Dominik Dröscher

@dhn
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Web developer and CSS enthusiast since the dawn of the modern browser. · he/him
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Parents would rather destroy the privacy of the entire population, than talk to their children

RE: https://mastodon.social/@bigzaphod/116721578967796097

Tapestry is a superb app, bringing together multiple other services (Mastodon, Bluesky, RSS, YouTube and many more) into a single place that you can adjust to how you want it to be.

It is the most used app on my mobile devices by far.

If you don’t have it then this is a great offer to see what it is all about.

Seriously, give it a try if you have multiple feeds from multiple places and you want to get it all under control.

Introducing Loupe, our latest privacy app for iOS. Discover what apps can learn about you just by reading data your iPhone already exposes, such as your languages, installed apps, device sensors, and much much more

Loupe is free, private, and open source. Give it a try 👇

https://apps.apple.com/app/id6766152470

Link to source code:

https://github.com/mysk-research/loupe

#iOS #privacy #infosec #security #cybersecurity

The whole Online Harms discourse seems incredibly obsessed with what young people are doing online even though the spread of misinformation seems as much of a problem for older people.

This becomes a lot easier to understand when you realise moral panics aren’t about evidence, they’re about moral disapproval of the habits of young people: mods and rockers, video nasties, Dungeons and Dragons, explicit lyrics in rap and rock music, video games etc.

https://theconversation.com/its-not-just-gen-z-older-adults-need-help-spotting-online-misinformation-too-274148

It’s not just gen Z – older adults need help spotting online misinformation too

Evidence shows that older adults are just as, if not more, likely than younger generations to believe misinformation.

The Conversation

As spotted by Ryan Estrada on Bluesky, HOLY SHIT

Paramount+ created a thumbnail for "Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan" where it genAI-filled a closeup shot of Shatner, giving him a sensible haircut and a suit and tie.

LEFT: Paramount+
RIGHT: The shot from the movie

German outlets are reporting about a study done by lobbyists that (miraculously) found that businesses are unhappy with the GDPR.

Obviously, this still hasn't been said enough: the GDPR's purpose isn't making businesses happy! Its purpose is to protect our rights. It's necessary because far too many businesses won't respect our privacy unless they're forced to!

If running their business responsibly is such a huge burden for them, maybe they should let someone else do it.
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#privacy #GDPR

Saw this on Bluesky and decided to fact check. It's true.

George W Bush, Bill Clinton and Donald Trump were all born in 1946.

The pressure

for us in the #curl project right now

https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2026/05/26/the-pressure/

The pressure

I'm doing Open Source primarily because I love it. The social aspects, the for-the-good angle and for the challenge of engineering this to work for everyone. I also do it because it is my full-time job and getting food on the table and provide for my family is not unimportant. It may come as a … Continue reading The pressure →

daniel.haxx.se

It's too bad that LLM grifters sought to shine their reputation by calling it "AI".

It didn't shine their reputation.

It ruined the world's opinion of the fascinating & legitimate science -- and remarkably creative uses -- of actual artificial intelligence.

Several large projects leaving GitHub because of its reliability issues lately and their focus on pushing AI (Zig, Ghosty, ...)

Weirdly for me, its still working really well for our closed source projects @Tideways and given our work is mostly in European time zone (before US traffic). And the open-source projects I work on are mostly stable and don't iterate a lot anymore.

That said, I think Foregjo is looking very cool, and maybe some day I work with it instead of GitHub.

Whats your take?