It's my mother's birthday today. She was born in 1931. Rip Gun!

Just got off the night train to Hamburg. I was listening to the football match on radio before going to sleep and I was really enjoying it even though France won. The people commenting the match on radio are really entertaining and creative about which words they use. You'd never get this experience from TV.

Once more, for the people who missed my previous rants on the topic: It's okay to adopt the stance that age verification is a bad idea.

You don't need to weaken your position by saying it might be okay if they eventually used Zero-Knowledge Proofs or pseudonymous systems.

First, such schemes aren't suitable for this domain even at a theoretical level. If you think they might then you don't understand the problem.

Second, even if ZKP was an applicable solution, it would still prevent undocumented people from accessing the internet like those that various governments choose to recognize as human.

Third, one goal of a functioning society ought to be producing responsible adults, and treating them as complete children until they suddenly turn 18 is not a reasonable way to accomplish that.

Government-mandated age verification for the internet is bad public policy, and it's 100% okay to say as much.

#AgeVerification #surveillance

Hey moron politicians! Drop #chatcontrol already and show us some guts. What you should be doing is #climatecontrol

So what can we do once #chatcontrol passes?

🇬🇧 ⚠️ IT EXPERTS WARN before tomorrow's trilogue: A deal could mean #ChatControl via backdoor + ID checks for messengers!
Source: https://cepis.org/cepis-warns-eu-against-backdoor-chat-monitoring-in-child-protection-debate/
🕛 24h to go. ✉️ Email tonight, 📞 call tomorrow! https://fightchatcontrol.eu/#contact-tool

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@mullvadnet @rysiek

Just so we're clear - your here defending the right of your boss to fund the rounding-up deportation of human beings based on ethnicity, and telling your customers who don't support this neo-nazi shyte to take their money and fack off.

That's absolutely sad to read. The CEO of @mullvadnet is not only financing the far-right Swedish Örebro party, but he even is their main financer. 70+% of their money is his donation. He is the reason why they go nationwide this year.

For obvious reasons i cease to trust this service. Also i do not finance parties that aim for forced deportations.

https://www.flamman.se/techprofil-ger-miljoner-till-orebropartiet/

#Mullvad

@mullvadnet @rysiek although your message sounds nice, the thing about it is, that giving money to Mullvad now means sponsoring a man who gives money to a hateful group of people spouting dangerous racist ideas.
That kind of behavior is not a matter of "the right to express and access views we disagree with." It is a matter of actively promoting hate, and you should take a stand against it, rather than pretend that it is just free speech without IRL concequences.

Kamrat @Anders_S har gjort en bra genomgång av olika VPN-tjänster

Digitalt oberoende med VPN - Svenssons Nyheter
https://blog.zaramis.se/2026/06/27/digitalt-oberoende-med-vpn/

The Mullvad founder gave millions to extremist far right party:

https://www.flamman.se/techprofil-ger-miljoner-till-orebropartiet/

Ok, just to sum it up for those following along at home:
NordVPN: confidence scam, the Raid: Shadow Legends of VPNs
Surfshark: owned by NordVPN
Mozilla VPN: reseller of Mullvad
Tailscale: partners with Mullvad
ExpressVPN: Israeli
Private Internet Access: ditto
ZenMate VPN: ditto
CyberGhost VPN: ditto
Windscribe: edgy branding, transphobic, uses slurs on social media
ProtonVPN: sponsors French fascists
MullvadVPN: donates millions to Swedish fascists

am I missing any?

e: if you are here looking for ones you SHOULD use, these were recommended to me and seem to check out:
https://vpn.ccrypto.org
https://njal.la
or self-host your own:
https://amnezia.org/self-hosted

Mullvad founder Daniel Berntsson donated millions to far right party
L: https://www.na.se/orebro/miljonregn-till-orebropartiet-fran-techprofil/
C: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48688880
posted on 2026.06.26 at 12:53:40 (c=0, p=12)

So if I give money to @mullvadnet, part of it is actually going to support "forced repatriation"?

What
The
Actual
Fuck!?

Turns out your founder is yet another egomaniac xenophobe with too much money?

I'm done with you.

https://www.flamman.se/techprofil-ger-miljoner-till-orebropartiet/ (in swedish)

#mullvad #vpn #racism #sweden

The planet is baking and fucks are out there posting about how much they use AI and think it's such a useful tool.

#noai #fuckai

Vänsterpartiet ska ha grillfest i området där jag bor. Jag ska hjälpa till att sätta upp tält och grilla korv. Kul!

NASA’s climate crisis visualization is a reality check

The planet is getting hotter. Fast.

https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5190/

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3. Business apps
4. IT & PM tools
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8. Security
9. OS & Apps
10. Mobile OS & Apps
11. Geo & spatial

On July 1st in Paris, @caissedesdepots will invite CIO's & OSS communities to kick off its #EuroCommons Techsprint to fund OSS alternatives.

💶 This could be a MAJOR FUNDING opportunity 💶

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