Hecker

@heckersec
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I just hope everyone is having a good time

RE: https://mastodon.social/@Tutanota/116539340806199860

I'm shocked, shocked I tell you!

Meta just removed end-to-end encryption from Instagram.
Instagram suspended our account, one we've never posted from, just added a link to https://pixelfed.org in the bio.
Fascism does not exist in a vacuum, it cannot survive without sustenance. Fascism sustains itself on anger, animosity and ambivalence. In order to defeat the global rise of fascism in the 21st century, we have to find ways to reconnect with the friends and family members that have been swept up in it, that is the only way to extinguish fascism. #antifa
A new federal bill would wipe out dozens, if not hundreds, of existing state privacy protections. It’s hard to take seriously. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/05/secure-data-act-not-serious-piece-privacy-legislation
The SECURE Data Act is Not a Serious Piece of Privacy Legislation

The bill is weaker than congressional proposals in prior years, as well as most of the 21 state consumer privacy bills already on the books.

Electronic Frontier Foundation

Doing some research I noticed that there are two websites for the @hankgreen app, Focus Friend. One of these sites(The most SEO optimized), strikes me as somewhat odd.

Pretty close to the top of the page, it seems to be advertising an AI image editing app, which strikes me as somewhat counter-culture to the mission of the Focus Friend app, and to Hank Green as an individual.

I would be curious to find out if this site is official, and how Hank Green feels about this advertisement.

Important rules for the "age verification" era of the internet that we're living in:

1. Do not do age verification.

2. If you have to do age verification, cheat. Do not under any circumstances give them your real ID.

I become more and more convinced that decentralized, mesh networks need to replace the existing internet. This would likely involve abandoning the real-time nature of communication that we've all become so used to, but would make censorship and invasion of privacy much more difficult. Projects like @meshtastic show that on small scales these networks are possible, and I'm confident further research will only make these systems better.

I decided to give GNOME a try again after about 5 years on Plasma, I'm absolutely loving it, but I hate how blurry some Xorg windows can be with fractional scaling. I know that there are some fixes for this, but it feels like it'll be a big barrier to new user adoption.

Would it not be possible for GNOME to implement whatever behaviour Plasma does, since I've never had this issue on Plasma?