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How does FOSS prevent someone from pulling your teeth out with a wrench to get your passphrase?
Although effective, this particular technique does not scale very well. Even if the UK had 100,000 kidnapping wrench torturers, it would take ~2 years for them to get through to pulling everyone in the UK’s teeth.
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E2EE cloud storage is not some kind of magic that only tech bigcorps can provide. I de-Dropboxed a few years ago, replacing it with Syncthing running on a local NAS with e2ee backups in Backblaze and Wireguard VPN out to my mobile devices. Sure, this is not the sort of thing most people can set up for themselves, but I don't think that's particularly relevant in context.
Unfortunately for the vast majority of people, it absolutely is some kind of magic.
i've had to show people that they have to plug in their HDMI cable into their GPU instead of the motherboard, that they have to manually set the Hz in windows settings. how to install basic drivers.
so many more easy examples we IT-workers or nerds just take for granted. taking this to the extreme, my grandma asked me if i could search recipes online for her, because [insert your favorite search service] seemed too complicated.
So next to these examples, setting up syncthing with a VPN is next to impossible :( and even if they manage to set it up, good luck when you run into issues after a couple of months.
IMHO Apple is actually being honest here. They cannot legally operate in the UK without providing a back door, so they are dropping the claim of ADP in the UK . This is letting the user know what's up, and might also help inspire a backlash against these laws. Apple needs to make it clear that they are being forced by UK law to degrade service. Corporations can't really resist governments unless they're not operating…
> Corporations can't really resist governments unless they're not operating in a given government's jurisdiction and therefore have nothing to lose. They can take things to court, but in lieu of a verdict or an injunction they have to comply with the law or they can be fined, have assets frozen, be de-banked or banned from processing payments, etc. It is also maybe a good thing? Corporations should not be stewards of…
That’s not to say they’re bad. They do an important thing. But they have a limited sphere. You wouldn’t expect the police to make a laptop or a church to direct air traffic either.
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You can run your own software, but if asked by UK authorities to provide the keys/password and you don't comply you face prison time.
You can safely leave it to FOSS to implement ways around that.
That's a shoddy job of de-Googling, a thorough job would have seamless redirection to whatever current calendar service you use.
> I’m not going to tell you where to move your stuf
But that's the most important stuff!!! Don't leave poor users dry with an impractical advice that will lead them missing important meetings
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The majority of apple and android users can't run their own libre software, until libre software is as easy and seamless to use as the comparables.
My (grand)parents like their FOSS launcher, gallery, and chat client just fine. I've had zero questions about how Signal works, but a bunch about how to deal with the OS' pre-installed garbage spawning notifications about this or that update. They can't tell the difference between an advertisement pushed by some commercial app they want and a smartwatch firmware update notification From my POV, it's the commercial so…
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yeah guys, we don’t win by using free and open technologies, we win if we all buy {NAMECORP} devices, that’s true victory right there, backed by a real warranty, that’s what grandma wants
If you have a free and open technology that is sufficiently user-friendly that grandma isn't going to lose all her photos, I'm all ears
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At least the US hasn't postponed the general elections to keep the unpopular party in power. https://www.local.gov.uk/our-support/devolution-and-lgr-hub/...
I wish they would help get as many reform councils as possible. Given how incompetent they have been in the ones they did get elected, I think it would put a damper on the enthusiasm of their supporters.