They hate him, because he told the truth.

This is a really cool idea, will share it around!

Maybe add the website on the GitHub-Repo as the projetc-site URL, makes it easier to navigate.

I buy all my Linux cloths from HelloTux: https://www.hellotux.com

Their statement on the about page wonderful!

We believe that free and open source software is better than proprietary. We also believe that we can change how people use technology. If you are the kind of person who likes freedom and fun, promote free software with us!

And they go on:

HELLOTUX is a family project of Gábor Kum, a Linux system administrator, a Linux user since 1999. His wife Maria and his children are Linux users too.

As far as they explain they only use free software to create the patterns for the shirts (and now also backpacks!).

They also support FOSS projects with every sell they make:

This is not all. From your purchase we support free software, usually $3-5 from each product sold. But not everybody can accept money due to legal reasons, in this case, we give free shirts to developers.

I had some mails going back and forth with them, as I thanked for the stuff I got and they are lovley.

The quality is good and conformable, the oldest thing I have from them is a Tux-Hoodie I bought two or three years ago. It is still good and has the normal wear signs a hoodie has after a few years of use and washing.

Oh no! ... ... anyway

Thanks for the insights, I'm also in the process of moving to more self-hosted services. Just finished transferring my media library to a Jellyfin instance for local movie/series watching. I also plan on self-hosting Matrix and Seraxng, will be my next project for the holidays.

I'm long thinking about installing the PI-Hole, I should just do it, not much work to do for a great addition to the network.

And now I want to play CMO again...

Sadly I can't find the comment-feed I had with the admin (was a year ago +/-), but yes as far as I remember the admin does not want to defederate other instances. Which is also a stance I understand, especially with the neutral mentality Switzerland has (and this is a Swiss instance after all).

I hope the admin comments so we can see the thoughts itself and not some phrases I remember hazily :)

In general I think everyone should be able to connect to any instance, as I'm a big advocate of a free and unregulated internet.

But as with many principles there are exceptions, and big data harvesting cooperation are my exception. The idea of the Fediverse is to have a decentralized, free (in both ways, does not cost and libre) and privacy respecting place in a world, where more and more governments and companies start to regulate and decide on what the users can do.

When I look back on the history of those companies I neither like nor trust them, and I think it would be not only a needed action but also a statement when instances defedrate them. We can not stop the data harvesting, as this can be done with simple web crawlers. But with gate keeping (and I do not like it when people do it, but here, I think it is necessary), we can maybe bring the Fediverse more into the public eye. Because when we allow the Threads instances to federate, most people will just see it as Threads. They will not understand what the Fediverse is and will not see it as a new way of using the internet. The same kind of happened with Android, most do not know it is Linux and just talk about Android. I think for Android it is not a big problem, but the Fediverse is a movement, a change and statement people are fighting for, and it shall be and stay that, not just another protocol that is used to transfer likes.

At the beginning of this instance, I once asked the admin and if I remember correctly, a defederation of such instances is not seen as an action to take. Maybe we need to mobilize in other communities on feddit.ch to raise our concern.

(Pinned your post, as I think this is an important discussion to have)

Why did I not got wind of that, thank you for bringing it to my attention!

I see the thinking behind it and that a state needs some tools to find and prosecute criminals, and that they did not follow the UK with E2E-Ban is good to hear.

But, that the council made changes AFTER the criticism shows that we need to be more on edge and look even closer on them, and maybe even start to launch more referendums. It could be a good idea to launch an initiative that clearly states and sets surveillance laws that protect the privacy and integrity of Swiss citizens. I'm very worried that as many other countries in the last few years, Switzerland too starts to value surveillance higher than privacy.

Does any one have the legal texts, I can't find it somehow...

Edit:

I can't check if this is the same but what I found:

Source: https://www.vischer.com/en/knowledge/blog/modernisation-of-surveillance-law-at-ordinance-level-part-1-39485/

Firstly, (three) new types of information are to be created for the purpose of querying longer-term and short-term identifiers (addressing elements, device numbers, subscriber numbers, etc.). These include (1) the query of the time of the last access-relevant activity of an e-mail service in order to determine when a communication process has been completed, (2) information on the last access-relevant activity of another telecommunications or derived communications service and (3) information on neighbouring networks for telephony and multimedia services in order to solve identification problems which occur when the telephone number is forged or unknown.

In addition, (four) new types of surveillance are to be created, with which in future the exact position of a terminal device can be determined once or repeatedly (up to now, only the approximate position could be determined, for example, in an emergency search for a missing person or in real-time surveillance).

I thought about that too, I think it could, especially since Bing pushes you to use their ChatGPT search. But without seeing the law text and court order it is more guessing than knowing...

Wasn't there a law suite against a girl, where Google Searches where used to convict her?

Edit: Found it https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/07/03/abortion-data-privacy-prosecution/

Switzerland

A bit late but I was reading the comments and thought I share too.

Overall we are doing good, as far as I can tell, if not a little better than 20 or so years ago. But we also have problems that seem to getting bigger but not many seem to be concerned about them, as mentioned in an other comment people seem to be more disconnected and just follow their bubble interests.

For one, there is the global opinion the world has of us, the war in Ukraine really shook us and how we see our identity as a neutral nation. Our neutrality is now a big topic in discussions, especially the youth is very divided about it. Neutrality is something we all grow up with and see (or saw) it as a big part of our nations strength, how this will play out will show the referendums and initiatives that are planned for the next years, votes will decide.

Then there is the looming finance crisis that seems to come closer. Overall we are still doing good, as our inflation is very low in comparison to other EU countries (we even managed to lower inflation to a new low since a few years). Some now start to get financial problems, rents get raised yearly, public transport prices too and overall living gets even more expensive.

A new kind of crack floods the illegal drug market, and you can see junkies (sorry I do not know a better word) more and more. They not really bother others at the moment but you can sense a coming pandemic of this substance. Together with the financial problems I see a big danger in that.

There are other problems too, but those are the ones I see most present at the moment.

There are also good things of course, wages are high and steady when you work in specialized industries, going to university costs at most 700.- per semester, our government does not follow surveillance trends like the UK or EU. Overall I would still say, Switzerland is a good country to live and work in, I especially like our approach of direct democracy and our culture of privacy.

Good that they shut down the nuclear plants, comes in handy. Coal is way better for our climate!

Sadly I'm no lawer either but hope you keept us updated! Will be ineteresting to see how WhatsApp (or Meta) responds :)

Hi @tty84@lemmy.dbzer0.com

Thank you for your contribution to our community! Interesting to see a follow up, I too was collecting signatures and spreading the word for the referendum.

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Smartphones are not a tool to manipulate and spy on tge population.

Oh boy, wait until you learn about Google-Analytics on Android phones, or how they predict (or lets say know) where traffic jams are. Does the Section 702 of the USA ring a bell?

They certainly started as a good idea, but they evolved into a widely used surveillance tool for companies and governments across the world.

True, but you can easily switch to Flatpaks and use them instead.

I think to start, Mint or Ubuntu is a good choice, it has support for most hardware and will probably run on whatever you install it.

Also something that I think most new Linux users should focus on; instead of distro pick the desktop environment (DE). As a beginner it does not really matter if you use, lets say, a Debian- or Fedora-based distro. Pick a DE that looks pleasing to you maybe GNOME or KDE and take the installation with that DE. Maybe do not start with Arch or Gentoo as they are for more experienced users that already have some Linux experience.

Distros will be way more interesting and important when you got a hold of Linux and you want to explore the differences of them.

Last tip: Make a separated /home directory, so when you want to change to a new distro you do not have to delete all your files and start over with an empty machine.

I wish you a good start into Linux and do not hesitate to ask questions if they arise!

Definitely not.

I think money can and will never play down the feeling of working for something/someone that is against your principles and ideology. Every day you get up to work, while drinking your morning coffee you will have thoughts and hate about the place you will start working after commuting.

And do not forget, you will mostly have friends with similar ideology, they will disapprove of this too. Good friends will stay nonetheless but discussions will arise portably more often than you’d like about your choosing a workplace that is against all you believe in.

When you just go and work wherever because the pay is good, then your ideology is not more than a façade you hold up for yourself.

I'm very curious about it, as a Firefox user I will not need it, but will definitely try it out.

At the moment I do not see the need for yet another browser but everything that gives alternatives to Chrome is welcome. As far as I remember it does not use Chrome as its base, just the Blink-Engine to display elements (will fact check that when I got time).

I have Trackmania Stadium for that. Going into a full speed server (Only need to steer left or right while constantly press forward) and put some music up.

The flow of the race tracks together with the music is very nice and because no speed control is needed, no need to get into the physics and tracks to enjoy the game.

I can recommend to get into Trackmania when you have more time, the feeling of mastering a hard track is marvellous, but just speeding around is also fun as hell.

The government’s use of Section 702 is subject to extensive and rigorous oversight by all branches of government. All of these reviews have universally concluded that the government is properly using this authority to conduct foreign intelligence collection.

It is from a presentation to justify section 702, the law that NSA uses to spy on any person world wide. Snowden leakes showed the reach of the surveillance under Section 702.

If I remember correctly they get most of the funding from RedHat and are therefore kind of dependend on RH. But I do not know the exact dependencies of the project.

Thanks!

Yes, it seems to be a proposal but they look pretty clear on this decision.

As far as I can see, there are already companies switching to Rocky Linux or OpenSUSE, a few sysads I know are in the process of doing so as we speak. Time will tell.

I just hope that this is not the start of other open source enterprises closing the source code to generate more short term money.

Thanks for sharing, did not had that on my radar.

137 pages... well this will be a sweet weekend lecture :)

Wait, so people decide on a phone based of OS because of blue or green chat message colors? This is the first time I'm hearing this, is this something more of a USA thing or does this apply to other ocuntries as well?

Buying a phone based on chat bubble color seems something that occurs in a toxic society, where you are judged based on phone model. And why do they then change to an other platform to write you?

I never had a discussion about Andriod or IPhone based on this parameter, it was more about UI, services and design of the phone. To be fair we all use third party messengers like Signal or Threema.

This is kind of a though one, abortion laws are a minefield but it seems they clearly broke Nebraskas law. When this article is correct then she was in her 28th week pregnant and Nebraska allows abortion for up to 20 weeks. If this is true then Meta has to obey the countries law and hand over the data they have, which also includes chat history. This is not about abortion, Nebraska clearly allows it, it is about breaking a law and the authoroties that investigate it.

I still find it idiotic that Metas apps still have encryption off for chats as a default, Google also they just enabled E2EE on Gmail last year if I'm correct. But it has to be keept in mind that compenies have to follow the laws of the countries they are in, I do not want to defend Meta (honestly fuck them) but they have to comply. When the state has a warrant and requires Meat to give unencrypted content they pretty much have to give it over. Like Proton that had to give the IP from an activist to authorities because a judge decieded they have to.

To have better privacy we do not only have to critizise companies but also change the laws that they have to obey.

What is the stance of Feddit.ch on Threads, will (or has it already) defederate Threads?

When you want to watch YouTube but without the ads:

• NewPipe on phone
• Invidious on browser (under attack by Google at the moment, have to see how it goes)

And as others mentioned there are some alternatives:

• PeerTube
• Odysee

First off I think the elephant in the room is Google-services: Google Search, Authenticator, PlayStore, Gmail Google Calnedar etc. Especially when you are logged into your Google Account. Not only does this allow Google to track you and harvest behaviour surplus (explanation of term at end of post) form your activities, but I think this is a well known privacy issue. A more OPSEC perspective would be that everything you do and control in the internet is done via one company, means when your Google account gets blocked you are locked out from all other services you used Google (and don't forget the Authenticator app, no Authenticator means no access to 2FA-Accounts)

When I think about my day to day life I see a few traps (or I'm just paranoid on some of them):

• Telegram Messenger: The default message is unencrypted and unsafe, also Telegram has mostly with little or no resistance handed entire group chats to authorities
• WhatApp: Belongs to Meta and it has yet to proof that it does not read your messages
• Cash-Back products, those "Buy one and get 20% back on your CreditCard". You not only gave them your payment information you also gave them information about age, country and so on.
• The 6th Sandwich is free (like in SubWay), just scan the QR-Code with your phone. You gave them not only access to sensors and files on your phone (via the app) you also gave them data on how much you spent and where you go regularly.
• Sign up for a member card and get 10% for your first purchase. Same as the SubWay QR-Code.
• Every app that gives you coupons or information on products, think about it, all information you get from the app could also be accessed via their homepage.
• Ticket for public service bought via app: Buy it at a ticket machine in cash, no personal data, no movement fingerprinting.
• Every social media that makes money via data broking (Google, Meta, TikTok etc.)
• Insurance benefits that give you reduction on insurance prices. Like Fit-Watches, dash cams and so on, the reduction in price you get is laughable and you do not know where your data goes.
• Media platforms that can create a pretty accurate profile of you and sell this to advertisers (Spotify, YouTube, Netflix etc.).

Those are the ones that come to my mind, curious what other see as privacy traps. If they are easy avoidable depends on the person, here are some alternatives I use to avoid them:

• Google Search: Brache Search, DuckDuckGo, Starsearch
• Digital pay: Good old Cash (This is a bit much for most and I get that, contact less pay is practical)
• PlayStore: F-Droid or Aurora Store (Do NOT use your Google Account on Aurora, Google seems to lock out users that do this)
• G-mail: Proton
• Overall just think about it, do you really need this 5% off of a 5.- item in exchange for personal data? Mostly the answer is no.

To be fair, I think it depends strongly on your stance what privacy is. I am someone that want as little data of me uncontrolled spread as possible, for others the ones I listed could be OK. Privacy is a completely subjective topic when it comes to day-to-day things, only when it escalates to surveillance it gets dangerous. I'm reading "The age of surveillance capitalism by Shoshana Zuboff" (https://durmonski.com/book-summaries/the-age-of-surveillance-capitalism/) which is an interesting dive into the industry of personal data as product and how with collected data people can be manipulated, can highly recommend it if this topic interests one (It is not as the title suggests a rant on capitalism, it analyses why it exists and how it could be turned to the better).

Behaviour Surplus (https://blog-idceurope.com/behavioral-surplus-for-cx/):

For those unfamiliar with the term, behavioral surplus is data that goes beyond online product and service use. It can include information related to a person’s location, age, profession, lifestyle, habits, and a range of personal and professional preferences. Behavioral surplus represents behavioral tranformations. Facebook and Google have been using it for years to make precision predictions that allow their customers not only to target advertising more effectively but also to deploy choice architectures that can influence behavior.

Don't know if it matters, I just take whatever tea I want at that moment :)

Yes, trough out the day, one to two cups while it is the hottest.

Seems like it, maybe they had to put this in to make it pass. The whole law has strange sections in it...

In France it is apparently a terrorist act to use VPNs, TOR, Encrypted drives etc.

Swim in the Aare and, hear me out, hot tea.

I saw it in hot dry countries, there they drink tea and since I started to do the same, I can tackle the heat way better.

I generally see the enjoyment it can bring (especially to the younger folks), but I do not see it as necessary. It scares animals, generates toxic waste and releases toxic fumes.

I could live without it.

I agree with the "any political direction they want to", but this also true with the YouTube algorithm or Twitter feed-filter. I see the danger, especially when the media is payed by the state, but it is important to keep in mind that media content companies make money too by pushing you into a direction. The more extreme the direction is, the more screen time a user gives the platform and therefore generates more money.

Yes, finally!

Kind of sad I have to say.

I know that TV and Radio is "old" tech, today you can watch everything you want at a click of a button and you have millions of different content creators. Maybe I'm getting old too but I like to just hit a button and listen what ever is on, I find this kind of media consumption relaxing. Mostly with SRF-4 where they talk about something and mostly it is interesting and is about a topic I never thought would interest me.

I get the personalized media consumption, but I think it is sometimes good to not choose specifically what to watch/see, helps to see stuff outside of ones bubble.