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Reddit User Uncovers Who Is Behind Meta’s $2B Lobbying for Invasive Age Verification Tech. Reddit researcher exposes Meta’s $2B campaign to force Apple and Google into building surveillance systems while exempting its own platforms
https://www.gadgetreview.com/reddit-user-uncovers-who-is-behind-metas-2b-lobbying-for-invasive-age-verification-tech

Meta is pure evil who is pushing age verification laws to benefits from surveillance tech.

Reddit User Uncovers Who Is Behind Meta’s $2B Lobbying for Invasive Age Verification Tech

Meta funneled $2B through nonprofit shells to push age verification laws targeting Apple and Google while exempting its own platforms from surveillance requirements.

Gadget Review

hal8999 Feb 9

a high doom Feb 9

RE: https://mastodon.online/@electrek/116041448538363402

Let a clanker design your neighborhood. It’ll be fine.

hal8999 Feb 4

Cat 🐈‍⬛🛰️Feb 4

Okay so there's a letter from the car loan and a sudden "improvement" in my credit and that means the only reason I have a car to sell to Carmax is the ice and snow.

Right now I need about $4500 (which includes tax/tags/etc.) That's $100 from 40 people, $50 from 80, etc, plus a bit.

If I can't do that I need a full $7500 plus tax, tags, etc AND an uber 30 miles away AND hoping the seller is completely honest to have a viable vehicle that isn't effectively a waste of resources.

Time crunch here, it's starting to thaw. I have a day or so at most.

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hal8999 Jan 5

Happy Change Unfreeze Day !

It's gonna be an interesting week, y'all.

hal8999 Dec 30

Lesley Carhart

Dec 30

I think one of the wildest parts of the Epstein Files fiasco to me is billionaires are so different that they talk about the darkest most blackmailable secrets of the worlds elite in gmail when I am miserably embarrassed Google is retaining my everyday online cosplay purchase history to train AI.

hal8999 Dec 23

Jerry 🦙💝🦙Dec 23

I get asked a lot lately what I think people who want to get into cyber security should focus on. My go to answer is incident response, since it seems like the mountains of vibe code and half-assed zero trust architectures is creating galactic scale potential breach energy. Would that be called vibe responders? Or is that for when we figure out how to hand over IR to AI as well?

hal8999 Dec 23

IMHO, Bari Weiss ignored a few things:

The Streisand Effect
Canada is an ephemeral place when you have a VPN service
post-dial-up internet, censoring journalists is done by nation-states, not editors with a grudge

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/12/yo-what-limewire-re-emerges-in-online-rush-to-share-pulled-60-minutes-segment/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

“Yo what?” LimeWire re-emerges in online rush to share pulled “60 Minutes” segment

Redditor jokes LimeWire is now a "champion against the darkness."

Ars Technica

hal8999 Dec 22

HTTP 1.1/418 Teapot Dec 21

RE: https://eupolicy.social/@bert_hubert/115757523488655548

Oh yeah. "just" is up there with "actually" and "technically" as a signal for me to reread whatever I'm writing and make sure I'm not about to sound like That Asshole. (It's possible to use those words without being That Asshole, but it's worth checking whether or not that's the case.)

hal8999 Dec 18

Jerry 🦙💝🦙Dec 18

If you find the fediverse useful, don’t forget to support your instance (assuming they accept support). While the software is free, running instances is far from it. I am glad to be part of the community and want to see it continue on as a viable alternative. Thank you all for being here and I hope you have a good holiday season.

And because @jerry is always too polite to include it, if your instance is infosec.exchange, here's where you can find out how to support it:

https://infosec.exchange/about

Infosec Exchange

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