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Grimmo
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🦋🌈♾️ Dad, veteran unix admin :linux: :openbsd: navigating trough a midlife crisis. Passionate about sourdough, homebaking and infosec. Born in Palermo, living in […]

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December 22, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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Privacy settings are important.
December 25, 2025 at 6:47 AM
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December 25, 2025 at 7:07 AM
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I fixed a hardware problem from half a way across the globe yesterday.

My aunt, who lives in California, called me to wish me a Merry Christmas and also complained that when calling people over Teams, she would see the other party just fine but they couldn't see her.

I entered her computer […]
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infosec.exchange
December 25, 2025 at 7:57 AM
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June 24, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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What are you doing for #christmas? Oh me, I am going to arrest #gretathunberg who came all the way from near Lapland on a flotilla sleigh to bring to #london the message "I support #palestine Action prisoners" who are mostly young women, like the Virgin Mary […]

[Original post on mastodon.social]
December 23, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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Try as little as possible to buy into this failing system. Buy second-hand whenever possible. Pay cash, under the table. Eat healthily and exercise. Do things with your friends. Read books or watch a good old movie. Cancel all your subscriptions and get everything you need via VPN and torrents […]
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norden.social
December 22, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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**Wishing for a Mastodon plushie this Christmas?** 🎄

We’re giving away two of the new ones for free to two random people who boost and favorite this post! Winners will be announced on December 25th, just like last year.

If you’d like to support our server and […]

[Original post on mastodon.de]
December 19, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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"Heretic: Fully automatic censorship removal for language models":

https://github.com/p-e-w/heretic
异端:语言模型的自动审查解除
Heretic: Automatic censorship removal for language models (github.com) 11-16  ↑ 120 HN Points
github.com
December 4, 2025 at 5:38 AM
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"After Years of Controversy, the EU’s Chat Control Nears Its Final Hurdle: What to Know":

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/12/after-years-controversy-eus-chat-control-nears-its-final-hurdle-what-know
December 6, 2025 at 7:29 AM
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Forbes: Google Starts Sharing All Your Text Messages With Your Employer

As reported by Android Authority, “Google is rolling out Android RCS Archival on Pixel (and other Android) phones, allowing employers to intercept and archive RCS chats on work-managed devices. In simpler terms, your […]
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m.ai6yr.org
December 2, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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Twenty-nine years ago on this day, #httpget 0.1 was released.

I found the tool a few days later and within a few months I became the maintainer. We later renamed it. Twice. The last name it got is #curl. It stuck.

httpget was my first insight and lesson into HTTP and since then I have kept […]
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mastodon.social
November 11, 2025 at 6:49 AM
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November 9, 2025 at 11:12 AM
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"The confiscapitulation":

https://no01.substack.com/p/the-confiscapitulation

Now the Netherlands is trying to figure out how to unseize Nexperia.
The confiscapitulation
Now the Netherlands is trying to figure out how to unseize Nexperia
no01.substack.com
November 9, 2025 at 7:52 AM
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Facial recognition firm Clearview AI hit with criminal complaint | Euractiv https://blog.quintarelli.it/2025/10/facial-recognition-firm-clearview-ai-hit-with-criminal-complaint-euractiv/
Facial recognition firm Clearview AI hit with criminal complaint | Euractiv
Max Schrems attacca Clearview. In punta di diritto potrebbe avere ragione. (oltre a fare la cosa giusta) > European privacy rights group noyb filed a criminal complaint against the controversial US facial recognition company Clearview AI and its leadership on Tuesday. > > … > > But despite multiple GDPR fines being issued on Clearview – in total the company has received €95.7 million in administrative fines from data protection authorities in Greece, France, Italy, and the Netherlands since February 2022 – EU authorities have struggled to collect the money. The US-based firm has been largely able to dodge GDPR enforcement in the EU, as it has no formal representation on the continent. > > Noyb’s complaint accuses Clearview of simply ignoring EU law. By filing a criminal complaint, the privacy rights group said it hopes that – should Clearview be found guilty – its management would have to risk jail time or being held personally liable if they travel to the EU. > > … > > It points out that the GDPR gives scope to enforcement authorities to foresee criminal sanctions for certain data breaches if such a criminal provision has been implemented in national law – as is the case in Austria. Source: _Facial recognition firm Clearview AI hit with criminal complaint | Euractiv_ If you like this post, please consider sharing it.
blog.quintarelli.it
October 28, 2025 at 10:29 AM
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October 9, 2025 at 8:34 AM
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Let's mandate user identification, they said. It will be fine, they said.
October 4, 2025 at 6:57 AM
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Remember to be aware of cybersecurity this month. Once the month is over, you can return to being blissfully unaware of it.
October 2, 2025 at 5:43 AM
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Offering up the #plushtodon to the lake deity for a bountiful federation.
September 22, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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Aaaand the authoritarian socialist government of the UK is about to do yet another totalitarian shit.

"Keir Starmer set to unveil digital ID scheme":

https://removepaywalls.com/https://www.ft.com/content/f2b333ba-3157-473f-b831-9eb7856c1edd
https://www.ft.com/content/f2b333ba-3157-473f-b831-9eb7856c1edd
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removepaywalls.com
September 22, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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KGEI Transmitter Building, Redwood City, CA, 2024.

250 KW of pixels at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/54131707918

#photography
September 22, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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Classic Mac's OS file system innovations (resource forks, metadata) were often lost in transit when the Internet took off in 1995, and the same is still true 30 years later in Infinite Mac.

I figured out a workaround using modern macOS's built-in .zip archives […]

[Original post on hachyderm.io]
September 18, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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While they’re at it, they’re also doing everything to ensure that nobody else gets homes (by not building any) and they’ll complain ceaselessly about poop on the streets but refuse to build toilets. Just in case homeless people use drugs in public bathrooms.
September 14, 2025 at 3:16 AM
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Today I learned that there are anti drug vigilantes who are going around San Francisco spraying random homeless people with Narcan. Even if they’re not OD-ing. They’re just asleep. This is so unfashionably cruel.

The dehumanization of entire groups of people occurs even among people who […]
Original post on hachyderm.io
hachyderm.io
September 14, 2025 at 3:09 AM
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🇪🇺The EU Commission seriously claims: "There is no such thing as #chatcontrol.”

Their fantasy: A magic, 100% perfect algorithm that only finds CSAM.

The reality: To find anything, you must scan everything.

Stop the mass surveillance lie! #StopScanningMe
September 11, 2025 at 12:43 PM