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Host of the Closed Network Privacy Podcast | Likes to Run & Sip Bourbon. closednetwork.io

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Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮gamingonlinux
2025-05-15
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Augie Rayaugieray
2025-04-30

"Abandon Twitter and go to Bluesky," they said. "It's a better version of Twitter."

News: Bluesky restricts access to 72 accounts in Turkey amid government pressure

Bluesky is just another VC-funded, profit-seeking social platform. The fediverse is inherently better.

stockholmcf.org/bluesky-restri

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2025-04-30

They're tracking your clicks, your location, your purchases, your conversations. When they say "nothing to hide, nothing to fear" – remind them privacy is about POWER, not secrets.

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@edri oh, you mean the #BackdoorPlan that the EU comission calls ProtectEU and wants others to call it as well?

One of the great wins for privacy advocates is the fact that everybody have heard about #ChatControl and nearly nobody knows the name that the EU commission wants us to use. Let's call it #BackdoorPlan and before it sticks one can write #BackdoorPlan (a.k.a ä. protectEU)

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The UK Data Use and Access Bill will take away controls we have over our data and hand more power to government bodies and companies.

We'll be vulnerable to our data being used against us and less able to do anything about it.

Find out more in our briefing ⬇️

openrightsgroup.org/publicatio

#DUABill #DataBill #dataprotection #gdpr #privacy #data #ukpol #ukpolitics

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2025-04-13

Our initial highly experimental release for the Pixel 9a is now available for both CLI and web install via staging.grapheneos.org/.

We've tested both install methods and did basic testing of functionality including Wi-Fi, camera, audio, etc. Feedback is needed from users now.

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2025-04-13

All of the standard Android and GrapheneOS functionality should already be working on the Pixel 9a including our hardware-based USB-C port control feature, hardware memory tagging, etc.

Main work was dealing with the temporary QPR1-based device branch (grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/).

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404 Media404mediaco
2025-04-09

Podcast: The FBI Secretly Ran a Massive Money Laundering Ring

🔗 404media.co/podcast-the-fbi-se

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2025-04-07

NVIDIA Makes PhysX & Flow GPU Code Open-Source

As a win for the open-source community from NVIDIA, the company recently announced they are making their PhysX and Flow GPU-accelerated source code open-source...
phoronix.com/news/NVIDIA-OSS-P

2025-04-07

Just a cool shot of an SS7 backdoor on my #Mountainbike ride today

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2025-04-02

Alpha 7 will be the last COSMIC alpha release. Then on to Beta!

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Thailand WatchThailandWatch
2025-03-10

is fighting on at least 2 fronts, as serious organized crime has become entrenched in neighbouring countries. …the huge size of these compounds –…most lucrative in & – pose a threat even to security. The…civil war in Myanmar…has opened the door to criminal networks who have set up shop in &…further south on the border.”asiafinancial.com/thousands-in

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2025-03-09

Planet NIX is going strong at Scale 22x. planetnix.com/ #scale

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OpenZFSopenzfs
2025-03-08

OpenZFS needs your help!

We have a backlog of great new features in review that need feedback for not only code correctness but also testing by users, spell checking, and clarification of documentation.

Please take a moment to help make better:

github.com/openzfs/zfs/pulls

Thank you!

2025-03-02

@jalcine Mozilla has clearly shown us their priorities. Fuck em.

2025-03-02

@Tutanota Hell yeah! Please don't leave unless it's just to NOSTR 🤣🤣

2025-03-02

@voxel @techlore oh? I'm behind on this one. What's up with NextDNS?

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2025-03-02

GrapheneOS blocks reaching any of these vulnerabilities for locked devices through our USB-C port and pogo pins control feature disabling new connections at a hardware level and a software level after locking along with disabling USB data in hardware too:

grapheneos.org/features#usb-c-

2025-03-02

@jonah is streaming an action movie violence? Lol how are we suppose to know? This is absolutely way too broad.

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