Mastodawn

the only time you should hand over your ID like a passport or stuff like that is when you absolutely need to. for example like crossing international borders, opening or operating a bank account or applying for a driver's license. those are all valid cases and highly regulated.

but this for profit corporation will just use your data to target you for profit. they even sold mobile phone numbers used for 2FA to advertisers. can you really trust them now with this nonsense?

Artur Mar 29

Electronic Frontier Foundation Mar 28

The Supreme Court says ISPs aren’t responsible for everything their users do online. That means your access to the internet is less likely to be cut off over accusations alone. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/03/supreme-court-agrees-eff-isps-dont-have-be-copyright-enforcers

Supreme Court Agrees With EFF: ISPs Don't Have To Be Copyright Enforcers

If your ISP can be liable for huge amounts of money for not terminating your access to the internet because of accusations that you—or someone in your household or college network—has committed copyright infringement, that is dangerous. We live in a world where high speed internet access is a...

Electronic Frontier Foundation

Artur Mar 23

nixCraft 🐧Mar 23

When you visit https://archlinux32.org/ and it gets blocked due to stupid laws. They blocked visitors from Brazil and California.

Soon, pretty much all you will get this message on many such Linux and open source projects.

#linux #opensource

Artur Mar 21

nixCraft 🐧Mar 20

systemd lost the plot a long time ago. they stopped following the Unix philosophy and now they're busy adding nonsense like age verification. Just like Firefox, systemd doesn't understand its core user base. There are plenty of distros without systemd

Artur Feb 22

Harley 🐝🌿Feb 21

- do you want to use google to sign in?
- do you want to add a passkey?
- do you want to add a 2FA token?
- we know you have 2FA but we've sent you an email instead
- this login attempt seems suspicious we've sent you a text about it
- can you click on these buses?
- you failed to click on the buses click on these bicycles instead
- should we save these details for next time?
- do you accept these trackers?
- you can opt out but we've decided it's legitimate interest anyway
- would you like to see a list of our 847 partners we share your data with?
- can we send you desktop notifications?
- can we access your location?
- do you want 10% off for signing up to the mailing list?
- do you want me to translate this page?
- hi I'm your friendly chatbot how can I help?
- oh no you can't buy this, reach out to us for a quote!
- do you want—

I'm tired boss

Artur Feb 20

nixCraft 🐧Feb 20

Keep Android Open

https://f-droid.org/2026/02/20/twif.html

Keep Android Open | F-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App Repository

This Week in F-Droid TWIF curated on Friday, 20 Feb 2026, Week 8 F-Droid core During our talks with F-Droid users at FOSDEM26 we were baffled to learn most w...

Artur Feb 19

It's FOSS Feb 19

True story? 😶‍🌫️

#linux #linuxmint #archlinux

Artur Feb 14

It's FOSS Feb 14

A grim situation tbh. 🫠

#linux #valentinesday

Artur Feb 12

David Chisnall (*Now with 50% more sarcasm!*)Feb 11

Web design in the early 2000s: Every 100ms of latency on page load costs visitors.

Web design in the late 2020s: Let's add a 10-second delay while Cloudflare checks that you are capable of ticking a checkbox in front of every page load.

Artur Sep 4, 2025

Electronic Frontier Foundation Sep 3, 2025

“It’s important to avoid uploading photos (to ChatGPT or other AI) that you want to make sure nobody but you ever looks at,” EFF’s Jacob Hoffman-Andrews told @WSJ - too many AI users assume a certain level of privacy that actually might not be there. https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/chatgpt-photos-safety-83dd9b5b