RSS never tracked you.
Email never throttled you.
Blogs never begged for dopamine.
The old web wasn’t perfect.
But it was yours.

`netstat` on Unix, macOS, and BSD (now replaced by `ss` on Linux) is a standard command for viewing and debugging network connections. There is a newer, more modern tool called snitch, written in Go lang, designed to inspect network connections on Linux and Unix with a cleaner and easy to use TUI.

Repo https://github.com/karol-broda/snitch

Public DNS servers are free, public resolvers you can use instead of your ISP’s DNS. Some focus on speed, others on privacy and security, offering features like content filtering, DNS-over-TLS, and DNS-over-HTTPS

Here’s a quick comparison of popular public #dns servers 😎👇 #technology #privacy

Find a high-res pdf book with all my #networking related infographics from https://study-notes.org

Good.

AI slop (AI generated code) will be not allowed in GNOME shell extensions: "At this point, we have to add a new rule to the EGO review guidelines. So the packages with unnecessary code that indicate they are AI-generated will be rejected."

Read blog post: https://blogs.gnome.org/jrahmatzadeh/2025/12/06/ai-and-gnome-shell-extensions/

#linux #gnome #opensource

Proton: US retailers sent 10 billion emails with trackers on Black Friday.

https://cyberinsider.com/proton-us-retailers-sent-10-billion-emails-with-trackers-on-black-friday/

#privacy #surveillance

Pop!_OS 24.04 LTS with the COSMIC Desktop Environment is out now https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/12/pop-os-24-04-lts-with-the-cosmic-desktop-environment-is-out-now/

#Linux #System76 #COSMIC #PopOS

Sharing this so that you can use it when needed. From the site:

Locking down your data isn’t as simple as deleting a few accounts. Our tech writer tried to wipe himself from the internet. Here are the data-removal services he recommends if you want to try it yourself. https://nyti.ms/4pF7mIy

Police drones can access places people might have a reasonable expectation of privacy, like a backyard, EFF’s Beryl Lipton told Enquirer. "You don't really know what it's capturing.” https://www.cincinnati.com/story/news/crime/2025/11/30/cincinnati-police-drones-are-now-first-responders-heres-how-it-works/86280621007/

Star Fox spiritual successor Wild Blue Skies gets a fresh gameplay trailer https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/12/star-fox-spiritual-successor-wild-blue-skies-gets-a-fresh-gameplay-trailer/

#WildBlueSkies #StarFox #Gaming #PCGaming

FreeBSD version 15 has been released

https://www.freebsd.org/releases/15.0R/announce/

"Controversy erupts at the plagiarism machine conference when it turned out people were using the plagiarism machine to do plagiarism."

This is genuine comedy.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-03506-6

There is no “cloud,” just someone else's computer—and when the cops come knocking on their door, these hosts need to be willing to stand up for privacy. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/06/how-cops-can-get-your-private-online-data

We are thankful to students and faculty at the Reynolds School of Journalism who have helped us build https://www.atlasofsurveillance.org/, the biggest database of police surveillance in the United States.

@linuxallday

POP OS. I didnt buy the laptop hardware, though i will one day. Rather, I installed it to replace Win 10.

Coming on a year now using POP in hardware and not just as a virtual machine.

I love it.

name the OT threat actor here, attacking the grid

🔒 Want true online privacy? Forget basic VPNs.
These open-source anonymizing networks actually protect you:

Tor - 6,000+ encrypted relays hiding your IP
I2P - 55,000+ nodes for darknet access
Lokinet - Blockchain-powered anonymous internet
Freenet - Censorship-proof file sharing

Your ISP, government, & Big Tech can't track what they can't see 👻
#privacy #cybersecurity #OpenSource

Learn more: https://www.peekmyip.com/p/anonymizing-networks.html