"Op naar een wereld met iets minder algoritmes. En dat zeg ik als online marketeer." https://www.frankwatching.com/archive/2026/03/14/risico-algoritmes-omzeilen/

"End-to-end encrypted messaging on Instagram will no longer be supported after May 8, 2026." :hurb:

https://help.instagram.com/491565145294150

Bestes Interview im Radio seit langem gehört. Eingeladen ist ein nicht näher spezifizierter Experte:

Reporter: "Wo wirkt sich der Krieg im Iran am stärksten aus?"

Experte: "Im Iran."

<Awkward silence>

RE: https://floss.social/@GIMP/116229009692048437

We released #GIMP 3.2.0 today! Quite an exhausting week with usual last-minute issues!
E.g. the CI infra suddenly failed yesterday! Fortunately admins were prompt to fix as always (still I went to bed at 1AM)!
Then issues in Windows packaging, which testers didn't notice with early test packages (of course, only noticed by someone just after the tagging! 😱).

Yet all in all, first time I end the release around 7PM after having started the release day at 9AM! The procedure gets better! 😄

#tegeltje

It's come to this: The Ig Nobel Awards, presented at Harvard or MIT since the 1990s, is moving to Zurich because the US is not safe for foreign visitors
https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/research-frontiers/ig-nobels-to-move-awards-to-switzerland-due-to-concern-over-us-travel-visas/91073250

@mirias Gefeliciteerd!!

A Californian teacher teaching the physics of surfing, 1970.

#surfing #photography #bw #teacher

We are aware of recent reports regarding targeted phishing attacks that have resulted in account takeovers of some Signal users, including government officials and journalists. We take this very seriously.

To be clear: Signal’s encryption and infrastructure have not been compromised and remain robust. These attacks were executed via sophisticated phishing campaigns, designed to trick users into sharing information – SMS codes and/or Signal PIN – to gain access to users’ accounts.

AIVD en MIVD waarschuwen voor phishing via Signal en WhatsApp

De inlichtingendiensten benadrukken dat er geen technische kwetsbaarheden worden uitgebuit

👉 https://signalapp.nl/signal-app-nieuws/aivd-en-mivd-waarschuwen-voor-phishing-via-signal-en-whatsapp/

#signal #signalapp #signalmessenger #aivd

"Senior Israeli official say Israel and US are “studying the possibility” of ending the Iran war without regime change in Iran." Maar we mochten vooral niet roepen dat het een shitshow zou zijn vanaf het begin.

I deactivated Google Play on my phone. The electricity company app was the first to be bricked. 'You must update.'

I wrote to them: ’I don’t have Google or Apple. Where else can I update the app?’ Nowhere else, they replied.

I wrote (politely) back: ’I can’t use your app any more then. It’s an odd requirement to make of your customers. A Norlys customer can only access all Norlys services if they are also a customer of one of two specific private for-profit US companies.’

#DanmarkSkifter

Country Joe McDonald, the iconic lead singer of Country Joe and the Fish and a defining voice of 1960s counterculture, died on March 7, 2026, at age 84 in Berkeley, California. Joe was a Navy veteran who remained a vocal and adamant anti war activist and advocate for veterans.

Inspired by Woody Guthrie and the folk and protest music of the era, McDonald formed Country Joe and the Fish alongside Barry "The Fish" Melton. Known for his anti-Vietnam War anthem "I-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin'-to-Die Rag" at Woodstock, he passed away from complications of Parkinson's disease.

He was a good man, he did good things, he will be missed on this plane, and welcomed back into the energy in the next one. So long Joe, and thanks for all the Fish.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRl6-bHlz-4

#CountryJoe #Fish #folkMusic

Edit: Grammar, typo, tmi. :)

Netzfund.

PVV, SGP, BBB, CDA, VVD, D66, PvdA steunen allemaal draconische Chat Control surveillance in de EU.🤨 https://youtube.com/watch?v=PAh4enDZVBA
#chatcontrol #privacy #EU

Bel ze op en breng ze op andere gedachten: https://fightchatcontrol.eu/#delegates

🇳🇱 #Netherlands official government accounts:

(All in Dutch)

@acm - Autoriteit Consument & Markt
@AdviescollegeICTtoetsing - Adviescollege ICT-toetsing
@aivd - Algemene Inlichtingen- en Veiligheidsdienst
@belastingdienst - Belastingdienst
@bij12 - BIJ12 werkt voor provincies
@CBSstatistiek - Centraal Bureau voor de Statistiek
@communitymanager - Social.overheid.nl Support
@developer - developer.overheid.nl
@DigitaleOverheid - Digitale Overheid
@dji - Dienst Justitiële Inrichtingen

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The perfect headline doesn’t exi…

https://www.engadget.com/big-tech/google-pledges-roughly-three-hours-of-its-annual-profit-to-fight-climate-change-164808010.html

Don’t think I’ve ever seen a difference
where #canada and #usa were polar opposites before.

A lot of people talking about dumping Proton right now are misunderstanding what actually happened.

Feds were able to coerce the Swiss government to coerce Proton to hand over whatever data they had on an anonymous Stop Cop City email address, that was being investigated for terrorism.

That metadata included credit card details information for the account, which is very difficult to anonymize.

Proton offers cash payments to work around this obvious security flaw.

If you must pay for a Proton account for a radical project, pay with cash (you can mail it) or washed crypto (Monero -> Bitcoin).

All credit card payments are traceable, even to a privacy-focused company.

Your security model should not rely on a business to fight the state on your behalf.

Your email or VPN provider is not going to risk prison time for your $5/mo. It's just not going to happen, at least for anything commercial. Tuta and every other email privacy-focused email company will comply with court orders.

Trying to find the perfect email provider is a fool's errand. It doesn't exist.

You can however anonymize your useage of privacy friendly services like Proton, Tuta, or Mailbox by not entering your credit card number, phone number, name, personal email, or IP to that account.

Adulthood is realizing Superman comics aren’t fantasy about how good it would be to have power; they’re a fantasy about what it would be like if someone with power was good.