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France arrested people for being private and using Linux

https://www.laquadrature.net/2023/06/05/affaire-du-8-decembre-le-chiffrement-des-communications-assimile-a-un-comportement-terroriste/

Windows 11 is losing users

https://www.techradar.com/news/windows-11-lost-users-this-month-should-microsoft-be-worried

System76 announces big updates to their FOSS firmware

https://blog.system76.com/post/major-updates-for-system76-open-firmware-june-2023

Debian 12 is now out

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=klfgPmUsirs

BlendOS 3 offers a new spin on immutable distros

https://blendos.co/blend-os-v3/

Other news: Thunderbird beta, extensions support donations, Ubuntu adds quarter tiling, and staged releases for snaps

https://ubuntu.com//blog/release-management-for-snaps-made-simpler

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2023/06/ubuntu-23-10-window-tiling-feature

https://linuxiac.com/gnome-extensions-now-supports-donation/

https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/115.0beta/releasenotes/#whatsnew

Gaming News: Apple uses Wine and VKD3D, & Proton updates

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/06/proton-experimental-fixes-up-halo-mcc-ubisoft-connect-creativerse/

https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/7/23752164/apple-mac-gaming-game-porting-toolkit-windows-games-macos

  • megane-kun@lemmy.world
    23·
    1 year ago

    That first article, though I have read it through a translation app, is truly insane. The judge’s quoted statement is just terrifying:

    > « L’ensemble des membres de ce groupe se montraient particulièrement méfiants, ne communiquaient entre eux que par des applications cryptées, en particulier Signal, et procédaient au cryptage de leurs supports informatiques […]. »

    Translated via DeepL: > “All the members of this group were particularly suspicious, communicating with each other only via encrypted applications, in particular Signal, and encrypting their computer media […]”.

    Clandestine behavior, he says. Is the judge seriously thinking along the lines of “if you’ve got nothing to hide…” and associating ‘clandestine behavior’ to being a criminal? That’s scary.

    EDIT:

    English language version of the first article (much thanks to @vanecx@mastodon.pirateparty.be):‌ https://www.laquadrature.net/en/2023/06/05/criminalization-of-encryption-the-8-december-case/

    • CynAq@kbin.social
      10·
      1 year ago

      Holy moly, that’s insane!

      I do all of those things too because why wouldn’t I?
      Is there anything as to the outcome of the arrests? Also what was the reason in the first place for the police to be interested in these people?

      • megane-kun@lemmy.world
        8·
        1 year ago

        The charges of terrorism are strongly rejected by the defendants. They denounce a political trial, a prosecution and a lack of evidence. In particular, they point to decontextualized remarks and the use of trivial facts (sports and digital practices, reading and listening to music…)[3]. For their part, the police acknowledged that by the end of the investigation - and ten months of intensive surveillance - no “precise project” had been identified[4].

        The state has just been condemned for keeping the main defendant in solitary confinement for 16 months, from which he was only released after a 37-day hunger strike. A second complaint, awaiting trial, has been lodged against the repeated illegal strip-searches to which a defendant was subjected in pre-trial detention[5].

        If those translations from DeepL are sufficiently accurate, at the very least, the main defendant was arrested has been held for 16 months.

        As for the rationale, I suppose it’s their relationship with the ‘far-left’ that have caught the police attention. There was a link to the French Wikipedia article on the arrests and the entire incident. From there, I gleaned that the ‘far-left’ relationship is with the YPG.

        According to the Wikipedia article, there’s still ongoing cases against the defendants.

        I hope someone else who’ve got a better grasp of both the French langauge and the Rovaja/YPG situation give their two cents since I’ve got no idea.