Dr_Vindaloo

The premise is unrealistic - if there ever was a nuclear war, the first to strike would be the US or Israel, not muh bug bad Norf Kowea.

"Popular website collects data" is a non-story. What makes this case special? Use an adblocker.

The biggest problem with F-Droid is that they sign the apps themselves, so if they ever get compromised, an attacker would be able to send malicious updates to any app installed via F-Droid. So now you need yo trust 2 parties (app developer and F-Droid) instead of 1. This is fixed by reproducible builds, which F-Droid does support but which most developers don't bother with (F-Droid needs to start pushing for this more aggressively imo).

Death to Germany

How has no one mentioned dinosaurs yet? You disappoint me, Lemmy.

I'm really not sure why I read this whole thing. No clue what it means but I loved reading it.

No such thing as neutral.

There's no shortcut you can use to achieve things simply, especially if you want actual anonymity (an extremely high bar). Installing GrapheneOS is the bare minimum (Calyx doesn't even come close). Then you need to avoid services that ask for personally identifiable info, use VPN for everything (and use public wifi for initial setup), avoid a KYC SIM or SIM in general (also use airplane mode / wifi whenever you can).

But really I'm guessing you don't actually need proper anonymity (privacy in general is more reasonable).

Did they? Installing APKs doesn't require an account afaik, just a settings toggle (not even in developer mode, just the regular settings).

That can work, but it could go the other way too. We've already seen scaremongering claims like "right to repair will allow creepy car mechanics to stalk your location", "encryption is used by criminals", "local image scanning prevents child abuse", etc.

What a waste. Literally dozens of other countries with capable research institutions but no space program that could have benefitted. Instead they choose to give it to the nation that kills kids for shits and giggles.