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It's terrifying that basically nothing has changed since the Snowden leaks. And most people simply don't care so governments can keep scooping up our data, sifting through it for whatever they may deem interesting.

It's fascinating how different minds can process information. I myself have a photographic memory - only one of my kids has it as well. The two of us are constantly being asked where this and that is lying around, and we can always tell while the others in the family wouldn't be able to guess even if they just saw whatever they were looking for. It's simply amazing.

Lego is so simple, and yet so genius.

That's interesting, will test this right away myself!

When will they ever stop? The moment we (=the people) have fought one surveillance law, they (=politicians) simply come up with another. Until we are too tired to fight anymore...

In what way would AI deserve our trust? To date data hungry companies have proven to NOT have consumers interest in mind. Why should AI companies be any different?

In dubio pro reo? I don't think so.

Tutanota has got a Linux app, and the Android app is available on F-Droid.

I love what both companies are trying to achieve with building private ecosystems, but for me Linux must always come first. Everyone who loves privacy has switched to Linux by now.

This is the new cancel culture: Comment away with hate speech (bots) to stop a true and honest discussion. It's too bad the internet is not yet ready for this form of misinformation and destroying real conversations. Now with AI (bots) coming up, it will get even more difficult...

This reads like a true adventure story. I'd be curious to know how much is true and how much was added to the facts.

To save you some reading:

Can a passenger hack the airplane from their seat? They can’t.

Nice, thanks for sharing!

That sounds awful, why would one get such a TV in the first place?

I hope they'll get on with this research faster. Else it'll be too later - at lest for me personally.

This reads too much like marketing, don't really get why it's here.

Anxiety can't be cured with weed, pills, or whatever. People need to learn coping with it; it used to be called growing up.

May I ask why you did not like Tuta? They now have unlimited email addresses for custom domains, which is pretty neat IMO: https://tuta.com/blog/summer-releases-2023

I find it amazing what science can do nowadays. Makes you wonder where we're going to be in one hundred years from now!

Everyone wants their own, I guess.

Similar allegations were removed from r/privacy as fake news: https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/17st6yu/tutanota_i...

Sounds like a plan. How does one get such a job?

No thanks, we don't need more ads.

Google paid $26 billion in 2021 to become the default search engine on browsers and phones - $2B is peanuts to them.

How is that different from OpenStreetMap? Am I missing something here?

They've had them in Holland decades ago. Tried them once, was the craziest movie experience I've ever had and didn't feel like repeating this ever again.

Cookies are not really about security, but privacy. Their tracking of your online habits are bad; how would that change with WebSessions?

Neat, I'm regularly impressed with what people come up with. I wish I'd have such smart ideas!

So, we're well into geo-engineering territory now, with all the uncertainties that brings.

Some countries will start geo-engineering, it's just a matter of time. Dubious that it will actually help. Might make things much worse, though.

Worst of all the EU Commission is now starting to act like fake news promoters by posting misleading ads (German article): https://netzpolitik.org/2023/politisches-mikrotargeting-eu-k...

It's outraging.

I'm doubtful whether it's a good idea to give a private company like Starlink so much power over our communication in general. Why should they have the satellites for such a network? Wouldn't it be better that something crucial as this is publicly owned? Just thinking about the incident when Starlink cut access for Ukraine in fear their use of Starlink might trigger an atomic war. Why should one business person be able to make such a decision?

This sounds extremely exciting. But on second thought I fear with this technology we'll be getting too lazy to actually learn a foreign language - which is also awesome.