Targeting Linux distributions is even less likely because unlike Windows or MacOS there is no “official” viewer for a kind of document, being image, video, text, etc but rather only the one that the distribution picked but that even during the installation process the user might ignore or replace. So the attack on the media would have to work for any viewer which seems basically impossible.

Technically possible yes but practically impossible at scale, it would have to be targeting a specific user and then it’s a totally different situation.

Backup your data so that you can restore what matters to you. There is no need for an antivirus on Linux if you stick to the distribution channels of your distribution because package are verified. Unlike in the close source world because the source of those packages are open, verifying, even though imperfect, is much simpler. Popular distributions, e.g. Debian or Redhat, have a very strong incentive not to let anything slip. Maintainer of packages also are able not just to track what changed but also by whom, that means if there is a problem it can be identified and attributed rather quickly and thus other maintainers can be warned. It is not impossible and supply chain attacks do happen, e.g. xz backdoor, but it is rare, specific and has been studied and thus partly alleviated even though it remains a challenge.

If you do download executables or binaries, not media e.g. videos or music, from random places though then all bets are off.

MAME

You might want to check into split tunneling.

mostly against geoblocking when I want to watch public TV channels from while I’m not in the “right” country, e.g. when I want to watch PBS outside of the US, Arte outside of Europe (even though I dont think they block anymore), FranceTV outside of France, Ray out of Italy, etc.

Sometimes also for blocked content, e.g. PirateBay in France or AnnaArchive in Belgium but typically for these public proxies are enough.

Ah I also use self-hosted VPN for my own self-hosted services when I’m on the move but it is typically very small traffic.

FWIW I’m not using a large commercial ISP, so trusting my ISP is a big part of my behavior.

Can recommend indeed. I have used both, GrapheneOS and /e/OS and can confirm both are great. If you somehow do not feel or do not want or can not setup yourself, buying from Murena is a great alternative to stay away from BigTech.

This provides HTTPS

Nice, I often end with with “weird” setups on mobile devices, that could help.

What a disgusting rage bait title.

Please no matter the news do not invite others to give up. You might be totally depleted. You might have fought teeth and nails against problems but if you want to give up let others try.

This is deeply problematic and of course precisely helps those you do agree with.

Do not fall prey to learned helplessness.

If politicians and lobbyists can keep on proposing a law until it goes through, so can we, including the very politicians who do not represent our views.

The situation might be bleak and I can understand the frustration but this kind of title is not helping.

Indeed and to “celebrate” this I deleted the 5 accounts I had (was project related) still.

I already deleted my main years ago but those ones were just unused for 10 years. Good time to signal (if anybody cares checking through usage data) that I’m not supporting this.

curl via Termux

Because most of what you said is true but Lemmy is, unlike the most popular platforms, full of very selective individual. The overton window is different here than the mainstream. We half very different threshold and here in the Privacy community even more so on that topic. It might be “good enough” for most but if it’s not entirely open source, or rather free software, and with reproducible builds, and self-hostable, and federated, and built by people with impeccable background, and… and… and… that starts to be quite a bit.

I said this in numerous other posts, IMHO what matters is doing better, not “best” that unattainable. For some people Proton is better than what they had until now, e.g. GMail, but for others who move away from GMail to Proton and now self-host, it’s not good enough anymore.

So it depends on where you are on a multidimensional spectrum that is unique to your needs.

I’d add criteria, e.g.

• GDPR compliant
• no link with advertising companies
• free software or open source
• self-hostable
• security audit

etc and overall have a reasonable default option but not hide that there are alternative. We want everybody to move away but if everybody moves to Proton as a suite and they enshitify then we are (nearly) back to square one. So I think showing that good alternatives exist is great. Helping people who already use an alternative others, maybe even better one for THEIR criteria also exist, is even better.

I’d also add a Github (or better CodeBerg or self-hosted Gitea) link at the bottom to https://github.com/ente-io/privacypack with the license (MIT) visible.

I’ll just leave this here… https://debian.org/

It’s disappointing yet unsurprising to read the recurring answers, namely :

• cost
• incumbency

precisely because it’s absolutely avoidable and a well known strategy. It’s so well known that it’s precisely why Micro$lop bought Github in the first place. People are there and the free tiers is enough to get the long tail.

Meanwhile since that strategy happened people who consider smart enough should know the genuine cost behind this : it’s a TRAP. Plain and simple, you get there and you get STUCK there.

So… yes it takes some sweat and even some money to leave the trap … but if you care about freedom, as most free software or open-source developers might, then it’s aligned with your value.

So happy with my 2nd hand Pixel 8. No BS, ecologically acceptable IMHO and yes runs most Android apps thanks to GrapheneOS.

Compared to CopyParty, been using it for few months now, does it also means no directory and no way to explore, namely dropping files more than organizing?

Agreed, it’s as if you would let the locksmith go through your mail, indefinitely, after they fixed your frontdoor.

Absolutely ridiculous, right? Well… not so much when your entire digital life goes through gatekeepers like Google, Apple or Microsoft.

That’s the worst part, their justification for more information to make one safer doesn’t even work.

For-profit security theater.

what breaks the immersion

This isn’t a game, it’s about your freedom, our freedom.

If you want to use Brave to watch YouTube… well I don’t think you really care. The fact that somehow watching a video on a gaming rig isn’t fast enough so clearly not normal. That being said honestly it’s good you did try.