This is a court case in the US though, but Anna’s isn’t US based, so it’s kind of overstepping boundaries, no? That’s like a McDonald’s manager telling a Starbucks employee not to do something. Also, whether it’s scraped or not, who tf has heard of WorldCat? It’s not like Anna’s profiting off of this like AI companies would.

Maybe some video doorbell or ext cameras? I know how living in a rural area makes it all feel a bit overkill, but might be worth it for situations like this. I buy off brand cameras where I can pop an SD card in it and it’s free. I installed systems for all family when 2020 got with COVID and the riots over George Floyd and whatnot. We’re in Illinois, rural outside Chicago but still affected. We have a lot of crime come out from Chicago too which sucks as people go around through vehicles all over. I’m also a big tech guy so this was simple enough.

People are too trusting to leave cars unlocked, or too stupid saying locking their door adds a broken window to the lost of things to fix when broken into. However, I reiterate insurance claims and police reports don’t look good when stuff is unsecured.

How could a judge demand this? Is there some sort of lawsuit against them currently where a judge could have the power to request this?

I don’t have a Facebook, so I can’t look at his account, but the *69 (or *67?) features still work to make anonymous calls, and he probably googled your wife’s name which may have had a public post or mentioning a daughter’s name, or through friends. It doesn’t take long but going down those rabbit holes is ready, and finding info is easy.

Plenty of free sites or apps let you dig up more on people by name, too. That’ll be a good start… However, since they’re already a problem and have a head start, I suggest you just let it go, keep the police report (did you mention the threat to kill?) and maybe follow up. Document all calls even though anonymous, and maybe check if your carrier can block all unknown calls incoming. Don’t get them more riled up than they already are, and hopefully you have sensible home protection (minimum a gun-that you’re familiar with how to use)

That’s hilarious. Definitely worked with a few like that!

Why isn’t anyone recommending Signal? That’s also using RCS, no? Or maybe just E2EE?

Edit: nvm, it’s its own protocol for E2EE. probably better that way anyway. I’ve got several group chats that all use RCS, but that sounds like it’s TLS encryption and likely not encrypted on the servers where it could still be carrier accessed. I’ll have to look into it more

It’s funny cuz Trump thought tariffs would fuck other countries on trade, but China’s like, “we got this”! China is showing up the US with all these records and firsts. Record setting AI architecture I just saw in the feed, first 20 megawatt wind turbine, China/Beijing days to stop using US cyber security companies, now this about Alibaba. Hell, they also were told to stop buying Nvidia.

Trump tried to act like we’re gonna teach everyone a lesson, and countries realize they don’t need our teenage tantrum-like country/leader and are just moving on around us. Who knew?! Lol

Quad9 DNS is where it’s at.

It’s a solid mix of having a lot of the privacy settings enabled, but without fully disabling all services that a majority of people might like or use (having a Firefox acct to sync favorites might be one). There are auto updates and patching that’re pretty quick to get released too.

I found a reddit post from the dev commenting on it a while back. Seemed like a sensible balance. https://www.reddit.com/r/waterfox/comments/14seevh/comment/jqwuan8/

Either way, Librewolf and Waterfox seem like they can accomplish the same things, but just have a few default settings that differ. LW eliminates all possible Firefox account sync and services, but the fact I don’t use them, they’re not enabled. WF unfortunately leaves the default search to Google instead of startpage or Ecosia, but that’s a simple click at the top or change in settings. LW has Duckduckgo. LW has strict cookie settings enabled by default which might break some sites that require it for full functionality. Some people might not like that or want to whereas WF didn’t mess with settings. I’m more so talking about the masses or someone just starting out getting into privacy stuff that might prefer these things, but by no means are th either bad or worse than Firefox or Chrome.

The most annoying thing is the immediate price hikes on consumer RAM and then blaming AI as if they’re even the same module types!

Idk, primarily bc Lumo was a part of Proton, which I use, and I liked the ability to do offline searches and searches that delete ASAP after closing the tab. Plus honestly I’ve not specifically checked out lechat, so maybe I will!

I would recommend Ecosia as a search engine, Waterfox as a browser, and Lumo as an AI chatbot if you’re fixed on using AI.

Waterfox is Firefox with all privacy settings on. Simple enough.

Ecosia is a German-based search engine company that uses profits for replanting trees and reforestation. They use several resources for search results, so understand it’s not 100% based on pushing full privacy. I just figure they’re doing good with their money.

Lumo is the Proton-based AI that’s Mistral at the heart (French-based ai company focused on privacy) with some other tools under proton’s belt too.

Combined, I think this gives everyone/anyone a potent level of security/privacy with out-of-the-box use and no special tweaks or settings required.

You could go one step further and use 9.9.9.9 for DNS either at the browser level or gateway level for the whole home!