installing LineageOS is easy, actually
Blorp â A Threadiverse client for Lemmy and PieFed. Web, iOS & macOS, and more!
Chat Control: EU Council vote is a Green Light for Indiscriminate Mass Surveillance and the End of Right to Communicate Anonymously
Contrary to headlines suggesting the EU has "backed away" from Chat Control, the negotiating mandate endorsed today by EU ambassadors in a close split vote paves the way for a permanent infrastructure of mass surveillan…
Build Your Own Glasshole Detector
Connected devices are ubiquitous in our era of wireless chips heavily relying on streaming data to someone else’s servers. This sentence might already start to sound dodgy, and it doesn’…
Chat Control approved: Certain EU countries will see your private messages. Is yours on the list?
EU governments have finally agreed on a controversial new law that gives a backdoor to reading text messages and viewing photo messages
Collabora Online Desktop Released
This is a text-based press release. View the full release blog here. Same look. Same code. Your files, your device. Nov 26, 2025 at 12.00 pm GMT / 13.00 pm CET / 7.00 am ET / 4.00 am PT Cambridge, November 26, 2025 – To…
Possible to avoid Google's future open source ban on Android devices?
Google is implementing a significant policy shift, banning unverified APKs, ROMs, and certain emulators on certified Android devices starting in 2026. This move, aimed at enhancing security and combating malware, will r…
Demand the Data: What’s Really Going Viral? | Mozilla Foundation
Social media platforms aren’t sharing what goes viral on their sites. Tell YouTube, Meta, TikTok, LinkedIn, and X to disclose their most-viewed content. Sign now.
Pinokio: The 1-Click Localhost Cloud
Run your own personal Internet on Mac, Windows, and Linux with one click.
FFmpeg to Google: Fund Us or Stop Sending Bugs
A lively discussion about open source, security, and who pays the bills has erupted on Twitter.
Hugging Face Chat
WebView wrapper for HuggingChat
s&box game engine from Rust developer Facepunch is now open source
s&box is now an open source game engine, terrain looks 20% cooler with anti tiling and seam fixes, and a ton of bug fixes this week
Digital Omnibus: How Big Tech Lobbying Is Gutting the GDPR
The EU’s Digital Omnibus quietly rewrites the GDPR in Big Tech’s favour – weakening data protection, user rights and enforcement. EFRI explains what is at stake.
(Posting on behalf of the dev) NEWM needs a helping hand!
Contribute to newm-next/newm-next development by creating an account on GitHub.
AliasVault: Privacy-first password manager with built-in email aliasing. Fully encrypted and self-hostable.
Privacy-first password manager with built-in email aliasing. Fully encrypted and self-hostable. - aliasvault/aliasvault
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.
Introducing beta access for Proton Pass CLI | Proton
To help you work in the terminal, Proton Pass now offers a command-line interface (CLI) for enhanced productivity and increased security.
Pebble Watch Software Is Now 100% Open Source
Pebble Watch Software Is Now 100% Open Source + Tick Talk #4 - PT2 Demos!
Saw this ghacks article for speeding up YouTube on FF and seems to help.
Here are two quick tweaks for improving the performance of the Firefox web browser on YouTube.
µcad: New open source programming language that can generate 2D sketches and 3D
Welcome to the website of µcad!Microcad (or µcad) is a new open source programming language that can generate 2D sketches and 3D objects.The project is still in its early stages, but µcad is becoming increasingly stable…
Qualcomm has started enshitification of Arduino
New Terms of Service introduce perpetual content licenses, reverse-engineering bans, and widespread data collection.
Germany are no longer against chat control - (German article)
Die EU-Staaten haben sich auf eine gemeinsame Position zur Chatkontrolle geeinigt. Datenschützer warnen vor massiver Ãberwachung. Was blüht uns?
Zork I, Zork II and Zork III are now officially open source
Microsoft announced today that they're preserving a bit of history here - with Zork I, Zork II, and Zork III now officially and clearly open source.
I am stepping down as the CEO of Mastodon
Reflections on my time leading Mastodon and what's to come next.
The Voluntary Trap: How Denmark Repackaged Chat Control After Defeat
After Germany blocked the October vote, Europe’s surveillance proposal didn’t die—it evolved. Denmark’s November compromise claims to abandon mandatory scanning while preserving identical outcomes through legal sleight …
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 …
Signal knows who you’re talking to – Sane Security Guy
Or, at the very least, they can.
Spotube Major Update!
Lightweight & resource friendly music client
I'm using DisplayPort from now on instead of HDMI!
Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.
Against Decay, We Build: DeDe (Decentralized Delivery) Protocol
Contribute to pablo-chacon/dede-protocol development by creating an account on GitHub.
Watchman Privacy Vs The Hated One - Corrupt sponsorships, war on privacy and anarchy
Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.
The Solution For The Network Effect Is Having People Have Feet On Both Sides Until They Fully Switch Isn't It?
Major social media platforms often prioritize data collection over user privacy. This raises concerns about the vast amounts of personal information shared online. Fortunately, a...
Releases · Medard22/Dolphin-MMJR2-VBI
A fork of Dolphin MMJR2 - with added VBI Skip hack and further fixes ported over from Dolphin Official. - Medard22/Dolphin-MMJR2-VBI
Microsoft warns that Windows 11's agentic AI could install malware on your PC: "Only enable this feature if you understand the security imp…
Microsoft warns that new AI agents, which access your Documents and Desktop, introduce novel security risks like Xpia.
Sign this petition to get Ursula von BigTech to stop drinking US big tech kool-aid
Europe faces a critical choice: enforce EU law and break up Google’s monopoly, or yield to Trump and Big Tech. Add your name to the petition!
Sus private payment service? Opinions?
Shop online with cryptocurrency. Pay with Bitcoin, Litecoin, Ether or Bitcoin Cash. Use the Lightning Network to make payments. Pay With Anon
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…
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.
Digital Omnibus: EU Commission wants to wreck core GDPR principles
The EU Commission has published its proposal for the "Digital Omnibus". The planned changes to the GDPR would lower protections for Europeans
Surprise EU rollback of 'GDPR' digital-rights rules prompts alarm
People's sexual orientation, ethnicity, or political views could be exposed in proposed EU changes to the 'GDPR' digital-rights laws, civil society experts warn, after a leaked draft.
Lloyds used data from 30,000 staff accounts in union pay talks
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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…
Apache Commons – Apache Commons
Apache Commons is an Apache project focused on all aspects of reusable Java components.
Tracking users with favicons, even in incognito mode
⚠️ Browser fingerprinting via favicon! Contribute to jonasstrehle/supercookie development by creating an account on GitHub.
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.
NovaCustom launches privacy SHIFTphone (degoogled with iodéOS and hardware kill switches)
With the SHIFTphone 8.1 running iodéOS, you get a privacy-friendly phone without Google that is modular and sustainable.
Support GrapheneOS in Proton's 2025 Fundraiser
Nominate a project or organization you believe in and help us the 10 beneficiaries of this year's Proton Lifetime Account Charity Fundraiser.
Real Estate Giant Redfin Exposed Users’ Personal Info on Listing Contact Forms
Contact forms on Redfin's real estate listings displayed past users’ names, email addresses, and phone numbers.
Many EU states want to allow the US access to biometric police data
The EU countries have no fundamental problem with US law enforcement agencies accessing their national databases to search for threats.
"This is a political deception" − New Chat Control convinces lawmakers, but not privacy experts yet
The EU Council seems to agree to the new compromise "without further changes"