F-Droid has received funds from US Congress (via OTF), just like Signal

[justenoughducks@feddit.nl]

I think you will find that almost all grants either come from a corporation or a government. Crazy isn't it? A very small amount comes from non-profits and often those nonprofits are majority funded by governments and corporations.

[freeman@feddit.org]

I understand that "Regierung" (government) = executive branch
"Parlament" (parliament, in the US congress+senate) = legislative branch

"Staat" (state) is an imprecise word as it can mean different things
https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Staat
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/State
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_(polity) (see Definition)

[thorned_rose@sh.itjust.works]

I mean, Fdroid has problems but funding from government is the absolute least of them.

[jagged_circle@feddit.nl]

Do they also have a warrant canary?

[badabinski@kbin.earth]

Yeah, if strong emotions were such a liability then we probably wouldn't have them anymore. Emotions aren't vestigial or useless or contrary to rational discourse, they're an integral part of what it means to be sentient and sapient, and they can be incredibly useful when doing things that are decidedly "rational." I can tell that some code I wrote is shit because it "feels wrong" a hell of a lot faster than I can by logically reasoning it out.

I'm hoping that quote is simply lacking context. The alternative is that the people behind the quote are just fucking insufferable.

[surph_ninja@lemmy.world]

Depends what the funding is for. If it’s payment for compliance with CALEA (which has become a major revenue stream for big tech), then it’s compensation for building backdoors.

[refalo@programming.dev]

I don't consider those to be useful anymore because a court can compel them to keep the canary up in secret, and I'm pretty sure that's already happened more than once before.

[jagged_circle@feddit.nl]

That's never happened in history

[refalo@programming.dev]

How would you know?

You probably wouldn't have heard about it simply because it's illegal to publicize a secret subpoena/warrant. Such orders are given as National Security Letters with a permanent gag order, going so far as to preventing the recipient from even seeking counsel; it's a massive abuse of power and due process in the US to get companies to lie and do whatever they want.

[justanotherkay@lemmy.world]

I don't think I could restate this any better. So many people hear about "logical brain" and "emotional brain" and just start trying to eliminate any emotion from logic.

Brother the entire reason we invented homes was because we didn't fuckin like the alternative. But if we used logic way back in cave man time, it would have been more individually efficient to burn those logs for warmth. It took emotions to get us to the next step and then realise that it was more systemically efficient to burn logs inside of a little cabin and only then could we start applying logic to housing.

Emotions are so important