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[–] kittenzrulz123@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 15 hours ago (11 children)

Thats why you should use a Google Pixel with GraphineOS and a unique 20+ digit password (along with a secure VPN like Mullvad)

[–] thermal_shock@lemmy.world 17 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

No avg person is doing this. Get a second phone with alias accounts.

[–] kittenzrulz123@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 13 hours ago (4 children)

I use GraphineOS and tbh its not inconvenient to use

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[–] Phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee 3 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

That is a good option. I am actually quite careful about what I use my phone for. I still on occasion use Google maps, but i turn location history off and I always delete previous searches.

I am aware that this does not remove them from google's database, but it does make your movements not immediately obvious.

Also i would delete browser history and log out of all social media accounts (and disable remembering usernames/passwords) and even uninstall some apps in order to make who you interact eith less immediately obvious. Once you clear the border fully you can reinstall everything at your earliest convenience.

[–] iknowitwheniseeit@lemmynsfw.com 4 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

You may want to try Organic Maps. It can probably help in 80% of situations where you use Google Maps.

[–] SaturdayMorning@lemmy.ca 1 points 9 hours ago

I have been using Organic Maps and I have no complain.

[–] Phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee 2 points 11 hours ago

I also have osmand. At any rate I wish I could uninstall Google entirely off my computer. My dad was the one who made my gmail account back in 2005 (when it was invited only, if you can believe/remember that), and I have been using it for all my governmental and important stuff since. I have plenty of other emails, but most of them are for inconsequential stuff.

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[–] Vorticity@lemmy.world 24 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

FWIW the US is claiming that the researcher had confidential information from Los Alamos National Labs against the terms of his NDA. They claim the researcher admitted to taking the information and attempting to conceal it.

I honestly hope this is the explanation. If we're starting to deny entry to the country simply due to criticisms of domestic policy decisions, we're going down yet another dark path.

[–] mineralfellow@lemmy.world 11 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

I was at the conference he was supposed to attend - the Lunar and Planetary Science conference. There were a lot of people showing Los Alamos data there.

[–] sunstoned@lemmus.org 2 points 11 hours ago

That doesn't mean anything, at all. Just because "a lot of people [were] showing Los Alamos data" doesn't mean all Los Alamos data can be publicized.

Ex: a guy named Robert who led a very particular research effort in New Mexico

[–] brax@sh.itjust.works 16 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

How is that a problem when the president is out there storing confidential docs in his golf course, and when they fire off the cybersecurity teams?

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[–] x00z@lemmy.world 29 points 21 hours ago

LOL they changed the headlines to "hateful towards U.S. Policy" now? I thought it was "critical of Trump".

[–] aldfin@lemm.ee 134 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Why travel to that shithole.

[–] slaneesh_is_right@lemmy.org 17 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

People also travel to Pyongyang just to see just how shitty it is.

[–] brax@sh.itjust.works 5 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

I'd rather go there. Probably safer.

[–] thespcicifcocean@lemmy.world 11 points 13 hours ago

Honestly, just follow their rules and you'd probably be fine in NK. But maybe not so in the us

[–] Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca 89 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Travel to the US and it’s your own fault. We have been warned.

[–] te_abstract_art@lemmy.world 14 points 16 hours ago (3 children)

My partner is a scientist and has to travel to the US for work later this year. We're both dreading it, given all these stories of people being detained at the border.

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[–] NotSteve_@lemmy.ca 20 points 23 hours ago

My company isn’t organizing any off-sites to the US for my remote first company anymore because of this shit lol. I think partially because nobody outside of the US would even go

[–] Nursery2787@lemmy.ml 12 points 21 hours ago

Sponsored by Home Depot

[–] billwashere@lemmy.world 65 points 1 day ago (7 children)

What the actual fuck is going on with my country?!? For fuck sake, not all of us are fascist bellends.

[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 37 points 1 day ago (1 children)

A third of you are fascist bellends, a third are fighting against the fascist bellends .... and a third are just standing there doing nothing.

[–] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 13 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah, the non-voters are fucking worse than the Trumpers in some ways.

[–] TimewornTraveler@lemm.ee 9 points 13 hours ago

this is beyond voting now

[–] jmantothe64@lemmy.world 49 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Things are still gonna get worse, we're not gonna get through this until their actions hurt so many people that enough of them get fed up and it leads to one of those belgrade or hungary sized protests

[–] zephorah@lemm.ee 33 points 1 day ago (4 children)

You’re talking about a country that largely lives with its head in the sand. America is notorious for avoiding the news, especially world news. The fact that any is ingested as all is likely thanks to social media. (Im talking large strokes, middle of the bell curve behaviors). As long as the family unit is ok, people generally think they’re ok, and live with blinders for anything outside of that. This life approach has existed long before Trump was even a blip in politics.

Remember, inertia is a seismic, global driving force of action for much of humanity.

I think it would likely take everyone’s personal house burning down in tandem to inspire mass action and those who still had houses would still function via the force of inertia propelling them through their daily habits, ignoring everyone else.

I say that as an American. I don’t like it, but it’s true. That and liberals a very un unified and tend not to like each other. A lot of gatekeeping takes place there rather than uniting and doing, always has. It’s a scattered, messy, un unified party.

In addition, there was another post made in response to a “do something” rant that I think sums up the other piece in play.

“I don’t know how to start a riot.”

Which is a fair point. How? Seriously. And where do you find people when your full personal circle is 2-7 individuals (if you have friends at all, it’s a major problem people seek therapy for these days). and half of the people who are friends with are either MAGA or a dissociated young man who spends all their free time behind a screen engaged in escapism.

We’re kinda screwed on the psychology side over here.

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[–] shirro@aussie.zone 44 points 1 day ago (7 children)

Don't carry digital data across any border, even if encrypted. Many countries have totally different standards over search and seizure at their borders to when you have gained entry and sometimes far worse for non citizens.

[–] absentrevision@lemm.ee 11 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

A good option is backing up your data, encrypting it, then uploading to a server you can retrieve it from once you've crossed

https://cryptomator.org/

Setting up some stuff might look less sus than a freshly wiped device though

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[–] clmbmb@lemmy.dbzer0.com 46 points 1 day ago (1 children)

No need to go to the us. Fuck that hellhole.

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