what is the difference between the adoption of systemd and that of X or Wayland?
aren’t those equally “mainstream” and don’t they also leave almost no chance to have an alternative (especially for the average user)?
this is a genuine question because, while I know and understand the sentiment against systemd, I realized just now that in the 20 years I’ve been on Linux many things I’ve used were kinda against “freedom”.
poveri stolti, non sanno che ci ha già pensato Di Maio qui da noi.
Bring Me The Horizon “Can You Feel My Heart” starts playing
I mean when you suck as a human it is normal, no matter the account age.
“it’s not like I trust a multi billion dollar corporation that’s actively been busy enshittifying the whole internet first and now the whole world, but I trust a group of random people who run a Lemmy instance even less”
that’s either bait or stupid.
good job mate!
Israeli telecommunication firms were used to track mobile phone users more than 15,000 times in more than 10 countries over the past three years, Haaretz reported on 4 May.
The Israeli newspaper cited an investigation by Citizen Lab, a digital research group, that described two separate operations to track the locations of mobile phone users. The operations were likely run by commercial firms selling surveillance technologies to governments around the world.
Citizen Lab wrote that, “The findings expose how suspected commercial surveillance vendors (CSVs) exploit the global telecom interconnect ecosystem, leverage private operator networks, and conduct covert location tracking operations that can persist undetected for years.”
The first operation used geolocation technology to track targets using networks belonging to two Israeli companies, 019Mobile and Partner Communications.
Researchers identified more than 500 location-tracking attempts between November 2022 and 2025 across Thailand, South Africa, Norway, Bangladesh, Malaysia, and other African countries using the two companies’ networks.
One businessman from West Asia was methodically tracked for four hours by a company that queried the international phone system on behalf of clients to locate targets.
According to information obtained by Haaretz, this and dozens of other tracking attempts appear to have passed through the servers of Israeli carrier 019Mobile.
Citizen Lab found that mobile network addresses registered to 019Mobile were used to send location-tracking requests through Partner Communications, whose infrastructure 019 relies on. Another tracking request was routed through Exelera Telecom, an Israeli company that provides cloud and communications services.
A second, more sophisticated operation involved a Swiss telecom company that allowed firms such as Rayzone to impersonate cellular carriers and connect to mobile networks to track users across the world.
The operation involved using an older telecom signaling protocol, SS7, to conduct surveillance of mobile phone users. SS7 was originally designed to route calls and text messages, enable international roaming, and connect different mobile operators.
Citizen Lab’s findings showed that spyware firms are also using newer signaling systems to track users, even though the newer systems were designed to be more secure and less susceptible to surveillance than legacy ones.
For example, Diameter, a mobile network system that connects cellular users to 4G international roaming and 5G networks, is known to be susceptible to tracking spyware.
One method involves exploiting vulnerabilities in SIM cards to send a hidden text message to a target phone. The message contains a secret command that prompts the SIM card to transmit the device’s location without the user’s knowledge.
As a result of such methods, both the old and new phone signaling systems are being used together to track and surveil mobile users, Haaretz observed.
ma in questo caso specifico i guerrafondai non soffriranno nulla di tutto ciò.
more private than what? which features are you looking for?
there are potentially many apps for it, but the question needs to be more specific.
“a fin di bene”
Se non li conoscete guardate il capobanda.
È un boia o un assassino colui che li comanda.
Sull’orbace s’è indossato la camicia e la cravatta
perché resti mascherato tutto il sangue che lo imbratta.
Ha comprato un tricolore e ogni volta lo sbandiera
che si sente un po’ l’odore della sua camicia nera.
Punta a far l’uomo da bene
fino a quando gli conviene.
Ora lo riconoscete
Almirante è sempre quello
con il mitra e il manganello
ben nascosti nel gilet!
da “Se non li conoscete” di Fausto Amodei.
i don’t assume they are lying, I simply don’t blindly believe their advertising claims without tangible evidence.
for example your claim of “no logging” is at best partially false, since their own privacy policy clearly states that IP addresses are at least temporarily collected, always and without exceptions.
who is the owner and how the company is funded is not important here, they are selling products and advertising them through claims that need verification.
then why did you link them?
anyway, the point here is that they are the ones making claims, so they have the burden of proof.
as I told you already, corporations lie to their customers all the time, so it is always better to be safe and wait for the actual proof before trusting any of them.
have you ever checked them?
could you point me to where any of them proves that Proton isn’t actually collecting any data?
because I am only reading about penetration tests and such, which only tell me that their software is reliable against attackers, but that is not the point of the discussion.
also it seems there is no audit for their AI assistant at the link you provided.
can you link me your source about Proton being “proven to not keep any other data”?
welcome to the real world, where corporations lie.
Proton allegedly does it.
It’s all just advertising, until you get the hard evidence.
I see.
the tech giant you mean is IBM I imagine?