Mastodawn

Today, we fined X for non-compliance with transparency obligations under the Digital Services Act (DSA).

We're holding X accountable for:
🔹Deceptive design of its ‘blue checkmark’
🔹Lack of transparency of its advertising repository
🔹Failure to provide access to public data for researchers

More information: https://link.europa.eu/bcmC87

Tom Doehler Dec 4

Free Software Foundation Europe Dec 1

Cyber here, Cyber there,
Bright code humming through the air;
Lines of logic, free to roam,
Crafting every digital home.
Servers spin in midnight light,
Hackers shape the future right;
Lift it up with what you can—
A gift of power to the plan.
Support the coders everywhere:
Give to #Free Software, show you care.

https://fsfe.org/donate

Tom Doehler Nov 29

Options for Phones at Protests https://blog.yaelwrites.com/options-for-phones-at-protests/

Options for Phones at Protests

Simply showing up to a protest leaves you susceptible to all sorts of surveillance, including cameras, drones, facial recognition, and more. There's not always a lot you can do about pernicious street-level surveillance, but you do have a lot of choices when it comes to your phone. Because there's no

String Literal

Tom Doehler Nov 23

Tuta Nov 23

Look who's on HowToGeek's #deGoogle list 😤

Tom Doehler Nov 23

herbert Nov 23

This looks like a major blow to the global makers community “Did Qualcomm kill Arduino for good?“
https://www.molecularist.com/2025/11/did-qualcomm-kill-arduino-for-good.html #arduino / cc @pluralistic

Did Qualcomm kill Arduino for good? | Molecularist

The maker community worried Qualcomm would kill the Arduino ethos. New T&Cs confirm the community's worst fears. Here's what's at stake, what Qualcomm got wrong, and what might still be salvaged.

Molecularist

Tom Doehler Nov 23

iiradned Nov 23

The racist, authoritarian neofeudal fantasy world bosses want.

Boss preppers @pluralistic
https://pluralistic.net/2025/11/22/eschatology-watch/

Pluralistic: Boss preppers (22 Nov 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

Tom Doehler Nov 12, 2025

gregg r Nov 11, 2025

*Enshittification* by @pluralistic is up for the 2025 Goodreads Choice Awards, Readers Favorite Nonfiction. Having it win might be a fun way to give Amazon (Goodreads' owner) a whoopee cushion to sit on.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/222376640-enshittification?from_choice=true

Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and…

Enshittification: It’s not just you―the internet sucks …

Goodreads

Tom Doehler Nov 11, 2025

Neat summary of the path to financial independence: https://ofdollarsanddata.com/the-ideal-level-of-wealth/

#retireearly #financialindependence

The Ideal Level of Wealth

On the amount of money needed to live well, and why we can put a number on it.

Of Dollars And Data

Tom Doehler Nov 1, 2025

New blog is almost done. Just in time for season 5 to come to an end.

Tom Doehler Oct 19, 2025

Reilly Spitzfaden (they/them)Oct 14, 2025

I found a nice way to get offline documentation in Neovim!

https://devdocs.io/ is already a nice resource, and https://github.com/maskudo/devdocs.nvim lets you install and access those documents as local .md files.

#Neovim #Nvim #Developer #Documentation #Offline #LocalFirst