Make your own robot dog with open source hardware and software - mevius2
Contribute to haraduka/mevius2 development by creating an account on GitHub.
Berlin: Police can secretly enter homes for state trojan installation
To collect data from IT systems, investigators in Berlin can secretly search suspects' rooms. This is in a Police Act amendment.
Chardet dispute shows how AI will kill software licensing, argues Bruce Perens
: Alarm bells are ringing in the open source community, but commercial licensing is also at risk
DOJ indicts 8 pro-Palestine activists after FBI raids, sparking protest
Eight pro-Palestine activists associated with the University of Michigan were indicted for alleged crimes connected to divestment campaigns.
Australia’s Social Media Ban Was Pushed By Ad Agency Focused On Gambling Ads It Didn’t Want Banned
We’ve talked about the Australian social media ban that went into effect last week, how dumb it is, and why it’s already a mess. But late last week, some additional news broke that makes the whole …
A plan for a post-American, enshittification-resistant internet (a speech at 39C3 in Hamburg on Dec 28, 2025)
Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.
Gimp 3.2 is officially released. The game has changed. Adobe just got punched in the face.
We’re happy to present the first release of GIMP 3.2! This marks a year of design, development, and testing from volunteers and the community, as part of our plan to streamline releases after GIMP 3.0. We’re excited for…
Looking for feedback: We built a minimal, passwordless VLESS-Reality proxy service
Simple, transparent, and logless VLESS proxy access.
Oh, good: Discord's age verification rollout has ties to Palantir co-founder and panopticon architect Peter Thiel
Discord is "experimenting" with an age authentication vendor whose major investors include Thiel's Founders Fund.
Watch YouTube privately - Materialious
Materialious is a modern material design frontend for YouTube & Invidious, focused on a clean, privacy-friendly YouTube experience. It supports local video fallback when Invidious fails and is ...
The Web Scraping Consent Model Was Always Broken. AI Just Made It Obvious.
Writing about whatever topic interests me at the moment
Audit Finds Google, Microsoft, and Meta Still Tracking Users After Opt-Out - Slashdot
alternative_right shares a report from 404 Media: An independent privacy audit of Microsoft, Meta, and Google web traffic in California found that the companies may be violating state regulations and racking up billions…
Samsung users, if you are on One UI 8 and plan to downgrade to One UI 7 to be able to unlock the bootloader, do not install November's secu…
It looks like Samsung has silently removed the option to unlock the bootloader from One UI 8.0 onwards as it has been reported by some users in the forum (here, here). By reversing the Settings app code we can take a de…
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.
39C3: Power Cycles - media.ccc.de
Video Streaming Portal des Chaos Computer Clubs
Has somebody looked up your license plate in Flock? Now you can find out
Have police looked up your travel history? Search Flock Safety audit logs for your license plate
BanjoRecomp: FOSS PC Port of Banjo-Kazooie made using N64: Recompiled
PC Port of Banjo-Kazooie made using N64: Recompiled (Windows/Linux/Mac) - BanjoRecomp/BanjoRecomp
How Can Governments Pay Open Source Maintainers?
When I worked for the UK Government I was once asked if we could find a way to pay for all the Open Source Software we were using. It is a surprisingly hard problem and I want to talk about some of the issues we faced. …
Xthings Is Making a Narc Pole
The X Tower is an “urban guardian” that uses AI to detect public threats.
Cyber Resilience Act: EU Commission provides more clarity for open source
A Brussels guide specifies the Cyber Resilience Regulation. Manufacturers and open-source projects gain legal certainty before reporting obligations begin.
SmartTube's signature has been compromised, possible injected malicious library found by some users
Important Announcement Friends, it seems that my digital signature has been exposed. This signature protects the app from fake and malicious updates, so there is a risk that someone may try to rele...
We Hacked Flock Safety Cameras in under 30 Seconds
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Dear Meta Smart Glasses Wearers: You’re Being Watched, Too
No one likes being recorded by Meta’s Ray-Bans smart glasses, which have gotten increasingly popular in the last year or so. Now the wearers know how everyone else feels. According to a joint investigation published by …
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.
WebSpace - Web Apps, Websites And PWAs Manager!
Your favorite web apps, now on your phone. Contribute to theoden8/webspace_app development by creating an account on GitHub.
I didn't realize my LG TV was spying on me until I turned off this setting
Your smart TV can do many great things, but this isn't one of them.
LibreOffice invites contributors and the FOSS community to submit talks, lectures and ideas for this year’s conference that will be held in…
Join us in Pordenone, Italy, to share what you are doing for and with LibreOffice, how you are integrating LibreOffice in your infrastructure, how you are using LibreOffice to achieve Digital Sovereignty, and how LibreO…
Has anyone used the Camoufox browser?
🦊 Anti-detect browser. Contribute to daijro/camoufox development by creating an account on GitHub.
Serenum: a weather service that really respects your privacy
Serenum is a weather service that takes your privacy very seriously (read more).
Qt 6.11 released
Update to Qt 6.11 to improve your app performance, render graphics with new techniques, connect easier, and take a new approach to asynchronous C++ coding.
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…
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…
Is Flock just a poor US-centric copy of, globally active Genetec?
Genetec provides unified security solutions that combine IP-based video surveillance, access control, automatic license plate recognition (ALPR), communications, and analytics to help protect the everyday.
I protect the right to protest safely | 🇬🇧
Stop the Government from banning face coverings at protests!
Summit for Lemmy
A mobile client for Lemmy. Contribute to idunnololz/summit-for-lemmy development by creating an account on GitHub.
Vibe Password Generation: Predictable by Design
LLM-generated passwords appear strong, but are fundamentally insecure. Testing across GPT, Claude, and Gemini revealed highly predictable patterns: repeated passwords across runs, skewed character distributions, and dra…
How the FBI managed access Nancy Guthrie's Google Nest camera even though it was turned off
Many are wondering how the FBI managed to access Nancy Guthrie's turned off Google Nest following her kidnapping, leaving them fearful for privacy
Websites have a new way to spy on visitors: Analyzing their SSD activity
Telltale SSD activity can be measured in the browser using simple JavaScript.
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.
finix: A daily-drivable experimental os, featuring finit as pid 1, to explore the NixOS design space
A daily-drivable experimental os, featuring finit as pid 1, to explore the NixOS design space - finix-community/finix
Open Source Software Resources for Space Downstream Applications
This page provides a list of open source software resources for developing space downstream applications, in the following categories: Positioning & Navigation Earth Observation software and data Satellite Communication…
eYou promises to change social media. But the alternatives already exist
Mastodon, Lemmy and Pixelfed already exist. Why is no one talking about them?
UK planning to team up with "big tech" in next pandemic for "whole-of-society" "live location data" and AI surveillance
UK's £1B pandemic strategy proposes UKHSA contact tracing system using big tech location data, targeting 2030 deployment.
Feel Better - A FOSS app for emotional check-in, management and building resilience
Your daily companion for mental wellness. Feel better, one day at a time.
Cloud in a Bottle: making self-hosting accessible to everyone
Your open-source personal cloud: containerized apps, unified auth, good UX. Self-hosting should feel like using a smartphone that serves webapps, not a sysadmin side job.
Play Store blocks AuroraStore, hurting GrapheneOS users
Description Currently, Aurora Store, including Nightly (2026-08-31), returns a “&$Server busy, please try again later.” error when attempting...
LinkedIn from Microsoft locked me out — they demand I give my passport and access to my webcam to Persona
To get back into a locked account, LinkedIn hands you to Persona — a $2-billion third party that photographs your passport, scans its chip, and maps your face.
Does anyone use QubesOS as a daily driver?
Qubes is a security-oriented, free and open-source operating system for personal computers that allows you to securely compartmentalize your digital life.
OpenShot 3.5 Released As One Of Their "Biggest Releases" Ever
OpenShot 3.5 hit the web today for this open-source non-linear video editor that describes the new version as one of their 'biggest releases' ever in its 18+ year history.
AARP calls on AZ Senate to bring nursing home camera bill to vote
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