So communists are not welcome on lemmy.world or what? What even is a Hexbear? How different is this move from when Elon decided to reinstate every banned account apart from Alex Jones'? How thin is the skin of lemmy.world mods? What's the point of censorship on this platform? I can go to Reddit and Twitter if I want protection from communist ideologies??

Google has been so far very quiet on this issue. I wonder why.

Yes. If it becomes a success on Chrome, other interested parties will pressure Firefox to adopt the standard as well.

Wonder why this wasn't done earlier. Hopefully we'll see less of the 404-type pages that has plagued this instance.

Valory noted in his statement that the company was significantly impacted by the slowdown.

He added that the company is still expected to see 30% growth this year.

Which is which?

Nothing too fancy other than following the recommended security practices. And to be aware of and regularly monitor the potential security holes of the servers/services I have open.

Even though semi-related, and commonly frowned upon by admins, I have unattended upgrades on my servers and my most of my services are auto-updated. If an update breaks a service, I guess its an opportunity to earn some more stripes.

9/10 desktop applications I use are flatpaks. Am on Arch and even when there's an AUR for a package I'd prefer to use Flatpak. Just so I can use Flatseal to control permissions access on my applications.

KDE Connect is better than anything these two juggernauts can conceive of.

Arch (BTW)

Most people do not have to a reason to care about privacy, until the day their private comms/data gets leaked and abused is when they will give a damn.

Yes. But if I wanted to be petty I would have switched over to Gentoo.

Nah. It's a (biased) personal interpretation of what "good" "safe" "family-friendly" content means for lemmy users. Idk much about Hexbear's content but isn't it possible to label their posts as NSFW incase of visibly violent content or something similar.

The users who disagree with Hexbear's overall comments know where the block button is. It's not that complicated a solution. People should use more of it instead of looking for reasons to get mad.

Backup $home and /etc. That should be good enough.

Arch BTW.

You have threat model to answer this question as privacy means different things to people and there are different privacy levels to every threat model. But to answer your question in a concise manner, any closed source operating system developed by commercial vendors is more likely to ship with/ introduce telemetry, user tracking and other kinds of spyware than an open one.

Backblaze b2, borgbase.com. There are also programs like dejadup that will let you backup to popular cloud drives. The alternatives are limitless.

I remember losing Google Authenticator data when I had to format my phone. This was years back and didn't have too many accounts setup. With Aegis I have an offline encrypted backup of all my 2FA codes so this is no longer a possibility. Before Aegis I was tempted to use Authy before I had to wait 24hrs to gain my access back after I reset my phone.

2FA on Android has always sucked (lazily created; app data CANNOT constitute and/or subsitute device trust). I wish I had got on to Aegis earlier.

Not making a case for Ubuntu but even Fedora has opt-out telemetry.

You know what the worst part is. We, The people let them do this to us.

I occasionally use DriveDroid (root) to boot Linux ISOs.

My device also IR so Mi Remote comes in handy.