Interesting thing from the jobs descriptions:

Privacy Guides is fiscally hosted by MAGIC Grants, a 501©(3) public charity.

MAGIC Grants is a public charity that provides undergraduate scholarships for students interested in cryptocurrencies and privacy, supports public cryptocurrency infrastructure, and supports privacy.

Good luck with your community!!

I’m planning to go to Riga in summer 2025 for a concert, hopefully it does not get postponed for the fifth time (i was supposed to go in 2022 lol)

Braflix is awesome, it’s my default go-to

Zen Browser, love the split view feature, and native vertical tabs !

https://zen-browser.app/

It’s a Firefox fork btw

This is quite a smart solution, good job !

Well, in a way it doesn’t cost them anything because it’s already being broadcast on TV for free, since it’s the national / public TV

But also, I’m french and I despise having to give away my email to access “free” things so I just enjoy providing them with the most ridiculous emails, good luck with that database, fellow countryman 😈

I mentioned this in another thread : you can go to France Television’s website and sign up with a bogus email (there’s no check) to watch live broadcasts and replays for free !

One user pointed out to me that they may geoblock you, so a VPN would be recommended.

And then obviously it’s gonna be in french, which definitely isn’t ideal if you don’t speak the language lol

But do you really need update from Google if you’re planning on installing a custom rom ? Genuine question, I thought your security updates would be handled by /e/ or graphene or whatever you choose

https://f-droid.org/packages/org.quantumbadger.redreader/

https://github.com/QuantumBadger/RedReader

I believe this one still works because it is designed for screen reader users, so they’re not paying for the API dings because of accessibility

Food !

Ah shit, didn’t think about that, sorry

I believe they should be broadcast by the national public television (France Television) which you can watch live on https://france.tv/ ; that’s if you don’t mind french lol

They may ask for an account but there’s no email check, just type whatever and you can watch it

That’s super interesting, I do remember being taught as a kid how to use Google Image search (circa 2005), Gimp for photo manipulation around the age of 12 in 2008, we had technology classes with electronics, technical drawing, even some plastic bending machine, and light programming (made a robot figurine execute recorded moves in sequence)

I do wonder if it’s still the case in my own country

Computer literacy is weird because it feels like millennials were born into it and had to learn how to use the tools available… Then said tools were made a lot simpler with a lot less control over them, and Gen Z was born into apps and saas and did not have the chance to properly learn

We generally only taught a single generation to master our tech, I think it’s scary, but also I trust the Zoomers to figure it out, they’re creative

Maybe https://writefreely.org/ ? But it’s very simple with not a lot of customisation

Or https://joinplu.me/ but its development has been halted lately

Fun fact : Yam’s is the french name for Yahtzee

I ran !Lemmyvision@jlai.lu which is Eurovision but for Lemmy, it was fun ! I’m thinking of making a special Lemmyvision event in the upcoming months, but otherwise expect a second edition next year 🤗

Igorrr is its own music genre

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFxDOV6IwHk

(Not really, it’s a blend of metal and breakcore)

The poison brewer would never try his own product 🙃

The name the website is giving them is weird, it’s officially the “Regulatory Authority for Audiovisual and Digital Communication”, their mission is the same (fighting piracy) so it doesn’t really matter but it’s still weird to call them by one of their tasks.

Anyway this is an interesting study because of the data, but the reading is obviously biased, they imply that the use of VPNs and what they call “alternative DNS” (yeah guess what, if my ISP blocks websites I’m still going to access them) is suspicious, they do mention security/privacy as one of the usages (it’s the two main motivations for the majority of users in their results).

Something interesting : NordVPN is the most used by the panel, I think it’s reasonable to explain it by the heavy marketing NordVPN did on french youtube (almost every big youtuber had an ad segment with them), but their results say otherwise, 35% of the panel says it’s based on recommendations from closed ones.

I don’t know why some in the panel of 3000 people would self report as pirating, it sounds dumb to admit to an infraction to the law.

Edit : Their conclusions are absolutely busted, an example: 26% people using a VPN reported data privacy was their main reason (for 49% it was one of the motivations), next is securing their data against breaches for 23% (44%), piracy fall down as the 6th motivation with 7% (17%) ; their conclusion? “The choice of a VPN is rather simple, to not be tracked and access illegal content” what kind of botched logic is that

On the bright side, Firefox has a 21% market share in France on desktops, yay!