Elias @eliasr@librem.one

@Crocmagnon ok I see, in this case I think using something like pass (or ansible-vault or something of that type) would have two advantages for you:

(1) You become independent from GitHub (Microsoft). If GitHub disappears or displeases you, you can just move to different hosting of your git repos without changing anything regarding your secrets.

(2) Your secrets become more secret. After all, something is not so secret if it is known by Microsoft 😉

@fsfe

Can I donate to FSFE and be confident that FSFE will work towards their stated goal to "empower users to control technology" without any blindspot for Google?

3/3

@fsfe

I would like to think that this is because FSFE somehow decided to free itself from Google, but I don't know, maybe Google's huge donation and the influence it brings will be coming back soon.

Does it mean anything that Google is no longer listed as a donor?

2/3

I've been hesitating about donating to #FSFE because the last few years, including 2022, FSFE got more than 10% of their funding from Google. I'll assume for the moment that I don't need to explain why that's bad. Let me know if you want me to explain that.

Now, looking at the FSFE donors page for the last 12 months, Google is not listed: https://fsfe.org/donate/thankgnus.en.html

@fsfe

1/3

@Crocmagnon I can recommend the "pass" utility https://www.passwordstore.org/ that will help you keep your stuff encrypted using gpg, having only the encrypted files in your git repo.

How do you do it now, are you using some GitHub-specific way of handling secrets?

@davidnjoku what is "twitter" place you are going on about and why are you assuming everyone comes from there?

@samuel heh, så Twitter har "238 million monetizable daily active users" enligt den artikeln.

Intressant uttryck, "monetizable". Det betyder väl att Twitter kan tjäna pengar på dem.

Är du monetizable, lille vän?

@redstarfish Good job! 🙂

@karolina@biblioverse.online Wow! Verkligen spännande ämne.

@ArneBab

Ah, maybe I should be equally afraid of Microsoft.

I think the deeper danger with these things is that in the long run, it makes people forget what it even means to be free and independent. People will no longer understand the concept of freedom.

@aral

@aral This is part of why I'm more afraid of Google than other tech giants, it's the creepy way they have of doing "open" and "free" things making everyone dependent on them, everyone using things they control without even thinking about it.

I like being independent. I like being able to do something on my own, something I decide to do, without anyone else needing to know about it.

@meraord mm lådorna som det stod "mänskliga rättigheter" och "vanlig jävla anständighet" på syns inte, de har väl redan sjunkit till botten.

@martijnbraam very cool 👍

@EU_Commission

Please stop the proposal on mass surveillance of the EU, the proposal called "chat control 2".

It is a really, really, very, very, bad idea.

https://mullvad.net/en/blog/2023/2/2/stop-the-proposal-on-mass-surveillance-of-the-eu/

See also: "European Commission must uphold privacy, security and free expression by withdrawing new law, say civil society": https://edri.org/our-work/european-commission-must-uphold-privacy-security-and-free-expression-by-withdrawing-new-law/

Please think about what you are doing, you are causing a lot of damage to our free societies by proposing something like this. Please stop and think.

@smlx4 Tack!

@smlx4 Hej, var hittade du det, en artikel nånstans?

@schmaker
@EU_Commission

For EU supporters it is even more important to stop this. And if we are to believe in EU as some kind of a democratic body it must be possible to stop it.

People outside of the EU may laugh at this, they may find it funny that EU countries are making fools out of themselves. But for us within the EU, this is very serious.

Infringing on fundamental rights like this is would be a reason to leave the EU. I want to live in a free society respecting human rights.

@hund jag tycker att den andra delen är mest konstig, helt klart.

Svårt att förstå hur majoriteten kan vara så aningslösa. Jag undrar om grundproblemet är att folk blivit helt barnsligt själviska, de tror att någon annan ska tänka åt dem och att allt ska bli bra då. Allt håller på att gå åt helvete. Demokratin kan bara fungera om människor faktiskt tänker själva.

@sindarina I remember the Commodore 64. That was 64 KB.

@EU_Commission

Please stop the proposal on mass surveillance of the EU, the proposal called "chat control 2".

It is a really, really, very, very, bad idea.

https://mullvad.net/en/blog/2023/2/2/stop-the-proposal-on-mass-surveillance-of-the-eu/

See also: "European Commission must uphold privacy, security and free expression by withdrawing new law, say civil society": https://edri.org/our-work/european-commission-must-uphold-privacy-security-and-free-expression-by-withdrawing-new-law/

Please think about what you are doing, you are causing a lot of damage to our free societies by proposing something like this. Please stop and think.