I believe he’s just a suspicious carrot, but what do I know, I’m just a random Lemmy commenter.

I don’t agree with the datacenter lobby and I firmly believe that the EU is more than capable of screwing up both things at the same time.

I have recently had to use a similar setup but (sadly) on Android, but I can confirm that it works better than expected.

PS: A mini tripod definitely helps with the ergonomics side of this.

More info here.

I recommend https://conversejs.org/ or https://github.com/processone/fluux-messenger which are both running on tried-and-tested platforms (XMPP).

You and your friend should…

• create and exchange a set of Age public keys
• use them to encrypt a simple text file
• bzip the encrypted file
• convert the binary archive to base64
• embed the base64 using Pixelknot into a photo downloaded from unsplash that contains a distinct object you both agreed on (eg a windmill)
• upload the file to imgur

Now you both can privately chat with each other by monitoring imgur’s latest uploads, downloading every image that contains a windmill, read the base64 string, convert it to its binary bzip form, unpack the encrypted file and decrypt it.

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I have been hosting multiple SearXNG instances, the newest one (https://マリウス.com/be-your-own-privacy-respecting-google-bing-brave/) being a private instance for my own community channel, and it has been relatively smooth sailing.

Some niche engines, like e.g. Mojeek seem to be notoriously slow, but that might also depend very much on the VPS that your requests are coming from.

If, however, big engines like Bing or Google are blocking/throttling you, it might be due to your IP/subnet reputation and it might be worth switching your host.

Alternatively, you could overengineer a setup in which you round-robin route your SearXNG request through a number of simultaneously running Wireguard tunnels from a VPN provider to obscure your traffic.

However, if my experience, most VPN providers suffer extremely from Cloudflare and ReCaptcha blocks, hence ymmv.

Your numbers don’t check out, please provide sources. The Linux Kernel has around 40 million lines, the OpenBSD kernel around 7. You might have mistakenly counted OpenBSD/NetBSD as a whole system (the base installation), instead of solely the kernel.

They contributed code that they needed, that is not giving back. I am speaking about actual long-term maintenance and/or money, which isn’t mentioned anywhere.

See, the problem with these code contributions is that they are just that: One time effort. In most cases, this code will be handed over to the core maintainers, who will then have to deal with it for the rest of the project’s lifecycle. There are many documented instances in which FOSS projects are actually suffering because of contributions like this, as they are struggling to maintain the added features long term.

But all the people downvoting this care about is that a public money drain like the military writes some code and throws it into the faces of FOSS developers, even completely disregarding whether these improvements are actually relevant for the everyday user of the software. And again, by contributing I am referring to actually funding the project with significant amounts. We are speaking of a public entity that spends multiple millions on a single fighter jet.

We shouldn’t be celebrating military forces, a branch of the government that is notoriously expensive for tax payers, to use FOSS without giving anything significant back in return.

s/rich/dumb/g

This device is not worth the illusionary pricetag of $1423 (converted). Whoever buys this has more pressing issues than their privacy.

Why would you repost the image when I already submitted it to this community before? https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/42374738

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Hol’up, your granny can’t be bothered to use crypto but she runs a custom ROM and somehow the financial app that will for sure use Google Play Integrity checks is supposed to work on that? And compared to that sending cash and precious metals is too cumbersome?

You and your grandma certainly have some interesting threat vectors defined for yourselves.

If it has a decent camera, use it as a dedicated webcam. If the camera is just okay, convert it to a car dash-cam or a home security camera with integrated UPS, storage, and even fallback connectivity via mobile networks. Use it as a dedicated gaming device, or a music player for non-IoT speakers. Convert it to an LTE modem and make it a fallback for your home internet. Run a Monero node on it. Or a Briar mailbox. Host a personal website on it and make it available via DynDNS. Make use of the phone’s sensors, e.g. the light sensor or the microphone for home automation. Connect it to speakers and use it as a Bitcoin price monitor that plays “You Suffer” by Napalm Death every time BTC passes a certain threshold. Or just use it as a digital photo frame on your desk.

Even though your comment is absolute nonsense under the given post, I fundamentally support your call in general.

Denmark is set to have the highest retirement age in Europe, after lawmakers voted to raise it to 70.

In addition, Denmark has the highest top personal income tax rate in Europe in 2025, at 55.9%.

So I guess this is actually great news for everyone here that loves paying taxes, as now they get to do it even longer! Bummer all the people making a decent living off of these taxes (politicians) won’t participate. Who could have seen that coming?

Wait, who actually likes paying taxes?

//edit: Forgot I’m on Lemmy. I’ll show myself out, comrades.

You are right, I am speculating, as was the poster of the parent comment. I certainly didn’t mean to muddy any waters, but you have to admit that there have been things going on within the EU, that paint a bit of a bleak picture of how the table might turn if the EU had greater influence/power (in terms of aforementioned platforms and software) on the global stage.

And while you’re right that the examples I gave didn’t become actual law just yet, it’s certainly not due to the EUs benevolence that proposals didn’t materialize, but instead very much like in Mozilla’s case, that the outcry from people had them reconsider.

However, I believe there were proposals that were put into law even though the outcry was there. (eg. Article 13?)