2025-04-27
Your smartphone is listening to you
www.independent.co.uk/tech/smartphone-apps-listening-privacy-alphonso-shazam-advertising-pool-3d-honey-quest-a8139451.htmlSoftware from a company called Alphonso can be used to listen in to the environment around a user, to work out what they’re watching
2025-04-25
Terraformental by Shadowsand
sh4dowsand.itch.io/terraformentalTry to survive and perhaps eventually even tame an unknown planet in this incremental semi-idle game.
2025-04-19
Digital Logic Sim by Sebastian Lague
sebastian.itch.io/digital-logic-simA minimalistic digital logic simulator
2025-04-18
Discord's face scanning age checks 'start of a bigger shift'
www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cjr75wypg0voThe social platform is testing age checks using facial scanning for access to sensitive content.
2025-04-17
About smolweb
smolweb.orgsmolweb.org promotes simple unbloated web. It provides resources to actors who want to participate.
2025-04-16
This is what resistance to the digital coup looks like
news.elenarossini.com/this-is-what-resistance-to-the-digital-coup-looks-likeSubstack Has a Nazi Problem
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/11/substack-extremism-nazi-white-supremacy-newsletters/676156The newsletter platform’s lax content moderation creates an opening for white nationalists eager to get their message out.
2023-11-28
The Hangman
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hangman_(poem)2025-04-15
Tools for calculating your website's CO2 emissions
rootwebdesign.studio/articles/tools-for-calculating-your-websites-co2-emissionsOur review of the best tools for measuring the carbon impact of your website and how best to use them including Ecograder and Digital Beacon.
2025-04-14
Hertz says customers' personal data and driver's licenses stolen in data breach | TechCrunch
techcrunch.com/2025/04/14/hertz-says-customers-personal-data-and-drivers-licenses-stolen-in-data-breachThe car rental giant attributed the breach to Cleo, whose customers had data stolen by a ransomware gang in 2024.
2025-04-13
Your Private Wireguard Network from Scratch
taggart-tech.com/wireguardLet's learn how to set up our own private network for secure self-hosted services.
Like a DIY Tailscale.
Contra Chrome
contrachrome.comA comic about google's unending violations of privacy.
2025-04-11
Recall going back into Windows
arstechnica.com/security/2025/04/microsoft-is-putting-privacy-endangering-recall-back-into-windows-11Snapshotting and AI processing a screen every 3 seconds. What could possibly go wrong?
2025-04-10
2025 PeerTube Roadmap
joinpeertube.org/news/roadmap-2025Europe’s GDPR privacy law is headed for red tape bonfire within ‘weeks’
www.politico.eu/article/eu-gdpr-privacy-law-europe-president-ursula-von-der-leyenLong seen as untouchable in Brussels, the GDPR is next on the list of the EU’s crusade against overregulation.
CCC | Incompatibility of membership
www.ccc.de/en/club/unvereinbarkeitserklaerung-des-cccCCC's statement against racism and fascism.
CCC modernizes its incompatibility of membership
www.ccc.de/en/updates/2025/ccc-aktualisiert-unvereinbarkeitserklaerungChaos Computer Club publishes statement against racism and fascism.
Atkinson Hyperlegible Font - Braille Institute
www.brailleinstitute.org/freefontFree but needs email to get. Apparently SIL Open Font licensed.
2025-04-09
Magpie by sunil.
zunil.itch.io/magpieBroughlike about a trinket-loving magpie
TrainPlanner by Toffee
toffee.itch.io/train-plannerMake your own rail network!
Hatzune Miku delivers leeks
Why Techdirt Is Now A Democracy Blog (Whether We Like It Or Not)
www.techdirt.com/2025/03/04/why-techdirt-is-now-a-democracy-blog-whether-we-like-it-or-notAI: The New Aesthetics of Fascism
newsocialist.org.uk/transmissions/ai-the-new-aesthetics-of-fascismIt's embarrassing, destructive, and looks like shit: AI-generated art is the perfect aesthetic form for the far right.
How to Distribute Radical Shit: Don't Trust Your Printer
www.revoluciana.net/how-to-distribute-radical-stuffYour printer is a snitch. It's a homing beacon for law enforcement– even offline.
C Isn't A Programming Language Anymore - Faultlore
faultlore.com/blah/c-isnt-a-languageUK creating ‘murder prediction’ tool to identify people most likely to kill
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/apr/08/uk-creating-prediction-tool-to-identify-people-most-likely-to-killExclusive: Algorithms allegedly being used to study data of thousands of people, in project critics say is ‘chilling and dystopian’