This should go without saying, but don't use company devices for your personal stuff, whether they're private, public, or federal. Somebody is always watching, and some manager with a chip on their shoulder will be more than happy to avail themselves of the bossware inevitably installed on there.
Yes. In fact, it's long past time, and it's already been done countless times before; nobody seems to be listening. People have been pointing to growing authoritarian States for years, and yet the entire globe seems to be all-in on giving police states another try (or are so privileged they don't care).
Time to take back your privacy yourself. Hopefully this article will reach some normies who didn't give it any other thought.
I think it's a fair point to wrinkle our noses at and scrutinize some if those companies, but we should evaluate the thing, not just who supports it. Many companies will support good efforts, just because it gives them good PR (or a tax write-off). We don't know what kind of legwork the project founders did to persuade some of those big names (and they have a lot more than just those sponsors on their site.)
That said, I also don't see any codebase. What is there to inspect and validate? What is "open?" As far as I can tell, as of now, it's just a $27mil effort with the concept of a plan.
I've set up several distros on VMs lately (CachyOS, Bazzite, EOS, PikaOS, NixOS, and more), and Endeavor has one of the absolute best installation and onboarding experiences.
Something about it just feels so polished, though keep an eye on PikaOS. They've got some great UX people on their team.
My limited knowledge of electronics makes me think that's some kind of signal filter. I've seen similar setups on headphones (usually coupled with a resistor) to filter or reduce certain frequencies.
What exactly it's doing in your setup, I can't say.
Sounds like we want the same thing, except I think it's perhaps too high of an expectation to have a CPA that can do both financial accounting and cryptography.
As far as I know Meta only collects and abuses data it get’s from people where there are now laws in place to prevent it (so why wouldn’t they do it).
Unfortunately, in practice, the laws don't seem to mean much to the wealthy.
Like other gigantic companies that have billions of dollars, it's easier and more profitable to ask forgiveness than permission; paying legal fines that are 0.01% of their overall profits is just the cost of doing business. Zuck has been caught on multiple occasions skirting the law (see the most recent revelation of them surreptitiously leeching scores of books from Anna's Archive and a previous one of partnering with Cambridge Analytica, for example).
I'm all good with having companies submit to hostile financial audits, but I'm not sure how a CPA would be qualified to validate security or privacy. Code security audits should be done by cryptographic experts, and I think you would need both.
Perhaps one day, we'll have Certified Public Cryptographers that have a fiduciary duty to ensure people are secure or private.
Of course not. My point was that these wealthier-than-god goobers just throw money at anything with the term "AI" attached with abandon, and that seems like a better road to relative wealth than playing the lottery.
You might be right. I'll have to go double check, but I don't think that you can just set up a new account with the same number without the password you set up.
Sorta like those. Anybody that thought OpenAI was trustworthy just by virtue of being a nonprofit gets what they deserve for being so credulous, and Proton isn't directly comparable, because it's a stack of software, not just one. You would have to compare the analog of Signal, and Proton doesn't have one.
If what you really want to say is that we don't know with 100% certainty that the Signal Foundation is operating in good faith, then I agree, though they seem to have a pretty decent track record thus far.
However, that doesn't mean their software doesn't do what is expected (it's FOSS, go inspect and build it yourself), and E2EE ensures that even if they suddenly wanted or were ordered to turn anything over, the data LEOs get would be limited, if it exists at all.
We are still in a trust me bro situation... We just trust signal bro more than meta bro.
I'm not sure what you think is especially noteworthy here. It's always some level of a "trust me bro" situation. That's how the internet works. If you want to avoid trust issues, stop using the internet.
I don't think that's a fair comparison, simply because their structures are quite different. Signal is FOSS run by a 501(c)3 non-profit, whereas Whatsapp is obviously run by Meta and data mines its users; Telegram is also a nonprofit, but privacy was never their goal or mission.
They're all centralized, which I agree is a negative, but if something must be centralized, being run by a nonprofit foundation whose mission is privacy and E2EE is about the best option you could hope for in that scenario.
Asking for voluntary tips isn't enshittification. It's surviving within the reality of shitty capitalism. I donate to my instance admins, for example, because as much as they probably would love to just run this instance for free, they can't.
This is probably the most ethical way to ensure creators can continue to eat, especially with generative software models able to produce competing garbage in gigantic volumes.
This should go without saying, but don't use company devices for your personal stuff, whether they're private, public, or federal. Somebody is always watching, and some manager with a chip on their shoulder will be more than happy to avail themselves of the bossware inevitably installed on there.