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If you have an Android device, you can disable automatic phone number verification, which should prevent Google from linking sign-in accounts together. You can find this toggle in your Settings app under Google or Google services and preferences > All Services > Privacy & Security > Phone number verification. (Note that the exact path may differ by device.) You should periodically check to ensure this toggle remains off.

Updating this setting does not disconnect phone numbers and Google accounts that have already been linked. You can find out which are which via your Google Account Personal Info page. Select your profile picture in the upper-right corner to go through each signed-in account and open the Phone section to select and delete any numbers you don't want associated.

Finally, Malwarebytes advises scrolling down to the Usage section on the Phone page to view which services are listed as well as reviewing your Security & sign-in settings. If you added your phone number for two-step verification or to a separate app like Google Pay, deleting it from the Phone page won't remove it entirely from your account, and you'll need to update those settings separately. Automatic phone verification shouldn't be the culprit here, but it's useful to audit what your number is being used for and on which accounts if you want to keep things separate.

cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/43331945

This flipper zero app enables you to tamper with ESLs:

https://github.com/i12bp8/TagTinker

Writing to them would of course be useful, but simply reading the tags could be quite useful too. As we get hit with personalised pricing and prices of goods fluctuate like stocks, it would be useful to grab prices programmatically as we walk through the store. The prices get fed to a DB to build a price history. This has a couple benefits:

• it could alert you when something you buy regularly is cheaper than recent history
• when a store ad says “today it’s $5 (normal price: $10)”, your DB can confirm whether the ad is lying about the normal price

crossposted from !instagramalternatives@programming.dev

Instagram Alternatives Broken Down by Category

Here is a simplified list of true Instagram alternatives (focused strictly on image sharing, feeds, and grids) split across three ecosystems:

ActivityPub (Fediverse) Alternatives

• Pixelfed: The primary open-source alternative to Instagram. It features direct messaging, stories, photo collections, and chronological timelines.
• Vernissage: A native iOS client for a photo-first social network in the Fediverse. It's designed for a calmer, ad-free, and algorithm-free photography sharing experience.
• Frequency: A private photo and video sharing app built on ActivityPub – no ads, no tracking, and only your approved followers can see your content.
• Bana: A decentralized, private sharing app based on the Dunbar number (limit of 150 close contacts). Only your selected circle can view your posts.
• Forte: An ActivityPub app with granular privacy controls – you can choose exactly who can see and comment on every single post.

AT Protocol Alternatives

• Flashes: A dedicated, photo-first client for the AT Protocol that mimics the classic Instagram layout and feeds directly into the Bluesky ecosystem.
• Grain (grain.social): A clean social publishing app built for chronological photo feeds, galleries, and comments. (The developer has also mentioned plans for private gallery features.)
• Pinksky: An AT Protocol photo client focused strictly on a visual, Instagram-style grid layout.

Centralized Alternatives

• Monnett: A European alternative to Big Tech social media. It's an image and video sharing app that offers a chronological feed without engagement algorithms.
• Vero: A closed-network social app with no ads or algorithms, heavily focused on high-resolution photography sharing.
• VSCO: A centralized platform built for publishing photography without public comment sections or visible like counts.
• RedNote (Xiaohongshu / 小红书): Often referred to as the "Chinese Instagram," it's a lifestyle platform blending photo-sharing, reviews, and e-commerce.
• Lemon8: A lifestyle and content-sharing app from ByteDance (TikTok's parent company), often described as a mix of Instagram and Pinterest with a focus on aesthetic visuals and niche communities.
• Oasis (绿洲): A lightweight image-sharing social app from Weibo, designed as an Instagram-like photo-based community focused on interests and aesthetics.
• NetEase Bee (网易蜜蜂): A social content app from NetEase targeting younger users, resembling Xiaohongshu in design with a dual-column feed and algorithmic recommendations.
• Duitang (堆糖): A long-running image-sharing community in China, often compared to Pinterest for visual discovery and collection.
• Vvaago: A private photo sharing app for close friends. Share a limited number of photos daily with people you have mutually accepted. No public explore page, no follower counts, and no pressure to perform.
• Yope: A friends-only photo sharing app. It's designed to be private by design, where only your friends can see your photos. It offers an ad-free, algorithm-free alternative to public social media, centered around sharing within closed groups of close friends and family.

Please let me know if this should be posted somewhere else, and remove it if it does not go here.

Sometimes a camera just needs a sock.

The Flock Sock is a slip on cover designed to help protect a Flock camera from the harmful radiation of the sun. Your city spent their very own hard earned tax dollars scattering these cameras everywhere to keep you safe, all it cost you was a little privacy. The very least you can do is help protect these valuable civil servants from getting a bad sunburn.

cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/42384052

There is a dark pattern whereby websites maliciously use a JavaScript confirm() to deceive users into believing a “problem” has been detected by the browser. It’s often triggered using setTimeout(), so it does not appear to be in response to any action that would be attributed to the visited website (background and related).

This site demonstrates the assault if you have a sufficiently defensive browser:

https://www.repairwin.com/

Often I can get around it by doing torsocks lynx "$URL", but not this time. The website is also hostile toward text browsing users. This site is extra obnoxious because if you give no answer to the popup it enters an endless loop of reloading the page -- which likely hammers their server too (the morons).

The fix: I fetched the webpage using HTtrack. Then I was able to view the page in peace. But then I noticed my hard drive working hard non-stop. Ran top, and a “program” called file:// Content (literally) was hogging CPU, memory, and putting the hard drive to work. I killed the process, at which point the browser tab that was showing the webpage as a local file crashed.

So while HTtrack at least got me access to the page, I was forced to hurry up and read the page and close it because of how hard my system had to work just to display some text. Perhaps the local copy needs to be viewed this way: firejail --net=none firefox file://$myindex/. Or maybe I should run wkhtmltopdf on the local copy and then just read the PDF.

Link to the post I made about what to do since it came to my attention that there are two of these communities now.