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The line between helpful tech and quiet surveillance is blurring — and our devices no longer feel fully under our control.

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[–] TeamAssimilation@infosec.pub 1 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Ive contributed to several projects, code and translation, but you can really expect every user to be a programmer, or every programmer to contribute to every piece of software they use.

Besides, contribution is not a protection from capture, just look at MySQL.

[–] 14th_cylon@lemmy.zip 1 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Ive contributed to several projects, code and translation, but you can really expect every user to be a programmer,

i meant contributing with money. contributing code is nice, but that doesn't help them to pay for electricity.

[–] TeamAssimilation@infosec.pub 1 points 2 hours ago

That’s donations, and I’ve donated to less projects that I’d like, because it would become costly very fast. Mainly things like Wikipedia or Jellyfin.