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I'M BEGGING - ICE will track you with your phone

THERE IS A WAY TO NULLIFY AND STOP IT. Please read.

No promotions, no affiliation, not sponsored. I just use this service myself - they have no idea who I am. Please, I'm saying this to protect people I'm not benefiting from this post.

ICE with Webloc is able to scan entire neighborhoods and obtain mobile phone service data. On of the most critical pieces of information they log is your IMSI. Its like your car's VIN number, it identifies that device uniquely, and is the identifier the cell tower sees when your phone connects to it.

Now your IMSI and its location is logged, and cataloged to track your location over time; where you work, hangout, live, etc.

YOU NEED TO ROTATE YOUR IMSI TO MAKE THE DATA USELESS, and rotate it often.

My cell service provider does this automatically every 24 hrs. I only know of 1 cell provider that does it = Cape.co. There are other privacy focused providers, but they focus on minimal data collection (Cape does that too) and other security practices first.

Cape:

  • Rotates your IMSI every 24 hours (or you can refresh it manually)
  • Prevents man-in-the-middle attacks and Stringrays with Enhanced Signal detection. If the cell tower your phone attempts to connect to does not match to a known CAPE middle core, it will not connect. It also alerts in the app when suspicious connections are attempted and automatically blocks them.
  • Collects 0 PII - not even your billing info. They known the phone number they are servicing and that's it - not your name, address, DOB, nothing. If they receive legal demand to hand over your data they cannot, as they don't know who you are and never logged it in the first place.

Normally I'd include a coupon here, but to show you I'm extremely serious, I'm not going to include it. If you really want $10 off for life you can find a coupon somewhere, and they have a promotion rn, but I will not directly benefit from this post.

FUCK ICE AND THE FASCIST HELLSCAPE.

that is all. Visit: Cape.co

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Minnesota is really putting the facts of the 'opposition' party on show.

Walz says "I'm gonna deploy the National Guard," but actually deployed the state troopers to protect the Gestapo.

Now Frey's up on stage saying that MPD is just too busy protecting the economy to deal with crimes against humanity, so all protesters should go home. Because MPD won't protect them.

This is not opposition; it's collaboration and gaslighting.

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Welcome calm329 as #curl commit author 1431: github.com/curl/curl/pull/2032…

imap: skip literals inside quoted strings by calm329 · Pull Request #20322 · curl/curl

The IMAP response parser would incorrectly detect {size} literals inside quoted strings, causing protocol desynchronization. For example, a server response like: * 1 FETCH (BODY[HEADER] "Subje...
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#curl

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It seems that py/cryptography's thoughts about OpenSSL (cryptography.io/en/latest/stat…) are doing the rounds at the moment.

I've not touched OpenSSL directly in a long time. In fact, it appears that the 10-year anniversary of that (imperialviolet.org/2015/10/17/…) passed by a few months ago!

So I've no direct comments on the piece but, a long time ago, I was in the position where I was landing changes in both OpenSSL and NSS (Mozilla's TLS library). OpenSSL was somewhat famous for having bad code. And, indeed, if you looked at it back then the functions were full of single-letter variable names with pointer arithmetic everywhere and context-free, somewhat scary comments. It wasn't outside the norm for 1990s C code, but I understand why people recoiled.

In contrast, if you looked at NSS code, it looked good! Consistent formatting (before clang-format), good naming, good comments.

But NSS had a PKCS#11 abstraction layer and, even after years, I never could understand how the control flow worked there. I would have to single-step in gdb every time to figure out where an operation grounded out into actual code. I was reminded of that when reading py/cryptography's descriptions of OpenSSL 3.0.

I had a pet theory at the time that, because OpenSSL was repulsive on the surface, it inhibited people enough that they couldn't add much deeper complexity. But NSS, with its invitingly clean-looking code, was understandable and then people had enough capacity left over to add deeper complexity.

There might be something to it, although you shouldn't discount the fact that entities who are willing to fund cryptography libraries often have demands that are contrary to clean code. Things like FIPS compliance and compatibility with a zoo of different accelerators and bespoke needs.

So rather it might have been that old OpenSSL was old OpenSSL because it was mostly unfunded. That meant that it looked pretty ragged, but also there weren't so many demands in tension with good design.

NSS was funded by interests that really cared about PKCS#11 compatibility so that you could use a super-expensive, certified-everything HSM with it. When OpenSSL got shocked into switching to a higher-funding model, that brought lots of those same sorts of competing interests, and then the incentives pointed towards adding slow, impenetrable layers of abstraction all over.

The State of OpenSSL for pyca/cryptography — Cryptography 47.0.0.dev1 documentation

cryptography.io

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So @lwn is currently under the heaviest scraper attack seen yet. It is a DDOS attack involving tens of thousands of addresses, and that is affecting the responsiveness of the site, unfortunately.

There are many things I would like to do with my time. Defending LWN from AI shitheads is rather far from the top of that list. I *really* don't want to put obstacles between LWN and its readers, but it may come to that.

(Another grumpy day, sorry)

@LWN.net

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I use this all the time on the RNIB Talking Book site. It makes browsing tables of search results much easier and it's a service we use quite a lot. Quoting Freedom Scientific / Vispero: JAWS Feature Spotlight: Smart Navigation

Want a faster, more intuitive way to move through web pages, PDFs, and HTML content? Smart Navigation helps you browse more efficiently by letting you navigate by controls, tables, or both, so you can focus on the information that matters.

In this archived 20 Minute Tech Tips episode, you’ll learn what Smart Navigation is, why it matters, how to enable it, and how to switch modes on the fly.

Listen now: freedomscientifictraining.libs…
#JAWS #ScreenReader
image: JAWS Feature Spotlight, Smart Navigation. Dark blue shark fin with wavy line along the bottom of image. @freedomscientific


Freedom Scientific Training Podcast: 20 Minute Tech Tips: Unlocking JAWS Smart Navigation

In this episode, Freedom Scientific trainer Ron Miller dives deep into JAWS Smart Navigation, a powerful feature designed to make navigating web pages, PDFs, and HTML documents more intuitive.
freedomscientifictraining.libsyn.com
#screenreader #jaws @Freedom Scientific / Vispero

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RE: climatejustice.social/@termina…

I’m now officially moving from “the cloud is just someone else’s computer“ to “the cloud is just a landlord for your data”

Very poignantly put @terminaltilt

Terminal Tilt

2026-01-15 03:05:37

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Jeff Bezos is saying the quiet part out loud. They want to kill local computing.

You will own nothing and be happy. You will rent your computing power from the cloud. You pay a subscription for the privilege of using a computer.

AI demand is artificially spiking DRAM prices and Big Tech is pushing "AI PCs," the squeeze is on to force us into a rental model.

Reject this future. :NoAI:

Keep your hardware local.

Run #Linux. :tux:

Own your data.

The "cloud" is just a landlord for your data.

#NoAi #FOSS #OpenSource #Privacy #SelfHost #SelfHosting #BigTech #RightToRepair #RAM #Amazon #EatTheRich

windowscentral.com/artificial-…


@Terminal Tilt
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So now Techno DJs start remixing AI songs, as there was no other music? Ok tbf probably nothing new, but one of my favourite did, and it pisses me off because heck the quallity is bad. Like at least put effort into it rather than just taking the 1st result, slapping some base on it and calling it a day. I'm coming more and more to the opinion that AI music is just trash no matter what. I mean it's fascinating, like, the fact that's even possible. But I dislike it.

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Hey! Guess what peoples? I almost have 12000 posts. That's a lot of posts! I've accumulated all of this in a little over 3 years. This means that, on average, I post a bit less than 4000 posts a year, provided I did the math right, which I probably did not. If someone wants to do more accurate math, I believe I joined this instance on October 30, 2022. Or something like that. So have fun with that if you like. Lol
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It's really funny to me how the amount of autism and dry humor in our family means that we will get into a big group text conversation and someone says something and then one of us is like, "Wait, is he kidding?" And then the other autistic person is like, "I think so?" And the first autistic person: "Oh, I knew that?"

And I literally can't tell who is being sarcastic or what

(but it's okay because everyone is nice - unlike growing up, when missing sarcasm meant DOOOOM, heh)

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Getting back on the #Mozilla topic (sorry): they did not release the state of mozilla 2025 report, as they usually do.

But we can find the 990 filing for the Mozilla foundation of year 2024 which was submitted in November 2025: projects.propublica.org/nonpro…

I wasn't a good year as investment revenue dropped, while expenses kept growing, resulting in a loss of $4 million.

In the expenses, almost $11 million were invested in advocating for "trustworthy AI".


Mozilla Foundation, Full Filing - Nonprofit Explorer - ProPublica

Since 2013, the IRS has released data culled from over 1.8 million nonprofit tax filings. Use this database to find organizations and see details like their executive compensation, revenue and expenses, as well as download tax filings going back as f…
ProPublica
#mozilla
in reply to Alex Hall

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Jamie Teh

Thanks for the article. This is indeed intriguing. From what I've been able to dig up (hard to know how much of it is promises vs actual capability), you can write your own apps which run in the cloud. But the key point is that they all run in the cloud. That might mean you could run it on your own server, but something truly local, even running on your phone, just isn't possible. That rules out something like on-device OCR, which is sad. Still, it's nice to know there might be an option that doesn't involve sending data to companies like Meta where you have absolutely no control over their use of your data.

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Any #GameDev folks have any experience working with both #playdate and #pico8 (and/or #tic80 fantasy console)? I’m curious if anyone has first-hand experience with trying to work on a project with shared #lua code that works in both environments but has each using its own resources for input handling, graphics, and sound.

Specifically looking for tips, best practices, learned experience, etc.

#gamedev #playdate #lua #pico8 #tic80
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#AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/?radd=1… today brings you 7 updated and 4 added apps:

* CleanShare: Xposed module that removes Direct Share suggestions from Android's Share Sheet 🛡️
* Middor: mirror apps on your device (e.g. for HUD) 🛡️
* KashCal: Privacy-focused calendar with optional iCloud sync 🛡️
* Auto Off Bluetooth: monitors Bluetooth connection status and automatically turns it off 🛡️

RB status: 802 apps (62.1%)

Enjoy your #free #Android apps with the #IzzyOnDroid repo :awesome:


IzzyOnDroid F-Droid Repository

This is a repository of apps to be used with your F-Droid client. Applications in this repository are official binaries built by the original application developers, taken from their resp. repositories (mostly Github, GitLab, Codeberg).
IzzyOnDroid App Repo
#android #free #AndroidAppRain #izzyondroid

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If you haven't been able to see my posts for a while (I mean, you should consider that a blessing/feature, but I digress) it was because apparently my firewall was doing something strange with the Spamhaus DROP list and blocking connections it shouldn't have.

After receiving several reports that people couldn't connect to my services and I couldn't find them on the official list (didn't search my pf table, sadly) the problem went away after I disabled and re-enabled the list.

How did that fix it? Only the magic smoke inside the machine knows the answer

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Really interesting how the Black Panther Party came out in opposition to the murder of Renee Good, and not a single “White Lives Matter” or “All Lives Matter” or Gadsen Flag etc. person has shown up. Really interesting.

#ICE #FuckICE #Philly #BlackPanther #BlackFedi #BlackMastodon #BlackTwitter

reddit.com/r/BlackPeopleofRedd…

#BlackTwitter #blackmastodon #BlackFedi #ice #fuckice #philly #blackpanther

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Okay, so rant of the day: I think it's great that people develop apps and such to make things work better, IE mastodon, bluesky, etc, but for the love of it all, can't there be a place to actully find them without having to use the someone who knows someone who know someone else so you might, maybe, they'll consider, giving you the link? I mean, I got the mastodon one today with no problem, (thankfully I knew the right people), but now I'm googling a telegram one five ways to Sunday and getting nothing. I get that we as people who are blind are a small population, but damn, that doesn't mean we should have to play virtual hide and seek every time something new comes out.

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ohhhh crying in the libraryyyyyyyy

A student in their final semester who has been checking out a laptop from us every week their whole time here just came up to return, not renew, one because they could finally afford their own and they wrote up a testimonial to talk about the positive impact it had for them.

There is a lot, way too much, bullshit at my institution, but these little moments where we get to really see what the library can do for a person is what keeps me in the fight.

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