ublock lite is now on IOS, Should people switch to that instead of using Adguard or should they stick with Adguard?
This is a question that for some is easy to answer and for others may not be as
easy to answer. So all input could help other people find and make a more
knowledgeable choice and one that helps them towards their privac…
‘Fly economy for fun’: US founder trolled for frugality post after she's accused of stealing millions
Jessica Mah faces backlash after claiming a frugal lifestyle on LinkedIn, coinciding with allegations of misappropriating investor funds for luxury expenses. 
Labor plans to make it harder to access government information
A new proposal would introduce a fee for Freedom of Information requests and tighten the rules around the release of documents related to government deliberations.
Harvard dropouts to launch ‘always on’ AI smart glasses that listen and record every conversation
After developing a facial-recognition app for Meta’s Ray-Ban glasses and doxing random people, two former Harvard students are now launching a startup that makes smart glasses with an always-on microphone.
The Document Foundation is proud to release LibreOffice 25.8
The best open source office suite continues to evolve, while maintaining its focus on privacy and digital sovereignty Berlin, 20 August 2025 – The Document Foundation announces the release of LibreOffice 25.8. This late…
Fediverse Party
Let's make social media free, federated and fun! Fediverse.Party is your guide into the world of decentralized, autonomous networks running on free open software on a myriad of servers across the world. No ads and no al…
Briar alternative between Android and iOS?
The full notice
[https://lemmy.zip/pictrs/image/f8827127-7925-477c-a365-bad32ee409e6.webp] Edit:
looks like it’s probably a false DMCA claim but not enough is known right not to
be sure in any direction Edit 2: apparent…
Yo yo! Help me choose some better private services!
Yo yo! Iâve been working on making my life more private and need some assistance
picking suitable replacement options. Please let me know what you think of my
list of if there are any opportunities for improvement! He…
FiloSottile/age: A simple, modern and secure encryption tool (and Go library) with small explicit keys, no config options, and UNIX-style c…
A simple, modern and secure encryption tool (and Go library) with small explicit keys, no config options, and UNIX-style composability. - FiloSottile/age
Docker or Proxmox? Something else entirely?
New server has been acquired. Debian 13 has been installed.
GS308EP switches have been acquired and installed.
Now, I’m working to migrate to the new machine. 3 1/2 years ago when I started
futzing with Docker, I sorta …
Thunderbird Shares New Details on Upcoming Pro Features (Thundermail's servers to be located in Germany! 🇩🇪)
Thunderbird Pro will offer Thundermail email service, appointment scheduling, file sharing, and maybe even AI features. Email will be hosted on German servers.
Three years of building no-code software for political organizations
What is no-code? No-code is primarily a type of software that allows you to create more software, customized for your needs, starting fro...
Selhosted P2P File Transfer & Messaging
IMPORTANT NOTES (PLEASE READ!): * These are NOT products. They are for testing
and demonstration purposes only. * They have NOT been reviewed or audited. Do
NOT use for sensitive data. * All functionality demonstrated i…
Your fav guide/method for securing Jellyfin?
Hello. I have just recently started with self hosting my media with Jellyfin…
and I am LOVING it! I had been carrying around media players for decades, with
everyone looking at me like an insane crank for not giving up …
ICE Hunts Down Immigrants by Spying on Their Wire Transfers
Investigators traced the remittances an immigrant was sending from Hawaii to Mexico to figure out his location.
McDonald's not lovin' it when hacker exposes rotten security
: Burger slinger gets a McRibbing, reacts by firing staffer who helped
Crypto mixing / Tumbler
Hello. Iâm wondering if anyone me here uses a Crypto tumbler or mixer service
without KYC . Looking for recommendations
In August, The Document Foundation had a major update to LibreOffice. But so much more is happening: conference news, a job opening, extens…
Here’s our summary of updates, events and activities in the LibreOffice project in the last four weeks – click the links to learn more… Every six months – in February and August – we release a new major update to LibreO…
Monero Defense Fund
Address:
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View key: e6c7d6dbd9ef0ab5acb21274aa9886940c3f2ba96bb834c7fef2c68d3013a203 A
Monero donation fund to rent hashrate…
The underrated benefit of hybrid PoW/PoS for Monero
Hybrid PoW/PoS for Monero would help fighting the fractional reserve practice
from shady exchanges. Either they will offer XMR staking and wonât be able to
fake it as rewards will accrue over time and would become a l…
Russia orders state-backed Max messenger app to be pre-installed on new phones
Critics say Max, a WhatsApp rival, could be used to track users, though state media says it is not a spying app
Goodbye, Microsoft: Schleswig-Holstein relies on Open Source and saves millions
Schleswig-Holstein saves 15 million euros in license costs by migrating from Microsoft to free software. The conversion is significantly cheaper.
Hey that OS alot of people care about righ now is hiring, please consider & share to other
GrapheneOS job opportunities.
Blender 5.0 Released With Better Vulkan Support, HDR On Wayland
It's the Blender 5.0 release day! Blender 5.0 is a big step forward for this open-source 3D modeling software with better Vulkan viewport support across different GPUs/drivers, HDR support when using Vulkan and Wayland …
Payment app without Google in Europe?
There is a payment app/bank account in Europe who doesnât need Google Play
Services to fully works?
Clearview AI scraped 30 billion images from Facebook and other social media sites and gave them to cops: it puts everyone into a 'perpetual…
Law enforcement officers have used Clearview AI's facial recognition database nearly a million times, Hoan Ton-That, the company's CEO, told the BBC.
Brain implants that read minds: a medical miracle raises new ethical questions
For the first time, researchers have succeeded in translating silent thoughts in real time using a brain implant coupled with artificial intelligence. This technology promises to offer a new form of…
FM Radio on LineageOS?
I installed LineageOS on my Samsung device, and there doesnât seem to be a radio
app. I have access to an identical device which is running the stock OS. I
extracted the radio app on the other device (with App Manager…
DC officially memory holing the Snyderverse
At the start of Peacemaker Season 2, James Gunn retcons Season 1 in a way that will upset fans of the Justice League.
Strengthening Monero Amid Attacks – With Xenu of Anti Moonboy News |(MT 359)
Strengthening Monero Amid Attacks â With Xenu of Anti Moonboy News |(MT 359)
TODAYâS ðSHOW: Moneroâs network is facing coordinated selfish-mining
âmarathonsâ by Cubic, causing multi-block reorganizations th…
Idea on how to fight qubic.
Whenever qubic finds 2 blocks in quick succession, they donât publish them and
instead keep building on them in secret as long as they are 2 block ahead of the
public chain. When the rest of the network gets close to …
Started hosting my own Nextcloud and its awesome!
So the last month or so I have started the slow transition of deGoogling and
other efforts… its scary because I’ve been using Google for 20 years. But I have
jumped into the deep end with NextCloud and I cannot believe …
FreshRSS release v1.27.0
Milestone
A few highlights ✨:
Implement support for HTTP 429 Too Many Requests and 503 Service Unavailable, obey Retry-After
Add sort by category title, or by feed title
Add search operator c: fo...
US Senator moves to file Section 230 repeal
Section 230, passed in 1996 as part of the Telecommunications Act, has become the centre of a intense political debate in the recent years.
Shai-Hulud round 2 on GitHub, massive leaks of data and propagation of stealer
Malware driving attack includes "dead man's switch" that can harm user data.
Apple's iOS takes a bite out of your freedom
Apple corporate headquarters keeps a tight lock on the apps available for its mobile operating system (iOS), which is used on the iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch. Software developers even have to pay a tax to Apple to pub…
EU Commission about to wreck core principles of the GDPR
The EU Commission has secretly set in motion a potentially massive reform of the GDPR. noybs first overview of the proposed changes.
Cud & Tith’s Death and Dismemberment Thursday Movie: John Carpenter’s Ghosts of Mars (2001) (5:30PM Eastern US Time)
IMPORTANT NOTE: please use a good VPN whenever visiting Blorptube, or anywhere
else on the internet, for that matter. Protect your privacy. We will be using
Blorptube tonight: https://blorp.bot.nu/o/visual_cuisine. It i…
This Company Turns Dashcams into ‘Virtual CCTV Cameras.’ Then Hackers Got In
A hacker has compromised Nexar, which turns peoples' cars into "virtual CCTV cameras" that organizations can then buy images from. The images include sensitive U.S. military and intelligence facilities.
/e/ OS does a little trolling and sends all your Text to Voice data to OpenAI for processing and Speech generation.
reality — an open, secure, de-Googled system is not open, not secure, and not a de-Googled system!? This is just a new anøm disguised as open source. I wouldn’t be surprised if the Tor nodes in Advanced Privacy are rout…
Good actually user friendly foss chat app?
Is there any actual easy to use foss chat app my friends and SO could use ?
Everyone uses fb messenger because its so easy. I cant find anything easy enough
to make people switch to, that wonât have issues and send th…
Alternative to github for hosting portfolio pieces, personal projects, etc. ?
I donât need to self host a git server or anything like that. Just need a place
I can link to in my CV with some code examples. Microsoft pushing their AI
rubbish has been the final straw.
GNU Octave
GNU Octave is a programming language for scientific computing.
Mastodon for Apple II (][+, //c, IIe, and IIgs)
A Mastodon client for the Apple 2
Early Thursday showing: Loved Martin McDonagh, Collin Farrell, and Brendan Gleeson in In Bruges? Then you’ll love Banshees of Inisherin (20…
(posting early as I may not have time to post it in the AM) IMPORTANT NOTE:
please use a good VPN whenever visiting Blorptube, or anywhere else on the
internet, for that matter. Protect your privacy. We will be using Bl…
Proposal: Difficulty Penalty for New Hash Rate to Enhance Monero’s 51% Attack Resistance
Hi all, First, an encouragement: I just added another 40kH/s to p2.pool mini. I
have been following Monero for some time, since around 2017, but usually keep to
myself. Iâve just a couple of days ago had an idea thoug…
Raspberry pi lidarr docker container
I am diving into the world of self hosting by setting up a small server on my
raspberry pi4. I already have tailscale, pihole, and navidrome setup in
containers on my pi, I now want to add lidarr or some alternative to …
Self hosting Signal server
Does anyone have any experience in successfully self-hosting Signal server using
docker? Thanks in advance. EDIT: Thanks all for your response. I gave up on
Signal and installing Matrix server instead.
Quentin Tarantino Ranks His Top 20 Favorite Films Of 21st Century [list inside]
Director Quentin Tarantino has ranked his favorite 20 films of the 21st century, including 'Black Hawk Down,' 'There Will Be Blood,' and more.