Ben WerdmullerThis isn’t new news as such, but people keep being surprised by it, so it’s worth repeating. Substack hosts, profits from, and promotes explicitly Nazi content, and if you are adding value to that network, you are helping them to do so. https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/feb/07/revealed-how-substack-makes-money-from-hosting-nazi-newsletters
Brian Behlendorf
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Dan GillmorDave Farber, R.I.P.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_J._Farber
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sjvnI watched the #Challenger shuttle disaster from inside Mission Control - 40 years ago today https://zdnet.com/article/remembering-challenger-shuttle-disaster/ via @ZDNet & @sjvn
It was the darkest day in manned spaceflight and one of my lousiest ever.
It was the darkest day in manned spaceflight and one of my lousiest ever.
DWebOur next DWeb Virtual Meetup is in one week!
On The Present and Future of Funding Open Source — a focus on the current, shifting landscape of financial support and sustainability in open source development.
When: TUES Sep 30, 10am PT / 1pm ET / 19 CET
Featured speakers: Brian Behlendorf @brianbehlendorf Zelf @zelf & Alexander Sander @fsfe
C.I learned something today: Google's Gemini "AI" on phones accesses your data from "Phones, Messages, WhatsApp" and other stuff whether you have Gemini turned on or not. It just keeps the data longer if you turn it on. Oh, and lets it be reviewed by humans (!) for Google's advantage in training "AI" etc.
But this only came to my attention because of an upcoming change: it's going to start keeping your data long-term even if you turn it "off": "#Gemini will soon be able to help you use Phone, #Messages, #WhatsApp, and Utilities on your phone, whether your Gemini Apps Activity is on or off."
This is, of course, a #privacy and #security #nightmare.
If this is baked into Android, and therefore not removable, I'd have to say I'd recommend against using Android at all starting July 7th.
#spyware #AI #LLM #Google #spying #phone #Android #private #data
I've loved this streak in their last few years of work. Worth a dive for techno heads, ambient fans, and people who like math and concrete: https://daily.bandcamp.com/features/the-black-dog-my-brutal-life-2-interview
Mike RobertsThe greatest trick the devil ever pulled ... was convincing internet communities to switch from email lists / IRC / another open standard to Slack / Discord. The latest example of a “it's only free while we say it's free" is CNCF’s / Kubernetes's Slack - https://github.com/kubernetes/community/blob/master/communication/slack-migration-faq.md - who it appears have *4 days* to backup their history (for a server with 100,000s of users)
Neither Slack nor Discord are reasonable, serious, professional, options for open community discussion. They are either too expensive, and/or involve inappropriate advertising. And who knows when Discord will start pulling this kind of behaviour, too, requiring large communities to pay?
The problem is today when anyone says "can't we just use an email list?" they are pooh-pooh'ed as being horribly out of touch. Hence why even the linked FAQ describes Discord as the only likely exit plan for Kubernetes. What a mess.
Electronic Frontier FoundationImagine a world where:
💻 Your device is truly yours
📱 You speak freely without fear
🔐 Your privacy is protected
That's the future we're fighting for at EFF. Stand with us for our 35th anniversary! https://eff.org/35years
💻 Your device is truly yours
📱 You speak freely without fear
🔐 Your privacy is protected
That's the future we're fighting for at EFF. Stand with us for our 35th anniversary! https://eff.org/35years
Thunderbird: Free Your InboxOur May Mobile Progress Report shows how we're:
*getting ready for JMAP in iOS
* planing early for TestFlight
* coordinating localization for both apps
* asking for feedback with the Android beta
* improving the account drawer and more
https://blog.thunderbird.net/2025/06/thunderbird-mobile-progress-report-may-2025/
evacideMy co-workers are badass and I am proud of them.
EFF is suing DOGE and OPM over their illegal sharing of federal employee data.
EFF Sues DOGE and the Office of Personnel Management to Halt Ransacking of Federal Data
EFF and a coalition of privacy defenders have filed a lawsuit asking a federal court to block Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) from accessing the private information of millions of Americans that is stored by the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), and to delete any data that has been collected or removed from databases thus far.