Mastodawn

Vishnu2jd 5d ago

Matthew Haughey 5d ago

early but strong contender for tweet of the year

Vishnu2jd Mar 17

nixCraft 🐧Mar 17

Reddit User Uncovers Who Is Behind Meta’s $2B Lobbying for Invasive Age Verification Tech. Reddit researcher exposes Meta’s $2B campaign to force Apple and Google into building surveillance systems while exempting its own platforms
https://www.gadgetreview.com/reddit-user-uncovers-who-is-behind-metas-2b-lobbying-for-invasive-age-verification-tech

Meta is pure evil who is pushing age verification laws to benefits from surveillance tech.

Reddit User Uncovers Who Is Behind Meta’s $2B Lobbying for Invasive Age Verification Tech

Meta funneled $2B through nonprofit shells to push age verification laws targeting Apple and Google while exempting its own platforms from surveillance requirements.

Gadget Review

Vishnu2jd Feb 13

Steve Bellovin Feb 13

Two stories, side by side, in the NY Times Technology section.

Vishnu2jd Feb 2

Firefox for Web Developers Feb 2

AI Controls (formerly 'kill switch') are landing in today's Firefox Nightly, and will land with Firefox 148 later this month.

For the full details, see the Firefox blog https://blog.mozilla.org/en/firefox/ai-controls/

Vishnu2jd Jan 3

Brian Tatosky Jan 2

Getting Grok to "apologize" for generating non-consensual porn is like getting Excel to apologize for generating accounting fraud.

Vishnu2jd Dec 28

Coffeedate with ADHD Dec 28

This 👇🏼

Vishnu2jd Dec 25

jwz Dec 24

What asshat decided that user name and password should now always be on separate pages? How does this make anything better? Fuck you.

Vishnu2jd Dec 13

Dr Paris (he/him)Dec 13

posted about my Apple ID woes, please share widely?

https://hey.paris/posts/appleid/

20 Years of Digital Life, Gone in an Instant, thanks to Apple

Summary: A major brick-and-mortar store sold an Apple Gift Card that Apple seemingly took offence to, and locked out my entire Apple ID, effectively bricking my devices and my iCloud Account, Apple …

Dr Paris Buttfield-Addison

Vishnu2jd Nov 26

Prof. Rachel Thorn 🍉🇺🇦🏳️‍⚧️🏳️Nov 25

Poll only for #Blind/LowVision users who rely on #AltText. Is AltText generated with an LLM actually “better than nothing” as some argue? Please comment if you’re Blind or Low Vision, and please boost to get a good sample.

Yes

35.8%

No

38.3%

Something else (explain in reply)

25.9%

Poll ended at Nov 28 at 11:18pm.

Vishnu2jd Nov 24

Watchful Citizen Nov 24

@GrapheneOS is being threatened by French authorities for refusing to add backdoors and they're dealing with coordinated attacks in French media right now. They're pulling out of France entirely, moving all their servers, and fighting off a wave of bullshit one-sided reporting that makes them look like they're helping criminals.

They need us to fight back. Support them however you can, whether that's a dollar, sharing their story, pushing back on the garbage news coverage when you see it, or just telling someone you know about what's happening. All of it matters because they're drowning in attacks from governments and media and bad actors who want them gone.

This is the only Android OS that actually makes me feel like privacy isn't just marketing. They fight for us now they need us to fight for them.

The EU is pushing Chat Control and creating an environment where governments feel empowered to threaten developers into compliance, and if we stay quiet we're letting it happen. Show up for them in whatever way you're able to.

#grapheneos #Privacy #NoBackdoors #encryption #security #chatControl