The EU is still on Mastodon. https://social.network.europa.eu/@EU_Commission/112280054595900671 with 18 active users currently. I am not too keen on their content but I do see it as progress. When big names move from Tw(X)tter and other corporate silos, or at least use the alternatives like Mastodon alongside FB and so on, it can be an example for other organisations, companies and citizens to follow and use the Fediverse as well and I consider that a win. The article was about EU Voice and EU video, the latter was with PeerTube. On the one hand I think it is a pity that they gave up, on the other hand the popularity and use of Google YouTube is enormous. It is not a monopoly but for countless people it is an addiction difficult to stay away from.
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Tested Snikket self-hosting in the past. If I recall correctly one advantage was that it has the option for admins to create invite links for on-boarding new users which seems useful to me for "normies".
https://wiki.freedos.org/wiki/Main_Page#How_do_I_install_FreeDOS? There's more options than a floppy based installer to try.
🙂 I've seen several people, during some years now, recommended to wait for .1
Sadly I think even disabling JS entirely would take away so much “blending in” that it still wouldn’t be hard to uniquely fingerprint a user without it. Even CSS (without JS) and standard HTML tags like “picture” can be used to fingerprint now.
Right. I guess there's also a difference between wanting to be as anonymous as possible and wanting to not be tracked too much by some sites.
In some browser profiles I do block JS completely for a few reasons.
- Let's me read a lot of articles. Even articles with supposedly "paywalls".
- Clutter free reading. Does it matter that the remote sites can recognize me based on a unique FP and build a profile ? I'm not too bothered. Should I ?
For other use cases I prefer Tor browser without any added extensions.
IDK about Coreboot, but Android has a completely different userland. The only thing it has in common with Linux is the kernel.
Completely different ? How so ? Last time I did an adb shell I could use ls and find afair.
No issues here whatsoever with other sites, including those that use L.E. certs. Weird. I guess it is a Tor circuit related issue. On another browser without Tor it loads fine.
First link gives an SSL warning for me. Here's the WayBackMachine link https://web.archive.org/web/20240425192244/https://drewdevault.com/2023/07/04/Dont-sign-a-CLA-2.html
Here it is fine for me in a browser on the desktop. Maybe your server blocked or muted something or has some configuration mistake ? Or maybe on your phone app ? Test on a few different browsers on desktop ? Try un-subcribe and then sub again ?
Yes. I think (seen in other news) it is a shame to repeatedly see governments, companies and others say things like "We have no choice than to move to the cloud, because their offer and services are irreplaceable" where the cloud is GAFAM. Meanwhile new data centers for Microsoft and Google are build in Europe, which maybe offers new jobs to some, but increases dependency on GAFAM. I found this article a sad story. A voice "successful" pilot but probably "never again" cause "money". But I guess the lobbying is strong in that area too, besides the easy of use of "just using YouTube". Last week I read an interview with a farmer mentioning that he and other farmers talked to high ranked EU politicians which encouraged them to keep protesting for a more sustainable agriculture but "they could not do anything for them". The farmer concluded that the lobbying by companies is very strong :(