yes, I just found this out recently ! privacy guides have a section on this: https://www.privacyguides.org/en/dns/#android

Android 9 and above support DNS over TLS. The settings can be found in: Settings → Network & Internet → Private DNS.

cool ! I am using Hews, but I might switch to this.

This release includes major improvements to performance, specifically optimizations of database queries. Special thanks to @phiresky, @ruud, @sunaurus and many others for investigating these.

Love to see the community coming together to improve things !

there is a page about this on the lemmy docs: https://join-lemmy.org/docs/users/05-censorship-resistance.html

yup pretty sure

$ cat /etc/passwd
fox:hunter2:1000:1000::/home/fox:/usr/bin/zsh

😉

you don’t need to be root to read /etc/passwd

However, the two Jumpsec Red Team members found that they could go around the restriction by changing the internal and external recipient ID in the POST request of a message, thus fooling the system into treating an external user as an internal one.

so they only do the check on client side. classic.

Its a way to prioritize which posts you are going to read. if there are only 10 posts you can read all of them, if there are 1000 maybe not, depends on how much time you have, but when people can vote on which posts they find interesting there is a good chance you will find the most voted interesting as well.