#DataRights

I am Not Migrating Back To IRC

So, with this whole Discord surveillance age verification situation, I am seeing lots of talk on every social media platform, including Discord ironically, about moving back to IRC. I am not going back to IRC. Though, I do not really have a valid interest in it, because I use Discord just to monitor occult cults and extremist groups, lol. So, it is not like I would be really displaced, anyway. I would just need to figure out a new exploit or hack.

I’m a Computational Biologist, so I am half in Biology and half in software engineering. I tend to look at technology and evolution as analogous to one another. Software, dynamical systems, and evolution are analogous. Evolution functions like a survivorship process. Lineages that leave more descendants become more represented over time where drift, mutation, recombination, and migration all perturb the system. It’s a stochastic dynamical system.

Speciation is a change under isolation. Once gene flow is cut off, divergence accumulates. Eventually, compatibility breaks, creating a divergence. A fork. You can think of it in a version control system like this: you stop merging upstream commits. You accumulate independent changes, and at some point the codebases are no longer interchangeable.

With evolution, even when traits resemble ancestral forms, they arise through new mutations in the current system. It’s a forward, not backward, branch. So from an evolutionary and software engineering perspective, progress happens by forking and optimizing what exists. That means you will not get progress by trying to migrate everyone back to legacy infrastructure.

I’m not migrating to IRC because it is not progress or evolution. It is technologically regressive. Regressive attitudes are why we are essentially in a weird, industrial, cyberpunk version of the 1930s right now. Hoping old-school forums make a comeback and that everyone migrates back to IRC is a technological and societal regression. It’s the same nostalgia-driven impulse that MAGA rides on. It’s not evolutionary or progressive. It’s regressive and backward. So that triggers all the alarm bells in my head, because this is sort of how we got here. Donald Trump rode in on a regressive platform of nostalgia and populism. Roughly 10–12% of Bernie Sanders supporters in 2016 voted for Donald Trump under that wave.

Trump’s 2016 rise was driven significantly by populist themes such as critiques of establishment politics, nationalism, economic resentment, and appeals to voters dissatisfied with the status quo in both parties. Anyone paying attention in 2026 should see the cycle repeating itself. This weird form of technological regression is a techno-populist version of it. America never learns is lesson, does it?

Currently, I am on Matrix, albeit I use it more or less for bridge and puppeteer bot purposes. To me, it’s like going back to using muskets when everyone else is using AK-47s. The solution is not to make more regressive pieces of technology. They are least effective when you are essentially in a guerrilla, stochastic war with your own fascist government.

2026-01-24

Genetic Data From Over 20,000 U.S. Children Misused for ‘Race Science’

#science #antiracism #DataRights
nytimes.com/2026/01/24/us/chil

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2026-01-23
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2026-01-21

HILO PÚBLICO

(1/7) HILO FINAL: Mi batalla de 12+ días con @protonprivacy Un caso de estudio sobre un bug crítico de sincronización y el colapso total de su soporte técnico. #ProtonFail #GDPR #DataRights

Mass Axismassaxis
2026-01-04

If they can't check all these boxes, they're collecting more than they need.

Corporate “loyalty” programs aren’t about rewarding us—they’re about tracking us. This podcast exposes how companies exploit data from their most faithful customers. Convenience is the bait, surveillance is the hook. Time to question who really benefits.
🎧
think.kera.org/2025/12/02/how-
#KERAThink
#Privacy #SurveillanceCapitalism #LoyaltyPrograms #DataRights

A slap on the wrist isn't a deterrent.

The failure to investigate even the most serious data breach in UK history is the final straw.

We need a strong data regulator that will take action against the government and private sector at a time of escalating threats.

We need an inquiry into the Information Commissioner's Office if we're to have data protection laws with teeth and resilience against cyber attacks.

#dataprotection #gdpr #privacy #ICO #cybersecurity #ukpolitics #ukpol #datarights

For the last 3-4 years, the ICO has shifted away from using enforcement powers against public sector organisations except as a last resort.

Since then, the ICO's own review of this public sector approach showed “the average number of reported breaches increased by 11%” and an 8% increase in data protection complaints.

By removing the deterrence of regulatory sanctions, this approach has worsen the status quo.

#dataprotection #gdpr #privacy #ICO #cybersecurity #ukpolitics #ukpol #datarights

No bark. No bite.

The Information Commissioner's Office (UK) has shied away from enforcing data protection laws one too many times.

Yesterday over 70 groups and experts joined ORG's demand for an inquiry into the regulator.

Evidence shows that when enforcement goes down, breaches go up. We say enough.

openrightsgroup.org/press-rele

#dataprotection #gdpr #privacy #ICO #cybersecurity #ukpolitics #ukpol #datarights

The ICO refused to investigate the UK Ministry of Defence for the most serious data breach in UK history – the leaking of data on 19,000 Afghans fleeing the Taliban.

They said it was a one-off.

But what about the 49 data breaches at the MoD over the last 4 years?

bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cp8950

#dataprotection #gdpr #privacy #ICO #cybersecurity #ukpolitics #ukpol #datarights

Sinclair Tasinclairdta
2025-11-22

Google’s Gmail just turned your inbox into an AI training ground—by default. Unless you opt out, your emails and attachments are scanned to power Google’s Gemini AI.

No big pop-up warning, just buried
settings. 🤯 Meanwhile, they’re rolling out end-to-end encryption for businesses but beware, your private emails might still be data fodder.

Privacy or profit? You decide.

2025-11-19

| Adafruit Industries

💥 Read this insightful post from Hacker News 📖 📂 Category: ✅ Main takeaway: Qualcomm-owned Arduino quietly pushed a sweeping rewrite of its Terms of Service and Privacy Policy, and the changes mark a clear break from the open-hardware ethos that built the platform. The new documents introduce an…

viralpique.com/opensource-priv

CnznewsCnznews
2025-11-19

| Adafruit Industries

Qualcomm-owned Arduino has quietly comprehensively rewritten its terms of service and privacy policy, and the changes signal a clear break from the open-hardware ethos that built the platform. The new documents introduce an irrevocable, perpetual license on anything uploaded by users, mass…

cnznews.com/opensource-privacy

PeopleVsBigTechPeopleVsBigTech
2025-11-19

📣 Over 200,000 people have signed petitions demanding action.

✍️ Add your voice now → StandUpUrsula.com

The Internet is Cracktheinternetiscrack
2025-10-26

💭 It’s Not All or Nothing — It’s About Paying for What You Use.

AI doesn’t have to take — it can share.
Maribeth Rauh, formerly of Google DeepMind and now at AI Accountability Lab, breaks down how companies could pay for the data they use instead of taking it for free.

She also unpacks why so many people treat AI like a person — and how that illusion can distort judgment and create real-world harm.

🎧 Listen now → youtu.be/uAaYSIPsxCI

Diogo Vicente Mendesdiogovicentemendes
2025-10-24

Yesterday I posted on facebook about meta wanting access to people’s photos.

The post reached almost no one.
Only my mum liked it.

Silence is easier for a system to manage than dissent.

Dylan Butts exposes a high-stakes battle as Reddit sues Perplexity for allegedly scraping user posts to train AI, intensifying disputes over AI’s use of human-created content. Reddit claims Perplexity covertly extracted copyrighted data, while Perplexity denies wrongdoing, framing it as mere summarizing. This clash highlights content owners' fight to protect data rights in the AI era. Read more: cnbc.com/2025/10/23/reddit-use #Reddit #Perplexity #AI #DataRights #WebScraping #Copyright #Lawsuit #OpenAI #Google #ArtificialIntelligence #DataLicensing

Kudos to Dylan Butts for this insightful coverage.

The NoobNoobOfAll
2025-10-21

The 🌍 needs this: collection flips from opt-in to opt-out, starting Jan 1, 2025. Residents can now object to behavioral , data sales, and . This gives users more explicit over their personal info than the previous model.

gizmodo.com/california-lets-re

🇩🇪Nexus🇩🇪🖤🚩🏴‍☠️🐱⚡☀️NexusMagie
2025-09-21

Linux Firewall testscropt ,mit portscan im router.
Und wie man seinen PC vor dem Provider in einem Subnetz versteckt
Da der Providewr "Servicekanäle"zur Fernwartung offen hält, und man mit einem "eigenbau" mit iptable netable so wieder sicherheit und alleinherrschaft über sein netzwerk erhält"

chatgpt.com/share/68cfad76-1b0

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