Don’t take down your Christmas lights (inside at least). Make hot chocolate at home, create rituals for yourself

I spent half the day in the bomb shelter and the other half losing at cards.

Dell’s current lineup is not to expensive (≈400) and runs Linux well

We have to wait and see for eIDAS, let’s hope with the changes to eIDAS dead, we’ll have at least a few years of the Commission not proposing some dumb surveillance shit

except an apartment costs money and so there are barriers to entry, lemmy accounts are free.

The only good analogy is “if you want to be friends with us, stop being friends with assholes”.

The latest text has not yet been released, but when it is you will see a separation between Identification and Encryption. It is also clearly stated that browsers are allowed to do whatever they want regarding recognition of CAs for encryption. tl;dr the status quo for encryption (linking a domain to a server) does not change, browsers will only be forced to recognise identity (linking a organisation to a server). This will force a re-engineering of QWACs/EV certs in general in favour of something like ntqwacs.

So jarring that you couldn’t just… Press no?

Just a heads up: new wording has killed this.

Parliament’s position on the proposed law will now be against chat control, but the fight is not over: next we have to negotiate with member states. It’s vital we keep the pressure on governments to end this madness.

No it isn’t. If you want to hear them feel free to create an account on an instance that doesn’t block them, that is how the fediverse and the real world works.

They are only isolated from those who don’t want to hear them.

It’s not a new law. The GDPR has been around for years, but meta only recently lost a legal case saying that they cannot contractually force users to provide their data in exchange for access to the service.

But the GDPR also says consent has to be freely given, some interpet this as meaning that forcing people to pay in order for their data not to be used for ads is not freely given consent.

They are not “silenced”: just like in real life they have every right to express themselves, but normal people have every right not to listen to them. This comes from a leftist btw.

This is more than likely illegal in the EU…

This is more than likely illegal in the EU…

Weirdly most of Europe is experiencing aurora rn

Fairphone 4 with CalyxOS

In the EU we are already working on just that.

Consent O matic and bypass paywalls clean ;)

Please stop sharing bullshit articles full of technically uninformed disinformation

The article you sent me is totally absurd and shows a complete lack of understanding or will to understand.

Librewolf and Arkenfox exist for the exact same reason this article exists: unbridled paranoia. They are actually by fat less secure than Firefox because of the risk of a compromised build chain which is lesser for an established browser.

The first example of “phoning home” your article gives is merely the get request Firefox uses to check if you are online and redirect you to a login portal if you are on shared WiFi.

The article also then makes a complaint about Firefox making requests to the sites you visit most frequently, which maked absolutely no sense, because if you visit them so frequently that then end up in your new page, then what is the problem with Firefox preloading the content?

On Google analytics, it is not part of the browser, but just used on Mozilla’s website with an explicit exemption from Google not to use that data.

The “safebrowsing” requests are to download the list of known malware sites in order to keep you safe. They are not used for tracking.

The health report telemetry is the only thing that could be vaguely construed as actually being problematic, but it literally collects no personal data and is used to improve the browser.

Finally, the entire paragraph about pocket is bullshit: or course, if you create an account and start saving web pages to pocket then it is going to be stored on pocket’s servers… What would you expect? The solution is simple: Just don’t use pocket, nobody is forcing you to.

It is infuriating to see these lies repeatedly perpetuated online by people who have no understanding of what they are criticizing

None of the points mentioned even vaguely constitute a threat to user privacy.

To make matters worse they actually weaken users security by driving them to forks that risk them not recieving timely security updates.