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Thank god we don't live in some ridiculous Eastern European mass surveilance red terror dystopia. Anything even remotely close will never happen under a democratic leadership

[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 weeks ago

FOSS Communities:

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Many messengers did

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Am I weird, or it doesn't look bad?

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago

Every state wants a monopoly on violence. The more powerful the state, the less there are entities that could opress you except the state itself. So it's not unexpected that the cops would object to have a "competitor" with facial recognition technology

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 months ago

I've been doing this for a few years and eventually got tired of whitelisting websites. I've went as far as using NoScript for fine-grained control, but what's the point? If you need a single feature JS, or a single article on a domain, you will let everything run if you grant the permissions, so why bother?

Better keep JS on and run an up-to-date browser with a custom DNS to filter out known malicious websites. Also, don't visit random links, that's an actually good advice.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

You can do that, but Simplex has a limit on the amount of users in a group due to encryption. There is no point in using an e2ee messenger for public announcements

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

You need to trigger the initial fetch of your community first. You can do so by searching for it from the desired instance's search bar as !yourcommunity@youtinstance. After a few minutes the posts from this newly federated community should appear in the instance's feed.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Tf is LEA? I can't find any relevant info on what this is.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 5 months ago (8 children)

How is IA profitable?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (4 children)

GPay doesn't work on GrapheneOS IIRC.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Average looking house in Ukraine. Khrushchovka that itself doesn't look too good is ruined by the fact that each flat was renovated with 0 attention to how the other ones look. There are usually some white walls, some gray, some are still orange form the bricks, some balconies have windows, some don't.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

😂😂 this is all very funny, bud, but if you make such assumptions without proofs you will quickly go insane.

Inel ME is ridiculously complex for the goal of collecting telemetry. Intel uses drivers for that purpose.

ME is likely used for security. Not yours, though:

  1. Security of the company, for example, when someone decides to steal large amount of CPUs or something like that. We've seen something similar when a South African shop was robbed of Samsung TVs, which were remotely disabled.
  2. National security. Obviously, should a great war break out that would directly confront NATO, the US would be quick to pressure Intel into remotely messing with enemy country's computers.
 

Just for the context GUR is Ukraine's Main Intelligence Agency. Practically like the CIA is in the US.


The relevant part, translated:

BBC: You recently spoke about Telegram being a problem for Ukraine.

Kyrylo Budanov: I can repeat that again for you. It is a huge problem.

BBC: And what can be done about it?

Kyrylo Budanov: Or, as they say, to put it in order - at least legally force everyone to register, so it is clear who is behind which media resource, and Telegram has already definitely acquired the status of media. There is no question of influence or pressure - the issue is not about that. If you want to promote your position - and it may not please someone and that is normal in a democratic society - take responsibility. What are you afraid to say who you are?

BBC: So you're talking about anonymous Telegram channels?

Kyrylo Budanov: They are all anonymous. Do you know a single Telegram channel that openly said I am this person? That's the answer.

BBC: Could their closure become a solution to this problem? Blocking?

Kyrylo Budanov: Temporarily yes, but I still believe they need to be forced to register. This will not be pressure on the press. In a democratic society, I say again, you cannot simply exert pressure...

Why am I even telling you this? You are a media representative. Would you be very happy if someone came to you and said: that's it, from now on you write like this? Of course, that would be abnormal. But being afraid to say who you are is also wrong. And throwing anything into the ether on behalf of an anonymous person, excuse me, paid from completely different parts of the world is also abnormal.


"We're not pressuring them, we are merely holding them accountable"

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