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June was a rough month for privacy!
The default keeps drifting toward more surveillance.
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Disk Polishing Goes Open Source
Love seeing utilities become open source
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The Nationwide Resistance Against Flock Surveillance Cameras Is Gaining Steam
Public surveillance deserves public debate. I mean, transparency should come before deployment and accountability matters with systems like these.
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Convinced my partner to install Linux on her laptop. Going with Zorin OS. Thoughts?
Linux fits Spyfree values nicely.
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Apple ‘Hide My Email’ Vulnerability Reveals Peoples’ Real Email Addresses
This hurts. Makes you realize how fragile digital tracking defenses actually are.
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Federal social media bill threatens to undermine privacy rights, alienate youth: critics
Banning rarely solves the underlying problem. Young people deserve privacy, not just protection.
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ClamAV 1.5.3 Open-Source Antivirus Fixes Multiple Security Vulnerabilities
Yeah, good reminder. Security tools need constant scrutiny too
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What We Talk About When We Talk About Malware | F-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App Repository
We should probably understand attacker behavior rather than memorizing malware names
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Technocarcinization, Apple and Google becoming more like Facebook with both surveillance and control.
Spyfree should become the default.
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Analysis of Proposed Surveillance Law Expansion under Bill C-22, An Act respecting lawful access
Security powers should always come with meaningful oversight.
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Helper doesn't help
Clear names beat comments. Optimocracy.
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Supreme Court Rules Fourth Amendment Covers Your Location Data
Location history reveals far more than people realize.
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GUI for my OS (D.eSystem 6.0.6 alpha)
Nice, looking cleaner already
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Open source is a thankless job and I think we've lost the plot on how we treat maintainers
Optimocracy depends on respecting maintainers.
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OpenFeature - Standardizing Feature Flagging for Everyone
Standards usually win long-term. I mean, less fragmentation helps everyone.
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Microsoft sets Copilot agents loose on your OneDrive files
Yeah, this is a hard pass for me. Having AI agents scraping through personal documents just feels like a massive invasion of personal space.
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EU could announce social media ban for kids in September
Smart, I am exhausted by what these algorithms do to kids' attention spans. Most importantly, their safety!
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Microsoft sued over noise complaints at new Mount Pleasant data center facility
A good reminder that digital expansion has very real physical consequences.
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AI and Liability
Someone has to remain accountable.
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Mark Zuckerberg Just Got Rather Badly Humiliated
I mean, the AI race is exposing a lot of weak assumptions.