We have published an open letter to Google opposing the Android Developer Verification Program with over 30 organizations as signatories: https://keepandroidopen.org/open-letter/

re @claudeai@threads.net

I've identified industrial-scale copyright violations on my content by Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, X, and more.

These companies created thousands of crawlers incorporating the text of all my blog posts, open source code, and books into their paid AI models to profit exorbitantly.

First time making a proper #icon grid and a symbolic icon. Made with @inkscape@mastodon.art.

The Firefox version with a built-in AI killswitch is out.

EDIT: Muting this post before things get out of hand in the “directing hostile opinions at a stranger who has no power to change the things you dislike” department.

I love how history repeats itself

Shitposters uploading files to P2P filesharing platforms with the wrong filename?

Welcome back Limewire Bill Clinton ifreeclub.com

age of consent

#openbsd #unix_surrealism #art

❌ No snooping on our messages ❌

The European Parliament is currently deciding its position on the proposed second extension of the ‘temporary’ interim ePrivacy derogation, also known as 'Chat Control 1.0'.

✊🏾 @edri, 39 organisations and several individual experts are urging members of the Parliament to reject any extension of the derogation.

It is vital that MEPs act now to rule out mass snooping on our private messages.

Read the full letter ➡️ https://edri.org/our-work/open-letter-we-say-no-to-big-tech-mass-snooping-on-our-messages/

if you have't read this investigation on #Palantir by Swiss journalists and researchers at #Republik and #WAVResearch, you should do it!

https://www.republik.ch/2026/02/18/how-tenaciously-palantir-courted-switzerland

Apple brings age verification to UK users in iOS 26.4 beta https://www.theverge.com/tech/884306/apple-age-verification-uk-users-ios-26-4-beta

KDE supports the "Keep Android Open" campaign

#Google will cut off independent developers to #Android if they do not register with Google first. This will kill independent platforms like @fdroidorg@floss.social and severely impede FLOSS devs from creating apps for Android.

https://keepandroidopen.org/

Many KDE apps are deployed for Android: KDE Connect, Itinerary, Tokodon, and there's even a test version of Krita for Android.

KDE calls on Google to reverse course and @keepandroidopen@techhub.social.

https://keepandroidopen.org/open-letter/

This program doesn't do anything? It is just a bunch of markdown files and a wrapper for LLMs with shell access?

And you're telling me that developing "skills" for this piece of shit is just writing a markdown file with instructions on how to do a thing?

People are mass buying overpriced Mac Mini computers just to play with A COLLECTION OF MARKDOWN FILES?

AI bubble has reached peak insanity.

RE: https://minidisc.tokyo/notes/aj7ffz404l

Just want to raise up the design of this “AI kill switch” in Firefox, and say how much I like it: it’s a top-level preference, and the design and content are both *very* clear in communicating the different levels at which you’re making decisions.

I would *love* to see more product companies roll out something like this for their en-LLM’d features.

I came up with a highly advanced 99.9% accuracy detector to see if a software project was vibecoded or not.

grep -ro "—" . | wc -l

GrapheneOS e Motorola insieme? Un leak alimenta il sospetto

Un leak rivela quella che potrebbe essere una partnership tra GrapheneOS e Motorola: il sistema operativo incentrato sulla privacy potrebbe presto girare anche su dispositivi non Pixel.

https://yoota.it/grapheneos-e-motorola-insieme-un-leak-alimenta-il-sospetto/

GrapheneOS and Motorola teaming up? A leaked slide fuels the rumor

A leaked internal Motorola slide lists GrapheneOS among its security offerings, hinting at a partnership that could bring the privacy-focused OS beyond Pixel devices.

https://yoota.it/en/grapheneos-and-motorola-teaming-up-a-leaked-slide-fuels-the-rumor/

The "video game preservation service" Myrient is shutting down in March https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/the-video-game-preservation-service-myrient-is-shutting-down-in-march/

#Retro #Gaming

the year is 2069: your #Telegram chat shows a huge ad banner that covers most of the screen, that together with the constantly moving stickers with flashing explosions and effects in the "premium store showcase" section only leaves space for a single message bubble so you communicate with voice messages instead of text

#enshittification

🇪🇺Update: On Monday evening, the LIBE Committee will vote on whether providers may continue indiscriminate #ChatControl (with minor limitations). EPP, S&D, Renew, ECR, ESN, PfE recommend voting in favour; Greens/EFA/Pirates & Left recommend voting against.

ℹ️https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/posts/chat-control/#cc1

🇮🇹Aggiornamento: Lunedì sera la commissione LIBE voterà se i fornitori possano continuare un #ChatControl indiscriminato (con lievi limiti). EPP, S&D, Renew, ECR, ESN, PfE favorevoli; Verdi/ALE/Pirates & Sinistra contrari.

ℹ️https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/posts/chat-control/#cc1

Palantir fa causa a una rivista svizzera per aver riportato con precisione che il governo svizzero non voleva Palantir

Il famigerato colosso della sorveglianza e dell'analisi dei dati presieduto da Peter Thiel, ha intentato una causa contro Republik , una piccola rivista online svizzera, per un paio di articoli investigativi pubblicati a dicembre

https://www.techdirt.com/2026/02/27/palantir-sues-swiss-magazine-for-accurately-reporting-that-the-swiss-government-didnt-want-palantir/

@aitech

#Apple says the #UK #AgeVerification prompt was an “error.”

https://www.theverge.com/tech/886029/apple-says-the-uk-age-verification-prompt-was-an-error

#iOS #privacy