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Europe needs to read this article if they want to do something constructive.

https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/how-tech-loses-out/


Hosting an ArchiveBot pipeline server would be helpful too:

https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php/ArchiveBot


You might want to reconsider use of rust-analyzer, it isn't safe to use on code you haven't written yourself.

https://rust-analyzer.github.io/book/security.html


> it isn't safe to use on code you haven't written yourself

Neither is cargo (nor npm, nor any other package manager, for that matter).

I'm not sure what value being that paranoid is buying you in the long run.


Package managers are for running other people's code, I would not expect the same of static analysis tools, especially since they are of use while auditing other people's code before building/running it.

Since it is mainly about how much money folks would contribute (the title processing stripped that).

The choices could be 0, $1-$5, $6-10 etc.

You could switch to a Linux distro for that. Most of them are gratis, but accept donations or contributions. For example Debian & LibreOffice.

That said, even well intentioned distros that don't sell your data will have some privacy issues, inherited from upstreams.

https://wiki.debian.org/PrivacyIssues



1) Switch to an open source alternative that is security supported. 2) Otherwise, never update it and never allow it to be connected to the network.

What do the updates for keyboards and mice do?!


That stuff would run under Windows, not the mouse/keyboard firmware right?

The gimmick appears to be in some sort of spyware that wants to sniff all keyboard input and record the screen, bundled as a mouse driver.

I'm surprised they haven't started blocking Firefox too, since its market share continues to drop.

Does that mean that cracking DVD DRM is no longer illegal, because DeCSS exists and running it takes almost no time at all on modern computers?

No, you're interpreting "speedbump" too literally. Cracking CSS to access DVD content is still illegal in the US, because it serves as an additional step that you do in order to perform the access. That's the meaning I was going for, that it's a nuisance, something that gets in the way.

This is in contrast with my PS1/PS2 example, where a PC disc drive reads the disc as normal, and you access all the content needed from it as normal. The DRM scheme doesn't participate in the interaction whatsoever, it's inert (hence, ineffective).

According to what I've learned from gpt4o and the legal texts anyways (not a lawyer).


I see, thanks.

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