Privacy should be a basic human right.
Data collection could be massively abused by oppressive governments.
Not caring about it = Not caring about your rights.
Full stack developer and privacy advocate. I like to keep the mentality, if you can program one language well, then you can program in any language!
Privacy should be a basic human right.
Data collection could be massively abused by oppressive governments.
Not caring about it = Not caring about your rights.
OP I agree with you, it’s a great idea imo.
I’ve been a moderator before on a Discord server with +1000 members, for one of my FOSS projects,
and maintenance against scam / spam bots grew so bad,
that I had to get a team of moderators + an auto moderation bot + wrote an additional moderation bot myself!..
Here is the source to that bot, might be usable for inspiration or just plain usable some other users:
https://github.com/Rikj000/Discord-Auto-Ban
I think it will only be a matter of time before the spam / scam bots catch up to Lemmy,
so it’s good to be ahead of the curve with auto-moderation.
However I also partially agree with @dohpaz42, auto-moderation on Reddit is very, uhm, present.
Imo auto moderation should not really be visible to non-offenders.
Sure hope so.
Would be handy if they included a pre-written pdf to oppose this proposition + emails or forms to easily submit your opposition to each of the countries.
Instead it’s a general “contact your government”,
which 99% of normal people do not know how to do, me included.
Never give up,
each eye you poke out is one less they can use for data collection.
It’s a slow process and they’ll grow more eyes,
but the less they have on you,
the more private you’ll be.
I feel you :/
I’d answer with:
Because it’s a privacy nightmare.
They’ll answer with:
I don’t care about privacy,
I’ve got nothing to hide.
I’ll answer with:
That’s a dumb reply,
my privacy is not important,
but systematic privacy is,
if we don’t care about it,
we’ll end up in a oppressed surveillance state like China.
And then they say “huh” and likely will continue to not care… ;-;
However it does make some aware,
in which I’m putting my faith.
All I want to know is how it can be removed / disabled permanently from my work laptop when it reaches it.
Hope these will help with opting out for data collection / informing yourself about it:
Wikiless?
The original project was taken down by Wikipedia, but this appears to be an active fork of it:
https://github.com/Metastem/wikiless
Dear politicians,
stop assaulting our rights,
and start fighting for our rights,
unless you’d like to be yeeted out of parliament.
With kind regards,
every aware citizen.
Correct:
https://hiphish.github.io/blog/2023/10/18/grayjay-is-not-open-source/
For that reason I use Tubular,
a fork of NewPipe which supports SponsorBlock + ReturnYouTubeDislike:
https://github.com/polymorphicshade/Tubular
Legacy software still requires maintenance.
Legacy dependencies still require to be used in new projects.
Dual booting multiple times a day is not feasible.
For those reasons none of my co-workers can fully switch to Linux.
I write PHP on the daily and don’t understand the hate it gets :/
At least I can work on Linux at home while my co-workers are stuck on Windows with their C#
RedLib, the continuation of LibReddit,
still works:
https://github.com/redlib-org/redlib
I use it in combination with this GreaseMonkey script,
to redirect me to a random RedLib instance:
https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/469587-reddit-to-libreddit-redirect
Due to instances often going down and/or stop working.
This is not a fair comparison.
Instead you should compare Chrome with FireFox.
And Brave (privacy focused Chrome fork)
with LibreWolf (privacy focused FireFox fork).
I’ll stick with LibreWolf,
no way I’ll drive anything Chromium based as my main browser.
Nice, thank you, got my star!
Will be using this soon to find a new anime to watch :D
Or Tubular,
a fork of NewPipe,
with SponsorBlock + ReturnYouTubeDislike support
First time I hear about it.
Briefly looked into it,
and it does appear to be a good/valid private chat client :)
Imagine living in China,
where the government is able to request data of each company in their country.
Imagine that China would setup an AI/LLM, to feed all private chat data into it,
and automatically flagging opposition of the government regime.
Imagine a white van appearing in front of your house and disappearing into a concentration camp because you got flagged after expressing your opposition to the government to your mate in a private chat.
All collected data can be abused like that,
or by other means (E.g. a country at war gets hacked, which could lead to leaking critical private information on political/defensive decisions).
To me the question is not if data collected on you will be abused, but rather when will it be abused?
Just having it stored somewhere imposes risks.