Guillaume Tronix   

@gtronix@infosec.exchange
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Tech support specialist and Linux enthusiast with experience in managing servers on Debian and NixOS. Currently developing projects using Python and Django.
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Guillaume Tronix   24m ago

WeTransfer updates terms after backlash over potential use of user content for AI training

WeTransferhas announced a significant update to itsTerms & Conditionsafter widespread backlash regarding its handling of user-uploaded files.

https://alternativeto.net/news/2025/7/wetransfer-updates-terms-after-backlash-over-potential-use-of-user-content-for-ai-training/

#Privacy

Guillaume Tronix   30m ago
George Takei  🏳️‍🌈🖖🏽9h ago
Boldly growing where no spore has grown before.
Guillaume Tronix   2h ago

Blender 4.5 LTS Released with ‘Full Vulkan Support’

Ubuntu. The new Blender 4.5 LTS release features major improvements, including full Vulkan support, faster startup, new Geometry Nodes, HDR and more.You're readingBlender 4.5 LTS Released with ‘Full Vulkan Support’, a blog post fromOMG!

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/07/blender-4-5-lts-vulkan-support

#Ubuntu

Blender 4.5 LTS Released with 'Full Vulkan Support' - OMG! Ubuntu

The new Blender 4.5 LTS release features major improvements, including full Vulkan support, faster startup, new Geometry Nodes, HDR and more.

OMG! Ubuntu
Guillaume Tronix   3h ago

Nintendo's anti-piracy rules have got one Switch 2 owner's console banned after they bought pre-owned games that they later found out were cloned

A Nintendo Switch 2 owner is warning players about buying pre-owned physical games after being banned for unknowingly playing cloned copies.

https://www.techradar.com/gaming/nintendo/nintendos-anti-piracy-rules-have-got-one-switch-2-owners-console-banned-after-they-bought-pre-owned-games-that-they-later-found-out-were-cloned

#Piracy

Nintendo's anti-piracy rules have got one Switch 2 owner's console banned after they bought pre-owned games that they later found out were cloned

The user unknowingly played games that were cloned using piracy tools

TechRadar
Guillaume Tronix   4h ago

U.S. earmarks $1B for 'offensive cyber operations' despite broader efforts to slash cybersecurity spending

Indo-Pacific Command. The "One Big Beautiful Bill Act" specifically looks to bolster the U.S.

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/cyber-security/u-s-earmarks-usd1b-for-offensive-cyber-operations-despite-broader-efforts-to-slash-cybersecurity-spending

#Cybersecurity

U.S. earmarks $1B for 'offensive cyber operations' despite broader efforts to slash cybersecurity spending

The "One Big Beautiful Bill Act" specifically looks to bolster the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command.

Tom's Hardware
Guillaume Tronix   5h ago

Mistral releases Voxtral, its first open source AI audio model

French startup Mistral has jumped into the audio race with Voxtral, its first open model, aiming to challenge the dominance of walled-off corporate systems with open-weight alternatives.

https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/15/mistral-releases-voxtral-its-first-open-source-ai-audio-model/

#OpenSource

Mistral releases Voxtral, its first open source AI audio model | TechCrunch

French startup Mistral has jumped into the audio race with Voxtral, its first open model, aiming to challenge the dominance of walled-off corporate systems with open-weight alternatives. 

TechCrunch
Guillaume Tronix   5h ago

Despite Supreme Court Setback, EFF Fights On Against Online Age Mandates

Paxtondid not end the legal debate over age-verification mandates for websites. The Supreme Court’srecent decisioninFree Speech Coalition v.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/07/despite-supreme-court-setback-eff-fights-against-online-age-mandates

#Privacy

Despite Supreme Court Setback, EFF Fights On Against Online Age Mandates

We and the others fighting online age restrictions still have our work cut out for us. The momentum to widely adopt and normalize online age restrictions is strong. But Free Speech Coalition v. Paxton did not approve of age gates when they are imposed on speech that adults and minors have a legal right to access.

Electronic Frontier Foundation
Guillaume Tronix   23h ago

Plasma Bigscreen, KDE’s TV Interface, is Back on the Air

Ubuntu. KDE's Plasma Bigscreen TV UI gets rebooted with slicker visuals, search functionality, and more – thanks to one developer tuning in to its potential.You're readingPlasma Bigscreen, KDE’s TV Interface, is Back on the Air, a blog post fromOMG!

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/07/plasma-bigscreen-revival-kde-tv

#Ubuntu

Plasma Bigscreen, KDE's TV Interface, is Back on the Air - OMG! Ubuntu

KDE's Plasma Bigscreen TV UI gets rebooted with slicker visuals, search functionality, and more – thanks to one developer tuning in to its potential.

OMG! Ubuntu
Guillaume Tronix   1d ago
nixCraft 🐧1d ago

Friend: "You seem happier, lately."

Me: "oh, yes. Thanks, I migrated all my personal life decisions to a Git repo, and I can finally revert to 'before that bad date.'"

Friend: 🤨

Guillaume Tronix   1d ago

Intel Raptor Lake CPUs are crashing more frequently due to summer heatwaves, Firefox dev says

Mozilla Firefox has now joined the growing list of software affected by the Raptor Lake instability issues that Intel first acknowledged in 2024.

https://www.techspot.com/news/108661-intel-raptor-lake-cpus-crashing-more-frequently-due.html

#Firefox

Intel Raptor Lake CPUs are crashing more frequently due to summer heatwaves, Firefox dev says

Mozilla Firefox has now joined the growing list of software affected by the Raptor Lake instability issues that Intel first acknowledged in 2024. According to Mozilla Staff...

TechSpot
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Tuta3d ago
Never let people tell you it's impossible to deGoogle your life. 💪
Start by checking Tuta's discount now: https://tuta.com/goeuropean
Show threadMercurio Recibe3d ago
@Tutanota what about filen.io?=
Show threadPasquale3d ago

@Tutanota
good, but I have a couple of suggestions:

in Password Manager there is also "Proton Password"

about Android, there are other custom ROMs that support microG (they worth at last a mention to check on xda-forum, if available)

Show threadHierarchy3d ago
@psk @Tutanota +1
Show threadRenarde3d ago

@Tutanota
I would recommend you remove brave off this list, even on a technical standpoint brave products are subpar and you have to disreagard the AI and crypto bullshit in it.

From a moral perspective every cent that goes into brave will eventually be funeled into anti human right campains.
The ceo is antivax, Pro Qanon, Election denialist, homophobe, ...

And finaly from a privacy stand point brave has an horrible track record of hijacking afiliate links, wanting to insert ads, tracking, ...

Show threadRenarde3d ago

@Tutanota
Recommending brave is like recommending bing with microsoft edge and getting all your info using Grok.

I would also that Brave AI is well know for paroting Brendan Eich viewpoint, the NY times ran an article on it's election and covid denialism (https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/22/business/media/ai-chatbots-right-wing-conservative.html)

So sincerelly stop giving brave any kind of visibility there is absolutly no reason to do so and while alienate people who are explicilty targetted by brave ceo.

Conservatives Aim to Build an A.I. Chatbot of Their Own

After criticizing A.I. companies for liberal bias, programmers started envisioning right-wing alternatives, making chatbots a new front in the culture wars.

The New York Times
Show threadTuta3d ago
@Lana Thanks for your feedback, we'll look into this.
Show threadshadowwwind3d ago
@Tutanota @Lana brave is also not European as the hashtag suggests and gives two shits about the environment
Show threadRenarde3d ago

@Tutanota
Please do look into and idealy make a corrected list.

Privacy and open-source are inerently political and by including brave you are making your commiment sounds as hollow as google's.

Show threadHierarchy2d ago
@Lana @Tutanota +1 I hope they make corrected list as well. I know they want engagement and visibility for their product which I support but when the list lacks of research its hard to stand behind it
Show threadAzarilhⓥ3d ago
@Lana Glad to see people are smart about it.
Show threadRenarde3d ago
@Azarilh
Been on the hate train from brave since Eich left mozzila.
I hopped his project died in obscurity but it seems to survive all of it's controversies so I now post this kind of comment under any publicity mentioning brave.
Show threadebrum3d ago
@Lana similar arguments apply to the proton stuff
Show threadHierarchy3d ago
@Lana @Tutanota I dont understand why its still being recommended. I understand from normal user standpoint that it has all keys and you wont have to configure settings separately. But, the things we know about it should be enough not to have it recommended
Show threadHierarchy3d ago
@Tutanota searx project has been archived and their sites dont work anymore. Searxng is the main version currently. Research their repos pls
Show threadHierarchy2d ago
@Tutanota saying this again that searx is unmaintained and should not be recommended. No one should be using it for safety reasons. See their github repo which is archived and says so https://github.com/searx/searx
GitHub - searx/searx: Privacy-respecting metasearch engine

Privacy-respecting metasearch engine. Contribute to searx/searx development by creating an account on GitHub.

GitHub
Show threadMetehan Özyürek3d ago

@Tutanota

Prefer @CoMaps instead of Organic Maps.

Show threadFurbland's Very Cool Mastodon™3d ago
@MetehanOzyurek @Tutanota @CoMaps personally I enjoy Here’s WeGo app quite a lot. They’re even European! http://wego.here.com
HERE WeGo

HERE WeGo

Show threadMetehan Özyürek3d ago
@GroupNebula563 @Tutanota
…and closed source. On the other side, CoMaps is fully open source and community driven.
Show threadFurbland's Very Cool Mastodon™3d ago
@MetehanOzyurek @Tutanota it is closed source but it’s also community driven, they have a map editor program even! believe me, I love a good piece of OSS, but good, quality, privacy respecting software and OSS don’t always align. if the two were a Venn diagram, they would be two partially intersecting circles, not one circle. I love Tuta’s services, but (correct me if I’m wrong) their backend isn’t open source. /nm
Show threadMetehan Özyürek3d ago

@GroupNebula563 @Tutanota
Allowing the community to edit the map doesn't make it "community-driven"; it's more about governance.

I know Here and its map editor. However, they've disabled the map editor in Turkey, and some ISPs block WeGo (I don't know why). Unfortunately, the quality of the map data for both OpenStreetMap and Here is low in Turkey. So, we're stuck using Google or Yandex.

But for OSM, it's getting better in some cities. And I also contribute in my free time))

Show threadFurbland's Very Cool Mastodon™3d ago
@MetehanOzyurek @Tutanota did they disable the map editor or was it a request from the Turkish government /genq
Show threadMetehan Özyürek3d ago
@GroupNebula563 @Tutanota
There's no news about a government request, and Here didn't provide a reason. I just saw a banner that said, "Map Editor is suspended for Turkey and Northern Cyprus," when I zoomed in on Turkey. However, Here disabled map editor after the pro-government car brand TOGG started using Here in their car media system.
Show threadmxk3d ago
@MetehanOzyurek @Tutanota I would argue, it's too early to say which of the two will survive and at the moment there is no relevant difference between both for users
Show threadMetehan Özyürek3d ago

@mxk @Tutanota

CoMaps has been forked because of some issues with Organic Maps. So, it's better from the beginning. They solved that problems in their own fork. In fact, Organic Maps became more active after CoMaps :D

Moreover, CoMaps added some great features and changed to the better colors (for both UI and maps) while also forking new features from Organic Maps.

They're always open to community ideas, unlike Organic Maps.

For more, you can check this:
https://news.itsfoss.com/organic-maps-fork-comaps/

Organic Maps Forked Over Governance Concerns: CoMaps is Born

An Organic Maps fork has emerged due to broken trust.

It's FOSS News
Show threadmxk3d ago
@MetehanOzyurek @Tutanota I follow both projects and I know what the fork was about.
That still doesn't mean that coMaps will have long-term success and the difference in the released versions are subjective at best.
And itsfoss really isn't a page I would use as a source for anything 😂
Show threadMetehan Özyürek3d ago

@mxk @Tutanota

Because CoMaps is community-owned, it's more likely to be in active development.

However, three core developers have had issues with ownership on OM. I was an active contributor and Turkish chat admin, yet they sometimes didn't even reply to me about app issues.

I mention that page because a CoMaps member reached itsfoss and helped them to prepare it. I can also send you the OSM Turkish blog post, but I doubt you'll understand it without a translation.

Show threadFurbland's Very Cool Mastodon™3d ago
@Tutanota I wouldn’t mention any Brave services in there if I were you. The dev is transphobic.
Show threadTuta3d ago
@GroupNebula563 Thanks for your feedback, we'll look into this.
Show threadFurbland's Very Cool Mastodon™3d ago
@Tutanota Awesome, thanks a ton! :)
Show threadAzarilhⓥ3d ago
@GroupNebula563 @Tutanota You mean homophobe.
Show threadFurbland's Very Cool Mastodon™3d ago
@Azarilh @Tutanota …could’ve sworn he was transphobic as well. either way, shitty behavior
Show threadAzarilhⓥ3d ago
@GroupNebula563 Honestly same, but i can't find it. Still a bigot and a shady individual.
Show threadCrystal 💾💽📼🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️3d ago

@GroupNebula563 @Tutanota also, Brave browser seems to be shady as software, pushes its own crypto and other monetization schemes on users just a bit too hard https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brave_(web_browser) (parts of Privacy and Revenue sections)

DuckDuckGo Mobile browser might be a good candidate to add though, I think it's a well designed privacy browser for non-techie people.

Brave (web browser) - Wikipedia

Show threadnikolar 🏕3d ago
@Tutanota its a shame that neo liberal nations like Sweden has made google/apple a must. Moslty because without bankapps that verifies our identity it's to hard to live here
Show threadRoo E.3d ago
@Tutanota Great list! The fact that people in the comments predictably roll out a slew of their own suggestions and prefered software not featured in it just goes to show how much we are actually spoiled for choice, certainly more than we'd think before starting out on a degoogling journey.
Show threadAzarilhⓥ3d ago
@Tutanota Brave...   
Show threadbit3d ago
@Tutanota in searches you can look also into Kagi. Isn't free to use but great search.
Show threadKuo3d ago

@Tutanota
UngoogledChromium is missing in the list,
it is an excellent and privacy respecting chrome based browser.
Posteo.de another excellent alternative EMail provider.
DuckDuck go is making it annoyingly difficult to avoid its AI search.
Results come from bing and are very poor of late.
I pay a small amount for ad free no ai search by MetaGer

Translation, deepl results are often best in class, its privacy is not, only use for unimportant purposes or better avoid.

Show threadteetrinker3d ago
@Tutanota unfortunately Invidious rarely works lately. :-(
Show threadAzarilhⓥ3d ago
@Tutanota I don't think anyone is using Google Chat. 😂
Show threadsodiboo 3d ago
@Azarilh @Tutanota yeah but they gotta get some way to segue into secure messengers. what else are you gonna put for a Google app there?
Show threadAzarilhⓥ3d ago
@sodiboo I know, i was more so making fun of Google Chat.
Show threadem♡⁠3d ago
@sodiboo @Tutanota @Azarilh Google Messages?
Show threadsodiboo 3d ago
@em@a.bloodyno.se @Tutanota @Azarilh That is an SMS and RCS app. The other secure messengers are not an alternative to SMS and RCS.
Show threadem♡⁠3d ago
@sodiboo @Tutanota @Azarilh signal does compete pretty directly with RCS and iMessage imo
Show threadJ_Peregrine3d ago
@Azarilh @Tutanota
I love love Zoom
Show threadAzarilhⓥ3d ago

@Tutanota I recommend Ente Auth as an authenticator app. Aegis is good, but it's not available on PC. Ente is available on PC ( Linux included ), and it's Open Source.

#opensource

Show threadmxk3d ago
@Tutanota as multiple people have mentioned here and on previous iterations: Brave doesn't deserve recommendations as its devs promote cryptocurrencies and are homophobic.
Session Chat also in cryptocurrency associated and deliberately weakened their encryption, they certainly don't deserve trust.
Show threadRevolution Verte3d ago
@Tutanota Utilisons massivement les applications alternatives à Google
Show threadalex_c3d ago
@Raynald84 @Tutanota La route est longue mais on est de plus en plus à avoir ce réflexe !
Show threadRevolution Verte3d ago
@alex_c @Tutanota Les petits ruisseaux font les grosses rivières !
Show thread𝑨𝒍𝑮𝒉𝒂𝒔𝒔𝒊𝒓𝒊3d ago
@Tutanota Any other alternatives to social media??
Show threadTuta3d ago
@mohiwa30 Mastodon :)
Show thread𝑨𝒍𝑮𝒉𝒂𝒔𝒔𝒊𝒓𝒊3d ago
@Tutanota ❤️
Show threadTuta3d ago
@mohiwa30 😍
Show threadglytchy3d ago

@Tutanota I ain't any expert in cryptography or blockchain but weren't there some drama about Session removing Perfect Forward Secrecy, stating that Blockchain is enough (I probably simplified that)?
Something changed or is it just okay?

I also had huge problems with reliability of Session synchronization and receiving notifications but let's leave that

Show threadVollaficationist3d ago
@Tutanota Would you consider to include Volla? Their Volla OS is probably the most private/secure OS in the world. And as an OEM they enjoy full control over all security-critical layers, including drivers and firmware. Check out volla.online
Show threadJ_Peregrine3d ago
@Tutanota
Peertube instead of YouTube. The old social YouTube is dead. I do like the fact that you can make lists of your favorite subjects. Maybe Peertube doesn't have that yet. I am sticking to YouTube until there are more people because I love the people and channels there.
Show threadJ_Peregrine3d ago
@Tutanota
Ecosia and Librewolf sound good...