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Norwegian Government comes out swinging on enshittification

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Spyware maker sentenced to prison in Greece for wiretapping politicians and journalists | TechCrunch

A Greek court on Thursday sentenced the founder of Intellexa, a collective of spyware makers, to eight years in prison for illegal wiretapping and privacy

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So... someone scraped the whole spotify database containing the catalog and audio files. Let's see how long will it take for someone else to create a #pirated free #spotify alternative šŸ¤”

https://annas-archive.li/blog/backing-up-spotify.html

Backing up Spotify

We backed up Spotify (metadata and music files). It’s distributed in bulk torrents (~300TB). It’s the world’s first ā€œpreservation archiveā€ for music which is fully open (meaning it can easily be mirrored by anyone with enough disk space), with 86 million music files, representing around 99.6% of listens.

End of 10: The Open Source alternative to forced obsolescence

The OSI is proud to stand with the ā€œEnd of 10ā€ campaign—a community-driven effort to turn the looming end of Windows 10 support into an opportunity for freedom, sustainability, and digital empowerment.

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šŸ“£ Germany's close to reversing its opposition to mass surveillance & private message scanning, & backing the Chat Control bill. This could end private comms-& Signal-in the EU.

Time's short and they're counting on obscurity: please let German politicians know how horrifying their reversal would be.

#Consumerism is the Perfection of #Slavery - Prof Jiang Xueqin

https://youtu.be/4pG-8XLLaE0

Consumerism is the Perfection of Slavery - Prof Jiang Xueqin

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ā€œThe free, open access communications paradigm we have did not arrive like magic. It was the product of a fair amount of political wranglingā€ - that's why we must continue our fight for the web.

šŸ™ @WashPost for reviewing 'This Is for Everyone'

https://www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/09/12/this-is-everyone-world-wide-web-tim-berners-lee-review/

The inventor of the web says we can recapture its magic. Is he right?

In ā€œThis Is for Everyone,ā€ Tim Berners-Lee writes about the early days of the internet and how we might restore its more democratic roots.

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šŸ“£ NEW -- In The Economist, discussing the privacy perils of AI agents and what AI companies and operating systems need to do--NOW--to protect Signal and much else!

https://www.economist.com/by-invitation/2025/09/09/ai-agents-are-coming-for-your-privacy-warns-meredith-whittaker?giftId=859d3a46-a913-4ee0-a3d5-060b774c2501&utm_campaign=gifted_article