Turkey to Ban Anonymous VPNs
What’s the point of a VPN if logged and tracked? Though, the making it a crime for you to violate the law is troublesome. I wonder how this will affect Tor usage? You can use bridges that obfuscate traffic to…
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GitHub Opts All CLI Users Into Telemetry Collection Whether They Want It or Not
I’m not sure who would use this over the opensource git package, but if you do, you probably want to turn off Microsoft’s telemetry. Unless you want to help Microsoft train its AI with your activity. Opt-out instructions included…
SDNY vs. The Technological Facts Appendix
The whole purpose of a mixing service it to give you financial privacy on a public blockchain, as it breaks the tracking of transactions to a point you might have been identified. And there is a compelling reason for this,…
Big Tech Group Jumps The Gun On Unreleased Bill, Raising Questions About Cozy Ties With Lawmakers
For one, these politicians and tech megacorps don’t care about children as they’re all for murdering babies in the womb, and mutilating them for gender dysphoria. And I’d bet they would support a measure like in the Netherlands where you…
Crypto Bill Nears Stablecoin Rewards Breakthrough as Talks Hit ‘good Spot,’ but Ethics Concerns Set to Resurface
Banks are the absolute worst, as they’re still fighting you getting rewards for holding stablecoins, while they don’t pay you much interest for your bank account when they lend out 90% of your money making good returns. As stablecoins are…
Bitcoin Core 31.0 Released
Some of the responses to the X announcement were brutal, but deserved. And count me in for never running unpatched Bitcoin Core ever again, as I’m running the BIP-110 patched version of Bitcoin Knots, itself a patched version of Bitcoin…
Illinois House Bill Would Force Operating Systems To Check Your Age
Yet another state law for ID and age verification on install or first setup. Well, we know Meta and other tech megacorps are behind these laws and why they’re so similar. But it’s all a creep towards digital ID and…
Nevada Police May Be Tracking Your Phone’s Location Without a Warrant. Here’s How
Another example of the government violating the Bill of Rights and the 4th Amendment. Just keep location off and never enable the enhanced location service using WiFi or Bluetooth, unless you’re using it for navigation or BT for music. Also,…
Bitcoin Is the Exit—Simon Dixon & Natalie Brunell
Interesting worldview of how things are working. Not that I’m totally onboard with everything, but it’s worth a listen. His predictions on what they’re going to do with Bitcoin is spot on, keeping self-custody alive for themselves, not so much…
Ageless Linux: Civil Disobedience Through Operating System
Nice analysis of the age verification movement and how many Linux distributions are going to bend the knee. And like Sam Bent, I’m thinking of Artix Linux as well to replace my Endeavor OS installs as they don’t use systemd…
San Jose Residents File a Lawsuit Against the City Over Flock License Plate Reading Cameras
They were keeping the data for one year, now adjusted to 30 days unless there is a warrant. And the biggest thing, they never have many quality examples of it actually helping catch criminals. And there is always good old-fashioned…
How the KYC Mandate Became a Biometric Heist
A good reason to avoid all these biometric KYC methods, as these entities aren’t trustworthy to keep your biometric data safe, even sharing it and making it more vulnerable. And it can’t be changed later after a hack. The…