I’d assume that most governments (other than the US) don’t have easy access even if E2EE in WhatsApp etc. is a sham - these companies are definitely intent on keeping the pretense up, and smaller countries aren’t able to disprove it.

Neat! Here in Germany they’re currently introducing electronic patient records and of course it’s not possible to use the management application (the one for patients) on linux …

How is your national electronic id implemented? Does it work on linux?

“Violent content” could also be videos of officer misconduct, and there’s the whole can of worms of what “promoting violence” means.

Denmark had a universal postal service for 400 years until the end of 2023, but as digital mail services have taken hold, the use of letters has fallen dramatically.

Public services send communications via a Digital Post app or other platforms and PostNord Denmark says the letter market is no longer profitable.

Germany will be safe from this for decades to come. Though I am interested in how exactly this Danish digital mail works, I assume it’s not just email (i.e. extremely insecure).

The exact wording seems to be “banned content”, which includes a lot more than just violence (is violence banned in the first place, considering subs like r/PublicFreakout?).

They do it like that in many european countries.

That’s called ‘peer-to-peer’, not ‘hosting’.

It doesn’t necessarily have to be enforcable to deter most people. At minimum, with such a ban there’s zero chance to communicate with government agencies with E2EE.

Kinda is, though - regular people have a lot more trust in centralized services, and Signal has a very large userbase compared to anything selfhostable. And IME they really, really hate installing new messengers.

Plus, selfhosted E2EE would still be just as illegal as Signal. Many people won’t be willing to participate in illegal activity, and if you just don’t use E2EE on your selfhosted solution the usefulness seems rather dubious.

No way in hell my relatives are going to use a messenger I selfhosted. My brother doesn’t even use Signal for whatever reason, even though even my grandmother has it.

Are you the only one who decides that? My grandparents have a bunch of children and grandchildren, if I tried to take their smartphone away the others would just call me an asshole and give them a new one.

That’s just pedantry. ‘Selfhosted’ never meant that every single user has to host it themselves.

Let’s hope they’ll be able to continue to use it. It (and all other messengers with proper E2EE) is already on track to be outlawed in Sweden and France, and the new government in Germany will be pro mass-surveillance, too.

Hydration is probably still a good start. Helps your organs (including kidneys) do their jobs.

My assumption was that it’s related to histamines (which would explain why I do badly with both beer and wine), but might as well try your suggestion.

I don’t do great with beer or wine, increases my digestive issues. Otherwise I’d totally try my hand at an English bitter or something like that, British beers are nearly impossible to get here (at best pale ales or IPAs, which I hate) and I don’t like the local styles.

That reminds me of the box of half-broken Game Boys from back when I got really into chiptune … I kinda get backpain from soldering, though, any tips on that? Other than “go see a doctor”, of course.

Man I wish home distilling wasn’t illegal as fuck where I live …

I also propagate houseplants and gift them to friends, family and colleagues. Since they’re so easy to propagate it’s almost no effort.

Neat gift idea! I do have this hardy as fuck spiderplant that keeps multiplying instead of dying like most of my other plants …