Linux & GrapheneOS โ€ข Monero โ€ข Spreading awareness of privacy rights โ€ข Locked and loaded against mass surveillance & censorship

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Joined July 2024
If I stop posting, it's because I was forced to show my ID or face to keep using ๐•
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Claude isn't private. Cloud AI never will. Local AI already is.
โ€ผ๏ธ A Sydney man was charged after allegedly telling Anthropic's Claude he would "shoot up the local daycare". His lawyer says he was venting over an ear infection and thought the chats were private. Interpol flagged them, the Sydney Morning Herald reports. It is unclear how.
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I installed Brave Origin on Linux to give it a try, and the most private search engine on the most private browser dropped me this. I love it.
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What is happening to freedom worldwide?
The last two weeks in privacy ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธA federal judge called Flock indiscriminate mass surveillance. ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธTSAโ€™s vendor extracted your passport photo without TSA knowing. ๐Ÿค–ChatGPT reads your prompts to target you with ads. ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ฑAn Israeli ad firm delivered spyware to journalists. No click required. ๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡บAustralia is suing five platforms over a ban with an 81% bypass rate. ๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ฐDenmarkโ€™s population register was breached with the password 123456. ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธThe US government scans visa holders for criticism of the president. A judge called it unconstitutional. ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆCanada is forcing the tool that protects 20 million dissidents to leave. ๐Ÿ‡ฒ๐Ÿ‡ฆMorocco sold pre-infected phones through secondhand dealers. The vendor is the surveillance layer The database outlasts the protection Did we miss something?
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DO NOT GIVE AI ACSESS TO YOUR PASSWORDS !!!
Grok Bot can now use your 1Password account. Approve the logins you want to share, and your Bot signs in for you. This new integration is rolling out to users over the next few days.
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vibecoders cooking at 3AM
โ€œare you worried about the php vulnerabilityโ€ โ€œno, are youโ€ โ€œno. do you know what php isโ€ โ€œno. do youโ€ โ€œnoโ€
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GrapheneOS is Linux.
Replying to @pgattic1
GrapheneOS is Linux. Linux is already enough of a problem without adding the mess of systemd, GNU, GNOME and similar software. We don't want any of that and it should be replaced on the desktop too. Linux should be replaced with a microkernel. It's all increasingly doable now.
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AdGuard DNS at 94.140.14.14 and 94.140.15.15 remains fully available in France today. It is not covered by the Paris court orders that forced Quad9 to withdraw service for French users from 24 November. The operator is based in Cyprus. Its public servers keep no individual logs. French tech outlets still list it as a working alternative while Quad9, Google, and DNS4EU apply or face the beIN Sports blocking rules. Future pressure is possible. A no-logs VPN remains the stronger layer if court orders expand.
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Always fun to see closed source stuffs getting broken
โ€ผ๏ธResearchers at Calif have jailbroken the iPhone duo on its release day.
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quad9 ๐Ÿ’ฏ IPv4: 9.9.9.9 IPv6: 2620:fe::fe
A privacy-first DNS resolver just chose to leave an entire country rather than lie to its users. Quad9 is shutting off its free DNS service in France on November 24, after a French court ordered it to block domains that BeIN Sports claimed were facilitating sports piracy. Quad9 refused. "We categorically refuse to alter or lie to you about the DNS responses you receive in a way that opposes your expectations." The court had actually reduced the fine to just โ‚ฌ1,000 per day. Quad9 still walked away. Because the real problem was not the fine. It was the precedent. Complying would mean either applying French copyright law to Quad9's global DNS infrastructure, or using geo-blocking methods that Quad9 considers technically unreliable and ethically compromised. Either way, the integrity of the service breaks. This is what it looks like when a privacy tool takes its mission seriously. Most services would have quietly blocked the domains and moved on. Quad9 chose to exit instead ๐Ÿ‘
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This promise aged like milk
Google promised to keep your photos out of ads. That changed on October 16. Now, data derived from your photos can help train AI, personalize ads, and also be reviewed by Google staff and third-party service providers. That promise didn't age well.
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the right to satire doesn't exist in the UK nowadays
A 15 year old in the UK was arrested by police and had his devices seized after posting jokes about a local councillor on Facebook He posted an edited photo of the councillor with bunny ears, while the councillor says the posts were part of a wider pattern of online harassment
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