Any social network or other web service, also Lemmy, is forced to give the user data it has, when there is an court order.

Email is always a traceable identification if you don’t use an mail with alias features or front-end…

If you don’t post suspicious or radical content, even in oppressive regimes there are no problems. This also means that in these regimes using encrypted messages can be suspicious and a very close look from the authorities. In these regimes, then, it is often used to exchange problematic messages through steganography, that is, to hide these messages in innocent images, texts or music that do not arouse suspicion. Some OpenSource apps and services:

• https://stegoshare.sourceforge.net/
• https://www.openstego.com/
• https://steghide.sourceforge.net/
• https://stegcloak.surge.sh/

etc…

There are always manners to show the middle finger to these regimes

Nothing new, in WWII the allied used inflatable Tanks and other vehicles and weapons to fool the Nazies

If you live in an oppresive regime, there isn’t any posibility to use anonymously an social media, there the only possibility is using a P2P communication system, eg. https://securebit.chat/ or similar. All other, like Lemmy or other from the fediverse are traceable, even with VPN or even not accessible in such regimes with heavy controled servers.

Apps from Google Play are clickbaits and spam sources by definition.

…and other speeches of what he’s thinking about Trump and Netanyahu, but sadly pretty alone with it in the “EU”. By far not all from Sanchez is to my like, but in this points and what means humanity and souvereignity, his ideas are pretty clear.

Ohh

Not so easy to answer, depends on the project and what you want to do with it. The only what you can do is reading the TOS of each license and use those which best fits your needs. If it is for your private use, the license is pretty irrelevant.

Tons of alternatives out there

https://alternativeto.net/software/github/

AlternativeTo is anyway mandatory, an must have in the Bookmarks, Apart of the possibility to filter and find the best soft and services, also show interesting tech news and large lists of recommended apps and services made by the community.

“Neuron-powered computer chips can now be easily programmed to play a first-person shooter game, bringing biological computers a step closer to useful applications”

I think of “usefull” applications with the capabilities to play an first person shooter game.

(Chinese military bot)

I know what they say and I know the reasons and what it means for its users. Would be nice if Mozilla had this transparency.

• The freedom to run the Browser as you wish for any purpose is given in Vivaldi more than in any other existing browser
• Same for study how it works and change it to your wish, the source code is available
• Redistribute isn’t allowed, but with already over 100 different browsers, most Chromiums, the need of it is anyway pretty debatable.
• You are free to distribute your mods to other Vivaldi users, the Forum is full of it. As said, the Source is modificable by the user to his like (naturally at own risk, but it isn’t avoided by Vivaldi, they show you even how).

Currently there are 4 Millon users of Vivaldi and with all the possibiñities to customize the browser, there are no 2 users with the same.

That is, as said, 5% of the code related to the UI is proprietary, only this isn’t allowed to use for other products (eg. Chrome, EDGE), but the user is free to modify it for his Vivaldi browser, they show you even how to do it. The rest is a de-googled Chromium, which is FOSS and other layers with several different OpenSource licenses. For Gecko browsers it’s way easier to go full FOSS, because there isn’t any big corporation which have browsers with this engine,same for relative basic Chromium forks, but not so with browsers like Vivaldi, which is more an online suite as only an simple browser. It would be a shot in the own knee if Google or MS could fork it freely.

Well, in the case of Vivaldi “proprietary soft” is pretty relative. A small part of it’s unique UI is proprietary of Vivaldi, but full auditable, means source available not closed source, even modificable by the user (they show you how, at own risk naturally). There is nothing shady in Vivaldi. employee owned cooperative in Norway.

https://vivaldi.com/source/

https://github.com/ric2b/Vivaldi-browser

Vivaldi, EU made, fuck AI by default

Mojeek has improved a lot in last times. Is a good alternative, but always good to use several search engines for different tasks, all they have its + and -, eg Startpage is good for image search, Andi is fine for semantic and concept searches with excelent summaries, Mojeek and Qwant for general websearch, etc.- In the Vivaldi forum you can find the, maybe, most complete list of search engines out there which you can test (all include the needed insert code to add these direct to the list in your browser - 19 page thread)

It’s a summary made by Andisearch