Can anyone recommend a weatherproof network camera that doesn't rely on any third party servers or a proprietary app? Bonus points if it can easily be attached to a bird feeder.
My main concerns are privacy, being able to use it when the company goes out of business, and looking at birds. Recording short clips and photos automatically when it detects a bird or motion is a plus.
I'm very technically inclined, but this would be for a nontechnical family member, so I could host Frigate (or similar) for them if necessary, but something that just connects directly to an open source app would be great.
As a privacy-minded person, I only give my face to trusted and legal EU-based face collectors, not to the evil wicked illegal untrusted US- or China-based face collectors.
The EU has laws, unlike the US or China, which means faces may only collected for good purposes, not for evil ones.
Everybody hates #robocalls. But, despite tech reporting being willing to give the #FCC leeway, this new measure is not to stop robocalls, it won’t do a damn thing to stop robocalls. What it does is make burner phones illegal.
Burners are an integral part of many social justice actions. Protestors use them to record #ICE and other #cops. We include them in “Go Bags” to let abused women and children escape. They allow for anonymity.
They are a thorn in the side of the panopticon, and they are moving to eliminate them.
"The Flock Safety drone, specifically, are flying LPR cameras as well,” Rahul Sidhu, Vice President of Aviation at Flock Safety, recently told a group of potential law enforcement customers interested in drone-as-first-responder (DFR) programs.
The integration of Flock Safety’s flagship ALPR technology with its Aerodome drone equipment is a police surveillance combo poised to elevate the privacy threats to civilians caused by both of these invasive technologies as drone adoption expands."
Police are using their drones as flying automated license plate readers (ALPRs), airborne police cameras that make it easier than ever for law enforcement to follow you.
Will the age verification era kill anonymity? More countries are passing age verification laws, now also for social media apps as seen in Australia and upcoming in the UK, France, Spain, and Turkey.
The FCC just proposed fixing your robocall problem by building the kind of phone-user registry that privacy advocates have spent decades trying to prevent.
Bekijk je favoriete video's, luister naar de muziek die je leuk vindt, upload originele content en deel alles met vrienden, familie en anderen op YouTube.
A web page that tells you what your browser gave away the moment you arrived. No login, no form, no permission. Most pages do this. None of them tell you.
Google's new reCAPTCHA requires Google Play Services on Android. Users running privacy-focused custom ROMs like GrapheneOS now automatically fail verification.
iOS users don't face this requirement to prove they're human. Gating web access behind proprietary software isn't about security, it's about ecosystem lock-in.
Everyone has a unique writing style, word choice, sentence structure, punctuation habits and that can be used to identify them. Lingunymous rewrites your text using a local LLM to mask these patterns, making it harder to attribute writing to a specific individual.
Use cases include: - Protecting anonymity when publishing sensitive or controversial content - Evading authorship attribution and stylometric analysis - Separating your personal writing fingerprint from pseudonymous accounts
Wanted to share nitter.net/ with you all. Great front end and I believe you can even selfhost it yourself. No account needed, just add any username after the trailing / or within the search field and boom, profit. Enjoy!
A web page that tells you what your browser gave away the moment you arrived. No login, no form, no permission. Most pages do this. None of them tell you.
The guy falsely stopped said he will appeal the ruling.
I don't live in London or even UK but I hate that these systems are becoming unavoidable. At least if you ever leave your house, lol. As London, so eventually Chicago. As Chicago, so eventually every one horse town. We're building out a world of complete, unavoidable surveilence. Even where you WALK, now.
I hate it. I hate it, and it won't end well.
I'm glad poor Orwell didn't live to see his nightmare come true.
Meta removed E2EE from Instagram DMs today, May 8, ending private encrypted chats and enabling broader message scanning for abuse detection 📩🔓 The change follows global pressure tied to CSAM enforcement, raising transparency and user-control concerns around private communication 🕵️♂️⚠️
Meta has ended end-to-end encryption for Instagram direct messages from 8 May The move could allow detection of CSAM grooming and other abuse-related content
IVPN just updated their tiers. I've connected to IVPN dashboard today and realised that my Pro plan migrated to Pro Suite, now including modDNS (NextDNS alternative), MailX (email aliasing), and Portmaster Pro (which is new for me and quite interesting, I'm exploring the app on Linux).
Device limit also bumped from 7 to 10. Solid value add for existing and new subscribers.
Generate an IVPN Standard or Pro account - no email address required. We accept credit cards, Paypal, Bitcoin or cash payments. 30-day money-back guarantee.
“Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” directed $6 billion toward AI-integrated surveillance towers at the border… recently announced plans to install 1,500 more towers over the next few years”
You. You’re the target of mass #surveillance towers, not illegal immigrants or asylum seekers and refugees.
They track your movements, your contacts, and your communications. They make it too dangerous to speak dissent or form community. It’s #fascism.
The towers are to track you, friends, and the border to keep you in.
“the towers collect data on people who live at the border rather than people crossing it… We’re actually paying Anduril for the privilege of them taking our data.”
…towers are located in public parks, next to communities and over neighborhoods. Maass said AI systems can lead to people being stopped, detained or having their possessions seized based on what the technology identifies as suspicious patterns.“
The towers are to track you, friends, and the border to keep you in.
“the towers collect data on people who live at the border rather than people crossing it… We’re actually paying Anduril for the privilege of them taking our data.”
…towers are located in public parks, next to communities and over neighborhoods. Maass said AI systems can lead to people being stopped, detained or having their possessions seized based on what the technology identifies as suspicious patterns.“
“What’s going on at the border is just extremely expensive theater,” EFF’s @maassive told AZfamily. “Border surveillance technology has a pattern of failure” and this is “the same thing plus AI— as if AI has actually deserved to win anybody’s trust.” azfamily.com/2026/05/07/new-ai…
A security researcher decompiled the White House’s new official app and found some alarming stuff buried in the code, including a hidden GPS tracking pipeline, JavaScript loaded from a random GitHub account, no SSL certificate pinning, and an in-app browser that silently strips cookie consent dialogs and paywalls from every page you visit.
Unfortunately, I think this letter will fall upon deaf ears. As we've learned from their response to the OSA repeal petition, their response to any criticism of these laws is to 1: Glaze said laws 2: Imply critics of the laws are sex pests/pedophiles/etc. and 3: Enact even more fascist legislation.
The UK Government (and I'm sure plenty of other governments) is willing to die on the hill of these thinly veiled mass surveillance/censorship laws. They won't stop unless the courts/a future parliament/a general strike forces them to. Because enacting a fascist police state is just too good to pass up.
I would be glad to be wrong and they actually listen but I don't think that will be the case.
Présentation effectuée à Libre en fête 2026 à Wimille par Christophe Villeneuve sur "TIPS Firefox & Thunderbird".
Cette session partagera avec vous d'a…
Motorola’s India arm sued major companies and their platforms, including Google, Meta, and X, raising concerns about platform liability and online speech.
Having been part of a project attempting to measure the carbon footprint of serving web pages I can affirm that using the internet is not a trivial cost for the planet.
Google Chrome is downloading a 4 GB Gemini Nano model onto users' machines without consent, with no opt-in, no opt-out short of enterprise tooling, and an automatic re-download every time the user deletes it.
hi everyone, We're on a mission to get as many people off Big Tech products as we can, and as many people away from the surveillance economy. And since that starts early we've made this page for parents to find the best tech tips to keep their children safe.
[Note on social media: we do not support a ban for social media, we think the tech companies should fix their products instead. But since that will probably never happen, and the best option - never use social media - is probably not practical for many families, we've listed alternatives on this page.]
We welcome any tips that parents here can share - stuff that's worked for you to keep your children safe from big tech. It doesn't have to be app alternatives - it can be habits / mindset stuff too. Or it could be stuff that's not worked / pitfalls.
Please also let us know if anything currently on the page looks wrong or misleading.
Be mindful that this is aimed at totally non-technical-minded parents.
I'm working on a self-hosted search service called Hister with the goal to reduce my dependence on online search engines.
Hister is a full text indexer for websites which saves all the visited pages rendered by your browser. It provides a flexible web (and terminal) search interface & query language to explore previously visited content with ease or quickly fall back to traditional search engines.
I've been using it for a few months and as my local index is growing I can avoid opening google/duckduckgo/kagi more and more frequently.
The project is still heavily under development with a growing community, but the current version is in a fairly usable state in my opinion, so I wanted to share it here - perhaps some of you find it useful as well. (Or at least have some constructive criticism =])
I'm working on a self-hosted search service called Hister with the goal to reduce my dependence on online search engines.
Hister is a full text indexer for websites which saves all the visited pages rendered by your browser. It provides a flexible web (and terminal) search interface & query language to explore previously visited content with ease or quickly fall back to traditional search engines.
I've been using it for a few months and as my local index is growing I can avoid opening google/duckduckgo/kagi more and more frequently.
The project is still heavily under development with a growing community, but the current version is in a fairly usable state in my opinion, so I wanted to share it here - perhaps some of you find it useful as well. (Or at least have some constructive criticism =])
About me: I develop privacy protecting and data liberating free software since 2008. I'm the author of Searx, Colly (github.com/gocolly/colly) and many more smaller free software/self-hosted projects (github.com/asciimoo).
I suggest adding"❌ Suppression of Tor users (in my opinion by Tuta)"to the right side.
I tried to create an anonymous Tuta account when I was living in a dictatorship and I remember it didn't work.
I was using Tor because I didn't want to be abducted into a concentration camp (euphemistically called "jail") by the dictatorial regime in retaliation for legitimate and legal exercising of my human and constitutional right to free speech I was planning using that account.
I strongly suspect the reason it didn't work was because IMO Tuta was suppressing Tor users.
Due to this,my work in publishing public domain legal norms the regime was trying to hide,was greatly slowed down and made difficult.
When Tuta is writing like this,in my opinion it is hypocrisy.
The following hashtags may be unrelated or only remotely related to the topic of this post:
