Tech Deadline 2025 - leave big tech! by Paddy66 in c/[email protected]
[-] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

oops. linked now...

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Tech Deadline 2025 - leave big tech! (www.youtube.com)
submitted 5 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Please help promote the hashtags #Deadline2025, #BigTechWalkout2025 and #Reclaim2025 to reach those still using big tech platforms.

And share this great video that a friend of mine made showing how lame the big techbros really are.

If we starve big tech of data, their power diminishes.

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Tech map showing some of the best European privacy tech (www.rebeltechalliance.org)
submitted 2 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Our tech map is European-centric so I thought this community would like to see it. Scroll down a bit on the linked page.

All suggestions for updates welcome!

Netflix Puts AI Ads in Paid Tier: Pirate Everything at This Point by Paddy66 in c/[email protected]
[-] [email protected] 13 points 3 weeks ago

If there was a Bandcamp for film and TV, then I would buy stuff there. DRM free.

But until then...

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Klarna Regrets Replacing All Those Pesky Human Workers With AI, Just Wants Its Humans Back (futurism.com)
submitted 4 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Well, wouldn't you know it - leopards ate their face!

Self Awareness Rule by Paddy66 in c/[email protected]
[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

If I have to wade through pages of "legitimate interest" nonsense, unticking them, then I'm not using your site.

Sham consent popups finally deemed illegal! 🎉 by Paddy66 in c/[email protected]
[-] [email protected] 49 points 1 month ago

Totally. And that "legitimate interest" nonsense takes ages to click through 🤦

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Sham consent popups finally deemed illegal! 🎉 (www.iccl.ie)
submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Great news for online privacy!

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UK petition to ban harvesting of behavioural metadata for ads (petition.parliament.uk)
submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Please sign this petition to get this topic discussed by the UK government.

InlineStyle, open fediverse based cloud by Paddy66 in c/[email protected]
[-] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

Great idea! Two things

  • E2EE is a default in privacy by design so consider CryptPad for docs instead
  • change the name. Inline Style is terrible (sorry but to a native English speaker it sounds lame). How about just Inline?
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Filen March update 2025 (blog.filen.io)
submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Separate file for navbar? (lemmy.ml)
submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Post is in the link - simplest method possible please: my web dev skills are weak!

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Anyone know why a static site wouldn't load with a VPN on? (lemmy.ml)
submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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My web hosting company can't explain this.

My website is old school static, just HTML, CSS and js files. Nothing fancy.

No VPN, it loads fine. With VPN (various, but in my case Mullvad) it won't load. I get this screenshot. All other sites load fine with that vpn!

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Anyone know why this happens? Drive dismounts (lemmy.ml)
submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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I'm running Mint, and have an external USB drive plugged in. It is not powered - it gets its power from the mini-PC.

Occasionally I get this message and I've no idea why. It might be after rebooting the machine but I'm not sure (sorry).

The only thing I did with the drive is rename it (to "1tbDrive"). Could that be the problem? (I did that in the Disks application).

Firefox could be doomed without Google search deal, says executive by Paddy66 in c/[email protected]
[-] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago

Orgs have to wean themselves off big tech dollars. Painful, but has to happen. They'll have to restructure and refocus. Maybe cut out the AI stuff and focus on core functionality?

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Privacy is a team sport - how do we get more people to play? (www.rebeltechalliance.org)
submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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This is an open question on how to get the masses to care...

Unfortunately, if other people don't protect their privacy it affects those who do, because we're all connected (e.g. other family members, friends). So it presents a problem of how do you get people who don't care, to care?

I started the Rebel Tech Alliance nonprofit to try to help with this, but we're still really struggling to convert people who have never thought about this.

(BTW you might need to refresh our website a few times to get it to load - no idea why... It does have an SSL cert!)

So I hope we can have a useful discussion here - privacy is a team sport, how do we get more people to play?

I swapped the entire school computers to linux mint by Paddy66 in c/[email protected]
[-] [email protected] 70 points 1 month ago

lol I thought this was a guerrilla IT warfare post where you snuck in and did it, but you actually did it with permission.... 😂

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SimpleX group chat about privacy (simplex.chat)
submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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I thought people here might like to join this if you want to see what other privacy folk are talking about. I think it originated on Nostr.

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How can we avoid fingerprinting? (lemmy.ml)
submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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I've been worried about this since Google switched to it in Feb this year.

Apparently the short answer is "you can't". Which is terrifying. Surely some clever peeps out there can find a way round it (for normies)?

Hitler’s Terrible Tariffs: By seeking to “liberate” Germans from a globalized world order, the Nazi government sent the national economy careening backwards—and drove up the price of eggs 600 percent. by Paddy66 in c/[email protected]
[-] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

For Hitler and Nazi Germany it certainly was a way to prepare for expansionist wars: https://www.richardjevans.com/lectures/autarky-fantasy-reality/

That groan you hear is users’ reaction to Recall going back into Windows by Paddy66 in c/[email protected]
[-] [email protected] 20 points 2 months ago

I'm reading this on a Microsoft Surface that I flashed with Linux Mint. Quite satisfying!

Message to Microsoft:🖕

That groan you hear is users’ reaction to Recall going back into Windows by Paddy66 in c/[email protected]
US cuts funding to F-Droid, Tor Browser, Let's Encrypt and Tails Linux by Paddy66 in c/[email protected]
[-] [email protected] 93 points 2 months ago

Urgh this is so backwards.

Governments need to fund more FOSS not less!

Hopefully the EU can increase its support to compensate.

Could not upvote on another instance [please explain for noob] by Paddy66 in c/[email protected]
[-] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

Ooooooooh I see! right.... yes that works.

I wasn't familiar with the idea of the instance 'fetching' a post. Thank you!

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