The EU is Destroying Privacy
This is a very good overview on where the EU is going, and it has huge implications for what they’re going to do here in the US, as the piecemeal implementation of age verification is all a setup for a…
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Someone Is Trying to ‘Hack’ People Through Apple Podcasts
Something to be aware of if you’re an Apple Podcast user. I’m not sure if you can disable the app and use something else, but that might be a good option if you can. Maybe check out apps that support…
2 Days until Nationwide Facial Recognition! Surveillance with Ring & Flock
This is a good overview of the Amazon trash and what they’re doing. And the Amazon Sidewalk functionality using your internet turned on by default is egregious and should be opt in. The saddest part is that people are paying…
Pi-Hole and Paramount Plus
With the UFC moving from ESPN+ to Paramount Plus for the new year, I had cancelled my Hulu, Disney, and ESPN+ bundle effective towards the end of next month after the completion of 2025 UFC events. And they had raised…
EU Parliament Votes for Mandatory Digital ID and Age Verification, Threatening Online Privacy
It’s interesting that they want you to confirm your identity every few months. Are they anticipating people will buy, borrow or use stolen digital IDs? Behind the promise of safety lies a blueprint for state-verified identity in every click.…
How the Mighty Have Fallen
(Video at Bottom) Andreas was a big promoter of the Bitcoin exit from fiat in the early days, but he’s gone off the rails. And this is after some Bitcoiners made him wealthy with donations, but I haven’t followed him…
KDE Plasma 6.8 Will Go Fully Wayland, Ending Nearly 30 Years of X11 Sessions
I guess my days of using KDE are coming to an end, as I’m not using Wayland, the IBM/Red Hat AI layer for agentic AI spying. I’m kind of glad I hadn’t donated, as when I did try they didn’t…
The Unpowered SSDs in Your Drawer Are Slowly Losing Your Data
An interesting article on using SSDs for storage. You just might to make sure you power them up a time or two per year. By Tanveer Singh Your SSD data isn’t as permanent as you think Non-volatile with an asterisk…
Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Unveils the Genesis Mission to Accelerate AI for Scientific Discovery
Given the name of Genesis, and how they want to link and empower industry and national security by linking computing assets in the government together, you’d have to think mark of the beast system inbound. And possibly a platform for…
Germany Is Debanking Dissidents, How Monero Solves This…
This is a very good presentation on debanking happening in Germany, and Sam Bent advocates for Monero, though Bitcoin with Lightning or Liquid will work for this as well. And Bitcoin is not being outlawed in the EU like Monero…
Pixnapping Exploit on Android – No Fix Yet
It’s a pretty interesting hack to read the screen, letting a malicious app read anything on the screen and even grab 2FA codes, or just any data from other apps. Though they’d have to know what they were going after…
Security Chip Companies Don’t Want You Seeing This…
A very important point is made at the beginning of this presentation having to do with opensource, and that’s others reviewing the code. And for this to truly work, you need to allow others to use the code as well,…