Basically nothing happens in most cases. In your example of a local Australian company, no they are generally not forced to comply with any EU law unless they also do business there in some way.

The problem is federation in general. This is exactly why it’s a general privacy and GDPR nightmare… even if you hate corporations and use all alternative stuff, you’re still handing all your data over to them in the end anyways, because you (or most other) servers you federate with, federate with them too. And when servers (like matrix.org) use MITM-as-a-service providers like Cloudflare, they can see all the TLS-decrypted data too. Even with e2ee enabled for a room, the only thing that’s encrypted is the message itself (not the sender, or timestamps, etc.), basically there’s lots of other metadata that can be gathered without the message contents.

There’s also a big problem with servers defederating from each other, so in that case you never really know who or if anyone else is even seeing your messages… basically you’re just choosing which wind to piss into.

Anything that uses *GPLv3 license (which includes the anti-tivoization clause) has to have some way of swapping out those libraries.

I think some would consider the mere fact that it is independent, to be a positive for privacy in ways other than fingerprinting. I understand not everyone agrees, but I can see why some would think this.

it’s not bigotry. this is a massive nothing burger.

Same for me with Rust. I don’t like to look at it and it’s a lot harder for me to understand (and hence contribute to or modify), so I avoid it.

To be fair, it is quite possible to fingerprint you pretty well without any JS at all, both inside and outside of html/css.

And disabling javascript is certainly something that not many people do, so already that makes you stand out even more.

I don’t think anyone was trying to imply that it was ready. Of course once it gets more mature then things like privacy will likely start to become more integrated.

Yes, I don’t agree with the whole “separate the art from the artist” thing. It might be wrong but I don’t care. If someone is openly rude and abusive to their users, publicly, for years on end with no remorse (cough Linus Torvalds), it just turns me off to the entire project.

I think most people would not agree that that’s what this actually is. Plus, attacking people for having an opinion is not how you progress in ANY way, whether societal or technical. This likely means they have some ulterior motive i.e. they just want to see the world burn and they were never actually going to contribute anything meaningful in the first place. I always check the activity history of people like that, and look into what kind of person they are in general, what they typically say and what kind of opinions they have. Often you will be shocked, disgusted and saddened. One of the other like-minded people that posted a similar story here on lemmy about the same drama, literally has a picture on their social of them wearing a hat that says “gender terrorist” and they also sell explicit content of themselves on fansly.

I only trust the people that don’t comment, because they know it’s not worth their time.

I’m trying to find anything malicious in anything he’s said

They use the “silence is violence” trope to harass and terrorize projects, hiding behind their “protected status” as a transgender. Whenever someone rejects anything that calls for “greater inclusion”, they go nuclear and tell all their friends to do the same. The bullied becomes the bully. It’s very childish. It’s always people that never contribute any meaningful code as well.

literally never heard of it.

The only thing leaked in DHCP is your MAC

This is not true. It also leaks your hostname by default and often your previously associated IP. There’s also vendor-specific “DHCP option” sets that can hold extra data too, which some OSes might use to leak additional info.

Source? This looks like a note-taking app, not a google docs replacement.

So… where’s the source?

You forgot proton is glowing / no they’re not

It doesn’t make financial sense to spend money on supporting an entire new platform that’s used by <3% of the population.

I’m grateful to the community and I use FOSS where possible.

Ok, but do you give anything back?

I don’t understand this obsession with only taking advantage of free labor and giving nothing back. Seems anti-thetical to the entire FOSS movement.