darkreader VS hardened_malloc

change to light mode, and try out https://darkreader.org/

I was able to reproduce and reported this to Dark Reader https://github.com/darkreader/darkreader/issues/11952

I highly recommend utilizing a dark reader.

I totally forgot about the atrocious default HN theme. Yeah that's unreasonable, unreadable. A low-contrast light theme is literally equivalent to shining a flashlight in your eyes. Only unreasonable people do that to others (e.g. the police).

If you use Firefox, I recommend the Dark Reader[1] extension for taking care of all the websites that insist on destroying your eyes.

[1]: https://darkreader.org

i use https://darkreader.org/ for chrome and don't see flies 99% of the time

- very efficient to navigate(shortcuts, quick tab navigation, etc.) - Shortcuts - Terminal for easy to type commands - Tab Management - Quick Tab Navigation - Search Bar Integration - Bookmark Management - History Management - Smart Address Bar - Speed Dial - Back and forward Navigation - WM like behaviour for tabs - Floating search bar for quick searches - Powerful autocomplete in address bar(stored in-browser to avoid privacy issues) - privacy focus - Use of Duck Duck Go when privacy-focus is on - Built in Powerful Adblocker - Avoids the use of trackers - Possibility to block Trackers - Possibility to search with TOR - Option to enable or disable JS fully - Option to Disable Cookies - Encrypted DNS - Auto HTTPS upgrade - DNT(Do Not Track) by default - Adoption of G-Hacks - Built in Temp-mail for not frequently visited addresses - A slider for the amount of privacy-conviniency - Whilst doing so it selects and unselects some packages - History as a Module - Don't log certain websites to History - Creation of fake entries on History - Delete History tabs easily - By name - By category - open source - decentralized - compatible all OS - consumes low resources - minimalist - highly customizable - Dark Mode by Default - Characteristics of [Dark Reader](https://darkreader.org/) - Predefined Themes - Community Themes - Support for Wallpapers - Also the ability to configure it via .config files that can be edite - Ability to make the tabs semitransparent and either show the background or a custom wallpaper - fast - Modules - Written in almighty RUST - light - easy to use - Unbloated - Modern UI - advanced users characteristics -The option to cache websites so you can access them when you don't have internet connection, they would be stored locally (might not work on all websites) -Reader Mode: Selects only the text and offers the ability to speed read(maybe through the integration of Swift read) - Vertical Tabs Option - Using commands for faster navigation - Ability to open multiple tabs at once using a shortcut - Workspace Switching - Heavy Local Focus - Modular - Rename Downloads to something meaningful - Download folder differentiation

Relevant copypasta:

Fellow humans, there are alternatives to Google and Apple! Your neck need not be under anyone's boot! You don't even need to give up any functionality:

Data service:

The simplest thing is to buy a prepaid SIM and top it off with cash. The lovely people over at /r/nocontract maintain a big spreadsheet so you can filter by various properties of the available contracts.

Another way to go is to pay for a postpaid plan with a virtual credit card (VCC) like at privacy.com. It won't be linked to your name at the telco, but of course privacy.com knows who you are. There is also Abine Blur, and some others.

Yet a third way to go, which is nascent, is buy an eSIM with crypto. You can also buy prepaid VCCs with crypto.

An interesting new choice is PGPP https://invisv.com/pgpp/ who rotate your IMSI and do some other cool stuff. It works by e-sims.

All these methods make you /pseudo/nymous, but obviously you're still identifiable by subscriber number and possibly IMEI, to put aside correlational things like your traffic profile. You can help this problem by routing everything through a VPN. Then you're pseudonymous but the cell carrier knows nothing about you other than that you use a VPN. Pay for the VPN with crypto. Of course now the VPN provider knows your traffic, but you're much more anonymous to them than you are to a telco. You make your choices. Defense in depth. Etc.

OS:

GrapheneOS: https://grapheneos.org/ Very much like Calyx, but extra-hardened and with no MicroG. No involvement with Google at all by default. You can make a secondary profile in which you install Google Play Services to set up an environment where you can run unprivileged Play services + whatever crapware you need that requires them. Unprivileged here means it's like any other app: if you don't give it access to your location, it won't know where you are. If you end the profile session when you leave, Play Services stops running and stops talking to Google.

CalyxOS: https://calyxos.org/ Privacy-respecting Android distribution that replaces Google spyware with MicroG, so you can have your cake and eat it too. Most everything will work as you're used to, but it does still talk to Google to make that happen.

LineageOS: https://lineageos.org/ The successor to CyanogenMod, will work with many different phones. More privacy and control than stock Android.

There are also many others: Sailfish, Replicant, e

Hardware:

CalyxOS and GrapheneOS run best on Pixels. The path of least resistance is to get one of these phones and run GrapheneOS with Google Services installed in one profile or other.

You could also buy a Librem 5 https://puri.sm/products/librem-5/ If privacy and security and hacking are really important to you.

Or a pinephone: https://www.pine64.org/pinephone/

Neither work very well by regular standards, but they're cool :-)

It might be worth to switch to GrapheneOS if you have Pixel phones: https://grapheneos.org/

It is a more serious project than LineageOS in the sense that they take security very seriously and they take their development more professionally too. There are no disadvantages to using GrapheneOS compared to LineageOS.

You can see a comparison here: https://eylenburg.github.io/android_comparison.htm

If it still powers up but just won't boot you could try installing https://grapheneos.org/.

On 4thgen Pixels and up you can install GrapheneOS which is a security and privacy focused Android build. It does not come with any Google services pre-installed but you can put them on. https://grapheneos.org/

yes... will also de-google it cuz we can install GrapheneOS and also close the bootloader