EU regions is also becoming a privacy nightmare with the EU commission’s general war on encryption in the name of “safety”.
Bye Bye Big Tech: How I Migrated to an almost All-EU Stack (and saved 500€ per year)
Submitted 3 weeks ago by tinosaurier@feddit.org to technology@lemmy.world
https://www.zeitgeistofbytes.com/p/bye-bye-big-tech-how-i-migrated-to
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Korkki@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
You’re seeing that because it’s above the table. I think other large countries are simply doing it under the table. I think the NSA/CIA basically own Microsoft and Google encryption whenever they want.
A good rule is: If you don’t want it read, don’t store it on someone else’s servers with someone else’s encryption keys.
Ludicrous0251@piefed.zip 3 weeks ago
Generally speaking, Microsoft and Google don’t have encryption in the Privacy sense, only in the security sense. They hold the keys, and are therefore happy to have anything over that’s requested. No need to break any encryption.
Mgineer@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
We know about the NSA backdoor into every is tech company. We should assume the eu has the same deals in place.
Korkki@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
you are right of course. But US surveillance has been public knowledge before snowden and even the big shock then wasn’t that they were mass spying everyone, it was that they were spying US citizens as well which was supposed to be illegal. So legality doesn’t even matter. They will find their loopholes anyway. It’s the intent of the council and the bureaucracy for more control that worries me.
ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 3 weeks ago
EU is waging war on encryption? Are you taking about Chat Control 2.0 that specifically says encryption cannot be weakened in any way?
Korkki@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
Mainly about protectEU 2030 project. Chatcontrol 1.0 and 2.0 are kinda adjacent to it. Basically more rights to law enforcement and intelligence services in general and them having the right to read anything that goes on in the internet. By this summer they are going to present a law that would make no log VPNs illegal in the EU because law enforcement would have to have access to ip addresses and identifiable ‘metadata’ of the users.
Mercury1337@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Im the owner of a small startup and I am working only with Linux and Nextcloud (and so are my 4 employees) - it’s doable and it’s a great feeling!
vegyk0z6@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
How do you handle email?
Mercury1337@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
We have our own mailserver hosted with our provider.
Sims@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
Not sure why he thinks that EU are less *unt’ish than US ?! …but anyway; Then he is ready for the next step; Go 100% open source, foss and distributed. Savings are 100% and he won’t support the rich unts - neither in the US nor in the EU = good for everybody…
Knoxvomica@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
Hey watch this, you can say the word cunt. Crazy right? You can say swears on the internet!
PlantJam@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
But what if their comment gets censored from tiktok?
frongt@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
You can’t on lemmy.ml. They have a word filter that changes some words to “removed”.
themurphy@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
Because of the US Cloud Act. Try compare that to GDPR.
bobo1900@startrek.website 3 weeks ago
Because 1) EU laws defend the customers a lot more and 2) US companies have already so much power and money, they can fuck over you easier, and you don’t have easier alternatives, or at least some people pretend you don’t
Buffalox@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
You must be a very special kind of uninformed.
Coolcoder360@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Blogging, Newsletter & Co.: Well, as you can see, I’m writing on Substack. There are no alternatives except to host it entirely yourself, but that doesn’t make sense to me right now.
Let me introduce you to bear blog: bearblog.dev
I don’t yet use it, but I read a few of the blogs. Very RSS feed reader friendly and it’s simple without excess crap.
parzival@lemmy.org 3 weeks ago
… Proton is still big tech
Bogasse@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
According to a wikipedia search that I could cross reference more, Proton AG is 500 employees and Alphabet is 190k (380 times Proton).
What is your definition of big tech? I was only including huge monopolistic monoliths, are they “huge tech”?
parzival@lemmy.org 3 weeks ago
I guess, I just generally try to avoid large ecosystems where they still could capture the market
ComradeRachel@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
They are based out of the USA aren’t they? Luckily there are many Nextcloud providers in EU and email like mailbox.org
parzival@lemmy.org 3 weeks ago
They’re based in sweden, but def still big tech
SrMono@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
Hosted on substack 😂
dukemirage@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Seriously how damn hard is it for an IT enthusiast to host their own blog.
ComradeRachel@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
Many do but it’s a nightmare for SEO. When people use Substack or Medium it’s because they have built in social network that allows strangers to easily find your blog. Sadly independent blogs don’t really make money unless you are already famous with a network to follow you.
tux0r@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
“Can’t”. 🤦♂️
SrMono@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
Unless of course your content is original and you want to foster the alternatives instead of further cementing the problematic platforms.
Sure, the choice is rather ideological than economical, but not working on the transition (like using all platforms in parallel in order to someday fade away from the problematic ones) is just lazy.
nightlily@leminal.space 3 weeks ago
At some point you have to ask who you are staying connected to
Ibuthyr@lemmy.wtf 3 weeks ago
LinkedIn connects you with fuck all. It’s all just LLM posts on there, it’s ridiculous.
A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
And they cite Vivaldi as their go-to browser. European, sure, but not open source and based on Chromium. I’m always skeptical of Vivaldi users; they seem to value nostalgia (remember Opera?) over facts.
tux0r@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
Some of us are pretty ok.