PrivacyMatters

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šŸ”’ Privacy advocate | FOSS enthusiast | Digital rights defender

šŸ”‘ Believing encryption is a human right, not a luxury.

#Privacy #FOSS #DigitalRights #OpenSource

Monday silliness šŸ”šŸ¦ˆšŸ™
Age verification laws are really just censorship mandates clothed as child safety proposals—here’s why. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/03/rep-finke-was-right-age-gating-isnt-about-kids-its-about-control
Rep. Finke Was Right: Age-Gating Isn’t About Kids, It’s About Control

What’s at stake is whether ā€œprotecting childrenā€ becomes a legal pretext for embedding government control over the internet to enforce specific moral and religious judgments—judgments that deny marginalized people access to speech, community, history, and truth—into law.

Electronic Frontier Foundation

Office 365 and Copilot are down.

Run. Now's your chance. Don't look back; just GO

The man who did not care about the war in Ukraine because this was Europe's war, now wants Europe to join the war he started with Iran, while he is lifting sanctions on Russia, so Putin can scale up the Ukraine war.

Trump is not playing chess. He is just eating the pieces.

CachyOS Becomes the Most Popular Desktop Linux Distro on ProtonDB (in video): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVZ10lfpla0
#evolution #market #linux #linuxgaming #update #foss #distro #cachyos
CachyOS Becomes the Most Popular Desktop Linux Distro on ProtonDB

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It’s sad to see #digg go down, but at the same time, I’m not sure what they expected. Reddit is already ruined by bots/AI everywhere. But they already have more people anyway to semi-drain out the noise.

Hoping they can fix it, but I have my doubts

Your regular reminder that "the rich" aren't people who earn large paychecks. They are people with capital that generates returns: investments, property, company shares. "High income earners" are not an intrinsic enemy of "the working class" – many of them are a member of it!
@evacide I wouldn’t trust anything Meta related anyway. Maybe Messenger and WhatsApp are up next on the chopping block?
@m imagine what $2B could actually do in the world. Instead, it's being used to coerce corruption to make the rich richer and put us one step closer to mass surveillance.

Reddit seems to have deleted a post with 7400 upvotes and the title:

"I traced $2B in grants and 45 states' lobbying behind age‑verification bills"

.... US Corpos do not want us to see this but luckily we still have this github repo.

Here the relevant reddit post that was removed:

https://old.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/1rshc1f/i_traced_2_billion_in_nonprofit_grants_and_45/?sort=new

And here the github repo

https://github.com/upper-up/meta-lobbying-and-other-findings

#reddit #ageVerification #corpos #cencorship