• Microsoft are bringing back their Recall feature

There are serious security and privacy concerns about this feature, and even if you opt out of it, it does not mean your data is safe.

Time to switch to replacement operating systems and start to learn them. Don't forget also that Windows 10 support ends in August. You may be forced to upgrade to Windows 11 on your hardware, or depending on when you bought the computer, upgrade the whole computer with a new one just so you can run Windows 11.

Links

• Linux Mint
  • Linux Mint Matrix
• Devon & Cornwall Linux user group
  • Devon and Cornwall matrix

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#Microsoft,#Windows,#Recall,#Privacy,#Security

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I had to attend a meeting using teams earlier, it got cancelled, so despite just loading up the lobby room in the browser, it still leaves cookies behind. The concern is the size here.,

Cookies left behind by MS Teams

Contrast this to the small amount of data that big blue button needs for a session, much smaller.

Cookies left behind by Big Blue Button

I will leave this with people. In the meantime Big Blue Button is a viable, secure, safe, easy to use and privacy respecting, open source alternative.

On an end note it seems Edge also 'leaks' information on sites visited.

• Microsoft Edge is leaking the sites you visit to Bing

SAFEGUARDING IS EVERYONE';S RESPONSIBILITY

Links

• Big Blue Button

Tags

#Microsoft,#Teams,#Cookies,#Privacy,#BigBlueButton

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This was posted to Mastodon earlier, I am sharing to help raise awareness of the lawsuit. Also included below some links to alternative cloud solutions. Note: Disroot now uses a Cryptpad installation for some of their services.

Links

• Article
• NextCloud
• Disroot
• CryptPad

Tags

#EU,#Technology,#Sector,#AntiTrust,#Lawsuit,#Microsoft, #LevelPlayingField,

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Just sharing this, in case anyone is interested

• Virtual Summer Camps

#coding,#camp,#learning,#programming,#microsoft,#virtual

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There are alternatives such as Notabug or Debian Salsa that offer a better alternative.

I have now downloaded most of my projects off github in zip format. These can be stored locally or in the cloud until needed.

Some projects will be kept on github, for example media file hosting media for here, until I can find / setup an alternative. I will also keep my Scratch projects on there as they are linked to from the Scratch Ed website. It makes it easier for others.

Given that most of my projects are either complete or abandoned having not been touched for some time. This is an opportunity for a clear out.

My project to collect screenshots for Dis'root have already been moved to Debian Salsa.

#git,#github, #microsoft, #migration, #debian, #salsa, #notabug

Further reading

• Debian Salsa
• Disroot Screenshots
• Notabug

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