Preparing if Switzerland Actually Bans E2EE - Privacy Wins Of The Week!

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Summary

In this engaging live stream, Techlore's Henry discusses week 49 of 'Privacy Wins Of The Week', focusing on a potential end-to-end encryption ban in Switzerland. The situation remains speculative as companies, like Proton, are poised to move if drastic measures are enacted. Henry emphasizes the importance of being proactive about privacy by having contingency plans, inspired by Scott's proactive approach discussed in the chat. The audience shares their personal privacy wins, and Henry offers insights on various privacy tools and best practices.

Highlights

Discussed potential E2EE ban in Switzerland and its implications. 🤔
Appreciated proactive planning by community member Scott. 🧠
Highlighted importance of contingency plans for digital tools. 📂
Encouraged community engagement for knowledge exchange. 🤝
Explored various privacy tools like Mulvad, Proton, and Portmaster. 🔍

Key Takeaways

Stay informed but not alarmed about privacy developments in Switzerland. 🇨🇭
Explore alternative privacy services proactively, like Scott. ✌️
Engage with community discussions to enhance privacy knowledge. 💬
Balance privacy with usability for effective digital security. 🔐
Embrace privacy tools like Brave, SimpleX, and BetterFox. 🛠️

Overview

In this lively Techlore live stream, viewers joined Henry to discuss potential threats to digital privacy, focusing on Switzerland's possible legislation to ban end-to-end encryption. While the situation is still unfolding and no immediate action is required, Henry emphasized the importance of staying informed and having contingency plans in place. This was highlighted by recognizing Scott, a community member, for proactively considering alternative privacy services.

The live stream also featured community engagements where attendees shared their personal 'Privacy Wins'—ranging from changing web browsers to adopting new privacy-first communication tools. Henry facilitated a vibrant discussion, offering advice and insights on various tools and practices to enhance digital privacy. The emphasis was on making informed choices that balance privacy and usability, encouraging the audience to stay vigilant and prepared.

Throughout the session, there was a constant reminder of the importance of community discussions in the journey of enhancing one's privacy practice. Whether advocating for tools like Brave, SimpleX, or the newly mentioned BetterFox, or discussing methods of compartmentalizing digital life for better security, it was a session filled with valuable insights and shared learning experiences.

Chapters

00:00 - 00:30: Introduction and Overview The introduction of a live stream where the host mentions being on week 49 of a recurring event. The host acknowledges that despite being only the second month they're personally involved, the community has been engaged for 49 weeks, marking the upcoming week 50. The focus today, as mentioned, is a 'highlight' before any panic sets in among the audience.
00:30 - 05:00: Swiss End-to-End Encryption Concerns In Switzerland, there are ongoing discussions and concerns about potential actions against end-to-end encryption and online anonymity. While nothing has been officially enacted yet, there is a significant conversation happening among the Swiss populace. The speaker emphasizes the importance of staying informed and aware of these developments, without reacting impulsively, as measures are currently only being discussed and there is opposition fighting against such changes. It is crucial to give attention to these issues as they unfold.
05:00 - 10:00: Getting Prepared for Potential Issues The chapter titled 'Getting Prepared for Potential Issues' discusses what steps to take and considerations to account for when preparing for unforeseen events in any country. It specifically addresses selecting resilient services and highlights these discussions through Scott's insights.
10:00 - 15:00: Live Chat and Viewer Interaction In this chapter, the focus is on live chat and viewer interaction during a session. The speaker mentions they have limited time for the session, only about an hour and a half, and acknowledges a large number of comments on the forum, specifically 48. Due to time constraints, the speaker plans to be brief with their responses. Despite the time limitations, they aim to leave space for live chat interactions afterward. The speaker begins by checking in with the audience, asking for feedback on their audio and visual quality.
15:00 - 20:00: Privacy Wins: Week 49 Highlights This chapter provides an introduction and context to the privacy-centric themes that will be explored, particularly focusing on the significance of maintaining privacy even in worst-case scenarios. It mentions an incognito tool or mode which should not be ignored and hints at ongoing communications within a private Signal group.
20:00 - 30:00: Detailed Discussion of User "Scott's" Win The chapter centers on the user 'Scott's' recent win and entails lively discussions among users in a group setting. It notes a conversation that touches upon historical communication methods, like carrier pigeons, before transitioning into present interactions. Key participants include 'Cubic', who comments on the high quality of sound, and 'Fuzzy Mint', who acknowledges consistent attendance to live sessions, highlighting a slight scheduling anomaly from the previous week. The overall feel is sociable and dynamic, set within a close-knit community setting.
30:00 - 40:00: More User Wins and Participation The chapter discusses a recent stream that took place two weeks ago, which left a strong impression on the speaker. The speaker expresses anger over a perceived betrayal by Bitshoot, though details are not provided. The speaker encourages open discussion and interaction, inviting listeners to share their thoughts. The chapter includes greetings to various individuals, showcasing a lively and participative community.
40:00 - 45:00: Tools and Strategies for Online Privacy The chapter discusses various tools and strategies to enhance online privacy. A user named Chris shares their success in migrating from Google Keep, Notion, and Samsung Reminders to more privacy-focused alternatives. The narrative is set within the context of a live stream with around a hundred participants. The conversation pivots to an interesting story revolving around Switzerland, though details about this part of the story are not provided in the transcript.
45:00 - 55:00: Importance of Compartmentalizing Online Activities The chapter discusses the potential threats posed by the lack of compartmentalization of online activities. It emphasizes the importance of being aware and proactive about the potential negative impacts that could arise if these issues are not addressed. Although none of the discussed events have occurred yet, the chapter underscores the urgency of communicating concerns, especially in political contexts, to mitigate these risks.
55:00 - 60:00: Importance of Emergency Sheets and Backups This chapter discusses the consideration of amending surveillance laws to include new types of monitoring and information collection. This expansion would affect VPNs and secure messaging providers. The chapter highlights that there are already existing surveillance measures on certain organizations, like Internet Service Providers (ISPs), who are subjected to specific regulations.
60:00 - 65:00: Recommended Browsers and Tools for Privacy The chapter discusses the debate over which countries offer the best online privacy protection, with a focus on Switzerland. Proton, a service based in Switzerland, is highlighted as an example of a company that prides itself on the country's strong privacy laws. However, the effectiveness of Switzerland's privacy protection is contested. TUDA, a German organization, argues through blog posts that Germany offers better privacy protections than Switzerland.
65:00 - 75:00: Viewer Questions and Insights The chapter titled 'Viewer Questions and Insights' discusses the trustworthiness of Proton services in the context of Switzerland's legal environment. Some legal experts challenge Switzerland's status as the best place for Proton's operations, suggesting there may be better countries for it. Despite potential challenges, users are currently advised not to move away from Proton, but to consider scenarios where Proton might face difficulties in maintaining its position as a trusted service.
75:00 - 80:00: Upcoming Plans for Techlore This chapter discusses the potential future challenges and plans for Techlore, emphasizing the unpredictable nature of technology regulation changes such as the potential impact of the UK's stance on end-to-end encryption. It highlights the importance of using resilient services, citing Proton as an example of a robust tool. The chapter sets the stage to transition into a discussion about the company's achievements and future directions, particularly through the perspective of a team member named Scott.
80:00 - 90:00: Closing Remarks and Final Thanks The speaker expresses concerns regarding potential actions by the Swiss government to undermine end-to-end encryption, especially as a Proton service user. This situation prompts the speaker to prepare a privacy-focused plan, updating a document that lists strategies for enhancing personal privacy. The speaker considers alternative services like Tutanota and Mullvad VPN as replacements for Proton, valuing the importance of anonymous payment methods. They also explore acquiring Monero, noting its ease of purchase through Cakewallet. Additionally, the speaker mentions an upcoming transition to Linux and is researching compatible applications.

Preparing if Switzerland Actually Bans E2EE - Privacy Wins Of The Week! Transcription

00:00 - 00:30 okay I should be live hello everybody welcome to the live stream this is technically week 49 i know this is like the second month I'm doing this but we've been doing the uh weekly wins on our forum now for 49 weeks which means next week is week 50 i didn't realize this until uh one of the community members uh was awesome and went ahead and already posted week 50 um but yeah we're almost in week 50 so the highlight today um before you know you all panic
00:30 - 01:00 click on this video I tried to not make the title too like alarming but it was the win like it's what someone is trying to do but it's about some stuff happening in Switzerland recently um so a lot of people in Switzerland are talking about uh you know how they're going after some endto-end encryption and online anonymity and I'll briefly cover this um you know nothing's actually been done yet and they are fighting it so I don't want to necessarily like outside of giving it attention and making you all aware of it I don't want us to uh react irrationally
01:00 - 01:30 to it but the win today covers someone's journey in like well what happens if something like this actually ever happens in any country and how do I uh pick services that are more resilient to this etc and it's a really good question and it's going to be the main highlight today from Scott so just to tease what we're going to do um I'm going to go ahead and just stay in the live chat for a sec and let people join um as always kind of the structure that we've been doing for this is I'm going to just be here with you for a few minutes in the
01:30 - 02:00 live chat let people log in we'll go through the wins i have a little bit less time this week i have about an hour and a half total and there's like Jesus Christ how many 48 comments on the forum so I might have to be a little quicker today in terms of just getting through people um so if I am a little bit more brief today I apologize in advance um I also want to try to leave time for you all in the live chat afterwards that's all I have to start with um let me go ahead and see the live chat do I sound good do I look good definitely let me
02:00 - 02:30 know before I start really getting into it but uh let's see here incognito i was ignoring this yeah you know I don't think you should ignore it but it's good to at least think about it and what happens if things turn out worst case scenario right um also anyone in the Tech Laurian signal group our little private signal group you're also like I I have it open here as well so I can also see anything that you guys send there um let's see i'll give a little bit more uh context over the news
02:30 - 03:00 article in a second let's go back to carrier pigeons from Jasper um yeah it is definitely a pattern uh Cubic said "Good sound." Looking good okay cool um in the signal group Fuzzy Mint hello nice to see you live this week yep haven't missed a week yet last week was on Thursday uh which was a little bit off because normally it's on Friday um and it felt weird because it that extra day made it feel like the
03:00 - 03:30 stream happened two weeks ago in my head i I don't know why just that one day made such a big difference um I'm angry Bitshoot has been betrayed um don't know what happened with Bitshoot definitely feel free to share henry's live yes hello Neil hello Pishbot hello Dread hello Carter uh YouTube member nice hairdo thank you thank you um Jaden says "Yes loud and clear." Hello Jaden um hello Nito Boy uh Gujo Gujo i I might have got it um
03:30 - 04:00 privacy win migrated from Google Keep notion and Samsung reminders to not nice nice uh really awesome to hear that Chris and welcome uh into the live stream um nice to see you all definitely say hi if you're in the live chat um and I'll go ahead and start giving you a little bit more context we have about a hundred people on so let's go ahead and get started so the story this week is about Switzerland so
04:00 - 04:30 I want to make something very clear none of this has happened yet it's things that are being talked about that they're trying to do that many companies are fighting really hard against um because it would be very bad if any of this happened so none of this has actually happened we're not in panic mode yet but this is in we need to be aware of this mode right we need to think about it we need to at least think about worst case scenarios we need to communicate as much as we can especially if you're in Switzerland and you're in a position where you can communicate directly with your politicians now's the time to speak
04:30 - 05:00 up not time to panic time to speak up um with that said all of you to to kind of expand on what's going on here so they're considering amending surveillance laws to add new types of monitoring and information collection which would widen the reach to VPNs and secure messaging providers to simplify what they're trying to do as far as I know they already have some uh bad things in terms of what they can track for certain types of organizations and companies so for example like ISPs are uh have to be respected in certain ways
05:00 - 05:30 that other organizations don't have to and what they're trying to do based on my understanding is they're trying to widen the scope of what that means to include services like Proton who is based out of Switzerland and has notoriously always been like super like oh we are in Switzerland with the best privacy laws etc it's actually very debated just a little context how good Switzerland Switzerland actually is for privacy uh TUDA does put out some blog posts trying to make their argument for why Germanyy's better for privacy than
05:30 - 06:00 Switzerland um some people who have more of a legal background fight a lot against Switzerland actually being the best place and there are some better countries um but uh this is all to say that if this happens it's going to be really tough for Proton and Proton users to easily be able to still trust the service and have confidence that they're going to continue being a trusted place do you need to move away from Proton right now absolutely not should you at least think of a scenario where something crazy happens to Proton
06:00 - 06:30 whether it's this whether it's something crazy happening to the company yes I think it's always good to think about those worst case scenarios and um if the UK endto-end encryption thing is any reminder you never know what services you use today might not be available tomorrow and it's important to use resilient tools that can make it much harder for this to happen which I think Proton is in many ways very resilient um but also you know you never know what's going to happen so to pivot over to the wins I wanted to talk about Scott this context was important because Scott's
06:30 - 07:00 win is that he's saying you know Swiss government wants to kill end to end encryption as a Proton customer I feel I should have a plan in case that lot passes i do have a document with all the ways I can take back a bit more privacy and the Swiss news has encouraged me to revisit and update my file tuda Addi and Mulvadpn are my front runners for a Proton replacement if I need to leave Proton I may as well use services with anonymous payment methods i've been looking into how buy how to buy Monero turns out it's pretty easy in Cakewallet i also plan on moving to Linux soonish and I've been looking into what apps I
07:00 - 07:30 can use i've been on Android for many years so I'm out of the loop on different operating systems um and there's a lot more services here that Scott dives into that he's looking for replacements for the huge win here and I think what Scott is doing is awesome personally you know I'm I'm not following this case you know step by step i'm sure Proton is this is super critical to Proton the worstc case scenario is bad but typically we don't see the worst case scenarios actually pan out with that said what Scott is doing is still planning for the worst case scenario what happens if this
07:30 - 08:00 happens do I have uh backup protocols i really hope that the UK endto-end encryption thing for iCloud should have been a good reminder that you never know what's going to go what's going to happen tomorrow and um I have a lot of resilient like contingency plans not resilience plans i have a lot of contingency plans if something I use goes away well what do I move to do I have my data already backed up um what are the alternatives who do I have to notify uh part of you choosing to use different privacy and security tools is
08:00 - 08:30 also knowing how to use them with resiliency and a good example of this all of you probably use an endto-end encrypted messenger because you're subscribed to this channel and you're listening to this stream signals had downtime whatsapp has had downtime imessage has had downtime what happens when your contacts can't be contacted on these platforms this is just one minor example of why you should always have backups in place for people you communicate with as well as for you and your data so the main win for Scott is I'm just really proud of them thinking ahead on this i don't really care what
08:30 - 09:00 their alternatives are you know they like Mulvad i think Mulvad's great i think Addie's great i think Tuda's great but all of you listening just the reminder of this week is to have contingency plans in place for when things go wrong because you never know what's going to happen but if you're a little bit more prepared you'll be ready to go no matter what happens no matter what country does whatever crazy thing they want to do um and best case scenario things just resume as they always have and you won't have to actually implement any of your strategies so want to give a massive shout out to Scott and I think what
09:00 - 09:30 Scott's doing is a good lesson for everyone listening which is why I made it the highlight of this week so thank you all and that is my spiel for the first win um again I'm going to try to keep the next wins a little bit more brief because we have 48 of them and I have like a pretty hard hour and a half cut this week so feel free to start leaving your wins in the YouTube live chat um and I'll be sure to get to those at the end and I'll also take breaks as I'm going through the wins to kind of like check in with the live stream so um
09:30 - 10:00 yeah uh we got Marx in the signal group who said uh great reminder looking into TUDA as well i love their use of green energy yeah I I really like TUDA it has a very like grassroots vibe to it which I prefer proton feels to me like almost closer to Google than like a small email provider in a way so yeah um Muhammad said that they have put my online games on a separate user profile to protect the main one from IP attacks and resource hogging great example of compartmentalization here this is
10:00 - 10:30 awesome to see uh you know if you have school work gaming I try to keep them in the way I break it down for clients I work with one-on-one is the simplest way for comp to compartmentalize things is in a browser so you can use different browser profiles if you use something like Brave from there you can use different browsers altogether so you have Brave for one thing Firefox for another thing tour for another thing etc from there it's uh multiple user accounts so you can have a different user account on the same computer from there it's having multiple VMs for
10:30 - 11:00 different things and then finally the last form and the last most like extreme version of compartmentalization is multiple devices so each part of your life has a different device so that's typically how I break down the options if you're somebody who has many different areas of your life which most of us do we have families we have uh work we have personal lives we have relationships we have school etc so just think about how you compartmentalize those edward hello Edward uh they switched
11:00 - 11:30 from using only Firefox for everything to using Libre Wolf Tour and Bray for specific purposes love that every browser is better at something than another browser you know pros and cons between different browsers so I'm all for maximizing each browser for what it is good at so use multiple browsers um they deleted their old Discord and Facebook account congrats they switched from Windows to Linux i'd love to know what DRO you chose Edward so feel free to share more about um your experience especially next week i would I'm sure many of us would like to hear what your
11:30 - 12:00 experience is like they moved their friends and family from Signal to Simple X it seems superior in terms of privacy and security compared to Signal in session i do have Signal for some people but I'm converting more people daybyday it has become a lot more usable nowadays yeah um I think someone had a similar win last week i'm really surprised because I feel like the main selling point I've always used for Signal is it's super usable and like really easy to use and I feel like Simple X has been improving a lot but it's still not there so at least based on my arguments I've used for Signal it wouldn't be easy for
12:00 - 12:30 me to get people to Simple X but if you're using privacy as your like main selling point then you can probably get some people on Simple X so good job and it's cool that you're able to get people to even more private services as well um Marx has a win in our signal group um I have a win helped someone I care about adjust privacy and security settings and switch to Brave that's awesome good job Marx um it's a small win but like those things add up and honestly if everyone moved to Brave or
12:30 - 13:00 just a privacy browser it would make a huge difference globally it would like overnight change the entire industry of surveillance capitalism so it's a big win um Cubic is a bronze techan um I'll talk about that at the end um but they transferred their mobile number to JMP chat and started using Geogram for texting the main draw is the ability to receive texts on multiple devices and reply from their computer but that's the additional benefit of no longer sending data through a major mobile carrier so if none of you have heard of JMP it's
13:00 - 13:30 actually a really cool service that allow it's the closest thing to like almost self-hosting your text messages like people always ask what's a private VIP service that's kind of what JMP chat is so I believe it's conducted over XMPPP so as long as you find an XMPPP client um you can use it on any device it's crossplatform and you can use it with open source clients so it's pretty cool really cool tech a bit harder to set up than your typical like my pseudo um but once you have it set up it's
13:30 - 14:00 actually a really cool service and um they used to sponsor surveillance support um it was one of our like I think it was their first sponsor on surveillance support and we were super excited about it because it's genuinely a really cool service so yeah check them out um nothing but like good things to say about them based on my experience so congrats Cubic and nice job setting it up and they if you want to on the forum they dig into all the main benefits and downsides so far um I'm going to take a quick break check in with the live chat here so
14:00 - 14:30 let's see how we're doing um nice hairdo yes thank you um quick question before this starts how do I buy XMR i'm 16 and I'm pretty sure it's either mining not sure what else to do yeah so this is a little bit complicated uh to go into in the live stream but uh there's some really good YouTube guides already that kind of detail the options to buy XMR typically um the cool thing with Monero is that once it's turned into Monero the on and off ramps before then don't really matter too much so if you have a
14:30 - 15:00 way to get Bitcoin or Litecoin or any other coin you can just swap it into Monero um using something like Trokor using something like Cake Wallet using any kind of swap online um and once you do that swap and it's in Monero like everything before it becoming Monero is pretty darn private so if you're struggling to get Monero directly especially without KYC that's typically what I recommend to most people which VPN do you trust the most yeah I don't I mean
15:00 - 15:30 I it's a it's an interesting question and you know a lot of you are expecting me to say what I probably typically say which is like well check out our chart which is my formal answer for the record but um I have ser like I have my personal thoughts on services that I don't always fully share because I'm giving advice to thousands of people so typically when I'm talking about services I'm talking about them I will inject of course things that I think are important to say i have my biases but generally speaking I'm not here to be
15:30 - 16:00 like "Oh iVPN is the best." So I personally really trust Mulvad and IVPN um I've communicated with them in the background especially iVPN like I've talked a lot with their team i've met some of their team members in real life like I have that connection so I'm biased towards saying like "Yeah I trust them the most." And I think most people if they actually meet team members on a team and get to know them and get to know their personalities um those are the services you're going to trust the most um with that said um just because I
16:00 - 16:30 haven't had that relationship with Mulvad doesn't mean that they aren't also an incredible service and so when I present it publicly it's like well check out our VPN chart mulvad IVPN ProtonVPN and Windscribe are typically the top four that people really enjoy in our community um but if you really want to know my personal thoughts I trust IVPN the most because I just have that relationship with them um and they've never sponsored Techlorore um they don't have affiliate plans there's like zero incentive for me to say that it's just I've met their team and when you meet a team and you build that relationship um
16:30 - 17:00 it's hard not to like have more trust with the team but I've tried my best to not let that like influence like the open source tools because I mean they're all open source so you guys can see those um yeah I just thought that'd be some cool like behind the scenes um Christopher privacy win moved to notes congrats um struggling to get my site to preview by the way um yeah I hope you can get that figured out definitely keep us updated i know you're in the Signal group so I'm sure we'll hear updates there i started using Ente this week
17:00 - 17:30 carter trying to mainly use that for photos and videos now i also deleted my first Gmail account out of five okay yeah you got four more but that's that's how you get started and now you know how to do it so you can replicate that for four more yeah neil Neil is talking about how bad privacy is for cars it's definitely a thing jmp also does Matrix so yeah it is cool yeah JMP is really cool saber do you think politics should play a role in picking a product bray for example has a lot of conservative
17:30 - 18:00 people running and funding it i use their search and I'm concerned about skewed results yeah so I've I talked about this recently regarding Proton in the context of Proton because their CEO they're like denying this happened now which I think is crazy um but their CEO came forward and like was very pro um Trump um which is fine but they published that through the official Proton account so this is all a personal decision for you right
18:00 - 18:30 like ethics are really hard to define it's really hard to decide like at what point um something is too much for you so my issue with especially the Proton one is that it was published on a formal Proton account so if you I don't think any privacy service should be inherently political um because privacy is a human right that should stretch across both aisles politically right um and so I think I I don't blame Andy the CEO of Proton for having his own thoughts and I
18:30 - 19:00 think if he published them on his personal account sure um the mistake was publishing them on the official Proton accounts and I think that's a problem and um from there it's your personal choice right like I have some things that I boycott that I don't agree with people behind the project and so I just flat out don't use them but it really depends on the severity how much I think it impacts like the thing I care most about etc but that's a personal decision that I can't make for you what I can tell you is I highly disagree with services that officially have a
19:00 - 19:30 political stance on things i think that's just unnecessary alienates people who could benefit from a good service and that's the issue I have so yeah um Fuzzy Mint asks "Trying Cakewallet hopefully Cakewallet allows for people under 18 to use their services since cryptocurrency is an issue for me due to legal age requirements." Yeah I'm not sure about that definitely check the terms and conditions um so I haven't looked into that and you can always ask a parent theoretically to buy it for you um that's always an option as well or like a guardian or whatever situation you're in and last one before I go back
19:30 - 20:00 to the forum uh Lusco says "Privacy one i finally created an emergency sheet sheet for my task manager good if I forgot something or die and I finally made backup." So that's great good stuff and I'm glad that you have those backups ready to go um going back to the forum Lightning Toaster so for anyone who's still here I know we're we're almost at 200 viewers which is awesome um I already covered the Switzerland story towards the beginning so feel free to rewind if you want to get the whole scoop on that and like why it's important and what we're trying to do to
20:00 - 20:30 help like set you up for success so Lightning Toaster says "Small win/improvement on my recreation only no SIM Android device i did some cleanup went from about 50 apps to 40 love the digital minimalism." Some of them did the same thing like having multiple YouTube frontends and due to most of those removals being games I can happily say that the percentage of foyroid based apps is now as high as around 90% um this reminds me of Signal that used to have an insight score on Android uh because Signal used to support SMS on Android i'm sure many of you remember
20:30 - 21:00 that but it gave you a score of the number of messages sent via Signal or via SMS because you can set Signal as your default SMS app and I remember having my score at like 98% and I was really happy about that so just takes me back to the good old days when Signal supported SMS which um I wish they still did because then it would set them up to maybe support RCS and anyway um even though I only played those games firewalled using Rethink I know they were hammering on the firewall so cool it sounds like you just decluttered got a little more minimal and I'm sure it
21:00 - 21:30 feels good um I personally and everyone I talk to for the most part like anytime they clean up their phone make things a little more minimal make things easier to see and like navigate they all say it's great so I think it's great too so if you haven't already clean up a few apps on your phone you don't need it it'll feel better i'm seeing some messages in the signal group um let's see almost 200 views yeah they're like "Wow there's a lot of people cool
21:30 - 22:00 um let's see uh they're talking about JMP here okay so Cutie has a lot of wins i'm just going to run through these and go ahead and shout them out so move to Zen uh it's an open- source like Arc alternative uh it's a browser so I hope you enjoy it definitely feel free to update next week on your experiences they also moved their friend to Zen they downloaded extensions on Zen they helped their sibling with their new phone setup by logging into Gmail and downloading apps through Aurora which is a good way to get them a little bit more deled so
22:00 - 22:30 good job they're able to figure out a longtime issue they were facing where they used Rethink to block internet connection for apps like Calculator and Camera but they realized that if they connected their device to Proton those apps get internet access for that time period so I just started using OperaVPN um since I need VPN for some rare occasions i'm still open to listen if there's better things I can do yeah so um some people might have already responded um but there's probably some way to try to use RethinkDNS with a VPN but I'm not fully sure actually the
22:30 - 23:00 developer of RethinkDNS is on our forum so uh they might be able to help you out if there's a workaround to get a VPN connection running alongside Rethink um I personally haven't tried that workflow but there might be a way to do it and then let's see they were facing issues with Fudo um but they gave given a way to work around it which is awesome and they uninstalled apps on their old laptop to get a little bit better performance and they also started using a laptop stand for better posture guys honestly like I got a laptop stand and it's pretty like gamechanging and I actually bring it with me now if I go
23:00 - 23:30 work out of cafes um I am now that guy who is on the table with a freaking priv like not a privacy stand with a laptop stand and like a wireless keyboard wireless mouse and I have my little like workstation on the go i look maybe like a dork i don't really care because it's I can actually like work comfortably uh out in public now and it's at eye level because when you're working on a laptop it's so easy to like collapse because you have to keep your eyes down um but if you're like it just changes it changes everything so highly recommend
23:30 - 24:00 it and it's a good investment for for your long-term health um yes and someone said uh man manrol said laptop stands are great for cooling too so yeah if you're um running like especially an inefficient computer that generates a lot of heat can be good for that too let's see base note uh let's see base note just did some corrections for cutie let's see got some discussions all right cloud Claude um my privacy win should have
24:00 - 24:30 been me installing Proton Pass after hearing so much positive feedback and setting up 2FA on all accounts of NA O but I'm a bit confused now since the password for my ENT off is saved in the vault on Proton Pass and Proton Pass is locked with a master password ended code from the authentication app which is N O wouldn't it mean that hacking or breaching my one master password would essentially lead to breaking all my security measure measures since one holds the key to opening the other and vice versa yeah so I think a lot of people already like kind of engaged with
24:30 - 25:00 this and gave you their thoughts so my thoughts on this are if you want to do things cleanly I would recommend setting them up separately and you know how on Proton Pass you probably don't have a password manager to get into your Proton Pass so you need to memorize your way to get in to your Proton Pass or whatever password manager you use i'd recommend doing that with Nayoth as well um one alternative and this is actually what I do because I don't want to have to memorize two passwords i have an offline like separate O app i know it's like one thing to get into the other thing and
25:00 - 25:30 it's never ending but I have a separate O app that I use just to get into ENT off O which is ridiculous and it's probably not the cleanest way to do things but you can have a lot of fun with this and play around with like the best workflows for you um so this way with my workflow um I pretty much have ENT off credentials or my ENT account credentials and then I have a separate authentication on a offline to get into that ENT off account and then I just have to memorize my Proton Pass password i don't know if that makes sense that's
25:30 - 26:00 what I do but either way the most important thing regardless of what you do is have some kind of emergency sheet or have a way to get access to your like most important accounts so I have a list i won't say them for obssec reasons but I have a list of like three or four accounts that like and I would like everyone to think about this let's say you leave your house and all of your devices get stolen your phone your computers everything what accounts do you need where if you buy a new device
26:00 - 26:30 you can gain access to your most important things i think a lot of people don't ask that question and they find out too late that oh crap they got locked out of their entire digital life so make a list of the accounts that you need if you lose all your devices have those on an emergency sheet make copies of those emergency sheets and put them in safe places so that if your devices are ever lost stolen etc um you can go ahead just find your sheet you're chill you already prepped for this and then you get into your main accounts and then you set up your life again a new you
26:30 - 27:00 will thank yourself if anything ever happens so definitely have an emergency sheet have a way to get into sensitive accounts and that's what I'd highly recommend here um and then there's more advice that like Bassenote gave and other people so everyone has different ways to do this so go ahead and check through the forum if you really want to see um Crow who is committing to the person the the the personality here of Crow um they deleted Google Chrome Discord and
27:00 - 27:30 WhatsApp and they now use Firefox Telegram Simplex ProtonVPN um I again these are the wins so um I do think Telegram is you know if that's what you're moving to fine um just keep in mind if you're using Telegram try to at least enable the secret chat so you have endto-end encryption and be aware Telegram is nowhere near as private as they advertise um so just keep that in mind as long as you have that on your radar then you're good um don't use Google's email anymore enable 2FA they use Torxy to Telegram and they downloaded Cake Wallet and I think
27:30 - 28:00 that's all and I remembered I deleted my Netflix account so that's awesome tons of great wins um and as long as you're aware of Telegram's issues then you're good and make sure to enable those secret chats on Telegram um let's see base note if you're trying to save money okay good those are just discussions there uh Crow wants to really make it clear that they hate Netflix and I agree you got some more tips and discussions here um we got Wicked Rabbit hello everyone from Amsterdam um I my small win of the week
28:00 - 28:30 is the implementation of BetterFox user.js in Firefox i didn't want to mess around with Arcinf Fox since it's definitely not some out of the box one and done solution for hardening Firefox betterfox is an amazing project that takes care of so many tweaks within Firefox and I just wish there was a way to combine it and one for even more smooth and secure performance at the hardening of Arkinfox and before someone suggests it yes I'm aware of Zen Mulvad Librawolf etc i like vanilla Firefox although I admit Mozilla has been anything but trustworthy or giving reliable vibes for the past five years
28:30 - 29:00 or so so it sounds like for whatever reason um Wicked Rabbit doesn't want to use Zen Mulvad Libriwolf and they just want to use the official Firefox browser and they're using the BetterFox user.js um as like an easy one-stop way to make their privacy better i've actually never really heard much about BetterFox um or used it myself so I'll be looking more into that because that's a really good like thing for me to know about um historically Arkinfox is what does this for those who aren't aware with Firefox you can essentially like drag a file your user.js file and Arkinfox is pre-H
29:00 - 29:30 hardened with that file so you can just drag it into your regular Firefox it essentially hardens it for you but it hardens it pretty much to the max by default so things will break and you're supposed to like let off the steam you're supposed to pretty much go you know gas pedal all the way down and then slowly start removing things until you get it to where you want um whereas it sounds like BetterFox might just give a better like out of the box configuration so if any of you have used BetterFox let me know i'll be checking the signal group and the live chat um let me know if you've heard of it or used
29:30 - 30:00 it um let's see here backfield who is an early Techloran they're a bronze techan uh they want to share that they have been successful in streamlining and improving their decision-making process when choosing privacy tools this is going to be the last one before I go back to the live chat and give you all a little more love there um so their issue for a long time has been deciding between different tools especially if all the options have something interesting to offer because of this I've tried finding new discussions and opinions even though they rarely give me new insights as I've
30:00 - 30:30 already done my research on them as a result I have often been jumping from one tool to the next when I feel particularly convinced by one of them but this doesn't lead to long-term satisfaction because I will eventually change my mind again so instead of all this I have focused on trying to ask myself very specific questions about what I actually want from this privacy tool what are my requirements do I need to compromise somewhere or maybe there are some things that I'm not willing to compromise because of my personal values as a consequence I've been making decisions that I'm now feeling much more content with as I know I'm choosing the best tool for my specific circumstances
30:30 - 31:00 some examples include switching to Zen browser and Chromite using a mix of a crescent Google Play and Optanium to install apps and continuing to use Proton Mail instead of switching to TUDA so this is awesome um and the reason why so Backfield I have a slightly different take on where you're at i think that you switching between services reading through forums learning things from the community and like trying these out and figuring out what you actually need from these services that's a part of the
31:00 - 31:30 journey so I think that rather than this being like a shift in how you see things I think it's actually just the next step of you growing and figuring out what you actually need from the privacy community and this is something like I've experienced a lot of other people have experienced where um you kind of the most natural thing to do is what's the most private thing I can possibly use and you kind of just start going into that rabbit hole but then very quickly you realize oh well you know nothing's perfectly private this is all a spectrum
31:30 - 32:00 and I realized oh crap I can't even get anything done anymore because I just use these services that only care about privacy and there's no middle ground with usability or your relationships you can't just get everyone in your life on the most private messenger out there you have to try to compromise and so I think what you're kind of finding is you're kind of understanding your needs you're understanding your relationship with services a bit better and now you're able to make much more individualized uh decisions that don't necessarily rely on other people's opinions as much so I
32:00 - 32:30 think it's a mark of how far you've come i think anyone listening eventually will get to that point um but it does require kind of going through the experimentation phase like try out services like see what works for them see what doesn't work for them and be open to changing right and change things and see like oh wow like why did I change that was a stupid change it's like this is so much worse it's not worth the sacrifices um and then you move back to what you were using and you gain more appreciation for what you were using so my point here with all of this is to say that the journey is different
32:30 - 33:00 for everybody backfield is like getting to the point which I'm really happy to see where like you're able to make those decisions for yourself and I think that's why it's really hard sometimes for me to like you know I can give you all broad advice and sometimes I'll share like "Oh yeah but I do this thing it's a bit different than what I'll formally recommend." And people go "Well why do you recommend that why is that different from what you do and it's like well because I have my own personal life and I have my own things that I'm trying to prioritize which is different from what you guys are trying to do and what
33:00 - 33:30 I'm doing in my personal life isn't universal rules and advice to give you all and what I try to give is more universal rules and universal things to try and look into so slightly different and I'm constantly trying to find ways to like separate like what I do versus what I recommend i think I do a decent job but if you all have more you know advice or like ways for me to keep that separation let me know or if there's any ever confusion let me know um but this was a really cool one to read like I I just think yeah it was a cool one to
33:30 - 34:00 read this is my probably my favorite one of the week so good job Battlefield um now I'm going to cut over to the live chat and catch up with you all um let's see what I missed here um I think I left off on Lusco um Signal should definitely try to collab with Google to make end-to-end encrypted RCS yeah well I mean I made the video recently about how um RCS endto-end encryption is now built into the protocol so they don't even need to like partner with Google anymore um so I don't know what this is going to look
34:00 - 34:30 like hopefully clients will embrace like RCS with end toend encryption and maybe we'll have like a interoperable way for people to communicate with end to end encryption so we'll see um Fuzzy says "I use Apple Pay with my debit card right now cake wallet offers Apple Pay for payments i can likely bypass that see what happens wish me luck yeah I mean again just try to stick with the terms and conditions see what works if something doesn't work then you're going to have to talk to someone who's 18 or older um laptop stands are great yep privacy win from Neil Thompson i recently discovered the Clipius app for
34:30 - 35:00 Android on Froid this app makes it possible to have a subscription speed for videos proxy through an Nvidious instance i love it oo I've never heard of that um can that be done with things like uh why am I blanking the the main client um gosh oh this is gonna drive me wild if I forget the name um no someone please help me out what's the name of the like the YouTube Pure Tube U client on like Froid
35:00 - 35:30 um it's a great app why why am I blanking on it anyway someone will help me out in a sec here um which laptop stand do you have it's not like a one of the fancy ones it's like a generic laptop stand so I don't even know the brand actually um yes yes yes yes yes yeah if you use a password manager always figure out how you're getting into the password manager and how you're uh going to have backups for that it's very important yes uh new
35:30 - 36:00 pipe new pipee's the name thank you Marx on Signal um yeah new pipe thank you i was going to drive myself crazy trying to figure that one out again um and then right after I'm done streaming I know the name will come right back to me that's just how it goes [Music] um Grand External what is everyone using for custom DNS resolver i tried NextdNS but they force you into a paid version within the first 30 days too many options they should have a pretty generous free plan i've been I mean I
36:00 - 36:30 used the free Next DNS for a long time so if you go over their query amount then you might have to pay um generally the options I've seen and what's in the tech resources is um just using your VPN's regular DNS if you have no reason to change it then don't change it um but if you want something a little bit more robust there's Mulvad's DNS which is free it doesn't have any customization but that's actually what I've been trying to play around with recently so I've been using Molvad's DNS provider and it's really solid i use the most extreme uh one which byp like which blocks Oh no it's the next I think it's
36:30 - 37:00 the second most extreme one because I still need access to social media sites to run tech um so if it wasn't for that one then I wouldn't I would do the most extreme one but it blocks like NSFW stuff it blocks uh gambling sites it blocks like ads trackers malware etc so that's a really good one but in terms of like the paid options which have free tiers the main two that I see a lot is NexDNS and um control D um otherwise you know you can always use something like
37:00 - 37:30 Quad9 but honestly I don't know what the benefit is of using something like Quad9 with over like your VPN's DNS normally the reason to use NextDNS or control D is like you having a lot more customization over what you are filtering but if you're using a predefined filter anyway you might as well use your VPN's DNS um so it really depends what you're looking for and those are kind of my thoughts for things to try love Pac-Man yes yes um yeah we don't have So I guess just to just to make sure it's everyone's on the
37:30 - 38:00 same page there is no Cakewallet like affiliate links um oh by private Oh okay okay yeah just wanted to be sure like Cakewallet doesn't do affiliate links so um yeah they are in our resources and like I do do marketing for Cakewallet um but there is no other like crossplatform like Monero wallet out there um Monorujo is on Android so if you're on Android only that's an option and then there's always the official Monero guey but there's not really like a crossplatform Monero wallet so um that's that's kind of the main option for any of you looking for Monero right now um and yes for
38:00 - 38:30 privacy.com that is a good way to use fiat with better privacy and there is an affiliate link for that if you do use that um yeah Pi Hole yes Pi Holes are great well that DNS is great yep um regarding having Firefox but then adding a custom settings file the user would still be bound to the new Mozilla terms of service yeah I mean to some extent you will be bound to the new terms of service though like any privacy concerns or any issues um should be disa like you can disable them right like so you might
38:30 - 39:00 still have to agree to the terms but you can like technically disable everything that might be a problem uh most likely um Cubic said that take on backfields win was very insightful that's really nice to hear yeah um yeah okay good i'm glad I'm saying things that speaks to people um let's see yes I'm now on ProtonVPN and Mulvad DNS great um well I mean I'll just ask why like Mulvad's DNS like has very
39:00 - 39:30 custo like similar precustom filters similar to Protons like proton also has similar things so um wondering agreed JP very much agreed um operators should embrace RCS yeah true i think that hardcore phase might be kind of exhausting but getting to know all of it is good in order to really get a grasp of what does what and what you actually need out of the toolbox fully agreed yeah well
39:30 - 40:00 put 187 um I hadn't considered that I could lose my devices i just added a keypadass file to the flash drive I carry with me in case I lose my tootp device smart um yeah assume that your devices just magically disappear one day and like what do you do then that's that's a good question to to ask yourself yes thank you new pipe but it doesn't allow Nvidious instances wow that should be something they do i think that'd be really cool seems right up their alley seems my friend is shy to ask this
40:00 - 40:30 by encouraging him so here it is what happens when Switzerland bans end to end encryption um well when implies they're going to so the fight's not over what happen like so what happens if worst case scenario something happens um well you they can't just disable end to end encryption so you'll probably have some kind of like warning so really the best thing to do is have backup services ready to go and then you just have to migrate to services that aren't based in Switzerland like that's it's as simple as that it's it's simple but it's not easy right so um that's that's pretty
40:30 - 41:00 much it um Hopeless Normie says "I use Firefox Focus on my phone as a burner browser so it's it's an ephemeral browser if you've never used it it's like the ephemeral version of regular Firefox it like clears your data when you exit unfortunately there's no Firefox focus for the desktop what do you use as a burner browser on your desktop?" So I think personally that's exactly where Mulvad's perfect um Mulvad browser is like the ephemeral browser
41:00 - 41:30 that I use it's actually my default browser on desktop um that way any link I opens in kind of a like disposable ephemeral browser that's not tied to any of my other um like account specific browsers um and that's pretty much the closest that I think there is to Firefox Focus on desktop you can always customize Firefox to pretty much do what Firefox Focus does like you can you know wipe data on exit you can harden it etc but I think Mulvad's a perfect drop in for like a Firefox focus on desktop
41:30 - 42:00 cool all right I am caught up um let's go ahead and resume this if you have any questions for me or things to say shoot them over um let's see base Note Gate did some responses let's see definitely just some responses here jonah posted something that ended
42:00 - 42:30 up in a local bar in San Francisco which is pretty cool so that's awesome bigish doctor installed Fidroid inside Samsung secure folder and since they have Google Advanced Protection enabled it disables any other app install not sure if this can be bypassed by something like installing their certificate my phone options unfortunately remain Apple or Samsung not perfect but it works and it gives me the option of trying out far more open source stuff yeah so just a general win just to speak to this you can use Froidoid Aurora Optanium on pretty much any Android device so it's something
42:30 - 43:00 that's really easy to promote with your friends and family right i think a lot of people assume that third party browsers it's complicated that's for people who you know a lot of people don't know terminology so they go "Oh isn't that for rooting or isn't that for custom ROMs?" But no just be like actually like regular Android is fully open to third party app stores and the more people that use third party app stores the bigger you know market share they get the more normalized they become and it makes them that much stronger so like definitely encourage people to use these third party browsers um yeah it's
43:00 - 43:30 a great reminder I think um because a lot of people think you have to be using custom ROM and it's just not true um and it's like the biggest selling point of Android in general over iOS on iOS you're stuck to the app store and you don't have like the awesome like foid open source community that exists over on the Android side of things with like really exclusive apps that have functionality you can't get on iOS you have like Rethink DNS which is like a whole firewall tool you can't do that on iOS what about peer-to-peer messaging like Brier you can't do that on iOS how about a full-blown tour browser that's
43:30 - 44:00 officially from the tour project you can't do that on iOS because it's all based on WebKit so there's a lot of things oh what about default messenger like making Signal your default messenger you can't do that on iOS so my point is there's a lot of little perks on Android and most of them have to do with third party like accessibility into the operating system from what I've been able to tell um Gjo said uh I'm going to keep like really trying until one day it's just
44:00 - 44:30 natural and I'm going to say it but it's it's not natural for me to say it that way um because it's a Japanese pronunciation um a small and unconscious win the grand scheme is showing that it isn't about anything having against them i've devised the plan of keeping the account by having the profile picture for the faster response contact on Signal i hope someone takes up them on the message with the same phone number i'm trying to Okay I know you're in the live chat so do you mind expanding
44:30 - 45:00 here oh okay i think this might be a response to what you say okay so um the small win is I uninstalled Thunderbird for my dad's phone um to use for the work email it's a small step in the right direction and I'm going to try to get my business to Proton if possible and also get my dad to use Signal awesome um huge wins there and then as for the photos and navigation situation first I've decided on a ways to put on my notorious user because at the very least account less data to go off okay so you're moving to Ways um Ways is owned by Google just heads up um so I
45:00 - 45:30 don't know how much privacy you're getting by doing that but um just something to think about um I remember telling my dad once not to put photos of me on Facebook viber is fine since it's end to end encryption but he laughed it off which is honestly disrespectful and not being the best of all of telling jokes i wasn't sure on that hopefully they just stick to sending them on Viber and that's it and I'll keep asking them in case they would dare to think to post elsewhere feels nice to have a friend that fully respects it actually yeah i mean just try to continue um communicating i know it can be hard if people don't like respect your boundaries but if they don't respect the boundaries then it's like it's a good moment to be like "Hey you didn't
45:30 - 46:00 respect my boundary." Like why not um and so try to have that conversation and I I think that like that's really going to help you um not showing it isn't about having something against them keeping the account okay i don't understand this first part so if you can help explain that I see you in the live chat so um if you can go ahead and explain that that'd be really awesome love the t-shirt Henry for sale from Grand External no so this is actually a um Let me see if I can like turn around
46:00 - 46:30 somehow it's a tour project sure if you guys can see that um so um it's for like Techlor like we I paused it so we no longer donating uh but for like two or three years we've been donating to the tour project and EFF every month um and like this shirt was just part of donating to them so this is like an official Tour Project shirt and I don't know if it's still on their merch shop but it was like on their official merch shop and it's a cool shirt i really like it um and it's like a very It's a little
46:30 - 47:00 It's a little bold i feel like when you wear in public like you get a lot of eyes on you um but it's a cool shirt it's really good to wear for content um Nvidia keeps YouTube from seeing the end user but doesn't have a subscription speed new Pipe has a subscription feed but can't use an Nvidia proxy clipius creates the best of both worlds got it okay that really explains it thanks Neil yes uh Fairphone with Call is a pretty cool place to be um I have a Fairphone um and like it's it's cool
47:00 - 47:30 it's definitely cool it's not a bad place to be okay so Goujo expanded on signal here let's see so the win is they got for Viber um they knew friends and family could make a big deal out of it but they blame Viber for notifying members that I quote left the group this shouldn't happen when someone deactivates their account got it okay so
47:30 - 48:00 you were successfully able to migrate from the group um yeah I mean it is frustrating because sometimes you do want to leave places quietly um I know sometimes I want to make just small changes on Signal that aren't big and it like notifies everyone for like the silliest things i'm like oh and then you know people are asking like "Oh why'd you do this?" Like and it's like "Oh it was just this." Like it's really small um so yeah I I get it it's really frustrating and I wish there was a way like that should just be an admin
48:00 - 48:30 setting like notify members for changes in the group like that should just be a basic admin setting for all these communities um I got no no what what am I misunderstanding here let's see i just did like the edit says okay so the edit is I've devised the plan of creating the account by having the profile picture be
48:30 - 49:00 for faster response got it okay so you're planning a way to leave without pissing them off i get it okay that's a good move okay so if you are in like any kind of like public group and you want to leave quietly then that is a way to do it um by just updating the the information to kind of just be like "Oh I'm not responding here's a better place to reach me." It's a good good strat um it's a good way to not have the social suicide that you're referring to in the signal group um I think I got it now did I get it now i think I
49:00 - 49:30 did the group stays yeah but you change like your profile yeah okay got it cool no that's a good strat if that helps anybody else uh there's a little bit of advice on how to deal with that awkward situation so thank you um Cosmos Cosmos Cat completed their migration from One Password to Bit Warden it's largely improved since two years back they love the new UI SSH agent pass key support username generator etc they're missing features from One Password like tags Watchtower
49:30 - 50:00 and sections for custom fields but they're overall happy with Bit Warden so congrats and privacy app suggestions they installed local send app on family phones for local sharing they've asked them to use this instead of WhatsApp they created a family group and signal for sharing things with the entire family at once and two weeks ago they bought Fiin's lifetime plan and they tried to pitch it as a Google Photos alternative but they were not happy with the performance and prefer Google Photos so they're using Fiin as a cloud backup which is honestly still great you never know what's going to happen and if you use something as a backup that's still a
50:00 - 50:30 huge win and they installed Brave app for family members they're extremely happy with the background YouTube playback so they've even uninstalled the YouTube app yeah Brave is a really nice one to get people who currently use Chrome like it blocks ads out of the box it just improves the user experience out of the box it makes things faster out of the box it protects their privacy out of the box and it adds cool things like YouTube background playback like it's a great way to get people started on privacy i think um the two like really easy places to get people started on privacy is either moving them to something like Brave or just getting
50:30 - 51:00 them to install Ublock Origin in whatever browser they're currently using it's like such an easy way to make a big difference for people and they really normally appreciate it okay we got a win from Lib All PM Libble PM so they said a disposable uh joke email provider is back online um allegedly an email domain referencing the infamous German leader from the 30s was targeted by two intelligence agencies to de destabilize the free service but the domain has been sunset by the mail provider and the service is back online it's pretty cool um and then
51:00 - 51:30 for their personal wins they switched from Brave to BetterFox uh this is my second time hearing about BetterFox um my yearly browser switch due to frustration that's funny um it's much smoother experience on BetterFox and if you don't know what it is it's a user script that cleans up telemetry and junk from Firefox cool it sounds like just a mellow version of Arkinf Fox that's like a little bit more accessible to people which is really cool um Librawolf feels slow in my opinion better Fox is a great option and does the same thing as Libra Wolf without needing to modify things all you have to do is download a
51:30 - 52:00 JavaScript file and drag it into your profile folder and it removes all the clunk really cool i'm going to try it out maybe I'll make a video on it um and then reason for the switch they were getting annoyed with Chromium in general and they made a bet they made a guide on better Brave browser you can actually cannot modify the flags in Chrome via an external tool whereas in Firefox you can they also went ahead and detailed some of their issues with Brave and uh their synopsis is they don't think Brave is a bad thing although they do have Brave problems where they switch between browsers so they still use Brave but it won't be their primary till I get tired
52:00 - 52:30 of Firefox and then I'll see you again in a year when you decide to switch to something else um Ozen we're almost done actually we're down to the last few here um and then I can open it up to all of you in the live chat um Ozen said they ditched any bootloaders for my Linux laptop and started using UKI which is a unified kernel image with secure boot directly from UI UEFI so the UKI is the combination of UEFI bootstub programs like systemd a Linux kernel image and
52:30 - 53:00 init RD and further resources this is beyond me um but the TLDDR is it will greatly reduce complexity of the boot processes and enhance security spec and enhance security especially I think uh for laptops where there's a high chance of theft or tampering of the device yeah so I've never played around with this and a lot of this is a bit over my head um but if any of you are listening it sounds like a win um and yeah uh if you know what they're talking about and you want to give congrats please do um does
53:00 - 53:30 someone want to explain ringash said uh Libal PM that's a nice name i don't get it so fill me in fill me in on the name thundercat um I like the profile here it's a cool cool little profile um I made everyone in my family delete their Facebook account yes we also don't use WhatsApp for family communication i'm really happy about it very simple very hard to do very big thumbs up that's awesome um a little more discussions
53:30 - 54:00 um plasma in this week my privacy improving was mainly on my phone i switched to open source alternatives the main one being foss alternatives to Google phone and messages and replace the manufacturer's camera app to secure camera switched from watching YouTube in the YouTube app to New Pipe downloaded music so I can listen to them offline downloaded Aurora and Foid on that note I installed Flores board as an open source alternative to Gboard and I love it and finally replace Google Maps with organic maps so whenever I need Google Maps I use it inside Brave only thing is
54:00 - 54:30 I'm working on migrating my 2FA from Agis to Ente so far so good yeah so it sounds like you've just gone through and like swapped out services you were using for just better ones and a lot of these you probably have already realized don't really impact things any differently in your like your day-to-day workflow so you're moving like a lot of your needlessly proprietary services to open source ones which is awesome so uh congrats and let us know how Ente is from Aegis it's a pretty cool app I think uh base note let's see just more
54:30 - 55:00 responses and this is the last one actually so this is from a Rewire 584 who says "I know I'm kind of late to the RSS party and removing algorithms from our lives but I finally been able to purge my influence from content recommendations feed on the social media platforms I use like YouTube and Lemi I now only sort by new and I now get my news with this news flash RSS reader which fits in well with the Gnome desktop it feels a lot more reliable and purposeful than getting my news from YouTube or Reddit yeah so I've already
55:00 - 55:30 given my whole spiel on like trying to get away from algorithms and like reclaiming your attention reclaiming your time and in doing so a lot of times reclaiming your privacy um in one of the first streams I did um I think it was one of the first three streams uh for this privacy wins where someone talked about moving to RSS um so definitely go back and check that out if you want to see my full thoughts on RSS and why you should consider it but it's awesome it's super old technology but it's like so underrated and lots of the things we use are still dependent on RSS if you listen to a podcast it's using RSS in the
55:30 - 56:00 background that's how RSS technology works if you have ever used our forum it's all built on RSS in terms of like how you can follow different feeds you don't have to have an account to do that um most news sites use uh RSS you can follow YouTube channels with RSS you can follow most things on the internet with RSS and when you can't follow something directly with RSS there's normally an indirect way to do it so yeah definitely check out RSS if you haven't already highly recommend it and that everybody is week 49 so there already is week 50
56:00 - 56:30 open and you can already see some of the posts so Rolls Ice Cream Unknown Ghost Robbie Omar um we got some new people here so definitely join in on week 50 it's week 50 like that's a huge deal i don't know it's It's kind of awkward though cuz like 50 is like a nice round number but 52 is like a lot more important because that's a year right so 52 weeks is it 52 am I making that up it's not 56 it's 52 right i'm not going crazy i'm losing my mind yeah 52
56:30 - 57:00 technically 52.17857 according to Duck Deco um but uh my point is that it's going to be a big couple weeks I think for these streams so it's going to be fun to have you all on there um I still haven't got any more tips on XMR chat so if you guys want like dedicated wins dedicated comments questions um send them over through XMR chat it's the way to just send Monero and leave a tip um but we still haven't had one in a while the last one from one was from Linux VM um
57:00 - 57:30 here let me show it um so if you want to join in and instead of leaving a super chat on YouTube you can join on XMR chat and it's like the equivalent of a super chat with Monero um and now I'm open for all of you in the live chat i got through all the wins in under an hour which I'm pretty excited about um let's see here i'm going to move all of your comments here to my main display so I don't have to keep
57:30 - 58:00 looking away let's see um and also everyone in the signal group like very very on between the two of them so let's see years ago Tori used to give you a t-shirt if you hosted for a certain period of time not sure they still do though yeah I'm not sure about that i know if you donate you can typically get merch along with your donations though thoughts about Faraday bags yeah so one
58:00 - 58:30 my thoughts on Faraday bags if you don't know what Faraday bags are it's essentially you know they're either a bag or a backpack or a pouch or a wallet etc that's designed to block radio signals from your devices so typically it'll if your phone has LTE you throw it in a Faraday bag and then it can't communicate with the outside world couple notes on Faraday bags one actually check to see if they work a lot of these Faraday bags are either like slight scams or complete scams like they
58:30 - 59:00 don't do anything so actually you have to have a way to like test out that they work that's the number one thing two it's not something that's like on the Techler resources nor do I really talk about it very much because it's really hard to fit Faraday bags into like the kind of threat models that I typically talk about here so for example um I see people sometimes say well I throw this phone into a Faraday bag um before I get home and it's like well there's no way
59:00 - 59:30 to really evaluate how effective that is because like what theoretically what a cell company sees is oh this person I can see everywhere they go but then there's this one area this one small area where they are unknown and they that they're unknown in that area for 12 hours every day and they're there at night and it's like well it's probably where they live so I really question the efficacy of how most people would even use a Faraday bag and what kind of benefits they would even get from it that's not to say that if you know what
59:30 - 60:00 you're doing um you can't get benefit i think a great example of a Faraday bag is if you're getting ready to go to a protest but you want to make sure your phone is completely like unable to contact anything you throw it in there um before you leave but you can still have access to your phone in an emergency um that's a great use case for a Faraday bag but I think a lot of people talk about Faraday bags as like a daily tool that they use and in that situation it really just doesn't fit with many people's threat models and I think if you were to like critically dig through like what you're actually accomplishing it wouldn't be what you
60:00 - 60:30 think it is so those are my thoughts on Faraday bags if you have a use case for them make sure they work and make sure that it's a very well thoughtout use case otherwise it's kind of a like more chill um thing that we can just talk about for fun um or if you're a very high threat model person and you're going to know exactly the kind of situations where you're going to need one those are my general thoughts on Faraday bags so yeah for the record I've never used one i've never had a use for one and if you have definitely share
60:30 - 61:00 along what your use case has been to be fair being notified when people leave change names change devices is a good privacy feature i do agree it's definitely good and I like the transparency um but there has to be a way to Yeah I don't know it It's a good point yeah if you just didn't show that information that would open up a lot of abuse potentially lib Arc Arch Lib Arch Linux
61:00 - 61:30 package manager oh that's awesome okay that's cool see I'm just I'm just familiar with like the R that's it like when I use when I use Arch it's just Oh it's just the R um so yeah what are your opinions on Florp i use it myself and I swapped to it after using Waterfox my I get this question a lot now
61:30 - 62:00 um I I don't think people should just avoid Florp so I don't like hate the project or anything um I just feel like it's hard for me to recommend you know it's run by a single developer um last I checked you know if anything's updated let me know but last I checked it's run by a single developer who might be doing some really cool things but I just it doesn't give me the kind of confidence for something I can recommend to a ton of people yet um I know I just made like a top Firefox alternatives video and I
62:00 - 62:30 didn't include them in that and some people left comments um so that's just generally my loose thought um I know a lot of people like it a lot of people in our community use it i just think that there's already lots of great alternatives to Florp that are coming out we have things like Zen Browser that have a lot more community support a lot more people on the team a lot more oversight and I think Zen's a much nicer place to send people before Florp uh in its current state so just my general thought um if you like Florp if you use
62:30 - 63:00 it continue using it um but that's kind of why it's not something I rush to like recommend to people um and if you want more context check out the Techler criteria on our resources it's on the top of the page and you'll see that I think floor doesn't like quite align with everything there yet um was it also Yeah okay i would just check there oh and Lost Lab is here oh okay okay so you explained your own username that's awesome thanks for tuning in to the live stream
63:00 - 63:30 too um that that's going to depend on your router so Gran External asks can you uh can you be can you use Mulvad DNS on your router it's going to depend if your router supports custom DNS um there's nothing inherently different about Mulvad's DNS it's publicly accessible so if you can change your DNS you can change it to Mulvad DNS um if you use something like a Pi Hole you most certainly probably can but it's going to depend on your router and what it allows andy said that Proton would move
63:30 - 64:00 away from Switzerland if the law gets passed interesting yeah so again we're talking worst case scenarios where something crazy happens to Proton but even Proton seems to have contingency plans so nothing I said earlier really takes away from that um but just one little update i haven't seen this myself so take it with a grain of salt not that I distrust you Urban Duck 6 um I just haven't confirmed what you've said yet bandy Morgo hard question how do you
64:00 - 64:30 even make someone switch to another messenger without making without them making every other of their contacts switch too because I fear it could not make sense for them to use another app just to chat with me yeah so I think a really simple way to help with this is just reframing your question because you're asking how do you make someone switch to another messenger i would I would change it to saying like how can I help someone or like how can I like encourage someone to use a safer
64:30 - 65:00 messenger for them right like if if you tailor it to make it more about them and how you can help them it's probably easier to convince them right and then that way you can actually start asking the questions of like well why would they benefit from a different messenger and that's a much better place to start than like how do I how this is my end goal how do I get them into the end goal rather you should ask oh this is where they are and here's where I want to get them and frankly like signal is great and if you're on signal that's awesome i try to get everyone on signal because I think that's a really good place to be
65:00 - 65:30 for usability um it is also like self- advantageous because that's where mostly I am but for most people I realize like hey yeah signal just kind of makes sense for you so here's why and here's why I think it would help you but that's actually not everybody so there's a few contacts that I talk to who like just based on their specific situation I'll go "Oh okay okay I have a backup iMessage account we'll use that maybe down the road signal might make more sense but let's at least move away from SMS." So keep in mind it's more about
65:30 - 66:00 the person you're talking to rather than your exact needs um and then if you come at it from that perspective you could typically get pretty far I think um I don't know John you should ask them i mean it's a pretty global thing right now it's like France has kind of toyed with it the UK um Switzerland like a lot of countries are getting more comfortable with the concept of maybe doing something about it um so it's a good question kinky Koala I hate there are
66:00 - 66:30 more and more new sites going away from RSS um in reader has some nice features to combat that a bit though huge fan of my in reader read wise and obsidian setup that sounds really cool so if you want to expand on that setup in the privacy wins um I'd love to showcase what that setup is because it sounds pretty cool um yeah tour pause their swag program fyi oh that's a bummer hello tribal chief Savage um hello do you think Portmaster is a good app yeah I love Portmaster um open
66:30 - 67:00 source on Linux and Windows i hope they roll it out for Mac OS but it's like my go-to recommendation for like local firewall programs nowadays um it just makes it really easy henry what are your views on smartwatches this is from Christopher i'm a Samsung to Garmin convert and it seems like Garmin respects their users data more but what are the privacy implications of wearables in general yeah so I've made a dedicated vid I'd probably just push you to that i've made a dedicated video on fitness trackers um it's a bit old um so like the recommendations themselves are
67:00 - 67:30 a bit outdated but the general principles are still like pretty much the same of like what to look for in a privacy tracker the difference between daily vital tracking versus activity tracking um that's a little bit of a nuance most people don't understand because nowadays people leave their watches on their wrists literally all day every day and it just tracks everything so to most people it's just yeah it's just tracking my fitness right but I like to in my head differentiate tracking like fitness activities like tracking a run versus tracking your
67:30 - 68:00 vitals every single second of the day and it is possible um to have one without the other and I think that is where Garmin's pretty nice because you don't have to use a Garmin's like daily tracker or an Apple Watch or anything you can just use it to track your activities if you're just using it for activities then it's much easier to keep things private um but if you're doing all like the daily tracking and everything then you kind of have to use the ecosystems a little more but anyway my point is I would check out that video to give you the principles but I think it's due for an update so I can expand on this a little bit
68:00 - 68:30 more let's see put your car fobs in Faraday bags when at home or express as a precaution yes um that's definitely a good advice um also depends on the fob some fobs like require you to be closer to them and if that's the case as long as you keep it away from like windows and stuff you should be fine um so it's good to just do research on your specific fob on your specific vehicle okay Lusco this is a really good question and I've talked about this a lot but uh no no harm in repeating it um
68:30 - 69:00 one thing that I'm still trying to do is use different browsers for different things at the moment I have Firefox Libriwolf and Mulvad any tips on how to organize it so everyone's different so please try them out try different configs i can't answer what's going to be best for you generally what I've seen that's best and a lot of people like they understand it and it's easy to set up and they can make modifications from there so this is a good starting point have an ephemeral browser ephemeral means that like everything you do in the browser isn't meant to be saved you
69:00 - 69:30 don't save login it actually wipes data when you close the browser so it's just meant to be ephemeral have one of those have a browser for accounts that you want to stay logged into this is just meant to be convenient right like let's say um for Techlor for example I'm on YouTube Studio a lot so I have a dedicated browser where I'm always logged into YouTube Studio and I happen to use Brave because it's Chromiumbased because YouTube Studio works 10 times better on a Chromium based browser instead of a Firefoxbased browser i
69:30 - 70:00 wonder why um but my point is it really helps my work it helps my daily workflow it makes things easy to always have that logged in browser in Brave the third one is you can have like and this is optional so you can have like a really private browser and it's always just probably going to be tour browser for most people but to keep it simple let's just leave that out of there for most people they just need two browsers to start one is ephemeral and one is in like an account and thank you for all the hearts and the confetti and the hundreds and the smiley faces yes thank you um but those are two good places to start so again have an ephemeral browser
70:00 - 70:30 and then have a browser for your accounts and those are configured very differently which is why it's good to have two of them and typically for me I mean it's Molvad as my ephemeral and that's my default browser so any link is automatically opened in this ephemeral browser and then I also have Brave for just my accounts and then within Brave I have multiple profiles so I have a Techl profile I have a Cakewallet profile I have a surveillance report profile and then I also have the tour browser separate from that to be able to open onion links and stuff like that and then
70:30 - 71:00 I also have a couple other browsers for testing if something breaks so like I have um like regular Safari ready to go on Apple devices and then I also have Valdi installed and like Chrome i pretty much have every browser installed mainly for troubleshooting purposes like oh crap the site didn't work in neither Firefox or Brave like what do I do so I open it in like a regular stock browser to just see if it's broken like for everybody or just for me um so I'm sure a lot of people probably have and it's it can also be just the default browser on your system as well like that's fine
71:00 - 71:30 as well um I hope that helps like that's my general breakdown save us from regulations save Molvad and Tuda from the evil EU um yeah i mean this happens globally it's not just the EU and the EU actually does a lot of cool things like GDPR so I don't think and I talked about this recently um we need to like attack like policies not countries or continents because the US um has done really cool things uh that are good for
71:30 - 72:00 privacy and they've done a lot of bad things that are bad for privacy and same with Switzerland and same with Sweden and same with all these different countries like they do some good things and some bad things so it's better if we like say "No what you did here is good what you did here is bad and here's why it's bad." Um if we just go after continents or countries it actually makes it easier for them to just write it all off as just people complaining and then they'll just pass whatever the hell they want anyway and it it almost like you're creating the story at that point that like you're setting things up
72:00 - 72:30 um to happen in that way when you make those kinds of uh this is my opinion of course but when you say like save us from them and doing all the stuff they're going to do instead of saying like oh that's what they're going to do be like no we're going to stop them from doing that like change it from a reactionary to like an action uh based approach if that makes sense so go after the specific things don't give up don't just say oh how do we stop first night no go after it um Neil says "Best use of a Faraday bag keep the phone shut off
72:30 - 73:00 and inside it except for the rare times away from home that the phone needs to be used make your own Faraday bag." Um I have never seen how to make your own Faraday bag so uh it'd be cool to see how you do that oh my gosh yeah you got
73:00 - 73:30 it um so you're looking to move to Proton and you're wondering if you need to read the privacy policy in toos you can if you want um yeah i mean I I won't discourage you from doing it it's kind of your call if you think it's worth your time if you want a way to do it like TLDDR there's a service called terms of service didn't read and I'll go ahead and show you guys it actually because I
73:30 - 74:00 can so um if you go to your search engine and type to SDR terms of service didn't read you just go to their website and then you can go ahead and just type any service so like Proton and then here's like Proton as a whole and then they give a rating and they kind of just give you the general points so terms may be changed without notice instead of asking directly it will assume your consent service tracks which web pages referred you to it and any liability on behalf of the service
74:00 - 74:30 is only limited then it'll tell you like the good things and it'll tell you like neutral things um it's a good way to get a general breakdown of services um and I believe they also have an extens extension as well so you can actually view things a little more conveniently but you can check out things like Amazon and why Amazon is like formally bad um really cool service so if you haven't seen this check it out and hopefully that helps people um like go through and like not have to read every single privacy policy out there it's a really
74:30 - 75:00 cool service and I believe they're all open source as well let's see here also shout out I I don't know the peak viewers let me see 185 maybe maybe soon we'll hit over 200 um it'd be cool if for week 50 we can hit 200 i think that'd be awesome so um nice to have you all here um just started using portmaster on Windows but need another similar app is I use virtual machines which don't work with portm um which virtual machines
75:00 - 75:30 because it's supported on Linux so you can install portm on each virtual machine the only operating system that port master can't be used on is Mac OS so um yeah my browsers I like is ungooled I assume ungooled chromium and libreolf in ungooled chromium I know how to clear data on exit is in the Chrome flags nice yeah good
75:30 - 76:00 stuff got it okay got it got it kinky Koala let's see i see you guys are helping each other out that's awesome cool nice little setup uh
76:00 - 76:30 Rapian yeah cool yeah know todr is a really cool service if you haven't um if you haven't used it before rip i joined late well you're still here so like yeah you missed the beginning but you can always rewind um so feel free to just tag along share any wins um and go ahead and send any questions we're still going to be on for let's see just to check in on time um for another like 10 minutes um and that should give me 15 minutes so to give you context today things are crazy um I've
76:30 - 77:00 had meetings and just regular work uh in the morning um I have this live stream literally in 25 minutes so that's why I'm saying 10 minutes it'll give me 15 minutes to prep for the next thing which is a Techl Talks interview that I'm doing with the CEO of redact.dev which I'm really excited for context i'm like six interviews behind um there's like six of them already recorded i think one with iVPN one with Alma Linux um one with Session uh some really cool interviews uh I'm already forgetting the other few at this point um Nova
77:00 - 77:30 Custom Buskill like so those are five and then we're going to have Redact oh and IVPN did I already say IVPN anyway there's a lot of cool interviews I've already recorded i just need to get them edited um so those will come out soon and that is happening i'm recording that uh right after this and then right after I record with them the the interview I'm hopping on with Nate to record surveillance report so I'll be talking a lot today um luckily you guys are at the beginning of that where I still have my voice but if you watch the new
77:30 - 78:00 surveillance report that will hopefully come out Sunday if my voice is shot then you know why let's see go let's see um by the way Henry I remind you of Signal as the last chat okay oh oh so true okay so on signal um Ghou said "Here's where I think Proton could ideally move their headquarters." And I'll say my opinion japan i guess John made a really good point in our last discussion okay let's see john said
78:00 - 78:30 Japan's obsession with personal privacy and very low crime rate would mean there'd be very little political motivation to go after encryption yeah but I think the reality is so my my push back on this um if you're you know let's say you're proton it doesn't matter the local government and like the local culture because if you're Proton and you're based in Japan if you're now you know they're now responsible in Japan for having any kind of illegal content so Japan is now going to have to like go after Proton and if anything it might
78:30 - 79:00 just add more pressure so yeah there's there's other things to be looking for I think so I don't know enough about Japan to know if it's good or bad um just know that I think the reasoning for why it could be good won't necessarily fully protect Proton either um yeah just something to think about it's really hard uh legal stuff is difficult jurisdiction is difficult um and it's something that I hope people like just follow and take pretty seriously it's there's no like one-stop shop for this kind of
79:00 - 79:30 stuff let's see i already knew to SDR i just thought that reading all the toss entirely would be better but no yeah i mean you can if you want to again I'm not going to stop you from doing it but that's typically a good starting point to catch massive red flags for whether or not you should sign up for our service you got it you got it do you know of any Discord alternative that has good working voice calls okay so I did a Discord alternatives uh live stream I think two or three weeks ago so I would
79:30 - 80:00 just So the way these these are structured is I cover like the highlight of the title and thumbnail at the beginning so if you go ahead and watch that one the very beginning should cover like all the Discord alternatives um and we got a super chat um let me go ahead and check it out um Colin you didn't leave a comment um but yes uh if you want to be featured definitely go ahead and send along any love here um here we go colin how do I sign up for private chat um what do you mean for private chat so
80:00 - 80:30 yeah expand on what you mean by private chat like with me with uh like the groups like we have some techan groups like private signal groups um like let me know exactly what you're referring to and then let me go ahead and check in can you grow your hair like Bob Ross for the lols okay when my hair gets long it really irritates me so probably not
80:30 - 81:00 because when it gets long it's just too hard to maintain and then I do videos and people are like "Oh my god did he just wake up and hop on the video?" And honestly half the times yeah but like you shouldn't be able to notice that so I like having shorter hair so you guys don't know that I just woke up from a nap and recorded a video i have that right um let's see here portm slowed my laptop down by quite a bit is that normal i don't know i would I would contact their support and see what they say you rep that Techler pretty hard
81:00 - 81:30 today yes yes yeah i think a virtual card is probably a good way to do that if they support it looking forward to the interviews me too do you prefer Mastadon or Blue Sky by the way definitely Mastadon i'm team Mastedon i'm on Blue Sky on the Techler side of things but I I just I still haven't got a solid answer from anyone what Blue Sky is trying to do that's overall fundamentally better than Mastadon like
81:30 - 82:00 I know the profile management is a little bit cleaner on Blue Sky but I just feel like Blue Sky has never really been designed in a way to ever actually be properly decentralized like Mastadon so those are my personal thoughts but I think both of them in their current place are pretty solid options how do I get in the private signal oh I see i see yeah so that's for Techlorans and let me I mean you're asking so let me go ahead and just share with you guys um last week I teased uh this a bit um and it's done as of like
82:00 - 82:30 right before so this is something I'm really excited about um it's something I've always wanted to do because we've always had like Patreon and then we had YouTube memberships and now we had our forum and we have all these different places to support Techlorore and I've got a lot of questions from you guys over the years over like Oh well here let me I want to talk while I do this let me see if I can get myself to appear um there I am um I've got a lot of questions from you guys of like well which one should I join um and then the first response is well if you join
82:30 - 83:00 through the forum it's the least amount of fees so like that your support goes the furthest on the forum patreon takes a cut youtube takes a much bigger cut um so but either way I wanted to get perks kind of like centralized so um I just published this before the live stream the long story short here is that if you become a bronze tech lauran on either Patreon or our forum which is $5 a month um you get access to our signal group and now a simple X group so that just launched like an hour ago not like two
83:00 - 83:30 hours ago um so that is now part of the same like thing you can join both groups and you get access to both of them um the only thing you can't access this through YouTube because YouTube this all allows like in order to keep the rooms private um I do like DMs so like you join Patreon you send me a DM with your signal username and that's how I can know that's your account youtube doesn't do DMs so you can't directly contact me through YouTube so instead you just get priority comment access so like I'm going to prioritize all of you guys in
83:30 - 84:00 our YouTube comments and in our YouTube live streams so that's kind of the the trade-off um and yeah uh silver techans I'm doing a new thing where I'm going to be creating a public techor short response so essentially like I'll leave a thread open i'm thinking every one or two weeks and then you just come in there you leave a question and it's kind of like a Q&A but the difference is I'm going to record like a personalized short answering your question in as quick as I can and posting that to YouTube um and probably Tik Tok as well so it's a way to like have your
84:00 - 84:30 questions showcased um but also answer them for the broader community um so that's for silver and then gold uh is like a personal shout out in videos and you also get to be on our website's homepage and then diamond is a new thing I'm playing with but once a month I'm essentially just going to turn off like do not disturb on my phone and my devices and you can practically just bug me all day like that's pretty much the concept um I'm going to see how it works there's like of course like you can't be creepy um it's meant to be like you know
84:30 - 85:00 a way to like get to know me it's supposed to be a way to like ask me questions learn something um and it's like one day like one day where I can just commit to like you guys cuz normally like with this kind of stuff it's really hard to coordinate like times and scheduling um but this is a way for me to just open myself up to be just on demand for just very specific people um who want that kind of exclusivity um which I've been asked to have and typically it's only through coaching which I'm pretty restrictive about because it's for very certain use cases so yeah anyway you can join this
85:00 - 85:30 if you want to support Techlorore um last year the number one revenue source for Techlor to like keep all this alive and keep it going was you all um from the community still which is super cool and I'm super proud of that and I want to keep that going um and I'm really excited for this so you can join on our forum um you can join on Patreon and you can also join on YouTube though YouTube again is the most limited it's like almost perk parody across all three of them youtube you can't join the Signal or SimpleX groups and you also can't join Diamond from YouTube but everything
85:30 - 86:00 else on YouTube you will get as well and you're all going to see posts coming out in the next couple days uh to lock this all in so thank you all and I know that these perks go through a lot of changes um so I try my best to still like maintain things from the last one and bring it over um but yeah if you guys ever want to see any perks or you have any questions about this you can always send a message it's a public post here on the forum so check it out i hope that answers your question Colin let me go ahead and pull
86:00 - 86:30 up here okay so okay let me go ahead and call in can I pay XMR to be a bronze so sadly no um the main reason is it's really hard to keep and I'm sure you know this it's really hard to keep track of like Monero users and there isn't anything so right now there's xmrch chat.com which is awesome um but it's really good for one-time things it's really hard to like track and keep memberships like a full patreon like
86:30 - 87:00 alternative that's Monero only so I have thought about it and I think the way to do this it'd have to be done annually if that makes sense so I want to do it but it would all have to be manual and you have to remember we have like um I don't know how many but I think we have at least 50 different people across like the signal group has 80 people in it just for context and if I have to manually keep up with 80 people and like keep them on a spreadsheet and be like "Oh this person paid last year at you know April 11th this is when they join
87:00 - 87:30 and now I need to bug them to make sure they pay the next annual." It's just it's a lot of me bugging you guys and it's really hard to do it manually um I'd love to see and if you have a service that would automate this I'd love to hear it because it would be awesome to offer um and it's something I'd love to do and integrate so I would love to do it i'd love to be like the change I want to see because I want to see Monero used more often so if there's a way to do it that's clean and like efficient for everybody I'd love to hear it um in the meantime it's pretty hard to do so um yeah I've also very curious
87:30 - 88:00 for you guys' thoughts some people on the forum have been talking about having like some kind of lifetime purchase so if you don't like subscriptions so on our forum here um if you click subscribe there it actually is just a way to tip i don't have perks attached to it but um I know not everybody likes subscriptions and so I wanted a way for you guys to just tip individually um my point is um some people like kind of similar to that have been asking for
88:00 - 88:30 like a lifetime option where you get access to like the signal groups um and the simple X group and just pay a onetime fee to get in um it's a bit hard to price for it because like you know I feel like I'm gonna have to make it like expensive um to like make up for like you know time that you'd otherwise do it for a subscription so if it's something you're interested in let me know and I feel like that could be similar to like the Monero thing if there's a lifetime option then it's really easy to do something with Monero because then I just take care of it once and it's not too different from fiat so long story
88:30 - 89:00 short let me know your thoughts on all these things i'd love to hear love to hear what you guys think and I'd love to make perks that you guys enjoy and like different onboarding processes so let me know marx says to remember to hydrate got a little water here and thank you Colin for for the tips as well um yeah let's see here okay jg
89:00 - 89:30 Lipt Gillette um I've paid for a month of Kaji which is a search engine curious what you think of using Proton i just joined stream by the way so sorry if you're repeating currently on Outlook okay so um I hope you like Kaji i mean I we just added them to our resources i don't use it um but I did a review of Kaji if you guys are all curious about it and what I think about it um curious what you think of using Proton um I'm still using Proton um the last stream last week uh talked about like potential like alternatives to Proton and why you
89:30 - 90:00 might consider them um but overall I think Proton's a pretty good place to be so um don't mind especially if you're coming from Outlook i think it's going to be pretty good it's not like people love Outlook's usability anyway generally speaking um Tatake pretty sure signals banned in my country um yeah so there is simple X as well it's another option and our group is on Simplex X now first time I discovered TOSSDR and
90:00 - 90:30 read about moral right waiverss I literally shouted nothing makes sense and the internet sucks in my head like I got really mad at some policy details but it's good i mean that think that's really like what it's about is tor like privacy policies that people would normally never read and understand accessible so it's a really cool project yeah forgot to heart this what am I doing i don't even know why I'm Why am I still here oh crap okay I got to prep for my interview so let me um wrap this up um this is like last minute call like
90:30 - 91:00 leave your last minute questions um but I got to hop on an interview in like 10 minutes now so um sorry for like the late or the sorry for the rushed exit let's see do Apple Intelligence and Microsoft Copilot Recall read the screen if so ant encryption is useless and passwords too is Google Gemini doing this too okay that's a pretty long one and I don't have too much time to get into it um they do have different implementations and I know on tech talks in the past we've talked about Apple intelligence and like the different levels of privacy
91:00 - 91:30 you get depending on what you do a lot of Apple intelligence actually either happens locally or is uh processed like somewhat privately through Apple's like servers um but not everything so we talked more about the nuance there and like what's good and bad almost across the board though Apple intelligence is better than Microsoft stuff i will just say that and I I don't have an issue saying just flat out um yeah yeah okay so Kinky Koala weren't the old Patreon tiers animal themed yes they used to be um I then realized that
91:30 - 92:00 animals have nothing to do with anything I talk about and I wanted something that was a little bit more like better themed towards tech so I actually really like the new techan theme and now you can be a techoran on any platform and I think it's a much cooler name and it's catchy and I I enjoy it yes we used to be like lemurs and different things and it it was fun back then i never got the code it's the same with Telegram let's
92:00 - 92:30 see your smile brightens my day keep doing what you do yeah of course no I'm really glad to hear that and you guys like when I do these streams I feel like I smile more because it's really fun to be here with you guys and you guys always have a good attitude it's hard not to make this positive i mean it's like the privacy wins of the week so yeah it's a it's I hope that it's positive um let's see now that Jonah's left Techlor is it still possible that you two will make live streams together in the future um I won't say it's not
92:30 - 93:00 possible we don't have any plans on it um so yeah I wouldn't count on it but you know you never know um and if you want to follow the content they're doing they're posting content over at Privacy Guides so you can definitely go check that out yeah I kind of want to move it's just that okay discussed that privately good luck my dude totally going to check out Simple X after the stream i just ignored it until now but I finally got my first threemon contact after so many years nice um sorry for the off off topic question but do you believe a cyber security and privacy
93:00 - 93:30 channel on YouTube would survive i mean like we're here so yeah of course there's other privacy channels as well like yeah come on you're asking the guy who's who's here like talking to you of course I'm going to say yes so go ahead and do it like do it to him thank you for the great week i see yeah okay thank you RBQ426 who is also a member um thank you uh Colin for leaving a few tips thank you all for tuning in i want to thank all of our techans and people in our signal group um who are have been active sending questions
93:30 - 94:00 making this as fun as it can be um I want to thank everybody for leaving their wins in the stream um literally couldn't do this without you and definitely join week 50 you get to be in week 50 if you join and leave your win uh so join it on the forum check out the new Techloran perks if you want to support what we're doing and I'll see you next time and I'm sorry it's getting a little buggy so I'm going to go ahead and cancel it it looks like I'm starting to lag out a little bit here so see you all next time on Techlor see you next week