A/I chiude - Restare Umani https://keepitfree.ai/it/announcements/a/i-chiude-restare-umani/ #KeepItFree #AutisticiInventati

New press release from A/I calling it quits 💔

The day we discovered we had been designated a global terrorist organization, we promised that we would try to resist as long as this was possible, that we would not back down as long as we could see options to stand our ground. For years, we have proudly maintained and defended a free, privacy-friendly, autonomous and politically committed infrastructure. 

“Stay human” is not an empty phrase to us.

It means, above all, that we have a responsibility to protect our users, those who build the human networks we rely, and for the communities who flooded us with messages of support and solidarity.

We cannot engage in a fight or expose ourselves to manipulations that threaten the lives of these people and their loved ones, leaving them at the mercy of autocrats, fascists and agencies that take extra-legal courses of action. The possibility that our work may cause legal and financial consequences to those who are close to us - or even only have something to do with us - leaves us no choice.

A/I is shutting down. The Autistici/Inventati collective is shutting down and will soon discontinue all of the services we provide.

There is no easy way to announce or explain this

Every day we stayed online after August 26, 2026, has been a victory, but now we are forced to stop.

None of us holds eroic gestures and martyrs in high esteem, therefore we will demand no sacrifices. Not from us, not from anyone else. In this political climate, continuing to offer our services endangers our users and anyone who is part of our communities. In a world where allegations are disconnected from reality, we can only expect repression to be increasingly disproportionate. Under these circumstances, we are no longer able to maintain our original mission - offering secure and non-commercial digital tools.

These 25 years have been amazing. It’s been an “incredible ride”.

Now turn off your PCs, get out of your homes, struggle, hug each other and keep on smiling. We are stopping, but the Resistance and ideas do not stop. Stay human.

We will soon send instructions on how to back up the content of your blogs, mailboxes and websites, along with more technical recommendations. But keep in mind that, just as the autistici.org domain was made unreachable without previous notice, in the next few days we might suffer similar issues that we may not be able to predict.

Autistici/Inventati Collective

https://keepitfree.ai/announcements/a/i-shuts-down-stay-human/

#aivsus #aicrackdown2026 #fascism

@TheEvilSkeleton@social.treehouse.systems Btw nitter seems back

https://github.com/zedeus/nitter

> UPDATE: Following legal advice, the Nitter project will continue. More details will be announced soon.

We're well into the process of converting the Messaging app included in GrapheneOS into a modern app. We'll be making a new release later today with a completely overhauled user interface written in Android Compose. We've made a massive amount of other improvements and bug fixes beyond that too.

We're also going to be overhauling or fully replacing the rest of the AOSP apps in the near future. AOSP Gallery is incredibly outdated and is being entirely replaced. AOSP Keyboard may be similar. We recently hired a bunch of new people and will be hiring more so our progress will be accelerating.

Wow is #XLibre a shit show. Almost as if someone setup LLM agents with an email domain and a mailserver and then told them to create github accounts and to write a fork of X.org, advertise, and defend it at all costs.

And people wonder why so many hate #AI...

https://artixlinux.org/news.php#XLibre_support_discontinued

and https://forum.artixlinux.org/index.php/topic,10314.0.html

KDE Plasma 6.8 gets a Windows-like Autoscroll feature https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/09/kde-plasma-6-8-gets-a-windows-like-autoscroll-feature/

#KDE #OpenSource #Plasma #Linux

Nitter is back, baby

Photos: a proposed replacement for Gwenview

pointieststick.com/2026/09/06/photos-a-proposed-replacement-for-gwenview

Gwenview has been KDE’s flagship image viewer for over 25 years. It works, it’s feature-packed, and it’s been modernized repeatedly. Gwenview has served generations of KDE users faithfully and well.
So… why build a replacement?
Well, over the years…

This affects the Fediverse.

This affects the Internet.

This is the equivalent of the "rubber hose method" of decryption.

All technical solutions (read: all technology) is subject to politics. To political power. To political interactions.

You cannot rely on purely technical approaches. You have to have social approaches, too. Like. Actual policy and procedure geared around social and political group dynamics.

Like. How will we react when the US Govt requires that @jerry@infosec.exchange to shut off infosec.exchange servers.

Or how we'll react when a specific Mastodon server is declared part of a terrorist infrastructure. Will federating with it mean any other Mastodon server is now part of the officially designated terrorist network (what then of people that federate with a server that federates with a server that is classified as part of a terrorist network. And so on)

You cannot carry the conceit that tech alone or a purely technical approach will save you.

#AutisticiInventati #fediverse

https://sabot.media/post/ai-shuts-down

This is the big LG television surveillance documentary story GN have been working on for a couple of months, and that they previewed a few days ago.

The complete pervasiveness of spying upon not just you and what you watch but _every person and every device around every set_ is genuinely staggering. And it gets worse if you use their apps, particularly the LG TV "network":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6IFVTcM28KA

Having an old set DOES NOT HELP YOU; they've been adding these spying functions in firmware updates.

So DO NOT BUY ANYTHING LG. Certainly not anything "smart."

#LG #surveillance #spying #evesdropping #CorporateSurveillance #SmartTV #DoNotBuy #television #electronics #HomeElectronics #journalism #news #GamersNexus

i recently wrote that I become anti-AI, having previously been neutral towards it - critical in some aspects, positive in others.

when you use AI, you stop thinking. you don't reason about anything. google search really annoys me, because it's so seductive when the bot tells you what you want, regardless of whether it's true... and you're enticed to *not* click links anymore

anyway, i don't want to further articulate or intellectualise, but OpenBSD pretty much predicted this 17 years ago:

https://www.openbsd.org/lyrics.html#46

OpenBSD predicted chatgpt.

This is really insidious. Even really smart people get sucked into it. My friend is one such person, but lots of really smart people I know seem to be taken by it.

None of us are immune. When you have a sycophant whispering in your ear and tell you all the answers (whether they're right or not, more often they are wrong), you stop thinking.

It's called: deskilling

I say think for yourself. It's OK even to be wrong, or slow. Think for yourself!

Il post che stavate tutti aspettando. Come fare backup dei vostri dati per i vari servizi di A/I https://cavallette.noblogs.org/2026/09/10099 #AutisticiInventati #KeepITFree

Here comes the post you've all been waiting for: how to make backups of your A/I services data https://cavallette.noblogs.org/2026/09/10099 #AutisticiInventati #KeepITFree

RE: https://mastodon.social/@nixCraft/117241250895962141

Meanwhile DigitalOcean couldn’t afford $50 a month for GNOME and Flathub VMs and cancelled their sponsorship last month.

happy 9/9

I got 9/9 problems but a bun ain't one

#unix_surrealism #cirno #glenda #9front #plan9 #art #fediart #comic