@thelinuxcast Just got it for iOS and comparing with Toot. Looks very polished. Let’s see how it goes.

Fun fact:

When you criticize the way an #actuallyautistic person communicates, it's pretty likely that they don't actually change the way they communicate, they just communicate less.

📣 The rushed integration of AI into everything is a major threat to privacy, as we've been saying.

Microsoft Recall is a great (not great!) example of exactly why--it screenshots everything on your desktop, to give AI the data to tell you...what you were doing on desktop.

So, Signal took steps to protect you and everyone using Signal on Windows 11 from Recall's hunger for (Signal) data.

Read more about how we navigated, and why we need to ecosystem to a lot more 👇

https://signal.org/blog/signal-doesnt-recall/

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I will never understand how this wealthy nation allows so many children to go hungry.

theregister.com: Commodore OS 3 is the loudest Linux yet
https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/06/commodore_os_3/

@thestrangelet @cassidy I’m looking and you are right. LinkedIn is dystopian and half the job add have like 1000….0 clicks on apply. A lot of individuals with very healthy self esteem - at least in terms of what they intend to represent.

@eff you should be selling Tau’s book “Means of Control”

@byrontau absolutely one of the most important books as it relates to our surveillance state. I recommend to everyone I talk to when the discussion veers to privacy and surveillance. Thank you!

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Government social media surveillance threatens free speech and privacy. Adding AI only compounds the harms. This makes the Trump administration’s "Catch and Revoke" program especially dangerous to our constitutional rights. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/04/trump-administrations-targeting-international-students-jeopardizes-free-speech-and

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