Sometimes, I receive questions which leave both me, and the person asking, bamboozled.
> Your website loads so quickly! What CDN do you use?
There is no CDN. It is just really small and simple, mostly text.
> Sure, but is that Cloudflare, or...?
None. It is a tiny website, just a few kilobytes per page, on a tiny server, at my home, connected to the Internet via my ISP, Andrews & Arnold.
> But are you / they in the cloud?
No. The webserver is in Newbruy, in my garage.
> Neil, pease can you pass my questions to your technical person? I don't think you understand, your website cannot be in your home. It must be in the cloud or have a CDN.
*Neil puts on glasses and false nose and moustache*
@tomtrottel @noelreports It says "basic" training, so probably not. I'd expect it to be followed by specialized training for the soldier's particular role (like machine gunner). Likely the units where new soldiers join also train them a bit.
Still, the problem is quality of the training (which varies from really good to sub-par), and most importantly, amount of soldiers that can be trained. The latter is a bottleneck, which is why European countries are helping train more Ukrainian soldiers.
@TotalSonic @fdroidorg @brave @torproject You can allow screenshots in the settings.
@EUCommission Spying on communications on behest of a company selling sofware for "scanning" those comunications is not "safer Europe".
@TotalSonic @fdroidorg @brave @torproject IDK what you did, but for me, Tor Browser for Android shows Yes/Yes/Your browser has a nearly-unique fingerprint.
Most of the fingerprint data stems from the fact that Tor Browser is hiding info or providing placeholders, and from the fact that it's based on Firefox (which is very rare on Android). Still, the point of Tor Browser is to be indistinguishable from other users of Tor Browser, not from everyone else.
@desirable_dialogue @eighthave @fdroidorg
F-Droid doesn't allow proprietary dependencies and lists non-free servers as a misfeature. Graphene devs consider this silly or even bizarre.
In general, the criticism of F-Droid is valid from the viewpoint of maximum security. However not everyone's threat model is the same, and not all of the criticism is important for everyone. I can ignore the part about displayed permissions being misleading, for example.
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@desirable_dialogue @eighthave @fdroidorg GrapheneOS focuses on security first and foremost. Meanwhile F-Droid approaches things from a Free Software (free as in freedom) mindset.
For F-Droid devs, installing an old and insecure game on an old and insecure smartphone is a valid use case. You should be free to do so. For Graphene devs, it's terrifying and should not be allowed by default.
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@TotalSonic @fdroidorg @brave "Brave seems to be the only Android browser that strongly resists fingerprinting."
Let me introduce the Tor Browser. @torproject
@madargon @davidrevoy 50%‽ That's way more than I thought. I wonder what was the exact question that was asked?
@echo_pbreyer Please, just let it die. Politicians can spy on their own communications if they want to. Leave ours alone.
Save future videogames from planned obsolescence!
There is an initiative asking the EU to regulate or at least clarify video games being made inaccessible remotely by publishers.
The initiative is on an official channel provided by the EU itself, if it reaches one million signatures the European Commission will have to look into the matter and provide a response, there is still a month until 31 July.
The European Commission must once and for all abandon the ghost of data retention that’s been haunting EU policy discussions for decades, and shift its focus to rights respecting alternatives. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/06/eff-european-commission-dont-resurrect-illegal-data-retention-mandates
@kkremitzki @FreeCAD If the videos do not permit reupload, but are already on a PeerTube instance, I believe you can just federate with that instance and make their videos visible on your instance without uploading them yourself.
@dzwiedziu @wariat @icd Przypominam, że już teraz WhatsApp nęka użytkowników przypomnieniami, żeby ustawić kopie zapasowe wiadomości, a domyślnie te kopie zapasowe nie są szyfrowane.
@echo_pbreyer We need younger, knowledgeable people to get into politics. We must replace the politicians who view technology, the Internet, freedom of speech, privacy, etc. as frivolous and optional.
@purism That's worrying.
@noelreports It might be influenced by US politics. The party that supports Nawrocki is generally pro-US.
@itsfoss Interesting. It's licensed under "Apache-2.0 with LLVM-exception".
@noelreports Trump's plan to ally with Russia against China failed to take into account that Russia is an aggressive, imperialist dictatorship that will break any promise as soon as it stands to gain anything from doing so. It cannot be trusted.