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nixCraft 🐧<p>uBlock Origin Lite now available for Safari running on iPhone, iPad, and macOS (Mac). It is a free and opensource app to block Ads and other stuff. Give it a try. <a href="https://apps.apple.com/us/app/ublock-origin-lite/id6745342698" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">apps.apple.com/us/app/ublock-o</span><span class="invisible">rigin-lite/id6745342698</span></a></p>
Ars Technica<p>Enough is enough—I dumped Google’s worsening search for Kagi<br>I like how the search engine is the product instead of me .<br><a href="https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/08/enough-is-enough-i-dumped-googles-worsening-search-for-kagi/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/0</span><span class="invisible">8/enough-is-enough-i-dumped-googles-worsening-search-for-kagi/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social</span></a></p>
Electronic Frontier Foundation<p>The UK’s Online Safety Act is being sold as a way to protect children. But instead, UK politicians are pushing sweeping censorship and forcing platforms to implement invasive age checks. This is not safety–it's surveillance.<br><a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/08/blocking-access-harmful-content-will-not-protect-children-online-no-matter-how" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">eff.org/deeplinks/2025/08/bloc</span><span class="invisible">king-access-harmful-content-will-not-protect-children-online-no-matter-how</span></a></p>
Cory Doctorow<p>We spend a lot of time talking about AI's technical capabilities: what it can do now, what it might do tomorrow, what it will never do. But AI is only secondarily a tech phenomenon; it is primarily a *financial* phenomenon, hundreds of billions of dollars in investment capital in search of a return.</p><p>--</p><p>If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:</p><p><a href="https://pluralistic.net/2025/08/05/ex-princes-of-labor/#hyper-criti-hype" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">pluralistic.net/2025/08/05/ex-</span><span class="invisible">princes-of-labor/#hyper-criti-hype</span></a></p><p>1/</p>
ProPublica<p>Jasmin Belanger believed the deal was simple: pay off what she owed, and her landlord would let her keep her housing.</p><p>It wasn’t until months later that she learned it had left her with a permanent record of an eviction — despite there never being one.<br><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/maine-public-housing-eviction-repayment-agreements?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">propublica.org/article/maine-p</span><span class="invisible">ublic-housing-eviction-repayment-agreements?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="https://newsie.social/tags/News" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>News</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Maine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Maine</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Housing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Housing</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Poverty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Poverty</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/PublicHousing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PublicHousing</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Eviction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Eviction</span></a></p>
pixelfed<p>We have re-opened registration on <a href="https://pixelfed.social" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">pixelfed.social</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> 🥳</p><p>(After processing 1500+ new onboarding applications 😅)</p><p>Come join us, and free yourself from Instagram!</p>
Auschwitz Memorial<p>5 August 1928 | A French Jewish girl, Bella Rubin, was born in Paris.</p><p>She arrived at <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Auschwitz" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Auschwitz</span></a> on 19 July 1942 in a transport of 1,000 Jews deported from Drancy together white her mother Marta and a younger sister Micheline. They were all murdered in a gas chamber.</p>
dansup<p>During our <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/FediCon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FediCon</span></a> panel, when asked about Trust and Safety, I remember <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://cosocial.ca/@johannab" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>johannab</span></a></span> saying that we should be funding <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://hachyderm.io/@thisismissem" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>thisismissem</span></a></span> because she is an expert in this field and very underpaid, and then there was a huge round of applause!</p><p>Please consider helping fund her crucial work if you can, we all depend on her contributions to make the fediverse safer and more secure!</p><p><a href="https://support.thisismissem.social/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">support.thisismissem.social/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
Thunderbird: Free Your Inbox<p>Archiving from notifications, warnings about expiring PGP keys, bug fixes, and more! Find out what's in Thunderbird 141.0 (and how you can get it) in our new Monthly Release Recap!</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Thunderbird" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Thunderbird</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/OpenSource" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OpenSource</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Email" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Email</span></a></p><p><a href="https://blog.thunderbird.net/2025/08/monthly-release-141-recap/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">blog.thunderbird.net/2025/08/m</span><span class="invisible">onthly-release-141-recap/</span></a></p>
Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮<p>JetBrains now a Platinum sponsor of Godot Engine <a href="https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/08/jetbrains-now-a-platinum-sponsor-of-godot-engine/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">gamingonlinux.com/2025/08/jetb</span><span class="invisible">rains-now-a-platinum-sponsor-of-godot-engine/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GodotEngine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GodotEngine</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Godot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Godot</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GameDev" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GameDev</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/OpenSource" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OpenSource</span></a></p>
Gina<p>I keep thinking about this subsidy that <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.nl/@SIDN" class="u-url mention">@<span>SIDN</span></a></span> has open for (Dutch) projects that "strengthen alternative social media platforms." Aka the fediverse?</p><p>I wonder if a "Fediverse Adoption Lab NL" would be an idea. A sort of research project to map what helps and hinders wider adoption of the fediverse in NL, based on interviews, user experiments etc, with admins, users and potential users. 🇳🇱 <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/TheNetherlands" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>TheNetherlands</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/SIDN" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>SIDN</span></a></p><p><a href="https://www.sidnfonds.nl/van-liken-naar-luisteren" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">sidnfonds.nl/van-liken-naar-lu</span><span class="invisible">isteren</span></a></p>
stux⚡<p>:nkoWave: Hello and a good meowing everyone! :blobcathearts: :ablobcatheartsqueeze: :blobcathugyou: Have a most wonderful day and stay safe! 😸♥️</p>
Kevin Beaumont<p>There’s a bunch of learnings and detection opportunities in this Akira Ransomware report. </p><p>One is an AD admin using Bing to look for a ManageEngine download - which lead to a link which contained malware. </p><p>The second biggie is the victim failed to contain their systems on ransomware deployment - so the same threat actor returned two days later and encrypted child domains, crippling the remaining operational capability of the victim. </p><p><a href="https://thedfirreport.com/2025/08/05/from-bing-search-to-ransomware-bumblebee-and-adaptixc2-deliver-akira/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">thedfirreport.com/2025/08/05/f</span><span class="invisible">rom-bing-search-to-ransomware-bumblebee-and-adaptixc2-deliver-akira/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://cyberplace.social/tags/ransomware" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ransomware</span></a></p>
Tuta<p>Big tech wants to see you naked, but Tuta has you covered 😏</p><p>Free yourself from Big Tech, & get a private email account that respects you & your data!</p><p>⭐ End-to-end encrypted by default<br>⭐ Open source<br>⭐ Green<br>⭐ No IP logging<br>⭐ No tracking & ads</p><p>Turn on Privacy now 👉 <a href="https://tuta.com/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">tuta.com/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
abadidea<p>the recent burst of companies flagrantly disregarding robots.txt are eating their seed corn — the entire point is that as long as everyone shows some basic manners to other internet hosts, there’s no need for some international regulatory body to get involved and make everyday matters difficult and expensive for everyone <a href="https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2025/08/ai-site-perplexity-uses-stealth-tactics-to-flout-no-crawl-edicts-cloudflare-says/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">arstechnica.com/information-te</span><span class="invisible">chnology/2025/08/ai-site-perplexity-uses-stealth-tactics-to-flout-no-crawl-edicts-cloudflare-says/</span></a></p>
Zack Whittaker<p>New: SonicWall is urging customers to disable SSLVPN as researchers report ransomware attacks targeting SonicWall firewalls. Particularly problematic for big companies that rely on these firewalls. Arctic Wolf and Huntress say it's likely a zero-day under attack but SonicWall is still investigating.</p><p><a href="https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/05/sonicwall-urges-customers-to-disable-sslvpn-amid-reports-of-ransomware-attacks/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">techcrunch.com/2025/08/05/soni</span><span class="invisible">cwall-urges-customers-to-disable-sslvpn-amid-reports-of-ransomware-attacks/</span></a></p>
Aral Balkan<p>“Netanyahu decides on full occupation of Gaza Strip”</p><p>Just like Hitler decided “full occupation of Western Poland.” Oh, no, we called it “invasion” back then, didn’t we?</p><p>Then again, we also used to call genocide, “genocide.”</p><p><a href="https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-863225" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">jpost.com/israel-news/article-</span><span class="invisible">863225</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/israel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>israel</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/genocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>genocide</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/ethnicCleansing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ethnicCleansing</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/apartheid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>apartheid</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/settlerColonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>settlerColonialism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/Palestine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Palestine</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/Gaza" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Gaza</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/FreePalestine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FreePalestine</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/StopIsrael" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>StopIsrael</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/StopTheGenocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>StopTheGenocide</span></a></p>
Ben Werdmuller<p>"Yes, you read that right. A law supposedly designed to protect children now requires victims of sexual assault to submit government IDs to access support communities." <a href="https://www.techdirt.com/2025/08/04/didnt-take-long-to-reveal-the-uks-online-safety-act-is-exactly-the-privacy-crushing-failure-everyone-warned-about/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">techdirt.com/2025/08/04/didnt-</span><span class="invisible">take-long-to-reveal-the-uks-online-safety-act-is-exactly-the-privacy-crushing-failure-everyone-warned-about/</span></a></p>
The Tor Project<p>Tor is hiring! Open roles:<br>👥 Director of People and HR<br>🔧 Senior Director for Internal Structures and Support<br>📊 Nonprofit Accounting Specialist (Part-time)</p><p>Whether you're passionate about culture, strategy, or numbers, there’s a role for you here. <a href="https://www.torproject.org/about/jobs/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">torproject.org/about/jobs/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
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