Because with stores, the evidence would be missing products. Very easy to see. With bugs like this, a million people could have abused it, or one. Either way that data is likely available to all who want it.

A better comparison is, store posted list of their customer's addresses on the back door. No clue how many people walked by there much less if anyone copied it down.

Problem is that knowing the link between a person's profile and their email now means you know the link between their account and their accounts in many other places. That information could be used to offer the person different prices at stores, attack them for being a minority or activist, to hack their account because their password was leaked from another site that uses that email,or all the other things these cumulative leaks add up to.

Arch is more cutting edge and thus less stable in very general terms. And is would be a learning curve for someone used to Debian based distros.

I distance myself from companies run by people who say or explicitly support people who say that I don't or shouldn't exist. There are a few other things that make me distance myself from companies, but that one is a pretty hard line. (I'm gender "non-compliant" and on the Autism spectrum among other things that have been explicitly said don't exist, shouldn't exist, or need to be "cured"). Otherwise, I try to distance myself from any companies who explicitly collect and sell my information and other things that I find problematic, but that's not always possible.

I use a local unbound DNS server on my router with Quad9 as upstream. I actually have google DNS entirely blocked/rerouted on my router because google uses it for advertising tracking, but I get creepers out by targeted ads showing up in random places when I do do something on a totally unrelated site. Most important thing, though, is to use ~~DNSSEC~~ DNS over TLS or DNS over HTTPS to reduce middlemen from using your DNS info to track what sites you visit and sell that data. Of course ISPs still see the destination of all of your data for tracking what sites you visit unless you use a VPN or similar tools, so you can't hide it from them that way.

Edit: DNS over TLS not DNSSEC, totally different thing...

Servers are always going to be owned by someone. But the data is encrypted with keys not available to the server. Signal isn't perfect, and I don't like some stuff they do, but it's the best design out there that is also relatively user friendly and doesn't have holes that are easy to exploit by the server owner.

Seems a lot of futo fans were advocating that it was "open-source" because the code is available while ignoring that an essential part of something being consider open-source is that the source is licensed openly as well as being viewable openly.

The great firewall isn't designed to protect those inside from the outside. It is designed to isolate those inside from getting outside. It's like saying a prison wall is there to protect the prisoners from invaders. Sure in Fallout they worked out to be useful for that, but that isnt what it was built for and would have needed modifications like turning the barbed wire outwards to make it work for that purpose better.

No Zuckerberg is just part of the fascist movement now, since the right uses corporate social media and is more tolerant of ads than the left now. Before he was more interested in attracting technically literate people who would actually use the platform and were more tolerant of user experience changes as they tried to become more profitable, which was more the left. Now that technical literacy is allowing them to move to platforms where they aren't a product, so the profit is in the people who are stuck with the platform.

Also Canonical has added a lot of problems to promote their monetization strategies lately. Mostly aimed at business rather than regular users, but still causes problems for home users.

I generally prefer RHEL based distros over Debian based ones, so Rocky Linux for servers is my current go to and Fedora for desktop, though Fedora is heading in a similar direction as Ubuntu I feel...

I mean, is she nice to fans? Probably.

Is she nice to employees? ...well...there is evidence not so much, which is where my personal concerns come in, but that's me.

Is she nice if you know her personally? None of your business unless she chooses to let you know her personally.

From what I've gathered, not just prisons. When you legitimize hate, then of course violence increases as it's now acceptable.

Same thing is happening in many parts of the US as states start revoking ID and birth certificate gender changes, labeling books and other media that even mentions LGBTQ+ people as "sexual content" and banning all "sexual content" from children, etc. And is likely to even seep into more progressive areas if congress passes the promised anti-LGBTQ+ laws they have planned to prevent enforcement of laws against certain types of hate speech and discrimination as they redefine the criteria of protected classes to exclude women, LGBTQ+ people, immigrants, or whatever they can get away with.

But then how will the US government do the same thing to it's citizens? /s