Yep, we will, because it is in our interest. It is also in the US’s interest, but unfortunately some are too short sighted to see this.

The EU (and it’s member states) have sent almost double the amount of funding the US has.

https://www.ifw-kiel.de/topics/war-against-ukraine/ukraine-support-tracker/

This article sounds extremely fishy and borderline conspiracy-like to me.

Imho the only guarantee of privacy I need is the source code.

Yes, but if you intend to mainly use flatpak you might want to try fedora Silverblue

No, you can’t : in an immutable distro I can reasonably trace almost any file in the filesystem back to the package that created it, and know with a reasonable degree of certainty that the installed version of said file has not been tampered with. That isn’t possible an a normal distro.

Please do share with me what I do not understand.

A mostly read only filesystem built from a limited number of packages, with other files being in a fixed number of locations mean it is harder for malware to hide.

Very good choice :D

I used to daily drive arch, until university, when I got frustrated at the issues it caused me and the time I needed to solve them.

I’d recommend fedora if you want real solid stability.

I don’t think the DE itself matters, but I can recommend using an immutable OS (makes it harder to install malware) and installing flatpak apps only. You can also use software like flatseal to further lock down permissions

There is so much wrong with this post. Half of the points raised are utter bullshit

We have to wait and see for eIDAS, let’s hope with the changes to eIDAS dead, we’ll have at least a few years of the Commission not proposing some dumb surveillance shit

The latest text has not yet been released, but when it is you will see a separation between Identification and Encryption. It is also clearly stated that browsers are allowed to do whatever they want regarding recognition of CAs for encryption. tl;dr the status quo for encryption (linking a domain to a server) does not change, browsers will only be forced to recognise identity (linking a organisation to a server). This will force a re-engineering of QWACs/EV certs in general in favour of something like ntqwacs.

So jarring that you couldn’t just… Press no?

Just a heads up: new wording has killed this.

Parliament’s position on the proposed law will now be against chat control, but the fight is not over: next we have to negotiate with member states. It’s vital we keep the pressure on governments to end this madness.

It’s not a new law. The GDPR has been around for years, but meta only recently lost a legal case saying that they cannot contractually force users to provide their data in exchange for access to the service.

But the GDPR also says consent has to be freely given, some interpet this as meaning that forcing people to pay in order for their data not to be used for ads is not freely given consent.

This is more than likely illegal in the EU…

This is more than likely illegal in the EU…

Weirdly most of Europe is experiencing aurora rn

Fairphone 4 with CalyxOS