Last boost: Age verification is never about child safety. It’s about restricting the free web, linking legal identities to everything you do, and harvesting data for profit.

Edit: typo

RE: https://mastodon.social/@verge/116041069446538092

Two things:
1. We are creating a two-tiered internet that will see people willing to give up their IDs having one experience while those who can’t, won’t, or don’t have them missing out on those experiences or being outright excluded from whole areas of the web

2. Why you would be willing to give up your ID to web services that have such poor security in a time when identity is being weaponized by state actors is beyond me

RE: https://mastodon.social/@verge/116041069446538092

We’ve moved our internal communications from Discord to Zulip at Mastodon, and I think there are plans to do the same for our Patreon community Discord. The harder part will be untangling my gaming communities from this…

Happy birthday, Blender! 🎂

Today, your own 3D software turns 2⁵! Here's to many more years of Freedom to Create.

#b3d

So cool. If you zoom in on the upper right, you see a little crescent. That's the Martian moon Phobos.

Zoom in again and you'll see a star next to Phobos. That's Earth! That's home.

Seen from Mars by NASA's Curiosity rover.

https://science.nasa.gov/photojournal/curiosity-views-earth-setting-phobos-rising/ #science #space #astronomy

The biggest volcanic eruption ever seen from space, captured by two different satellites on January 15, 2022.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_Hunga_Tonga%E2%80%93Hunga_Ha%CA%BBapai_eruption_and_tsunami

On #GlobalEncryptionDay 🔒 we stand strong against encryption backdoors! 💪

We've just fought #ChatControl & we'll continue to fight wherever #encryption is under threat. But today we'd like to celebrate that 61% of all Tuta emails are sent end-to-end encrypted - a huge win for privacy. 🔥

👉 Read more on why we must never allow backdoors: https://tuta.com/blog/why-a-backdoor-is-a-security-risk

🚨 Google is killing Android freedom.

Starting 2027, unverified apps can’t be side-loaded.

➡️ F-Droid harder to install
➡️ Custom APKs blocked
➡️ Google decides what runs on YOUR phone

Google’s Android is becoming Apple: Your device, their rules.

It’s time to switch to open alternatives: Graphene, Calyx, Lineage. ✊

https://tuta.com/blog/android-side-load-apps-google

Sign the petition to stop Google from limiting APK file usage: https://www.change.org/p/stop-google-from-limiting-apk-file-usage

The hyperfocus dilemma

#adhd #adhdmeme #meme #adhs

Cycling boosts health, the planet, and the economy! 🚲

✔️ 92,000+ km of EuroVelo routes across Europe
✔️ Nearly 10M bikes made in the EU yearly
✔️ 1.35M cycling-related jobs

With our European Declaration on Cycling, we are committed to boosting cycling across the EU, including through:

🦺 Safe cycling networks in cities
🚌 Better links with public transport
🔋 Deployment of charging points for e-bikes
🚴 Bike highways connecting cities with rural areas

Find out more: https://europa.eu/!p97hdK