A non-walled garden isn’t much help for you either. There’s nothing stopping them from ‘requiring’ Client-Side - Device level scanning. The technological ‘problem’ required to do that, isn’t too difficult to impose when you also create an environment where your device/provider ‘requirement’ in order to even use your technology, forces compliance, and it isn’t that far fetched of a technical problem to be solved.
If Signal leaves the official app stores
I know this is probably semantics; but I don’t think it will be completely on Signal, ie the app store owner is the one who is going to have the pressure to remove the apps: plural, as they will likely also remove any alternatives in the same vain. Same with any other service provider, store front, internet or cellular access, or device maker…
What I mean by Signal complying by leaving, is that they stop allowing registration of phone numbers ‘from’ these countries, and stop hosting any of their infrastructure (AWS) within these boarders.
Self-Hosted or Federated, is only a small portion of the battle. You have a bigger problem.
I don’t see Signal complying, and it’s already a target for ‘breaking’ it’s encryption. I think it is more likely to leave the marketplace in which ChatControl is forced (it’s the only winning move); and I don’t think that necessarily means you ‘can’t’ use it; if anything ChatControl environments give a framework that allows them to force supporting network/service infrastructure into blocking or restricting the ‘ease’ in which these tools can be installed, accessed and used. I would focus efforts on how people can get around this vector, not just the specific tool in use.
I don’t know that many of my adult friends even hit half the items talked about in this article.
What’s your own score?
Who benefits?
Who benefits from sowing a narrative around “drama”, “accusation”, and/or “paranoia”. Seriously.
I think given the following circumspect; GrapheneOS’s reaction, to move project pieces out of potential hostile environments/jurisdiction, is perfectly reasonable.
France’s Support for EU “Chat Control”, scanning proposals. France has been one of the governments most supportive of EU‑level proposals that would require scanning of communications and devices for illegal content.
The general French framing and approach to cybercrime. As in other EU countries, French authorities are pushing for: Expanded powers to compel cooperation from service providers, and developers. Strong rhetoric against tools that are seen as systematically obstructing investigations.
I believe this is what you are looking for https://killedbymozilla.com/
Enjoy the journey!
I went with a kit from splitkb ; and the community in their discord was super helpful.
Soldering a keyboard isn’t too difficult, the components aren’t very fragile, and you mostly have some easy feedback and will know exactly where you messed up (the key doesn’t work, which is easier then chasing signals/volts around a more typical soldering/electronics project). I think its a very rewarding endeavor.
I think the harder part is learning a new keyboard layout; and overcoming muscle/finger memory.
The revelations that came out from the Edward Snowden ordeal.
Find the skills gaps that you have; find the thing that interests you about it; and dig into that fundamental piece, don’t understand what the fundamentals might be, go check out .edu, or certification outlines with the vocabulary/knowledge you do have so you can build from the concepts (and benefit from their already determined progressions) , so you can developed additional vocabulary and knowledge of the discipline.
I think the gatekeeping part isn’t the warning or cautionary advice being given, It’s the failure to point, and give direction to, the relevant thing(s), the skill sets, the place to start in order to understand the complexities.
Like the hart-surgeon analogy given elsewhere in the comments; it’s not just the dire warning of ‘you can kill someone’ - it’s the humanity to say, well if you want to learn how to do this, you’re going to have to start by having an understanding of basic biology, organic chemistry, human anatomy, etc, and to learn about those things go here…
I think you’ve missed the point OP is trying to communicate. It’s not that these things aren’t relevant, highly important, and good caution/warning. It’s the gate that people are creating with these no depth explainers. “you need to understand” “if you don’t know” – then fail to provide direction to people who want to know, to learn these things, to figure out where to start; that’s the gate.
This article kind of reads like a nothing-burger. (and it’s buried behind a paywall).
I’m not a big fan of ‘tests’ that go and try and cherry pick one variable to play around with to make a single conclusion, when it’s really the system of various variables working in relation to each other.
The general population, and even general categories of competition, you’re better off picking a tire that hits somewhere in the top 20% of performance in all relevant categories: Aerodynamics, Rolling Resistance, Traction (various: stopping power, cornering, surface type, etc), and Durability (mostly related to the additional weight) and making additional compromises as it relates to the thing you are doing, the environment, and your experience.
The price of being on the bleeding edge.
But also, trust the process, it’s a feature not a bug.
Also, I’ll add, that I think that beginners learning this immutable, devcontainer, distrobox workflow offers you more space to practice and learn by doing. You’ll will learn a lot by recovering from some misstep (rollback), and/or by blowing it up, to rebuild it again. (and I encourage you to do it often for the practice and confidence)
Check out the ‘dx’ variants within universal blue It would be a good time to become familiar with rebasing.
I run bluefin-dx environment. (gnome).
There is a different learning curve to immutable/atomic systems and workflows. I don’t think it’s harder per say, it’s just you’ll have to be cognizant of the differences when searching for relative and relevant information when you come up against anything (like any opinionated *nix distro). Learn Homebrew, and Flatpack (and thier quarks running with atomic systems).
Maybe start here? https://fightchatcontrol.eu/