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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • I call my Dr.

    I book an appointment. If urgent but not medically urgent to my immediate wellbeing I can get in in a week or so.

    If urgent, but not emergency, I can go to a clinic or the hospital non emergency (hospital can have wait times up to several hours)

    If emergency and severe or traumatic injury or life threatening - emergency at hospital. Triage assesses need. Last time I had to take someone it was maybe a 20 minute wait - they had been hurt pretty bad - got jumped.

    None of any of the above will cost me any money.

    An ambulance, though, costs like 75$ if it is not life threatening.

    Canada.











  • I wouldn’t recommend anything.

    This is only what I know.

    There is much much much more I don’t know.

    This might be useful to use temporarily when you add an app that you know will read these values on install.

    You may be able to use an app like geto to have this option toggled so that it only uses the developer settings option when the app is launched and returns to hardware when it closes.

    Keep in mind there are a host of other identifiers on your device that can also be used to track and identify the user and device.

    I like privacy and security.


  • Iron fox is great.

    Was my first impression.

    However, it is maybe a bit excessively prohibitive in it’s attempts to provide privacy/security.

    And there are a few issues that leave some privacy options wide open for some reason.

    To the 1st point, they use a couple dozen different blocklists, using uBlock. Those default lists block sites that can test your browser for security and privacy vulnerability. Eg one of the most used and ubiquitous sites: browserleaks.org is blocked.

    Which brings me to 2nd point.

    I always check webrtc for leaks. In Mozilla/Firefox builds that is media.peerconnection.enabled in about:config.
    In the plethora of blocklists used by ironfox two are conspicuously left unchecked: block webrtc and unbreak webrtc.
    And, for whatever reasoning, in about config, yep, peerconnection is enabled. As is webgl.

    Maybe I don’t get out much, but I have never experienced an issue with any website that required webrtc, webgl, or wrbgpu be enabled. (They are each significant attack surfaces and each leak data you didn’t know was being leaked)

    I’m not using iron fox to use teams or make a video call. There is zero reason for it.

    And blocking sites that check these has me maybe a little cautious on it really being the thing it says it is.



  • So, the media DRM toggle switches from the hardcoded hardware ID to a software DRM. Creating a new DRM key.

    https://developer.android.com/reference/android/media/MediaDrm

    Geto uses shizuku (an app that allows for adb/shell functionality) to change settings that are usually hiddden or inaccessible, or to give/deny apps permissions or features, or, as in the screenshot to change certain keys values. This allows you to change the environment and settings of the app on launch, and revert them on app close.

    You can see all the current settings by using adb:

    adb shell settings list [ global | secure | system ]
    

    Or in termux with shizuku:

    settings list [ global | secure | system ]
    

    In the following screenshot I enter the shell using shizuku (rish) list global settings and find keys with adb. I change the value of adb_wifi_enabled (wirelese debugging) from 0 to 1 and set {1} as the default value. Then I list again to show the change.

    This is what geto is doing. But it assigns it to the action of launching/closing an app. While doing it manually via terminal set those values system wide.

    Sometimes, though, you may want a system wide change (like if you want to change the accent colors or theme from RAINBOW to VIBRANT).

    (There are other configs and properties you can viewed and modify using other commands. (in shell try

    cmd -l 
    

    For a list of services. Some have user modable options. Be careful. If you don’t know, don’t touch. Every setting can be searched . there are hundreds or thousands .)




  • Remember when phones had that insane super advanced tech that could guide anyone anywhere, even offline?

    Seriously, why doesn’t the compass exist anymore?

    I have never turned on location anything on grapheme.

    On my other phone I have also uninstalled google location services/history, WiFi scanning, Bluetooth unknown tracker, etc.

    If I get lost in a building… I ask someone.