Because age verification is really just there to:

- suppress queer information
- restrict abortion access
- gatekeep sexual education
- slurp up more personal data for marketing

"But think of the children!"

Maybe we should think about the corporations that prey on their attention-spans and self-esteem instead.

Sign stuff here:
https://www.stoponlineidchecks.org

Info on how to help here:
https://docs.fightforthefuture.org/s/637497e2-8a61-42aa-82fe-1b847e113ebb#h-what-are-online-id-checks-and-why-are-they-a-threat

#CallToAction #Activism #InternetSafety

Me: "If this API is prone to misuse by a careless or clueless developer, that is a security issue that needs fixing."

Me: "If the tests pass even if I change the logic of the source code, then the test doesn't actually cover it. I don't care what the code coverage metrics say."

Me: "The threat model needs to state its assumptions as well as both risks both mitigated and not mitigated."

Other projects, apparently: "Well this attack is outside our threat model so we're dismissing your report, but we'll eventually fix it as a defense-in-depth if we really must I guess."

Step up your game.

We paid thousands of dollars to make this open access for you to enjoy.

Knowing the rate of air-sea gas exchange is critical for assessing the efficiency of marine CO₂ removal (mCDR). We assume we know this rate, but we really don't in coastal areas where mCDR is likely to be deployed. This means that models that use open-ocean gas exchange parameterizations (all of them) will overestimate the amount of atmospheric CO₂ removed by these deployments.

https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2025JC023324

Dot making sure the VF-26 is ready to hit the track! Pic for Dot the Corgi.

#art #furryart #leggy2fast

“What do you have to hide?“

Everything.

Full stop. Period.

Every. Thing.

What I had for breakfast is my choice to put out in the world.

Who I love, who my friends are, what we talk about, the books I read, the websites I visit, my favourite animal, my choice of shoelaces.

It. Does. Not. Matter. How. “Big”. Or “Small”.

Every. Thing.

It’s all up to me to decide who I want to share anything with.

#privacy #surveillance

“Neil, I don’t understand why you self-host so much. You’re so old fashioned, you should be using the cloud it is so much better”

Also

“Neil, the service I was using for $x has shut down without notice and $y has changed it terms of service and wants to scan my content to train its AI and $z is changing its subscription model to charge me loads more - what would you do?”

A fake 7-Zip website is distributing a trojanized installer of the popular archiving tool that turns the user's computer into a residential proxy node.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/malicious-7-zip-site-distributes-installer-laced-with-proxy-tool/