.
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  99. Irrelevant ads can be so much more entertaining
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  100.  @terrydaktyllus1320 , I agree with you. Just that on yt I often let them flow past when I like the creator (e.g. Rob) because I'm not paying for premium.
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  101. I'm not having it here, but I did see that several times elsewhere on YouTube.
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  102.  @Mr.Dapper  Useless for that purpose, they don't cover the whole face.
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  103. How can I do the same test on Windows?
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  104. That's meant as "targeted individual", @friendlyfire7861  .
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  105. It doesn't, he doesn't say his product is the only viable solution, and the promotional section is clearly distinguished by the background flipping.
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  106. This is probably what the real problem is, seen that the same ones have recently voted some rather better measures like the anti-gatekeepers thing. Influenceable persons become living battlegrounds.
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