Mastodawn

When lawmakers and advocacy groups frame queer existence itself as a threat to young people, age-verification laws become ideological enforcement instead of regulatory policy. 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 “protecting children” 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

Carl Feb 21

Electronic Frontier Foundation Feb 21

In order to circumvent censorship, it's best to get an idea of what you're running into. Here's how to figure that out. https://ssd.eff.org/module/understanding-and-circumventing-network-censorship

How to: Understand and Circumvent Network Censorship

This is an overview of network censorship, but it is not comprehensive. Governments, companies, schools, and internet providers sometimes use software to prevent their users from accessing certain websites and services that are otherwise available on the open web. This is called internet filtering or blocking, and it is a...

Carl Feb 21

Electronic Frontier Foundation Feb 21

Setting a passcode for your lockscreen is an important step, but it's not the end of the story for securing your phone. https://ssd.eff.org/module/how-encrypt-your-iphone

How to: Encrypt Your iPhone

In response to the U.K.’s demands for a backdoor, Apple has stopped offering users in the U.K. Advanced Data Protection. If you are in the U.K. you will only be able to use Standard Data Protection. Encrypting the data on your iPhone isn't as simple as creating a password. Since...

Carl Nov 30

nixCraft 🐧Nov 30

Bazzite is a Linux distro that is heavily optimized for gaming on both desktop PCs and handheld gaming devices (like the Steam Deck, Asus ROG Ally, and Lenovo Legion Go or any hardward of your choice). The goal of Bazzite is to deliver the smooth, console-like gaming experience of SteamOS 3 (found on the Steam Deck) but for virtually any modern PC hardware. It can boot directly into Steam's "Game Mode." https://bazzite.gg/

Bazzite - The operating system for the next generation of gamers

Bazzite makes gaming and everyday use smoother and simpler across desktop PCs, handhelds, tablets, and home theater PCs.

Carl Jul 18, 2025

Electronic Frontier Foundation Jul 18, 2025

Cops shouldn’t be able to just get a copy of your DMs. If they want your private messages, they can come back with a warrant. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/06/how-cops-can-get-your-private-online-data

How Cops Can Get Your Private Online Data

Can the cops get your online data? In short, yes. There are a variety of US federal and state laws which give law enforcement powers to obtain information that you provided to online services. But, there are steps you as a user and/or as a service provider can take to improve online privacy.Law...

Electronic Frontier Foundation

Carl Jul 18, 2025

nixCraft 🐧Jul 18, 2025

TIL, there is a PlayStation 4 emulator for Windows, Linux and macOS written in C++. Currently, the emulator can successfully run games like Bloodborne, Dark Souls Remastered, Red Dead Redemption and many other games https://github.com/shadps4-emu/shadPS4

GitHub - shadps4-emu/shadPS4: PlayStation 4 emulator for Windows, Linux and macOS written in C++

PlayStation 4 emulator for Windows, Linux and macOS written in C++ - shadps4-emu/shadPS4

GitHub

Carl Jul 2, 2025

nixCraft 🐧Jul 2, 2025

Good news! For the first time, #Linux desktop breaks through 5% share in USA OS market as per Statcounter https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/united-states-of-america

Oh, absolutely, Microsoft, please, by all means, continue with your grand experiments like Recall Spyware, deleting email accounts in far-flung corners of the globe or stealing data for AI training. Rest assured, these brilliant strategies will have absolutely no bearing on Win11 desktop adoption. None whatsoever. We thank you from Linux HQ. Lmao.

Carl Jun 16, 2025

nixCraft 🐧Jun 16, 2025

LibreOffice Explains 'Real Costs' of Upgrading to Microsoft's Windows 11, Urges Taking Control with Linux https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2025/06/11/the-end-of-windows-10/

The end of Windows 10 is approaching, so it's time to consider Linux and LibreOffice - The Document Foundation Blog

The Document Foundation and LibreOffice support the international campaign @endof10 https://endof10.org/ The countdown has begun. On 14 October 2025, Microsoft will end support for Windows 10. This will leave millions of users and organisations with a difficult choice: should they upgrade to Windows 11, or completely rethink their work environment? The good news? You don’t […]

The Document Foundation Blog

Carl Jun 6, 2025

OpenSourceUpdates Jun 5, 2025

🏳️‍🌈 #pridemonth #opensource #linux
@elementary @raspberrypi @kde @gnome @SUSE @vala_lang @GTK @fedora

Carl May 15, 2025

The Tor Project May 14, 2025

Introducing oniux: Kernel-level Tor isolation for any Linux app. This torsocks alternative uses namespaces to isolate Linux applications over the Tor network and eliminate data leaks.
https://blog.torproject.org/introducing-oniux-tor-isolation-using-linux-namespaces/

Introducing oniux: Kernel-level Tor isolation for any Linux app | Tor Project

Introducing oniux: Kernel-level Tor isolation for any Linux app. This torsocks alternative uses namespaces to isolate Linux applications over the Tor network and eliminate data leaks.