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ByteWelder, to privacy in Drones trespassing in my property

That’s incorrect. At least as a generalization. For example: In The Netherlands, you do not own the airspace above your property. The EU laws for drones do state that you can’t just film people without permission, though. Operators of camera drones also need to register and get an operator id.

ByteWelder, to privacy in The EU are voting on Chat Control this Wednesday 19th June

If a messaging service is non-compliant, the government could theoretically take action with court orders against domain owners, server owners or pursue anyone hosting a node in case of a distributed setup. In a worse case scenario, they might instruct ISPs via court orders to block these services (e.g. The Pirate Bay in some countries)

ByteWelder, (edited ) to privacy in The EU are voting on Chat Control this Wednesday 19th June

It’s literally in the article: They want to use client-side scanning. The client already has the data decrypted. This is much like what Apple wanted to introduce with CSAM scanning a while back. It’s a backdoor in each client and it’s a matter of time until it will be abused by malicious entities.

ByteWelder, to privacy in Why don’t you like Apple?

Regarding gaslighting: See Apple’s response on the CSAM backdoor shit show. All the critics were wrong, including the various advocacy groups.

ByteWelder, to linux in [Youtube] Top 15 Must Install Best GNOME Extensions

why doesnt GNOME have a maximize button

Probably because you can double-click the window ‘bar’ to achieve the same.

ByteWelder, to linux in What is the most noob friendly video editing software on Linux?

I found kdenlive terrible. DaVinci Resolve is much better, but it’s closed source and has some limitations in terms of hardware encoding support (nvidia only).

ByteWelder, to technology in Brave appears to install VPN Services without user consent

If I recall correctly, it was meant as a measure against fingerprinting. It’s basically one less thing to uniquely define a user based on the info that the browser gives to a website. I’m not sure if it’s still like that, cause it’s been easily a year since I used LibreWolf.

ByteWelder, to technology in Brave appears to install VPN Services without user consent

I applaud LibreWolf’s efforts, but the hard-coded timezone makes it unusable for me. Other than that, it’s a great browser. I used it several months until the timezone confusion got the best of me.

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