Watchful Citizen

@GrapheneOS@grapheneos.social is being threatened by French authorities for refusing to add backdoors and they're dealing with coordinated attacks in French media right now. They're pulling out of France entirely, moving all their servers, and fighting off a wave of bullshit one-sided reporting that makes them look like they're helping criminals.

They need us to fight back. Support them however you can, whether that's a dollar, sharing their story, pushing back on the garbage news coverage when you see it, or just telling someone you know about what's happening. All of it matters because they're drowning in attacks from governments and media and bad actors who want them gone.

This is the only Android OS that actually makes me feel like privacy isn't just marketing. They fight for us now they need us to fight for them.

The EU is pushing Chat Control and creating an environment where governments feel empowered to threaten developers into compliance, and if we stay quiet we're letting it happen. Show up for them in whatever way you're able to.

#grapheneos #Privacy #NoBackdoors #encryption #security #chatControl

Friendly reminder that privacy isn't all or nothing.

You don't have to go full tinfoil hat, build a bunker, delete everything and live off the grid to give a damn about it. It's a mindset. A slow change in behavior over time that fits YOUR life.

• You don't have to build a Faraday cage but you also don't have to share your location with every app that asks.
• Don't post your real name, birthday and location everywhere.
• You don't have to swear off every digital payment forever but you also don't have to hand your card details to every random site you visit just because the checkout flow made it easy.

What works for me might not work for you. And vice versa.

It's not binary and you're not failing just because you're not doing everything. Every piece of information you DON'T give away is a win

#privacy #ageverification #opsec #stopScanningMe #surveillance

On January 30, the EU Council voted to endorse a two-year extension of "Chat Control 1.0". This is a significant setback. If passed, it legalizes the mass scanning of private messages and photos by US tech giants using error-prone AI, without any suspicion of crime. It also paves the way for mandatory ID verification (ending anonymity) and effectively bans anyone under 17 from using messaging apps. potentially preventing them from even chatting with their own parents.

However, the fight is not over.

The Council's vote is not the final word. Under EU legislative procedures, the European Parliament must also agree to the extension. Right now, the power to stop this lies with the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE).

They are deliberating this week to set the Parliament's position before the current regulation expires in April. If the LIBE Committee stands firm and rejects the extension, this mass surveillance regime can still be stopped.

We must act now to influence their decision.

Please do not stay silent. Contact the LIBE Committee members. Tell them to reject the extension of the Regulation and to defend our fundamental right to privacy.

We need targeted, judicial solutions, not a permanent state of mass surveillance.

https://fightchatcontrol.eu/

#ChatControl #EU #Privacy #DigitalRights #StopSurveillance #LibeCommittee #MassSurveillance #EUPolitics

Looks good! @fanfare@goingdark.social #kubernetes #goingdark #mastoadmin

I can't be able to figure out why my laptop touchpad keeps turnings itself off on Fedora 43 KDE plasma. Any Linux ninja that have any idea what it could be?

Happens when I shut the lid. Even before suspend

#Linux #KDE #plasma #fedora43 #wayland