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[–] [email protected] 2 points 21 hours ago

The fundamental issue is that these days there isn’t European software (and I doubt even American software).

We all rely on a supply chain of software. This open source library from a French guy hosted on an GitHub, this linkable but closed source library for interacting with this piece of hardware, this componed developed by people all around the world and hosted in Germany.

Heck even the Linux kernel kicked out Russian maintainers for this exact reason.

If the S* will hit the fan as the s* promised during election, I expect more and more government mandated backdoors.

Imagine the s*show of log4j but this time in boost or gcc std library made in a way that seems an innocent mistake, hard to trigger and hidden in the changelog and submitted at the same time a legitimate change in the same file happen

 

I am really fed up with WhatsApp (closed source, jurisdiction that may impose backdoors soon)

I would even try to convince friends and family to move to something else but to what?

Signal so far has been the obvious choice but the fear that they may impose backdoors becomes more and more concrete.

Threema seems great! But they want 3€ and there is no chance in hell that my friends and family would pay it.

I saw a bunch of options on https://european-alternatives.eu/category/instant-messaging-apps but I would like to gather experiences and opinions

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

Except that countries like Canada has laws that makes it possible to happen

I would be curious to read a reference to that… not that any country cares just they history on how they agreed on something like that

[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

And by major, here we mean a free newspaper of mediocre quality that is distributed at the tram/bus stops.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

Right they should have peacefully be annexed to Soviet Union 2.0

I guess you would have gone with that

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago

Hey in the middle age people weren’t working that much… more first Industrial Revolution 🙂

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Would the US leave the NATO military bases in Europe? Because that would be huge and would reduce a lot the US military presence in Europe. And, with that, influence in Europe…

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

And this is exactly the reason I am here 😃

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Otherwise you don’t get all operators being able to read your messages, all the vulnerabilities of SS7 (so not only your operator, any random dude with experience can read your messages)

So many advantages!

But it is compatible with iMessage that it is what really matters, really 😂

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Awesome list! Much better than a list I would make 🙂

I would just change slightly the “What can I do to help?” (That is a call for a “nothing”) to “How can I help?” (That shows much more enthusiasm in wanting to help)

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Every action involves a reaction.

You cut taxes? What will be lost? This is not an exception.

Half million people that have literally nothing to lose (even a prison may be a safer place for them) is quite an army. Desperate people are famous for doing desperate things.

This will not end up well and not only for the homeless

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

As long he doesn’t win he can run as much as he wants

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

What do you mean with that?

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