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Platforms aren’t what they promised and Big Tech is cashing in. Join us live on May 14 with Cory Doctorow and Wendy Liu to talk about how we fight back. https://www.eff.org/event/effecting-change-enshittification

EFFecting Change: How to Disenshittify the Internet

The internet didn’t get worse by accident; it’s been systematically molded into what we have today. Join Wendy Liu live in conversation with Cory Doctorow about Cory's latest book, Enshittification. Cory makes it clear: platforms are not as promised, Big Tech is profiting, and you should be...

Electronic Frontier Foundation

Breach 2d ago

Vent Shitpost

I hate I cannot get the convo with my dad ranting anti-trans stuff about how I need to accept myself quoting the song from Lady Gaga title 'born this way' to me. I asked him if he understood the lyrics and he asked if I did. For a straight man he sure did suck Elon off a lot when I was growing up, so I grew up learning all I could about design and tech in hopes I could get some of that love he had for the billionaire. Thanks for the STEM push dad, and playing that song all night drunk off your ass at max volume. I loved it, all the shit you loved was queer coded as fuck you homophobic moron, and yes I understood it all.

Breach Apr 27

Personal rant about boomer father

The delusion of my family when it comes to the american economy is one of the most devastating things to my psyche for unrealistic parental standards. I cannot compete with the payroll of my brother to appease my constantly deeply disappointing old man when the competition is artificial whenever you control his wage directly while I am out here experiencing the free market wage of not being favored to inherit a multimillion yearly business cause I pulled the uno reverse card on my gender. Sorry dad not a millionaire yet from doing my own thing, and living outside of your range of control, but zero regrets because experiencing aspects of freedom is worth more than the money you tried to control me through.

Breach Apr 21

I hate the sun, I hate the sun, I hate the sun, I hate the sun. This is a joke, but we should blow up the sun. Imagine the amount of skin cancer we could solve.

Breach Apr 15

Ben Pate 🤘🏻Apr 14

Have you seen this news?

#Mastodon just got funding to add end to end encryption into their software.

So, some time next year, you’ll be able to send truly private messages to the vast majority of the #Fediverse

Im so excited about this.

Because it’s an open spec, this opens the doors for every Fediverse app to join the party.

Yesterday, this project was a proof of concept. Today, Mastodon has turned it into a stampede.

#E2EE

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2026/04/sovereign-tech-agency-funding/

Sovereign Tech Agency funding

Announcing a service agreement for new work to improve Mastodon and the broader ecosystem.

Mastodon Blog

Breach Apr 14

Sometimes I feel despair about the inhuman hiring practices companies are using so I apply to really bad jobs in my field to practice CTS optimizations, my interview skills, and will go through multiple interviews only to ghost them when I get a hiring offer and send a letter letting them know that they were in my top job offer candidates after negotiating salary, and not to give up hope. Maybe I am evil I think sometimes, but then I remember that companies aren't people, and that they do this daily to tons of desperate people in way worse situations trying to just get a foot in the door and survive. Anyhow I love my current job, and am not planning on going anywhere.

Breach Apr 6

Trying not to be a control freak as I had done to me all my life by helicopter parents, but my lease renewal is coming up and almost free of the ex and their partner. Feeling bad as I want to move and live alone but they are both in a bad spot financially. They have not worked since November. I tried and lined up opportunities, most of which they refused to even apply for. I am not sure what more to do other than start applying for them as I have done everything else within my power, but that crosses that control line of what I am comfortable with.

When the time comes I am going to be selfish and prioritize myself as the living environment has been hostile, and I need my savings, health and space for surgery and my possible life emergencies. I refuse to make my life about helping people who actively hate me. I don't want to see them homeless, but I have waited long enough for surgery and treated every moment in my life as if all depended on it nonstop. I deserve to put myself first. More of a thought post of my current worries so I can get this off my mind and get back to self studies as I want to be able to move up financially, survive and cut my last debt tieing me to stay in contact with blood for my degree that proved over saturated with AI and outsourcing when I entered the market.