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  • Chat Control: EU Council vote is a Green Light for Indiscriminate Mass Surveillance and the End of Right to Communicate Anonymously

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  • Thanks for your comment. I'm still only learning how legislation in the EU works. However, so far I haven't been able to confirm what you're saying. Could you help if you know? (I assume not only me, but possibly other readers, too)

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Council_of_the_European_Union

    Here it doesn't say (almost) anything about "trade". Admittedly I've only read 2-3 pages and then used Ctrl+F to search on the rest of the page though.. Is it a de-facto split between the legislative powers of the Council and the Parliament? Where to read about it?

  • Slint 1.14 Released

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  • I get that you are feeling slint is not GPL, but I do not understand where that feeling comes from.

    I think it's because the for-profit nature of the company may not create an actual community of FOSS enthusiasts around it. So if something were to happen to the business side of Slint-the-company, there would not be a strong community with known leaders and vision to save the situation. It's not like this is guaranteed for FOSS projects, but it's much more likely there. Single-person FOSS projects are scary to me for this reason as well.

    That is the biggest factor for me. (There are other important factors, too.)

  • Chat Control: EU Council vote is a Green Light for Indiscriminate Mass Surveillance and the End of Right to Communicate Anonymously

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  • there is little doubt that EU chat control will be implemented

    Personally, I believe there's a chance for stopping this. EU is not an authoritarian state. I wouldn't give up too early -- instead would rather fight and provide public pressure for the direction of the law that supports mine and everybody's freedom.

  • Chat Control: EU Council vote is a Green Light for Indiscriminate Mass Surveillance and the End of Right to Communicate Anonymously

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  • A much better and desired solution is to stop this law from ever happening by societal pressure, in my personal opinion. I wasn't born in the EU, but I live here many years now. I choose to believe that EU isn't fully corrupted, and that many good and meaningful changes are still happening.

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    Chat Control: EU Council vote is a Green Light for Indiscriminate Mass Surveillance and the End of Right to Communicate Anonymously

    www.patrick-breyer.de /en/reality-check-eu-council-chat-control-vote-is-not-a-retreat-but-a-green-light-for-indiscriminate-mass-surveillance-and-the-end-of-right-to-communicate-anonymously/

  • What dystopian surveillance things from your country you can't escape?

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  • What dystopian surveillance things from your country you can't escape?

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  • escape the big tech tracking by installing uBlock Origin

    Cloudflare and AWS say "Hi" 👋

    UBO is a very good tech that I strongly recommend too though. Just gotta be aware of its limits.

  • What dystopian surveillance things from your country you can't escape?

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  • (If you're ashamed to explicitly point out your country, then... I think you have to deal with that anyway. I don't know if fighting against the bad actors in your country is a feasible strategy; it's too easy to give poor advice from far away, imagining yourself an expert where in reality you're not, so I'm not recommending anything.)

  • What dystopian surveillance things from your country you can't escape?

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  • Sorry, your president, not mine. I don't live in the US.

  • Privacy @lemmy.ml
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    Chat Control: EU Council vote is a Green Light for Indiscriminate Mass Surveillance and the End of Right to Communicate Anonymously

    www.patrick-breyer.de /en/reality-check-eu-council-chat-control-vote-is-not-a-retreat-but-a-green-light-for-indiscriminate-mass-surveillance-and-the-end-of-right-to-communicate-anonymously/

  • YT-Feeds: a cross-platform ultra lightweight YouTube application with playback via MPV, saved watch history, search functionality, zero distractions, video downloading, and much more!

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  • Nice project!

    Only somewhat related, but for myself personally, I've realized that the default UI for YouTube promotes doom scrolling as much as it possibly can. It seems to have a negative effect on my mental health and habits. So I live mostly without YouTube now, with only some occasional (once every few weeks), externally linked videos, that I usually download via yt-dlp or just quickly watch online. For online watching, I broke the page so bad with uBO that the page barely works, and there are no recommendations or after-you-finished-viewing transitions.

    This approach seems to work well. I find YT to be a really dangerous place. In one phrase, "sweet death".

  • Android syncthing-fork repo gone and Developer profile gone private. Update:moved to a different repo @ https://github.com/researchxxl/syncthing-android

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  • F-Droid has a copy of the source code I assume.

  • Slint 1.14 Released

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  • Some projects managed to pull off a license change before

    I think you're right, the reality is not actually so black-and-white. With the GNU project indeed being a notable "exception" of sorts. And, while I can't think of any single project that would change from GPL and still be alive, I think I've heard about at least attempts of doing so once, more than a decade ago, not too successful IIRC.

    So to be a GPL project

    But to answer the question.. I'm not trying to say what is a GPL project. But sometimes I can tell when something isn't [a GPL project], and Slint isn't. It doesn't revolve around copyleft and its ideology. Neither is MySQL. MariaDB is. MariaDB is easier to fork off MySQL than it would be off Slint though. Slint has much broader API, more evolving too I'd assume (but I don't know).

    So my recommendation on when to use or not use Slint would still hold. And I still insist that it's factually correct to say that Slint is not a GPL project.

  • Slint 1.14 Released

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  • I think we can't find an agreement on our angles on the topic so much that it's simply not constructive to push the conversation further. I'm afraid that if I'll try to say anything now, it'll be a repetition of what was already written earlier.

    In short, I see Slint as a not GPL project (but rather as a commercial project that happens for now to triple-license the code and includes GPL). I see GPL projects as fundamentally different to Slint, in a sense that, once you have enough external contributors, you simply cannot revert back and stop being a GPL project, whereas in Slint I see it as possible. I trust GPL projects and I know I can "lean" on them, whereas I'd advise to rely on Slint only if you have commercial entanglement that you want to keep.

    I'd propose to agree to disagree.

  • Slint 1.14 Released

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  • I'm not sure if you're reading my message well?

    I'm saying that GPL-licensed projects protect themselves well. If you lean on a GPL project, it's likely going to hold. Not disappear because of a commercial incentive. Non-copyleft projects tend to disappear if they become valuable to companies, such as IntelliJ's Rust plugin, or BSD => MacOS.

    Again if you're developing a non-open-source project, Slint is fine. You'll be bound to each other with mutual commercial interests.

  • Danish Presidency backs away from 'chat control'

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  • Good question, and I'm not fully sure. I think it may be the messengers, E2E or not. I hope it's not the hardware providers such as Samsung/Apple, because those wouldn't be trustworthy.

  • Danish Presidency backs away from 'chat control'

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  • It's not a full ending yet. It's a local win. But the possibility for the proposed "voluntary" surveillance is still discussed. We need to push until April 2026 to make sure this sh*t doesn't get through in any shape or form.

    I've also edited the post slightly, adding a TL&DR; on top.

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    Danish Presidency backs away from 'chat control'

    www.euractiv.com /news/danish-presidency-backs-away-from-chat-control/

  • Fractal graphics - click to zoom (Macroquad)

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  • Please check when posting if it's a duplicate (it is).

  • Slint 1.14 Released

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  • Sorry for the late reply.

    The royalty free license tries to get as close to MIT as we can while limiting the use on embedded…

    I think I understand that perspective. But please also understand the other perspective: how a user has the right to see it, when they are not connected to the company.

    If you are such a user, then you need open-source software for your daily life. And you use it. At the same time, you see:

    • IntelliJ Idea taking its MIT-licensed Rust plugin and deciding that it'll be more profitable for them to close-source it, so you won't have it anymore. And of course nobody forked the plugin. The idea is clear, the company wants you to use Rust Rover.
    • Apple's OS, being historically based on 4.4BSD-Lite2 and FreeBSD, and being the second-highest valued company in the world (!), is happily living with all and any of that MIT-licensed code, while BSD itself is stagnating. It's not Apple's fault of course, Apple is not a bad actor here. It's just not very smart or future-proof to spend a lot of time binding yourself to a system that can easily turn into stagnation.

    On the other hand, GPL-licensed projects protect themselves very well. When things don't go well, you see successful foks (such as Forjeo, LibreOffice, MariaDB). When things go well, you just see it thriving (such as Linux, most userland software).

    We try to make all of the terms as clear as possible. We rewrote the Slint licensing page several times,...

    To answer this and to conclude, for me personally, it's not about how to write something. It's about what is written. The fact that Slint aims to be good for a for-profit company, does not and will never nullify that MIT contributions are re-licensed as GPL or proprietary. It will come up, and it's fair when it does... as I see it, at least.

  • Lemmy is designed to fail the same way as reddit when reaching the same size

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  • I've found that the other replies don't really express my personal take on this, so I'll go ahead and write mine down.

    First of all, and it's important, people's take on such topics is heavily dependent on the country they live in. It's legitimately hard to imagine why you would want to break government rules hard and be a good person if you live somewhere in Norway. And it's legitimately hard to imagine a world where you really trust your government and think that the current levels of censorship is actually good if you live in a dictatorship country.

    With this in mind, a comfortable and universal level of censorship simply doesn't exist.

    I think the lack of Tor support is valid criticism if you're in a dictatorship. Of course, DNS-based solutions are not good-enough for you. I hope you'll find something that solves your problems. Unfortunately a simple Lemmy instance is not a solution for you.

    Generally, if I'd advise something, I'd suggest to look at what the project actually aims to do, not at what you think it should be doing. E.g. visit https://join-lemmy.org/ and there it says:

    Lemmy is a selfhosted social link aggregation and discussion platform. It is completely free and open, and not controlled by any company. This means that there is no advertising, tracking,.......

    Well, does it sound like a solution made for people in heavily censored environments? To me -- not. If you want to present your case and incentivize the Lemmy devs to ADD another perspective or direction to the software that they're spending time developing, prepare your case and argumentation well. Explain your situation (e.g. "I'll be hung if I speak freely where I live", or more relevant, "my country heavily DNS-censors 90% of the good existing Lemmy instances, I'm deprived of good information you have circling here"), propose some solutions or offer help. I don't know really. It's up to you. Good luck with your seach

  • Lemmy is designed to fail the same way as reddit when reaching the same size

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  • I think/hope it was a joke.

    But none that I'd like or find healthy, to be honest.

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    JXL file viewer for Android recommendations?