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qweertz

@ qweertz @programming.dev

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tech-savvy geek and queer disaster(I also hate capitalism and have a general interest in social sciences)

  • BBC - The people who hunt old TVs

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  • Samsung TVs also notoriously do this. Even if you don't connect them to anything yourself, they will look for insecure Wifi accesspoints to upload their spying data to

  • Swiss government looks to undercut privacy tech, stoking fears of mass surveillance

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  • Yeah, we get it, Proton does not fit the activist threat model. But neither does Email and PGP in general.

    Use QubesOS and SimpleX or Briar or something. For exclusively private use Proton suffices.

    Or you could always use Tor to connect to Proton services etc.

    Unfortunately complying with such requests is the reality of a legal entity/company within reach...

  • Swiss government looks to undercut privacy tech, stoking fears of mass surveillance

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  • They are aware of those developments and shifting locations away from Switzerland. You can look it up easily

  • Redox OS To Focus More On Wayland, "Redox Server" & Performance Over The Next Year - Phoronix

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  • I think it's some delusion about fooling "the big AI" while not understanding how LLMs actually work and "learn"

  • How trusted is TorGuard?

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  • Then Proton seems to be the only usable VPN for anyone who Torrents and gives a shit about seeding. (Only scumbags don't seed)

    At least out of the three privacy oriented ones you mentioned that at least has OSS clients IIRC

  • Which open alternative apps list is the best?

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  • Proton Meet: Secure, end-to-end encrypted video conferencing

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  • IIRC there is are community Flatpaks for most of their apps and they work fine.

    Like I have Proton Mail/Calendar, VPN and Pass all installed on my Bluefin workstation

  • How much the recent developments with android are gonna affect the Foss world?

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  • They have Google in their

    Proceed with caution!

    The following manufacturers require an online account and/or a waiting period before unlocking.

    section, despite you not having to do either of those to unlock your phone to install e.g. GrapheneOS?

  • Hollow Knight: Silksong Sparks Debate About Difficulty and Boss Runbacks

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  • If you dislike impressionist art, would you still go to a museum exhibition on that topic and then get angry at the curators?

  • Hollow Knight: Silksong Sparks Debate About Difficulty and Boss Runbacks

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  • Firefox Nightly now lets you access Microsoft Copilot from the sidebar

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  • I just use LibreWolf and Ironfox

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  • I used my Huawei Mate 20 Pro from 2018 till it died in and then bought a used Pixel 8 Pro to run Graphene OS on, genuinely good decision to live without all the BS of Apple and Google and just have a functioning, secure and private smartphone that coppers can not get into and I can safely cross borders with.

  • Open-Source NVIDIA Linux Driver Usage About To Become Much More Reliable

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  • Aren't only some kernel modules OSS from nvidia, with the rest staying proprietary?

  • Mexit, not Brexit, is the new priority for the UK

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  • The USA has been the "big brother" for pretty much all of NATO to listen to since the Marshall plan...

    Just look how the EU cowed to your gov's tarif demands recently.

  • European Commission has a "Wifi4EU" initative, provides 93k high-speed private access points across the EU, free of charge.

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  • The EU only cares about blocking the private sector from getting their citizen's data. They actively harm privacy when it's about government access

  • Another Google Pixel 6a catches fire after battery-nerfing update

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  • Arguably, 2nd hand private sellers would have bought it anyway and you are just saving e-waste at that point

  • Another Google Pixel 6a catches fire after battery-nerfing update

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  • Another Google Pixel 6a catches fire after battery-nerfing update

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  • You can donate to GrapheneOS and I highly doubt that the hardware of the Fairphone is open

    e/OS is a joke btw

  • Another Google Pixel 6a catches fire after battery-nerfing update

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  • I would think that private buyers buy a phone they are gonna use and then sell it once they don't use it anymore 🧠