Mastodawn

the only time you should hand over your ID like a passport or stuff like that is when you absolutely need to. for example like crossing international borders, opening or operating a bank account or applying for a driver's license. those are all valid cases and highly regulated.

but this for profit corporation will just use your data to target you for profit. they even sold mobile phone numbers used for 2FA to advertisers. can you really trust them now with this nonsense?

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pippo30_16 Mar 21

I've been thinking about a WLAN for every group/network by using a Software Access Point
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Software_access_point
So it can uses arleady existing wireless devices and networks, and every user can localhost on it by his linux device

-the network don't need to be always running, less than a minute every hour could be more than enough

-wearable wireless devices can make the network more flexible
I'm not talking about Linux-phones but something cheaper like linux-smartwatch or even earplugs, everything that's wireless and easy to hack

When back home you only need to wait for it to run the WLAN again for all your home desktop devices to be SYNC, and even post something that someone else will read tomorrow or the day after

Software access point - ArchWiki

pippo30_16 Mar 21

Hi fediverse, I was looking on self-hosting some weeks ago (by opening a gotosocial or mastodon instance) and then dropping out the idea after knowing I need
1° a Domain name
2° a static IP address or a DDNS Provider
That's why a VPS it's more efficient, because you need to pay providers in both ways
The problem for self-hosting is the INTERNET and its "STAR" Network Topology, good for long distances but stupid if you wanna connect just to the building in front of yours

pippo30_16 Mar 21

gtbarry Mar 21

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

they prevent all young people from finding community online, and that they violate young people and adults' First Amendment rights.

#ageverification #surveillance #privacy #censorship #freespeech #technology #tech

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

pippo30_16 Mar 9

nixCraft 🐧Mar 9

RE: https://mastodon.world/@signalapp/116200110065937353

be ware of this new threat ...

200 hours.

"Prediction market trader 'Magamyman' made $553,000 on death of Iran's supreme leader"

What you are failing to see, is that every war is actually an opportunity, for sociopaths to make more money than a single mom working 3 jobs for a decade

Pay-day loans for teens, legal gambling on assassinations, re-introducing child labor: I have to admit, every new grotesquerie the free world has to offer does always seem to surprise me

pippo30_16 Feb 26

she hacked you Feb 26

"EU plans 30B investment in gigawatt AI data centers — multiple sites to host 100,000 AI GPUs each as bloc plays catchup to US+China"

If EU leadership had any sense, they wouldn't bother failing to play catch-up on things they dont even hold significant stake in

Datacenter projects for hyperscalers sudsidized with tax payer money for the benefit of companies like xAI helps the EU how?

And why are "EU""AI" companies like loveable (wrapper for US companies) allowed to register in US tax havens?

pippo30_16 Feb 26

she hacked you Feb 26

EU leadership pretending that giving billion dollar contracts out to Peter Thiel or building datacenters for xAI to benefit from, contracts out to SpaceX, intelligence contracts to Palintr

And suggesting it has no consequences to media

When these people are openly and quietly interfering with EU elections and promoting ultra-right politics

Is it really just self-delusion that drives them right into a feedback loop where they allow their own control over their own systems be chipped away?

pippo30_16 Feb 21

Javier de la Cueva Feb 20

Actions speak louder than words.

I am unable to install EU Login app in my phone because I use LineageOS and not the Google Spy Android.

Thus, I cannot use the double factor authentication, mandatory from the 25-02-2026 on unless I tell Google.

A frontal attack to our #privacy.

Stupid, no?

@EUCommission