On my instance I can (manually) request a backup every 7 days. It would be nice if this could be automated but it's all media etc. so it's quite big for email. If the admin would have announced that they would switch off the server you could have moved easily which is possible at least since v3.0
So mastondon is an open source twitter clone right? is there anything out there yet or in the works that is more in line with Facebook's product offerings with out the surveillance and tracking?
Kind of, Mastodon is the 'Twitter' part of the fediverse, PeerTube is the 'YouTube' part, Pixelfed is the 'Instagram' part, there are even people who try to use ActivityPub for things you do on GitHub normally. And you can follow and interact between all of them (theoretically and to some degree actually too).
But what you're looking for sounds mostly like Diaspora, which is quite old, it's from back in the Google+ days, and never really took off.
He's already been busted lying about providing access when it was against policy. After being in the bad position of not having a policy for police requests, he set a policy then almost immediately broke it.
I think policy was only for a murder, and he personally approved access for a non-lethal stabbing, or something similar.
Major problem with a heavily underfunded understaffed company, they simply don't have the resources to put up any kind of legal resistance to this type of judicial pressure.
>they simply don't have the resources to put up any kind of legal resistance to this type of judicial pressure
a very simple solution to this, don't keep the data once you've provided a service to the customer. Or anonymize it and scrub any association.
It's never a question of "we don't have the resources to protect your data". The conclusion should be, if you don't have the ability to protect your customers you don't get to harvest their information.
This is the only way things will change. Companies need to be our in the position where holding personal data is a major liability. And not gpdr type that relies on admins or politicians. It needs to be something that excites the trial lawyers approaching the level of mesothelioma.
Idk how we get there, whether it be through the courts, Congress, or some other way. I think getting rid of third party doctrine will do more towards this goal than most people realize, but it has to be in a way that treats any data acquired by government as if it were collected by the government, to 4th amendment levels of scrutiny.
But if things are going to change, major liability on government and private sector will have to be the result, unless we want eventual relapse.
Her Coursera course Learning to Learn is super helpful as well, I bought her book after going through her course, unfortunately it has sat on my reading list for the past 6m
For Linux cli tools the obvious (to me) answer is IoT devices. These devices are typically pretty lacking in terms of hardware capabilities. So for common tools having them as small as possible allows them to be distributed on a wider range of devices.
So provide "apt install packagename-minimal" for those with low-resource requirements. Otherwise the tyranny of the minority forces the majority to accept usability reductions.
I'd argue he didn't pay his debt to society and was not rehabilitated. His previous sentence and it's execution were a complete joke. It's well documented that he continued to keep incredibly young companions and surrounded himself with plenty of "art" of scantily clad very young women.
Even if both of those had been appropriate, his sentence fair and he was making obvious efforts to avoid past behavior, you couldn't be sure that you weren't taking money that was generated from the trafficking of other human beings. That's where Ito fucked up, plain and simple.
