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This affects the Fediverse.

This affects the Internet.

This is the equivalent of the "rubber hose method" of decryption.

All technical solutions (read: all technology) is subject to politics. To political power. To political interactions.

You cannot rely on purely technical approaches. You have to have social approaches, too. Like. Actual policy and procedure geared around social and political group dynamics.

Like. How will we react when the US Govt requires that @jerry to shut off infosec.exchange servers.

Or how we'll react when a specific Mastodon server is declared part of a terrorist infrastructure. Will federating with it mean any other Mastodon server is now part of the officially designated terrorist network (what then of people that federate with a server that federates with a server that is classified as part of a terrorist network. And so on)

You cannot carry the conceit that tech alone or a purely technical approach will save you.

#AutisticiInventati #fediverse

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#fediverse #AutisticiInventati @Scary "Grampus" Jerry 👻
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william ⁂ maggos

but also, a fedi that cared more about that public interest than whether people could use social media without ever stumbling on horrible shit, would take a different policy towards federation. if we don't want politics to get more fascistic, we have to be open to moderate and conservative opinions (but never trolling) here. otherwise we will remain tiny and most people will use the bad platforms and be radicalized by shitty owner algos. we won't be part of the conversation.
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20,000 mail accounts.
20,000 blogs.
5,000 mailing lists.
1,500 websites.

In Europe.

Run by volunteers of @cavallette, perfectly legal, and decidedly antifascist, feminist, queer.

Destroyed and shut down by Trump's administration, extra legally.

It is astonishingly quiet.

#Autistici

#autistici @cavallette
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Paleva

we communicated before internet, we’ll do so when internet means control by fascists.
It is slower in many cases, but has maybe it’s charm, too. There is no click to check them all at once, u need to open it and read it manually, no profit at all tho any tech-gigant
I remember having penpals😃 I loved it. Sharing stickers and zines. With every run to the post-office one can stick some more stickers🙃
Let’s connect and network, we even have a Fax🤭
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Dear #government agencies, #NGOs, #publicservice institutions.

Public #announcements are critical to you and to us #citizens. Please don't force us to submit to the whims of #invasive & #exploitative private #walledgardens & #middlemen like #Twitter / #X, to just to read your messages for us!

A few alternatives are listed in the follow up toots.

Everybody else: Please share this message with the #authorities that matter to you.

#CC0 (public domain)
#privacy #softwarefreedom #sns

The Nitter site (https://nitter.net/) displaying a message stating that their service has been suspended upon receipt of a cease and desist order from Twitter/X. Nitter is an open source alternative web frontend to Twitter/X that allows you to read tweets without logging on to the main site. Twitter/X removed the ability to read it without logging in, a while ago. Many government and other public service agencies still use Twitter to publish their announcements. This forces the users to maintain an account on the site. A lot of people choose not to do so for ideological, privacy or practical reasons. The site is notorious for hosting racist and sexist content, predominantly neo-nazism, including by the owner of the service. Source: Nitter site rendered in a mobile web browser. Dated: 2026-09-06
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A/I Shuts Down Stay Human · Keep the Internet free

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#fascism #aivsus #aicrackdown2026
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This instance is hosted on a 20 year old laptop, boost to give it a stress test.
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Did you know that to be available on Google, I had to:

- Remove donation links
- Hard-coded censorship
- Create a dedicated account so they can log into it

I am really upset by this difference in strictness, where I am stuck.
This cost a lot of energy because they made everything simple for the end user but not for the devs.
All these actions are not for protecting you, it's for controlling you.

Choose #FDroid

#fdroid
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I was inspired recently after someone asked me about why I didn’t have an Instagram, to make a four page comic on why. I'm not going back to Instagram.

Maybe I can just hand this out if people ask me now.
#Comic #Autobio

"Do You Have an Instagram by Jey Pawlik" comic page 1. The comic is black and white with halftones. While at an event with a lot of folks milling around, Jey talks with another person. The two were talking before the comic began and the person says "~ oh cool! You do comics?" Jey happily responds "Yeah, I even have books!" The person asks "Do you have an Instagram?" This surprises Jey, and their smile leaves their face as they reply "Uh, no. I don't. Sorry." The person looks worried and says "Wha-- Why not?!" Jey shrugs it off and says "It's a long story." The person is curious and asks "What happened?" Narration over a black background: "Sometimes a decade's worth of posts, art, followers and comments are just taken right from under you without notice."
"Do You Have an Instagram by Jey Pawlik" comic page 2. The comic is black and white with halftones. A black panel with white text. Narration: And you lose all trust in platforms, because YOU don't own anything. Jey and Max get home with suitcases in hand and look well rested. Jey says "We're back!" and Max says "Two weeks without internet was heaven!" Jey laughs as they sit at their computer and say "Gotta see how many emails I gotta sift through! haha" The panel turns dark as Jey looks more closely at their computer screen. An email from Instagram has appeared and reads: Instagram Take action or lose access to jeypawlik Hi jeypawlik, Your account has been suspended. This is because your account, or activity on it, does not follow our Terms of Use. If you think this was a mistake, you have until December 19, 2023 to appeal.
"Do You Have an Instagram by Jey Pawlik" comic page 3. The comic is black and white with halftones. Jey is holding their head, terrified they say "How? What?! This has to be a mistake!" From Instragram: Reason: Automated Bot-Like Behavior Jey's hands start falling down their cheeks as they read the reasoning. They say "My account wasn't hacked. My activity is clean." A big "Appeal" button appears above Jey and their mouse clicks on it. They nervously look at their computer screen saying "It's just a mistake, right?" The Instagram appeal form reads: Provide your Personal Info: Full Name Instagram username Registered email address Attach Identification: For individual accounts, take a clear photo of yourself holding a handwritten sign with your full name and Instagram username. At the bottom is a "Submit" button. Jey looks tired and frustrated as they take a selfie with the info Instagram asked for. A new email comes in from Instagram that reads: Hi jeypawlik, We reviewed your account and found that it still doesn't follow our Terms of Use. As a result, your account has been permanently disabled. Learn how our Terms of Use help keep the Instagram community an authentic and respectful place for people to express themselves. Jey is in utter shock as the words "PERMANENTLY DISABLED" are huge an intimidating behind them.
"Do You Have an Instagram by Jey Pawlik" comic page 4. The comic is black and white with halftones. Jey is angry and throwing their hands down as they exclaim "But I did everything they asked!" They explode, raising their hands above them in rage. They say "Bot-like behaviour?! How could a bot give a selfie with my name and handle?!" Note: this story takes place before AI was a thing. Jey, at their computer, shows the meta-suite on their screen and says "All I did was use their stupid META suite to schedule posts" a note above the screen reads "THEY MADE THIS!" Jey collapses onto the ground and their spouse rubs their back. Jey, defeated, says "I hate social media." Time passes with a large gap between panels. Jey is at another gathering, much like the one on the first page and is chatting with someone. The person asks "Oh cool! You do comics? Do you have an Instagram?" Jey grins and has a new response, saying "No, but you should check out my website instead 'cause I actually own it! And have you heard about RSS?"
#comic #autobio

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Since a few people asked to allow for bigger monthly donations we are doing just that! See tromsite.com/donate/

We ran an experiment for the past few years only accepting 5€ monthly donations to distribute the load on our supporters. We almost got half way, but it was stagnating. Now we allow for larger donations and also one time donations, in case some people can support us with more.

On the same page you can now see the monthly total donations we got for the past 6 months. And of course you can browse through everything that TROM does so you understand what you are supporting.

HUGE thank you to everyone who supports us financially!

#trom #donations #alternativeplatforms #tromsite

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The last thing standing between you and an insufferable experience on your #Android device is the #ADB - an interface necessary to develop apps. But now that everyone is hooked, Ghoul LLC ( #Google ) scammers are on a scummy campaign to rug pull you by wrecking that facility. #FOSS apps will be killed immediately. Regular users won't be spared for long either.

I've been planning to write about how those fit together to harm you. But that's going to need an article!

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Keep Android Open

Your phone is about to stop being yours. In 2027, Google will block every Android app whose developer hasn't registered with them.
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#foss #Google #android #adb

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Gokul Das

That's one point I was going to address in the article.

We won't ever have a Linux on PC moment for anything on smartphones. The PC architecture was very modular and open, spurring innovation in both hardware and software. Smartphone architecture is the polar opposite of that. And that's no accident. Google, the OEMs and the SoC/chipset manufacturers participate in anticompetitive exclusivity and nondisclosure agreements. That's why they're so hard to design and maintain.

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I feel like the only way this can be solved is through strict regulation. Make a law stating that users should be able to install any OS of their choice on the devices they own, and any measures taken by the companies to thwart this freedom should be declared illegal. Similarly there should be a law stating that users should be allowed to install any app on the default OS the device ships with, no monopolistic control by Google or Apple via their app stores or dev verification.
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Gokul Das

@futureisfoss @famubu I agree with you in principle. But there are two serious challenges to that.

1. This duopoly is made of two filthy rich trillion dollar corporations. They have more persuasive power than all of us to get what they want from the government.

2. Our own governments work for them now. You can't open any public service or banking app without signing in to play services. They use the safetynet API. Essentially, government is helping them lock down the devices.

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@famubu

I was actually going to make another point about having a law requiring that banking apps should work on all OSes, or at least not rely on any central authority for approval (like Apple or Google play services) other than the bank itself. Overall this problem ties into the issues with DRM... And Google is also trying to make their reCaptcha service depend on these, making most of the internet inaccessible for custom ROM users. I think all of these should be illegal.

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@famubu

I understand that getting the government to care and changing laws is going to be difficult, so I understand what you're trying to say. I never said any of these are going to be easy, but I feel like this is what we have to do if we want to make any real progress on this matter. We are past the point of trying to solve the problems using technical measures alone, we were able to do that for laptops and PCs with Linux but mobile devices are a different situation.

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@famubu

Now consider the fact that many governments around the world are passing age verification laws which only harms the privacy and digital freedom of citizens, makes it very clear to me where the fight is actually happening..... Forget mobile phones, even printer companies are making it so that only their own "certified" ink cartridges can be used with their printers, eventually making most of their profit by selling overpriced ink rather than the printer itself.

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@famubu

To me all of these are a clear indication of a dysfunctional regulatory system. And this won't be fixed unless people and their government start taking digital freedom and privacy seriously, and start to fight back against these monopolistic practices. Regulating big corporations are hard but not impossible, we have done so in the past.... And even bigger and longstanding corporations have fallen in history.

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@famubu

In more recent memory we have the EU enforcing type C charging port on iPhones, and the consumer protection authority of Brazil pushing back against Apple's decision to remove chargers from the iPhone box - since they consider it an incomplete product being sold at full price. Even the EU's GDPR is still much better than nothing, despite some of its shortcomings.

Even if one big country start taking digital freedom and privacy seriously that can open the door for us all.

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Gokul Das

@futureisfoss @famubu I hate to be so pessimistic here. So don't take this as a discouragement. I just can't avoid it. Good things happen when the government feels like they owe the citizens something - like in Brazil.
Here we have a government that cheers for an education minister who was FORCED to resign after letting 22 different exam papers leak and dozens of candidates commit suicide in desperation during his tenure. <Rest of this message is censored to satisfy community guidelines>
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@famubu

Since this thread has been pretty negative so far I will share some videos which gave me some hope:

This ad against enshittification from the Norwegian government - youtube.com/watch?v=T4Upf_B9RL…

This former congressman who stood up for digital rights at a time when most people weren't aware of these issues - youtube.com/watch?v=W_Sz8eJJGR…

Seeing the number of people who came on this council meeting to speak against automated license plate readers - youtube.com/watch?v=FCtAYZYMSa…

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@GamersNexus fights flock in his backyard

Auf YouTube findest du die angesagtesten Videos und Tracks. Außerdem kannst du eigene Inhalte hochladen und mit Freunden oder gleich der ganzen Welt teilen.
Louis Rossmann (YouTube)
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Gokul Das

@futureisfoss @famubu I know I've been pessimistic. I'm frustrated by how money decides our fate, instead of our collective bargaining power. Our demagogue netas glady sell themselves to the highest bidder, instead of pushing back on our behalf.

While the GenZ protests offer a glimmer of hope, they're are too few and far in between for us to recoup our fair share. The rot is far deeper and serious than that of tech. Where do you even start for a political solution?

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Gokul Das

@futureisfoss @famubu Have you noticed how these 'tech companies' (I hate they defile the name of tech) eagerly push age verification worldwide without being asked to, while they drag their feet about the same with GDPR & CCPA, after they've been asked to?

Look, I'll gladly participate in any measure that will bring these greedy b@stard5 to their knees. But I'm increasingly starting to wonder how extreme a measure that'll have to be. (No, I won't support violence.)

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@famubu

I think organizations like the @eff, @noybeu, @privacyint, etc are a great asset in this fight. I feel like different countries have a different relation with these tech companies, they might not have an equal level of influence everywhere.... I think the important thing is to organize and be active around these issues. I like what Louis Rossmann is doing with consumerrights.wiki - even little things like that can make a difference, to see it all documented like that....

Consumer Rights Wiki - Anti-Consumer Practices Database

The community-built wiki documenting anti-ownership, anti-consumer practices ranging from right-to-repair restrictions, planned obsolescence, subscription traps, & digital rights issues.
Consumer Rights Wiki
@Privacy International @Electronic Frontier Foundation @famubu @noyb.eu
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Gokul Das

The cherry on top is that the govt is a corporate shill in disguise. People would be shocked by their conduct if the regulatory and monitoring agencies were functional.
The same goes for privacy. Hell! People can't even get the govt to stick to the promise they gave the SC that Aadhaar would be optional! We aren't fighting negligence here. We're fighting full on betrayal of trust!
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@famubu

> For one, this isn't regulatory dysfunction. It's regulatory capture!

Yeah man, this needs to be said and highlighted every time the issue of digital rights and privacy comes up. I think it's important to focus on that because it is in many ways the root of these problems, and it's hard to solve a sociopolitical problem like that using technical measures - I'm glad it worked out for Linux on laptops and PCs but doing the same for the mobile market won't be easy.

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@famubu

Also take note that not all governments are the same and even within governments there are different people with different opinions and agendas of their own. Like you mentioned EU's GDPR and California's CCPA are examples of some good regulation happening, I want to see more of that. And most importantly for people to start talking about it as the sociopolitical problem it actually is. Almost all of it is a monopolistic practice and rife with lobbying and corruption.

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Gokul Das

This 'age verification' scumminess is actually the idea of the scumbags at ghoul, rotten apple, faceplant, etc. They're the ones who bribed the politicians behind the scene to pass those god awful laws. If they were that serious about 'privacy and security', where was their enthusiasm when the EU GDPR and California CCPA laws were passed? Those don't benefit them like this one!

Honestly, they should have splintered those companies into a million pieces a long time ago!

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Oh! I absolutely WANT the EFFING GOVERNMENT to rectify this SHITSHOW! How corrupt is it that they're forcing us to surrender our privacy to the likes of GHOUL LLC in order to avail the services that are rightfully ours? They could at least run a HALF DECENT WEB APP!!!

On top of that, their NOSY CRAPWARE scan OUR phones and dictate to us what IS AND IS NOT ALLOWED TO RUN ON IT! I want to smack the heads of the govt IT dev team with a big brick! Effing PRICKS! 🤬

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Hari Prakash

@futureisfoss @famubu regulations can be watered down by lobbying, IMO the AOSP needs to be broken off Google and made into a separate non profit or something similar to how linux is governed. Google will still have tremendous influence but at least it will be independent and will allow for the community to be part of the development. I'd do the same for chromium, these two projects give google tremendous power chopping them off would do the world a ton of good.
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Gokul Das

@hariprakashj @futureisfoss @famubu That's what I was saying too. Any company worth over a trillion dollars should be shred apart into a million splinters and sprinkled all over the planet, with the strict condition that they can't do business with each other!
BTW, this isn't a new or radical idea. Someone else put it equally bluntly before - Franklin D Roosevelt. The 33rd president of the US!
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@hariprakashj @famubu

I know that these trillion dollar corporations have a lot of sway and that's a problem, I was just saying that at some point we have to draw a line - we have done this in the past with the tobacco industry and such, tho I know that's an extreme example since it caused the death of many. In the end I'm not against any of your ideas, but they also require some kind of government intervention to break apart these monopolies.

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Rokosun

I was just thinking that since we have already established human rights why not extended it and add some digital rights which are fundamental for any democratic society. Or as @aral called it, Cyborg rights - since we are depended on our technology in so many aspects of our lives that we can basically call ourselves cyborgs now.

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@hariprakashj @famubu

Without protecting some fundamental freedoms like our ability to choose an operating system or being able to install the software of our choosing on the devices we own, how do we make sure that companies won't take away our control? Even if you break apart big monopolies like Google that doesn't mean other companies won't do the same, or worse Android and iOS will continue being this way even after their parent company is broken apart.

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Hari Prakash

@futureisfoss @famubu I agree regulations are needed too and they need to be kept up to date. In the past when companies like standard oil were broken up the regulations helped but IMO the most good was from breaking them up. We are here again because we let consolidated go unchecked. As a society we need to vilify consolidation as it a threat to our very existence. These companies currently have more power than any empire in human history, they are too big to be regulated.
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@hariprakashj @famubu

Yes all good points man, I'd be happy to see these monopolies broken up and then improving regulation.... I think we all feel like we're past the point where these companies should have gotten some major pushback from governments, and we're in this mess because it didn't happen when it should have. In some way perhaps Linux and the FOSS movement gave us hope, even on Android you had a lot more freedom than iOS until they started locking it down bit by bit.

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Gokul Das

@futureisfoss @hariprakashj @famubu One advantage of breaking them up is that they can't continue their abusive practices. One thing about those practices is that they aren't exactly popular winning strategies. But they aren't meant to be. They're used to provide an associated business with an unfair advantage in the market. The latter in turn funds the former. Breaking them up simply makes it unviable for them.

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Gokul Das

@futureisfoss @hariprakashj @famubu Take the case of Internet Explorer. It was crap compared to Netscape Navigator (Firefox's predecessor). But IE's role wasn't to beat NN. It was to sabotage NN by removing incentive for users to purchase it.

MS rightly feared that the upcoming Web 2.0 platform would supplant Windows as the dominant app platform. (IE delayed this.) This is why US DoJ tried to break MS up. IE on its own would have to compete on merit, instead of being Windows' henchman.

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@hariprakashj @famubu

I wish the government still does things like that, especially in the tech industry these few companies are so large mainly due to their anticompetitive practices..... If government intervenes with an antitrust lawsuit or something and decides to break them apart then I think that would still be a huge win for us, and yeah could open the door for further regulation as well.

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Rokosun

There is no easy solution for this but I think the first step is to make people understand why digital rights and privacy are important, and how it impacts our democracy. I feel like most people don't think about technology this way.... And most are not aware of how these companies are fucking things up for them.

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@hariprakashj @famubu

I mentioned the example of printer companies forcing people to use only their cartridges, that feels like a clear example of an anti-consumerist practice. Even tho this isn't really about mobile phones or PCs I think it deserves mentioning because to me it feels like it all falls under the same umbrella. If the EU can force Apple to use type C charging port then we can also force these printer companies into using an open standard for ink cartridges.

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Autistici/Inventati got sanctioned by the U.S. for providing secure services to left-wing activists and allegedly terrorists.

This must be another wake-up call for digital sovereignty.

After all, #privacy is a human right, and we must not take that away from everyone.

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"Privacy technology does not become extremist because extremists use the tool.” HANNA BOZAKOV, CEO TUTA

U.S. Sanctions against Autistici/Inventati are the next wake-up call for digital sovereignty | Tuta

Autistici/Inventati Sanctions: Privacy technology does not become extremist because extremists use the tool.
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Which ambitious open source project are you most excited about?

  • LibrePhone (34%, 44 votes)
  • Servo (57%, 73 votes)
  • Asterinas (0%, 0 votes)
  • Something else (please specify in the comments) (8%, 11 votes)
128 voters. Poll end: Wednesday, September 9, 2026, 9:59 AM

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Stop saying stupid stuff like:
"If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear."

Start saying:
"A free country doesn't track innocent citizens."

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#Google is bringing #AgeVerification to #Android users around the globe!

"Providing a safe online experience and protecting users from harm is a top priority at #GooglePlay", says Google.

I don't remember Google being this enthusiastic about safety when #EU's #GDPR and #California's #CCPA #privacy laws were rolled out. How is age verification better than privacy for online safety?

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Delivering safer, age-appropriate experiences on Google Play

News and insights on the Android platform, developer tools, and events.
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Gokul Das

#ChildSafety MUST be implemented through effective #ParentalControl and proper #SafetyGuidelines, not by imposing invasive #BigBrother control on everyone.

It's infuriating to watch CyberMussolini Inc gaslight #Android users with their 'user safety' charade, while they contemptuously slip digital #dictatorship into our handheld devices, a little bit at a time. And given their child safety record, it's like watching a #predator preach child safety! Disgusting!

#Google
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Gokul Das

I hope it's abundantly clear who's behind these draconian #AgeVerification laws in the guise of #ChildSafety. Corporations like #Google cannot receive enough hate for the societal damage and dystopian world order they're responsible for.

How long are you going to tolerate the abuses of these grotesque greedy corporations in exchange for convenience? Vote with your wallet!

Please help #Linux #smartphones become a reality. Discard #Android!

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New TROMjaro ISO released forum.tromjaro.com/t/tromjaro-…

There is always work behind the TROM Project that most people are totally unaware of. It takes a lot of time to keep so many projects alive and relevant. If you want to see all we do go here tromsite.com/donate/ - where you can also support us financially if you can.

#linux #xfce #tromjaro #arch #manjaro

TROMjaro 2026.08.27

The usual Manjaro Stable updates. Keep it simple and working. You can grab the ISO from here.
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#Linux #manjaro #arch #xfce #TROMjaro

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Shout out to this personal website I came across while searching for Astro themes. It has a little music keyboard on it. Cats. A cute guestbook. It's just delightful. ky.fyi/

Ky Decker

Ky is a designer and web developer based in New York City.
Ky Decker

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Gentle reminder, when someone is sharing some small piece of resistance they have done, DO NOT SHIT ON IT. Do not tell them it isn't enough or it's still bad because blah blah other stuff...

Everyone is tired and overwhelmed and trying to find some accessible way they can push back. Cheer that!

Celebrate the small; celebrate the imperfect.

No single action is gonna solve everything, but a whole bunch of small actions start the sea change.

Don't punch down when we all need lifting up.

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#nature #birds #wild #volunteers #lithuania #volunteering #rewilding @Dima

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