Babalugats

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Gower woodland which was illegally felled to become nature reserve in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

And it was much less than that until they saw that he was profiting from it. He should've been fined everything he got for it including his initial cost to buy it.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cmjj5gl6m0po

Gower woodland which was illegally felled to become nature reserve in c/[email protected]
US embassy wants 'every social media username of past five years' on new visa applications in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 days ago (1 children)

#nottheonion

Would we have to include Lemmy?

The scary thing is, as if we hadn't already known, it shows how much they rely on that data.

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US embassy wants 'every social media username of past five years' on new visa applications (www.thejournal.ie)
submitted 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
8 comments fedilink
 

This is in an Irish online news publication this evening.

Reminder for everyone to check your online presence and purchases

https://european-alternatives.eu/

https://www.goeuropean.org/

Trump announces that the USA has bombed Iranian nuclear sites. in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 22 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

He made a typo. It should read "there is not another military in the world that would have done this"

What Do We Do When President Trump Is in the Pocket of Mass Murderer Netanyahu? in c/[email protected]
What Do We Do When President Trump Is in the Pocket of Mass Murderer Netanyahu? in c/[email protected]
What Do We Do When President Trump Is in the Pocket of Mass Murderer Netanyahu? in c/[email protected]
Have I any options with Huawei P20 Pro/P30 Pro? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Thanks, that looks good. It should work with the p20 pro, right? Maybe with a different WiFi chip, I'll look into it a bit more, but lineage and postmarketos being an option are way better than I was expecting 😀. Glad I asked now.

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Have I any options with Huawei P20 Pro/P30 Pro? (feddit.uk)
 

I have access to two phones that are no longer being used, a Huawei P20 Pro and a P30 Pro. Through a link on the PotatoNV git page I saw HCUClient which I believe makes it possible to unlock these phones and unlock the bootloader if I buy the software for €19 for 72 hours.

If I unlock the bootloaders, are there any privacy oriented ROMs available for them, or any options at all?

When I search, it seems that because of the bootloaders being locked, nobody had worked on anything, although some posts in random corners of the internet say that there are a couple of options, but without confirming anything.

WhatsApp won’t roll out ads in EU until 2026 in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 15 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Meta said in the announcement that the new features are built “in the most privacy-oriented way possible,” and has emphasized that sharing of data between WhatsApp, Instagram and Facebook will only happen when users have opted in to having their accounts linked.

So, not private at all.. "most privacy-oriented way" - The same way that users need to activate "advanced chat privacy" manually on every single chat while they roll out and embed their bug ridden AI.

G7 leaders: ‘Iran can never have a nuclear weapon’ in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago

Probably best for all of us if nobody can ever have nuclear weapons, but what do i know..

Meta trying to give us a hand (ads coming to WhatsApp) in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Realistically, the majority of people will not switch to threema @ €5.99. It's already extremely difficult to get people to leave WhatsApp. They're not going to pay for it.

https://european-alternatives.eu/category/instant-messaging-apps

Signal isn't EU based, but afaik not profiteering or harvesting data.

EDIT:

There are quite a few EU based according to this.

https://alternativeto.net/software/facebook-messenger/?origin=eu

https://alternativeto.net/software/whatsapp/?origin=eu

Someone found this phone advertisment on Facebook in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

Here's a review that I thought was decent, from 4 months ago.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROOubWeuNs4&pp=0gcJCdgAo7VqN5tD

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Europe needs digital sovereignty - and Microsoft has just proven why. (tuta.com)
submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
18 comments fedilink
 

A quiet but deeply unsettling moment just shook the foundations of international justice, proving why Europe needs digital sovereignty - and most Europeans not too interested in tech likely missed it: The Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), a court based in The Hague and central to Europe’s upholding of human rights, suddenly found that his email account was shut down. The service provider? Microsoft. The reason? Mr. Trump.....

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European crypto wallets? (feddit.uk)
submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
13 comments fedilink
 

Are there any good European crypto wallets? Hardware or otherwise. On Android or desktop or alternatives to Trezor or Ledger? I don't have a lot (€590 btc and €400 eth).

Looking to build on them and for secure storage. Thanks.

EDIT. Sorry, I also meant to add that I'm looking for a wallet with multichain support, so that for example I could convert my bitcoin to USDT or another stablecoin without having to go back an exchange.

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