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Cake day: February 4th, 2026

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  • Since you specifically mention qtile you should undo your customizations and see if that fixes your problem?

    If not, you should look at the journal after reboot:

    journalctl -b

    But you’ll need to filter it.

    Try journalctl -b | grep -v rtkit-daemon, which will remove the masses of entries you bemoaned in another comment (AFAICS all syslog entries should also be in the journal anyhow).

    Very important:
    Please make note of when the problem happened, and if your journal entries even go that far in time.




  • Great article, but you could’ve gone deeper into the modern ramifications. I feel you cut that short, just after mentioning the Zuckerborg - there would have been so much more to get into.

    You should also have clarified that you’re talking about Linux as a consumer device OS; most of the internet and probably some social media giants run Linux or UNIX-like OSs, too.

    And that Linux is not equivalent to FOSS, nor is the EFF.

    And a link to that article you’re refering to.




  • Today, 19 civil society organisations, including EDRi, are urging the Swiss Federal Councilor to make changes to the proposed Ordinance. The current proposal:

    • Violates people’s fundamental rights to privacy and data protection
    • Has a chilling effect on people exercising other rights, like freedom of speech, freedom of thought, and freedom of assembly and association
    • Is incompatible with the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR)
    • Poses a risk to Switzerland’s adequacy status with the EU
    • Creates huge cybersecurity risks for users, endangering their sensitive data
    • Doesn’t compare to other less intrusive alternative measures that wouldn’t subject the entire population to mass surveillance

    Civil society calls on the Federal Councilor to abandon any proposals for wide-ranging, blanket data retention obligations, privacy-effacing identification obligations, weakening of crucial legal safeguards and automatic data disclosures in the revision of the VÜPF Ordinance. They recommend instead to align the Swiss legislation with the highest standards of protection set by both the Court of Justice of the European Union and the European Court of Human Rights.