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🥱 #Microsoft has announced “digital sovereignty”. Again. New fancy terms, same problem: a foreign government can still demand your data or cut off your services. The stack, licensing and rules stay under Microsoft’s control, not yours. That’s #SovereigntyWashing: 👉 nextcloud.com/blog/soverei...

PHP Security Advisories are out: RCE via OOM corruption (9.2/10): github.com/php/php-src/... RCE via stale global state (9.2/10): github.com/php/php-src/... Need to upgrade to 8.2.35, 8.3.36, 8.4.27, or 8.5.12 ASAP to mitigate. Updates rolling out now. #PHP

Any time there's a Microsoft commercial and the Teams sound happens I want to murder everyone in marketing at that company.

BREAKING: Anthropic reports an $80 billion net loss in the first half of 2026.

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eBay users! Don't ignore today's email, even though it looks like a boring standard update to the User Privacy Notice. They want to use your data to train AI models. If you click the link over the words "the right to object", it takes you to a page with a toggle button letting you opt out.

In the middle of #NoKings day, Meta suspended the @nkcoalition.bsky.social Instagram account. Tell Congress to investigate Meta's pattern of political suppression and hold tech giants accountable for any attempts to interfere in our elections: act.indivisible.org/sign/tell-yo...

Your right to privacy doesn't end when you get behind the wheel. Our new license plate frame sends a clear message about the importance of protecting our movements from surveillance.

“People don’t understand what kind of data they’re handing over,” EFF’s @evacide.bsky.social told @theverge.com, because Muse’s user interface is designed to encourage you to overshare. "It’s using dark patterns, and as a result you end up with Muse doing things that people don’t want.”

Pager Converted to Meshtastic Node

"This level of anthropomorphisation of AI is harmful. It leads people to believe that it's something it's not." www.bbc.com/news/article...

Billionaire families have spent $1.7 BILLION on the 2026 midterms so far — a 5,200% increase since the 2010 midterms. Citizens United is among the worst decisions in history. It corrupts our system every day. Big Money is the root of our dysfunction.

When state lawmakers attempt to rewrite how the internet works, users rely on courts to recognize that laws can’t make technical impossibilities a reality. Thankfully, a court has blocked Utah’s attempt to restrict VPN use. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

The first three No Kings were about sending a message that we wouldn’t back down to a wannabe dictator. October 17 will be about organizing locally to prevent the fascists from sabotaging the midterms and consolidating power. Please join us: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i...

216 million spy TVs, ACR, vulnerabilities, and the LG Smart TV problem: www.youtube.com/watch?v=6IFV...

PSA: The hole on your Roku remote is for holding 2mm drill bits.

City refusals, statehouse restrictions, impact litigation, and investigative activism are different levers EFF pulls toward the same end: eliminating ALPR surveillance, and building the durable public power needed to keep it off our streets. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

People are frustrated by emerging tech because it's something being done to them– surveilling, manipulating, draining resources- rather than providing tools to improve their lives, @legind.bsky.social told @azfamily.com. “These seem like things that are just so disempowering. So out of our control.”

EFF’s position is that ALPR mass surveillance—the indiscriminate, continuous collection and retention of location data on every driver, regardless of suspicion—should not exist. Because it nonetheless does, EFF also urges courts and state legislatures to impose strict, enforceable restrictions.

The chaos is the point. The Trump regime is trying everything they can to make it harder to vote, and to sow doubt in the results. They’re desperate to cling to power because they don’t want to be held accountable for their corruption and destructive policies. Learn more: indivisible.org/camp...

“Police can just sit down on their computer and search for those plates without a warrant from a judge. So, it is a system tailor-made for abuse,” EFF’s @mguariglia.bsky.social told @wsav.bsky.social.

Encoding MOD Files Optically On Paper, Because Amiga’s Legacy Will Outlast M-Disks

BREAKING: The union of Starbucks workers is officially calling for a boycott of the chain. @sbworkersunited.org has over 12,000 unionized baristas, and they're calling on customers to stop visiting Starbucks until they get a fair union contract.

The information is worth more than the product; is a lesson for anyone currently getting something "free" from one of the largest companies on earth.

The Sock Market is wild today...

So, we're not getting that tariff money back from corporations and prices are just going to stay right where they are huh...

v1.130 is live! Want to follow someone for their posts but not their reposts? Now you can — turn on "Hide reposts in feeds" for any account you follow.

Every new piece of legislation set to "save us from AI" is like "Oh we'll have to FORCE companies to collect and examine your personal information to verify age and potential issues and fine them MILLIONS if they refuse." Silicone Valley AI Companies: "Oh, shucks."

In one California town, Flock misread license plates in 71% of the time. Out of a sample of 1,427 alerts that Flock sent to police in the town of Roseville, alerts that flagged vehicles as stolen or used in a felony after they passed one of the city's Flock cameras, 71% were inaccurate.

"I spoke into the plagiarism machine and what I said ended up elsewhere!"

California bill AB 2047 mandates 3D printers analyze each print. These scans are only feasible through cloud-connected AI scans, a surveillance apparatus that’s prone to misuse and will chill lawful speech. Creators deserve better. www.eff.org/3DPrintCA

"Muppets, Bieber, Shakira: Pick two" should have been a planning exercise.

It took nearly 2 years, but it seems like America is finally paying attention. 🙏🏻

Don't fall for it. Mandates for surveillance and censorship software on personal devices hurts creators, and won't make anyone safer. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

Fox News largely ignored Trump's election denial speech in the hours before and after the White House address — and did not mention it at all on Friday’s Fox & Friends. www.mediamatters.org/voter-fraud-...

Some men will literally hold a primetime national address ranting about an election they lost six years ago instead of going to therapy.

One of the most shocking data center developments in the country is families increasingly being pushed to sell their property for data center power lines, under threat of eminent domain.

Susan Collins could have insisted on guardrails or measures to rein in abuses. She didn’t and now her state is being terrorized by ICE.

Meanwhile, on Bluesky.

America's 200th birthday (1976) verses America's 250th birthday (2026).

This updated version of AB 2047 downgrades performance standards and removes oversight, while still threatening privacy and choice for users of 3D printers. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

THE most annoying workaholic co-worker trait: Friday 7:30PM - [Technical Ask] Monday 8:30AM - "Where are we on this?" 😶

I just want to replace ShipStation and every replacement company is like "Business intelligence analytic tracking token agentic AI transformation insights for your growing e-commerce solution API" and I'm emailing them: "Hey, can you combine shipments?" and they're like: "That's coming in Q3" 🙄

$1000 nosebleed seats. It was never about the fans - it was the greed of extracting as much money as possible from them. www.bbc.com/sport/footba...

Are you represented by one of these Democrats? Golden (ME-2) Lee (NV-3) Gottheimer (NJ-5) Davis (NC-1) Cuellar (TX-28) Gonzalez (TX-34) Gluesenkamp Perez (WA-3) They need to hear from you — because these Democrats recently voted with Republicans to let the regime keep spying on American citizens.

Just got invited to VOLUNTEER for the LA28 Olympics. $3000 seats, and oh yeah we need thousands of volunteers...

Building the next generation of Network Engineers. Hack the planet kids.

West coast US has to suffer the most from 5am punchy announcers at LeMans 24h. They are shitting on Sim racers right now. 🙄 #lemans #lemans24h Thanks for the ads HBO, your TNT Sports feed sucks.

New process to vet software vendors: Open a support case. * Is their support portal garbage? * Is their tech support in-house? * Subject matter experts? * Do they have access to internal tools? * Resolution time? Answering "What happens when it breaks?" is better than "Amazing Software Demo"