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With the Chat Control bill entering its final stage, the EU Council has been busy thinking about what a new data retention framework could look like.

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[–] pleksi@sopuli.xyz 1 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

A self hosted vpn on a vps droplet would have the same issue as a vpn provider, no? They'd (the vps provider) would have logs of the adresses you've connected to etc.

[–] icerunner_origin@startrek.website 51 points 2 days ago (3 children)

How do we persuade our elected politicians to stop trying to speedrun authoritarianism and fascism?

[–] JustJack23@slrpnk.net 33 points 2 days ago

By liberal application of the guillotine

[–] kubica@fedia.io 15 points 2 days ago

Crowd Bribing? I don't know anymore.

[–] Goodlucksil@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 days ago

Vote left-wing politicians, e.g. the Greens

[–] tocano@piefed.social 13 points 2 days ago

Crucially, the document reveals that EU governments see metadata – specifically traffic and location history – as the most vital tool for law enforcement.

Ah, yes. Store data at the risk of it being hacked or used by companies in order to protect the people from themselves.

[–] karashta@piefed.social 11 points 2 days ago (3 children)

I'm at a loss as to what to do should Mullvad fall to this shit. I could try something self hostable but I'm really not that skilled with that kind of thing. 

Any suggestions?

Mullvad will need to move to a new country with a different legislation. iVPN HQ is based on Gibraltar to escape German legislation.

[–] iloveDigit@piefed.social -1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Mullvad is already a honeypot

I'm not sure if this changes anything for ones like airvpn but if so we'll just fight back with stuff like Tor, I guess

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I'm self-hosting an OpenVPN instance on a Digital Ocean droplet in Amsterdam. I built it from the ground up several years ago, looks WAY easier now.

https://openvpn.net/as-docs/digitalocean.html#digitalocean-vpn-server-guide-for-droplet-and-access-server

Haven't used that particular doc, but what they had posted when I built mine was the clearest, most complete tech documentation I've ever followed. Big fan of Digital Ocean! Think I'm paying <$7/mo. for the server?

Not necessary, but if you want a domain name to point to karashta.whatever.name, NameCheap is my go-to registrar. Like Digital Ocean, cheap and comes with top-notch tech support.

[–] Mikina@programming.dev 1 points 22 hours ago

I've eventually switched from NameCheap to Cloudfare, because they kept drastically raising my email domain price.

Cloudfare is one of the few (not sure if the only one) who has guaranteed wholesale prices (as in, the prices set by the tld owner), with nothing added on top. I moved my domain over, and I saved around 15$ a month.

The best thing to do is buy a domain in some other registrar, like NameCheap, because they will give you the domain for cheaper than wholesale (and then raise your price by a lot in the next few years, way above wholesale). So I just buy it cheap, and once the next renewal is higher than wholesale, I move it over to Cloudfare and keep it there.

[–] webkitten@piefed.social 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

/usr/bin/retain-logs --days-to-keep 365 > /dev/null 2>&1