I know what options signal provides. I also know the defaults

Definitely, cash is critical

And Signal should take that into account

For example https://www.heise.de/en/news/iOS-Deleted-Signal-data-extracted-by-FBI-via-notification-database-11252199.html

But as I said it still is the standard and it is hard to find a better alternative

Not perfect (as recent news demonstrated) but still the standard The no-brainer choice for secure and private messaging

As if Ursula knew what she is talking about. Nevertheless, this is a terrible idea and most likely something with another agenda behind, other than the stated reasons.

With that being said, we need another president for the commission and perhaps a completely different commission. How many years until her term ends?

As a privacy consciousness individual, …

I think best to keep the same operating system (OS)

Not gonna work

Ok, FF got its ass kicked this time. It could be a good reminder to Mozilla that they should focus on their browser and its market share instead of continuing to pursue side quests that lead nowhere.

I will continue to use FF for reasons other than performance (good adblocker, etc), but it was a bit sad seeing that I could’ve been getting more out of my hardware by using another browser.

Fediverse already exists, with all its tools and instances (Lemmy, Mastodon, PixelFed, etc). It’s democratic, as anyone can host an instance or join an instance where they are accepted.

We don’t need more centralized copycats.

KDE is awesome. Congrats to all people involved with it.