Hey "seniors":

Ask "stupid questions" where your juniors can see you asking them and getting answers from other people. Don't make juniors feel alone in not knowing something and being the only ones asking for help.

**Call for Registrations: #FreedomNotFear 2025**

Freedom Not Fear (FNF) is an annual self-organised conference on privacy and digital rights. People from across Europe and beyond come together to advocate for freedom in the digitalized world, plan actions against attacks on civil liberties and increasing surveillance, and seek discussions with decision-makers.

#FNF25 takes place 26–29 September in Brussels. Register by 11 August:
https://freedomnotfear.org/2025/call-for-registrations

Oh, my goodness. I boosted @Em0nM4stodon’s post about this earlier. But I need to share it with some intention.

This piece she wrote on Mastodon privacy/security is intense. It’s long. SO much information. Read it anyway. Seriously.

And if y’all don’t follow Em, do yourself a solid and get on that. She’s smart af about InfoSec/privacy/security. And super friendly.

https://www.privacyguides.org/articles/2025/07/15/mastodon-privacy-and-security/

#Fediverse #Mastodon #MastoTips #Privacy #InfoSec #Security #TheFutureIsFederated

DuckDuckGo is experiencing an “outage” and searches are not rendered; YET, somehow if i turned on "AI Features", it might.

more like FuckFuckNO, amirite?

#enshittification #techbros #fascism

I keep seeing this sentiment that desktop Linux has become woke and gay.

Desktop Linux has been woke and gay the whole time. Y’all just for some reason decided you suddenly have a problem with it. We didn’t change, you did. Okay some of us came out of the closet. But we’ve been talking about diversity and inclusion for decades and equity has been the entire focal point of the free software movement since like the 70s! It’s woke gay anarcho-communism and you fucking loved it until 2016