The war on privacy and encryption goes on. This time in the UK. Under the “Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill”, lawmakers now want client-side scanning on every phone and tablet.

The lawmakers write: “Any relevant device supplied for use in the UK must have installed tamper-proof system software which is highly effective at preventing the recording, transmitting (by any means, including livestreaming) and viewing of CSAM using that device.”

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Quick PSA : yes, #Mozilla has been disappointing, but so far, they’re the only organization preventing Google to have a full control over web standards. Blink/WebKit-based browsers (Chromium, Vivaldi…) do NOT help at all in that regard.

So please use #Firefox or a #Gecko-based alternative (#ZenBrowser, #LibreWolf…). Ride the nightly release train and report bugs if you can. #Servo is getting ready, but for the next ~5 years, Gecko is our only suitable option.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@Gargron/115737483111161917

I'll elaborate. I believe we're in an AI bubble. AI companies are pushing the overton window on AI discourse. They want the most extreme anti-AI sentiment to be "Sure, it's an overhyped technology right now but there will be reasonable applications down the road". I want to see pushback on this. It doesn't matter if I can disable some AI feature in the settings. The fact that Mozilla is jumping on this bandwagon is deeply disappointing to me.

#datocurioso

¿Sabían que la primera publicación en la historia de Mastodon no fue un mensaje institucional, sino una brevísima prueba técnica que seguía una de las tradiciones más antiguas de la programación?

El 5 de octubre de 2016, Eugen Rochko, el desarrollador detrás del proyecto, lanzó el primer mensaje desde la instancia mastodon.social. El contenido fue simplemente "hello world" (hola mundo), la frase estándar que se utiliza desde los años 70 para comprobar que un código ha sido escrito correctamente y que el sistema es capaz de comunicarse con el usuario.

En aquel momento, la plataforma todavía utilizaba el protocolo OStatus, antes de la implementación definitiva de ActivityPub que permitió la federación masiva que conocemos hoy. Aquella publicación inicial fue la prueba de fuego para una infraestructura descentralizada que buscaba devolver la propiedad de la conversación digital a los usuarios, operando desde servidores independientes en lugar de una base de datos centralizada y comercial.

#Mastodon #Fediverso #Tecnología #SoftwareLibre #Historia #Internet #RedesSociales

Xu Bo, a Chinese billionaire, was seeking parental rights to at least four unborn children,
and the court’s additional research showed that he had already fathered or was in the process of fathering at least eight more
—all through surrogates.

When called in for a confidential hearing in the summer of 2023,
he never entered the courtroom, according to people who attended the hearing.
The maker of fantasy videogames lived in China and appeared via video, speaking through an interpreter.
He said he hoped to have 20 or so U.S.-born children through surrogacy
—boys, because they’re superior to girls
—to one day take over his business.
Several of his kids were being raised by nannies in nearby Irvine
as they awaited paperwork to travel to China.
He hadn’t yet met them, he told the judge, because work had been busy…

Some Chinese parents,
inspired by Elon Musk’s 14 known children,
pay millions in surrogacy fees to hire women in the U.S. to help them build families of jaw-dropping size.
Xu calls himself “China’s first father” and is known in China as a vocal critic of feminism.
On social media, his company said he has more than 100 children born through surrogacy in the US.
https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2025/12/china-fertility-facts-of-the-day.html