@OhMyGod Desktop Linux including the mobile ports of it is falling further and further behind Android on privacy and security. It's definitely not catching up to it but rather the opposite.

Android has a large open source mobile app ecosystem. That app ecosystem is written for Android, not desktop Linux. Running an old fork of AOSP in a container where the privacy/security model is largely disabled and the overall device is more exposed to app exploits as Waydroid does is hardly progress.

@OhMyGod GrapheneOS and the Android Open Source Project are Linux distributions. Linux doesn't mean using systemd and GNOME. Linux is definitely not an inherently good thing for privacy and security. It's a massive monolithic kernel written in a memory unsafe language with performance explicitly heavily prioritized over security. Linux needs to be replaced to have reasonably secure devices going forward. It's a major weakness in AOSP and especially GrapheneOS. It's far worse than the iOS kernel.

@OhMyGod Desktop Linux is dramatically less private and secure than the Android Open Source Project. It doesn't provide a comparable privacy/security model, exploit protections, broad use of memory safe languages, full system MAC/MLS policies and much more. It doesn't have basic defenses needed to protect against remote exploits, forensic data extraction from After First Unlock state devices, malicious apps, etc. Moving to that is a major privacy/security regression.

A slightly tipsy Ursa Marceau does his famous “bear stuck in a box” routine for Santa and the elves at the annual North Pole company Christmas party.

How do trackers see your internet browser? Find out with Cover Your Tracks: https://coveryourtracks.eff.org

Android 16 QPR2 experimental releases will be available soon. We're dealing with a lot of attacks on the project branching off from the smear campaign in France. We'd appreciate if our community would debunk this nonsense across platforms for us so we can focus on QPR2. Thanks.

If you see the fake story about someone claiming to be charged with premeditated murder because GrapheneOS supposedly didn't protect their data, see https://nitter.net/GrapheneOS/status/1997126386968903972 for a thorough debunking. Their story keeps changing and clearly isn't real. They may be a career criminal but this is fake.

EFF has long warned about police use of facial recognition technology. Now we're seeing exactly what we feared: Axon is testing this tech in body-worn cameras. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/12/axon-tests-face-recognition-body-worn-cameras

Axon is testing facial recognition technology in its body-worn cameras with a Canadian police department. This dangerous expansion of surveillance tech should alarm every community. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/12/axon-tests-face-recognition-body-worn-cameras

#Montreal was rated #1 bicycle city in North America this year.

But the party that won the municipal election in November campaigned on auditing and removing bike lanes.

They’ve already started in my borough, #Outremont.

So we made our own bike lane this morning. We want, and need, to keep our kids active—and safe.

“The Nuremberg… verdicts established the principle of individual criminal accountability for human-rights violations in wartime...

The lead American prosecutor… framed the trials in near-existential terms. “The wrongs which we seek to condemn and punish,” he proclaimed in his powerful opening statement, “have been so calculated, so malignant, and so devastating, that civilization cannot tolerate their being ignored, because it cannot survive their being repeated.”

https://open.substack.com/pub/lucid/p/trumps-dangerous-disregard-for-international?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email

I will ask chat GPT
I will boil the last of our drinking water
Salt the soil of the scrub-lands
Tear the pages from books and feed them to my fire

I will ask copilot
I will scramble your library
reanimate and puppet the faces of your dead ancestors
I will bury you in poor copies of your dreams

I will ask grok
I will fall silent and never speak to you
I will talk only to myself lost in a maze of my own fantasies
I will forget all who cannot compliment me
I will decouple my soul from this world.

Hal hadn’t survived three Thanksgivings by being stupid.

I feel this needs to be repeated 🍪

The annoyance of cookie banners
doesn't come from the regulations, but from the malicious compliance of the corporations who want to exploit your personal data.

No data-harvesting cookies = No banner.
Simple.

My websites have no cookie banners,
because they don't use any non-essential cookies and don't track visitors.

Yours shouldn't either.

#Privacy #Cookies #PrivacyLaw

Seeing open source and privacy companies having Discord as their support channel feels like a vegan community meeting at a steak house for events.

#discord #privacy

"If you're not on board with AI you're going to get left behind"

Boost if you'd like to be left behind and would consider paying extra for a life without this bullshit.

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3k boost edit: everyone who said a variant of "why should I pay" is right, but the world is wrong.