Apple is removing iCloud end-to-encryption features from the UK after government compelled it to add backdoors https://9to5mac.com/2025/02/21/apple-removing-end-to-encryption-uk/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
It's now confirmed: Google CAPTCHA is used to spy on you.
"A 2023 study concluded CAPTCHAs are 'a tracking cookie farm for profit masquerading as a security service' that made us spend 819 million hours clicking on traffic lights to generate nearly $1 trillion for Google"
We deep-dove into this story and countless others in the latest episode of Surveillance Report. We cover weekly privacy & security news to keep you safe. Watch the latest episode now:
https://youtu.be/Svn2clXF8cw
X/Twitter time and time again proves itself to be an unfree platform, and a dangerous place to seek privacy and security advice.
Decentralized platforms like Mastodon are the most obvious path forward to avoid censorship and preserve free access to knowledge. Despite this, many continue to rely on Twitter as their exclusive means to stay up to date on the latest trends both in privacy/security and the wider world.
Due to this censorship, these folks will have increasingly large blind spots in their personal knowledge. How do we finally convince people to protect themselves against this ever-growing threat?
https://www.theverge.com/news/613997/x-blocks-signal-me-links-errors
🚨 BREAKING 🚨
#Google just launched a new era of tracking. Digital #fingerprinting.
❌ No consent
❌ No escape
Here’s why this is a #privacy nightmare much worse than #cookies: 👇
https://tuta.com/blog/digital-fingerprinting-worse-than-cookies
@SecureInStyle I keep pleading with people outside the US to store things and not just count solely on the Internet Archive to do this for them. They're amazing, but a huge target right now.
Unfortunately, it doesn't look like many non-Americans understand how bad it has gotten in one month and that this is really happening, right now. I will buy all the hard drives I can myself when I move.
The digital book burning and minimization of trans/black/gay/women's history is very well underway here. And because the US hosts much of the internet architecture, it has been very effective. They are doing everything from blowing away digital backups, to wiping file repos, to painting over walls and murals, to forcing changes in school curriculum. Now. It is happening now.
Also, I foresee that UK and European universities that have relatively recently replaced their own IT systems by Microsoft may soon deeply regret this decision.
3/
devenv telemetry warning
If you're using #devenv for your projects, please note that #telemetry was added in the 1.4.0 release.
It handles `DO_NOT_TRACK=`¹ by sending that value along² with the telemetry instead of not sending any at all.
But worse, it tars up all files it can find through `git ls-files -z`³ and exfiltrates them to the service.
1/n
[1] https://github.com/cachix/devenv/blob/6c987a8795eedea872afe4d1c1ac518d0c7f6db1/devenv/src/cli.rs#L202-L204
[2] https://github.com/cachix/devenv/blob/6c987a8795eedea872afe4d1c1ac518d0c7f6db1/devenv/src/devenv.rs#L212-L214
[3] https://github.com/cachix/devenv/blob/6c987a8795eedea872afe4d1c1ac518d0c7f6db1/devenv/src/devenv.rs#L226-L257
Palestinian medics and rescue teams retrieved 25 more bodies from rubble in the Gaza Strip over the last 24 hours, pushing the overall death toll from Israel’s genocidal war since October 2023 to 48,264, the Health Ministry said on Saturday.
A ministry statement said that 12 injured people were also admitted to hospitals in the past 48 hours, bringing the number of the injured in the Israeli onslaught to 111,688.
🕎 🇵🇸 ☮️
#Gaza #Palestine
Laid-off Meta employees blast Zuckerberg for running the ‘cruelest tech company out there’ as some claim they were blindsided after parental leave
https://fortune.com/2025/02/13/laid-off-meta-employees-blast-zuckerberg-tech-parental-leave/
Amazon is removing the ability to download purchased Kindle content, which is the only way to read it on my Kobo or elsewhere. What this means is I will no longer be purchasing (“a license to”–ick) any books by the mostly independent authors who exclusively publish there; just cancelled preorders.
#knowledge #learning #research #science #antifa
EDIT: Heyyyyyyyy how about more ideas?
https://annas-archive.org/
https://fmhy.pages.dev/
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/special/index
https://libgen.mx/
You can now boot the latest Debian daily ISOs via UEFI HTTP boot if your firmware supports that and you don't want to deal with silly USB sticks. The needed pmem modules were missing from the installer initrd but not anymore. @highvoltage @pid_eins
As promised, here is our report from FOSDEM 2025 and the hackathon we did afterwards:
https://postmarketos.org/blog/2025/02/10/fosdem-and-hackathon/
Just like last year, it was an incredibly productive time in which we were able to tackle hard problems and greatly move postmarketOS development forward. This hackathon has been financed through your donations from OpenCollective, thank you for making this possible! 💕