“Helped” is a very proactive term, they didn’t even comply to the FBI request, the FBI had to get a court order from the Swiss government. The title could as easily say it was the user that helped the FBI unmask him by giving personal information that wasn’t required.

No. Proton followed Swiss court orders to hand over data from a user, and the user had used his own credit card to pay for Proton instead of any of the available anonymous methods.

After commercial OS have age verification they will remove it from the programs because the age was already verified, right? (Padme asking Anakin)

E se eles não te conhecem nem sabem o que você tá fazendo (como o caso da Lavabit que resolveu proteger o Snowden), acho que nem a Disroot, Autistici e RiseUp iriam botar a mão no fogo - todos eles basicamente falam pra você usar Tor ou VPN e clientes como o Thunderbird justamente pra eles não terem informação sua pra entregar se foram intimados.

Absolutamente nenhum serviço comercial vai ser fechado por não seguir ordem judicial só pra te proteger, todos eles vão entregar as suas informações, a diferença é qual informações eles podem ter… o Proton deixa bem claro que ele não loga os IPs que estão usando o VPN e isso já teve auditorias independentes, mas pela lei do país eles tem que logar os IPs que acessam o email (então você usa o VPN não é mais seu IP e sua localização tá protegida). Você não precisa dar seu nome real, não precisa dar seu número de telefone e nem outro email de contato para se cadastrar no Proton Mail, e se você absolutamente precisa pagar pelo serviço você pode pagar em dinheiro pelo correio e em crypto… mas o cara pagou com o cartão de crédito pessoal no nome dele??
De boa mesmo, a menos que vocês realmente esperam que a empresa vá se sacrificar por um usuário (já aconteceu, a Lavabit fechou as portas antes de entregar o Snowden, porém já se era sabido quem era o Snowden e o que ele tinha feito…), o vacilo foi todo do cara.

Nenhum serviço de email vai deixar de seguir ordem judicial pra proteger um usuário e ser tirado do ar por causa disso - eles não entregaram a informação pro FBI, mas pras autoridades Suíças. A única alternativa é você hostear seu próprio email, ou então não pagar uma conta do Proton com o seu cartão de crédito tendo o seu nome porque aí eles não iam ter dado nenhum para entregar.

that’s pretty cool, didn’t know about it, thanks!

I’ve dealt with actual nazi/fascist groups in the past and I’ve read a great deal of their theory material, and I disagree with people saying “nationalism” because the people strongly advocating nationalism kinda advocate it internationally, that every country should be strongly nationalist - which includes control over the national resources, control over immigration, etc, etc, they want this for every country. The mouth-breathing street thugs are just mindless bigots, but here in Latin America, because of high miscegenation, there are plenty non-racist fascist organizations (not gonna call “anti-racist” because they are pretty tolerant of racists) that bond just over xenophobia lol
Main themes are “anti-globalism”, anti- anything considered “progressive”, etc etc, and I don’t know how it goes for white supremacists in the USA since they’d have trouble with land claim and shit, but even European bonehads like Ian Stuart openly support nationalist groups from Africa, Middle-East, East Asia, Latin America, etc, because regardless if they see themselves as superior race, their idea is to keep Europe white, and the rest which to their own ethnic group, and if those other places were Nationalist, they would be more prone to “love their land” or whatever to not immigrate to Europe.

Patriotism for me is a bland word used for political campaigns to evoke a vague sense of duty and sacrifice and make people support their government when their government is fucking them over. Nationalism is a strong ideology that goes beyond the horizontal political spectrum (for Latin America, for example, most right-wing parties use patriotic propaganda with national symbols but are in favor of privatizing national resources to foreign companies - read American companies - , while far left parties use nationalist rhetoric about strong sovereignty and protectionism (average “left” is pretty neokeynesian and, weirdly enough, are going after free commerce blocks )

FOSS people are so ungrateful!

ps: don’t.

send pull requests using vibe coding :)

Awesome, congrats

Ah, first world boredom.

Wish these people abusing copyright claims would have to pay 10x their request plus process costs every time they lose.

Petitions and shit would only have any meaning if the decisions were based on ethicand public interest, but it’s all money and power, so the only petition and open letters worth signing are those just saying fuck google and the human garbage running it

So there is this guy, best friend of my father since before I was born, I knew him for my entirely life. He always worked with food trucks and when I was teenager I worked with him and we would often work until 4am. All kinds of people would show up, early it would be families with kids, later people coming out of clubs and nightlife, then even later it would be cops, drunks, prostitutes, transvestites, crackheads, drug dealers… he always treated everyone equally, he’d give free hotdogs to homeless and beggars, the guy had a huge heart and everyone liked him.

Later I had moved to another city and comes Facebook. I add him, see a lot of right wing bullshit content he liked and shared, even stuff coming from openly homophobic people and it was shocking because he is gay. We have an ugly argument and I didn’t speak to him for about two years, felt like shit the whole time, kept remembering what an amazing and generous person he is, that was always up to help everyone around him. Next time I was back in town I went to his house to apologize, he said he didn’t even remember we had an argument.

People are complex as fuck, and social media got us burning bridges for believing they are bad.

thanks, exactly what I’m looking for

what’s up with linking to reddit just to link to https://fortune.com/2026/02/24/discord-peter-thiel-backed-persona-identity-verification-breach/ though?

Example?

Man, Benn Jordan made an awesome video about this!
https://youtu.be/W_F4rEaRduk?t=930