which also removes the merits of you questioning if what he is claiming is fiction or not

yet you claim marcan is lina with zero proof?

If that does happen, I just hope there will be enough developers by then that can/will want to use it (as in, write rust code). Especially developers that can put up with the kernel process and its people.

Distros are still free to make their own RPM packages, they can’t go around the GPL there.

But having official flatpak release makes it very easy to update to the latest versions regardless of your distro.

https://jmp.chat/

This is why FOSS is so important. Then you can at least control the app and know that it’s not being updated with malicious code.

And SMTP/IMAP do not support end-to-end encryption, so a malicious server can still spy on you even if it uses TLS.

But I dislike that it requires even going that info

I never understood this stance… do people really think a corporation is going to risk their entire company over your anonymity when their country’s government does not allow this? Nobody is going to jail for you.

Plus, if everyone could easily sign up anonymously, then like they said, it would be overrun with bots and the reputation of their IPs would quickly deteriorate to where most other email providers would just block them, making the service almost worthless.

https://www.latacora.com/blog/2019/07/16/the-pgp-problem/

How would you know?

You probably wouldn’t have heard about it simply because it’s illegal to publicize a secret subpoena/warrant. Such orders are given as National Security Letters with a permanent gag order, going so far as to preventing the recipient from even seeking counsel; it’s a massive abuse of power and due process in the US to get companies to lie and do whatever they want.

I don’t consider those to be useful anymore because a court can compel them to keep the canary up in secret, and I’m pretty sure that’s already happened more than once before.

I think real intelligence by definition requires empathy and humility, which is typically the opposite of such dogmatism in my opinion.

“As a rule, strong feelings about issues do not emerge from deep understanding.” -Sloman and Fernbach

why change the title

As I mentioned, I felt it was more transparent to say where the money comes from and let people draw their own conclusions. Of course there will always be dissenting opinions no matter which title is used, I think that just comes with the territory, and I’m ok with that; I don’t think there is a single right or wrong answer. I’m sorry that you disagree with my choice. I encourage you to make similar posts wherever you’d like with your own desired title.

Thank you for your perspective.

In the context of fingerprinting I disagree. The vast majority of the world population do NOT use an ad-blocker (supposedly maybe 15% do at most)… so having an adblocker can be used to narrow you down even more IMO. Many extensions can have this issue afaik, especially if it modifies the DOM.

Original title was “F-Droid Awarded Open Technology Fund’s FOSS Sustainability Grant”. Not trying to be tinfoily but I thought it would have been even more irresponsible to not make it clear where the money really comes from as I think most people aren’t aware.

Either way, please do your own research and draw your own conclusions and I promise I have no intentional agenda in reporting this… besides transparency.

Is This Safe for Me? Yes

I think the answer is not so simple. For example, some might think it would be a bad idea for their provider to know that you regularly exchange traffic with many users in adversarial countries (even if they don’t know what that traffic is)… could that be used against you somehow? It’s entirely possible.

What OSes do not have any Rust code?

I have seen people with an axe to grind use frivolous lawsuits to reveal domain identities, you don’t actually have to do anything wrong for that to happen.

subpoenas can still reveal the owner

subpoenas can still reveal the owner

I have nothing to hide

Ok, pull down your pants and hand me your unlocked phone.