https://www.pine64.org/pinecil/

The ARM company is also owned by Softbank which launders blood money from Saudi royalty/oligarchs: https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/10/i-wouldnt-take-that-money-saudi-arabias-dirty-investments-could-be-trouble-for-softbank

I really like that it exists, but I’m not sure where it would fit for me Not sure I personally need anything between smartphone and laptop I could imagine myself buying one anyway though just out of curiosity :)

Could be that there are enough middle-boxes inspecting/manipulating plain-text traffic? And those boxes do nothing (or do less) when the traffic is encrypted?

About the only thing we can really do about Microsoft is to stop using Windows/Office/Azure, stop buying computers that are preloaded with Windows/Office, stop buying and playing Xbox, etc

Stop directly giving money to any company that we cannot trust

If we don’t do these things, then Microsoft will continue to have the power to do things, and we’ll only have ourselves to blame

It’s at feature-parity for me, personally

I’ve been using it for at least 2 years (via GNOME, then sway, now river), and it’s pretty rare now that I hit a rough patch or a paper cut

Even Zoom seems like it’s finally doing screen-capture via proper xdg-desktop-portal requests now, which is nice

Yeah, I’ve been using Wayland for years now and haven’t looked back

I have a feeling that EFF would be delighted that good security/privacy is becoming easier and becoming the default

Huh, TIL: https://www.weforum.org/organizations/mozilla-corporation

Yeah, I hate the excitement over any potential “fix” that doesn’t require us to change our way of life even just slightly

Living slightly less convenient but also less wasteful lives is the solution, and we could do it now if we just had the (political) will

I’m on my first re-watch since reading them all, and it’s even more moving now

Okay, I could be wrong about this, but …

My understanding is that from e.g. Facebook’s perspective, they previously would be able to see that you visited a newspaper website, and then a food delivery website, and then a furniture review website (assuming all of these websites had Facebook like/share/login buttons somewhere, and even if you never click these Facebook buttons)

But, with Total Cookie Protection, from Facebook’s perspective, they know someone visited the newspaper website, and they know someone (maybe someone else) visited the food delivery website, and they know someone (maybe yet another person) visited the furniture review website: they can’t connect the dots

However, the above example assumes that you aren’t logged in to Facebook

I’m actually not sure how this would be different if you were logged in to Facebook

Or, what if you actually did want to use the Facebook login on all of these websites? I suppose from Facebook’s perspective you have 3x different computers? And in terms of user experience, you have to log in to Facebook 3x times?

https://lemmy.ml/post/311578/comment/205387

Are we talking about liberals or libertarians?

According to wikipedia, these are not the same thing:

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberalism
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libertarianism

The mature answer is “it depends”

Absolutes are rarely 100% true, and it entirely depends on your perspective, your use cases, and your expectations

Neither DuckDuckGo nor CloudFlare (the other favourite punching bag around here) have surveillance capitalism business models, but they do require you to trust someone else’s software running on someone else’s computers, and you still need to communicate with them over someone else’s networks

From my own perspective, which suits me fine but might not suitable for you, I prefer to avoid surveillance capitalism companies like Facebook/Meta, Amazon, Google

I’m also not a free-speech maximalist: I want to live in a world where information flows freely, but I acknowledge that not every single idea deserves exactly the same amplification

The same people screeching about DuckDuckGo and CloudFlare regarding censorship are often exactly the same people claiming that LGBTQIA and Black history education is not “age appropriate”, so even free-speech maximalists are rarely consistent

I don’t know if the project supports other destination languages, but I wonder if it always uses the language that your browser is set to?

It’d be nice if it wasn’t possible to be both this powerful and this uneducated

Yeah, I deeply wish it wasn’t possible for companies to conceal the true cost of something and intentionally run at a loss

It just creates an unsustainable mess, that inevitably comes undone

If it costs $30 per user to run the service, then charge that, simple

I found Jibaro very visually striking and a little haunting

UEFI Secure Boot ended up being a pretty good example of how to do cryptographic requirements well: require signatures, but allow the owner of the hardware to use their own keys