Rob Jess

Engineer, Scientist, Student

Research Student (MSc by Research) in Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine.

Passionate about open science and open source technology.

Secular Jew that supports a free Palestine.

Location
Oxford
ORCID iD
0000-0003-1443-4507
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iFixitiFixit
2026-03-05

A 10/10 repairability score doesn’t happen by accident. Lenovo’s newest ThinkPads prove that laptops can be powerful, durable, and actually repairable.

Swappable batteries, modular parts, and one of the easiest keyboard replacements we’ve seen. Learn more about what makes these laptops amazing, at the link below.

ifixit.com/News/115827/new-thi

A Lenovo ThinkPad laptop sits on display at a trade show booth beside an iFixit repairability award trophy shaped like a raised fist holding a wrench. A sign behind the table reads “#LenovoMWC,” while colorful expo booths and attendees fill the background.
Rob JessRob_J
2026-03-04

@AnnaAnthro would love to see a Jolla + Fairphone collaboration

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Erik Uden 🍑ErikUden@mastodon.de
2026-03-03

We can play the headline game every time their imperialist wars start.

A screenshot of two New York Times headlines analyzed with red text to show their difference. One headline reads “Iran says dozens are killed in strike on school.” The red text highlights that the portion “Iran says” casts doubt and “in strike” shows no responsible actor for the strike, as if it passively happened.

The second headline reads “9 Killed in Israeli City Near Jerusalem After Iranian Missile Strike”, the red text highlights “9 Killed” is stated as a fact, rather than “Israel says 9 people were killed”. The second highlighted text is “Iranian” as in this headline the actor is named.
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Greenpeace Internationalgreenpeace
2026-03-03

I don't want a city on Mars.
I don't want AI in every app.
I don't want data centres in space.

I want clean water.
I want a stable climate.
I want bees to survive.

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Mohammed Shobair 🍉 from Gazamohshbair
2026-03-03

Our voice reached the world! 🌍

The Irish website Hot Press chose me as one of five voices from Gaza to tell my story. I shared my life before the war from my automotive studies to making "Namoura".

This is about our collective resilience. Please read and share to help our voices reach everyone.

Read here: hotpress.com/opinion/can-you-h

Pray for us. May God protect you all 🍉🇵🇸

Rob Jess boosted:
2026-03-02

Due to the massive wave of backlash, Discord is postponing its global until the second half of 2026.

Public backlash works, good job everyone. 👏

🚨But: Discord has not stopped its plan, just put it on hold.

👉 Learn here what's next & how to protect your : tuta.com/blog/discord-plans-ag

Discord age verification
for everyone?

Image with Discord logo and ID check on phone
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2026-03-02

We're happy to announce a long-term partnership with Motorola. We're collaborating on future devices meeting our privacy and security standards with official GrapheneOS support.

motorolanews.com/motorola-thre

Rob Jess boosted:
2026-03-01

Naaaahh! We always ave cash for war!

Rob Jess boosted:
2026-02-26

🚨Google wants to kill Android freedom

We've signed an Open Letter to urge to keep & !

Otherwise Google’s Android is becoming Apple: Your device, their rules.

Here's more info: 👉 tuta.com/blog/google-wants-to-

Read the full open letter here: 👉 keepandroidopen.org/open-lette

Google product logos and a text saying "Download us" with a cartoon of a man holding a knife up to another man who is trying to protect himself and saying "But I want to use secure, open source apps instead"
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2026-02-26

KDE supports the "Keep Android Open" campaign

#Google will cut off independent developers to #Android if they do not register with Google first. This will kill independent platforms like @fdroidorg and severely impede FLOSS devs from creating apps for Android.

keepandroidopen.org/

Many KDE apps are deployed for Android: KDE Connect, Itinerary, Tokodon, and there's even a test version of Krita for Android.

KDE calls on Google to reverse course and @keepandroidopen.

keepandroidopen.org/open-lette

The logo of the "Keep Android Open" campaign is an Android robot dressed as Darth Vader. Across the top it says "I AM ALTERING THE DEAL"  in all caps, and below the robot it says "Pray I don't alter it further".

This is a reference to how Android acquired a massive catalog of apps be making access open to the platform back in the day, and Google assuring it would remain open, as opposed to the iOS platform which was (and still is) very restricted.

And, of course, Star Wars.
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Ben 🏳️‍⚧️🍉benofbrown@toot.cat
2026-02-26

Good luck to Hannah Spencer and the Greens in Gorton and Denton today! 💚

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2026-02-25

Today is the day, the EU decides on Chat Control 1.0. Will they let the Trojan Horse through the gate and let Google, Microsoft, LinkedIn etc continue to scan all your messages?

We at Tuta say NO. 

❌ No scanning
❌ No mass surveillance
❌ No age verification

Instead we fight for:

✅ Encryption
✅ Privacy
✅ Open Source

And so should the EU. Stop now! 🥊 

Curious if your emails are safe? Check here which providers scan your data:
👉 tuta.com/blog/voluntary-scanni

A political cartoon of a Trojan horse labeled “Protect Children” being pulled into a city gate by figures labeled “EU Member States,” while inside the horse a panel reads “Mass Surveillance,” implying hidden surveillance measures introduced under the pretext of child protection.
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2026-02-24

one of my all-time favorite weird and wonderful shows - DON'T HUG ME I'M SCARED - is now on dropout!

full web series now; TV series (which less people have seen) over the course of the next few months. big thanks to blink industries, becky, and joe for their faith in us.

Key art for "Don't Hug Me I'm Scared" on Dropout shows its title along with its three principal puppet characters in picture frames.
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ᴮᵉⁿ ᴿᵒʸᶜᵉVOTE IN THE PRIMARIESbenroyce
2026-02-24

😂 😂 😂

We just had a blizzard in the Northeast and in a news reporter just wanted some empty chatter about the weather

But her interview subject had other ideas

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xoron :verified:xoron@infosec.exchange
2026-02-23

Signal Protocol for a P2P Webapp

TL;DR: I have open-sourced a #Rust implementation of the #SignalProtocol that compiles to #WASM for #Browser-based #P2P messaging, overcoming the #NodeJS limitations of the official library.

I am sharing my implementation of the Signal Protocol designed specifically for the #Frontend. While the official libsignal is the gold standard, its #JavaScript targets are often optimized for Node.js, which creates integration challenges for client-side web applications.

My version is built in #RustLang and compiles to #WebAssembly, utilizing #ModuleFederation to provide robust #Encryption for decentralized environments. It currently powers the end-to-end security for my #P2P messaging project.

Protocol Demo:
signal.positive-intentions.com/

P2P App Demo:
p2p.positive-intentions.com/if

I am looking for feedback from the #Dev and #Infosec community. If you have experience with #Cryptography audits or formal-proof verification, I would appreciate your eyes on the codebase as I work toward a more finished state.

GitHub Repository:
github.com/positive-intentions

#Signal #SignalProtocol #Rust #RustLang #WASM #WebAssembly #OpenSource #OSS #Privacy #Encryption #E2EE #WebDev #Frontend #BrowserTech #Decentralized #WebApps #Coding #Security #SoftwareEngineering #Networking #PeerToPeer #P2P #Cryptography #Audit #CyberSecurity #Tech #JavaScript #Programming #ModuleFederation #P2PWeb #PrivacyTech #SecureMessaging #WebPerf #TechCommunity #InfoSec #WebSecurity

signal protocol
Rob Jess boosted:
2026-02-20

You know, with how much social progress we have made IN SPITE of the best efforts of the ruling classes, I think the evidence supports the idea that humans may actually be surprisingly cooperative & empathetic.

We have been pushing against massive, well-funded social engineering intended to halt progress in its tracks & push us backwards, yet we have gained so much ground culturally/socially over the last several decades, despite those screaming at us to put everything back the way it was.

Rob Jess boosted:
2026-02-19

Remember the "One Laptop Per Child" project, that developed a low-cost computer for children in developing countries? I was always amazed by a certain feature: The "View Source" button.

When you pressed it, the source code for the currently running application would open. This was supposed to encourage tinkering with the software on your device! <3

I've been pondering what it would take to build that button on modern machines. Has anyone seen something like that?

(Prototype in next toot.)

A white-and-green laptop with funny antennae, that looks a mix of a toy/handheld console and a small laptop.Screenshot of the "View source" feature. A window showing Python source files has opened.
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Nicovel0 🍉Nicovel0
2026-02-19
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Marijnmarijn
2026-02-18

"Digital sovereignty," if taken to mean we should switch from unaccountable American companies to unaccountable European companies, is largely missing the point of the problem. In a globalized economy the two are going to be functionally indistinguishable. What we need is non-profit digital infrastructure that's not beholden to the perversions of financialization.

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:youtube_logo: No Boilerplatenoboilerplate@namtao.com
2026-02-17

PSA: If you block the `claude` user on GitHub, you'll get a warning every time you view a repo with that user in its commit history.

Now, the moment you look at a repo, you can immediately adjust your expectations.

You may do so here: github.com/settings/blocked_us

A github screenshot showing a repo with the message "a user you've blocked has previous contributed to this repository"

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