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I'm not sure what you're asking for specifically. The Swiss data protection act is here [0] and is reasonably comprehensive, especially compared to the US, in which data protection…

Deepl [0] is available in English but doesn't seem well-known outside of the non-Anglophone Western European countries. It's essentially Google Translate but generally has better q…

I'd go even further and recommend GrapheneOS [0] on a Pixel. It has some extra security improvements on top of AOSP and most importantly, the builds are signed and the device can b…

Doesn't the same argument apply to basically every security and privacy feature? "No no no. The problem isn't unencrypted network connections, it's companies and people who use the…

Sure, it can be simple. To give you a less clear example, think about writing a library that sends telemetry to some cloud service. The telemetry could be readings from a sensor at…

I watch a lot of both American-made movies and TV shows as well as a lot of Japanese anime. One thing I find curious is how different the models for time travel usually are. In Ame…

I disagree. I've been running a small CNC for a while now and though I've had skipped steps, they've never been the cause of a failure. When they've failed, it's been because: - I …

This is a really good starting place but as someone in the middle of retrofitting a commercial CNC, it's missing _a lot_ as well. My highlights while reading: - For an Aluminium fr…

> Microstepping isn't bad. The author says it reduces torque, but it does not. That is a myth. It's more complicated than that [0,1] and characterising it as a myth is dismissive a…

Why would they pay the owner for "seizure of property"? The owner of the bird is responsible for the bird. Therefore, the owner is responsible for the bird illegally entering Austr…

> The New York Attorney General proved in court they had at least 95% in cash deposit backing. I think that's a deceptive mischaracterisation of what the NYAG has done, unless you …

> Folks that are privacy concious are equally deluded. It's marketing and you're falling for it. At the very least, if you use providers other than Google, you can decentralize it.…

From the Whitepaper: "Due to the inherently asynchronous nature of mobile messengers, providing reliable Forward Secrecy on the end-to-end layer is difficult. Key negotiation for a…

I think you're reaching about about Switzerland being the problem here. > Threema was launched in 2013 > WhatsApp was bought by Facebook in 2014 So a year after Threema's launch, i…

Only on the transport layer. See page 10 of their whitepaper [0]. [0]: https://threema.ch/press-files/2_documentation/cryptography_...

Any CO2 sensor (part) that gives you the ability to turn off ASC should work just fine and most of them do, you just need to trigger it. Personally, after trying out a bunch of sen…

I've seen references to this sensor before and find it a bit concerning that there's no information about how to properly use the CO2 sensor. This sensor uses a SenseAir S8, which …

> nowadays raw (or indeed the ever-shouting all-caps “RAW”) is primarily a marketing term used to denote lossily processed data left and right (ProRes RAW, BRAW, Sony’s “raw” .arw …

> There's no way to provide access to the social graph in a privacy preserving way. It's not okay to allow a third party to access the data your friends have shared with you withou…

No, I don't use Magisk because my phone isn't rooted. Google Pay won't work even if SafetyNet passes because it depends on Google Play Services APIs that aren't implemented as part…

I'm not German so don't use it often but I installed it, ran it and had a quick look around and nothing was noticably broken. For me, Mapbox is used to display the map.

Yes, I have a bunch of Apple devices as well. I find that iOS itself and its first-party apps are fantastic from a privacy perspective, especially compared to Google. Most of the a…

I've been using a custom AOSP build with MicroG for a few months now and it actually works pretty well _if your goal is to avoid Google_. What I mean by that is that if your goal i…

The vast majority of the things there are things that few people interested in MicroG would want. The important things (accounts, notifications, maps, SafetyNet) are there and most…

> If you personally don't want to use the NURBS pieces, then feel free to ignore them. But please don't block other people from doing so. :) I'm not saying NURBS shouldn't be fixed…