ORG turns 20 this year! 🎈 🎉 🎂

To celebrate two decades of fighting for digital rights, join us for a special event with Cory Doctorow @pluralistic in conversation Maria Farrell.

Register now to hear about Cory's writing, surveillance capitalism, the ‘enshittification’ of digital platforms and how to fight Big Tech ✊

It's not one to miss!

🗓️ Wed 16 July, 6pm BST
💻 Zoom

https://www.openrightsgroup.org/events/org-at-20-cory-doctorow-in-conversation-with-maria-farrell/

#ORG20 #digitalrights #bigtech #corydoctorow #enshittification #privacy #capitalism #surveillance

I'll never forgive LLMs for associating themselves with my beloved em dash :neofox_sad:

@VasiliWz @emeraldonion @whil That might be something we look into once load ramps up, but my working theory (yet to be disproven) is that the Tor network ought to naturally distribute the load relatively evenly across the relays we’ve deployed.

Looking forward to getting into the performance tuning once that load increases though, so we can try and use as much of our upstream bandwidth as possible!

Whoa: Weston, the reference compositor for #Wayland, supports multiple physical independent mice at the same time! 😀

"New mouse, who dis?"

(See toot later in the thread for how to set this up!)

We've been hard at work the past few months!

1. Leaving the Westin datacenter in downtown Seattle and moving on from expensive co-location

2. Moving our gear to Fremont, California

3. Bringing on board a few new Advisory Board members, including @whil who has been an incredible help deploying our #Proxmox infrastructure, and @alexhaydock who has been instrumental in deploying our new #Ansible infra, new recursive #DNS resolution infra, and new #Tor exit relays in California! See: https://infosec.exchange/@alexhaydock/114687688286984967 with more updates to follow

4. Installing new co-location with some older low-power systems in Amsterdam for our self-hosted #ActivityPub infra @ https://disobey.net, where we just moved our #Mastodon profile to!

5. Deploying a new #XMTP node @ https://xmtp.disobey.net, and testing a new #DeltaChat relay!

6. Deploying some new #obfs4 private bridges for use in a country who's conducting heavy internet surveillance and censorship, blocking access to @torproject

and today is our birthday!!! we're 8 years old today ^_^ stay tuned for more updates to come!

We deployed 24x new Tor exit relays today for @emeraldonion ! 🧅

I'm excited to post (or maybe talk) about our deployment architecture soon. We're deploying relays as diskless VMs that each boot from a single EFI binary. No logging, no persistence. Pretty much just the Tor daemon.

https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html#search/family:186F046D8895E13626B363B879BD15F38A52C6BC

It never gets ANY LESS FUNNY
https://forum.cursor.com/t/cursor-yolo-deleted-everything-in-my-computer/103131

lol changed from en_US to en_GB and got my trashcan renamed to "waste basket" lmao

@psyhackological You can add exceptions — it’s quite flexible

https://infosec.exchange/@alexhaydock/114686572248709080

Or if you spot an email you manually decide shouldn’t be deleted then Proton at least has a button you can press to cancel the expiry timer for it. Not sure about other clients.

@jana I'm doing it in Proton but I think Sieve might be a more generally available email filtering language now.

You can get pretty granular with it too since it just applies each rule in order to any incoming mail.

Mental health tip:

Configure an email sieve filter to delete all your emails after x days.

Now your unread email counter can go down as well as up, which is far more satisfying. :blobcatbusiness:

At some point I will have to get out the HDMI capture card and Wiimote to actually patch the NetBSD Wii, but for now it can live on.

Thought my Wii-based webserver had broken while I wasn't around to fix it.

Turns out it was just the WireGuard tunnel to the VPS that's presenting my ASN further upstream. Turned that off-and-on-again and now it works.

Still going strong after 50 days!

https://blog.infected.systems/status/

#wiibsite

Excellent work @popey! https://nerdydaytrips.org/

Fedi-friends, there are already tons of great places on here, add some more! I just added one in my home town and it was delightfully straightforward (no sign up!). Tip: look it up on openstreetmap first as you'll need the URL.

@matildalove @soatok
ISO: "We created global standards for everyone to follow"
Everyone: "Can we see them?"
ISO: "No"

IP/Port: 99.251.254.190:5900
Hostname: pool-99-251-254-190.cpe.net.cable.rogers.com
Client Name: chipi chipi chapa chapa
Location: Willowdale, Ontario, CA 🇨🇦
ASN: AS812 Rogers Communications Canada Inc.
VNC Password: N/A
ID: 23981179
Added to DB: 05/06/2025, 10:39:46 PM (UTC)
Last seen: 05/06/2025, 06:52:41 PM (UTC)
https://computernewb.com/vncresolver/browse#id/23981179

@goetz Given it's Nintendo, I'm surprised they implemented anything at all.

Switch 2 has a working #IPv6 stack it seems, according to Reddit.

I wonder if the days of Nintendo’s “forward all 65535 ports to your Switch” advice are coming to an end…

https://www.reddit.com/r/ipv6/s/cmy7tWkZ18

@rmi I created this meme forever ago to describe the devolution of information security, feel free to frame it

1970s & 1980s: Our mission is to achieve deterministic security and deductive, proof-based certainty of that security in our systems.

2010s & 2020s: Our hope rests in stopping laypeople from clicking on things on the thing-clicking machine.

#caturday