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  • Proton Mail introduces post-quantum encryption | Proton

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  • Why Everyone’s Picking Up a PSP Again in 2026

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  • I read that! I couldn't find it again, didn't realise it was you :)

    Thanks!

  • Why Everyone’s Picking Up a PSP Again in 2026

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  • What site/service are you buying from?

  • Reform pledges to open migrant detention centres in Green-voting areas

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  • Hard to tell these days if BBC articles are news or just more test marketing of right wing bullshit.

  • GameStop makes $55.5bn takeover offer for eBay

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  • There are reasons why I would never use Gamestop but do (currently) use eBay and have done for over 20 years.On of those reasons is Ryan Cohen and if he takes over I will delete my account without any hesitation at all.

    Per Ryan Cohen's Wikipedia page: "He supported Donald Trump during the 2024 United States presidential election, and promoted the conspiracy theory that the 2020 election was rigged. Cohen has publicly expressed criticism of Diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) policies. In early 2025, he criticized Canada and France for "wokeness and DEI" and said they have "high taxes, Liberalism, Socialism, Progressivism" that generated a challenging business environment in those markets."

    When will these billionaires just take the fact they already have far more money than they can ever spend, and FUCK RIGHT OFF!!! Let someone else run a business with morals, ethics, and a desire for something other than the extraction of wealth that can never be spent. At this point when you have so much, to chase more can only be because it denies the rest of the plane access to that wealth which could do so much economic rebalancing as well as social and environmental good.

  • no meta may challenge (wip?)

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  • I get why you have done it, but don't forget the option of stopping using something like instagram or facebook and just not replacing them.

    I think replacing messaging services with signal is the exception here, as everyone needs a method of contacting others.Its not always best for a person to just do the same thing on another equivalent service though.

    Sometimes the best alternative is to just stop doing the thing that is wasting all your time and attention; on any platform.

    Like I said, I get why offering an alternative is necessary, just wish we could remind people that just not doing the thing at all was always an option... And that's an option that often doesn't require other people to change so much.

  • 2 studies warn 'Day After Tomorrow' ocean current is in trouble

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  • Reads for me on fennec with javascript disabled over VPN

    Blocking JavaScript gets you round most paywalls and geoblocking

  • Canonical lays out a plan for AI in Ubuntu Linux

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  • I still feel (without any substantiating evidence) that having ai capabilities in my OS that can act without clarit y on user permissions or controls, feels like a vulnerability that will be exploited. Any recommendations to switch to if Mint should start introducing this stuff?

    Don't want an AI to look on the internet and decide my problem could be solved by removing the French language...

  • ‘The cost of compute is far beyond the costs of the employees’: Nvidia exec says right now AI is more expensive than paying human workers

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  • In shadow of doubt that many companies have painted themselves into a corner and will find the ai revenue correction painful. That said, I'm surprised to hear its already more expensive than people without reference to maintenance debt costs. Makes me wonder if there isn't some good old fashioned malicious compliance at work too...

  • Greece to ban anonymity on social media

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  • Great; humanity has found a new way to disappoint me today. :(

  • US will issue commemorative passports with Trump’s picture for America's 250th birthday

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  • Brilliant. That will help customs agents in every other country on the planet to know when a dangerous idiot tries to cross a border outside the USA.

  • The Open Social Web Needs Section 230 to Survive

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  • Brilliantly articulated. I completely agree with you.

  • Greece to ban anonymity on social media

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  • Can't say I'm behind the approach but it might help loosen the stranglehold that social media has on average people's lives. I'd agree that anonymity enables greater levels of toxicity, but I think a greater problem is credibility. Its almost impossible on the internet today to know who is 'credible' and if we solved that problem a lot of the toxic content and misinformation would fall into the 'not credible' arena and we could treat like fringe fiction accordingly.

  • U.S. companies back Sam Altman’s World ID even as much of the world pushes back

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  • So a Sam Altman company is coming to solve the problem of too much unidentifiable AI slop on the internet. A problem that has in no small part, been created by OpenAI, another Sam Altman company.

    Hard pass.

  • Proton CEO warns global age verification push will mean "the death of anonymity online"

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  • Sorry but I fundamentally disagree. Privacy respecting solutions do not collect unnecessary information.

    The packaging of identity validation in the OS breaches this principle by collecting more information than necessary and by collecting that information prior to the existence of a necessitating use case.

    It is not necessary to prove my age to do things not restricted by age, nor is it necessary to know who I am, or to prove my exact age, to prove I am older than a certain age.

    Even in the efforts I have seen to verify threshold rather than current age instead of identity, I'm not aware of any attempts or solutions that protect against timing attacks or inference attacks as users transition from failing the threshold verification process to passing it.

    Most OS code is proprietary and not auditable so any baked in solution cannot possibly pass a zero trust requirement. Access gates should only be applied at the point of need, as such things have always been done in all other scenarios and environments.

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    White House considering bulletproof vest for Trump after third assassination attempt on president: report

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  • Utter trash newspaper

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  • Don't give the daily fail any time or circulation. Its worthless trash.

  • Proton Releases Spring/Summer 2026 Road Map

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  • Linux drive synch is really late to the party here, glad its not dead though.

  • Federal Surveillance Tech Becomes Mandatory in New Cars by 2027

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  • "If the AI determines you’re impaired (blood alcohol ≥0.08% or showing fatigue), it can prevent ignition startup or limit vehicle speed"

    So if I the driver is injured, or distraught over an injured passenger, the car will limit how fast they can get to a hospital?

    Reckon this needs a little more time in the thinking through phase of the process.