Varies though, some areas let children from 12 yo and on participate in local decision-making, whereas others have it tied to when one can legally start working.
Some areas put it pretty late, by about 21-25. I even recall that if you want to run for president in the US, you need to be at least 35 years old. Yet there is no maximum age.
also “improperly” is very vague
Might also be handy to put it on Codeberg!
Absolute royal owo
But have they cancelled the channel from being affilates and sponsored? I don’t see them directly stating that.
Wdym passmail? If you mean their subscription services, you can go look what they offer.
Proton’s decent as far how it works, but their CEO has some issues and an environmental activist using their services, had been arrested, though that activist afaik didn’t use a VPN.
Personally I’d recommend Tuta or Mailbox.
Other options would be CounterMail (🇸🇪) and Mailfence (🇧🇪). There’s other services, but those don’t have E2EE.
As for GDPR, California has something similar, so that also might be good. California still falls under the federal CLOUD Act and their like, though.
If advertising companies (or really, stuff with an incentive to hunger for data) are a concern, I would not recommend the search engine Startpage. Other than that, its policies are afaik fairly decent.
For software, I think it being OSS or at least fully audited by an independent, transparent security auditor, is crucial. You want to avoid shell companies and such whose ultimate ownership is unclear. Or CEOs with questionable histories.
Self-hostability is a good one, though not everyone has the expertise required.
What I do is:
mailbox also.
always check the profit motive. Often if it’s free, unsupported by donation/subscription nor sponsors with that system, and if it costs quite some money to uphold, then your data is the product.
I’m always pretty wary of when a company or its parent goes public, be it by IPO or trading - then ownership is no longer in people’s hands but in profit’s hands.
Can someone destroy these Orwell devices already? ACAB
This is so fucking illegal on every single level. Can’t we put these camera’s in police agents’ and politicians’ homes? Let’s see how much they love surveillance!
See here - secure messaging apps
another thing is that the Trumpist US regime allegedly got access to Signal through Israeli spyware (Paragon), or is trying to do so. (The Guardian)
The Swiss military also has publicly shifted away from Signal, as they deemed it unsafe for communications. Signal’s still subject to the CLOUD Act, while Threema is not. (Bleeping Computer).
You got great choices, actually. I’d only recommend to be as little dependent on multiple fronts on one company. So I’d change a few of Proton to something else. As long as Proton doesn’t replace their CEO with an explicitly antifascist one, I don’t know if they re a good spot.
Depending on how private communications must be, Threema might be better than Signal.
If you don’t need to synchronise with others and your threat model is not physical attacks/theft, then agendas can be just on paper. Same for the calendar.
As for distro…
Mint is great (and honestly what I’d rec for people brand new to Linux). If you want to harden privacy/security more though, the following Linux distros might be better:
I assume you want to use your distro as daily driver, and that your threat model isn’t too severe. So the above ones should suffice.
If the threat model calls for it, or you’re willing to sacrifice some usability for slightly more security, you could try QubesOS (arguably one of the most secure distros since it sandboxes everything as if they were a separate computer). Tails is another alternative, that’s on a USB and forgets itself after usage.
For search engines…
… go for Qwant (French) or Ecosia (German). Both are European-owned and are busy constructing their own indexes (currently they still use Bing and Google). There’s Mojeek (UK-based) which is independent.
I don’t know how to block specific sites from popping up on them though, since I notice a certain trillionnaire’s personal ““wiki”” pops up a LOT. Probably he’s cheating and search bumping to spread his desinformation. It should be blocked.
Presearch also exists, which is decentralised and uses its own indexes. If you want OSS, there’s SearXNG and YaCy which have metasearch options. Be careful in which instance you pick, though.
I think the best way to make it work for the fediverse is to have it be accessible by all instances (sans Threads).
Mass FTW. One of the shining beacons.
State with good:
(Most of New England + the Pacific Coast and Minnesota qualify for this too, tbh).
And in there, Cambridge’s got:
Not to mention Graphite and Pegasus, Israeli spyware.
When parliaments have to inquire their own spy services, it’s a sign that these spy services must be disbanded, as they are becoming a deep state of their own, intimidating and harassing politicians. After all, if you can’t trust your own politicians, whom can you? And that’s problematic.
Disbanding those services and prohibiting any secret services from ever forming, would also regain a great deal of trust of society in each other. And that trust in turn, can foster society to advance for mankind.
Unfortunately with Trump being there, this shall not be the greatest launch, for he may plan to use this for his own propaganda campaign.
What then, in my view were the greatest launches? Indeed, when the cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin was launched and Apollo 11 went up, that was a monumentous achievement for mankind.
Unlike the Apollo and space shuttle missions and all who have went before, there is little scientific reason for this launch. It is space politics; all that money could have been used to build homes instead, to improve the general wellbeing of Americans, instead of enriching and entertaining the billionnaire oligarchs’ interests. But that is my own view, I s’pose.
Had Americans’ wellbeing been improved greatly, the FPTP system abolished for proportional representation, and there been no billionnaires and media oligopolies, no conflict of interests, no wars the US was waging… the US might have faced a much more golden age of spacefaring.
I’d throw in to not interact with the troll at all. Report, block, move on.