Hi
I'm playing with the idea of buying Red Strike by Vulca Simulations, I have friends that would be up for a few games. We all played Axis & Allies before, which is a bit easier than Red Strike as far as I see. I also plan to play it by my self (the scenarios look very interesting).
Any thoughts or experiences?
Surprising third-act twist as Russian case means more freedom for all
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/11992277
> European Court of Human Rights declares backdoored encryption is illegal::Surprising third-act twist as Russian case means more freedom for all
This is a really cool idea, will share it around!
Maybe add the website on the GitHub-Repo as the projetc-site URL, makes it easier to navigate.
I buy all my Linux cloths from HelloTux: https://www.hellotux.com
Their statement on the about page wonderful!
We believe that free and open source software is better than proprietary. We also believe that we can change how people use technology. If you are the kind of person who likes freedom and fun, promote free software with us!
And they go on:
HELLOTUX is a family project of Gábor Kum, a Linux system administrator, a Linux user since 1999. His wife Maria and his children are Linux users too.
As far as they explain they only use free software to create the patterns for the shirts (and now also backpacks!).
They also support FOSS projects with every sell they make:
This is not all. From your purchase we support free software, usually $3-5 from each product sold. But not everybody can accept money due to legal reasons, in this case, we give free shirts to developers.
I had some mails going back and forth with them, as I thanked for the stuff I got and they are lovley.
The quality is good and conformable, the oldest thing I have from them is a Tux-Hoodie I bought two or three years ago. It is still good and has the normal wear signs a hoodie has after a few years of use and washing.
Thanks for the insights, I'm also in the process of moving to more self-hosted services. Just finished transferring my media library to a Jellyfin instance for local movie/series watching. I also plan on self-hosting Matrix and Seraxng, will be my next project for the holidays.
I'm long thinking about installing the PI-Hole, I should just do it, not much work to do for a great addition to the network.
Hi all, a shy try to awake this community again :)
Whats your daily-routine for privacy, what are you using, what are you not doing?
Short summary of me:
- Phone -> LineageOS
- VPN -> Per perimeter (LAN, Mobile) -> different VPN providers
- Home network (More for security but also helps detecting privacy invasive applications) -> Firewall, IDS and ISP router is bridged
- Payment -> Cash where possible (Saved me some trouble when card machines were offline and most had to go somewhere else to have a meal)
- Browser -> Three to four different ones, per usage I use a different (Media, communication, bank etc)
- Browser extensions -> UblockOrigin, Decentraleyes, User-AGent-Switcher and NoScript
- Browser cache/history -> deleted once a month (I do not use credentials saved inside browsers)
- Online Calls -> Matrix
- OS -> Linux only household
- Mail -> Different providers and own domain with catch-all, so if a company sells my mail I will see it because it is COMPANYNAME@MYDOMAIN.COM
Thats on top of my head, what are your takes?
And now I want to play CMO again...
Both OpenAI and Google have released guidance for website owners who do not want the two companies using the content of their sites to train the company's large language models (LLMs). We've long been supporters of the right to scrape websites—the process of using a computer to load and read pages.....
Sadly I can't find the comment-feed I had with the admin (was a year ago +/-), but yes as far as I remember the admin does not want to defederate other instances. Which is also a stance I understand, especially with the neutral mentality Switzerland has (and this is a Swiss instance after all).
I hope the admin comments so we can see the thoughts itself and not some phrases I remember hazily :)
In general I think everyone should be able to connect to any instance, as I'm a big advocate of a free and unregulated internet.
But as with many principles there are exceptions, and big data harvesting cooperation are my exception. The idea of the Fediverse is to have a decentralized, free (in both ways, does not cost and libre) and privacy respecting place in a world, where more and more governments and companies start to regulate and decide on what the users can do.
When I look back on the history of those companies I neither like nor trust them, and I think it would be not only a needed action but also a statement when instances defedrate them. We can not stop the data harvesting, as this can be done with simple web crawlers. But with gate keeping (and I do not like it when people do it, but here, I think it is necessary), we can maybe bring the Fediverse more into the public eye. Because when we allow the Threads instances to federate, most people will just see it as Threads. They will not understand what the Fediverse is and will not see it as a new way of using the internet. The same kind of happened with Android, most do not know it is Linux and just talk about Android. I think for Android it is not a big problem, but the Fediverse is a movement, a change and statement people are fighting for, and it shall be and stay that, not just another protocol that is used to transfer likes.
At the beginning of this instance, I once asked the admin and if I remember correctly, a defederation of such instances is not seen as an action to take. Maybe we need to mobilize in other communities on feddit.ch to raise our concern.
(Pinned your post, as I think this is an important discussion to have)
Marketers tell antitrust cops privacy proxy will make it harder to protect kids online, etc etc
EFF warns incoming rules may return web 'to the dark ages of 2011'
In the absence of comprehensive federal privacy legislation in the United States, the targeted advertising industry, fueled by personal information harvested from our cell phone applications, has run roughshod over our privacy. Worse, the boundaries between corporate surveillance and government...
UK police forces and private firms urged to drop technology due to impact on human rights
> Dozens of cross-party MPs and peers have joined a campaign for an “immediate stop” to the use of live facial recognition surveillance by police and private companies.
> The statement said: “We hold differing views about live facial recognition surveillance, ranging from serious concerns about its incompatibility with human rights, to the potential for discriminatory impact, the lack of safeguards, the lack of an evidence base, an unproven case of necessity or proportionality, the lack of a sufficient legal basis, the lack of parliamentary consideration, and the lack of a democratic mandate.
Today, the Colorado Supreme Court became the first state supreme court in the country to address the constitutionality of a keyword warrant—a digital dragnet tool that allows law enforcement to identify everyone who searched the internet for a specific term or phrase. In a weak and ultimately...
> Today, the Colorado Supreme Court became the first state supreme court in the country to address the constitutionality of a keyword warrant—a digital dragnet tool that allows law enforcement to identify everyone who searched the internet for a specific term or phrase. In a weak and ultimately confusing opinion, the court upheld the warrant, finding the police relied on it in good faith. EFF filed two amicus briefs and was heavily involved in the case.
...
> Keyword warrants rely on the fact that it is virtually impossible to navigate the modern Internet without entering search queries into a search engine. By some accounts, there are over 1.15 billion websites, and tens of billions of webpages. Google Search processes as many as 100,000 queries every second. Many users have come to rely on search engines to such a degree that they routinely search for the answers to sensitive or unflattering questions that they might never feel comfortable asking a human confidant, even friends, family members, doctors, or clergy. Over the course of months and years, there is little about a user’s life that will not be reflected in their search keywords, from the mundane to the most intimate. The result is a vast record of some of users’ most private and personal thoughts, opinions, and associations.
Switzerland
A bit late but I was reading the comments and thought I share too.
Overall we are doing good, as far as I can tell, if not a little better than 20 or so years ago. But we also have problems that seem to getting bigger but not many seem to be concerned about them, as mentioned in an other comment people seem to be more disconnected and just follow their bubble interests.
For one, there is the global opinion the world has of us, the war in Ukraine really shook us and how we see our identity as a neutral nation. Our neutrality is now a big topic in discussions, especially the youth is very divided about it. Neutrality is something we all grow up with and see (or saw) it as a big part of our nations strength, how this will play out will show the referendums and initiatives that are planned for the next years, votes will decide.
Then there is the looming finance crisis that seems to come closer. Overall we are still doing good, as our inflation is very low in comparison to other EU countries (we even managed to lower inflation to a new low since a few years). Some now start to get financial problems, rents get raised yearly, public transport prices too and overall living gets even more expensive.
A new kind of crack floods the illegal drug market, and you can see junkies (sorry I do not know a better word) more and more. They not really bother others at the moment but you can sense a coming pandemic of this substance. Together with the financial problems I see a big danger in that.
There are other problems too, but those are the ones I see most present at the moment.
There are also good things of course, wages are high and steady when you work in specialized industries, going to university costs at most 700.- per semester, our government does not follow surveillance trends like the UK or EU. Overall I would still say, Switzerland is a good country to live and work in, I especially like our approach of direct democracy and our culture of privacy.
Today I found out that google docs infects html exports with spyware, no scripts, but links in your document are replaced with invisible google tracking redirects. I was using their software because a friend wanted me to work with him on a google doc, he is a pretty big fan of their software, but we...
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Today I found out that google docs infects html exports with spyware, no scripts, but links in your document are replaced with invisible google tracking redirects. I was using their software because a friend wanted me to work with him on a google doc, he is a pretty big fan of their software, but we were both somehow absolutely shocked that they would go that far
Google Docs exports automatically infected with tracking links:
- txt - unaffected
- html + AFFECTED
- odt - unaffected
- pdf - unaffected
- epub + AFFECTED
- rtf - unaffected
- docx - unaffected
Google says Topics warning is anti-innovative fearmongering
Hi all
I decided to add some new post categories because there where some discussion posts where it does not make sense to tag a country. To further organize the community the following tags can now be used:
- [ARTICLE] or [CH], etc: Sharing articles, blog posts etc, as before use country tags, or if not country specifig declare as article.
- [DISCUSSION]: Everything, that as the name suggests, should or will be discussed.
- [SEARCHING]: Looking for activists or supporters for privacy events/initiatives/referendums etc. If country specific combine with country tag.
- [GUIDE]: Explaining processes, laws or other how to's.
- [UPDATE]: News for our community, at the moment only for me as I'm the only moderator.
If there are other categories you would like to see, leave a comment.
The FBI recently released its proposed budget for 2024, and its request for a massive increase in funding for its DNA database should concern us all. The FBI is asking for an additional $53 million in funding to aid in the collection, organization, and maintenance of its Combined DNA Index System (....
The collection of DNA and other biometric idendity data can lead to a scary reach of surveillance.
What are the laws in other (your) countries regarding this? In 2008 the EU court of human rights already mentioned concerns regarding laws: > A summary of the current global situation and issues for debate highlights: (1) a growing global consensus on the need for legislative provisions for the destruction of biological samples and deletion of innocent people’s DNA profiles, following the European Court of Human Rights’ judgement on this issue in 2008; (2) emerging best practice on scientific standards and standards for the use of DNA in court which are necessary to prevent miscarriages of justice; (3) ongoing debate regarding the appropriate safeguards for DNA collection from suspects; restrictions on access, use and data sharing across borders; and data protection standards. Conclusion: There is an ongoing need for greater public and policy d
Source: Forensic DNA databases–Ethical and legal standards: A global review
The U.K. Parliament has passed the Online Safety Bill (OSB), which says it will make the U.K. “the safest place” in the world to be online. In reality, the OSB will lead to a much more censored, locked-down internet for British users. The bill could empower the government to undermine not just the p...
>The U.K. Parliament has passed the Online Safety Bill (OSB), which says it will make the U.K. “the safest place” in the world to be online. In reality, the OSB will lead to a much more censored, locked-down internet for British users. The bill could empower the government to undermine not just the privacy and security of U.K. residents, but internet users worldwide.
It was clear that the parlament would pass this terrible bill. The only thing to do now, is to hope that the EU does not follow the UK, but I'm rather pessimistic.
Time to prepare fallback technologies in case the now used services are delcared unlawfull and get forbidden or are forces to put backdoors in place.
Montana’s success in passing mostly reasonable privacy laws shows that concerns about privacy easily cut across political lines. While we wait for the federal government to pass any meaningful comprehensive privacy laws, states should look to Montana as a model for innovative ways to protect their o...
Diplomats debate Russia-backed rules on what can be said online
More than a dozen of the world's biggest tech companies face unprecedented legal scrutiny, as the European Union's sweeping Digital Services Act (DSA) imposes new rules on content moderation, user privacy and transparency.
Bluetooth-enabled location trackers such as Tiles and AirTags aren’t just a helpful way to find missing luggage or a misplaced wallet—they can also be easily slipped surreptitiously into a bag or car, allowing stalkers and abusers unprecedented access to a person’s location without their knowledge. ...
The top U.S. agency for consumer financial protection will announce plans at the White House on Tuesday to regulate companies that track and sell people's personal data, part of the Biden administration's widening scrutiny of that industry's privacy practices, officials said.
Smartphones are not a tool to manipulate and spy on tge population.
Oh boy, wait until you learn about Google-Analytics on Android phones, or how they predict (or lets say know) where traffic jams are. Does the Section 702 of the USA ring a bell?
They certainly started as a good idea, but they evolved into a widely used surveillance tool for companies and governments across the world.
True, but you can easily switch to Flatpaks and use them instead.
I think to start, Mint or Ubuntu is a good choice, it has support for most hardware and will probably run on whatever you install it.
Also something that I think most new Linux users should focus on; instead of distro pick the desktop environment (DE). As a beginner it does not really matter if you use, lets say, a Debian- or Fedora-based distro. Pick a DE that looks pleasing to you maybe GNOME or KDE and take the installation with that DE. Maybe do not start with Arch or Gentoo as they are for more experienced users that already have some Linux experience.
Distros will be way more interesting and important when you got a hold of Linux and you want to explore the differences of them.
Last tip: Make a separated /home directory, so when you want to change to a new distro you do not have to delete all your files and start over with an empty machine.
I wish you a good start into Linux and do not hesitate to ask questions if they arise!
Definitely not.
I think money can and will never play down the feeling of working for something/someone that is against your principles and ideology. Every day you get up to work, while drinking your morning coffee you will have thoughts and hate about the place you will start working after commuting.
And do not forget, you will mostly have friends with similar ideology, they will disapprove of this too. Good friends will stay nonetheless but discussions will arise portably more often than you’d like about your choosing a workplace that is against all you believe in.
When you just go and work wherever because the pay is good, then your ideology is not more than a façade you hold up for yourself.
I have Trackmania Stadium for that. Going into a full speed server (Only need to steer left or right while constantly press forward) and put some music up.
The flow of the race tracks together with the music is very nice and because no speed control is needed, no need to get into the physics and tracks to enjoy the game.
I can recommend to get into Trackmania when you have more time, the feeling of mastering a hard track is marvellous, but just speeding around is also fun as hell.
The government’s use of Section 702 is subject to extensive and rigorous oversight by all branches of government. All of these reviews have universally concluded that the government is properly using this authority to conduct foreign intelligence collection.
It is from a presentation to justify section 702, the law that NSA uses to spy on any person world wide. Snowden leakes showed the reach of the surveillance under Section 702.
Wait, so people decide on a phone based of OS because of blue or green chat message colors? This is the first time I'm hearing this, is this something more of a USA thing or does this apply to other ocuntries as well?
Buying a phone based on chat bubble color seems something that occurs in a toxic society, where you are judged based on phone model. And why do they then change to an other platform to write you?
I never had a discussion about Andriod or IPhone based on this parameter, it was more about UI, services and design of the phone. To be fair we all use third party messengers like Signal or Threema.
What is the stance of Feddit.ch on Threads, will (or has it already) defederate Threads?
When you want to watch YouTube but without the ads:
- NewPipe on phone
- Invidious on browser (under attack by Google at the moment, have to see how it goes)
And as others mentioned there are some alternatives:
- PeerTube
- Odysee
Don't know if it matters, I just take whatever tea I want at that moment :)
Yes, trough out the day, one to two cups while it is the hottest.
