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🇮🇪 Based in Ireland
🔍 Tech enthusiast | 🔒 Privacy advocate

🧠 Random thoughts on:
#privacy #tech #linux #ireland

🗺️ #OpenStreetMap: @governorkeagan
🎥 Media production company in the works: @gringomedia

🌐 Joined the Fediverse in 2023 | #Fedi23

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Codeberghttps://codeberg.org/kvanrooyen
PGPhttps://keys.openpgp.org/vks/v1/by-fingerprint/6723DBF9AF0B70DBE89EE35ED58E790E2B3D4A40

Two locks are better than one lock, right?🔒 And the same should apply for your online account credentials! That's why 2FA, like U2F, stops >99% of automated account attacks.

Find out more on why you should use U2F 👉

https://tuta.com/blog/why-u2f-is-important

Apple is lying about UK Legal requirements for age verification:

https://www.reddit.com/r/ios/comments/1s3cwxz/apple_is_lying_about_their_uk_age_verification/

Apologies, I don't normally post Reddit links, but this one is quite interesting.

#UK #Apple #AgeVerification

Have a brilliant business idea in the middle of the night, but you can't write to your colleagues right away and disrupt their sleep?

This guide explains how you can schedule send an email in Tuta Mail!

👉 https://tuta.com/de/blog/how-to-schedule-send

So you never have to worry about when to write your emails. 😊

Today a 14 year old wrote an email proudly explaining how they installed #postmarketOS on their Acer Chromebook, and asking if I could send some stickers to their postal address. I invited them to #FrOSCon (where they could get a lot of stickers!), since that's a family-friendly event, and otherwise said I would try. They replied very happy to get a reply from a pmOS maintainer, and "see you in Sankt Augustin".

I'm just so happy I made the day of this kid :D

So, I recently saw some quiet discussion about a paper where researchers reverse-engineered and disclosed some attacks against PhotoDNA, the very-super-duper-secret algorithm used by tech megacorps to scan for illegal images.

They didn't make any code public, and so... I did: https://github.com/ArcaneNibble/open-alleged-photodna

A _complete_ reverse-engineering and commented Python reimplementation of the algorithm from publicly-leaked binaries.

This means that studying the algorithm and any potential flaws is now much more accessible.

This took only about two days (once I knew that there even _was_ a leaked binary to compare against), which just goes to again show that security through obscurity never works.

🔁 encouraged

GitHub - ArcaneNibble/open-alleged-photodna: because research belongs to _everybody_

because research belongs to _everybody_. Contribute to ArcaneNibble/open-alleged-photodna development by creating an account on GitHub.

GitHub

Win Tuta Merch! 🎉🏆🔐

To celebrate 2 years of Tuta's Quantum-Proof Encryption one lucky fan will #win a Tuta shirt!

All you need to do is 👉 comment with a screenshot of your Tuta info email that informed you about the update to quantum-resistant encryption.

Release 2026.03.09 is out. It brings many improvements, including displaying the amounts charged for using facilities, displaying populations of cities and towns, and on Android support for Type 1 Combo EV chargers. See the full list of changes here: https://codeberg.org/comaps/comaps/releases/tag/v2026.03.09-18
I'm sure™️ we're just holding it wrong:
#AI promised supreme productivity, but it’s actually straining workloads for employees—time spent emailing has doubled, and focused work sessions fell by 9%
https://fortune.com/2026/03/13/ai-isnt-reducing-workloads-its-straining-employees-time-spent-emailing-doubled-deep-focus-work-fell/
AI promised supreme productivity, but it’s actually straining workloads for employees—time spent emailing has doubled, and focused work sessions fell by 9%

Workers who use AI are spending up to 346% more time on their daily tasks, from messaging to business management.

Fortune

Well that is odd. My Linux system appears to have completely wiped it's boot drive!

Reinstalled on a new SSD, just in case, but very odd. Was working yesterday with no issues 🤔

Just recently switched to #grapheneos from #iOS. Been using #signal for a while now, but thinking about maybe using #Molly. Which are you issuing?

#privacy #degoogle

Signal
60.3%
Molly
39.7%
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