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  • From the methodology section in the linked Nextcloud blog post, this is an interesting thing to note:

    The DSI score uses a number between 0 and 100 to show the number of deployments per 100,000 citizens relative to other countries in the Index. […] As small and medium businesses as well as private users running servers far outnumber larger organizations like government or big enterprises, the index says more about the choices of individuals and small companies than what government or large corporations do.

    This score measures where the services are deployed rather than where their users reside. For example, users from UK with services deployed in NL would shift some point towards the NL score. I don’t know if this makes a significant impact in the overall rankings, but NL is a popular hosting location for VPS due to a good combination of price, speed, and lack of censorship, which may help explain its good score.











  • In particular, Notion employees are saying that they are not listening to audio from your microphone, but just checking whether other processes in the system are using the microphone. There is a setting to disable this entirely.

    Copy-pasting from the thread:

    1. Notion records audio only during your use of the Meeting Notes feature. Here are the docs: https://www.notion.com/help/ai-meeting-notes

    2. Notion desktop app has notifications about meetings that ask you if you want to use Meeting Notes, it recognizes this by detecting that your microphone is on (i.e. it does not listen to audio coming from your microphone). This feature is a setting in preferences btw, under Notifications > Desktop meeting detection notification.

    source: I work for Notion

    The Notion desktop app will observe if there is a process running on your computer that is actively using your microphone, such as Zoom.

    I’m using the latest version of the app and I don’t see this setting. I’ve also never seen these meeting notifications. It’s possible that you only get them if you have AI features enabled in your workspace, which I don’t. (I read a while ago that you can email support to ask them to disable it. I wrote a short email, and they replied within a day that it had been done, no questions or push-back.)




  • all you have to do is circumvent the security settings in your browser and suppress warning messages

    I think this is a very important point that too few people are raising and it’s getting buried under the spam of “switch to Firefox” messages. Yes, switching to Firefox is an option. But clearly some people don’t want to do it, and we give them these workarounds without saying what they really do and without highlighting that they are potentially dangerous. You use your browser for a large part of your interaction with your computer, so any downgrade in security is going to be significant. To me, the short-term implications of this are far more important than the longstanding Chrome-vs-Firefox discussion.