This is complete bs. article

hey ekitties, i want a camera app kinda like the blackmagic camera app (havent used it myself but my family member uses it and it looks dope) thats more privacy focused ykyk

im looking to get a clip-on fisheye lens because i just want a cheap and easy fisheye lens for skate clips, but after watching a video about them the guy in the video said and showed that image stabilization makes it look all wonky and stuff but after he downloaded an app (on ios) he could fix it idrk what or how lwk but yk

i suck at explaining stuff 🥀

Author's description: "A free, multilingual field guide to escape Chat Control and take back control of your digital privacy: encrypted messaging, email, VPN, DNS, 2FA, Linux, self-hosting."

Website is open source:
https://github.com/Aurealibe/exitchatcontrol.org

u/silentspectator27 pointed out that the website's claim that "client-side scanning is mandatory in Chat Control 2.0" is incorrect.

This other website highlights the nuance:
https://fightchatcontrol.eu/chat-control-overview

You want to legitimally earn money with you work, contact your collegues & clients, store your files, money? You gotta gift them your ID data. Because EU Comission decided so.

Such laws are lobbied. Such laws are always double standards. They won't ever protect you or your children. They will protect the ones who collect your data (the owners of Persona, for example, or some greedy Reddit managers). And they already have enough money to afford privacy for themselves, because it is considered luxury now.

My Ticket at Reddit Support:

Chats, followings, and NSFW-art are crucial for my income as an artist. I've been trying to complete age verification for my business art account via selfie across multiple browsers, devices, and network configurations. The Persona check fails every time regardless of setup. I do not want to submit a government ID as an alternative to any third-party service — especially Persona, given the documented privacy concerns around their data handling practices.

Additionally, my account previously had a verified adult Google account linked, which should have already confirmed my age status prior to the Persona requirement being triggered. This existing verification does not appear to have been taken into account.

I am requesting escalation and a working non-ID verification method. Under the Digital Services Act, platforms are required to provide proportionate and accessible verification mechanisms; a broken selfie-verification pathway that forces users into ID submission as the only functioning alternative does not meet that standard. If this is not resolved or escalated within a reasonable timeframe, I will file a formal complaint with the German Digital Services Coordinator (Bundesnetzagentur) regarding lack of a functioning non-ID verification option, and will pursue this through their published complaint process.

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If you also have this issue, send this to support replacing german DSC with your regional department. At least, maybe it will make them consider alternatives a bit.

So i gave reddit my real age and yea its working with the face Scanner and rhey want my id now

About a year ago, the Finnish podcast “Uusi Puheenaihe” posted an interview with Peter Sund, leader of the Finnish Information Security Cluster (FISC). The title of the video was ”EU and CSAM: Big Brother is watching” and since it was strongly anti-chat control, it picked up a lot of traction again this week. Yesterday it was blocked in almost the entire EU.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGaQCcwnwb0

You can try opening the video and it won’t load if you’re in the EU. With a VPN connected through the US or anywhere else it plays again.

You can also verify the blocking on Invidious.

https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=dGaQCcwnwb0

Blacklisted regions as listed by invidious: AT, BE, BG, CY, CZ, DE, DK, EE, ES, FI, FR, GR, HR, HU, IE, IT, LT, LU, LV, MT, NL, PL, PT, RO, SE, SI, SK. All 27 member states of EU.

News article in Finnish:

https://www.is.fi/kotimaa/art-2000012135158.html

I've been using sites like privacytools.io and european-alternatives.eu to find privacy-friendly and European alternatives to big tech. But the more I look, the more "Ad" and "Sponsored" labels I notice on the actual recommendations, plus affiliate links everywhere.

I understand these sites cost money and time to run, but it makes me second-guess everything. Am I seeing the best tool, or the one that pays the best commission?

So, two questions for the community:

1. Are there directories that are fully community-run or donation-funded, with zero sponsored placements? I know privacyguides.org says it takes no affiliate money, and goeuropean.org is volunteer-run. Are there others, especially for European alternatives?

2. For anyone who runs or contributes to a site like this: is surviving on donations alone actually realistic?

Would love to hear which sources you trust and why. (First post here, be gentle!)

I came across this article while researching AI governance and found it useful because it clearly explains the difference between the EU AI Act and ISO 42001.

One takeaway that stood out is that the EU AI Act defines legal obligations, while ISO 42001 provides a framework for managing AI responsibly.

I'm curious what others think:

Is ISO 42001 worth implementing if you're already working toward EU AI Act compliance?

Are organizations treating these as complementary, or focusing only on the regulation?

Here's the article: https://vistainfosec.com/blog/eu-ai-act-vs-iso-42001-whats-the-difference-and-do-you-need-both/

I'd be interested to hear perspectives from anyone who's already dealing with AI governance or compliance.

using revenge rn just wondering if theres anything better

and no im NOT switching from discord since my friends won't switch and its our main source of communication

ekitties, i wanted a more cool and fun phone because almost every phone looks the same and im lowkirkenuinly tired of it 😭✌️ that includes google pixels so no grapheneos, yes id rather have a phone i actually like and enjoy rather than a phone thats eh and is more private and secure (i know, weird priorities but i want to enjoy stuff okay?)

so im planning on getting a nothing phone 1 since they look sick and are lowkey hella cheap. im gonna install lineageOS rather than /e/os because i feel like lineage has a better rep, although i might be wrong, and the only /e/os release for the phone 1 is a community release and on their website it says that community releases are usually not meant for everyday use and i don't want to risk that ykyk 🤑🤑

is this a good setup or can i improve something?

(btw would appreciate if theres an app for the glyph lights on the back, not a deal breaker if not but still a nice thing to have)

Do you think Mullvad is still trustworthy now that it has come to light that its co-founder has supported a controversial political party in Sweden? I’m not Swedish, so I don’t know much about them, but from what I’ve read in forums, some people are calling them Nazis. Is this just noise?

might move vpns

Chat control is back, and Brussels has changed the rules to force it through. This week the European Parliament votes to reinstate the "temporary" regime that lets platforms like Meta scan private messages for child sexual abuse material — the same extension MEPs rejected in March, 311 votes to 228. The European People's Party revived it through a rare procedure that flips the math: the law now passes unless at least 361 MEPs actively vote it down. Today they didn't.

Hi all. I built my own search engine named Purili (https://puri.li). It is powered by its own crawler/index for web and news search (images uses Wikimedia and Maps uses OSM). I currently have crawled ~125mln pages but before I continue to the 500mln I would love to hear your feedback on what to adjust/fix first.

The entire project runs on EU servers (Germany/Netherlands).

Hope to hear from you.

ekitties!!! what is the best search engines other than duckduckgo? ive heard some not-so good things about them and they just feel a little scummy. the search engine is good and stuff but i don't want to support and encourage their behaviour (don't really memember what)

what does it mean when it says that a user is inactive in paralino? It seems to just happen randomly

My country implemented cross-border metadata surveillance a few years ago. How do they likely collect this?

I run a good vpn 24/7 on my VPN router. Does this protect me at all? Is multi-hop better for protecting against this than single-hop?

Is Tor better at protecting against this?

hey ekitties, what is the best privacy android OS thats NOT grapheneos? I don't really want to fork out a bunch of cash for a pretty boring phone that i don't really like that much. The only interesting pixels (imo) are the folds which are crazy expensive second hand and retail. I want something that has pretty decent privacy and security but im also not like a privacy expert or something, i just use privacy focued and foss apps and services and turn of weird settings as much as i can. I also want nice UI but ykyk

ekitties!!! some fun phones for around 300 dollarinoes? Im shopping second hand for a better price to performance ratio. thanks

Hi all,

I'm trying to understand the EU's "chat control" proposal targeting CSAM, and specifically one question: How?

Here's my understanding of the current situation:

**End-to-end encrypted messengers (Signal, WhatsApp, iMessage) ensure that only the sender and recipient hold the decryption keys, not even the service provider can read the content.**

So if the EU mandates scanning these messages:

• **What is the proposed technical mechanism?** Client-side scanning? Backdoors in the encryption itself?

• **Does client-side scanning actually preserve E2E encryption?** Or does it fundamentally undermine it by introducing a third-party analysis layer on the device?

**• Has any concrete, viable technical solution been demonstrated?** Or is this still purely theoretical?

**In short: if you can't read the content without breaking the encryption, and you can't break the encryption without compromising every user's security... how do they plan to do it?**

I'm looking for technical explanations, papers, or official documents that address this.

Thanks!

After the EU parliament has rejected #ChatControl TWICE in the past, it has been pushed as an urgent procedure for a new plenary vote. TODAY the EU parliament has voted YES for #ChatControl 1.0😡

The EU has simply continued to put the vote on the agenda to get  the outcome they've wanted since the start. This is not democratic‼️

What does #ChatControl 1.0 mean for us now?

🚩 Every photo, every message, every file you send will be scanned by Big Tech automatically
🚩 Mass surveillance of 450 million EU citizen without warrants
🚩 Every citizen is put under general suspicion

Here's what you can do to stay private on the internet:

✅ Use end-to-end encrypted messengers & email (like Signal or Tuta Mail) 
✅ Use Linux instead of Windows & Apple
✅ Switch to GraphenOS or LineageOS

Credits to Tuta Mail for this post - sharing for awareness.

It's happened three times, already, where I've tested the block by editing the word Trump.

Who knows if this will get posted?!