Please stop posting about how you're running a slop machine on local hardware under the privacy hashtag!
The technology is built on massive privacy violations, no matter where it's running! If someone claims that running their slop machine locally is privacy-friendly, their notion of who has a right to privacy is obviously limited to themselves! -- #privacy #DataProtection #LLMs #SlopMachines #StopTheSlop #Slopposition #AI [sic!]
A U.S. citizen has asked a court to throw out the government's claim that he gave over a passcode to border authorities that wiped his phone's data, opening up fresh questions about a person's constitutional rights at the U.S. border.
A U.S. citizen has asked a court to throw out the government's claim that he gave over a passcode to border authorities that wiped his phone's data, opening up fresh questions about a person's constitutional rights at the U.S. border.
A U.S. citizen has asked a court to throw out the government's claim that he gave over a passcode to border authorities that wiped his phone's data, opening up fresh questions about a person's constitutional rights at the U.S. border.
How I found that anyone can pull the email address, name, country, and date of birth of any of the 719,517 users on Click To Pray, the Pope's official prayer app, with a single GET request. Reported January 3rd. Still live six months later.
"When it comes to making a new, good internet, there's plenty of room for labor law, civil rights legislation, antitrust, and other legal regimes. But privacy has the biggest constituency, gets us the most bang for the buck, and has the fewest harmful side-effects. It's a policy we can all agree on, even if we don't agree on much else. It's a coalition in potentia that would be unstoppable in reality." - @pluralistic
"When it comes to making a new, good internet, there's plenty of room for labor law, civil rights legislation, antitrust, and other legal regimes. But privacy has the biggest constituency, gets us the most bang for the buck, and has the fewest harmful side-effects. It's a policy we can all agree on, even if we don't agree on much else. It's a coalition in potentia that would be unstoppable in reality." - @pluralistic
Data brokers are a cancer. There's a direct line from the collection, retention and processing of our data to deepfake porn and phishing scams; racial discrimination in hiring and ICE roundups of migrants; targeted election interference and identity theft:
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:
Flock bills itself as a public safety technology company, using license plate reading cameras to help law enforcement investigate crimes and locate missing people. But critics see something else.
Could someone fully explain the mullvad controversy. From my knowledge so far it seems like the cofounder donated to an alt right party and it's probably a bad sign for the company. Anything I'm missing?
I am not a heavy user of meta apps, but still i forced to use one or two meta apps daily for educational and work related communication. Also instagram was so addictive until i understood the dark pattern and toxicity in the entire platform. That was just a platform for comparison and show off, even though many users/customers uses it as a blog platform, broadcast, promotion tool or anything.
One of the harderst product to quit was whatsapp. I used it in my custom rom (lineageos) installed phone with bootlocker unlocked. Recently i started to get a popup saying "please use the official app", no matter i downloaded it from anywhere (playstore, official website, apkmirror, aurora store). I know they detected that my phone is modified and installed a custom rom, they are intentionally doing this to millions of users. So, finally trying all the way to fix it, meta itself forced me to quit. I used one of my family members phone to just login and instantly deleted my account. Btw, nowadays i feel so peace. The most exciting thing is that, 2 of my friends actually contacted me via
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I am not a heavy user of meta apps, but still i forced to use one or two meta apps daily for educational and work related communication. Also instagram was so addictive until i understood the dark pattern and toxicity in the entire platform. That was just a platform for comparison and show off, even though many users/customers uses it as a blog platform, broadcast, promotion tool or anything.
One of the harderst product to quit was whatsapp. I used it in my custom rom (lineageos) installed phone with bootlocker unlocked. Recently i started to get a popup saying "please use the official app", no matter i downloaded it from anywhere (playstore, official website, apkmirror, aurora store). I know they detected that my phone is modified and installed a custom rom, they are intentionally doing this to millions of users. So, finally trying all the way to fix it, meta itself forced me to quit. I used one of my family members phone to just login and instantly deleted my account. Btw, nowadays i feel so peace. The most exciting thing is that, 2 of my friends actually contacted me via telegram and phone call to ask what happened. So, atleast 2 people noticed my sudden disappearing and cared to ask why!
The case of instagram is not like this, but random account restriction and "are you human ?" popups. Really meta can't figure out are we humans or not with this massive of data they collect? After they forced me to add my phone number to account and the refusal led to disabling of my 5th account, i choose to quit again.
Figuring out fediverse platforms like pixelfed, mastodon, lemmy showed me a different world that moves slowly and gives peace of mind.
- Accurint: a LexisNexis tool for locating people that contains all sorts of personal data like addresses, phone numbers, Social Security numbers, and more Chameleon: a tool which provides “Anonymized means to conduct online investigations, web research, and undercover work”
- Locate X: a tool that lets ICE search a massive database of location data harvested from smartphones. Made by Babel Street, the tool uses data sourced through ordinary apps installed on peoples’ phones or the advertising ecosystem. 404 Media previously reported how the tool could be used to track phones at abortion clinics after privacy advocates gained access to the technology. “It allows investigators to draw a digital fence around an address or area, pinpoint mobile devices that were within that area from mobile data sources,” the document reads
- Cobwebs: a social media tracking tool. 404 Media previously reported Cobwebs also includes Webloc, which can monitor phone locations in entire neighbourhoods
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“Some notable entries in the document include:
- Accurint: a LexisNexis tool for locating people that contains all sorts of personal data like addresses, phone numbers, Social Security numbers, and more Chameleon: a tool which provides “Anonymized means to conduct online investigations, web research, and undercover work”
- Locate X: a tool that lets ICE search a massive database of location data harvested from smartphones. Made by Babel Street, the tool uses data sourced through ordinary apps installed on peoples’ phones or the advertising ecosystem. 404 Media previously reported how the tool could be used to track phones at abortion clinics after privacy advocates gained access to the technology. “It allows investigators to draw a digital fence around an address or area, pinpoint mobile devices that were within that area from mobile data sources,” the document reads
- Cobwebs: a social media tracking tool. 404 Media previously reported Cobwebs also includes Webloc, which can monitor phone locations in entire neighbourhoods
- ISO ClaimSearch: a database that contains property and casualty insurance claims and medical bills. The database is nearly all encompassing and contains details on more than 1.8 billion insurance claims and 58 million medical bills”
From phone location data, to social media monitoring, to online undercover tools, a document obtained by 404 Media lays out the surveillance tech available across ICE agency wide.
The scariest thing about new #AgeVerification laws being introduced in Europe (France, I was expecting more from you) is to see the positive reactions of my family members, who have fallen hook, line and sinker for the arguments discussed in the media. "It's to protect the children!" No it isn't.
Age verification (or age-gating) laws generally require online services to check, estimate, or verify all users’ ages—often through invasive tools like ID checks, biometric scans, or other dubious “age estimation” methods—before granting them access …
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Those who use the SimpleX application, I would like to know if there are communities or privacy groups, the truth is Lemmy is my only social platform, a few years ago I closed everything I had to finally stop being part of the herd, or if possible.
SimpleX Chat - a private and encrypted messenger without any user IDs (not even random ones)! Make a private connection via link / QR code to send messages and make calls.
DNS4EU is a privacy-first DNS resolver by the European Union and Whalebone, available for free to all European citizens under the GDPR.
The service is anonymized and offers child protection, ad blocking, DNSSEC, IPv4, IPv6, DoH, DoT, and anycast, ensuring excellent privacy and minimal latency regardless of your location.
Your browsing data stays within the EU and is protected from cyber threats without being monetized!
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A new report from the Government Accounting Office reveals that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) plans to nearly triple the number of surveillance towers along U.S. borders, from the current 830 to 2,300 by 2034.
DHS expects to expend $1 billion in taxpayer dollars for this dangerous expansion of a surveillance network indiscriminately trained on towns, school playgrounds, backyards, and vehicles—threatening the privacy and civil liberties of everyone in the border regions.
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I feel a bit silly asking this but no matter what I do, I can't load the Mozilla add-on page in Ironfox. I'm on a Pixel 8a, up to date Android, and I have changed every setting I can find in Ironfox and it simply will not load. I can get to the extension page in settings but when I click the purple button it goes to the browser and stalls. Even if I put in the base Mozilla address it stalls.
I'm just trying to install Privacy Badger!
I'd really appreciate if anyone could suggest anything that might help.
Just wanted to share my review and experiences of using Lumo 2.0, which is Proton's new LLM.
Given that many of us use Proton services and are privacy conscious, I thought this might be of interest.
The below is a lightly edited from another post.
It broadly speaks to the integration (or lack thereof) of Lumo with other Proton services, rather than the privacy angle (which I am sure you're aware of), though I can speak to that too. EDIT: see my below follow up.
I see no reason at this point to continue with my subscription, and if anything, I'm thankful for the shot in the arm to improve my self hosted stack / create an equivalent or better service for myself.
TL;DR: With some elbow grease and know how you can probably create something equivalent or better home.
I keep seeing suggestions here that Proton should adopt Kimi K3, or otherwise move to a much larger and more fashionable model.
I am increasingly unconvinced that model capability is Lumo’s primary problem.
Lumo Lite appears very likely to be based on a Qwen 27B-cla
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Just wanted to share my review and experiences of using Lumo 2.0, which is Proton's new LLM.
Given that many of us use Proton services and are privacy conscious, I thought this might be of interest.
The below is a lightly edited from another post.
It broadly speaks to the integration (or lack thereof) of Lumo with other Proton services, rather than the privacy angle (which I am sure you're aware of), though I can speak to that too. EDIT: see my below follow up.
I see no reason at this point to continue with my subscription, and if anything, I'm thankful for the shot in the arm to improve my self hosted stack / create an equivalent or better service for myself.
TL;DR: With some elbow grease and know how you can probably create something equivalent or better home.
I keep seeing suggestions here that Proton should adopt Kimi K3, or otherwise move to a much larger and more fashionable model.
I am increasingly unconvinced that model capability is Lumo’s primary problem.
Lumo Lite appears very likely to be based on a Qwen 27B-class model, judging from the behaviour and the Artificial Analysis results Proton have stated.
(That identification is not proven, obviously, but it is plausible enough for my broader point).
A model in that class should already be an excellent all-round foundation for Lumo.
My humble suggestion:
Serve it at FP8 or comparable precision. Optimise it properly. Keep latency reasonable. Increase the context length.
Then spend the engineering effort on the things that would actually distinguish Lumo from every other chatbot:
Reliable Proton Mail, Drive, Calendar and Contacts integration
Authoritative and current Proton product information
Deterministic tools for calculations, dates, prices, plan limits and account features
Exact-span retrieval rather than loose paraphrasing for proton_info
Visible source dates and document versions
A clear distinction between retrieved evidence and the model’s interpretation.
At present, Lumo can (apparently) retrieve information about Proton’s own products and then produce an answer that reverses or mangles the source.
Something like “it is not $12.99” becoming “$12.99” is not a problem that Kimi K3 or GLM inherently solves.
It is a grounding and validation problem.
A larger model may paper over some failures. It may phrase uncertainty more elegantly. It may recover from poor retrieval more often.
But it does not make stale information current, and it does not make an unreliable tool pipeline deterministic.
IMESHO, Proton’s strategic advantage is not that it can host the largest open model.
Other companies will always have larger models, more compute and faster release cycles.
Its advantage is that it owns a private productivity ecosystem, with only one real mind share competitor.
A smaller model that can reliably search my mail, locate a Drive document, understand my calendar, retrieve the correct Proton support information, chat, OCR (native ability with latter Qwen models iirc), image manipulation and perform bounded actions would be considerably more useful than a stronger general-purpose chatbot with shallow integration.
I would much rather Proton solidify Lumo Lite into a dependable, deeply integrated assistant than keep changing the model underneath it in pursuit of benchmark gains.
However you look at it age verification is a major change to the internet and our freedoms.
We've seen all kinds of legislation pushed through in the past, often even against major resistance.
What makes me suspicious this time is the speed at which some of the slowest bureaucracies in the world are adopting it and how it's happening in 20+ countries in parallel.
It's like they're all in a group chat, fast-tracking this before resistance can even form.
France's parliament on Tuesday approved a social media ban for children under 15. President Emmanuel Macron immediately hailed the "major step forward", saying in a video posted on social media that "France is leading the way in Europe when it comes …
However you look at it, #ageverification is a major change to the internet and our freedoms.
We've seen all kinds of legislation pushed through in the past, often even against major resistance.
What makes me suspicious this time is the speed at which some of the slowest bureaucracies in the world are adopting it and how it's happening in 20+ countries in parallel.
It's like they're all in a group chat, fast-tracking this before resistance can even form.
France's parliament on Tuesday approved a social media ban for children under 15. President Emmanuel Macron immediately hailed the "major step forward", saying in a video posted on social media that "France is leading the way in Europe when it comes …
After more than a year on the waitlist, my Thundermail Early Bird invite finally landed. I subscribed without a second of hesitation and grabbed dol@tb.pro and dima@tb.pro before anyone else could.
Do I need them? Absolutely not. I already run my own three-letter domain, I am on Proton Visionary, Apple One Premier, and a dozen mailboxes I barely open.
But this was never about need. I want @thunderbird to make it. I want at least one piece of email infrastructure left standing that Big Tech cannot swallow. That is worth a subscription without a use case.
Swedish VPN vendor Mullvad is facing a backlash from some customers after co-founder Daniel Berntsson personally donated SEK 5 million (£385,000, $519,000) to the controversial populist Örebropartiet, which is running in Sweden's national elections for the first time.
Berntsson has this week published a blog post explaining the donation, alongside posts titled "Immigration," "Political individualism," and "Moral individualism." Before that, he had not posted since 2019.
The flurry of posts follows weeks of customer criticism over the donation – for example, Finnish blog Moonwriting's post "I'm done with Mullvad." Another blog, Unutterable, is more direct: "Mullvad funding the far-right and the problem with tech company ownership." The Hacker News discussion thread about the donations has reached a remarkable 1,784 comments so far.
Mullvad was co-founded and is still jointly owned and run by two CEOs
Swedish VPN vendor Mullvad is facing a backlash from some customers after co-founder Daniel Berntsson personally donated SEK 5 million (£385,000, $519,000) to the controversial populist Örebropartiet, which is running in Sweden's national elections for the first time.
Berntsson has this week published a blog post explaining the donation, alongside posts titled "Immigration," "Political individualism," and "Moral individualism." Before that, he had not posted since 2019.
The flurry of posts follows weeks of customer criticism over the donation – for example, Finnish blog Moonwriting's post "I'm done with Mullvad." Another blog, Unutterable, is more direct: "Mullvad funding the far-right and the problem with tech company ownership." The Hacker News discussion thread about the donations has reached a remarkable 1,784 comments so far.
Mullvad was co-founded and is still jointly owned and run by two CEOs, Berntsson and Fredrik Strömberg. Its name, as reflected in the company's logo, is Swedish for "mole." It also offers the Mullvad Browser, a privacy-enhanced fork of Firefox ESR co-developed with the Tor Project. Swedish socialist newspaper Flamman ("The Flame") revealed the donation in its story "High-profile techie gives millions to the Örebro Party."
In a post on X, the company said it was devoted to freedom of speech and tolerance, saying: "It should be obvious that Daniel's private donation to a political party is not part of Mullvad's values or mission, in the same way that someone's opinions on animal rights, taxes or public healthcare policy isn't."
Are you a California resident? Then we've got exciting news for you: there's a tool just for you that lets you take a single, relatively easy step to protect your privacy. It's called a DROP request.
Europe's Parliament voted on Thursday to reinstate legislation that allows companies such as Google, Meta, and other digital communication providers to voluntarily scan messages, emails, photos, and...
Europe's Parliament voted on Thursday to reinstate legislation that allows companies such as Google, Meta, and other digital communication providers to voluntarily scan messages, emails, photos, and...
Con Gooliver APS abbiamo appena concluso il progetto "Next Station: verso il cinema del futuro", un percorso di formazione audiovisiva realizzato in diverse scuole padovane.
Durante l'anno scolastico 2025/2026 abbiamo portato laboratori di produzione video in 7 scuole di Padova: IIS Giovanni Valle, Liceo Concetto Marchesi, IC III Briosco, ITC Calvi, IC Donatello, Smart Innovation School e la scuola dell'infanzia Bruno Munari (in questo caso il percorso ha coinvolto i docenti). Gli studenti hanno lavorato concretamente sulla produzione di un video: scrittura, riprese e montaggio, con anche incontri con professionisti del settore.
Il **21 maggio 2026 **abbiamo chiuso il percorso con una proiezione al Cinema Multiastra, dove abbiamo mostrato i lavori realizzati dagli studenti durante l'anno.
Il progetto rientra nel Piano Nazionale Cinema per la Scuola (fondi MiC-MIM) ed è stato possibile grazie alla collaborazione di diversi partner del territorio, tra cui Comune di Padova, Università di Padova, Cinema Multiastra e Cinema Rex.
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Con Gooliver APS abbiamo appena concluso il progetto "Next Station: verso il cinema del futuro", un percorso di formazione audiovisiva realizzato in diverse scuole padovane.
Durante l'anno scolastico 2025/2026 abbiamo portato laboratori di produzione video in 7 scuole di Padova: IIS Giovanni Valle, Liceo Concetto Marchesi, IC III Briosco, ITC Calvi, IC Donatello, Smart Innovation School e la scuola dell'infanzia Bruno Munari (in questo caso il percorso ha coinvolto i docenti). Gli studenti hanno lavorato concretamente sulla produzione di un video: scrittura, riprese e montaggio, con anche incontri con professionisti del settore.
Il **21 maggio 2026 **abbiamo chiuso il percorso con una proiezione al Cinema Multiastra, dove abbiamo mostrato i lavori realizzati dagli studenti durante l'anno.
Il progetto rientra nel Piano Nazionale Cinema per la Scuola (fondi MiC-MIM) ed è stato possibile grazie alla collaborazione di diversi partner del territorio, tra cui Comune di Padova, Università di Padova, Cinema Multiastra e Cinema Rex.
Se qualcuno è interessato al tema della didattica attraverso il cinema, siamo disponibili a rispondere a domande nei commenti.
per il progetto "Next station, verso il cinema del futuro" realizzato con i Fondi del Piano Nazionale Cinema per la Scuola MiC-MIM 2024_azione B.2.
Iniziativa realizzata nell'ambito del Piano Nazionale Cinema e Immagini per la Scuola promosso da MiC e MIM.
Have you ever experienced being recorded against your consent during a job interview or during a work meeting, either by direct recording of a remote meeting or through the use of an AI notetaker?
A new toolkit for attorneys in Massachusetts targets the technologies police use—and conceal—to build criminal cases, from facial recognition to AI-written police reports.
Audio from live stream in case you don't want to use YouTube. To get it under 200mb and because nothing interesting is happening on the video i decide to remove it. files.catbox.moe/p2uiz0.mp3
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