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  Fact check: Is Germany really cracking down on free speech and being investigated by the United Nations because of it? Lemmy discussion. The US-based nonprofit Privacy Guides recently covered in their podcast “This Week in Privacy“ episode 64 an article titled “Inside the dystopian world of Germany’s free speech crackdown” from UK-based publisher The Telegraph. The co-host (Nate) read off the notes while covering the story and said the original article is "definitely worth a read. Lots of...

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  If you're going to bash the competition, at least be honest about it. @simplex@mastodon.social I can't speak to the other points here, but Session does have message padding, though only for attachments up to 10 MB. This is highlighted in section 6.2 of their whitepaper, which is linked on the first page of their website; they also mentioned it in multiple interviews. So they deserve a yellow check mark. This is achieved by first padding each attachment to fit within a fixed number of...

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  If you're going to bash the competition, at least be honest about it. @simplex@mastodon.social I can't speak to the other points here, but Session does have message padding, though only for attachments up to 10 MB. This is highlighted in section 6.2 of their whitepaper, which is linked on the first page of their website; they also mentioned it in multiple interviews. So they deserve a yellow check mark. This is achieved by first padding each attachment to fit within a fixed number of...

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  @signalapp@mastodon.world Signal: Does a great addition to the Signal desktop client. Commentors: Commenting about everything else except what the post is actually about.

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  @davidrevoy@framapiaf.org Can we have the "Muteo" spell in real life please? 🥺

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  @matrix@mastodon.matrix.org Lol.

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  "Deleteduser.com —a $15 PII Magnet" by Mike Sheward "When is a delete, not a delete? When it’s an publicly routable placeholder. Ever since the birth of stricter privacy laws like GDPR and CCPA, the apps and services we use have been forced to build functionality to remove folk who no longer wish for their information to be held in the databases and code palaces that have been created in the name of SaaS. But what actually happens when you hit that delete button? More often than...

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  Appeal to Kagi to host their own F-Droid repository @kagihq distributes its closed-source apps exclusively through the Google Play Store. I wrote an appeal and proposal on their Discourse Feedback forum, and I encourage everyone who has an account there and agrees with the need for a dedicated Kagi F-Droid repository to give it a vote and may add additional information or thoughts in a reply. https://kagifeedback.org/d/10423-android-host-your-own-f-droid-repository #kagi #fdroid #dataprotecti...

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  @moshidon Great!

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  @molly0xfff Source?

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  If I hadn't included the URL in the screenshot, many people would probably have thought it's TikTok: deceptive button design, legal agreements as small print, and telling the user to make an account, even if they initiated no action that indicated they would want to do that. We don't want TikTok 2.0. Actions mean more than promises: https://joinloops.org/our-mission Source: https://loops.video/ #loops #Fediverse #foss @dansup @loops