Interesting thing from the jobs descriptions:

Privacy Guides is fiscally hosted by MAGIC Grants, a 501©(3) public charity.

MAGIC Grants is a public charity that provides undergraduate scholarships for students interested in cryptocurrencies and privacy, supports public cryptocurrency infrastructure, and supports privacy.

Good luck with your community!!

I’m planning to go to Riga in summer 2025 for a concert, hopefully it does not get postponed for the fifth time (i was supposed to go in 2022 lol)

Braflix is awesome, it’s my default go-to

This is quite a smart solution, good job !

From the about page it looks like it’s a non profit that does not enforse or support candidates or parties, they claim to only try and work on erasing the barriers between voters and the act of voting

Well, in a way it doesn’t cost them anything because it’s already being broadcast on TV for free, since it’s the national / public TV

But also, I’m french and I despise having to give away my email to access “free” things so I just enjoy providing them with the most ridiculous emails, good luck with that database, fellow countryman 😈

I mentioned this in another thread : you can go to France Television’s website and sign up with a bogus email (there’s no check) to watch live broadcasts and replays for free !

One user pointed out to me that they may geoblock you, so a VPN would be recommended.

And then obviously it’s gonna be in french, which definitely isn’t ideal if you don’t speak the language lol

https://f-droid.org/packages/org.quantumbadger.redreader/

https://github.com/QuantumBadger/RedReader

I believe this one still works because it is designed for screen reader users, so they’re not paying for the API dings because of accessibility

Mmm petit déjeuner

President =/= Prime minister in France

The president is elected during the presidential elections, he then appoints (a nomination) his prime minister, who will be the head of the government, and in turn nominates his ministers.

It is common (but not the law) to appoint a prime minister that is from the party that has the parliament majority (through parliament elections that happen after the presidential elections)… Or whenever the president dissolves the parliament prompting new parliament elections. This is what happened here after the results of the European elections).

If the parliament disagrees with the nominated prime minister, they can hold a “No confidence vote” which forces the nomination of a new prime minister if it passes. So it’s not easy to be prime minister because you have to be “accepted” by the parliament. iirc last year the left tried 3 times to vote a no confidence in the previous prime minister, and was very close to succeed every time.

Usually the president is in charge of international affairs, and the prime minister of the national affairs, but we french have a hard on for king-like figures of state, so the president is kind of seen as the most important person in the government. The prime minister is mostly just his lap dog, a yes man that follows his orders 🥲

Ah shit, didn’t think about that, sorry

I believe they should be broadcast by the national public television (France Television) which you can watch live on https://france.tv/ ; that’s if you don’t mind french lol

They may ask for an account but there’s no email check, just type whatever and you can watch it

That’s super interesting, I do remember being taught as a kid how to use Google Image search (circa 2005), Gimp for photo manipulation around the age of 12 in 2008, we had technology classes with electronics, technical drawing, even some plastic bending machine, and light programming (made a robot figurine execute recorded moves in sequence)

I do wonder if it’s still the case in my own country

Computer literacy is weird because it feels like millennials were born into it and had to learn how to use the tools available… Then said tools were made a lot simpler with a lot less control over them, and Gen Z was born into apps and saas and did not have the chance to properly learn

We generally only taught a single generation to master our tech, I think it’s scary, but also I trust the Zoomers to figure it out, they’re creative

This is the important paragraph on the article

Because Proton has no venture capital investors, we can take this additional step to secure the future. Swiss foundations do not have shareholders, so Proton will no longer be dependent upon the goodwill of any particular person or group of persons. Instead, Swiss foundations and their board of trustees are legally obligated to act in accordance with the purpose for which they were established, which, in this case, is to defend Proton’s original mission. As the largest voting shareholder of Proton, no change of control can occur without the consent of the foundation, allowing it to block hostile takeovers of Proton, thereby ensuring permanent adherence to the mission.

Fun fact : Yam’s is the french name for Yahtzee

I just started using Local Send (https://f-droid.org/packages/org.localsend.localsend_app/) ; what a blessing this app is, no more uploading to someone else’s computer the cloud and downloading to my pc or vice versa, it’s so fast too

The name the website is giving them is weird, it’s officially the “Regulatory Authority for Audiovisual and Digital Communication”, their mission is the same (fighting piracy) so it doesn’t really matter but it’s still weird to call them by one of their tasks.

Anyway this is an interesting study because of the data, but the reading is obviously biased, they imply that the use of VPNs and what they call “alternative DNS” (yeah guess what, if my ISP blocks websites I’m still going to access them) is suspicious, they do mention security/privacy as one of the usages (it’s the two main motivations for the majority of users in their results).

Something interesting : NordVPN is the most used by the panel, I think it’s reasonable to explain it by the heavy marketing NordVPN did on french youtube (almost every big youtuber had an ad segment with them), but their results say otherwise, 35% of the panel says it’s based on recommendations from closed ones.

I don’t know why some in the panel of 3000 people would self report as pirating, it sounds dumb to admit to an infraction to the law.

Edit : Their conclusions are absolutely busted, an example: 26% people using a VPN reported data privacy was their main reason (for 49% it was one of the motivations), next is securing their data against breaches for 23% (44%), piracy fall down as the 6th motivation with 7% (17%) ; their conclusion? “The choice of a VPN is rather simple, to not be tracked and access illegal content” what kind of botched logic is that

On the bright side, Firefox has a 21% market share in France on desktops, yay!

Generally, https://paris-luttes.info has really good tutorials and resources to keep track of what’s happening in France, most of my links will be in french, translate at your convenience, not many pictures either, sorry :

• Self defense kit from the street to the tribunal - https://infokiosques.net/IMG/pdf/petit-manuel-de-defense-collective-pageparpage.pdf
• DIY Gaz masks - https://paris-luttes.info/masques-diy-plus-efficaces-contre-18167
• Survival kit when in custody - https://infokiosques.net/spip.php?article1582
• Protest survival kit - https://charliehebdo.fr/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/guide-de-survie-manif-1194x1536.png
• Survival kit for journalists - https://taranis.news/2023/03/classic-manuel-de-survie-du-journaliste-reporter/
• Street Medic Wiki - https://medicaction.org/wiki/
• Protest behaviour guide - https://rebellyon.info/IMG/pdf/brochure_1_les_gestes_a_adopter_en_manif-2.pdf
• (french) Police weaponry - https://desarmons.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Brochure_Partie_Armes_2021.pdf
• What to wear against them - https://desarmons.net/2023/03/21/se-proteger-des-armes-de-police-quelques-bases-de-survie/
• Antifa toolkit and resources - https://lahorde.info/Schemas-cartes-et-autres-outils