yusi-san

I agree, but the average user doesn't generally root his android phone. If you have the technical abilities/motivation to root your phone, you may have the ability to use MagiskHide and manage an exclusion list in Magisk.

Not only Germany according to that map [1], other countries like Spain and UK which rely mostly on natural gas also cover for France power these days. Your point about Germany is still valid though.

[1] : https://app.electricitymaps.com/map?utm_source=electricityma...

I actually tried No Man's Sky on linux few days ago and I had no real performance issues. Everything ran fine on ultra with a 21:9 1440p monitor and a 2080.

I do agree that the performances are no the same than on Windows (15-20% less FPS on average).

I don't know about the official proton for No Man's Sky, but I used the Glorious Eggroll's fork[0].

[0]: https://github.com/GloriousEggroll/proton-ge-custom

It's probably because Facebook touches more people daily than "most of the companies"? (1.9 billions daily and 2.89 billions monthly according to their latest quaterly report[0], and that's for the Facebook website only, not the whole family products).

The website can also have an influence on many people lives since a lot of people use it as one of their main source of information etc.

[0] : https://s21.q4cdn.com/399680738/files/doc_financials/2021/q2...

I agree that OsmAnd is a better option for public transportation and navigation, however, I found that Organic Maps is better at showing stuffs like restaurants/shops etc and more reactive (smoothness, quick to show the map).

I used OsmAnd for quite a long time and just wanted to give Organic Maps a try to see other alternatives. Both are quite promising as replacing Google maps IMO.

I tried both, Firefox with ublock and Video Background Play Fix extensions (as someone else pointed out too) is great. But I ended up using NewPipe because I feel it's has a better user experience than the mobile version of the YouTube website (playlist management, audio only, downloading, UI) and it's Open Source.

I still use the Firefox option if newpipe has issues fetching the video (which didn't happened to me for a long time).

It's a preference thing, many options are great.

Yes I believe it does (I switched to Signal years ago and didn't try WhatsApp for a long time). Many proprietary apps runs great even the ones depending on Google Services.

You can try lineage with MicroG[0][1], it replaces Google services. If you want stores there is the F-Droid store for FOSS app or Aurora Store if you want casual apps.

YouTube can be replaced by NewPipe and these days I'm trying Organic Maps (a layer for OSM with nav and offline maps) to replace Google Maps.

[0] : https://microg.org/ [1] : https://lineage.microg.org/

Do you open it on Firefox with an ad blocker etc? If yes it may come from reCaptcha and not from Discord itself (I had the same issues on websites that use reCaptcha). However, if you use the discord app you may not need to solve a captcha.

Or on Android you can install NewPipe[0] which is an open source YouTube frond-end without ads too. You can install it from F-Droid[1] or Github releases[2].

[0] : https://newpipe.net/ [1] : https://f-droid.org/packages/org.schabi.newpipe/ [2] : https://github.com/TeamNewPipe/NewPipe/releases

You have options to unlock phones without having the password with Cellbrite.

It looks exactly like my company, but I am few months ahead. I am now at the time where investors starts to ask for results. The CEO wants to please them and starts to put pressure on our team by changing priorities almost everyday (which impact the project quality). The thing is, everyone knows that the project is doomed to fail.

I know right, everytime there's a website with reCaptcha on it it makes me fail two times to pass at the third. Tiles takes ages to load and fade to display new ones.

I like to do comparisons with Chromium based browsers on the exact same site, how much time it takes to pass the captcha. Obviously the chromium based one is way faster to solve.

I don't really know why Google makes it this way. If it's only because of my Firefox configuration that makes Google think I'm a bot. Or if Google can't retrieve enough data on my browsing habits to bother me and force me (in a way) to browse on a chromium based browser.

The thing is I never saw informations talking about it, so I'll pass on denouncing Google's behavior.

For those interested there's a good browser add-on to bypass reCaptchas : Buster [1]

[1] : https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/buster-captch...

You can use VSCodium, it's a fork of VSCode without Microsoft's telemetry.

For those needing it (private mode or free article limit reached) : https://outline.com/4jYvjr

Forensics tools like Cellbrite can actually bypass protections like pin code, schema then image your phone to do further searches.

They have different pressure means on France now, like what they did about Alstom which is a strategic company for France (they produce essential elements about nuclear plants, nuclear submarines for example) now in the US hand through General Electric.

Here you can find a study (2016)[1] about non cash payments with numbers (see the Key Finding part).

[1]https://www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/press/other/2016-p...

>I hope the infosec community can come up with some kind of decentralized way to actually share free speech. If anyone is capable, they are.

There are decentralized/open/ethic friendly services alternative to big corporations services. In the case of Youtube there's PeerTube[1] for exemple (even if in that case there's a IP leak due to the p2p protocol if I remember correctly).

The sad thing here is that people decide to stay on the "big" services due to the network effect, and few people decide to boycott them just to follow principles.

[1]https://joinpeertube.org/

The thing is it depends of what you call 'criminal' on the moment, right ?

And when you know you're watched, you start self-censoring to adapt what should be the 'right thing' to avoid blame or judgment.