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Lawmakers Want to Ban VPNs—And They Have No Idea What They're Doing https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/11/lawmakers-want-ban-vpns-and-they-have-no-idea-what-theyre-doing

I'm gonna be honest here: banning VPNs is not the solution. People who want to find content like porn will get it one way or another. It is going to harm legitimate users who use VPNs for security reasons, like on public WiFi or for getting inside a corporate network. I can't log into any of our servers/cloud w/o a VPN. All remote employees use a VPN. We replicate data between 2 data centers using a VPN

Lawmakers Want to Ban VPNs—And They Have No Idea What They're Doing

It's unfortunately no longer enough to force websites to check your government-issued ID before you can access certain content, because politicians have now discovered that people are using Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) to protect their privacy and bypass these invasive laws. Their solution? Entirely ban the use of VPNs.

Electronic Frontier Foundation
In a post-Roe landscape where access to accurate reproductive health information is more crucial than ever, Meta's enforcement system is silencing the very voices communities need most. https://www.eff.org/pages/meta-removing-abortion-advocates-accounts-without-warning
Meta is Removing Abortion Advocates' Accounts Without Warning

BY LISA FEMIA | September 24, 2025This is the fifth installment in a blog series documenting EFF's findings from the Stop Censoring Abortion campaign. You can read additional posts here. When the team at Women Help Women signed into Instagram last winter, they were met with a distressing surprise:...

Electronic Frontier Foundation
Rocco in repose, with his modesty leaf.
Choosing Humans Over Hype! Vivaldi Browser Refuses to Add AI Features

Vivaldi says no to AI while other browsers embrace it in droves.

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On the Joy of Building a Sci-Fi World with a Korean Inflection

What has always interested me about building alternate realities, as a reader and an author, are the questions about access points. How do we tread the line between familiar and unfamiliar? When do…

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Just saw someone whose Google account was shuttered. They’d been… using Sheets to track movies they’d watched.

A question people should ask themselves, but rarely do: What would you do if, tomorrow, Google, Apple, Microsoft, Dropbox, and every other cloud provider you use closed your account without warning? Then maybe spend some of today safeguarding against that eventuality.

I tended to believe that Epstein killed himself in jail and that there wasn't much in his records that could further damage Trump, until I saw Trump's beyond-bonkers post at "Truth" Social.

Occam's Razor is making me wonder what's really there.