Our statement on the UK government’s demand that all content on all devices sold or used in the country be scanned, on the presumption of nudity, using a dystopian combination of age verification and content scanning. This proposal will not safeguard children. It endangers us all.

https://signal.org/blog/pdfs/2026-06-08-uk-surveillance-is-not-safety.pdf

gods I fucking hate LLM fist.

this asshole used an LLM to produce their slide bullet points and it's like being fucking stabbed in the eyes with every line.

Welcome to the Rebellion

#ResistAI #EMFCamp

I mean, my address is publicly available, probably in the same data set where you got my email... so... where's my pizza?

WHERE'S MY PIZZA???

An open letter to office suite users, just before the Euro-Office announcement

https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/06/08/an-open-letter/

#digitalsovereignty #libreoffice #odf

I’ve turned the cat wheel into a Stargate. 😁

#cats #CatsOfMastodon #Stargate #SciFi #SG1

Are you looking to hire an experienced embedded software engineer?

- 15 years experience (industrial and consumer electronics)
- Embedded security - 15mo for work, plus *years* as a hobby
- C, C++, Python and currently learning Rust
- ARM, MIPS, PIC, AVR experience plus x86
- Looking for UK remote or hybrid, or within commuting distance of Leeds via bike or public transport.

Boosts appreciated, CV available on request.

GH: https://www.github.com/philpem
WWW: https://philpem.me.uk

#GetFediHired

"Our troops have found starvation, malnutrition, disease, a deteriorating education and lowered public health - all by-products of the Fascist misrule."

- Franklin D. Roosevelt, June 5, 1944, Address of the President on the Fall of Rome

Food prices continue to rise in the US. Measles and New World screwworm ravage, ebola may be on its way to our shores, the Department of Education is slowly collapsing, and Americans are ranked 33rd globally for health. America is not being made great again.

🚨 Say that I were to give a talk to EU policy makers and OSS communities at a very big conference tomorrow..

and that I want to spend half of my talk on how Google is locking down #Android through:
1. Device attestation
2. Developer registration
3. Age/identity verification

What should I absolutely include? 👀

Input is welcome, sorry for the short notice. Plain language + realistic calls to action pls.

@fdroidorg @GrapheneOS @postmarketOS @Fairphone @appfair @fsfe @murena @volla @IzzyOnDroid