Here is how coding without a laptop looks - Two weeks with AR glasses and #Linux on Android https://holdtherobot.com/blog/2025/05/11/linux-on-android-with-ar-glasses/
🇮🇪 Based in Ireland
🔍 Tech enthusiast | 🔒 Privacy advocate
🧠 Random thoughts on:
#privacy #tech #linux #ireland
🗺️ #OpenStreetMap: @governorkeagan
🎥 Media production company in the works: @gringomedia
🌐 Joined the Fediverse in 2023 | #Fedi23
Here is how coding without a laptop looks - Two weeks with AR glasses and #Linux on Android https://holdtherobot.com/blog/2025/05/11/linux-on-android-with-ar-glasses/
Email is the cockroach of the internet - it outlives every wave trying to kill it. Forget Slack, forget Discord, forget chat apps. Email is universal, decentralized, and asynchronous. It's not sexy, but it's the ultimate survivor.
good god Lisbon airport is very active on GitHub
The European Parliament votes on its report about the planned expansion of surveillance powers for #Europol on Tuesday.
* It fails to protect migrants or reduce border deaths.
* Is a power grab by Europol.
* It criminalises migrants and solidarity organisers.
We call on MEPs to vote against!
https://protectnotsurveil.eu/
#ProtectNotSurveil
Lightweight open source Google reCaptcha alternative: ALTCHA leverages a proof-of-work mechanism to safeguard your website, APIs, and online services from spam and abuse. Unlike traditional solutions, ALTCHA is self-hosted, does not rely on cookies or fingerprinting, and ensures complete user privacy. It is fully compliant with GDPR, WCAG 2.2 AA-level, and the European Accessibility Act. https://github.com/altcha-org/altcha
@itsfoss is anyone actually using Warp? I’ve always gotten the impression that it is trying to do too much. Is it worth testing?
The #curl guidelines for using AI to contribute are now online:
Nearly half of #UK parents have no idea companies can access and use their kids’ photos
Microsoft unveils the new Start menu for Windows 11 users
I think one of the more controversial parts of Windows 11 - aside from its system requirements, privacy issues, crapware, and "AI" nonsense - is its Start menu. I've heard so many complaints about how it's organised, its performance, the lack of customisation, and so on. Microsoft heard those complaints, and has unveiled
https://www.osnews.com/story/142336/microsoft-unveils-the-new-start-menu-for-windows-11-users/
Trial a Strand Road cycle path for 12 months
https://my.uplift.ie/petitions/trial-a-strand-road-cycle-path-for-12-months
PSA: The Tor Browser Security Level slider cannot be relied upon without a full browser restart (per an anonymous community report and confirmed by Privacy Guides staff) - Make sure you are aware of this if you rely on this feature for your safety.
https://www.privacyguides.org/articles/2025/05/02/tor-security-slider-flaw/
#TorBrowser #Security #MullvadBrowser #Privacy #PrivacyGuides #Article
Ever wondered how much #Google knows about you? 👀
Spoiler: It's more than you think. Learn how to take back your privacy and stop the tracking
Secret Panel HERE 🐟 https://tapas.io/episode/3505176
Felt like living on the edge and updated my DB in prod.
Today is #WorldQuantumDay
The perfect occasion to celebrate Tuta protecting your emails & calendars with quantum-safe encryption. 🥳 🔒
❤️ Spread the word as your friends can now try Revolutionary or Legend one month for free! ❤️
Good evening to everyone except Intuit, who have bizarrely concluded that there's no need to differentiate passkeys by, you know, giving them user-configurable, useful names or anything. (The only option is "delete".)
And extra style points for the "Unkown" typo that made it to production.
Sometimes the internet is really funny - or scary.
The Chrome browser is one example.
While you believe you are browsing the web, Google is browsing you instead.
👉 Check out Leah Elliott's comic on how Google's tracking works: https://contrachrome.com/comic/page01/
👉 And check how to stop this tracking: https://tuta.com/blog/what-does-google-know-about-me