A good starting point for people coming into the industry is usually tech support (L1). Maybe you can find a position in a company where they use many FOSS applications (they are quite widespread). From there you can specialize yourself and transition into a system admin.

But keep in mind that “breaking the power of tech gigants” will most likely not pay well (unfortunately).

Edit: depending on your degree you might also fullfill the criteria for graduate training programs. They will usually put you in a higher ranking position in a shorter period of time.

There are two basic scenarios:

1. The legislative authority is drafting a new law. This law can be challenged and will then be voted on (this is the case for the E-ID law)
2. A suggestion for a new law can be raised by citizens. This law will then be voted on.

Indeed, the lobbying is nasty and the party financing is not as transparent as it could be.

But discrediting the whole system as undemocratic because of those “minor flaws” is just not fair IMO.

You are not required to vote. You will not be punished if you abstain from your vote. You are completely free to chose “yes” or “no” based on your own judgings.

Isn’t that exactly what democracy is about?

4. I can recommend VSCodium. It is based on the open-sourced code of VSCode. On many distros you will find it in the default repositories.

You say that you want to do this for “privacy” and “security” reasons. Those two are not the same. What is the exact use-case which you want to prevent?

Disabling WebSockets will cause some Websites not to work properly anymore. Especially such which rely on live updates without reloading the site (most common use-case for WebSockets).

Imo debloating the apps itself is not possible. To do that, you would need to somehow decomplie them, change the code, repackage them and install them as custom applications. This might be possible in theory, but is not feasible in a real-world scenario.

I recommend the following two options:

1. Use different clients where possible. For youtube F-Droid has some alternatives. For reddit I don’t know the current status.
2. Use a VPN based solution such as AdAway. It can block requests based on target IP or Domain. But keep in mind that blocking certain requests can prevent the app from working.

Thank you!

Thank you for explaining!

Can someone explain to me how that appeal-system is supposed to work? As far as I understand, the White House has “escalated” Breyer’s decision to the next instance. This instance has now decided that the measures decided on by Breyer will not take effect until a “proper” decision from the next instance is provided. Is that correct?

Its probably worth mentioning that some of those (like the sun cross) are also used as neo-nazi insignia. I am completely in favour of still using them (we shouldn’t let nazis spoil century old symbols), but I felt it was important to note.

If I understand this correctly, it only affects certificates issued by public CAs (certificates for public websites, for example). So for certs issued by a company CA (e.g. for internal infrastructure), it should not apply. Can anyone confirm?

Yes sure! Unfortunately most companies which I work for (insurance and banks mostly) still use windows quite often…

From an enterprise IT stance I’d disagree. For phython you need an interpreter, while powershell is available on every random windows 20xx server. It is far easier to do this task in PS than requesting the python interpreter to be installed on the machine and then doing it in python.

If privacy is your concern, then I’d use two different mail addresses / domains. One with your “professional” TLD ([email protected]) and one wirh your privacy focussed TLD ([email protected]).