That’s weird they decided to publish this with creepy horror-style sounds.

Anyone who finds this funny should watch the TV show “the good place” right now! :D

But one question I’ve been asking myself is : then, wouldn’t I be fingerprinted as one of the few nerds who activated the resist fingerprinting option?

But does privacy badger also act on the canvas APIs & cie. ?

So I guess for Firefox users it’s time to enable the resist fingerprinting option ? https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/resist-fingerprinting

I didn’t mean it’s a bad choice !

But I think it’s a good example of the compromise that has to be made here : what’s the best fitting technology vs. how to ensure easy onboarding for future contributors.

In France our main concern is about “Bolorisation”, which is about two billionaires owning most of the mainstream medias (including Vincent Bolloré, hence the name). We still have major independant papers but they hardly choose what’s on the public debate.

Yeah that’s what I meant by my initial message, there people still have access to somewhat reliable source of information, mostly thanks to publicly owned TV and radio, but it’s very very very fragile right now. Education to media and information would be critical to navigate this mess, but we suck at this.

That’s fair. In France law requires transparency on how you fund your campaign and sets a limit. We often have candidates who bend the rules but justice at least make it harder.

Ofc it’s hard to compare our two countries, the US is a fking continent.

I’m not living in USA but I think people got exactly what they voted for, didn’t they?

Now the question of it being an educated vote and people being equipped to navigate modern media with modern disinformation techniques is another subject.

Well I see huge benefits in building the tools used by a community with the technology this community masters. IMO the Python’s stdlib sucks because it’s written in C which is a huge barrier to entry.

Ignoring a text that “I can answer later” is actually what hits me with most cognitive charge :

My current balance is :

1. To never give notification permission except when it is necessary for the core goal of the application.
2. Automatically enable do not disturb from 11pm until alarm clock.

Don’t we have poor and middle pedos? Maybe that’s just the social elevator at work then 🤷

Well in theory that’s all you need to verify nothing is sent to the server. Then you can only trust them for not using your IP or behavior to find out who you are.

And it’s already the best search engine I’ve used in a while!

Yeah, the most “free” option is probably android custom ROMs (anything based on lineageos, I suppose).

There are alternatives that are slowly building up, such as postmarketos, but it’s not production ready.

I think KaiOS was a thing for a while, and it’s based on FirefoxOS. But you would have to ditch the confort of a real smartphone and I’m not sure it’s still active?

EDIT : KaiOS is indeed maintained BUT it is still based on Android (probably with less higher level components)

Please bring me back 10 years ago when I though we would no longer have global conflicts and that cold war taught us a lesson about weapons that can get out of hands…

He is rich tough.

Any critical infrastructure operated abroad is a security issue. That’s why even Europe developed its own alternative to GPS, to not be entirely dependant of the US?

I’m no expert, but I hardly see it being more complicated?

Well he’s both the richest man on earth and prime minister-ish of the home country of these platforms.

I agree he doesn’t say a lot of meaningful things but it would be a mistake to think he doesn’t have power.

When the internet archive was attacked a few months ago we were like “who would be dumb and mean enough to do that?”. We have new suspects! 🎉