Keagan

🇮🇪 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

Keagan boosted:
nixCraft 🐧nixCraft
2025-05-18

Here is how coding without a laptop looks - Two weeks with AR glasses and on Android holdtherobot.com/blog/2025/05/

i3, picom, polybar, firefox, and htop running on Linux on Android (Pixel pro 8 phone)
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JA WestenbergDaojoan
2025-05-18

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.

Keagan boosted:
2025-05-18

good god Lisbon airport is very active on GitHub

The wall of one of the stairwells of Lisbon airport, the wall has tiles on it that look like the green "commits per day" tiles you would see on github, with various shades of green and white
Keagan boosted:
2025-05-16

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!
protectnotsurveil.eu/
#ProtectNotSurveil

A graphic with a red and blue background resembling a chain-link fence. Large white text reads: "Members of the European Parliament must vote against the expansion of Europol's surveillance powers!" At the bottom, a small illustration shows a hand holding a placard with a CCTV camera and the slogan "#Protect Not Surveil".
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nixCraft 🐧nixCraft
2025-05-16

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. 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?

Keagan boosted:
daniel:// stenberg://bagder
2025-05-16

The guidelines for using AI to contribute are now online:

curl.se/dev/contribute.html#on

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Nearly half of #UK parents have no idea companies can access and use their kids’ photos

proton.me/blog/uk-parents-phot

#privacy

Keagan boosted:
2025-05-10

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

osnews.com/story/142336/micros

#Windows

Keagan boosted:
2025-05-02

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.

privacyguides.org/articles/202

#TorBrowser #Security #MullvadBrowser #Privacy #PrivacyGuides #Article

Keagan boosted:
2025-05-02

Ever wondered how much knows about you? 👀

Spoiler: It's more than you think. Learn how to take back your privacy and stop the tracking

👉 tuta.com/blog/what-does-google

Quote of Eric Schmidt from Google: "We know where you are. We know where you've been. We can more or less know what you're thinking about."
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J. L. WestoverMrLovenstein
2025-04-23

Secret Panel HERE 🐟 tapas.io/episode/3505176

Felt like living on the edge and updated my DB in prod.

Keagan boosted:
It's FOSSitsfoss
2025-04-16
Keagan boosted:
It's FOSSitsfoss
2025-04-16

Raspberry Pi spotted in the wild 👀🔥

Credits - maintcraft on X/Twitter

Keagan boosted:
2025-04-14

Today is

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! ❤️

➡️ tuta.com/blog/world-quantum-day

World Quantum Day. Get Revolutionary or Legend for one month completely free this April.
Keagan boosted:
2025-04-14

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.

Intuit passkey config area.

Title: Passkeys
Intro: With a passkey, you can sign in without a password or one-time passcode. Learn more

Unkown [sic] Passkey Provider	Created: 04/13/2025
Used: 04/13/2025
Unkown [sic] Passkey Provider	Created: 04/13/2025
Used: 04/13/2025
Keagan boosted:
2025-04-13

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: contrachrome.com/comic/page01/

👉 And check how to stop this tracking: tuta.com/blog/what-does-google

Comic explaining how Chrome tracks you

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