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First they ask for your date of birth,
but later they claim it's not enough.
Then they ask for your full name and location,
but later they claim it's not enough.
Then they ask for a copy of your passport,
but later they claim it's not enough.
Then they ask for your facial scan,
but later they claim it's not enough.
Then they ask for your fingerprints,
but later they claim it's not enough.
Then they ask for your palm scan,
but later they claim it's not enough.
Then they ask for a scan of your iris,
but later they claim it's not enough.
Then they ask for ...
#MassSurveillance #Authoritarianism #AgeVerification #Privacy #Democracy #HumanRights
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Then they leak it all and every single form of ID we have becomes useless.
Once it's all breached, leaked, compromised and useless we will end up with the one solution we could have used since day one, a solution that could have been implemented that preserves our privacy, security and identity.
Digital signing. Safe, secure, private.
Breaches and age verification will break ID as we know it and make us all far less secure.
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I'm just waiting for the epstein class to roll out sphincter recognition and/or authentication butt dongles.
It's a matter of time. XD
My #Wikipedia request for comment just closed, finally banning #AI content in articles! "The use of LLMs to generate or rewrite article content is prohibited"
Kudos to all who participated in writing the guideline (especially Kowal2701) and the whole WikiProject AI Cleanup team, this was very much a group effort!
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🗞️☕ Are you looking for an interesting weekend read? noyb recently conducted a survey among privacy professionals to find out what kind of #GDPR simplification #European companies actually need.
🔍 One of the key findings was that most professionals don’t actually want protections to be cut back, but for documentation duties and #paperwork to be reduced. In many cases, they even ask for clearer laws instead of more ‘flexibility’.
👇 Find the full survey below 👇
noyb.eu/en/gdpr-omnibus-eu-sim…
GDPR Omnibus: EU “simplification” far removed from real business needs
The participants' responses often point in the opposite direction to the European Commission’s approachnoyb.eu
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That's right folks, it is now easier to buy a firearm than to load open source software on your phone in America.
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I need help with the server hosting all my open-source projects: #Fedilab, #HolosSocial, #HolosDiscover, and more.
The current server costs €350/year but is no longer suited for the load. I often run out of disk space. I need to migrate to a more powerful one with expandable storage. Renewal is due in a few days.
I have set a goal of €500 on Ko-fi, cost unknown.
Ko-fi: ko-fi.com/tom79
Liberapay: liberapay.com/tom79
Sharing this post helps keep my open-source projects alive.
tom79's profile - Liberapay
My name is Thomas, I use a part of my spare time to develop and maintain open source projects (Fedilab, Tubelab, UntrackMe, OpenMultiMaps, FediPlan, Mastodon comments for …Liberapay
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Not what you asked, so ignore me if you don't want to think about it. Have you considered self hosting? Storage was the limiting factor that pushed me off the cloud. A 1TB drive costs about €100 and will last years. 1TB cloud storage was tens of euros per month when I last looked at it.
#HolosDiscover just hit 3 million indexed posts.
What matters more than the number: 145k deletions processed, 83k edits tracked, and over 1k opt-outs respected, all in real time.
Respecting people is the priority and the only way to do it right is to be a full #ActivityPub participant, receiving deletions, edits, and opt-outs as they happen. Before indexing anyone, Holos Discover follows their account, so they know they are being indexed and can opt out.
Source: discover.holos.social/stats
Holos Discover - Stats
A privacy-respecting search engine for Mastodon, Pleroma, Misskey and the Fediverse.Holos Discover
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…I didn’t get a word of that.
I just want to be opted out of your service.
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#Holos is so promising, and #holosdiscover as well - I'd hope other web and mobile apps adopt it... and so glad it is here and live still.
#Holos 1.0.0 is available! With this release, Holos moves from release candidate to production. This version adds a reverse timeline option to display posts oldest-first.
A lot of improvements have also been made to the relay, especially around Bloom filter performance, that are not always reflected in app changelogs.
Available on #FDroid custom repo:
fdroid.fedilab.app
Direct download: framadrive.org/s/SwXt6GbBC97pZ…
Release notes: codeberg.org/tom79/Holos-App/r…
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At long last, I hope I understand the purpose of it.
It is a self-hosted "source of truth" which can publish your content to the Fediverse but is not dependent on it.
Am I right?
Ditch Android. Use PostmarketOS.
Sure. If I want no touch, no wifi, no bluetooth, no camera, no GPS, no modem. A rock has more utility at this point.
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I've been looking into GrapheneOS as an alternative, a bit worried about banking app support tho - may need to carry a second phone in that case. In the long term I'd like to see Linux on mobiles succeed, PostmarketOS may not be very practical now but I think the work they're doing is still important.
Thank you MetaBrainz Foundation (@metabrainz) for supporting Keep Android Open at keepandroidopen.org/open-lette… @keepandroidopen #KeepAndroidOpen
An Open Letter to Google regarding Mandatory Developer Registration for Android App Distribution
Open Letter to Google Regarding Mandatory Developer Registration for Third-Party App Distributionkeepandroidopen.org
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История Fediverse: Рассказ о свободной социальной сети
Ремастеринг подкаста, впервые опубликованного в конце 2020 года. Ссылка на первоисточник: (сервис умер). Главным образом был откорректирован звук: по многочисленным просьбам фоновая музыка стала тише.Мастерская Талантов (RUTUBE)
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I'd *absolutely love* to make one, properly, in a voiceover!
The issue is - time and energy. It took me almost a year to make the original Russian one.
I also wanted the video sequence to go with that, in the style of Ahoy, who was my primary inspiration for the project, but I can't use Blender for shit, and there was almost no other FOSS motion design software (and I use FOSS almost exclusively).
Thank you for doing that work! FWIW here's a list of delightful creative tools around video animation, maintained by @ADHDefy
delightful.coding.social/delig…
delightful creative tools
Delightful curated lists of free software, open science and information sources.delightful.coding.social
#PawFed is a project close to my heart. It's a collaborative map for animal welfare that bridges the #Fediverse and #OpenStreetMap.
The idea: mention @PawFed from your Mastodon account with hashtags and a location, and your report appears on the map. No signup, no app, just your existing Fediverse account.
It's not perfect yet, but the foundation is there. I will publish the source code soon under AGPL.
More: pawfed.org/how-it-works
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Am I correct in my understanding that this requires one to reveal their IRL location in a public toot?
I am sorry, but I am not comfortable with that, unfortunately. I can, and will, however consider setting up another account just for this purpose. Especially since I'm using a certain fediverse app that just happens to handle multiple accounts very nicely ;)
@PawFed
@PawFed I've been adding the dog/dogs tags to venues like pubs and café for ages. Would be great if places tagged as allowing (yes or leashed) showed too
“Vote with your wallet,” they say. Forgetting who has the largest wallets…
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Also, it's hard to vote with your money if all the options are the same shit only in different packaging.
How do you feel about the impending lockdown of Android?
- Good, it is necessary for our safety and security (0%, 32 votes)
- OK, I trust Google to prioritize user interests (0%, 20 votes)
- Bad, it is an attempt to take complete control (57%, 2140 votes)
- Terrible, this is the end of software freedom (41%, 1540 votes)
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I feel that at best, it is an attempt to solve a "people problem" with a software fix. I have worked in IT support long enough to know that that never works. It only compounds the problem by creating even more new ones (while not actually solving the original problem).
The illusion of security will be quickly shattered as soon as scammers figure out how to work around it anyway.
Opposition to Israel has NEVER made me feel like I was in danger as a Jew.
But goddamn I feel more in danger because an apartheid state on the other side of the world is committing genocide and war and saying they’re doing it in my name.
I hate that wearing something that may identify me as Jewish may indicate support for a country I want nothing to do with.
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I hate that my name makes some people think I support the government of Israel and its fascist prime minister. I am stuck with the obligation to keep disclaiming any connection or commitment to that government.
Netanyahu and his genocidal thugs lie to try to use every Jewish person in the world as a human shield for the actions of Israel
Deliberately framing criticism of Israeli actions as an attack on "the Jewish community" is something politicians in the UK do constantly
Its infuriating that its been done deliberately and cynically by so many politicians and much of the media , and
I'm really sorry that you are in this position
**Why do we need to install an app to get push notifications?**
We are used to get pre-installed solutions on Google-certified devices for many services such as the browser (Chrome), the map (Google Map), keyboard (Google keyboard), camera (Google Camera), push notifications (Play Services), etc.
Our free solutions aren't pre-installed on our devices: if we want a free map, we need to install it. It works the same for the push notification service.
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Pokémon Go players thought they were catching Pikachus.
They were actually building the nervous system for robot civilization.
500M humans. 30B images. Zero consent forms.
The game was the harvest.
technologyreview.com/2026/03/1…
How Pokémon Go is giving delivery robots an inch-perfect view of the world
Niantic's AI spinout is training a new world model using 30 billion images of urban landmarks crowdsourced from players.Will Douglas Heaven (MIT Technology Review)
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Yeah, the website is terrible. I left instantly, didn't even bother reading the first sentence
Tired of Enshittification? Take your knowledge offline.
I am currently self hosting a @kiwix instance on my homelab. Having local, searchable copies of Wikipedia, the ArchWiki, and iFixit feels like a cheat code for digital sovereignty.
Spin up the Docker image, grab your ZIM files, and stop relying on big tech to keep the lights on for your reference data.
#Kiwix #SelfHosting #DigitalSovereignty #RightToRepair #ArchLinux #Docker #NoAI
Kiwix - Home
Discover Kiwix’s hardware and software solutions for offline knowledge access across all major platforms. Learn about our mission to bring education worldwide without internet.WikiWanderer (Kiwix)
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It’s bonkers how efficient the @postmarketOS gang is with money.
40K is ridiculously low for everything they’re achieving. And they’re very transparent about how they use it.
If you can afford to donate, pmOS is an excellent investment for our collective future.
New finance blog post is up, nerding out over the 2025 budget (plan vs. execution), and the budget for 2026.The most exciting part is probably the q6voice rework and mainlining which will improve audio significantly for postmarketOS and other Linux Mobile distributions on a large number of QC devices.
A huge thanks to everybody who is supporting postmarketOS financially to make this possible! 😍
postmarketos.org/blog/2026/03/…
Financial update: 2025 financial report and new budget
Aiming for a 10 year life-cycle for smartphonespostmarketOS
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Ben. No, not that one.
in reply to Colin McMillen • • •Seen loads of courses on how to vibe code. Don’t want that, “make pong in 30 seconds” NO!
Have seen tech bros argue that it’s the same as compiling stuff. Again no!
One is a direct conversion, the other is throwing stuff at the wall and see what sticks.
What happened to the fun of making sprites bounce around the screen?
Dauphin1
in reply to Colin McMillen • • •Besides when was the last time anything manual won against automation?
Rokosun
in reply to Dauphin1 • • •I don't think you understand what labor of love means, not everything is a competition which has to be won.
Colin McMillen
in reply to Dauphin1 • • •A plausible, scalable and slightly wrong black box: why large language models are a fascist technology that cannot be redeemed – The Grey Literature
The Grey LiteratureVoquiLeibbrandt pas un pseudo
in reply to Dauphin1 • • •Colin McMillen
in reply to Colin McMillen • • •Lykso
in reply to Colin McMillen • • •Fritz Adalis
in reply to Colin McMillen • • •@aburka
> 100% understood code
I've pulled plenty of code out of my brain where I have 0% idea how it works.
ache
in reply to Fritz Adalis • • •Stefan Scholl
in reply to Colin McMillen • • •Programming, Motherfucker - Do you speak it?
programming-motherfucker.comsaxnot
in reply to Colin McMillen • • •I didn't ask my collegue for a source on that tbh.
Mason Loring Bliss
in reply to Colin McMillen • • •I like that you're calling it a labour of love. There was a time just before the dot-com crash when EVERYONE was getting into programming because it was big money. Those of us in it for love looked on, aghast, as our field was overridden by people who only cared about money, making it all the harder to find work.
This feels like the next iteration of that time, only people learning how to program didn't cause them cognitive harm.
And that suggests that this might be cyclic. I wonder what the next one will be. If it's a quarter of a century away I plan to still be working in the industry. It's what I love.
Cap Ybarra
in reply to Colin McMillen • • •Rokosun
Unknown parent • • •@psu_13
That was a great blog post, good read 🙂 The idea of manual labor of love and slow code reminds me of the trade-free movement. When everything's made for profit then it will naturally lead to a place where all they care about is that, to make a profit. There are still some good trade-free projects out there, like the ones listed here - directory.trade-free.org/
We should understand that trade is an overall negative influence on our society, and promote trade-free projects
Trade-Free Directory
Trade-Free DirectoryRokosun
in reply to Rokosun • • •@psu_13
BTW, if anyone is interested in learning more about the trade-free movement then I recommend watching the TROM II documentary here - tromsite.com/documentaries/tro…
Or on the #peertube page directly - videos.trom.tf/w/p/fVpfZ9VfWrW…
I feel like this documentary is now more important than ever, looking at the current state of our world.
TROM 2
TROM