I use Radicale for my calendars and contacts as basically every program, app or device can handle caldav/carddav.

Self-hosting email however is too painful. Not that it isn’t easy on principle… but because the basics are simple all the big mail providers have developed a lot of ways to automatically filter out all those quickly put up mail servers mainly used to distribute spam. So having your own mail server while also constantly jumping through all the hoops so your mails are actually received is barely worth it.

“Most respondents use a VPN or reverse proxy for remote access, while 15% still use forwarded ports in some capacity.”

How was this question phrased? A reverse proxy still needs “forwarded ports in some capacity”…

There is actually only one proven migration driver: security.

Which is the reason all those screaming right-wing morons are actually reducing migration… Not by their official bullshit of spending millions to deport a dozen people (the well integrated ones they could easily find, too), illegal border controls or deying refugees their legal status but by ignoring human rights, constitutions and established law thus weakening the rule of law and legal certainty/security.

I mean “Let’s turn our country into a shithole where ethnicity or country of origin matters more than the actual law” is a solution to migration. You just need to be totally stupid to accept this solution if you think a moment about the side effects.

Time for actions?

No.

Just like the far-right most of the democratic parties are also paid, just by corporations instead of foreign countries. And actual policies that benefit the voters do not match with their master’s goals either. Which is the reason they are trying to embrace the far-right’s populist tactics and narratives instead to stay in power.

Unfettered capitalism leading to fascism is no coincidence but a logical conclusion.

You have no idea how cheap those actually politicians are…

Then their own website is stupid as it has “2008 - A heroic idea is born - Niklas Östberg starts an online-food ordering service in Sweden” on it.

As a German I never heard about “Germany’s Delivery Hero” until now. And some googling shows that they seem to be an international company from Sweden now indeed sitting in Berlin, although probably not for that long (their own history mentions plans for “expanding to Germany” just 4 years ago, coinciding with news of “a trajectory towards profitability”).

How many of these idiotic small scale “delivery companies” a.k.a. delivery-worker exploitation-schemes are their even nowadays? *sigh*

Or actually securing your SSH as passwords protecting outward facing devices is ridiculous in the first place (and has been for a very, very long time).

All this “deactivate SSH bullshit” is equivalent to “I can’t be bothered to have a lock on my door, so better wall it up to be secure”.

A covert Russian network sought to exploit last month’s riots in France by using social media to blame the unrest on uncontrolled immigration […]
[…] found that Russia sought to “portray the French leadership as weak and increasingly authoritarian.”

The main problem is that half of it is in fact true, because French political parties and government happily parroted the criminal immigration tales to justify more authoritarian measures against protests.

As long as governments (and that is by far not a French problem, but persistent everywhere in the EU) still delusionally think that they just need to copy the far-right’s anti-immigration and culture war screaming to get some of their voters back, we are still on a straight march towards far-right (and worse) governments. And guess who finances those?

Probable news tomorrow: “Merz insults owner of Italian restaurant for not having proper German cuisine”

Our woes don’t come from the socially liberal part, but the economically conservative.

Yes. And to add insult to injury those assholes then convince gullible idiots that the sociallly liberal part is the problem that they need to fight, so they are busy and don’t have time to think about their actual woes even less the cause.

“The fact that I’m presenting these arguments without commenting doesn’t mean for a second that I’m in any way a supporter of conservative values”
[…]
“But you should ask yourself, why are we in this situation? After years and years of trying to make the world a more liberal place, we ended up by having a more illiberal kind of world. Haven’t we maybe exaggerated in some areas with the way we were trying to force things?”

“You forced me into being an backwards homophobe, xenophobe authoritarian asshole by pushing all that progress, freedom and tolerance on me!” will never be something else but an absolute bullshit take for right-wing scum to justify their misanthropy. Phrasing it as a question instead of a statement doesn’t change anything.

this in response to seeing https://mony.lol/

Wtf is that homepage even?

Plus some programs showing space actually usable for your data (not unreasonable from user perspective), which means another chunk is gone as overhead from the file system.

And a majority of voters a.k.a. the brain-deads will believe it and then vote in ways that make ‘ungovernable’ reality (followed by ‘defenseless’ once the Russia-financed populist scum has enough influence).

Same story everywhere because that’s what happens when education is fucked up and big tech brain-rot spreads freely because neoliberals and their corporate masters hate voters with critical thinking skills.

The thing is that Tesla produces EVs to sell them so ou can actually buy them. German companies create EVs for show to shut up the people telling them that EVs are the future but don’t want to sell any. So if you want to buy a German EV instead you have to wait at least a year or two for delivery, all while the company is also announcing factory closures…mainly of those plants producing EVs. The German car industry has seemingly simply decided on collective suicide.

I assumed they are praying for something to go wrong while they are on vacation and it’s someone elses problem…

I was speaking more broadly about “most cases you heard of in the last weeks”… Yes, in some case it might have been actual hacks involved because basic security was adequate, which also included noticing the issue in time to prevent actual consequences in this specific case.

Anger at corrupt right-wing populists mobilizes people and drives change.

Which only means they need to shift focus and spend even more to guide the voters anger into a better direction, like evil minorities and totally imaginary threats…