That’s true, though you can at least make sure the ISP that examines your data is in a country that doesn’t care about these things as much, like Portugal. You can do similar with a mainstream VPN, but then you’re sending your data to an IP your local ISP & law enforcement is more likely to be suspicious of.

self host on an obscure vps, I recommend buyvm

What you are referring to as Red Hat is in fact IBM/Red Hat, or as I’ve recently come to calling it, IBM + Red Hat

lemmy.world is trash, it’s brought in and hosts the worst parts of reddit I was hoping to avoid by moving to lemmy. Wish I could just block that whole instance.

Permissive licenses don’t give power to corporations. It may increase corporate adoption (aka more open standards), but it doesn’t cause the corporation to own the codebase or replace the developers working on the project. If this was true, BSD and co would have been annihilated years ago. What we actually see is GPL ecosystems like Redhat and Linux (Android) being swallowed by corporate interest despite the license, because the GPL doesn’t protect your project leadership from becoming corrupt.

I wouldn’t trust that uninstaller to actually uninstall any of the malware that “firewall” installed. Purge the program directories manually.

Comic Mono

OpenSSH from OpenBSD, by a wide margin.

Required Javascript on sites where it doesn’t make sense. I like using a text-only browser like lynx, or netsurf or dillo from time to time, and it’s amazing how some of the simplest webpages are broken without JS.

openssl and a text file