Mastodawn

In defending free speech, privacy, and the right of young people to access truthful information about themselves, Rep. Leigh Finke was not radical—she was right. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/03/rep-finke-was-right-age-gating-isnt-about-kids-its-about-control

Rep. Finke Was Right: Age-Gating Isn’t About Kids, It’s About Control

What’s at stake is whether “protecting children” becomes a legal pretext for embedding government control over the internet to enforce specific moral and religious judgments—judgments that deny marginalized people access to speech, community, history, and truth—into law.

Electronic Frontier Foundation

kellenoffdagrid 🌱🌧🌻Mar 12

Thom, exceedingly pure Mar 12

If you hired a translator and they sent you a Google Translate translation, they would be a bad translator.

If you hired an artist and they sent you an image generated by Gemini, they would be a bad artist.

If you hired a programmer and they sent you a slopcoded website, they would be a...?

Yeah.

What is it with programmers and their desire for mediocrity?

kellenoffdagrid 🌱🌧🌻Mar 6

hackaday Mar 6

California’s Problematic Attempt to add Age-Verification to Software

https://hackaday.com/2026/03/05/californias-problematic-attempt-to-add-age-verification-to-software/

California’s Problematic Attempt To Add Age-Verification To Software

Last year California’s Digital Age Assurance Act (AB 1043) was signed into law, requiring among other things that operating system providers implement an API for age verification purposes. Wi…

Hackaday

kellenoffdagrid 🌱🌧🌻Mar 5

Taylor Lorenz Mar 5

I wrote about the House hearing today, how Congress is trying to strip anonymity from the Internet, and the devastating effects that has for journalists, whistleblowers, LGBTQ ppl, immigrants, civil rights activists, abortion providers and anyone challenging power for @theintercept https://theintercept.com/2026/03/05/kosa-online-age-verification-free-speech-privacy/

Congress Is Considering Abolishing Your Right to Be Anonymous Online

The bipartisan push to remove anonymity from the internet is ushering in an era of unprecedented mass surveillance and censorship.

The Intercept

kellenoffdagrid 🌱🌧🌻Mar 5

Norcal Gma 2 Mar 5

Took a minute away from stitching towels to put a frog on my denim jacket. Much harder on my fingers but worth it.

kellenoffdagrid 🌱🌧🌻Mar 5

Matthew Sheffield Mar 4

Science magazine has an informative article about 3 male scientists who resisted Jeffrey Epstein's attempts to network with them.

The one thing all have in common is that they listened to women's advice.

https://www.science.org/content/article/why-three-scientists-said-no-epstein

kellenoffdagrid 🌱🌧🌻Mar 5

tante Mar 4

Yesterday I read an interview with the singer in a punk band who uses GenAI to help with writing his texts.

Punk. The whole point of punk was that if you know how to play 3 cords badly and have something to say just fucking go for it.

kellenoffdagrid 🌱🌧🌻Mar 4

abadidea Feb 12

So You Want To Write An Open Source Discord Replacement

Things you don’t need:
- federation/distributed systems
- multiparty end-to-end encryption
- an entirely new operating system kernel specially designed to—

Things you DO need:
- a user interface that is Normal
- the ability to use languages other than English and writing systems other than Latin
- higher standards of user experience than how irc actually works in the real world
- any fucking clue how Discord works and why people use it

I have muted replies to this post due to the usual reasons

kellenoffdagrid 🌱🌧🌻Mar 4

GrapheneOS Mar 2

We're happy to announce a long-term partnership with Motorola. We're collaborating on future devices meeting our privacy and security standards with official GrapheneOS support.

https://motorolanews.com/motorola-three-new-b2b-solutions-at-mwc-2026/