#image_resizing Howdy folks! Just a quick note about the upload limit of this server. I have tightened the max file size to 2MB a while back. For those of you that use a phone, chances are your photos are much larger than this size. If you do encounter the error about exceeding the file size, simply go to any free image resizing websites, such as imageresizer.com, etc to generate a smaller copy of your image. A good rule of thumb is, depending on the orientation (portrait or landscape), specify 1200 pixels for the longest side. This will ensure your image is now small enough to upload. As always, God bless. Rick

[GerryB] What seems to be the problem sending messages? I think I have the post reaction issue solved.

To embed a video (youtube, vimeo, etc.) you only need click the "What's on your mind" area. The dialog box will expand with other options. Just paste the url and click Post. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89g9yMGFGlM

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If you take a profile photo with your phone, please be sure to resize it down to a reasonable size (eg, 600px on the longest side), otherwise you will get error message complaining about your photo is too big.

For those of you that wanted to know about the movie, The Ten Commandments (1956), I have it available: https://cre8aplace.com/content/uploads/videos/The-Ten-Commandments-1956.mp4 When you open that link, it will begin to play. If you want a personal copy, then right-click the video and select, Save As, then select the destination where you want to save the video. Let me know if you have any issues.

Hello all! There has been an issue with the email provider for the past few months, in that new users are not receiving the confirmation emails during registration. I have been manually approving these users. The email issue continues to elude me as I get emails from users at various times, so the incoming emails apparently function correctly. This is just a heads up, though. If you have someone that wishes to join, please let them know that I will approve them as soon as I get the notice.

I've added the four emojis. If you encounter any errors, please post them here.

Here's a bit of WTF hackery appropriately named O.MG. Imagine a thoroughly innocuous USB cable with a built-in microprocessor loaded with spyware and a Wi-Fi antenna that uses your Wi-Fi network to transmit the stolen data back to the mothership. That cable you've been using to charge your phone from your laptop's USB port may be a spy. Only $145 to start with the basic cable w/ programmer. Imagine that! Additional cables for $120 (basic) or $180 (elite). https://shop.hak5.org/products/omg-cable

I came upon an interesting solution to a largely ignored element of personal privacy. Many of us are aware of how vulnerable we are to online surveillance, whereby our every move around the internet is likely tracked, and then sold to data aggregators and marketing firms. Purchasers or thieves of our compiled online activities have access to richly detailed profiles based on our browsing history, social media posts and comments, purchases, etc. We are finely categorized within increasingly more specific demographic groups that identify us by our politics, religion, livelihoods, material affluence, influence, location, etc. The one largely ignored aspect of this surveillance is geolocation. While we can try to obfuscate our identity and activity by using VPNs, proxies, and other relays to appear to be operating somewhere far removed from our actual location, the reality is that it's a hit-or-miss proposition. Eventually, enough clues are uncovered to reveal our true location. Our phones, their operating systems, our mobile providers, and our ISPs betray our location privacy. There are plenty of apps to provide content privacy in online communications, mostly through E2E (End-to-End) encryption, but there's no convenient way to avoid the ability of our cellular service providers to track us. We have to connect to their towers. Other than cycling through burner phones using prepaid minutes and data purchased with cash while trying to disguise ourselves to evade the security cameras with facial recognition in and around the vendors of the prepaid phones and minutes, while also leaving your burner phone somewhere far removed from your regular purchases of these items, there's no way to stay anonymous for long. Even these gyrations will eventually prove futile. Surveillance Capitalism is the science tying all of these disparate elements together to uniquely identify and profile us. A new company has emerged with a new approach, initially targeted for high-risk individuals. If you're involved in public or private security, a mental health or legal or financial professional responsible for maintaining client confidentiality, or perhaps involved in cryptocurrency, you can get some level of security through a new phone service provider. A provider who will help to anonymize you by allowing you to change the unique identifiers built into the cellular service ecosystem. You'll be able to rotate through personas that you create on your favorite phone, rather than cycling through burner phones and accounts. You'll be able to obfuscate your identity (as revealed by your phone) and therefore your location. Most of us aren't high-risk targets, because most of us aren't investigative journalists, or involved in personal security relationships with high-risk business people, celebrities, or government officials. But if you're affluent or involved in politics or social causes, if you're under witness protection or temporary restraining orders for your safety, you could find yourself actively pursued and specifically tracked, even if only because of your associations. Cape is the company providing a new approach. They will provide cellular service in the same way that MVNOs (Mobile Virtual Network Operators) like US Cellular, Boost, Cricket, etc. provide discounted service, by buying access to the 3 main cellular networks at wholesale prices and repackaging that access. But unlike the other MVNOs, they'll require a lot less identifying information about you, which means if they're the target of an information breach, there won't be a lot of PII (Personally Identifiable Information) metadata floating around to compromise you. By virtue of the ability to cycle through preset and spurious personas on the phone, the previously unique metadata identifiers associated with network tower connections won't reveal your movements and identity. This was a long-winded summary, to be sure. If you're interested in the topic, peruse the following links for more details and implications. This is not a complete solution, but it does plug a significant hole. In conjunction with a privacy-optimized phone, along with E2E content protection, online location obfuscation, and best practices, you can create enough confusion about yourself to avoid or interfere with targeting. https://www.404media.co/i-dont-own-a-cellphone-can-this-privacy-focused-network-change-that/ https://techcrunch.com/2024/04/18/cape-dials-up-61m-from-a16z-more-for-mobile-service-that-doesnt-use-personal-data/ https://techcrunch.com/2024/03/30/att-reset-account-passcodes-customer-data/ https://www.cape.co/

Thanks for the add!

[CP1] ty for the add to the group.

Here's an interesting privacy tip for Android. You can pin an app when you loan your phone to someone, so they only have access to that app they want to use. IOS also offers the same capability. https://www.howtogeek.com/always-do-this-before-handing-your-android-phone-to-someone/