Tag tech

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2025-04-27

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Your smartphone is listening to you

www.independent.co.uk/tech/smartphone-apps-listening-privacy-alphonso-shazam-advertising-pool-3d-honey-quest-a8139451.html

Software from a company called Alphonso can be used to listen in to the environment around a user, to work out what they’re watching

2025-04-18

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Discord's face scanning age checks 'start of a bigger shift'

www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cjr75wypg0vo

The social platform is testing age checks using facial scanning for access to sensitive content.

2025-04-17

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About smolweb

smolweb.org

smolweb.org promotes simple unbloated web. It provides resources to actors who want to participate.

2025-04-16

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This is what resistance to the digital coup looks like

news.elenarossini.com/this-is-what-resistance-to-the-digital-coup-looks-like
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Substack Has a Nazi Problem

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/11/substack-extremism-nazi-white-supremacy-newsletters/676156

The newsletter platform’s lax content moderation creates an opening for white nationalists eager to get their message out.

2023-11-28

2025-04-15

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Tools for calculating your website's CO2 emissions

rootwebdesign.studio/articles/tools-for-calculating-your-websites-co2-emissions

Our 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

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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-breach

The car rental giant attributed the breach to Cleo, whose customers had data stolen by a ransomware gang in 2024.

2025-04-13

16.

Your Private Wireguard Network from Scratch

taggart-tech.com/wireguard

Let's learn how to set up our own private network for secure self-hosted services.

Like a DIY Tailscale.

15.

Contra Chrome

contrachrome.com

A comic about google's unending violations of privacy.

2025-04-11

14.

Recall going back into Windows

arstechnica.com/security/2025/04/microsoft-is-putting-privacy-endangering-recall-back-into-windows-11

Snapshotting and AI processing a screen every 3 seconds. What could possibly go wrong?

2025-04-10

13.

2025 PeerTube Roadmap

joinpeertube.org/news/roadmap-2025
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Europe’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-leyen
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CCC | Incompatibility of membership

www.ccc.de/en/club/unvereinbarkeitserklaerung-des-ccc

CCC's statement against racism and fascism.

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CCC modernizes its incompatibility of membership

www.ccc.de/en/updates/2025/ccc-aktualisiert-unvereinbarkeitserklaerung

2025-04-09

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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-not
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AI: The New Aesthetics of Fascism

newsocialist.org.uk/transmissions/ai-the-new-aesthetics-of-fascism

It's embarrassing, destructive, and looks like shit: AI-generated art is the perfect aesthetic form for the far right.

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How to Distribute Radical Shit: Don't Trust Your Printer

www.revoluciana.net/how-to-distribute-radical-stuff

Your printer is a snitch. It's a homing beacon for law enforcement– even offline.

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C Isn't A Programming Language Anymore - Faultlore

faultlore.com/blah/c-isnt-a-language
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UK 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-kill

Exclusive: Algorithms allegedly being used to study data of thousands of people, in project critics say is ‘chilling and dystopian’