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ars posted this article today: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/08/its-not-worth-paying-to-be-removed-from-people-finder-sites-study-says/
takeaways:
- the paid automated options don't work very well
- easyoptouts had the best success rate at (only) 65%
- claims connections between the data sites and removal sites -- i certainly saw a few ads on the sites but nothing points any fingers at any of the services mentioned in the comments here.
i ended up using kanary and optery in the free tier and doing the removals manually. but to follow up on my OP, there's no service i've seen that goes any deeper than what comes up on google, which is disappointing. there are larger, private databases (such as lexisnexis) which was hoping to be able to get out of.
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anyone else have experience with this one?
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Yeah true. I think what I'm looking for is a reasonable cost/benefit/time investment, like maybe I'll order a Kanary scan once a year and manually opt them all out. I did kanary this afternoon and the vast majority only had my voter registration info, but a few had attached my cell number which might be from the WhoIs data. If I can slow the spread of that for <$20/year I'll feel satisfied.
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I see the logic if I was continually making potential leaks (I guess we all are), but for trying to clean up a specific thing like my case, I suppose I can just buy one month.
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very cool thanks
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Checking them out, thanks. I kinda wish there was a different pricing model than a subscription for this kind of service.
edit; after signing up i can actually see within the free tier that there's a "buy custom scan" option which might allow more piecemeal payments, gonna look into it
Last year I did a major fuckup and bought a .us domain without noticing that they don't support WhoIs privacy, so my name number and address became part of the public WhoIs database scrapes. Since then my spam texts and calls have vastly multiplied. I'm realistic about the fact that the damage is done and it'll always exist out there, but I would happily pay some money to a service that sends takedown requests for the data in the public databases like LexisNexis etc. to lessen the damage. Do you know of any services that do this somewhat reliably? Or even a guide or something about doing this manually?
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i just realized i set up ente but put the login for it in my bitwarden. that kind of defeats the purpose. so i guess i would need to save the ente creds outside of bitwarden... then i need a second 2FA source for that... endless cycle...
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Ente looks really nice but I wish it had a Firefox addon
Do you think it's worth keeping 2FA OTPs in a separate source from your password manager? Currently I keep them in Bitwarden. I was thinking keeping them separate could add a little extra security in case my BW was cracked, but not sure it's worth the hassle of loading a second app for logins. Do you know of an app that does 2FAs as conveniently as Bitwarden, in that it has mobile apps, browser extension, etc that can all access the same vault? here's one i came across from an awesome-selfhosted list. i would need to test the PWA experience https://github.com/Bubka/2FAuth
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i've tried it, it's soooo overdesigned. linkding works for me
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i run ABS as a web based manager for drm free audiobooks but the player itself is just totally unreliable, i download the files and add them to BookPlayer on iOS
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- https://jacobin.com/2024/01/marc-andreessen-techno-optimist-manifesto-reactionary-elitism-nietzsche-hayek-ideology
- https://archive.ph/Bux0D
- https://www.vice.com/en/article/93kg5d/major-tech-investor-calls-architect-of-fascism-a-saint-in-unhinged-manifesto
- https://www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/archive/2024/02/despots-silicon-valley/677386/
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yeah i'm sure this top 1% acclaimed journalist had no other options
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he should be ashamed of himself working for a16z. reactionary VC ghouls
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I know this is somewhat defeating of the privacy purpose but I use FF because of sync- is there an alternative that can use something like webdav to sync my bookmarks/history/etc between instances? e; i know floccus is around for bookmarks but i find history useful too
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weirdly if you search "website advertising preferences" in the firefox setting search bar nothing comes up, you have to manually scroll to find it
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do you mean anything by this beyond his election chances? i'm failing to imagine what policies would change based on this
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i'm genuinely curious about some alternatives to this sort of surveillance to solve issues like CSAM etc., which aren't "it's the parents responsibility". section 230 reform? links to further reading appreciated.
Joe Cronin: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGB_3bw26-w Chauncey: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CzN1BNTHZB8 Deandre Ayton: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQ6Rd_9EWqs Grant: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=564IFxCleYs Simons: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDwuQssdzXo Scoot: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lS9joawaDOk Shaedon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWztvp-f2GI Thybulle: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHDTHKdSwCI Jabari: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQw8G8bKwb4 Kevin Knox II: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9byZy86u6g Rayan Rupert: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_g7AEeJoEg Kris Murray: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLJiOpGbVsk Tounami Camara: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_X7qF_zq-o Dewayne Hankins: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIWzVfrKNRE
If anyone else has dealt with iCloud Drive constantly getting stuck uploading I wanted to share the best solution I have so far and ask if anyone has fixed it another way. What I've figured out from reading Apple support and Reddit threads is that there's a daemon called `bird` at `/System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/CloudDocsDaemon.framework/Versions/A/Support/bird` that handles syncing, and killing it forcing it to restart usually gets things working again. My oneliner script to kill it to force a restart: `pid=$(ps -ax | pgrep bird | awk '{print}'); kill $pid` But sometimes it restarts and gets stuck the same way. Do you get this issue? Figured anything out about it?
Wasn't sure where to post this so I'll just share it with the ripcity gang. I used to use stanza.co which is what nba.com links to for adding season schedules to your calendar, but now that requires signing up and has weird ticket purchase ads in the events. Then I was using sportscalendar.net for a while, but it went down. Eventually I figured out that Yahoo sports publishes a full season calendar at https://sports.yahoo.com/nba/teams/por/ical.ics , and this is the same for every team page there, like if you add /ical.ics after https://sports.yahoo.com/soccer/teams/portland-timbers you get a subscription link to add to your calendar. Super convenient. For me on iOS/macOS, you add a subscription calendar and paste the url with the .ics at the end. Bonus, they also still publish their news feed to rss at https://sports.yahoo.com/nba/teams/por/rss/
www.promethiumbooks.com
>Promethium Books, a publisher of the Curesbrand Chronicles, Epic Age, and Advent Horizon tabletop role-playing games, today announced a partnership with Nihon Falcom, the developer of the popular Ys and The Legend of Heroes (also known as Trails) video game series, to produce two original tabletop RPG games based on the two franchises. >The first game, Ys: Age of Heroes, will be a traditional fantasy TTRPG set in the world of Ys, where players can take on the role of heroes following the footsteps of Adol Christin and his friends, exploring the dangerous lands of Ys while battling the forces of evil. >The second game, The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Destiny, will be a more modern TTRPG where players face the complex political backdrop of the continent of Zemuria, investigating mysteries and fighting the forces of corruption.
I’ve been listening to podcasts more lately and there are quite a few blazers shows, wondering which you guys like. YouTube shows work too, or even share if you follow anyone on social media that covers the team. The ones I’m subscribed to right now: BlazerFocused, which is by the Oregonian. The show is chill and I feel like they must have some good editorial standards being connected to major news organization. The Brief Case, which is Casey Holdahl’s show, very insider since he works directly with the team, gets player interviews, not very critical since he’s so close to things. Locked on Blazers, shorter weekday episodes by Mike Richman. Seems knowledgeable. any other good ones? as a bonus, the Oregonian also has a Timbers show called Soccer made in Portland.
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Plus the full interview: https://www.pushsquare.com/features/interview-falcom-boss-talks-everything-trails-reverie-importance-of-western-fans-and-more
github.com
pour one out. edit 1: [maybe temporary](https://twitter.com/AqueelMiq/status/1674843555486134272)? paste cause i can't even put it on archive.is right now: >@AqueelMiq this is a temporary restriction, we will re-enable logged out twitter access in the near future
*Ys I: Ancient Ys Vanished* was released June 21, 1987.
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https://twitter.com/nihonfalcom/status/1670719033631739904
I get how to view the community in my instance by searching `!community@other-instance.url`, but then I have to find the specific post again. there's an [open issue](https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/issues/1048) which i think is talking about this, but i'm wondering what people have come up with for now. seems like a great browser extension opportunity ([Lemmy Link ](https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/lemmy-link/)only opens the community).
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