@YourShadowDani

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Programmer, Hobbyist Gamedev, #EV , #Solar, #opensource, #foss, #selfhosting , #gaming

Oof. A massive spam attack just now on mstdn.social

A few thousand signups all accounts starting with "SAAR_"

I STRONGLY recommend admins to BLOCK this name from signing up 🚨

If you're interested in that Web Share Target API that I mentioned a few weeks ago, please do show your interest here and state if you can be a community group member or if you represent a W3C member organisations: https://github.com/w3c/web-share-target/issues/114

cc @renchap @dmitri @evan

Renewing interest: Decentralized Social needs this · Issue #114 · w3c/web-share-target

Hi! I just wanted to reach out and say that I'd love to renew interest in this, as I know that this draft specification would benefit the decentralized web communities, and there's overlap with the...

GitHub
CEOs should not be famous.

The government says journalists and sources who are living in the United States illegally don’t have First Amendment rights.

But the First Amendment was written to limit government power, not let officials decide whose voices are worth hearing.

https://freedom.press/issues/no-first-amendment-for-some-immigrant-journalists-or-sources-govt-says/

No First Amendment for some immigrant journalists or sources, gov’t says

The administration’s argument in Estefany Rodríguez’s case that the First Amendment doesn’t apply to people in the U.S. who lack legal status could silence some reporters and sources

Freedom of the Press

Google has known about a bug that breaks VPN apps for 7 months, leaving users exposed with no warning or error, just a VPN app that stopped working in the background.

If you're using ANY VPN on Android, you can help us by getting Google's attention to fix it.

We first reported this bug to Google in September 2025.

Others like @mullvadnet and Wireguard reported it even earlier, in August.

Google's response? "I don't see anything unusual."

Here's what's actually happening ⤵️

This Louisiana prosecutor...
• Was forced to resign from the DA’s office for submitting false paperwork
• Withheld evidence in at least 3 death row cases
• Compared a Black teen to a dog and told the jury to “get rid of it”

Now he’s running for judge.
https://www.propublica.org/article/hugo-holland-louisiana-judge-race-controversies?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Louisiana #Law #Legal #Courts #Election #NewOrleans #Shreveport

He Compared a Black Child to a Dog and Withheld Evidence in Death Row Cases. Now He’s Running for Judge.

Holland, who once compared a Black child to a dog, has had a career mired in controversy. That hasn’t stopped him from becoming the de facto frontrunner of his judicial race.

ProPublica
i love that we went from "zero trust" as a fundamental buzzword to "trust autonomous nondeterministic agents everywhere in your stack"
Trump’s ICE airport idea came after a radio host pitched it on Fox News

“Linda from Arizona,” a caller on Clay Travis’ conservative talk radio show, might deserve the credit or blame for ICE agents deploying to airports across the US today.

CNN
The Crypto Wars. NSA dragnet surveillance. FBI gag orders. EFF's Executive Director Cindy Cohn was there for all of it—fighting for you. Her new book Privacy's Defender tells the full story: https://supporters.eff.org/donate/join-4--wsph
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The Supreme Court's refusal to intervene here is an absolute travesty for press freedom rights.