⊥ᵒᵚ Cᵸᵎᶺᵋᶫ∸ᵒᵘ ☑️ @falken@qoto.org

Sometime next week, I will be posting a *very angry* thread about the new Firefox "link preview" slop feature, *which you may have already been silently opted into without Firefox telling you*. I also hope to post instructions somewhere on how to poison your site so Firefox users can't AI-mulch your words using "link preview". However, my personal site has actually been broken since a Debian update fucked mod_php, so I've got a lot of other work to do before I can get on this.

My track Magnetique in .mod, created on a Commodore Amiga 1200 using ProTracker 2.3D · 🔊 4 channels · 💾 127 KB · 🎶 24 samples · 🎛️ Audio captured from real hardware #90s

Last night, @pluralistic was in conversation with @mariafarrell to mark ORG's 20th birthday.

This wide-ranging conversation covers everything from the 'Internet dimension' of policy-making to copyright in the age of AI and how to fight for digital rights.

Plus much more!

Missed it live? No worries, you can watch it in full on Youtube 📺

https://www.youtube.com/live/M9H2An_D6io

#ORG20 #digitalrights #corydoctorow #AI #copyright #dataprotection #bigtech

Today opposing counsel mocked me for being "obviously the world's dumbest lawyer" for having a name-your-own-price law practice, and said my clients deserve me for choosing me instead of a "real" lawyer, and then we won and he lost, so I think Alanis would call that ironic

@Edent

> Why are people still sending files to each other?

Because CAP Theorem. A resource can have at most two properties out of three: Consistency, Availability, Partition tolerance.

- A local digital file is AP. It is not Consistent. See merging issues, multiple versions, etc...
- A URL pointing to a resource is CP. It is not Available when you cannot connect to its server.
- A physical filing cabinet is CA. It is not Partition tolerant; there is one physical object.

NEW

Why have the terms of the now-discharged Afghan super-injunction not been published?

There can be no good reason for the substantial terms of the court order to be hidden

By me

Substack: https://emptycity.substack.com/p/why-have-the-terms-of-the-now-discharged

Personal blog: https://davidallengreen.com/2025/07/why-have-the-terms-of-the-now-discharged-afghan-super-injunction-not-been-published/

I'm writing a story about hidden e-waste. Chips and electronics in products such as children's toys, shoes, clothes, etc.

Anyone has some funny / weird examples of products you don't expect to have chips / or that have no useful reason to have chips--but still do? Or examples of really throwaway electronics such as vapes?

Bluesky will be age-gating content for UK users. It’s your privacy that pays.

The UK Online Safety Act has unleashed an unregulated market in age verification.

That we have to do these intrusive checks with countless providers for different platforms is dangerous.

https://www.theverge.com/news/704468/bluesky-age-verification-uk-online-safety-act

#onlinesafetyact #ageverification #ageassurance #privacy #dataprotection #data #biometrics #onlinesafety #ukpolitics #ukpol #bluesky

@GossiTheDog

It’s 2025, it’s okay to say you got hacked, people largely understand.

Probably the most damning indictment of the entire computing industry that I've seen for a long time.

I don't disagree at all. But this absolutely should not be the case and wouldn't be if we weren't still building core infrastructure around ideas that were known to be bad by the mid 1980s.

"It's cheaper to buy the default search box everywhere in the world than it is to make a product that is so good that even if we tried another search engine, we'd still prefer Google.
This is enshittification."

From: @pluralistic
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/114858962373543708

Edit: Click through for the typical BS govt response that’s been added… 🙄

Are you in the UK and opposed to providing ID to use social media in the coming weeks?

There’s an official parliament petition to repeal the Online Safety Act, and it’s already at 13,000 signatures and growing: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/722903

(Not UK? Please spread the word!)

More good news! Another government is freeing itself from tech giants and vendor lock-in. The Danish Ministry of Digitalisation is dropping Microsoft Office/365 and moving to #LibreOffice, to get back control: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2025/07/08/danish-ministry-switching-from-microsoft-office-365-to-libreoffice/ #foss #OpenSource #freesoftware

Days since an "AI found security bug" turned out to be totally false due to the inability of the tool to actually parse C code: 0

I'm seeing multiple of these type of "reports" per week now for Linux. Why do people think that an LLM can somehow do better than a compiler and also not even test their proposed changes to verify they even do anything?

{sigh}

Happy 8th birthday to @openbenches!

If you'd like to support a small, independent, open source, and Fediverse-friendly project, please go to https://openbenches.org/support

As Reddit introduces age verification on its UK site to comply with new rules under the Online Safety Act, “UK users can no longer use the internet without having to provide their papers, as it were," EFF’s @davidgreene told @BBCNews. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cj4ep1znk4zo

Here are the best AirPods deals you can get right now https://www.theverge.com/21302051/best-apple-airpods-deals

@root42 I got a bunch of characters added to Unicode, including the Bitcoin symbol ₿ (which for some reason is more popular than the Group Mark). It turns out that it's not as hard as you'd expect to propose characters for Unicode. (Emojis are a totally different situation.)

> AI assistance was used to help structure and format this vulnerability report.

That was a really stupid idea.