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Leraje

@ leraje @lemmy.blahaj.zone

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    it has so much potential

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  • You're looking in the wrong place. Several EU members have far right leaders already, many more are moving right. The EU (and UK) are about 4 or 5 years behind the US. Don't confuse disagreement with Trump over Ukraine with meaningful ideological differences.

  • pCloud - Lifetime Cloud Storage (based on Switzerland)

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  • No matter what they might claim, lifetime really means the lifetime of the company. If they go out of existence in five years, so does your lifetime plan.

  • People who joined Lemmy in the last few days thanks to posts on /r/buyfromEU, how are you doing?

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  • You're right, I did. Dammit.

  • People who joined Lemmy in the last few days thanks to posts on /r/buyfromEU, how are you doing?

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  • A few unwritten rules I've found useful over the last couple of years since moving to Lemmy :)

    1. If you're missing a particular smaller or niche community - be the change and create it!
    2. If someone is challenging you in a thread in good faith, respond in the same way
    3. If they're just being a dick, don't waste any sort of mental energy on them - just block them, forget them and move on.
    4. If you're the one being a dick (and be honest, we all know when we are) walk away for a bit
    5. Don't be too proud to ask for guidance but do it in the right communities :) e.g. don;t ask for tech help in a community thats not about tech help.
    6. Be prepared to see a lot of Star Trek memes and Nicole spam.
    7. Bask in the warm glow of an open source, privacy respecting, non-corporately controlled environment.
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  • Built in, pre-launch enshittification. Novel.

  • Proton alternative - Mailbox.org Alias vs Mail Extensions?

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  • They're not. Lets say your name is Dave Smith and you join mailbox with the username/address davesmith@mailbox.org

    If you wanted to join (I dunno) a mastodon instance but wanted to easily identify it and were also happy for the Admin to know your actual email you could use davesmith+mastodon@mailbox.org - that's an extension.

    But if you didn't want the Admin to know your email you could create an Alias in mailbox so for example mymastoacct@mailbox.org - as long as no one else was already using it of course.

    So if your actual primary address includes your name, an extension will always reveal it, whereas an alias can hide it.

  • Secure and privacy respecting recommendations for technology.

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  • Given the intent of this community though it should also be noted not all recommendations are European. Brave for example is American.

  • Ex-ambassadors give warnings over [UK] intelligence-sharing with US

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  • “strange track records”

    They're obvious Russian assets...

    “problem on the intelligence front”

    ...who will pass on the names of all our spies and assignments to Putin...

    Intelligence sharing would continue “even if at the top level there might be things we might wish to be circumspect about”.

    ...so we're going to bullshit them and not tell them the important stuff.

  • Trump doesn’t seem to know why he launched a giant trade war

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  • Techbro led gvmt - move fast, break stuff. Chaos leads to opportunity to profit, by which I mean him and his class to profit.

  • In Response to Amazon preventing to download books you bought: Some DRM free bookstores and publishers

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  • Removed

    Well, it finally happened: I MET SOMEONE!

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  • So this is how I find out I've been dumped.

  • Suppose you were a dissident facing political persecution, how would you preserve your personal files so that you can retrieve it many years later, in case of imprisonment?

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  • In terms of data, put TailsOS on a USB drive, configure persistent storage, download VeraCrypt over TOR, install that, encrypt everything tutorial

    What you do with the drive (or drives if you make copies) really depends. If the climate is very wet and warm where you live then storing them outside is going to need very good protection to keep them relatively cool and dry. You'd also have to find somewhere that you can absolutely guarantee isn't going to get redeveloped or otherwise built on, or conversely, knocked down/demolished for as long as you're away.

    A long term self-storage company might be an idea, or a bank vault, where you've paid for (for example) 10 years in advance. Of course that means you have to be absolutely sure the company won't go bankrupt or be seized by the corrupt regime you're hiding the data from. You'd also have to have someone else set these up in their name or it could be seized along with you. You then have to hope they don't get seized, or get dementia or die.

    If you have comrades abroad in a safer country, maybe physically mail them the drives before the corrupt regime starts noticing you? Then of course you also have to hope they can return them and haven;t forgotten, died etc.

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  • 'Better' is relative :) is it better than using something like SearXNG? No. But for those people who insist on using Google, its better to do a proxied search than a first-hand one. Mullvad are European, are one of the very few orgs I personally think are trustable and have shown no signs of enshittification, Leta has been audited by a 3rd party - for those looking for a private Google experience this is about the best there is.

  • Vaccine critic RFK Jr. backs measles vaccine amid deadly Texas outbreak

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  • The MMR vaccine never contained thimerosal. There were two separate claims by antivaxxers. The first was Wakefield's money making scheme to invent an alternative MMR vaccine by claiming the existing MMR vaccine caused autism.

    The second, entirely separate, claim was that thimerosal in other vaccines was also causing autism.

    The two claims then got conflated into a general 'vaccines == bad' by idiots like Kennedy, Jim Carrey, Jenny McCarthy and a whole quack industry of autism 'cures' such as chelation, HBOT etc.

  • Facebook Cybertruck Owners Group Copes With Relentless Mockery

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  • Leaving notes...committing genocide, yeah they're interchangeable really.

  • Trudeau hits back at Trump by announcing massive tariffs on the United States: ‘Canada will not let this unjustified decision go unanswered’

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  • I don't think any of them give two shits about pushback. Unless that pushback takes the form of forcible removal from power, they wont care in any way.

  • Trudeau hits back at Trump by announcing massive tariffs on the United States: ‘Canada will not let this unjustified decision go unanswered’

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  • The trouble is that the problem is not confined to just Trump. If he dies, Vance becomes president. If they both die, Mike Johnson does. This is not a coup by a single person, this is an entire philosophy - neo-fascism - thats now in charge of the US. Its goose-stepping turtles all the way down.

  • LibreWolf's defaults are too strict and slow down adoption

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  • Not to recommend as I don't use them (I use LW and Mullvad - and Ironfox on mobile - all of which might give you the same issues you have with LW) but I've heard people mention Mercury, Floorp and Waterfox as being good privacy focused alternatives.

  • Ukraine's Zelenskiy says he can salvage relationship with US

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  • I'm more and more convinced the Trump administration is not negotiating in good faith. I don't believe the minerals thing was anything other than something Trump thought Zelenskyy would never be able to say 'yes' to. Trump doesn't want to support Ukraine, but he also needs to find enough of an excuse to save some semblance of face. So when Zelenskyy indicated the minerals deal could be done, with modifications, Trump/Vance cooked up that cowardly shitshow to try and paint Zelenskyy as unreasonable in order to give them enough of an excuse to walk away.

    I understand why Zelenskyy is desperate for US support but I'm pretty much certain at this point it won;t be forthcoming. Even if Starmer/Macron et al persuade the two of them to re-meet it'll just be something else next time.

    The US, as a political force supporting stability and peace is no more. Its time the rest of the world accepted that and moved on because its not outside the realm of possibility that a US/Russian political/military alliance might exist relatively soon and we might need to be ready for that.

  • LibreWolf's defaults are too strict and slow down adoption

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  • It's specifically forked to be the most privacy respecting non-Tor browser out there. The extreme privacy is the point of it. I'm not sure what it is you want but its not LW - and thats fine, use another fork instead.