In this case, the “lemmy devs” and the operators of lemmy.ml are the same people and it’s hosted within EU.
But - that’s still a far cry from getting any kind of GDPR violation report going, much less getting it through the process to actual fines.
People like to bring up GDPR violations as a some kind of super-moderator tool, but it isn’t that easy and it definitely isn’t automated.
Effect of ActivityPub, not Lemmy. All federating systems function similarly, because it’s a feature of the protocol.
If instances want, they can ignore delete requests and your content stays in their cache forever (remember Pleroma nazis from couple of years ago?) - now, that is an instance problem that might be a GDPR issue, but good luck reporting it to anyone who cares. At best you can block and defederate, but that doesn’t mean your posts are removed.
The fediverse has no privacy, it’s “public Internet”. Probably a good idea to treat it as such.
It’s also a matter of scale. FB has 3 billion users and it’s all centralized. They are able to police that. Their Trust and Safety team is large (which has its own problems, because they outsource that - but that’s another story). The fedi is somewhere around 11M (according to fedidb.org).
The federated model doesn’t really “remove” anything, it just segregates the network to “moderated, good instances” and “others”.
I don’t think most fedi admins are actually following the law by reporting CSAM to the police (because that kind of thing requires a lot resources), they just remove it from their servers and defederate. Bottom line is that the protocols and tools built to combat CSAM don’t work too well in the context of federated networks - we need new tools and new reporting protocols.
Reading the Stanford Internet Observatory report on fedi CSAM gives a pretty good picture of the current situation, it is fairly fresh:
https://cyber.fsi.stanford.edu/io/news/addressing-child-exploitation-federated-social-media
I find it interesting that Meta Platforms, Inc., a company known for harvesting user data, is blocking some servers from fetching its public posts. They decided to implement a feature Mastodon calls Authorized fetch.
This was always going to happen. They will block agressively, because they can’t have their precious advertising money mixed with CSAM, nazis and other illegal content. And the fedi is full of that.
Pleroma in that case I guess
Gates is probably just as bad and evil as the global 0.1%:er billionaire cabal members come, but that site gave me a crackpot conspiracy brainrot.
I need Linux for my work, so it’s not really possible to switch.
I do keep a Windows machine for gaming at home though.
Right tool for the job and so on…
I see, I was wondering why a IT-Security workers were suddenly being called edgy kids. lol.
Yea, I know its the edgy kid distro
Huh?
Sometimes customers want me to use a specific piece of software so I have a QEMU Windows installation I use.
Chat Control is a huge privacy problem.
But a threat to free software? Nah.
But the coming Cyber Resilience Act might be
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/05/eus-proposed-cyber-resilience-act-raises-concerns-open-source-and-cybersecurity
I’m also nervous about using an OS I’m not familiar with for business purposes right away.
Keep using what gets the job done. That’s what computers are for. Do not switch to Linux.
I’ve been daily driving Linux since Debian 1.3 in -97.
There’s certainly been tough times with some printers in the past, to be honest I haven’t thought about device/software compatibility in years.
Everything (I need) just works.
I guess that would be running sudo rm -rf /bin (yeah, it was supposed to be “~/bin” without the sudo… idk, my fingers have a life of their own) on a machine that was in a datacenter on the other side of the globe.
It was a long and sweaty night.
I can’t figure out how to setup flatpak. Everything seems to be working fine until I enter the last line in the terminal:
flatpak remote-add --if-not-exists flathub dl.flathub.org/repo/flathub.flatpakrepo
Hard to help without logs or error messages. Maybe you could run the command with --verbose flag to see if it prints out something that might help?
I somehow set it up so that my username is not the super user, so I have to type a password in the terminal every time I want to use sudo. Is there a way to fix this without a clean install?
This is default behavior and probably shouldn’t be changed. It’s a good idea to set up your normal user without root privileges and it’s a good idea to ask for authentication credentials whenever you need to elevate privileges.
If you really want to remove the password, you can follow the guide here: https://linuxhandbook.com/sudo-without-password/
I somehow set up the hard drive partitions so that the OS is on an encrypted partition, so I have to put in a password for the BIOS to boot up. Is there a way to fix this without a clean install?
Again, if you want encrypted disk, then this is actually good behavior, but in case you want to decrypt the disk without reinstall - it’s possible, but not entirely simple or newbie friendly procedure, you need to know a bit about disk devices and mounting drives, for reference, see: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/60971/how-to-remove-luks-encryption
I’m used to a desktop interface with a toolbar/start menu that I can pin frequently-used programs to, but with Debian it seems like I need to click “Activities” to do anything. Is there a way to set up the interface so it’s more like Windows in that regard?
Debian comes with Gnome Desktop by default. There are many other desktop environments, if you want to test them. See: https://wiki.debian.org/DesktopEnvironment
You can also tweak and change Gnome with addons and extensions to suit your needs - see https://extensions.gnome.org/
Is there any reason why I should stick with Debian? I’ve heard some people trashing Ubuntu but I’m not sure why. Is Debian better for older hardware?
The same linux kernel (in various versions) is running underneath all the distributions, so it’s really just a matter of preference. Since you’re new, hop around - try Ubuntu, Mint, Pop!, Fedora, Arch and everything else to see what you prefer.
Have fun!
Preferably by sending signals over serial port and couple of wires.
I normally design and create my own fonts before I start a new document or open console.
I use Arch Linux, btw.
Yeah. That’s what I said