What always freaks me out is people considering their government worse than the likes of Meta, Palantir, Google, Microsoft… At least you can vote (hopefully) for a different government. The problem is when the companies are able to buy governments, like USA is.

But attestation is already “a thing”!! These companies are just asking for a more democratic system. Might not be the best idea ever, but it’s at least better than Google’s monopoly.

I started reading the full argument, and correct me if I am wrong, but don’t they always start with a defendable idea and end up simply sounding crazy as hell when they start talking unrelated shit about other projects?

Like, look at this: https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/116200362765756182

They are literally saying that their plan is to ban GrapheneOS. That’s CRAZY, and obviously not true. It’s basically paranoid. Which I guess fits 😅

I get your point but E2E is independent from public key validation. Public key validation is basically being a bit more slightly sure that the E2E communication happens with who you think, although… It’s never a guarantee. Keys can be stolen.

It’s a flag you set up yourself, it’s in your user configuration.

You can still buy all of those without any “smart” capabilities easily.

Unless the digital Euro or GNU Taler really become the norm… You are totally stuck with multibillion corps controlling every single digital cent of yours.

The data has already been scrapped, processed, categorized and indexed. This is quite literally true.

Do not worry about it, and simply try to not give them much from now on.

Also filling the internet with junk is how our best ever collective project dies. Don’t be a part of that.

How is FIFA going to kick the host of the World Cup? After literally creating a Peace Prize specifically to give it to Trump?

World’s Cup is going to be a shitshow.

Why not posting a proper source? https://mullvad.net/es/blog/shutting-down-our-search-proxy-leta

My message to Telegram CEO: Open source your shit and we’ll talk then about freedom and whatever marketing campaing you are on right now. Bye.

Huge warning about XMPP:

If you encrypt with OMEMO (which seems to be the only accepted encryption nowadays), forget about being able to sync your messages to a new client. Forget about being able to try another client. That is, unless you want to lose all of your message history.

When I found this out while installing another distro… It made me so angry I literally stopped using it. I recommend Delta Chat, Matrix and Signal nowadays.

Come on, Zuckerberg, do what you said you’d do. Leave the EU. COME ON!! DO IT!!!

Also, Apple, you said you also wanted to leave because of the EU, right? DO IT!!!

Why are you still here?? Oh, turns out you can still make a fucking ton of money, huh? Also, if you left the EU, it would show the world WE DON’T NEED YOU. YOU SERVE NO PURPOSE, BUT TO MANIPULATE AND EXTORT FOR PROFIT.

Please stop with these useless articles. Yes, every world power likes gathering metadata. And no, USA is not a “better place” for metadata gathering.

Does omebody know about a trusted tool for easy deletion of specific chunks of info from Facebook?

I would like to keep some stuff so no copycats can be made, but I’d like to delete things such as my “liked movies” and shit.

It’s pretty fair to dunk on Brave because it’s Chromium. I don’t want the biggest ad company in the world having the monopoly on how we see the Internet, and Brave perpetuates that.

You can skip that step. Not that it’s okay, tho.

Signal should work, at least through my experience. It would also serve as a chat and stories alternative.

Just a note, but there are many many more invidious instances.