Iโve been a social media hermit for the past 3 years but recently Iโve given up and created a few accounts across different apps again. Itโs unreal how strict the requirements are now....
What ? You did not obey the surveillance capitalism overlords ? :-) /j
Thanks for sharing, good to know!
Is PixelFed pixelfed.org a good alternative for privacy minded people out there ? I know that PixelFed users can be followed from Mastodon which seems nice to me.
Iโm pretty comftable with linux mint right now but i want to peruse the wares so to speak, what are some cool or interesting distros that do things differently than mint?...
Iโve read that GIMP developers refuse to change the name despite complaints since a long time. A fork of GIMP (Glimpse) is discontinued. Luckily thereโs other names in that area :
Hey folks, I just got Bazzite OS KDE up and running on my PC. Being a Linux newbie, Iโd love some tips, tricks, and app suggestions if you have any. ๐ Switching from Windows has been a bit of a maze with all the distros out there, so any pointers would be awesome!...
Iโm a long time Windows user who has experience with WSL. Last year, I needed a laptop for university, and out of laziness, opted for a Macbook since, although theyโre expensive as hell, are reasonably reliable....
After not touching my desktop for several months, I now see that I absolutely hate Windows even more.
Welcome to the club :-)
Currently, Iโm a student in Mathematics and Computer Science.
In that case I would certainly toy (but maybe not daily drive) with Nix or NixOS. Its concept is stunning. For daily driving Linux it depends on your hardware (x86 or arm). Debian is rock solid as daily driver on x86. If you need some newer software you can use Flatpak or the Nix package manager, or use distrobox or toolbox though beware of its drawbacks. Another good choice is Arch Linux. Since a while the install iso comes with an installer so that you no longer have to read documentation. The Arch Linux wiki is very often a superb source of information. But depending on your hardware thereโs Asahi Linux : asahilinux.org
By the way, the earlier posted article restoreprivacy.com/protonmail-discloses-user-dataโฆ had an update starting at the paragraph with title Update: Statement from Proton and additional commentary
โhelpedโ is very misleading. Companies canโt refuse to provide information they have when served a search warrant / court order. These companies DID NOT choose to provide the info on their own.
You are suggesting all these companies are completely helpless against legal requests. That is not correct. A company should first make clear that the legal request is actually completely legitimate and correct. After that they can look at whether they should provide the information or not.
Exactly. What makes this a bit complicated and maybe interesting from a historical point of view is that this is about Spain. A country which has been very slow with removing some of the โrelicsโ from the fascist Franco era (Franco died in 1975) and at the same time having regions that long for independence like Basque country and Catalunya (and the post topic is related to that, Catalunya aiming for independence). Since the Twin Towers attacks in 2001 the words โterror suspectโ and โterroristsโ have been used much more often (also by ordinary โnormiesโ people that I knew) and maybe not always rightly so.
I bought a laptop yesterday, it came pre-installed with Windows 11. I hate win 11 so I switched it down to Windows 10, but then started considering using Linux for total control over the laptop, but hereโs the thing: I keep seeing memes about how complicated or fucky wucky Linux is to install and run. I love the idea of open...
There is a lot of Ubuntu hate and it is easy to go with that and repeat.
The Amazon button on the Ubuntu desktop (I believe it was not in the Ubuntu flavors) was removed after criticism.
Ads in the terminal. Iโve only seen those when using ssh to a server. Ads like the k8 server options of Ubuntu. No flashy jumpy colorful big ads but just small text.
Telling people that there is no difference between installing Ubuntu and Windows is kind of cruel imho. A fresh Ubuntu installation allows the new Linux user to learn Linux and after some time they can decide to go for Arch Linux, Debian (The install is not that easy as with Ubuntu for a beginner Linux user), MX Linux or whatever they prefer.
Why is asking for feedback a bad thing? IMO itโs better than just being on by default, and still gives the developers an opportunity to at least get SOME useful feedback instead of all the people that screech about how telemetry should be banned entirely. I would bet money none of those people are professional developers.
Indeed. Programmers really love feedback to improve their applications. I bet that everyone who installs apps for iOS or Android from the Google Play Store will have lots of apps that have crash-a-lytics, or whatever it is called, installed.
Serious topics like privacy and self improvement have become very similar in peopleโs perception. They are also just another thing to consume, as unhinged as it sounds. Everything must be consumed, everything must be rented. Everyone must live in a distorted perception of โsafetyโ, whose harbingers are fucking western corporations. It is insanity and it must be prevented from taking over Lemmyโs communities atleast on main .ml instance, and I will do what is needed to prevent that, in places I moderate.
Youโre the ones defending a service yet you donโt know that. Seems like someone who just found out the service can do better research. But hey, thanks for not being overly aggressive and claiming to know everything like this other guy.
I simply asked you a question and thanks for pointing out more details. I have decided to trust Riseup and Disroot for reasons in the past. It is up to me to care about my privacy and security when there is the need for it. Other people will use Google Gmail with GnuPG, that up to them.
Except with a VPN youโre not identified by the servers you connect to, so they can safely not log any traffic and as such, law enforcement canโt ask to hand out data about a specific account because they donโt know which account did it. Same goes for logging the IP of the account, because again, they donโt know which account it is, and canโt force a service to log all users for the sake of finding one.
VPN and Tor and I guess i2p can disguise your IP address indeed.
Itโs not true for mail services however, as the email address is your login and/or is linked to a specific account, forever and exclusively.
When your device lies about its compatibility - TWIF generated on Thursday, 09 May 2024, Week 19 (f-droid.org)
Ideas to build a federated StackExchange alternative (ioc.exchange)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/15471632...
Disk imaging
What are we doing for disk imaging theses days?
Instagram locked my account and forced me to appeal and send a picture of my face, so I sent a picture of Shrek. They deleted my account
Iโve been a social media hermit for the past 3 years but recently Iโve given up and created a few accounts across different apps again. Itโs unreal how strict the requirements are now....
Cool distros to try
Iโm pretty comftable with linux mint right now but i want to peruse the wares so to speak, what are some cool or interesting distros that do things differently than mint?...
Linux Rule (pawb.social)
cross-posted from: pawb.social/post/9649629...
Tips/tricks for beginners
Hey folks, I just got Bazzite OS KDE up and running on my PC. Being a Linux newbie, Iโd love some tips, tricks, and app suggestions if you have any. ๐ Switching from Windows has been a bit of a maze with all the distros out there, so any pointers would be awesome!...
Moving to a Linux distro for dev
Iโm a long time Windows user who has experience with WSL. Last year, I needed a laptop for university, and out of laziness, opted for a Macbook since, although theyโre expensive as hell, are reasonably reliable....
Telegram apparently censor queer groups (mastodon.social)
cross-posted from: leminal.space/post/6433881
Encrypted services Apple, Proton and Wire helped Spanish police identify activist | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)
By the way, the earlier posted article restoreprivacy.com/protonmail-discloses-user-dataโฆ had an update starting at the paragraph with title Update: Statement from Proton and additional commentary
What's up with added EXIF data by gThumb ?
Make a screen shot of your desktop...
I don't know anything about Linux and the idea of installing it frightens me. Where do I start?
I bought a laptop yesterday, it came pre-installed with Windows 11. I hate win 11 so I switched it down to Windows 10, but then started considering using Linux for total control over the laptop, but hereโs the thing: I keep seeing memes about how complicated or fucky wucky Linux is to install and run. I love the idea of open...
Proton Mail Discloses User Data Leading to Arrest in Spain (restoreprivacy.com)