keverets @keverets@librem.one

"Companies that sell consumer electronics such as refrigerators, washers, hairdryers, or TVs in the European Union - and in the UK - will need to ensure those goods can be repaired for up to 10 years."

UK has to follow the same manufacturing rules since it continues to trade with the EU

It only covers appliances, but it's a step in the right direction

https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/eu-right-repair-technology-decade-b1809408.html

For Snowflake volunteers: If you use Firefox, Brave, or Chrome, our Snowflake extension turns your browser into a proxy that connects Tor users in censored regions to the Tor network. Note: you should not run more than one snowflake in the same network.
https://support.torproject.org/censorship/how-to-help-running-snowflake/

📣 Starting this month, we're running a campaign to increase the number of Snowflake proxies run by volunteers. Snowflake is a new way to defeat internet censorship bundled in Tor Browser Alpha. You can help users in censored countries to connect to Tor by running a Snowflake proxy!
https://support.torproject.org/censorship/what-is-snowflake/

Linux distributions in a nutshell

In particular I appreciated the discussion on the responsibility everyone has not just for their own #privacy, but the privacy of everyone else they connect with. When you give up your privacy to an app, you are also selling out your friends, family and colleagues.

"From a friend of mine"

by TheLeadReaper

Been hearing a lot about the evolution of the FF logo, but this was unexpected...

Now that the new OnionShare has better command line support, I just wrote a guide explaining how to run your own anonymous Tor dropbox on a Raspberry Pi. Check it out: https://micahflee.com/2021/02/onionshare-anonymous-dropbox-raspberry-pi/

If you have any leaks, load this URL in Tor Browser to send them my way: http://vxat6yszh7o5r2fxzvibxsb4lmfi6yzudobn3o3yz2vhvue3z2xmbqid.onion

Today I learned freezing soap bubbles are beautiful.

Many articles about the Australia-Facebook dispute noted that a large number of people rely on Facebook as their primary news and information portal. Because I think that relying on a big tech entity that treats users as products for advertisers as a primary news source is unwise - I suggest RSS as an alternative in my post.

https://thenewleafjournal.com/around-the-web-rss-as-a-facebook-alternative/

#facebook #bigtech #rss #australia #newsfeed #news #newleafjournal #mastodon #pixelfed #atom #fediverse #decentralization #kde #akregator

🇺🇸 🇨🇦 /e/-smartphones now ship to the US and Canada!

#degoogled #smartphones #privacy

https://esolutions.shop

11 months of quarantine in emojis: 😷😖😫😰😞🌞😟😌😣😒😕

In retrospect, the combination of "organize the world's data and make it universally accessible" and "make money selling ads" was always going to add up to "we are going to man-in-the-middle everything in the world."

China has banned BBC World News from broadcasting in the country, its television and radio regulator announced on Thursday.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-56030340
Something they said?

"I think I'll pass. These days I have a hard time feeling comfortable in crowded bars with loud music and lots of shouting." --me, after the pandemic, but now for a second reason

Amazon Ring still poses a threat to vulnerable and over-policed communities, but its introduction of end-to-end encryption is a victory for privacy advocates.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/02/amazon-rings-end-end-encryption-what-it-means

#fluffychat has been approved for the iOS AppStore! Thanks to benpa and @matrix for the help with this! You guys are awesome!

https://apps.apple.com/de/app/fluffychat/id1551469600

@moparisthebest @devurandom @kensanata @cjd I guess this is the crux of it:

> To our knowledge, there is no individual nor organization who has yet agreed that they will run a project under the SS Public License and be themselves bound by the SS Public License. That license remains a disingenuous proposal until it's put to use in an “inbound=outbound” licensing configuration.
>
> (Both Elastic and MongoDB require inbound contributors to give them special licensing rights.)

In the last year Google has banned: the Element app, the LBRY app, and several Fediverse apps. If you get all of your apps from a single corporation, be it Google or Apple, you should make an effort to change that.

If you have an Android phone F-Droid is an alternative app repository, and it’s very easy to install! All of the previously mentioned apps have been available from F-Droid throughout being dropped from the Play Store.

If you have an iPhone, please consider other options for your next device. Apple does not respect you enough as a user to consider you possibly more capable of deciding what you should install on your phone than they are. That is absurd; please stop rewarding this behavior with your money.