Are private email providers worth it?
I think I know the answer, bit maybe I'm missing something
Since proton only sends and receives encrypted emails to other proton accounts, that means that when you get or send an email to someone else, they have to send / receive unencrypted and there is no way for us to verify what they are doing. Right?
Also if most accounts are google Microsoft, they still get 90% of my emails. By switching to proton I think I've gained nothing, while losing convenience , added another trust point, and having two different companies have my data instead of just one
Proton drive, calendar and VPN I think are fine
Sorry for the poor syntax. I'm at work working on email related things, and this topic kept distracting me. I might correct it later
The old Inside-Outside strategy. Reactionaries aren't the only ones who can work a ratchet.
Absolutely within the purview of "moderate" leftists to advocate turns to the left and backstop turns to the right at every opportunity. But they do have to do those two things.
On Islamophobia and the Use of the Term ‘Jihad’
On Islamophobia and the Use of the Term ‘Jihad’ - World-Outlook
World-Outlook recently published the article "‘Jewish Jihad’ Has Seized Control of Israel." It consisted of an introduction to a Haaretz article along with the Israeli daily’s story itself.world-outlook.com (World-Outlook)
Ukraine’s Military Exhausted While NATO Weapons Won’t Turn the Tide
Ukraine’s Military Exhausted While NATO Weapons Won’t Turn the Tide
The Ukrainian Army is in a critical condition and can no longer conduct large-scale operations, Russian President Vladimir Putin stated at a Beijing press conference. What are the signs?Sputnik International
Beijing 2025: when history rises
Beijing 2025: when history rises
At a time when Beijing is assembling the memory of the Global South with pomp and strategy, the West, relegated to the rank of frustrated spectator,Мохамед Ламин КАБА (New Eastern Outlook)
Linux Mint 22.2: still fixing the Linux desktop
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I, too, usually don't read about a distribution I don't use.
Why would we have ever heard of libadapta?
the most useful definition of authority is the imposition of the will of one class over another
No, that's Engels' lackluster definition (actually, Engels' definition was worse, since he claimed that laws of physics were "authority". Authority is structural monopolization of power. What you're describing is more on the line of "violence".
even anarchists must be authoritarian towards capitalists.
Only with a wrong understanding of "authority".
The argument between Marxists and anarchists is one of collectivization vs horizontalism
Those concepts are not contradictory. You can't "horizontalize" something without collectivizing it.
but in both cases you can't eliminate class overnight, and as such the working class must oppress the capitalist class to keep it in check.
The moment the capitalist class can be "oppressed", it seizes to be the capitalist class.
Marxists would argue that the system, even if horizontal, would still be considered a state assuming class isn't abolished
How such a "horizontal state" would be possible with classes is something no Marxist has ever been able to explain to me. Also, you're not speaking on behalf of all Marxists. Just MLs, maybe.
and class cannot be abolished entirely without full collectivization of property globally.
I'll go tell all those socialist regions that just abolished the bourgeoisie within their regions. /s
Engels was using the most useful interpretation of authority. "Structural monopolization of power" is still the imposition of the will of one class over another, anarchists still attempt to structurally oppress the bourgeoisie.
As for collectivization vs horizontalism, that's actually false. Collectivization, ie equal ownership across all of society globally, necessarily contradicts with full horizontalism, at least for a long time before habit takes the place of all administration in the far-far future. A horizontalist society necessarily contradicts the role of higher levels of administration, ie imagine a battlefield with only footsoldiers, no tacticians, no strategians. Anarchists either reconcile this by considering some level of administration acceptable, going against full horizontalism, or they advocate for decentralized communes, which contradict collectivization globally.
As for how this retains class, if we go with the commune model, each commune varies in geography and development, which results in trade and perpetuation of essentially petite bourgeois cooperatives, each promoted by self-interest rather than collective interest. Accepting administration as necessary fixes this, but then you're taking essentially a mid-point between Marxism and anarchism, just with a higher emphasis on concepts like prefiguration.
As for Marxism vs Marxism-Leninism, I haven't spoken anything relating to Marxism-Leninism. This is just straight Marxism here, concepts like imperialism, the vanguard, the national question, etc haven't come into play. This is straight out of works like Critique of the Gotha Programme, Theses on Feuerbach, Economic Manuscripts of 1844, and of course the Manifesto of the Communist Party.
As for your last point, socialism is not communism. Socialism is a society where public ownership is the principle aspect of the economy, not an economy devoid of any other forms of property. No "pure" modes of production have existed outside of early tribal societies, all ensuing class societies have had dominant forms of property relations and subordinate forms. As private property develops, it becomes easier to fold into the public sector, which is why most socialist states don't try to immediately force a fully planned economy but incorporate some form of markets.
Engels was using the most useful interpretation of authority. "Structural monopolization of power" is still the imposition of the will of one class over another, anarchists still attempt to structurally oppress the bourgeoisie.
As I said in the other thread: you don't engage with anything I write. You just claim "no" and don't explain any logical errors in my statement. You're just restating your claim and dump an unhealthy amount of text in order to make yourself feel smart.
Collectivization, ie equal ownership across all of society globally
Not a realistic model of the world. The sphere o| influence ends at some point. There's no reason that I should have a say on what a bakery on the other side of the world should bake. Not even in a "communist" society.
A horizontalist society necessarily contradicts the role of higher levels of administration [...]
Strawman. Administration/expertise is not authority.
essentially petite bourgeois cooperative
You claim that without backing up why it would be petit bourgeoise
You might not have used Lenin's buzzwords, but you're an authoritarian Marxist. Not every Marxist is authoritarian.
As for your last point, socialism is not communism. [...]
Another non-sequitur infodump. Also, I reject your teleological notion of "early hunter-gatherers". Also also: This mode of "pure" relations of production that you try to swipe under the rug has been the norm for about 99% of humanity's existence.
I do engage, I feel like claiming I just say "no" is more avoidance of engaging with my points than anything.
As far as full collectivization is concerned, it doesn't mean there isn't local say on production. Small proprietorships wouldn't really exist in communism, either, if you wanted to bake as a hobby that's fine, but "bakeries" as small petty bourgeois shops wouldn't really have a material basis for existence. In socialism, sure, they'd exist, but in the far future they'd eventually be phased out.
Administration is authority, administration that is mere suggestion isn't administration to begin with. Administration should be accountable, but it is necessarily a use of authority.
As for why cooperatives are petite bourgeois structures, I explained by the geographic differences and having class interests that are self-driven, rather than collectively driven. If a commune doesn't have ownership of another commune's goods, but needs them, then this creates class distinctions.
Your whole "authoritarian Marxist" bit is kinda silly. You don't explain what you mean when you say I'm an "authoritarian" Marxist, nor what a "non-authoritarian Marxist" would be, nor how Lenin is involved in our discussion. This is all based on Marx's development of scientific socialism, we didn't get into vanguards, imperialism, or Lenin's other advancements on Marxism. This is all in the realm of Marx's theory of the state.
As for tribal societies, they are by far the mode of production with the longest history, yes. However, since the rise of class society and technological advancements that came along with it, there has never been a "pure" mode of production. We can't simply go back to being hunters and gatherers, but we can advance society onward into socialism, and then communism. I swept nothing under the rug, tribal formations aren't something we can replicate while retaining large-scale industry, and there's no reason to think we can meet the needs of humanity as it presently exists even if we all collectively agreed to form tribal societies now.
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ICE acquires Israeli spyware capable of hacking phones and encrypted apps
ICE acquires Israeli spyware capable of hacking phones and encrypted apps
ICE has reactivated a $2M contract for Israeli spyware Graphite, sparking fears of civil liberties after previous cases of misuse
Under Trump, ICE has seen its operations and powers vastly expanded
[Getty]US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) are moving ahead with a multimillion-dollar contract for powerful Israeli-made spyware capable of hacking phones and encrypted messaging apps, drawing criticism from civil liberties groups and surveillance experts.
The $2 million deal with Paragon Solutions, the Israeli firm behind the Graphite spyware suite, was initially signed under the Biden administration in late 2024 but paused amid compliance reviews over privacy and security concerns.
According to The Guardian, the Trump administration has now lifted the pause, restoring ICE’s access to the tool and sparking a fresh debate over government surveillance powers.
Paragon’s Graphite software allows agencies to remotely penetrate smartphones, access encrypted applications such as WhatsApp and Signal, extract data, and even covertly activate microphones to turn devices into listening tools.
Critics warn the technology gives unprecedented surveillance capabilities to US immigration authorities at a time of heightened political and public scrutiny over civil liberty abuses by ICE.
The Washington Post reported that the pause was lifted following changes in Paragon’s ownership structure and the completion of federal regulatory reviews. The decision comes despite mounting evidence from rights groups and cybersecurity researchers about the risks of misuse, including against journalists and activists.
Earlier this year, researchers at the Citizen Lab, a cybersecurity watchdog based at the University of Toronto, discovered Graphite had been used to target the devices of journalists in Italy, including reporters from Fanpage.it, prompting a European investigation.
Italian officials denied any wrongdoing, but the revelations highlighted the growing global market for so-called "mercenary spyware" and the lack of transparency surrounding its deployment.
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In Washington, civil liberties advocates have expressed alarm over the implications of ICE regaining access to such invasive technology. Nadine Farid Johnson, policy director at the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University, urged lawmakers to act.
"Reports that ICE has renewed its contract with spyware vendor Paragon compounds the civil liberties concerns," Johnson said in a statement last week.
"Spyware like Paragon’s Graphite poses a profound threat to free speech and privacy. Congress must step in to impose clear limits and safeguards before these tools are used in ways that undermine constitutional rights."
The Guardian reported that ICE officials have defended the contract, insisting the spyware is used strictly for law enforcement purposes, such as targeting transnational criminal networks and human trafficking operations.
However, critics point to the lack of independent oversight mechanisms and the absence of public information about how frequently or against whom the software is deployed.
The Washington Post added that the reactivation of the Paragon deal may signal a more permissive stance by the Trump administration toward domestic surveillance technologies.
Past controversies over the use of spyware such as Pegasus, developed by the Israeli firm NSO Group, have already prompted calls for stricter regulation. The Biden administration previously blacklisted NSO after its tools were linked to the hacking of US diplomats’ phones.
Under Trump, ICE has seen dramatically expanded powers and funding, fuelling concerns about its growing politicisation.
Critics point to sweeping arrests, including of non-criminal migrants, and the use of tactics once considered off-limits, such as unmarked vehicles and plainclothes agents. Civil liberties groups warn that without oversight, the agency risks becoming a tool of political intimidation rather than law enforcement, especially with access to powerful surveillance technologies.
https://www.newarab.com/news/ice-acquires-israeli-spyware-capable-hacking-phones-and-apps
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UAE says Israeli annexation of occupied West Bank a 'red line'
UAE says Israeli annexation of occupied West Bank a 'red line'
The UAE has said any move by Israel to annex parts of the occupied West Bank would be a "red line" for the Gulf state, as Israel ramps up discussions about the move.Sean Mathews (Middle East Eye)
However, there are some signs that the UAE is growing frustrated with Israel.An analyst familiar with the thinking of Emirati officials told MEE that the UAE was upset by Israel's unilateral attack on Iran earlier this year. Whereas the UAE has long been at odds with Hamas, it has tried to influence the Palestinian Authority, which exercises limited governance in the occupied West Bank.
They're following after Biden and Trump... it would be more comedic, save for the fact they're talking about the 'practicalities' of occupying and ethnically cleansing the West Bank.
Reddit is dropping subscriber counts on subreddits: Users will now see seven-day metrics that track active visitors and contributions instead.
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Reddit is dropping subscriber counts on subreddits: Users will now see seven-day metrics that track active visitors and contributions instead.
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Apple: iPhone 17 lineup and iPhone Air come with Memory Integrity Enforcement, which provides always-on memory safety protection
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Apple: iPhone 17 lineup and iPhone Air come with Memory Integrity Enforcement, which provides always-on memory safety protection
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The US and UK spent decades preparing the ground in Ukraine. Since the end of WWII they were involved in funding the stay-behind Nazi insurgency, then incubating the current incarnation of Ukrainian nationalism in the diaspora in the US and Canada since the 80s, then taking advantage of the chaos of the dissolution of the USSR in the 90s to infiltrate these groups into Ukraine and slowly push them to the forefront over two decades by indoctrinating the youth. It took them two separate color revolutions to do it.
And they didn't start from nothing. Before WWII, the Germans, and before them the Austrians, had been building the Ukrainian nationalist idea in West Ukraine as a foil first against the Russian Empire then against the USSR. It took the West over a hundred years to turn Ukrainians against their own brothers, and they only managed to do it because of pre-existing ethnic divisions and because of unique historical and geographical conditions.
They could dangle the EU carrot to seduce them, they could funnel money and infiltrate weapons and radicalized extremists via the land border. Those conditions just don't exist in Mongolia. Everything would have to come either through Russia or China or be flown in. What can the US possibly offer Mongolia? What ethnic tension or history of radicalism is there for them to exploit? Can this country survive if it antagonizes its neighbors?
Look at the demographics and economy: Mongolia has only 3.5 million people (for comparison that is less than Georgia, which once picked a fight with Russia and lost the war in 7 days). Half of them live in the capital. For the rest of the country the population density is extremely low. At least a third live as nomads or semi-nomads.
90% of their exports go to China. 80% of their exports come from the mining sector. They do not have a large and advanced industrial manufacturing sector as Ukraine once did. Most of their energy comes from Russia. Unlike Ukraine they have neither ports nor land border with Western powers through which to import substitutes for Russian energy.
Most of the country is steppe or desert. The conditions for cultivation are not great, so their agriculture sector consists mostly of livestock and herding. Hence the country depends on food imports. Even if a very pro-Western government is in power, they have no choice but to maintain decent relations with their neighbors.
Don't make the mistake of thinking, as the neocons do, that the US is all-powerful and has unlimited resources. They don't. There are very real limits on their power and those limits are growing as their relative power in the world declines, especially compared to China.
Anti-racism scholar’s career “ruined” by pro-Israel lobby
Anti-racism scholar’s career “ruined” by pro-Israel lobby
Randa Abdel-Fattah is an anti-racism scholar who lost an $870,000 research grant over her criticisms of Israel.Al Jazeera
Intermediary age assurance provider collecting user data on specific URLs, more | Discovery of stealth data collection raises questions about who can ‘provide’ services
cross-posted from: programming.dev/post/37194712
Technical Report.
Intermediary age assurance provider collecting user data on specific URLs, more | Discovery of stealth data collection raises questions about who can ‘provide’ services
Intermediary age assurance provider collecting user data on specific URLs, more
AgeGO also forces users to disclose their email address to complete the age verification process, which it says is needed to create an AgeGO account.Joel R. McConvey (BiometricUpdate.com)
Intermediary age assurance provider collecting user data on specific URLs, more | Discovery of stealth data collection raises questions about who can ‘provide’ services
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Technical Report.
Intermediary age assurance provider collecting user data on specific URLs, more | Discovery of stealth data collection raises questions about who can ‘provide’ services
Intermediary age assurance provider collecting user data on specific URLs, more
AgeGO also forces users to disclose their email address to complete the age verification process, which it says is needed to create an AgeGO account.Joel R. McConvey (BiometricUpdate.com)
Jeremy Corbyn to lead ‘Gaza tribunal’ into UK role in Israel’s war
Jeremy Corbyn to lead ‘Gaza tribunal’ into UK role in Israel’s war
The UN special rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territory is among those set to contribute to the two-day event.Al Jazeera Staff (Al Jazeera)
UK has delivered over £500m in arms parts to Israel's genocide efforts
UK complicit in Israel's genocide
New report shows the UK is firmly embedded in Israel's genocide as it provides arms exports worth over £500 million to terrorise PalestineMaryam Jameela (The Canary)
Intermediary age assurance provider collecting user data on specific URLs, more | Discovery of stealth data collection raises questions about who can ‘provide’ services
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Technical Report.
Intermediary age assurance provider collecting user data on specific URLs, more | Discovery of stealth data collection raises questions about who can ‘provide’ services
Intermediary age assurance provider collecting user data on specific URLs, more
AgeGO also forces users to disclose their email address to complete the age verification process, which it says is needed to create an AgeGO account.Joel R. McConvey (BiometricUpdate.com)
Intermediary age assurance provider collecting user data on specific URLs, more | Discovery of stealth data collection raises questions about who can ‘provide’ services
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Technical Report.
Intermediary age assurance provider collecting user data on specific URLs, more | Discovery of stealth data collection raises questions about who can ‘provide’ services
Intermediary age assurance provider collecting user data on specific URLs, more
AgeGO also forces users to disclose their email address to complete the age verification process, which it says is needed to create an AgeGO account.Joel R. McConvey (BiometricUpdate.com)
Lush shuts all UK retail stores for a day in Gaza protest
Lush shuts all UK retail stores for a day in Gaza protest
The retail chain said similar action could be taken in its other stores worldwide.Imogen James (BBC News)
Defeating the Nazis was a pretty big deal, especially considering the Red Army was responsible for 4/5ths of total Nazi deaths. Plus, he oversaw the world's first socialist state. Terrorists like Trotsky were assassinated, yes, but it wasn't because they were personally dangerous to Stalin's position; Stalin attempted to resign no fewer than four times. He wasn't a saint, but he was comparatively much better than contemporaries like Churchill, despite being remembered as far worse by liberal historians.
::: spoiler Demystifying Stalin
I know that after my death a pile of rubbish will be heaped on my grave, but the wind of History will sooner or later sweep it away without mercy.
- J. V. Stalin
- Nia Frome's "Tankies"
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- W. E. B Dubois' On Stalin
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- Domenico Losurdo's Stalin and Stalinism in History
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[38 min]
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- Domenico Losurdo's Stalin: The History and Critique of a Black Legend
[5 hr 51 min]
- Ludo Martens' Another View of Stalin
[5 hr 25 min]
- Anna Louise Strong's This Soviet World
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I have come to communism because of daddy Stalin and nobody must come and tell me that I mustn’t read Stalin. I read him when it was very bad to read him. That was another time. And because I’m not very bright, and a hard-headed person, I keep on reading him. Especially in this new period, now that it is worse to read him. Then, as well as now, I still find a Seri of things that are very good.
- Che Guevara
- Economic Problems of Socialism in the USSR
- Dialectical and Historical Materialism
- History of the CPSU (B)
- The Foundations of Leninism
- Marxism and the National Question
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Read Marxism and the National Question(Joseph Stalin, 1913) on ProleWiki
The period of counter-revolution in Russia brought not only "thunder and lightning" in its train, but also disillusionment in the movement and lack of faith in common...ProleWiki
I'd say yes. He oversaw the Red Army as they defeated the Nazis, responsible for 4/5ths of Nazi deaths, as well as helped guide the world's first socialist state. Said socialist state brought tremendous development, doubling life expectancy, achieving food security, tripling literacy rates, providing free and high quality healthcare and education, cheap housing, and more. Stalin wasn't a saint, but he was much better than contemporaries like Churchill, as an example.
::: spoiler Demystifying Stalin
I know that after my death a pile of rubbish will be heaped on my grave, but the wind of History will sooner or later sweep it away without mercy.
- J. V. Stalin
- Nia Frome's "Tankies"
[8 min]
- W. E. B Dubois' On Stalin
[6 min]
- Domenico Losurdo's Primitive Thinking and Stalin as Scapegoat
[30 min]
- Domenico Losurdo's Stalin and Stalinism in History
[16 min]
[42 min]
[38 min]
[9 min]
- Domenico Losurdo's Stalin: The History and Critique of a Black Legend
[5 hr 51 min]
- Ludo Martens' Another View of Stalin
[5 hr 25 min]
- Anna Louise Strong's This Soviet World
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::: spoiler Stalin's Major Theoretical Contributions to Marxism
I have come to communism because of daddy Stalin and nobody must come and tell me that I mustn’t read Stalin. I read him when it was very bad to read him. That was another time. And because I’m not very bright, and a hard-headed person, I keep on reading him. Especially in this new period, now that it is worse to read him. Then, as well as now, I still find a Seri of things that are very good.
- Che Guevara
- Economic Problems of Socialism in the USSR
- Dialectical and Historical Materialism
- History of the CPSU (B)
- The Foundations of Leninism
- Marxism and the National Question
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Read Marxism and the National Question(Joseph Stalin, 1913) on ProleWiki
The period of counter-revolution in Russia brought not only "thunder and lightning" in its train, but also disillusionment in the movement and lack of faith in common...ProleWiki
Intermediary age assurance provider collecting user data on specific URLs, more | Discovery of stealth data collection raises questions about who can ‘provide’ services
cross-posted from: programming.dev/post/37194712
Technical Report.
Intermediary age assurance provider collecting user data on specific URLs, more | Discovery of stealth data collection raises questions about who can ‘provide’ services
Intermediary age assurance provider collecting user data on specific URLs, more
AgeGO also forces users to disclose their email address to complete the age verification process, which it says is needed to create an AgeGO account.Joel R. McConvey (BiometricUpdate.com)
Intermediary age assurance provider collecting user data on specific URLs, more | Discovery of stealth data collection raises questions about who can ‘provide’ services
cross-posted from: programming.dev/post/37194712
Technical Report.
Intermediary age assurance provider collecting user data on specific URLs, more | Discovery of stealth data collection raises questions about who can ‘provide’ services
Intermediary age assurance provider collecting user data on specific URLs, more
AgeGO also forces users to disclose their email address to complete the age verification process, which it says is needed to create an AgeGO account.Joel R. McConvey (BiometricUpdate.com)
RSS co-creator launches RSL protocol for AI data licensing
cross-posted from: programming.dev/post/37203057
RSS co-creator launches Really Simple Licensing (RSL) protocol for AI data licensing
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Crafting a retro desktop for old computers (~1GB RAM) the right way
I have an old Asus EeePC 1015T netbook with an HDMI (and VGA) output, a screen that glitches if I'm holding it wrong, a huge, tired, unreliable battery, a noisy fan that fails to cool it to less than skin-burning temperatures, and slightly less than 1 GB of RAM. I've seen Xubuntu, then Lubuntu, become slowly unusable on it; I've tried to install Arch then Sway, but although the device got kinda less sluggish, the leaning curve for a tiling window manager was still too high.
So here's a thought experiment: could I craft a Linux setup with a themeable yet cohesive Windows 98-like UI, that I can plug to an old monitor (1280x1024 should be enough) and that can be just responsive enough to do basic, focused tasks (writing, listening to music and webradios, browsing Wikipedia, perhaps playing Doom) using this kind of very limited hardware? The idea would be to have some sort of reliability: instead of installing an old distro and freezing all updates, I'd ideally go for a modern basis that I can upgrade without worrying of watching my setup collapsing on itself; so I could reproduce this setup on other, similarly old computers, and turn them into retro distraction-free appliances where you could chill with a classic Windows feel and Winamp themes.
I have some ideas but I'm not sure about the best approach. I've tried an immutable Fedora image (Blue95), but after a full day and night of waiting for the setup and rebase to complete, the end result was way too slow to be usable. Then I went for BunsenLabs on a Debian Trixie basis: it works okay performance-wise, but there's a lot of obscure menu items pointing to small apps to customize (you have to know what a "conky" or a "tint2" is, and also understand that the default panel is a third different thing). I'm thinking of trying postmarketOS, since the Alpine base sounds lightweight enough, but I havent figured out how to install it on my EeePC.
Could Wayland be possible with these hardware limitations? If so, how should I setup it? I guess labwc (pictured above) is the best fit for a Win9x experience, but what is needed afterwards? LXQt or Xfce or something else?
I'm curious to hear your thoughts!
Made for people, not cars: reclaiming European cities
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Made for people, not cars: reclaiming European cities
By prioritising residents over private vehicles, a Spanish municipality has overcome some of the biggest challenges facing Europe’s cities.Green European Journal
Made for people, not cars: reclaiming European cities
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In the shattering ‘The Voice of Hind Rajab,’ the story of a 6-year-old killed in Gaza
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Updated 12:24 AM EDT, Sep 3, 2025
In January 2024, a 6-year-old girl trapped inside a bullet-riddled car in Gaza City begged for someone to rescue her. Contact was lost with the first ambulance. Hind Rajab, five family members and two medics were found dead 12 days later.The impact of the story, and the audio of Hind’s voice from that call, has been vast, inspiring songs, protest movements and now a film from Tunisian filmmaker Kaouther Ben Hania.
“When you hear her voice you feel powerless,” Ben Hania told The Associated Press recently.
Hind’s cousin, Layan, who was in the car, had told family members that Israeli forces were firing on them before she was killed. The Red Crescent said Israeli troops fired on its ambulance. Asked for comment, the military said the incident is “still being reviewed..."
In the shattering ‘The Voice of Hind Rajab,’ the story of a 6-year-old killed in Gaza
Updated 12:24 AM EDT, Sep 3, 2025In January 2024, a 6-year-old girl trapped inside a bullet-riddled car in Gaza City begged for someone to rescue her. Contact was lost with the first ambulance. Hind Rajab, five family members and two medics were found dead 12 days later.The impact of the story, and the audio of Hind’s voice from that call, has been vast, inspiring songs, protest movements and now a film from Tunisian filmmaker Kaouther Ben Hania.
“When you hear her voice you feel powerless,” Ben Hania told The Associated Press recently.
Hind’s cousin, Layan, who was in the car, had told family members that Israeli forces were firing on them before she was killed. The Red Crescent said Israeli troops fired on its ambulance. Asked for comment, the military said the incident is “still being reviewed..."
https://apnews.com/article/hind-rajab-movie-venice-film-festival-0a873d647a26ddeba7c5a7bcdcbd23aa
Made for people, not cars: reclaiming European cities
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Made for people, not cars: reclaiming European cities
By prioritising residents over private vehicles, a Spanish municipality has overcome some of the biggest challenges facing Europe’s cities.Green European Journal
Made for people, not cars: reclaiming European cities
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In the shattering ‘The Voice of Hind Rajab,’ the story of a 6-year-old killed in Gaza
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/35631146
Updated 12:24 AM EDT, Sep 3, 2025
In January 2024, a 6-year-old girl trapped inside a bullet-riddled car in Gaza City begged for someone to rescue her. Contact was lost with the first ambulance. Hind Rajab, five family members and two medics were found dead 12 days later.The impact of the story, and the audio of Hind’s voice from that call, has been vast, inspiring songs, protest movements and now a film from Tunisian filmmaker Kaouther Ben Hania.
“When you hear her voice you feel powerless,” Ben Hania told The Associated Press recently.
Hind’s cousin, Layan, who was in the car, had told family members that Israeli forces were firing on them before she was killed. The Red Crescent said Israeli troops fired on its ambulance. Asked for comment, the military said the incident is “still being reviewed..."
In the shattering ‘The Voice of Hind Rajab,’ the story of a 6-year-old killed in Gaza
Updated 12:24 AM EDT, Sep 3, 2025In January 2024, a 6-year-old girl trapped inside a bullet-riddled car in Gaza City begged for someone to rescue her. Contact was lost with the first ambulance. Hind Rajab, five family members and two medics were found dead 12 days later.The impact of the story, and the audio of Hind’s voice from that call, has been vast, inspiring songs, protest movements and now a film from Tunisian filmmaker Kaouther Ben Hania.
“When you hear her voice you feel powerless,” Ben Hania told The Associated Press recently.
Hind’s cousin, Layan, who was in the car, had told family members that Israeli forces were firing on them before she was killed. The Red Crescent said Israeli troops fired on its ambulance. Asked for comment, the military said the incident is “still being reviewed..."
https://apnews.com/article/hind-rajab-movie-venice-film-festival-0a873d647a26ddeba7c5a7bcdcbd23aa
In the shattering ‘The Voice of Hind Rajab,’ the story of a 6-year-old killed in Gaza
Updated 12:24 AM EDT, Sep 3, 2025
In January 2024, a 6-year-old girl trapped inside a bullet-riddled car in Gaza City begged for someone to rescue her. Contact was lost with the first ambulance. Hind Rajab, five family members and two medics were found dead 12 days later.The impact of the story, and the audio of Hind’s voice from that call, has been vast, inspiring songs, protest movements and now a film from Tunisian filmmaker Kaouther Ben Hania.
“When you hear her voice you feel powerless,” Ben Hania told The Associated Press recently.
Hind’s cousin, Layan, who was in the car, had told family members that Israeli forces were firing on them before she was killed. The Red Crescent said Israeli troops fired on its ambulance. Asked for comment, the military said the incident is “still being reviewed..."
https://apnews.com/article/hind-rajab-movie-venice-film-festival-0a873d647a26ddeba7c5a7bcdcbd23aa
“RUBARE allo STATO non è sempre reato” (mannaggia!)
A me capita di seguire vari avvocati su YouTube, ma certe volte mi chiedo se sarebbe meglio restare nell’ignoranza per le questioni di legge, perché altrimenti ci si fa il sangue amarissimo… non quanto il “caffè amaro come la vita”, ma molto peggio, perché almeno il caffè è gustoso, mentre la realtà del nostro mondo […]
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“RUBARE allo STATO non è sempre reato” (mannaggia!)
A me capita di seguire vari avvocati su YouTube, ma certe volte mi chiedo se sarebbe meglio restare nell’ignoranza per le questioni di legge, perché altrimenti ci si fa il sangue amarissimo… non quanto il “caffè amaro come la vita”, ma molto peggio, perché almeno il caffè è gustoso, mentre la realtà del nostro mondo nemmeno per un cazzo. E stamattina, per l’appunto, chi mi ha ricordato ciò è stato l’avvochad Angelo Greco… 😭youtube.com/watch?v=QtQ0T4fnxk…
In breve, in questo video dice una cosa che sappiamo tutti, cioè che rubare allo Stato, una condotta che a primo impatto parrebbe gravissima, a volte è legalmente permesso — e anzi, aggiungerei io che in certi casi è anche premiato, o quantomeno fare il contrario significa essere vittime di scherno e biasimo, paradossalmente… Qualcosa di già assurdo di per sé, ma mai quanto un’altra cosa che difficilmente ci viene in mente, cioè che invece i danni piccoli vengono puniti alla grande; l’esempio che lui fa, per dire, è che se qualcuno ti passa una banconota incaricandoti di andargli a comprare il gelato, e tu te ne scappi coi soldi invece di assolvere al compito informale e deciso a voce, ti becchi (fino a) 5 anni di carcere, “appropriazione indebita aggravata”… 💀
Insomma, questa è l’Italia. Ovviamente, questo fatto lo si può vedere applicato su una scala più ampia e totalizzante, dove la punizione è, con gran paradosso, sempre inversamente proporzionale alla colpa. E quindi, se rubi i soldi del gelato e la vittima ti denuncia vai in galera, se sei un borseggiatore che dalla mattina alla sera sta a rubare alle persone ti arrestano per qualche minuto ma poi torni in libertà, se sei un imprenditore che evade il fisco magari passi qualche brutta nottata ma alla fine non succede niente, e se invece sei un politico che usa i soldi pubblici per cose proprie non ti indagano nemmeno… figurati pagare multe o che… 🥱
Che schifo, davvero. Non trovo nemmeno qualcosa da dire per ribaltare tutto e ridere, a questo giro… la riflessione di oggi è davvero così tanto amara; mi dispiace se ho rovinato la giornata a qualcuno. E non so se sia più grave il fatto che, a dire il vero, le cose in questo paese sembrano andare così, all’incontrario, da quando questo esiste… o se la vera questione sia che andando avanti questi paradossi aumentano, anziché diminuire… in questa repubblica dove, nei tribunali, campeggia sempre la scritta “la legge è uguale per tutti“, nonostante il fatto che questa frase sia forse la più grande bugia di tutti i tempi, e i politici non fanno e faranno altro che prendere tutti per il culo… 🙁
#AngeloGreco #Italia #legge #riflessione #rubare
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OrioleDB Patent: now freely available to the Postgres community
cross-posted from: programming.dev/post/37202205
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OrioleDB Patent: now freely available to the Postgres community
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Supabase is explicitly making available a non-exclusive license of the OrioleDB patent to all OrioleDB users in accordance with the OrioleDB license.supabase.com
Russia Unleashes Massive Wave of Strikes On Western Ukraine
Russia Unleashes Massive Wave of Strikes On Western Ukraine
In a significant escalation of its long-range bombardment campaign, Russian forces launched one of the largest and most complex aerial...Anonymous103 (South Front)
I haven't combed through the recent edits, but the most recent version of the Gaza War article lists the folllowing
(isis not listed above)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaza_war
keep in mind this page was originally titled Israel Hamas war, wikipedia is a battle ground, there's a lot of people putting in the time, doing the work
I won't surrender wikipedia, if there are communists involved, we will always win.
D.C. Takeover Shows How Cities Can Lose Control of Surveillance
D.C. Takeover Shows How Cities Can Lose Control of Surveillance
D.C.'s new Real-Time Crime Center is the front line in a quiet battle over who controls the police department's surveillance data. While the federal government and city fight for authority, whose surveillance rules apply?Nikki Davidson (GovTech)
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They knew this would happen. This was the intent. They’ve also been constructing cop city style military bases near most cities for “training,” and the collective reaction is largely apathetic.
The city leadership was not gullible pawns. They were involved in setting it up for this from the start.
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Venice Film Festival premieres movie of Hind Rajab's story
A new film about a five-year-old girl killed in Gaza by Israeli Occupation Forces is drawing attention at the Venice Film Festival, as its director seeks to humanize the victims of the assault.
Franco-Tunisian filmmaker Kaouther Ben Hania told journalists Wednesday that her aim with The Voice of Hind Rajab is to provide “a voice and a face” to those often reduced to statistics in global media coverage.
“We've seen that the narrative all around the world is that those dying in Gaza are collateral damage, in the media, and I think this is so dehumanising,” Ben Hania said ahead of the film’s world premiere. “And that's why cinema, art, and every kind of expression is very important to give those people a voice and a face.”
Venice Film Festival premieres movie of Hind Rajab's story
Hind Rajab (Credit: Family handout)Roya News
Zionist group sues two Australian academics for opposing the Gaza genocide
A group of pro-Zionist staff and students, backed by a high-profile legal team, is suing University of Sydney academics Nick Riemer and John Keane in the Federal Court of Australia for making public statements opposing the Gaza genocide.
Zionist group sues two Australian academics for opposing the Gaza genocide
If the case against Riemer and Keane is upheld, it will set a legal precedent that that could outlaw any opposition to the mass slaughter in Gaza as “antisemitic.”World Socialist Web Site
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As of writing, the total had almost doubled to over $112,000 from some 1,200 individual donations.
this is a tiny fraction of what they're going to need in combat both the isreali and australian gov'ts; they're fucked.
that's less than a yearly salary for an entry level software engineer in the united states and no where close to the salary of a team of lawyers with the requisite experience to litigate this case.
nevertheless, i hope i'm wrong.
i guess i keep forgetting that anecdotal experience is a thing and the article points out the australian law:
The court case follows on from a complaint lodged by law firm Levitt Robinson last year with the Australian Human Rights Commission (AHRC). It alleged that Riemer and Keane had violated Section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act, which prohibits public acts that “offend, insult, humiliate or intimidate another person” based on their race.
i don't know what it's like under the australian system, but in the american one; they have to defend themselves first.
They are not fighting the Australian government.
It is a statutory body funded by, but operating independently of, the Australian Government. It is responsible for investigating alleged infringements of Australia's anti-discrimination legislation in relation to federal agencies.
Barring that they still do not have to defend themselves at this point they're just responding to a complaint.
Here is the funding page in case anyone is interested
chuffed.org/project/143224-hel…
Help USyd Palestine advocates defeat Israel Lobby legal attack!
Dr Nick Riemer and Professor John Keane are academics at the University of Sydney and long-time advocates of freedom and justice for Palestinians.Chuffed
Smart textiles may soon be able to control devices or monitor health
cross-posted from: programming.dev/post/37193929
Smart textiles may soon be able to control devices or monitor health
Smart textiles may soon be able to control devices or monitor health
Incorporating innovative technologies into textile design has many applications, including automotive, health and design.The Conversation
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Arm launches 4 Lumex compute subsystem CPU architectures to improve on-device AI on smartphones, PCs, and wearables, and unveils the new Mali G1-Ultra GPU
cross-posted from: programming.dev/post/37201864
Arm launches 4 Lumex compute subsystem CPU architectures to improve on-device AI on smartphones, PCs, and wearables, and unveils the new Mali G1-Ultra GPU
Smarter, Faster, More Personal AI Delivered on Consumer Devices with Arm’s New Lumex CSS Platform, Driving Double-Digit Performance Gains - Arm Newsroom
Arm introduces Lumex, its most advanced compute subsystem (CSS) platform for consumer devices, powering faster on-device AI, gaming, and real-time intelligence.Chris Bergey (Arm Limited)
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in reply to notarobot • • •Proton does offer what is essentially a self-contained PGP portal. You send anyone an email and they get a "hey, this is me, open the message below" thing and then a link to a message that's hosted on Proton servers. So your Granny doesn't need to set up a public/private key pair, you can just send the encrypted portal option.
No idea of Tuta or others do this.
Plus, no matter who you chose, you personally aren't feeding the Google algo. You can do what I do, which is you leave all the hyper data hungry services in the data eating world, just feeding on each other alone. Then you have real conversations over email or fediverse.
notarobot
in reply to hansolo • • •Yeah. I chose proton over tuta because of this option to send the link to the encrypted message. I think tuta does have it, but it didn't show the entire conversation. If you wanted to see the entire chain I think you and to either find the mates email to get the latest URL, or open each URL by itself.
The problem with those is that you have to exchange the password by some other means than the email itself, so it's really not practical for the other person
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in reply to hansolo • • •- One of the main uses of email is communication with companies. And they won't have a signal account just to exchange passwords with you
- doesn't work for emailing someone you have no say you want to send an email to... Idk a youtuber (first example I could think of where you know you want to talk to them but you have no other means to do so). They have their email published. Now what? You can't email them asking for their phone number so that you can exchange email passwords because they won't give it to you, and that exchange is happening unencrypted
- if I have a way to contact someone over signal, I'd rather use that than email
hansolo
in reply to notarobot • • •No. Email is just a non-centralized protocol. While not everyone uses it the same way, most normal people never use email to communicate with companies, who are increasingly forcing people to use chatbots anyway. So it's not even a reasonable point to make. Password protected emails are meant to be between people who have an established relationship. If a company needs someone to send them encrypted message, they'll have a platform for that, just like Wikileaks or ProPublica, so you're not making a valid argument about that.
If some Youtuber is someone that does anything privacy-related enough that they should be receiving encrypted emails, their public PGP key should be on their YT profile and you can send them an encrypted message anyway with that. Protocols and methods exist already to accomplish what you're talking about. You need to complain to the Youtuber for not practicing good security and privacy, not to Proton for not creating some mind-reading Diffie-Hellman scenario. Really, do you think that you can just send some random person a message that says "click link to open secret message!" and not expect it to just look like phishing?
If you'd rather use signal, use signal and send them an attachment encrypted with their PGP public key. This isn't hard, I don't even know why you're trying to argue all these weird non-existent edge cases like they're everyday issues.
notarobot
in reply to hansolo • • •i don't know your case, but for me using email is non optional. i can't "just use signal". i need an email for my government, i need an email because i need a github account, i need an email for any site i want to use, including lemmy. i just want to be able to do it privately. i'm just trying to determine if protonmail is actually private or just one big "trust me bro. we wont read you unencrypted messages as they enter or leave"
hansolo
in reply to notarobot • • •OK. Well, respectfully, I think it would be beneficial to find out more about how encryption, email servers, and encrypted messaging works. I think you're quite confused about the details here, and just getting a sense of the parts will help you in the long run. People use email differently - I don't use FB, so my main means of communication with family that is not Signal messages is email.
By "just use signal" I mean for sharing a password for a password protected email. Which you should only be sending to people you know already and can coordinate with. You're not sending password protected emails to random people or the government because it's not necessary for the reasons I explained earlier. If someone needs an encrypted message from ANYONE they will provide the method. Otherwise, they don't want encrypted messages and can't be trusted with data that should be encrypted.
Proton is secure, and I know because I had an old account I wanted to get access to and lost access to the recovery email, but had one on the same domain. I spent about a week doing back and forth emails with some guy who was trying to ask me to verify aspects of the account, which was my spam shield and dummy social media account and I hadn't used it for about a year. All he could see, when pressed, was header info: sender/receiver, date, time, ip address, sending agent. All things that are needed to route the message. It ended up being me able to confirm IP address and sending agent and access (I sent an email to my recovery address from an IP in this range on this date, last logged in on on this date, etc.). It was a pain for both of us.
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in reply to hansolo • • •Tuta does too.
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in reply to notarobot • • •I use Tuta mail and protonmail.
There is no "unencrypted" transfer between sender and receiver if you both use tuta or proton.
If you send an email to me from a Gmail account, it is unencrypted until it reaches the Tuta servers and the Proton severs, once there it is encrypted and remains so until I login to my account to access the email.
TUTA MAIL:
The entire mailbox – emails, calendar and address book – are stored end-to-end encrypted in Tuta.
Data that Tuta encrypts end-to-end:
Emails, including subject lines and all attachments
Entire calendars, even metadata such as event notifications
Entire address book, not just parts of the contacts
Inbox rules / filters
And the entire search index.
Tuta uses symmetric (AES 256) and asymmetric encryption (RSA 2048 or ECC (x25519) and Kyber-1024 as quantum-safe algorithms) to encrypt emails end-to-end. When both parties use Tuta, all emails are automatically end-to-end encrypted (asymmetric encryption).
PROTONMAIL:
Emails from non-Proton Mail users to Proton Mail users
The email is encrypted in transit using TLS. It is then unencrypted and re-encrypted (by us) for storage on our servers using zero-access encryption. Once zero-access encryption has been applied, no-one except you can access emails stored on our servers (including us). It is not end-to-end encrypted, however, and might be accessible to the sender’s email service.
All messages in your Proton Mail mailbox are stored with zero-access encryption. This means we cannot read any of your messages or hand them over to third parties. This includes messages sent to you by non-Proton Mail users, although keep in mind if an email is sent to you from Gmail, Gmail likely retains a copy of that message as well.
Password-protected Emails are also stored end-to-end encrypted.
Subject lines and recipient/sender email addresses are encrypted but not end-to-end encrypted.
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in reply to notarobot • • •Note that ProtonMail actually supports automatic encryption to email accounts that publish their public keys in a Web Key Directory, which I’ve set up for mine. When you type such an email address in the To field, it’ll turn into a special color with a lock symbol.
Likewise, ProtonMail also exposed a WKD so people can send encrypted emails to ProtonMail accounts. I don’t know of any mail clients that support this though (I used the command line to pull keys)
Jason2357
in reply to sjmulder • • •Wow, til I learn about WKD! I used to have a key on keyservers, but hated how that was basically a spam trap and the fact that anyone could upload a key there for my own address. It was easy because I own my own domain and already have a web server there.
I set it up and tested it with help from webkeydirectory.com/
Looks like it's being added to clients: wiki.gnupg.org/WKD/Distributio…
Web Key Directory Validator
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in reply to notarobot • • •They'll have to follow a link but still...
Tuta: Turn ON privacy for free with secure emails, calendars & contacts | Tuta
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in reply to notarobot • • •There is an advantage of using a provider that suports MTA STS. This is Strict Transport Security and forces at least transport encryption.
There is an advantage to use a provider you pay for too and at least claims not to read your email.
It is also nice if they can host your domain and have good delivery.
Edit: I meant MTA STS not SMTP STS.
notarobot
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in reply to notarobot • • •Google is promoting MTA-STS. MS is at least testing it and some others. Proton mail might support, check. I use NameCheap shared hosting mail. They support incoming but not outgoing.
Sure it is clear inside each org but secures between. Nice because you can secure in your org by contract. Not as good as e2ee of course.
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in reply to notarobot • • •Tuta has no IMAP, vendor lock-in, bad.
Proton has IMAP with extra steps, almost vendor lock-in, bad.
Gmail has IMAP, good. So, we can use it with our own libre app, with GPG, but first we need an account.
Making a new Gmail account is not private. Also, paying for paid Gmail is not private.
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in reply to notarobot • • •Hold on, am I missing something? I don't see anyone in here talking about that time proton openly endorsed the Republican party. Did we forget about or forgive them for that? Is it just irrelevant right now? They backtracked later but like archive.ph/2yWGz
When organizations make a move like that, they usually don't stop pushing in that direction, even if they backtrack in response to pushback. While I'm sure they're still better than google, I have a hard time trusting them after that. It feels relevant to talk about because like you said, using proton is adding another trust point.
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in reply to notarobot • • •Kind of tired of beating the dead horse on that story, but part of privacy is that you need to trust the company that you're dealing with.
He's out there openly praising on authoritarians move to install a puppet government and open the gateway to corporate corruption. If our privacy companies are going to be sneaky and dirty, we want it done in the shadows. All he had to do was stay quiet. But he got noisy, then the PR department started gaslighting, and none of that's a good look for a privacy company.
The thing is, Trump doesn't give two shits about anybody, and the guy running the company should have known this.
But now it's old news, it can die. He can prove that he can run the company by good faith measures and doing the right thing instead of by trying to gaslight people through PR.
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in reply to notarobot • • •You have to trust that:
Code is good, but there's a lot of operational information there that doesn't get exposed by being open.
Code in the face of no malice wouldn't be a large worry. They rolled over on a French activist and doxxed them for the French government. Those logs should not have existed in a privacy company.
Again, this is all old news now. Let's see him make hard decisions to protect the clients and turn the PR side of things from "the empire did nothing wrong" to hey, let's have an open dialog.
notarobot
in reply to rumba • • •i don't care about their VPN. the issue you describe is very real, but it's inherit to all vpn providers. what i care right now, is their email service. you can switch vpn providers in less than 15 minutes, but email takes days. so i wouldn't want to go around doing all of that every time some employee says something stupid.
and btw, if you use native installed apps, then the worry of them serving malicious javascript goes way down because any change they make on the complied package would be very likely to be very obvios to someone, because its open source ( i won't go into detail here).
rumba
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in reply to fubbernuckin • • •Got banned on their sub for criticizing that clown Andy the bootlicker.
They are happy to shill free speech when they take your money, but no free speech when they get criticized.
Tells you what you need to know about corpo.
Their email is best in class though. Other services are mid at best.
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in reply to Ardens • • •That sounds like the worst option of all. At least I can trust google has some protections in place to stop employees from looking at you email, because if they didn't there would be thousands of cases all the time.
In your case, you never know who is looking. At any point a rogue admin can issue a bank password reset and just read the email
I've never heard of the term web hotel before. I'm guessing its web hosting
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in reply to notarobot • • •Sounds like you don't know what you are talking about. 😀 That's fine, but unless you know something about the topic, you shouldn't really be judging...
I know exactly who is looking. And I would also know if anyone tampers with the passwords. I guess you don't have the skills, and that's fine. You might even think that there's anything in the world that is totally secure. There's not a single thing that is secure.
Oh, what is this? - forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman/20…
notarobot
in reply to Ardens • • •Jason2357
in reply to notarobot • • •I wouldn't say you have gained nothing. The amount of data provided to google or microsoft when using their email is significantly more. For example, your app or client is checking email all of the time, giving them telemetry on your location and activity, all your devices, 24/7. Google logs and analyzes all of your interactions with Gmail's web pages, how long you have certain emails open for, what you don't bother to open, what you tag as important, etc.
Much of the one-way email you sign up for from companies and organizations come from smaller outfits like sendgrid or their own infrastructure, so you are cutting google out of information about your associations and interests.
Also, in regards to that 90%, you can either be part of the problem for all your contacts, or part of the solution. The network effect is huge.
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in reply to notarobot • • •1. don't use email, that's the ideal solution
2. use a provider like cock.li and send messages encrypted with pgp. this isn't ideal, pgp leaks a lot of data and cock.li gets sinkholed by most email providers.
3. use proton and encrypt emails with pgp, you have not much privacy but it's less worse than microsoft and not much convenience loss, except that proton doesn't allow email clients(at least if you don't pay), I don't know about ms).
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in reply to Int32 • • •a corporation is a legal extension of the state, hence why all of them will always collaborate when ordered by the courts or otherwise required by law.
some will even collaborate when they are not required by law such amazon ring providing pigs access for no reason, facebook censoring content per request of US or Israel... needless bullshit but hey it helps get government contracts ;)
bottom line, expecting corpo to do anything for you for 5 bucks a month is naive, at best they should not do it for no reason and they should not sell your data.
but even that is a tall order for these parasites.
Int32
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