Often enough the credit card payment still is done through PayPal, though
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Boobworld, it's a world for you, but it's actually two!
Dude, Brother is not even an US company - like most big printer companies it's Japanese and traded at the Tokyo stock exchange.
So.... You're arguments are invalid and only show your americentric world view.
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That was once very common in Europe and is currently gaining traction again. Big companies did provide accommodation for their staff - from dorms style accommodation for bachelor's to full houses. E.g. there are huge urban wards in western Germany (coal mining, steel production), Ludwigshafen (BASF), Berlin and Munich (Siemens) but also smaller towns (e.g. Singen - Maggi/Nestlé) which were build this way. Initially meant as a way to accommodate the huge amount of workers drawn from more rural areas it became a huge competitive advantage after the war as housing was scarce - and the company which was able to provide such had a better chance to recruit the required staff (which,due to the huge losses in some generations were scarce).
It fell out of favour in the 70/80ies but especially municipal corporations continued to provide it sometimes and some industries,mainly healthcare, continued to do so. (e.g. most hospitals in central Europe have a "nurses home" - a cheap apartment block next to the hospital that is often rented out to junior nurses and doctors)
Nowadays, due to the massively increasing prices to rent and own the whole idea gains traction again for other branches as well - e.g. Mercedes Benz and BMW are planning to invest heavily in these things, so does BASF. E.g. one of my clients (ambulance service) does provides (very high quality) fully furnished temporary flats both for travelling paramedics but also for new hires so they can settle down in peace.
I am a CEO of a small company and while my staff works 100% remote (exclusive of direct appointments at the offices of our customers - which we try to avoid) I do offer paying for a real estate agent upon hiring staff if they need a new flat for working Home-Office full time. (E.g. due to having small kids at home and wanting a separate office) It does cost me around 3000€ - which is a small amount compared to the overall hiring costs - a new staff member costs me around 30.000€ after adding recruitment costs, induction, initial training courses, hard& software,etc. If I manage to retain 1 out of 10 staff members due to that it's worth it.
Affinity publisher can be a reasonable alternative for a lot of people - while it lacks a few features in terms of multi-user collaboration it is far better in the actual graphical design area.
I added two points that might be relevant.
- Proton is not an Email app but mainly an email provider that locks you into its own app.
- Proton does not provide e2e encrypted email outside its own environment (so any mail within proton will be encrypted but not outside - and it's far harder to do the later due to point one)
- Proton is heavily run by US citizens living in the US - and therefore to some extend fall under the homeland security act and similar laws, including pressure by the current administration.
- Proton claims to be based on Swiss privacy laws. One should be aware that Swiss data protection laws are amongst the weakest in Europe, that service providers can (and mostly are) forced to monitor cross border traffic and that Swiss intelligence services have a long history of unlawful overreach and extremely close cooperation with US services. To what extend Proton is affected by this is unclear, unlike other Swiss based service providers they refuse to comment on this(and they would be allowed to comment, don't get me wrong)
Just to be aware. I know there are a lot of fans of proton on Lemmy,but there are far better services available nowadays. If the Swiss privacy law does not bother you Infomaniak is an option, alternativly mailbox.org is an option within the GDPR sphere. (Can be bad or good depending on your own situation)
Neither of them is an app, nevertheless,but they work with any major app,e.g. thunderbird.
Yeah,one of the few drawbacks they have. Most people can live with it, but it's indeed one of the things they should be providing by now but don't
Hetzner
As usual Hetzner is always a solid choice - their Object storage is more than solid and comparably cheap - Personally I would not transfer to your VPS though as Immicg can get funky when latencies are too high. Just run the cheapest VM there that can take Immich.
Alternatively IONOS is doing a lot of good things as well these days,but they are slightly more expensive.
Nope. They literally are. See answers below my post and various others here.
Yes. And I am old enough to have attended my first protest without a mobile phone - because I simply didn't have one yet back then. And my first one I organised actually was a failure because it was impossible to communicate a change of venue.
And before my time protesting was suddenly much harder once the other side had the option to mobilise their forces and react to protesters much mor fluidly. (Mainly when handheld police radio became widely available)
The point is: There is always a force, intelligence and information disadvantage between the different sides - a state actor will always be in a better position. This is even more true in times where mass surveillance is very easy to achieve. A developing world country nowadays easily can achieve a level of surveillance of protests that surpases Stasi levels in their best days for 1% of the resources. Proper and secure communications are one of the only ways to level the playing field at least a bit.
Sure,you can go to plain old "we meet there at XY" protests. Have fun doing that. Your chances to be a victim of repression if you do so within repressive circumstances are far higher,but if you like that?
Good point! Please everyone, verify everything I wrote externally for your own security - I really hope I didn't make any mistakes,but it's your security.
There has been a NIH 3D model database,but it has become unreliable already for orange reasons. Besides that there aren't many options beside manifold or plainly hosting your own site (which is not that hard tbh, but makes it hard for others to find,though)
Would have been nice,but sadly we see how the US is handling the UN right now.
At least the EU has decided to get one unified network with Iris2 now. That is at least a step in the right direction.
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Proton doing shady proton things again. Who would have guessed that.
Gosh, how many people here, who are proposing that people leave their phones at home have actually been to a protest in real life?
My strong guess is: None. Neither has the author of the article been to one.
As someone who attended my fair share protests,including ones in fairly oppressive countries: Take a fucking phone with you, but please use a designated burner phone.
Reasons to have a phone:
- Communication is necessary and paramount - from reorganisation (we are blocked here, so we meet there)to warning (the cops are coming from there and block us off here) people communication is the major aspect that has enabled people to protest effectively and not fall into traps. We can only protest effectively if we are united. And that requires information.
- Let's face it: Pictures and videos are important. Not only in a "the cops are beating us to pulp situation" (their use there is limited), but also to mobilise others, show the extend of the mobilisation (the other side will usually downplay the size of the protests), feed social media (which is important), etc. As long as basic precautions are taken (no faces/identifiable information, no crimes, change position after you post it) this actually helps the cause and maintains the narrative (it's mighty hard to brand protests "full of rioters" when social media shows 100k people protesting peacefully). Mainstream and foreign media relies on this as most media outlets to not have actual coverage of critical protests (and if they do, they usually are behind police lines).
- Especially for larger protests you will often work in uncommon areas. Cities you have never been before. You will need reliable map services and geo location (where is the next hospital? Which shops are open? Are there any shopping malls we can slip into if needed? Where can we sleep? Is there a metro station we can use nearby?) This information is not only vital,it can be time critical. A friend of mine is only alive because his peers knew the way to the next hospital - neither of them was from the city, the ambulance stopped responding hours before that,etc.
- Phones are good transmitters - the cops will find any media you have on you if they really want (and they will search very well if they want), don't think you can hide a micro SD card somewhere. Some countries(including the US) have started to x-ray their new inmates to make sure they don't hide media within their bodies. (Official excuse: Drug packaging and "welfare") So often the best bet is to get all evidence, all media the other side doesn't want to see out before they have access to your phone. (Which I wouldn't count on to get back)
- They can also be a liveline to get one out of prison. The fact that relatives and fellow activists "know" that their loved ones are being arrested is essential for getting them out and prevent charges. Even in very democratic states the cops will be overstretched for days after a mass protest and people will be locked up without much identification and records. And none will know if Person A is locked up, in hospital, vanished due to something else (e.g. hiding or being a victim of something completely different - I know a girl who got offered a place to sleep after a protest and was locked in their basement for two days with their desire to make her their sex slave communicated), etc. Additionally,in the more oppressive countries,the other side will often use the "we don't know anything, the person didn't even attend" excuse to prevent people from getting legal help in time.
Now,the article has a bit of bad advice:
- It is a horrible idea to simply wipe your old phone after backup. Storage doesn't work that way. It is a easy task for any forensic expert to restore most if not all information on the phone. And as it was not used with all data privacy considerations before,there is a good chance they will find leads.
- It can be problematic to use VPNs, especially in a situation like this and if people use public VPNs. Remember,people know that VPNs exist and the other side usually has control over the telecommunications infrastructure. In at least two cases I know of, the use of a popular VPN within a certain cell tower range was used to differentiate between protestors and average citizens. People therefore should make an informed decision if they rather use normal "semi encrypted" communication (nothing unusual in using Signal,Bluesky,Twitter or Facebook in most countries) or if they want to use a VPN to tunnel their traffic but also are more susceptible.
Some better advice:
- Get a burner phone - do not get a used phone,do use your old phone - I literally bought a old phone from a radical neo Nazi on eBay once - the restored data showed massive illegal activities. You can get new phone with a reasonable secure OS for around 100 bucks these days.
- If possible get a prepaid card that is not linked to your name. Bonus if you can use a roaming card - a card from a different country. It is far more difficult for a country to access identifying information then. Do not use that card for anything else and do not set it up at home.
- Create designated social media accounts for protesting and do not use them from home (unless proper precautions are used) and only use them for that.
- Never log into any private accounts with the burner.
- Do not store anything incriminating on the phone - in your mind you must always be treat it like a device the other side might have full access to. Because if they want to,they will. (Yeah, I know, some countries still protect that information - but even there I saw cops overstepping their borders and simply force people. And once they are in,they are in)
- Degooglefy/Desamsungfy your phone as much as possible and make sure things like location based tracking,etc. are off.
- Consider using Briar and make it popular amongst your fellow protesters. Briar can be used without any mobile phone coverage, as it works with WiFi or Bluetooth only (via ad hoc connections). A single phone hidden in a public place can be used as a relay and inform thousands. But it requires a certain amount of users to work effectively.
- Once the other side got their hands on it consider it burned. Because that's what it is.
- Keep your phone on, charged as much as possible,, but in full(!) airplane mode (unless you use Briar,then keep BT on) but keep your GPS activated (again: remove location tracking services). Preload the relevant maps onto the device, ideally with satellite picture if available, these can be helpful). Keep relevant documents (e.g. timetables, partner organisations,etc.) in another encrypted file.
- Keep a reasonably encrypted file with a minimum number of contacts - lawyer, some civil rights organisations. If you want to have the number of a loved one find one of the countless online SIP providers(ideally in another country) and forward from there.
- Most phones allow a number of numbers to be accessed without unlocking the phone. Save a lawyer/protest organisation number in there so you can access it without unlocking.
- If you can,use an app that allows verifiable proof picture taking - there are various options that are FOSS available on F-Droid. This can later prevent the opposite side claiming that pictures were manipulated.
- Please confirm everything I wrote from other source. First because there is no proof I am not a bad faith actor (I am not,but you don't know that), second I might have made a mistake.
_Edit to add the last two points. _
Yeah,but please don't use Proton unless you are aware of their drawbacks and marketing lies. (I am not counting the tweet here...)
Or go through my post history,I have explained multiple times here why proton is not an ideal choice.
Infomaniak or mailbox org might be worth a consideration as well
Yeah. Sadly rectovaginal fistulae are a huge issue in the developing world and there are millions of woman suffering greatly from them. The consequences are severe,often include things like massive infections, incontinence, infertility, labial fusion(yeah,that is exactly what you think it is - happens due to ongoing infections) and sepsis/death.
They mainly happen during childbirth with sufficient medical assistance and to a lesser extend as a consequence of rape. (Due to the "unattended birth" movement we see a raise in the case numbers in the industrial nations as well recently)
Most woman die untreated but shunned from their communities as the required surgery is complicated, requires extensive aftercare and is expensive. There are whole nations without a single surgeon providing these surgeries.
Currently a huge percentage of these surgeries have been cancelled anyway, thanks to the orange. I know of cases who literally got send home from the hospital due to that.
Tbf, comparing blender and openscad is more like comparing a hammer with a knife.
FreeCAD would be the more obvious comparison here - and while Openscad has some benefits for more complicated projects it is less than optimal - and sadly FreeCAD still sucks compared to most commercial products,even though it has improved recently due to the ONSEL influence.