anyone up for maintaining libgtop2 so the GNOME "about this system" dialog can stop being a wasteland on ARM systems? https://community.mnt.re/t/luks-decrypt-prompt-invisible-display-off-on-boot/4600/13

Surveillance Watch has reached a milestone: we have catalogued over 1,000 surveillance entities and 1,180 funders, across 182 countries and 15 categories of surveillance technology.

https://surveillancewatch.io/

#Surveillance #Spyware #Privacy

https://media.ccc.de/v/08c82394-512b-595b-9361-b26698f3888e

Just watched this talk by @roddhjav . Great vision on a secure server system, it kinda also converges with the idea of Incus OS by @stgraber :P

In Amsterdam next week: Join @torproject and Internet Archive Europe for a conversation about threats to the open internet and how Onion Services can help keep the web open.

"Avoiding the Internet Achilles' heel: Locking the web open with Onion Services"

📅 October 8, 5:30 - 7:30 PM
📍 Oudeschans 16, 1011 KZ Amsterdam

Evening Program:
* Presentation
* Talk with slides
* Q&A
* Informal happy hour & conversation

To join the event, please register below.

https://luma.com/s64zolbc
#privacy #tor

AP Stylebook warns against anthropomorphizing AI systems:

“Avoid language that gives them human characteristics… Instead, explain what a system does, how well it performs, who built it and who could be affected by it.”

Surveillance Considered Harmful

There is an interesting detail emerging from the attempted terrorist attack on Flydubai Flight 1073.

According to current reports, the co-pilot had already been barred from flying by Oman Air because of concerns about extremist views. Yet somehow he ended up flying for Flydubai. And somehow an Omani citizen, from a country whose pilots are not allowed to fly into Israel, ended up in the cockpit of a flight to Tel Aviv (Source: https://apnews.com/article/cf64a228799e6e788e834cac2a489ab2).

This happened in a region containing some of the most heavily surveilled societies on the planet. Saudi Arabia, where the aircraft eventually landed, is a particularly extreme example: internet activity, social media and private communications are subject to extensive state surveillance (Source: https://freedomhouse.org/country/saudi-arabia/freedom-net/2025). Other Gulf states are not far behind in the scale and reach of their surveillance.

And yet here we are. This points to a more fundamental problem with surveillance as a weapon against terrorism.

What does a terrorist actually want?

Physical destruction is only the means. The real target is psychological: fear, distrust, disruption and ultimately the fragmentation of society. A terrorist cannot destroy a society through physical violence alone. But it may be sufficient to make that society afraid enough to start damaging itself.

And this is where mass surveillance becomes dangerously counterproductive. A functioning society depends on trust: trust between citizens, trust in institutions, and the assumption that most people around us are not our enemies. Terrorism attacks exactly that trust.

Mass surveillance does, too.

It tells everyone that everyone is potentially suspicious. It normalizes observation, suspicion and self-censorship. In trying to make society more resilient against individual terrorists, we risk weakening the very social cohesion that makes a society resilient in the first place.

The irony of Flight 1073 is therefore hard to miss.

We have built extraordinarily powerful machinery for watching millions of ordinary people, while apparently failing at the much more mundane task of asking why a pilot previously considered an extremism risk was sitting in the cockpit of an airliner bound for Israel.

Surveillance considered harmful. Not merely because it invades privacy. But because it can fail even at the trivial things while quietly weakening the society it was supposed to protect.

@cjk It would be cool to have advanced search feature like https://flathub.org/en/apps/com.markdeepwell.GitY in Gitte :)

‘if I were there in that room, I’d have stopped it.’

‘if I were there in that group chat, I’d have said something.’

You're here now. What are you doing?

A blog post about Cornell.

https://www.girlonthenet.com/blog/cornell/

I got tired of not being able to have my phone contact photos show up in Signal for all the people I know that are (for good reason) not sharing their phone numbers in #Signal. This lets Signal link to phone contacts while preserving privacy goals:
https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/pull/15044

COSMIC projects will no longer accept LLM-generated content in PRs.

There are various reasons, and I don't want to hurt anybody's feelings. The primary reason is simply our team's load for reviews. In particular, we would like to prioritize working on contributions from our own team and regular contributors, while we have been receiving far more changes from first-time contributors using LLMs. These changes are often unplanned and have had a low acceptance rate.

1/2

A year ago we launched Signal Secure Backups.

Now, we’re happy to share all of the additions and improvements we’ve made to backups since then: On-device backups, cross-platform support, storage optimization, and attachment backfill for linked devices.

https://signal.org/blog/backup-improvements

I am looking to get Telegram transparency data for Q2 2026 from as many countries as possible in the world, here is what I have so far. If you have a Telegram account with a phone number from a country not in the list, could you please get a screenshot from the Telegram @transparency bot and send it to me, either here, by email (tek AT randhome.io) or on github https://github.com/Te-k/telegram-transparency ? (Report are appreciated)
Thanks Mastodon!
https://te-k.github.io/telegram-transparency/

Been using #gnome with #mosaicWM along with everything else under the sun. But like... once you get used to minimize style, it's REALLY missed. 😅

Give it a try. You'll be impressed. 😁

https://github.com/CleoMenezesJr/MosaicWM

It's insane to me how open source developers have been putting more effort in documenting and "guiding" AI than documenting contributor docs

No, #ArchLinux is not associating with DHH or any of his projects. I'd sooner resign.

🎉 We're happy to announce #KeePassXC version 2.8.0-beta1!

This is the first test release of our next major update, which brings you an upgrade to Qt6, Auto-Type on Wayland, remote sync, ARM64 builds for Windows, and much more.

More info and download links on our blog: https://keepassxc.org/blog/2026-09-23-2.8.0-beta1-released/

Signal Messenger @signalapp needs some sort of "identity management"

The name/avatar/notifications/etc I use for work vs organizing vs sex stuff are different and I need privacy of different kinds in different groups for different reasons

I wish there were any way to make them take this seriously

We gain on average 800 new followers per year, but in the last year (since before Linus made the GenAI-code-in-Linux posts) we gained around 1200.

It's great to see the wave of new interest. We're a community that's had 30 years to develop its culture, and things here might work a little bit differently than you expect. But don't let that discourage you from getting involved. This mastodon-account-manager first became a developer in 2018, and it's easily one of the best things she ever did.