"Government social media surveillance invades privacy and chills freedom of speech, and it is prone to errors and misinterpretation without ever having been proven effective at assessing security threats," EFF’s Sophia Cope told @theregister.com.
US student visa applicants must make social media public
: Visa seekers are reportedly censoring their own posts to visit the land of the free
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when I was younger I thought the subplot of Ender’s Game in which Ender’s siblings shitpost themselves into running the world was the least realistic part of the book I am coming around to the idea that it was by far the most realistic
Any country, corp, org, or individual that uses Starlink is subject to the whims, wishes, demands and insults of The Owner. Do so at your peril.
AAAHHHHHHHHH BE NICE TO OPEN SOURCE MAINTAINERS OH MY GOD. SOME OF YOU ARE SO RUDE, WHO RAISED YOU
This week, 2/24 - 2/28, is our #StopCensoringAbortion Week of Action! Let’s flood the feeds of every social media platform that we can. Share your stories about abortion-related content removal or show your support for #StopCensoringAbortion.
Stop Censoring Abortion: Help EFF and Repro Uncensored End Digital Suppression
As reproductive rights come under attack in the United States and other countries around the world, it is vital that people have access to accurate abortion information–especially online. Reproductive...
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Rust community coming strongly in favor of child labor in trash collection
"Well, here's my suggestion. Teams that want to get features, especially ones that might be potentially disruptive, into the tree, need to spend time becoming part of the *community*." Like how they *tried* giving a presentation which you kept interrupting? lore.kernel.org/lkml/2025020...
Re: On community influencing (was Re: [PATCH v8 2/2] rust: add dma coherent allocator abstraction.) - Theodore Ts'o
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If you don't want your language called a cancer, don't adopt a crab as its mascot.
Synology QuickConnect relies on Let's Encrypt for direct and regional wildcard certs, but the company isn't listed as an ISRG sponsor. It feels scummy to build a commercial product that depends on a nonprofit service like Let's Encrypt and not financially support it.
what kind of generational gatekeepy bullshit is this and why does it have so many likes
Ryan Broderick@ryanhatesthis.bsky.social · 2y agolmao no, TikTok users are not moving to Bluesky. They would literally rather learn Mandarin than learn how to read a feed of text posts. This is a millennial retirement home.
post-quantum signature schemes such as the NIST PQC winner CRYSTALS-Dilithium produce signature sizes substantially larger than "traditional" signature schemes; ECDSA (not quantum secure) signatures are 64 bytes, whereas Dilithium2 signatures are 2420 bytes, or ~37.8x longer.
POTUS@sentientpotato.bsky.social · 2y agowhat the -fuck- does this mean
“i’m learning blender” that’s great! i’ve been practicing microwave for a while and i think i’ve gotten pretty good at it. might tackle toaster next
Kind of weird to use chains against someone who can't get back to his 3D printer to make more weapons but OK, NYC, show us how tough you are
I ran btrfs check --repair --force on a mounted errored read-only filesystem and it fixed all of my problems instead of making everything 100x worse. In this essay I will
20 years ago we were suing teenagers for millions of dollars because they were torrenting a single Metallica album and now billionaires are demanding the free right to every work in history, so that they can re-sell it. The law only ever serves capital.
Please Follow the Official Guardian Account@guardian-world-rss.bsky.social · 3y ago‘Impossible’ to create AI tools like ChatGPT without copyrighted material, OpenAI says
To avoid online scams, start by using two-factor authentication and a password manager, EFF’s evacide.bsky.social told the @seattletimes.bsky.social.
Scam emails and texts are only getting worse; 2 pieces of advice can help you avoid them
Since our September 2023 story about scams, things have only gotten worse. Here is a little more advice that could help keep you safe. Luck doesn't hurt, either.
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Have you received an email from an alleged hacker with an attached PDF that includes your name, a picture of your house, and a threat to leak embarrassing info or photos to your friends and family? Don’t panic. 🧵 (1/7)
Big record labels are trying to destroy @archive.org and claiming they’re doing it to help musicians. Musicians are telling the big record labels to fuck right off www.rollingstone.com/music/music-... Great letter organized by @fightforthefuture.org @liaholland.bsky.social
