Ex-mil, ex-sec, ex-treme, & ex-plosive.
Go ahead. Squeeze me. Crack that vial and watch the fireworks erupt.
Ditching Windows as it has become spyware and adware.
Flipping to Linux.
#defenestrate
#defenestrating
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#defenestratewindows
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Has anyone else noticed a change with their Fedilab @apps client app?
My client *used to* allow me to choose which browser would be used to open a hyperlink.
Suddenly, it seems that doing a 'long press' on a hyperlink, and selecting 'Open with another app', no longer gives any options, and just slams open the link in my default browser.
Anyone else experiencing this?
Any ideas on how to fix it?
Molly White @molly0xfff) is the best journalist (by a considerable margin) covering the endlessly corrupt cryptocurrency "industry" and its metastasizing spread into the endlessly corrupt Trump world and -- this should scare the hell out of you -- now into our banking system.
An iPhone app called ICEBlock, which allows anyone to lawfully and anonymously report ICE sightings and get notified about nearby ICE agents, went viral overnight after criticism from the US Attorney General.
FYI: The app doesn't collect or store user data. (I checked by doing a network traffic analysis of the app.)
If you're on mastodon.social, you might want to move your account to a different server:
➡️ https://fedi.tips/its-a-really-bad-idea-to-join-a-big-server
The Fediverse is protected from takeover as long as we are spread out on many servers. If one server dominates, takeovers become easier.
Mastodon.social is currently 25.5% of the active Fediverse. This proportion is way too large and seems to be increasing.
Larger servers also tend to have worse moderation and are harder to defederate, threatening safety.
Meta just doesn't understand the concepts of privacy and security.
Headline:
●WhatsApp banned on House staffers' devices
•Andy Stone, a spokesperson for WhatsApp parent company Meta, said ...
"We know members and their staffs regularly use WhatsApp and we ... "
Let me stop you right there, Andy.
The very fact that Meta can, and does, use WhatsApp as spyware is the reason why you can say that.
Meta tracks the locations and contacts (and more) of all WhatsApp users, WHICH IS WHY IT MUST NEVER BE INSTALLED ON ANY GOVERNMENT DEVICE!
Join Signal.
https://www.axios.com/2025/06/23/whatsapp-house-congress-staffers-messaging-app
As Trump attacks students who dare speak up for basic justice for Palestine, a student at the University of Florida Law School named Preston Damsky wrote a paper arguing that the Constitution only applies to white people & Jews and non-whites should be “abolished by any means necessary.”
A Trump-nominated judge named John L. Badalamenti who teaches the class gave Damsky the highest grade and awarded him the Book prize.
University of Florida Law School defended the decision as “free speech.”
Goes at least back to 2013 and has been reposted without #Attribution so many times that it's difficult to trace when it was taken, by whom, and the context. Which is why, in my opinion, we all should make a habit to not boost photos that don't have attribution. It's hard enough to tell what's real and not with genAI and active disinfo campaigns around.
Amusing or inspiring as the photo is...
@meganL @echanda I get your point and mostly agree but I wasn’t attributing it to any time or place (I realize the replies here on Mastodon relentlessly do that; maybe the answer is “only post some things on bluesky”).
That said, it’s not AI (I have a hard rule about posting AI slop), at worst it’s photoshop or staged but again: it’s comedy, essentially a meme, and not a claim to some actual political action (except as suggestion maybe).
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