After all that I hope big companies will understand and will not start to cry and ask from the governments mandatory laws so people have! To use their technology products because they loosing money and power because many people will stop or don't want to use them any more...
Why do I get the feeling that lately, in so many countries, new regulations are popping up with only one purpose - to erode privacy 🔓? It feels like a bad joke. I can't keep up anymore.
I wish I could fight them all at once, put pressure everywhere 🌍, no matter where I live. But I don't have the time. I'm already drowning in an endless to-do list.
Why couldn't the government set a different deadline? Why are they so determined to push this through? My mind can't wrap around it I just hope they come to their senses and never implement it 🙏
Oh fuck! What does this mean for all the Swiss-based privacy and security platforms, like Proton?
I mean, Proton's CEO Andy Yen already showed his true colors by advocating for Trump's support of little guy "tech startups" (read: Sillycon Valley broligarchs), so I'm already transitioning out of Proton's ecosystem.
Update: See thread below. I'm incorrect with the above statement regarding Proton's CEO.
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Just out of curiosity, if you use your own email client and send GPG/PGP encrypted email, how does an email provider decrypt it?
Sometimes encryption is a necessity even if privacy isn't an issue. Example: I've used encryption to send a JAR file to a friend for testing: he had a gmail account and Google doesn't allow JAR files as email attachments to "protect the user". This hid it from Google's software. It wasn't really secret - the password was in the email's text.
Remember the Fichenpolizei from back in the 1990s in Switzerland? It was a personal data collection scandal at the time I was based there for a brief time.
So US no way, Switzerland neither and EU? Not anymore they are also building mass surveillance laws. This trend is worrying. I already have my emails in Norway, my docs and pictures are in Swtzerland in Infomaniak, I will now start to look for alternative.
Es ist doch jetzt schon so, dass die Menschen vorsprechen müssen. Und in gewisser Weise hat das auch sein Gutes, weil nur so Hilfsangebote unterbreitet werden können. Aber das zum Zwang zu machen, ist meiner Erfahrung nach hoch problematisch. Viel besser gefallen mir da Projekte, wie es sie in einigen Jobcentern gibt, bei denen Vermittler aufsuchende Arbeit machen und das Vertrauen der Leute erst einmal zurück gewinnen... Dazu kommt, dass sehr oft noch nicht einmal offiziell diagnostiziert ist, dass jemand unter einer psychischen Erkrankung leidet. Weil Scham und kaum Therapieplätze und und und ... Ich finde, im Umgang mit dieser Gruppe haben wir gesamtgesellschaftlich wirklich kaum sinnvolle Konzepte und eine riesige Menge aufzuholen. Zumal sie wächst und gesellschaftliche Kompensationsmechanismen immer mehr wegfallen... *Seufz!* kolektiva.social/@helenasteinh…
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"Menschen mit psychsichen Erkrankungen sollen künftig persönlich beim Jobcenter vorsprechen. So soll geprüft werden, ob die Betroffenen wirklich krank sind.
Dazu sind die JC doch gar nicht zu ausgebildet !!!
Und das ist doch ein Catch-22 Wenn du zu JC kommst, dann bist du ja gar nicht so psychisch krank, dass du nicht auch eine Arbeit machen könntest. Antrag abgelehnt.
Wenn du es aufgrund deiner Krankheit nicht schaffst zu JC zu gehen, wird der Antrag wegen fehlender Mitwirkung abgelehnt
@realn2s Nein, ganz so ist es nicht. Die Menschen müssen vorsprechen, damit klar ist, dass Sie "ihren gewöhnlichen" Aufenthalt tatsächlich im Zuständigkeitsbereich der Jobcenter haben. Und nicht jeder psychisch Kranke ist nicht erwerbsfähig und nicht jeder theoretisch erwerbsfähige psychisch Kranke wird von den Jobcentern in den nächstbesten Job vermittelt. Oft vermitteln die Jobcenter auch Hilfsangebote, angefangen von der Information zu möglichen Leistungen der sozialen Teilhabe, über spezielle Massnahmen zur Erhöhung der Belastbarkeit, über Kontakte zu Beratungsstellen und Selbsthilfeorganisationen. Aber solche Angebote können nur unterbreitet werden, wenn gespräche zustande kommen. Ein riesiges Problem ist es, wenn die Krankheit sich so äussert, dass überhaupt keine Kontakte mehr möglich sind. Dass Briefe nicht geöffnet werden, Termine grundsätzlich nicht wahrgenommen usw. Denn dann geht das Jobcenter davon aus, dass der Mensch nicht am Ort anwesend ist und die Anträge werden abgelehnt bzw. nicht weiter bearbeitet. Geprüft, in welcher psychischen Verfassung jemand ist, wird unter Umständen vom berufspsychologischen Service und vom ärztlichen Dienst der Agentur für Arbeit und dort ist das Personal auch dafür ausgebildet. Es stimmt nicht, dass jeder, der gerade psychisch nicht in der Lage ist, eine Arbeit aufzunehmen, sofort keine Leistungen mehr bekommt. Das ist eine Fehlinformation.
@realn2s Danke, dass du das richtigstellst! Ich finde das wahnsinnig wichtig. Es ist natürlich einfach, sich über die JC aufzuregen und sie zu verteufeln. Sie bieten ja auch in weiten Teilen viel Angriffsfläche. Aber es ist eben nicht so schwarzweiß, wie insbesondere bei Mastodon gerne getan wird.
@WestphalDenn @realn2s Das ist es definitiv nicht. Es ist wenig bekannt, wie in den Jobcentern zum Beispiel in der Arbeitsvermittlung wirklich gearbeitet wird. Welche Netzwerke und Instrumente es gibt und wie sie angewandt werden. Es gibt bestimmt viel Grund zur Kritik, z.B. daran, dass es eigentlich immer darum geht, die Kunden zu optimieren und viel zu selten, die Strukturen in Unternehmen hinterfragt werden. Und an Prioritäten und manchen Massnahmen, die weit an Bedarfen vorbei gehen. Und natürlich gibt es in Jobcentern auch schwarze Schafe, die sich wenig bis gar nicht um Empatie scheren. Aber es gibt auch eine Menge anderes. Davon ist leider wenig bekannt.
@realn2s Ich habe das im Studium auch gemerkt. In den Sozialrechtsvorlesungen hatte ich einie Dozentin, die einige Jahre im Jobcenter gearbeitet hat. Zuerst war ich sehr skeptisch. Habe ich doch wirklich schlechte Erfahrungen gesammelt und diese für die Norm gehalten. Aber dieser Austausch zeigte ein anderes Bild. Keineswegs ein fehlerfreies, aber ein deutlich anderes. So sehr ich die Frustration verstehe, so sehr versuche ich immer mal wieder dafür zu werben, dass Sachbearbeitende nicht dafür eingestellt werden, es Leistungsempfangenden schwer zu machen. Aber natürlich gibt es im Sozialrecht viel Luft nach oben. Das ist, denke ich, auch jedem klar.
@WestphalDenn @realn2s Die Sachbearbeitenden müssen ein Lsetz vertreten. Ob sie hinter diesem Gesetz stehen, ist zweitrangig. Sie müssen sich an dessen Rahmen halten. Aber sie haben auch ein Stück Ermessen. und das Gesetz hat Nischen. Es weiss zum Beispiel kaum jemand, dass der ärztliche Dienst der Agentur für Arbeit jemanden als für bis zu 6 Monate nicht erwerbsfähig einschätzen kann. und dass dann einfach nichts Leistungsrechtliches passiert. Die betreffende persön ist damit quasi für 6 Moate wie Krank geschrieben und bekommt ihre Leistungen ganz normal weiter. Es ist auch kaum bekannt, dass man aufstockend zum Krankengeld Leistungen vom Jobcenter erhalten kann und dass wenn Krankenscheine eingehen, auch über lange Zeit, ebenfalls keine Leistungen wegfallen. Irgendwann leitet das Jobcenter natürlich die Begutachtung durch die Fachdienste ein, um zu prüfen, ob es als Leistungsträger der Grundsicherung für Erwerbsfähige noch Zuständig ist, oder ob der Leistungsträger für Nichterwerbsfähige, also SGB XII zuständig wird. Aber es gibt viele vorübergehend (auch langfristiger) kranke Leistungsbezieher im Jobcenter, die trotzdem generell erwerbsfähig bleiben, man hofft ja immer auf Genesung...
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What are the benefits for Geany of porting it to GTK4?
The editor/IDE #Geany is still #GTK3 and the hampering factor was that the editing engine #scintilla wasn't ported to GTK4 but it exists now. However, one of the main developers questions, if there are any benefits at all in porting Geany to GTK4:
"I wonder if anyone would find motivation for this. As said in #3675, in my personal opinion there are no benefits at all in GTK4."
Port Geany to GTK4. As Scintilla is now ported to GTK4 (see https://mastodon.social/@bugaevc@floss.social/115507432930694449), it would be great if Geany would be ported to GTK4 as well bringing al...
the benefits of using GTK4 boil down to using a toolkit that gets new features, better performance, and integration on Linux (and other platforms); the downsides are the usual: porting is an effort, and if the current maintainer doesn’t want to spend their time on it, then there’s not much anybody can do, regardless of benefits
also: GTK4 has been out for 5 years, more than a third of the GTK3 lifetime. We’re way past the point in which we have to “sell it” to people. If in 2025 you’re still using GTK3 because you like having icons on menus then you clearly made a choice
@whitemice I also think that Geany is an excellent application. As fast and tabbed editor with powerful features, I don't see so many alternatives on Linux. Thus, it would be great if Geany would decide that it wants to do the shift to GTK4. Otherwise, it will become outdated and less relevant in the future. Thanks, your responses about GTK4 benefits were already helpful. I will reference those in the Geany bugtracker.
I have just seen that the developer @eht16 of Geany is also here on Mastodon. Please see the discussion thread. We are elaborating on "What are the benefits for Geany of porting it to GTK4?" following your response to bug #4460 that "in my personal opinion there are no benefits at all in GTK4"
probably means "integration in Gnome". Using other DMs feels rather less integrated. You might say that's the responsibility of the other DMs. Fine. Users might judge differently.
if the current maintainer doesn’t want to spend their time
Just for clarification, we are not talking about "the maintainer" here, just my personal opinion about GTK4. Geany is maintained by a team of developers and I do not represent the team as a whole here.
@GerryT I'd like to keep the discussion in github.com/geany/geany/discuss… as it is way more visible to Geany related developers and users than here. Thanks.
There are a number of probably big changes being examined or coming in the future. The point of this discussion is to record and discuss them. Blue sky thinking is encouraged, but implementability ...
@eht16 To given an overview of the current state of #GTK4 adoption. Out of the active GTK open source projects 71% use GTK4, and 29% still use #GTK3 as of today (#GTK2 not counted). This is an increase of 9 percentage points since Nov 2024. This means that GTK4 will likely crack 90% of active #GTK projects in 2028 (and probably plateaus at such share).
Additionally, 90% of GTK4 projects use #libadwaita (#Gnome), and 6% of GTK3/GTK4 projects use #libgranite.
Ich denke, wir brauchen dringend eine positive Erzählung, was nach dem Kapitalismus kommen könnte. Aber so, dass sie sich konkret an der Lebenswirklichkeit und dem Sprachgebrauch ganz durchschnittlicher Menschen orientiert.
Und nein, "Anarchosyndikalismus", "klassenlose Kollektivordnung" oder "Rätekommunismus" sind da eher ungeeignet als Einstieg ins Gespräch.😏
Da ich das unbestimmte Gefühl habe🙃, dass ich mich in meinem Post missverständlich ausgedrückt haben könnte, versuche ich mal, das noch etwas aufzudröseln, warum es mir nicht darum ging, neue Überschriften zu finden.
(Wird jetzt mal wieder was länger. Ich bitte trotzdem darum, von Belehrungen und Verbesserungsvorschlägen hinsichtlich der Wahl meines Formats/meiner Instanz abzusehen.😏)
Ich bewege mich eher selten🤭 in akademischen oder aktivistischen Kreisen und spreche nicht vor Publikum von einer Bühne herab in einem Plenum oder bei Veranstaltungen. Mein Umfeld setzt sich aus Schicht-/Arbeiter*innen (ÖPNV, Lager- und Transportwesen, Baugewerbe, Dienstleistungen) und unbezahlten Care-Arbeiter*innen - meist Frauen "natürlich" - zusammen. Schlagworte, politische Parolen, theoretische Konstrukte sind leere Schüsseln für die meisten Menschen, mit denen ich zusammenkomme.
Sie ernähren keine Kinder, heizen die Wohnung nicht und schneiden unseren Kranken und Alten nicht die Fuß- und Fingernägel, während im Nebenzimmer das Baby aufgewacht ist, die Katze auf den Teppich kotzt und der Partner/die Partnerin anruft um Bescheid zu geben, dass sie/er Überstunden machen wird, um die Zusatzkosten für die neue Waschmaschine aufzufangen und es darüber hinaus sowieso später wird, weil einige Zugverbindungen ausfallen, oder es Probleme mit dem Auto/dem Fahrrad gibt.
Darüber hinaus wird „Normalsterblichen“ von gesellschaftspolitischen Vordenker*innen unermüdlich das Gefühl vermittelt, ungebildet und unterentwickelt zu sein, weil die Inhalte, die sich hinter den wohlfeilen Ausführungen der "intellektuellen Elite" verbergen, ganz selbstverständlich vorausgesetzt, aber so gut wie nie entschlüsselt und konkret mit Leben gefüllt werden, weil ... das könnte mensch doch alles längst wissen, wenn mensch sich doch nur mal interessieren und schlau machen würde.
Can someone actually - I mean really - explain why airports equate disability assistance so strongly with wheelchairs? I genuinely don't understand how pushing a wheelchair is easier than, say, sighted guide. Some have said it might relate to training, but sighted guide doesn't require a lot of training, if any. Is there something I'm missing? This is all completely aside from the fact that this shouldn't be about their convenience over my preferences, but that's not the point for this question.
As was explained to me once, liability. Putting a person in a wheelchair is least risky — customers cannot claim they tripped, walked into a wall, went the wrong way, didn’t hear the beeping of a cart, etc. Also, no need to train staff to understand different disabilities (cost again).
I do have a blind friend that I watched tell off airport staff when they brought the wheelchair for her, and they backed down. Obvs your mileage may vary.
@aardrian I used to be one of those who would fight it every time it came up, because I could walk perfectly well, thank you very much. It almost always worked out in my favor.
These days, I actually can't deal with most terminals, unless it's a particularly small airport for various reasons.
But, yes, these arguments are what I've heard in the past.
@aardrian I would've thought the liability would be pretty high for wheelchairs too though, given that the staff member is entirely in control of that. But I guess maybe being entirely in control allows them to say they've mitigated the risk because they hold all the cards?
I suspect the liability is the same, at which point it comes down to a numbers game of training staff to know how to guide folks across disabilities versus stuffing a human into a chair. The latter is cheaper and reduces variables.
@aardrian @jyarbrough Yeah, I pushed back as I usually do and they backed down, but only after telling me it was "easier for them if I used the chair". As if my personal preferences are secondary to their convenience.
@aardrian @jyarbrough To say nothing of the fact that actually getting through airport security, in the US at least, is kind of a clusterfuck in a wheelchair, and takes like 4 times as long.
As far as I understand it, it's the same reason that they always want to take me into an elevator, even if walking as sighted guide. Less liability. SOmeone in a wheelchair can't trip.
@TheQuinbox At least escalators I can kinda understand, even if I don't agree. If you don't know what you're doing as a blind person, you could probably seriously injur yourself doing something misguided on an escalator.
@TheQuinbox Oh yeah, in my school I have a chip for the elevator though I could walk the stairs perfectly fine probably. But I won't complain, I'm lazy and walking 3 floors up and down multiple times a day. Nope.
the argument I hear that it's simply faster. Like, not all blind people can walk fast, and not all blind people *saying* they can, can do it in reality. I don't agree, that's simply what I heard.
Mileage probably varies here with this one, but in my experience the wheelchair's got a luggage cart built in, so if coming to/from baggage claim it's probably a stability assurance for all involved. Pure speculation, but were that the case it would at least mkae sense from a practicality standpoint, even if it's an annoyingly one-size-fits-all approach.
At least at airports in the US, now they make it about being understaffed and they kind of make you feel like a horrible person if you try to just say you can walk.
@technocounselor Legality. If someone is leading you sighted guide and you trip, or they crash you into something dangerous, or any number of things, they're terrified you'll sue.
I wouldn't be surprised if cost-saving was at least part of the reason. They don't know how fast you can walk, and many people needing assistance cannot walk that fast. The faster you can move, the more passengers one assistant can service per shift. If you're stuck in a wheelchair, you always move at the assistant's walking speed.
This is probably also the reason why they let you go through the staff-only passageways.
purely speculation with no data to back it up but I think almost alll the requests they get are for people who want to use a wheel chair to go to the gate so they figure that all of them are like that.
@pixelate The notion that one should actually consult the recipient of services to see what that recipient wants is a foreign concept especially out of the US where I live. nd in some places in the US too. One story: I was in oHare and had a connection to make. I'm short, in ok shape but no athlete. The assistant was tall and knew what he was doing. He convinced me to accept the wheelchair, that he could do it faster that way. In fact, he did.
I read somewhere that apparently it's something to do with insurance. If the chair breaks while you're in it, or they walk you into something, they can claim for it or some crap. If you're being guided and they make you trip over something sharp and you slice your face to the bone, you can sue them... How true any of that was, and where I read it I cannot tell you, so consider this unfounded nothingness.
@FreakyFwoof Multiple folks have suggested that, so seems likely. Makes me wonder how an accident with a chair is insurable vs an accident with sighted guide though.
my husband made it so the home assistant voice assistant can use full-on ollama to interpret instructions. then he told it to turn the lights on. it's been explaining its thought process for over five minutes now and the lights are still off.
I'm still of the opinion that we need an organisational fork of Mozilla, preferably not domiciled in the US.
We have technical forks like librewolf, that's not what I'm asking for. I'm asking for new stewards of the upstream code. Although perhaps if the forks want to consider how they'd become a hard fork, with an organisational structure that would work too.
Mozilla is a product of it's surroundings. It's surroundings was silicon valley and well 🤷♀️
Mozilla announces more AI in Firefox, still failing to understand that at this point their market share is made of tech savvy people who do not want that.
Mozilla, please. Stop chasing the fads. Get your own values.
People use Firefox to get access to an open web, use a sturdy browser, and not to be tracked. Build in that direction and that direction only.
Nobody from your current user base will recommend Firefox with AI to their friends.
I urge people to not give their DNA to corporations. Once the corporation goes into receivership, the Nazis will buy your DNA data. Your entire family, including people you've never met, will become fodder for their racial animus, and will be targeted.
Please stop. Use your heads. Fascism isn't a fun game.
I don’t think Trump’s guys realize that most of us are looking forward to Clinton, JP Morgan, and every other person and organization linked to Epstein, getting taken down. They’re all complicit. Fuck ‘em.
I'm on an adult sex dating site. I play with, remove, and then swallow the wedding rings of married people during sex. Done it four times now. The look of surprise followed by fear on their faces. It's a sure way that I get to see them again and there is a next time.
If only 1 out of 10 of our followers would each pick a single app (we've highlighted each app's purpose in the lists, to make selection easier), each app would be covered 10 times over 😉 (unless all pick exactly the same app, that is 🤪)
This is a spin-off from #10 where I'd like some input from the team, concerning how to handle the following unmaintained apps which might be considered niche:
* [x] [`com.ionicframework.backingtrainer763961`](https://apt.izzysoft.de/packages/com.
Dear #IzzyOnDroid community, we need your help for keeping our repo as useful as possible. No tech knowledge needed for this one, so anybody who's got an #Android device and some spare time can jump in here:
Are you using any of those apps, or would be willing to install one (or more) of them to see if they are still useful? Please then report there, or here to this #serviceToot – so we can get that issue solved 🙏
This is a spin-off from #10 where I'd like some input from the team, concerning how to handle the following unmaintained apps:
* [x] [`com.projects.musicplayer`](https://apt.izzysoft.de/packages/com.projects.
Hello there...every day that I use Mastodon, I like to list three things that I like as a contribution towards a positive online space, as well as my own headspace. If you did this today, what would feature on your list?
01. Learnt how to play Father Kelly's Reel 02. Learnt how to p[lay The Reconciliation 03. Learnt how to play The Mountain Road
I've just been informed by Apple TV on my phone that there is a new episode of Pluribus. Yes, the episode that came out on Thursday that I watched last night. GOOD JOB telling me that just now.
Yup, it's weird. I get informed for new eps of everything at 18 (UTC +1) or so even though the episode gets out at 3. I don't expect to be informed at 3, but at, like 9, would be good enough.
@JesseF8693 The best was when I got a text notification for my flight that was delayed ... after I'd landed from said delayed flight. I'd say what was delayed was their notification on that one.
@walkside3 @JesseF8693 I once got a notification that my flight had been canceled a day later, after I took the same flight the next day which had been rescheduled.
@walkside3 @JesseF8693 That's like a Twilight zone episode./Did you call customer service to complain that you missed your future previous flight and you want your money back?
Happy Birthday to Wendy Carlos, composer famous for Switched On Bach, A Clockwork Orange, The Shining, and Tron. She also did a brilliant collaboration with Weird Al and many other albums worth checking out.
Is that not a beverage can? US beverage cans have pull tabs like that. Well, most do. The braille label is good. I've noticed some European medicine boxes I've gotten have a bare amount of braille like that on them.
Do they have pull tab tops on canned foods? The US doesn't have that as much although it exists for some mixed nuts and fried onions cans...
@meganL The difference I notice is that little indentation at the "pull" end of the pull tab, which seems like it would make it a lot easier to get a finger under the tab.
The trouble with trending bots—automated accounts which boost posts that trend on a selection of other servers—is that they are a surefire way for your post to end up on poast and shitposter club. Even if your own server admin keeps a tight ship and a comprehensive blocklist.
Trending bots are popular on small instances, even down to single-user instances, as a way to help populate the federated timeline. They endow a post with further reach than vanilla federation.
Unfortunately, small and single-user instances tend to be run by privileged hobbyists that don't feel the need to install even the most basic of blocklists. Those instances are seldom the target of harassment, so why bother?
The problem is that with the default Mastodon configuration, server blocks aren't transitive. Your post goes to your followers, it gets boosted by a human or a trending bot, and it goes to _their_ followers, and so on. And at no point do those subsequent servers check with yours to see if you've suspended the destination instance.
One of the top stories on Hacker News today was a post arguing that Mozilla shouldn't accommodate any usage of AI in Firefox because (understandably) people were mad at Big AI companies for all the horrible things they've done to users and the internet and society. But I think people are ignoring the reality that *hundreds of millions of users* are using LLMs today, and they need to have tools from platforms that will look out for their interests. anildash.com/2025/11/14/wantin…
Why should it be a "shut _off_ all AI features" button? Why not have it off by default and put in a "turn _on_ AI" button? I suppose that won't boost some executive's metrics, though.
Also Männer. Ich habe beschossen, mal aus dem Nähkästchen zu plaudern. Hier also die ultimativen Anmach-Lifehacks. Tricks, bei denen jede Frau sofort einknickt und die Beine breit macht:
- sehr ausgiebig erzählen, wie großartig man ist, insbesondere, dass man vor 30 Jahren mal ein geiler Hecht war (Leidtungssportler). Da stehen Frauen total drauf. - einen inflationären broadcast raus schicken. Frauen finden es super, beliebig zu sein. - eine Frau angraben, wenn die eigene Ehefrau daneben sitzt.
I dono about 'nobody talks about' but something I find infinitely useful is the 'screen' command. Also great as a teaching tool. Have people log into a box you're working on, or being shown something on, they all 'screen -x' in from wherever and can review and interact with what's going on. So clever, at least to me.
@johann @FreakyFwoof I think tmux is newer. I'm an old guy stuck in my screen ways. I have good intentions to try tmux, but when you know screen you just keep falling back to what you know I guess?
Taking money is often tricky. In the UK, it counts as self-employment income. If you receive under about a thousand pounds a year, that!s fine, so a small tip-jar thing is fine but once you cross the threshold you need to file a tax return every year and become liable for an exciting new category of national insurance contributions. If you want to pay someone else to do some work, you’re paying them out of money that!s already taxed (and then they need to pay tax)l or you need some other legal entity to distribute the money (I think GitHub’s donations thing can do this?).
When I was freelancing, I would do paid consulting for F/OSS projects I worked on and I already had the tax liabilities from other work so it was a tiny incremental overhead. Since I started working as an employee, I’ve mostly just asked people who like F/OSS project I work on to donate to Murray Edwards: it works as well to motivate me to do more on the project, is tax deductible in several countries, and means I don’t have to do any paperwork.
For tiny projects, small donations are easy. For big donations, it’s worth setting up a charitable foundation that can handle the money and pay people. There’s a big gap in the middle. Being under an umbrella organisation can sometimes help. If the Linux Foundation were not the absolute worst, they could fill this need. The FSF tried: they’re a lot better intentioned than the LF, but barely more competent.
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in reply to Tuta • • •Why do I get the feeling that lately, in so many countries, new regulations are popping up with only one purpose - to erode privacy 🔓? It feels like a bad joke. I can't keep up anymore.
I wish I could fight them all at once, put pressure everywhere 🌍, no matter where I live. But I don't have the time. I'm already drowning in an endless to-do list.
Why couldn't the government set a different deadline? Why are they so determined to push this through? My mind can't wrap around it
I just hope they come to their senses and never implement it 🙏
#Privacy #HumanRights #Switzerland #SwissPrivacy #EU #ChatControl #FightChatControl #UK #OnlineSafetyAct #AgeVerification #Surveillance #StopSurveillance
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in reply to Tuta • • •Oh fuck! What does this mean for all the Swiss-based privacy and security platforms, like Proton?
I mean, Proton's CEO Andy Yen already showed his true colors by advocating for Trump's support of little guy "tech startups" (read: Sillycon Valley broligarchs), so I'm already transitioning out of Proton's ecosystem.
Update: See thread below. I'm incorrect with the above statement regarding Proton's CEO.
Ansar
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Josh Griffiths
in reply to Tuta • • •I'm sure this is a complete coincidence:
"Switzerland wins US tariff rate cut to 15%, pledges $200 billion in US investments"
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Dan
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in reply to Tuta • • •Just out of curiosity, if you use your own email client and send GPG/PGP encrypted email, how does an email provider decrypt it?
Sometimes encryption is a necessity even if privacy isn't an issue. Example: I've used encryption to send a JAR file to a friend for testing: he had a gmail account and Google
doesn't allow JAR files as email attachments to "protect the user". This hid it from
Google's software. It wasn't really secret - the password was in the email's text.
Mastokarl 🇺🇦
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in reply to Tuta • • •They sure as hell won’t change their bank privacy laws, potentially exposing the crimes of billionaire and political elites.
Will dump Proton and mag on their brand if this BS passes.
Don’t try to lick the vic. We’re privacy focused and hella vocal #protonmail #DataPrivacy #CybersecurityandDataProtection