I wouldn’t trust windows to follow their don’t screenshot API, whether out of ignorance or malice.

There is an argument for that to an extent.

Microsoft’s support of Israel’s genocide is an exception and has been a long time.

At least… for anyone with a modicum of ethics.

Open source router firmware.

Use flatpak steam and faltseal to deny as access to user directories.

Or https://simplex.chat/ where there are no identifiers like phone numbers or any other identifier.

Security review was done by trail of bits.

I heard https://www.onlyoffice.com/ is good, but have no personal experience.

https://obsidian.md/

https://github.com/FBarrca/obsidian-handwritten-notes

Pixel + GrapheneOS is a dream.

GrapheneOS reboots often for updates and security against cold boot storage attacks.

Sadly I found out yesterday:

Matrix is not a community-based software, it was born [00] in Amdocs [01], a multinational corporation founded in Israel.

https://hackea.org/notas/matrix.html

Many were claiming its impossible to get contributions merged as well.

I would be happy to find out this information is wrong or outdated.

You are thinking far to linearly. Think of this as a guerilla tactics to take advantage of media focus and what would happen if Musk crashed out.

Why not avoid amazon completely or as much as possible?

You can’t export your MFA? Aegis for example allows this.

If Mozilla wants to limit their use of my input, why the do I need to give them a full, non-exclusive license?

You shouldn’t trust TurboTax so much.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/03/01/turbotax-privacy-tax-return-2024/

They also keep trying to trick you into giving consent:

https://www.moneytalksnews.com/are-turbotax-and-hr-block-sharing-your-personal-info/

They also lobby to keep taxes complex.

https://www.propublica.org/article/inside-turbotax-20-year-fight-to-stop-americans-from-filing-their-taxes-for-free

Threema bad:

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2023/01/security-analysis-of-threema.html

I wouldn’t be surprised to find out its true.

The problem is it shouldn’t be a blight because its impossible to prevent bad actors from using an actually private and secure messaging app.

So the act of reporting on it is a smear because most don’t understand or acknowledge the impossibility of preventing those bad actors.

Signal if you trust them to not leak your identifier and because its gotten the most mass adoption.

Simplex if you can convince your circle to use it because it has no identifiers and is user friendly.

https://simplex.chat/

You use Simplex over Signal for improved privacy and no identifiers, not Matrix.

Signal is still very good though.

https://devenv.sh/

Note this also builds oci compatible containers you can run with podman, kubernetes, etc.

It lets you develop on bare metal in an environment the same as the docker container and is reproducible rather than just repeatable.