Colin Kaepernick pays for autopsy of Black student found hanging from tree
Immediately after reports of Reed’s death circulated, civil rights activists pushed for a thorough investigation, citing Mississippi’s long and bloody history of lynchings, including the brutal death of Emmett Till in 1955.
On Wednesday, the Mississippi state examiner conducted an autopsy that ruled out foul play in Reed’s death. The Cleveland City Police Department has reportedly handed their findings over the FBI, which said they’re willing to investigate further if evidence “if, during the course of the local investigation, information comes to light of a potential federal violation.”
On Friday, Crump announced that Kaepernick, a vocal advocate against police brutality and racial injustice, will be paying for an independent autopsy on Reed’s body as soon as it’s released from the state medical examiner. The money will be coming from Kaepernick’s Know Your Rights Camp’s Autopsy Initiative, which provides free, second autopsies for those whose loved ones have died in police custody or under other suspicious circumstances.
Colin Kaepernick pays for autopsy of Black student found hanging from tree
Demartravion "Trey" Reed, 21, was a student at Delta State University.Mother Jones
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While praising Charlie Kirk’s commitment to free speech, Texas leaders move to punish students celebrating his death
In 2017, after a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, turned violent, a Texas man put out a press release: “TODAY CHARLOTTESVILLE TOMORROW TEXAS A&M.” Alt-right speaker Richard Spencer signed on to speak at the rally in College Station, before the university cancelled it, citing safety concerns.
This decision came at a time when universities, in Texas and nationally, were facing significant blowback for restricting or cancelling appearances by conservative speakers, fueling a narrative that right-leaning voices were being unfairly silenced.
This outrage made its way to the Texas Legislature, which in 2019 passed a bill requiring that all outdoor spaces on university campuses be designated as open forums for public speech, and prohibiting universities from considering anticipated controversy when deciding whether to allow a speaker on campus.
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When protests broke out on college campuses nationwide over the war in Gaza in 2024, the president of the University of Texas at Austin called in the state police to quell the largest protests, drawing praise from Republican state leaders.
In response, lawmakers rolled back some of the protections enshrined in 2019. A new law, approved by the Legislature and signed by Abbott in June, restricts who can protest on campus and when, barring the use of amplification devices during class hours or expressive activity at night or at the end of the semester.
FIRE sued over the new law earlier this month, saying it’s overly broad and would have unintended consequences. It could be used to punish students for doing things like playing music, worshipping, wearing a Make America Great Again Hat or writing an op-ed during the nighttime hours, FIRE said in statements.
“It's human nature to say, I don't like this speech, let's find a way to stop it,” Steinbaugh said. “That is why the First Amendment is such an important limitation on government power, because it recognizes … if each of us gets to say, ‘you don't get to speak,’ then pretty much no speech will be saved.”
Charlie Kirk killing leads to free speech campus crackdowns
Gov. Greg Abbott called for a student to be expelled for celebrating Kirk’s death. Legal experts say the student’s speech is likely constitutionally protected.Eleanor Klibanoff (The Texas Tribune)
Zohran Mamdani Boycotts ABC’s Town Hall Over Jimmy Kimmel Suspension
Zohran Mamdani Boycotts ABC's Town Hall Over Jimmy Kimmel Suspension
The New York mayoral candidate hit at Disney for "cowardice" in the face of the Trump administration's moves to pressure the company over the late-night host.Caitlin Huston (The Hollywood Reporter)
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West Point is violating the First Amendment with a crackdown on professors, lawsuit says
The U.S. Military Academy at West Point is banning opinions by professors in the classroom and some books and courses in a crackdown that violates the First Amendment, a law professor at the military school said in a lawsuit Monday seeking class action status.
Tim Bakken filed the lawsuit in Manhattan federal court and named the school and its leaders as defendants. He said he wants to protect free speech and the right to academic freedom at an institution where he has flourished despite his public criticisms of the academy and the U.S. military.
Bakken also noted in the lawsuit that he has a contract with a publisher for a book that is critical of some aspects of West Point and doesn’t want to seek approval from the school’s leadership prior to its publication because “it is very likely such approval will be withheld.”
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need a simple sketching software for linux desktop (with real world dimensions)
Is there any simple vector drawing application that can let me make rough sketches with arbitrary units?
For example, I want to be able to draw a rectangle that is exactly 2'6 x 12".
If I scale it by 50% it should be 15" x 6". I want to be able to measure distances. I don't want to keep track of a scale/conversion/ratio in my head, that's a perfect job for computer.
In the old Sketchup software (RIP) you could type the measurements in while drawing or manipulating objects. It was extremely fast and intuitive. I don't need 3d modelling; it was just a great UI.
All I can find is CAD and it is way overkill. Not gonna design a cotton gin or a circuit board. I just want to make a simple floor plan to see if the furniture would fit the way I want to arrange it. Or estimate material requirements for projects.
Desired features: Layers, customizable/smart keyboard shortcuts, colors, rectangle circle lines, transform/scale/skew/rotate, group/lock objects, rulers grids guide snapping.
anything?
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Your Favorite Songs Are Wall Street’s Latest Investment
The growing popularity of the “Bowie” bond — a security backed by royalties — may sound strange, but it’s nothing new. In treating songs like annuities, capitalists prove once again that nothing is too sacred, or silly, to be commodified.
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Dua Lipa fires agent over his purported support for Israel’s war in Gaza
Dua Lipa fires agent over his purported support for Israel’s war in Gaza
According to The Mail on Sunday report, the British pop star fired her agent due to her own pro-Palestinian stance.Edna Mohamed (Al Jazeera)
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404 Media are suing ICE over $2 million spyware contract
404 Media has filed a lawsuit against ICE for access to its contract with Paragon, a company that sells powerful spyware for breaking into phones and accessing encrypted messaging apps.On Monday 404 Media filed a lawsuit against Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) demanding the agency publish its $2 million contract with Paragon, a company that makes powerful spyware that can remotely break into mobile phones without the target even clicking a link. The sale of the spyware to ICE has activists and lawmakers deeply concerned about what the agency, which continues to push the Trump administration’s mass deportation effort, may use the technology for. The contract and related documents 404 Media is suing for may provide more information on what ICE intends to do with the spyware.
“404 Media has asked ICE to disclose agency records relating to its contract with a company known for its powerful spyware tool whose potential use in the agency’s ongoing mass-deportation campaign has prompted lawmakers, civil liberties organizations, and immigration groups to express deep concerns over potential civil rights abuses,” the lawsuit says.
404 Media first filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request with ICE for documents related to its Paragon purchase in September 2024. Under the law, agencies are required to provide a response within 20 days, or provide an explanation of why they need more time. ICE acknowledged receipt of the request in September 2024, but has not since replied to any follow up inquiries. 404 Media then filed the lawsuit.
We’re Suing ICE for Its $2 Million Spyware Contract
On Monday 404 Media filed a lawsuit against Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) demanding the agency publish its $2 million contract with Paragon, a company that makes powerful spyware that can remotely break into mobile phones without the target even clicking a link. The sale of the spyware to ICE has activists and lawmakers deeply concerned about what the agency, which continues to push the Trump administration’s mass deportation effort, may use the technology for. The contract and related documents 404 Media is suing for may provide more information on what ICE intends to do with the spyware.“404 Media has asked ICE to disclose agency records relating to its contract with a company known for its powerful spyware tool whose potential use in the agency’s ongoing mass-deportation campaign has prompted lawmakers, civil liberties organizations, and immigration groups to express deep concerns over potential civil rights abuses,” the lawsuit says.
404 Media first filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request with ICE for documents related to its Paragon purchase in September 2024. Under the law, agencies are required to provide a response within 20 days, or provide an explanation of why they need more time. ICE acknowledged receipt of the request in September 2024, but has not since replied to any follow up inquiries. 404 Media then filed the lawsuit.
ICE signed the contract with Paragon’s U.S. subsidiary in September 2024. Soon after, the then Biden White House put a freeze on the deal as it investigated whether it clashed with a Biden executive order restricting the government’s use of spyware, WIRED reported. At the end of August with Trump in power, ICE reactivated the contract, independent journalist Jack Poulson reported.
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Do you know anything else about Paragon, this contract, or any others? I would love to hear from you. Using a non-work device, you can message me securely on Signal at joseph.404 or send me an email at joseph@404media.co.The contract itself is for “a fully configured proprietary solution including license, hardware, warranty, maintenance, and training,” according to a description included in a public U.S. procurement database. The funding office for the purchase is listed as a division of Homeland Security Investigations (HSI). It is not clear if the ICE deal is for a custom-made tool or for some version of Paragon’s flagship “Graphite” software.
Graphite is capable of letting police remotely break into messaging apps like WhatsApp, Signal, Facebook Messenger, and Gmail according to a 2021 report from Forbes. While other government spyware tries to take over an entire device allowing all sorts of other capabilities, Paragon sets itself apart by promising to access just the messaging applications, according to Forbes.
Still, that is an exceptionally powerful capability which can skirt the protections offered by end-to-end encrypted apps, and one that is likely very attractive to law enforcement or some intelligence agencies. In March researchers from Citizen Lab, an academic group that investigates the government spyware industry, said they identified suspected Paragon deployments in Australia, Canada, Cyprus, Denmark, Israel, and Singapore. Separately the New York Times reported that the DEA has used Graphite.
Citizen Labs’ researchers said they shared their analysis with Meta, which in turn discovered an active Paragon zero-click exploit for WhatsApp. It involved the attacker adding a target to a WhatApp group and sending them a PDF which automatically infected the device. This meant Paragon’s software could hack into a target phone through its WhatsApp client without any target interaction. Later WhatsApp notified more than 90 people it believed had been targeted with Paragon’s exploit.
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Some of those targets were in Italy, including prominent Italian and other European journalists, and activists who rescue refugees at sea. Those revelations have since ballooned into a full-scale political crisis, with parliamentary inquiries and The Guardian reporting that Paragon cancelled its contract with Italy.Paragon has positioned itself as a more ethical player in the scandal and abuse-ridden government spyware industry. Tools from other vendors stretching back years, from Hacking Team, to FinFisher, to NSO Group, have all been used at some point to spy on journalists or activists. Like the notorious NSO Group, which also tried to enter the U.S. market, Paragon is based in Israel.
Selling to ICE, an agency that has flaunted due process, accountability, and transparency, may complicate that stance for Paragon. ICE has arrested people who were following the steps necessary for legal immigration; waited outside courtrooms to immediately detain people after their immigration cases were dismissed to rush them out of the country; “de-documented” people who had valid work permits in order to deport them; and continues to pick up people around the country while masking their faces and declining to provide their names.
After ICE reactivated its Paragon contract, Senator Ron Wyden said in a statement to Bloomberg “ICE is already shredding due process and ruining lives in its rush to lock up kids, cooks and firefighters who pose no threat to anyone.”
“I’m extremely concerned about how ICE will use Paragon’s spyware to further trample on the rights of Americans and anyone who Donald Trump labels as an enemy,” he added.
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404 Media is a new independent media company founded by technology journalists Jason Koebler, Emanuel Maiberg, Samantha Cole, and Joseph Cox.Outpost Staff (404 Media)
State of Play, DOJ Edition
Department of Justice’s Public Integrity Section has gone from 36 “experienced attorneys assigned full-time to investigate corrupt politicians and police officers” to two. That’s two as in double of one. The departures are a mix of firings, pressured or forced resignations, resignations on principle and reassignments.
State of Play, DOJ Edition
Over the weekend we had a confluence of three stories which together illustrate where the federal government is eight months into the second Trump…Josh Marshall (TPM - Talking Points Memo)
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China's Zhurong Rover Found Evidence of Ancient Oceans on Mars
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Canale 5 cambia il palinsesto: Buongiorno, Mamma! 3 passa al martedì, Io Canto Family al mercoledì
Dopo i debutti sottotono della nuova stagione televisiva, Mediaset corre subito ai ripari. Da questa settimana, il palinsesto di Canale 5 cambia: la fiction Buongiorno, Mamma! 3 con Raoul Bova anticipa al martedì, mentre lo show musicale Io Canto Family condotto da Michelle Hunziker slitta al mercoledì.
SCOPRI IL NUOVO PALINSESTO: Canale 5 cambia il palinsesto: Buongiorno, Mamma! 3 passa al martedì, Io Canto Family al mercoledì
Canale 5 cambia il palinsesto: Buongiorno Mamma al martedì, Io Canto Family al mercoledì
Mediaset cambia il palinsesto: Buongiorno, Mamma! 3 con Raoul Bova passa al martedì, Io Canto Family al mercoledì. Ecco le nuove date.Redazione (Atom Heart Magazine)
Germany’s “Bunker Boom”: Demand Surges After Russian Drones Breach NATO Airspace
Germany’s “Bunker Boom”: Demand Surges After Russian Drones Breach NATO Airspace
The rise in private bunker requests in Germany follows Russian drone activity, with shelters now being integrated into many new buildings for safety.Ivan Khomenko (UNITED24 Media)
Belas Manifestações, Pelegos Não Acreditam No Povo, Reforma Administrativa e Cadê a Turma Nova?
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Terence Tao on the cosmic distance ladder
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South Korea's President Lee says U.S. investment demands would spark a financial crisis
South Korea's President Lee says U.S. investment demands would spark a financial crisis
South Korea's economy could fall into crises rivaling its 1997 meltdown if the government accepts current U.S. demands, President Lee Jae Myung told Reuters.Reuters (CNBC)
Don't worry, if you thought the Republic of Samsung might grow a spine, they won't:
This month Trump’s administration rocked South Korea with the arrest of more than 300 South Korean workers at a Hyundai Motor battery plant in Georgia, with federal officials accusing them of immigration violations.Lee said South Koreans were naturally angered by the “harsh” treatment of the workers - the Trump administration published images of them in shackles - and has warned it could make companies wary of investing in the United States.
But he said the raid would not undermine the bilateral alliance, praising Trump for offering to let the workers stay. Lee said he did not believe it was directed by Trump but was the result of overzealous law enforcement.
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Scam Warning: there's a false-flag crypto coin scam campain on GitHub right now
Git Coin Community SPAM · community · Discussion #174283
Discussion Type Product Feedback Discussion Content It seems that Github is now being used as a crypto spamming vehicle. Couldn't this be mitigated by throttling Issue creation?GitHub
The End of NASA Is Coming [video]
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New Moon Discovered Orbiting Uranus Using NASA’s Webb Telescope
New Moon Discovered Orbiting Uranus Using NASA’s Webb Telescope
Using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, a team led by the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) has identified a previously unknown moon orbiting Uranus,NASA Webb Mission Team (NASA Science)
A Braided River
The Yarlung Zangbo River winds through Tibet as the world’s highest-altitude major river. Parts of it cut through a canyon deeper than 6,000 meters (three times the depth of the Grand Canyon). And other parts, like this section, are braided, with waterways that shift rapidly from season to season. The swift changes in a braided river’s sandbars come from large amounts of sediment eroded from steep mountains upstream. As that sediment sweeps downstream, some will deposit, which narrows channels and can increase their scouring. The river’s shape quickly becomes a complicated battle between sediment, flow speed, and slope. (Image credit: M. Garrison; animation credit: R. Walter; via NASA Earth Observatory)
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Braided River in Tibet Redraws Its Channels
Images spanning nearly four decades reveal the shapeshifting nature of the Yarlung Zangbo River as it flows across the Tibetan Plateau.earthobservatory.nasa.gov
Proxmox Backup Server VM crashes take down host - any idea why?
cross-posted from: lemmy.buddyverse.net/post/1043…
I recently upgraded my network from a basic router to a Netgear GS108E Gigabit switch. Backups are now way faster, which is great… but now I’ve run into a new problem.I run Proxmox Backup Server (PBS) in a VM on one of my servers (let’s call it Proxmox 2). PBS has 100 GB of cache storage since I’m using S3 as a datastore - it stores chunks locally before uploading to S3.
Here’s the issue: I try to backup a VM from another server (Proxmox 1). The VM’s storage is 300 GB, but actual usage is under 30 GB. Everything works fine until it hits 34% (104 GB of data). At that point, the PBS VM and the host server itself become completely unreachable. I have to force power off and restart.
I understand why PBS might crash – my VM has 4 GB RAM, 2 CPU cores, and my internet is only around 60–70 Mbps—but why would the host server hang as well?
Has anyone experienced something like this? Could it be networking, storage, or something else in Proxmox causing the host to become unresponsive when PBS gets busy? Any ideas or advice would be appreciated!
For further context: lemmy.buddyverse.net/post/5455
New to Proxmox, Facing Issues with Homelab Setup - Need Advice
cross-posted from: lemmy.buddyverse.net/post/5454Hello everyone, I’m fairly new to Proxmox and struggling with my homelab setup. I have two machines running Proxmox 9: an HP EliteDesk 800 G5 Mini (Core i7-9700) and a Dell OptiPlex 7070 Micro (Core i3 9th gen). I’m running into several issues and would appreciate your insights.
- Networking Issue on EliteDesk: I have two VMs (both Ubuntu Server 24.04 LTS) on the same bridge (default vmbr0, I haven't modified any network settings in proxmox). If I stop or shut down one VM, the other loses internet connectivity. I can still access the applications from my home network using IP address (192.268.x.x).
- Backup Setup on OptiPlex: I’m running a Proxmox Backup Server VM with Backblaze B2 as an S3 datastore. This is working fine so far.
- Backup Problems on EliteDesk: I’m using default LVM-thin for VMs. Backups take a very long time and often freeze at 1-2%. Shutting down the VM cleanly afterward is nearly impossible. I’ve tried both Stop and Snapshot modes, but the issue persists. When a VM becomes unresponsive, it triggers the networking issue above. Would switching to ZFS help? If so, how can I migrate without losing any data?
- Hardware Acceleration for Jellyfin: On the EliteDesk, I’d like to enable hardware acceleration for a VM running Jellyfin (in Docker) using the i7-9700’s UHD 630 iGPU. Can anyone recommend a clear guide specific to this CPU? The Proxmox documentation isn’t very detailed for Intel GPUs.
The networking issue is the most frustrating. Has anyone encountered similar bridge problems? Any advice on fixes or next steps would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!
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I haven't tried a USB adapter with proxmox, but there's a chance it would work. I was also looking at a cheap pcie card like this one as a way to add another ethernet port.
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That being said, the steps in the link that David gave have worked for me to stop the hardware hang issue with the intel nic. Basically disable tcp segmentation offload and generic segmentation offload with ethtool -K eno1 tso off gso off. You can add a post-up command to the interace config to make it persistent.
Proxmox Backup Server VM crashes take down host - any idea why?
cross-posted from: lemmy.buddyverse.net/post/1043…
I recently upgraded my network from a basic router to a Netgear GS108E Gigabit switch. Backups are now way faster, which is great… but now I’ve run into a new problem.I run Proxmox Backup Server (PBS) in a VM on one of my servers (let’s call it Proxmox 2). PBS has 100 GB of cache storage since I’m using S3 as a datastore - it stores chunks locally before uploading to S3.
Here’s the issue: I try to backup a VM from another server (Proxmox 1). The VM’s storage is 300 GB, but actual usage is under 30 GB. Everything works fine until it hits 34% (104 GB of data). At that point, the PBS VM and the host server itself become completely unreachable. I have to force power off and restart.
I understand why PBS might crash – my VM has 4 GB RAM, 2 CPU cores, and my internet is only around 60–70 Mbps—but why would the host server hang as well?
Has anyone experienced something like this? Could it be networking, storage, or something else in Proxmox causing the host to become unresponsive when PBS gets busy? Any ideas or advice would be appreciated!
For further context: lemmy.buddyverse.net/post/5455
New to Proxmox, Facing Issues with Homelab Setup - Need Advice
cross-posted from: lemmy.buddyverse.net/post/5454Hello everyone, I’m fairly new to Proxmox and struggling with my homelab setup. I have two machines running Proxmox 9: an HP EliteDesk 800 G5 Mini (Core i7-9700) and a Dell OptiPlex 7070 Micro (Core i3 9th gen). I’m running into several issues and would appreciate your insights.
- Networking Issue on EliteDesk: I have two VMs (both Ubuntu Server 24.04 LTS) on the same bridge (default vmbr0, I haven't modified any network settings in proxmox). If I stop or shut down one VM, the other loses internet connectivity. I can still access the applications from my home network using IP address (192.268.x.x).
- Backup Setup on OptiPlex: I’m running a Proxmox Backup Server VM with Backblaze B2 as an S3 datastore. This is working fine so far.
- Backup Problems on EliteDesk: I’m using default LVM-thin for VMs. Backups take a very long time and often freeze at 1-2%. Shutting down the VM cleanly afterward is nearly impossible. I’ve tried both Stop and Snapshot modes, but the issue persists. When a VM becomes unresponsive, it triggers the networking issue above. Would switching to ZFS help? If so, how can I migrate without losing any data?
- Hardware Acceleration for Jellyfin: On the EliteDesk, I’d like to enable hardware acceleration for a VM running Jellyfin (in Docker) using the i7-9700’s UHD 630 iGPU. Can anyone recommend a clear guide specific to this CPU? The Proxmox documentation isn’t very detailed for Intel GPUs.
The networking issue is the most frustrating. Has anyone encountered similar bridge problems? Any advice on fixes or next steps would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!
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Bangladesh Backs 'Global Superpower' Russia & BRICS as Key Global South Alternative - Ambassador
Bangladesh Backs 'Global Superpower' Russia & BRICS as Key Global South Alternative - Ambassador
In a wide-ranging interview with Sputnik, His Excellency Nazrul Islam, the Ambassador of Bangladesh to Russia, provides a comprehensive overview of the deep and historically rooted bilateral relationship.Sputnik International
Indoctrination or Imagination? The West's Russia Scare Machine
Indoctrination or Imagination? The West's Russia Scare Machine
Western media portrayals of Russian “indoctrination camps” reveal more about Western anxieties than the actual content of Russia’s domestic and militaryФил Батлер (New Eastern Outlook)
Quitter les GAFAM en étant pas trop geek
Hello,
Depuis le début de l’année, j’ai doucement remis en cause mes habitudes de consommation et d’usages du “numérique”. Je voulais me passer des produits et services qui nuisent à l’informatique et l’Internet communautaire et bienveillant. Je suis parti de loin : Environnement logiciel 100% Google (Gmail, Google Drive etc), Windows et gros utilisateur des sites des GAFAM.
Je suis un profil classique : Je ne suis pas du tout dans l’informatique mais je sais utiliser un ordinateur. Je n’ai jamais aimé ouvrir un terminal avec un fond noir ou violet et j’aime toujours pas, mais s’il faut taper quelques commandes, je sais suivre un tuto.
J’y ai passé un peu de temps, mais aujourd’hui je n’utilise plus beaucoup des produits des GAFAM. Je me suis dit que mon retour d’expérience pourrait être pertinent à poster ici. Si cela peut aider ou convaincre des gens comme moi à passer le pas.
Je vais rester très synthétique, mais énumérer quand même mes motivations et mes objectifs avant d’évoquer les alternatives que j’utilise aujourd’hui. Je pense que c’est intéressant car j’ai parfois des discussions où j’ai du mal de rassembler les arguments qui me permettent d’appuyer mes motivations.
Note : Je n’évoque pas les enjeux écologiques et sociaux mais c’est une problématique à part entière. J’espère prendre le temps prochainement de repenser mes habitudes en prenant ces aspects en compte.
Mes motivations
Pourquoi éviter les GAFAM
- Tout ce que l’on fait en ligne est collecté, analysé, profilé
- Nos goûts, déplacements, relations sociales deviennent une matière première pour alimenter la publicité ciblée
- Chaque entreprise enferme ses utilisateurs dans un écosystème difficile à quitter
- Ils imposent des cycles rapides de renouvellement matériel/logiciel
- Les mises à jour rendent souvent les anciens appareils inutilisables ou ralentis
- Ils dépensent des sommes colossales pour influencer les gouvernements et façonner les lois en leur faveur. Ils deviennent capables d’imposer leurs règles au monde.
Le problème spécifiquement avec Apple
- Le business modèle d’Apple repose sur la captation totale : enfermement dans un écosystème propriétaire, non interopérabilité des produits Apple avec d’autres marques, obsolescence programmée (ou psychologique).
- Exemples de non interopérabilité : airdrop impossible à utiliser avec d’autres OS, les airpods qui marchent mal avec Android, le port lighting etc.
- Les iMessage en bleu vs vert ce n’est pas un bug c’est volontaire (et ça devient un marqueur social).
- Apple a imposé l’idée que la technologie est quelque chose qui doit être verrouillé, centralisé, contrôlé par une entité unique. Elle nous a donné l’illusion que l’innovation n’existe que dans le cadre d’un monopole.
- Les consommateurs ne choisissent plus un produit pour ses qualités intrinsèques, mais parce qu’ils ont intégré qu’ils doivent rester dans l’écosystème.
- Un produit Apple est un marqueur social. L’entreprise a réussi à transformer un objet utilitaire en symbole identitaire, en signe d’appartenance sociale.
- Apple a transformée la technologie en vitrine consumériste : tu n’es pas un utilisateur, tu es un client, et ton identité sociale se mesure aux nombre de produits Apple que tu as dans ton sac.
- Apple est l’une des entreprises qui a le plus contribué à la dépossession numérique : elle a retiré aux individus la capacité de comprendre, modifier, réparer, détourner les outils qu’ils utilisent. Elle a remplacé le partage par le verrouillage et l’innovation collective par la dépendance à un géant.
Mes petits problèmes
J’ai des logiciels métiers qui fonctionnent sous Windows (la suite Adobe, les logiciels Blackmagic). J’ai donc un PC portable sous Windows pour le travail.
Ma banque m’impose une application et je ne peux pas utiliser cette appli sur un téléphone rooté. Je n’ai donc pas encore pu changer l’OS de mon téléphone.
Les logiciels
Objectifs :
- Privilégier des logiciels open source et qui utilisent des standards.
Les logiciels de bases
Système d’exploitation pour PC : Debian et KDE
- Très bonne surprise, ça a été très rapide à installer. Je n’ai pas eu besoin de lancer le terminal, sauf pour les drivers NVIDIA (voir ce site : wiki.debian.org/fr/NvidiaGraph…)
Navigateur Internet : Mozilla Firefox
- Linux et Android
Client mail : Mozilla Thunderbird
- Linux et Android
Bureautique : Onlyoffice
- Linux et Android
- Très moyen sur Android
Lecteur audio vidéo : VLC
Gestionnaire de mots de passe : KeepassXC pour Linux et KeepassDX pour Android
Messageries instantanées
Objectifs :
- Privilégier des logiciels décentralisés et sécurisés
XMPP :
- Dino pour Linux
- Cheogram pour Android
Signal : Client éponyme sur toutes les plateformes
Sur mon NAS (Synology DS923+)
- Serveur vidéo et musique : Jellyfin
- Jellyfin est vachement bien. Ça remplace sans problème Plex.
- Drive : Synology Drive
- Protocol webdav pris en charge dans l’explorateur de KDE et Owlfiles sur Android (j’ai pas trouvé mieux)
Services web
J’ai décidé de partir chez Infomaniak car leurs offres sont assez simple à comprendre et leurs outils facile à utiliser, pour un prix, des valeurs et des fonctionnalités correctes. J’en parle ici : jlai.lu/post/15930302
- Serveur mail : Infomaniak
- Serveur contact : Infomaniak
- Protocole carddav pris en charge par Thunderbird pour Linux et DAVx⁵ pour Android
- Serveur agenda : Infomaniak
- Protocole caldav pris en charge par Thunderbird pour Linux et DAVx⁵ pour Android
- Drive : Infomaniak
- Protocol webdav (dispo dans la formule payante de Infomaniak) pris en charge dans l’explorateur de KDE et Owlfiles sur Android
Se divertir et s’informer
Même si aucun de mes proches ne s’est intéressé à ces alternatives, j’ai quand même créé des comptes et mis en favoris ces sites.
Réseaux sociaux
- Instance Lemmy (Reddit en fédéré) : jlai.lu
- Client sur téléphone : Blorp
- Instance Mastodon (Twitter en fédéré) : piaille.fr
- Instance Peertube (Youtube en fédéré) : indymotion.fr
- Instance Pixelfed (Instagram en fédéré) : pixelfed.fr
Presse
- Flux RSS : Dans Thunderbird
- Très décevant, ça fonctionne mais ça donne pas envie de l’utiliser
Musiques et podcast
- Magasin de musiques : Bandcamp
- Écouter des podcasts depuis le navigateur : Je n’ai rien trouvé de génial
Spécifique au téléphone
Cartographie (lecture, itinéraire, création de GPX etc) : Organic Map
- Je suis tellement fan d’Organic Map. Cette application est merveilleuse.
Podcasts : Antenna Pod
Magasin d'application : F-Droid
Gestion des photos : Synology Photos (pas idéal)
Sites web de cartographie
Objectifs :
- Se passer de Google Maps (c’est très dur)
- Privilégier des commerces et des initiatives qui ont du sens
Sites :
- Site web de carto OSM avec possibilité de faire des itinéraires : cartes.app/
- BRouter, pour calculer des itinéraires : brouter.damsy.net/latest/#map=…
- Carte des alternatives : transiscope.gogocarto.fr
- Cartes des commerces locaux : presdecheznous.gogocarto.fr
- Carte des magasins vracs : cartovrac.fr/
- Carte des magasins zéro dechet : zerodechet.gogocarto.fr/
- Equivalent Street View sur OSM et participatif : panoramax.openstreetmap.fr
- Pour publier les photos depuis le téléphone : f-droid.org/fr/packages/app.pa…
Alternatives à trouver
- Notion, en open source et à installer sur un NAS. Les alternatives que j’ai trouvé sont assez buguée.
- Un bon explorateur de fichier pour Android open source qui prenne en charge le webdav
- Une bonne appli pour les SMS pour Android open source et stable
- Un client Android pour XMPP qui soit aussi bien que le client de Signal
- Un client Linux pour écouter des podcasts
- Une suite bureautique open source bien faite pour Android
Les logiciels et projets intéressants que je n’utilise pas
- Nextcloud : Ça marche bien mais c’est trop lent sur mon NAS (qui pourtant n’est pas du tout surchargé), ça m’a saoulé
- Les applis Fossify pour Android. L’initiative est super mais les notifications de l’appli SMS ne fonctionnent pas toujours, la galerie met du temps à trouver les nouvelles photos, le clavier bugue. J’utilise uniquement l’application Agenda.
- Les chatons : Un groupe d’hébergeurs éthiques qui hébergent des services décentralisés.
Prochains sujets sur lesquels me pencher
- Je n’ai pas encore regardé les solutions pour jouer sous Linux. Il parait que Valve a bien amélioré les choses.
- Installer GrapheneOS sur mon téléphone, quitte à avoir un deuxième téléphone pourri sous l’Android de Google juste pour l’appli bancaire.
- DSM, l’OS de Synology, est trop cool. Peut être que je le remettrai en cause un jour.
Soutenir financièrement le développement open source
- soutenir.framasoft.org/fr/?f=n…
- supporting.openstreetmap.org/d…
- organicmaps.app/fr/donate/
- opencollective.com/
- liberapay.com/
Voilà voilà. C’est pas exhaustif mais je pense que cette petite liste peut permettre de gagner du temps aux personnes qui comme moi ne sont pas du milieu mais qui décident en 2025 de quitter les GAFAM. J’essaierai de mettre à jour ce post si je trouve de meilleurs logiciels et services.
N’hésitez pas à me faire des retours si vous voulez, je suis preneur =)
Bonne continuation !
Temptation Island E poi…e poi, anticipazioni del 22 settembre: Simone e Sonia in crisi, il mistero di Rosario
Il viaggio nei sentimenti sta per chiudersi definitivamente. Questa sera, lunedì 22 settembre 2025, su Canale 5 alle 21:30 andrà in onda l’ultima puntata di Temptation Island E poi…e poi, condotta da Filippo Bisciglia. Sarà l’occasione per scoprire cosa è successo alle coppie protagoniste durante l’estate e quali sorprese riserva il gran finale.
LEGGI LE ANTICIPAZIONI: Temptation Island E poi…e poi, anticipazioni del 22 settembre: Simone e Sonia in crisi, il mistero di Rosario
Temptation Island E poi…e poi - Anticipazioni 22 settembre 2025
Stasera l’ultima puntata di Temptation Island E poi…e poi. Anticipazioni: Simone e Sonia di nuovo separati e il destino di Rosario.Redazione (Atom Heart Magazine)
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For years, little was known about the multibillion-dollar company that handles data for the US immigration enforcement agency. Now, a cache of emails, training documents and reports sheds light on how Palantir helps Ice with investigations and on-the-ground enforcement
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Moscow hails African nation’s anti-colonial struggle
Moscow hails African nation’s anti-colonial struggle
Russia’s Foreign Ministry has hailed Mali’s independence as a definitive end of French dominationRT International
Kremlin labels UK a key supporter of Ukraine conflict
Kremlin labels UK a key supporter of Ukraine conflict
The comment by spokesman Dmitry Peskov follows US President Donald Trump’s visit to London last weekRT
Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon - Atto 7, con la collaborazione di Sailor V!
Stamattina ho letto il capitolo 7 di Sailor Moon e, per quanto non ci siano nuovissime rivelazioni intriganti, di momenti incredibili ce ne sono
It’s Happened: The United States of America Is No Longer a Democracy
It’s Happened: The United States of America Is No Longer a Democracy
Trump’s prosecution order to Bondi gives up the pretense. And the country is headed swiftly into unknown territory.The New Republic
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Schumer Refuses to Say Why He Hasn't Endorsed Mamdani
Schumer Refuses to Say Why He Hasn't Endorsed Mamdani
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer continued to play coy about whether he will endorse New York City Democratic mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani.Peter Wade (Rolling Stone)
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Donations for Turning Point USA pour in after founder Charlie Kirk’s death
from the never-let-a-crisis-go-to-waste dept.:
The powerful fundraising operation that rightwing activist Charlie Kirk led to build the influential college group Turning Point USA (TPUSA) is receiving a wave of support from large donors and Donald Trump allies since his murder, which suggests the group will remain a major force on the American right, campaign finance experts and consultants say.New backing and appeals for help to sustain TPUSA have come from, among others, Lynn Friess, the widow of mega-donor Foster Friess, who was Kirk’s first major backer when he formed his campus-focused Republican group in 2012 at the age of 18. Friess pledged $1m to TPUSA days after the 31-year-old’s killing.
In an email to friends and allies on the right, Friess wrote on 14 September that her donation was to support a surge in “new TPUSA chapters springing up across the country … helping this incredible movement grow even stronger”.
Run an hourslong ad masquerading as a memorial service, and this is a rather predictable result.
Donations for Turning Point USA pour in after founder Charlie Kirk’s death
Fundraising efforts ramp up to open new chapters of influential far-right group as Kirk’s widow takes over as CEOPeter Stone (The Guardian)
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in reply to layzerjeyt • • •Features | Inkscape
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in reply to anamethatisnt • • •Agree although surprisingly the About section is a little vague on some of what OP wanted.
OP, it's an SVG editor so should be perfect for real world projects you allude to. You can set the canvas size and change the default units with relative ease; Pixels, points, millimetres and inches but also Parsecs if you want to go wild, and as it's SVG it'll scale as needed without issue.
logosbynick.com/change-the-can…
There are also measurement tools too and areas can be calculated (but objects do need to be converted to paths to measure areas).
Everything else is covered in the about.
How To Change The Canvas Size in Inkscape | 3-Step Tutorial – Logos By Nick
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in reply to anamethatisnt • • •I've been hoping for inkscape to get usable for ages. I will always give it another shot.
So after trying it out, I will say it has improved a lot compared to 5-10, even 2 years ago. Some strange and unconfigurable UI decisions that waste huge amounts of screen space--- it takes about 3x as much as it should for what is displayed. Only my small laptop display the interface takes >25% of available screen real estate. It would be impossible to do anything substantial. They're still working out how to implement pallets-- but at least there are pallets now.
For this basic application I can deal with little odd stuff; every program has them.
Small problems for the question I posed: No unit of feet, but does have inches. There is a way to type the dimensions tho it's not as smooth as Sketchup and it sometimes adjusts the values --- I entered 58" but it became 57.570".
Main problem: Terrible stability. It has required hard reboot of my computer twice and killing the application numerous times. They have some documentation about how to avoid these problems but none of them apply here. The first time it crashed all I had done was draw 2 plain rectangles. I have a pretty stable system, this is very unusual.
Also here is something fun: Preferences don't appear to be saved unless you properly exit. So when I spent time setting things up, then it crashed, everything went away. I experimented by setting a pref then quitting vs setting a pref then killing. Killing results in reset of the pref.
Crashing and stability aside it is massive improvement.
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in reply to layzerjeyt • • •Sweet Home 3D - Logiciel de décoration intérieure
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in reply to layzerjeyt • • •you mentioned CAD was a bit too much for what you are looking for; however, there is a simple code-only cad program that makes simple tasks like making a shape super easy: openscad
openscad.org/
example:
Circle(17);
makes a 17mm radius circle.
OpenSCAD
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in reply to layzerjeyt • • •Free online vector editor & procedural design tool
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in reply to tasankovasara • • •Working With Layers
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in reply to layzerjeyt • • •Mass nouns don't work like that, my dude.
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in reply to layzerjeyt • • •Take a look at Draw.io. It has an online mode, but also binary downloads for most operating systems (with everything saved locally).
I agree on your assessment of SketchUp - the old 2017 binary is still my go-to for woodworking design, even if it is a Windows install.
layzerjeyt
in reply to mko • • •Can't think of any better designed and built software package I ever used than sketchup desktop. I wasted soooo much time making needlessly detailed 3d renderings of things around me. I sort of specifically dont want anything that good because it was way too engaging and a real time sink. So fun though. I miss it.
Its criminal to throw that much good code in the trash. If the companies don't want it it should revert to worker control or go to an archive/conservation organization. Another great product destroyed by capitalism.
I now need the try the various viable programs that have been recommended.