Articles by iamnothere
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Michigan 'digital age' bills pulled after privacy concerns raised (thecentersquare.com)

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White Noise (encrypted group chat over Nostr) completes security audit (leastauthority.com)

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A German State Implemented a Land Value Tax (progressandpoverty.substack.com)

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4Chan Lawyers Introduce British First Amendment (therage.co)

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Applying Federal Digital Communications Privacy Law to Hosted AI Models (stanford.edu)

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GridDown: An offline first PWA for navigation, comms, and situational awareness (blackatlas.tech)

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Cyberattack leaves drivers with breathalyzer systems unable to start vehicles (wgme.com)

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[flagged] Brazil publishes list of companies needing age verification, includes Canonical (gov.br)

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Chat Control: EU Parliament said no to Big Tech mass surveillance of your chats (techradar.com)

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A list of tech co-ops and resources concerning worker owned co-ops (github.com/hng)

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Rep. Finke Was Right: Age-Gating Isn't About Kids, It's About Control (eff.org)

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OSS Anti Surveillance: project to track, oppose, and remove surveillance in FOSS (github.com/antisurv)

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ICMEC, Meta, Google, Gates Foundation behind US age verification bills (reddit.com)

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House Committee Passes Child "Safety" Bills That Push National Age Verification (reclaimthenet.org)

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The App Store Accountability Act trades privacy and free speech for false safety (reason.org)

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Entryism (wikipedia.org)

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On the need for a censorship API for legal compliance in some regions (debian.org)

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Ubuntu's Response to California's Digital Age Assurance Act (AB 1043) (ubuntu.com)

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Towards a Critical Theory of the Open Letter (paroxysms.substack.com)

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Open source calculator firmware DB48X forbids CA/CO use due to age verification (github.com/c3d)

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The Imperial Noble Lie: Translating Thermodynamic Collapse into Geopolitical War (theuaob.substack.com)

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DeepSeek withholds latest AI model V4 from US chipmakers including Nvidia (business-standard.com)

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The Limits of Legal Control in Technical Systems (leastauthority.com)

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The (Searchable) Whole Earth (searchwhole.earth)

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Vital Cat Update: An Update to the Update (Applied AI Data Poisoning) (terribleminds.com)

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UK fines Reddit for not checking user ages aggressively enough (arstechnica.com)

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Screen Power Saving in the Linux Console (complete.org)

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Netflix, Prime Video and Others in UK to Face 'Enhanced Regulation' from Ofcom (variety.com)

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Police are finding suspects based on searches as courts weigh privacy concerns (apnews.com)

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Colorado proposal moves age checks from websites to operating systems (biometricupdate.com)

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West Virginia Claims That Apple Allows Sharing of Child Sexual Abuse Material (nytimes.com)

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How the US Won Back Chip Manufacturing (chinatalk.media)

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People Will Sometimes Just Lie About You (aella.substack.com)

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Germany's Merz calls for real names on the internet (dpa-international.com)

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XSDR, a single-sided M.2 software-defined radio with 2×RX/TX up to 3.8 GHz (crowdsupply.com)

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UK government may 'age restrict or limit children's VPN use' (techradar.com)

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We Need Apocalypse-Proof Software (alavi.me)

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New and Upcoming IRCv3 Features (libera.chat)

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Is End-to-End Encryption Optional for Large Groups? (soatok.blog)

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Why governments insist on CBDCs or stablecoins when most people don't want them (nakedcapitalism.com)

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Hacktivist scrapes over 500k stalkerware customers' payment records (techcrunch.com)

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Weakening Section 230 Would Chill Online Speech (eff.org)

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A WhatsApp bug lets malicious media files spread through group chats (malwarebytes.com)

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TrustTunnel is an open-source VPN protocol that's harder to detect and block (cnx-software.com)

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The Disconnected Git Workflow (ploum.net)

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Google Settlement May Bring New Privacy Controls for Real-Time Bidding (eff.org)

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Operator of Manga Piracy Site Criminally Investigated in China After Complaint (torrentfreak.com)

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Polybius: Automated authoritarian consolidation index powered by Claude (polybius.world)

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Google to pay $68M over allegations its voice assistant eavesdropped on users (cbsnews.com)

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Adviser of Highest EU Court Backs VPN Neutrality in Anne Frank Copyright Battle (torrentfreak.com)

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UK Home Secretary's Admission About the Emerging AI Surveillance State (nakedcapitalism.com)

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French Court Orders Popular VPNs to Block More Pirate Sites, Despite Opposition (torrentfreak.com)

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Former Biden Disinformation Czar Backs Foreign Penalties Against US Platforms (foundationforfreedomonline.com)

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Italy Fines Cloudflare €14M for Refusing to Filter Pirate Sites on 1.1.1.1 DNS (torrentfreak.com)

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The Ofcom Files, Part V: Block Harder (prestonbyrne.com)

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Revolutionary generator transforms Chinese factories into power plants (kdwalmsley.substack.com)

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Free speech can't be engineered or outsourced to apps (fire.org)

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Pennsylvania Supreme Court allows search history access without a warrant (windowscentral.com)

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Byrne and Storm's UK Online Safety Act Year in Review for 2025 (prestonbyrne.com)

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The PediSedate: A Winning Combination of Video Games and Anesthesia (hackaday.com)

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Internet Shutdown Tracker Optimization Project (Stop) Dashboard v.1 (accessnow.org)

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Tor: Transparency, Openness, and Our 2023-2024 Financials (torproject.org)

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"This Is Not How the First Amendment Works" Storm Defense Tells SDNY (therage.co)

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Automated Real-Time Pirate IPTV Blocking in France "Within Six Months" (torrentfreak.com)

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Doxers posing as cops are tricking big tech firms into sharing people's data (wired.com)

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EFF launches Age Verification Hub (eff.org)

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US International Trade Administration Shaped EU Censorship Against US Companies (foundationforfreedomonline.com)

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Airlines Reporting Corp. says it's ending sales of ticket data to police, Feds (papersplease.org)

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Tor: What we've learned from fighting censorship in Iran and Russia (torproject.org)

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Supreme Court: Can ISPs Be Liable for Piracy by Doing Nothing? (torrentfreak.com)

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UK considers scrapping jury trials for all but the most serious cases (theguardian.com)

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Former MI6 Chief Warns of the Security Risks of the UK's Proposed Digital IDs (nakedcapitalism.com)

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'Destroyed' Usenet Provider NSE and Brein End 16-Year Battle with Settlement (torrentfreak.com)

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First Foreign Censorship Shield Bill Proposed in Wyoming (privacyguides.org)

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The patent office is about to make bad patents untouchable (eff.org)

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LaLiga: ISPs Must Join Anti-Piracy War to Secure Broadcasting Rights (torrentfreak.com)

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Mexican government partially unblocks secure internet (torproject.org)

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Two popular gay dating platforms removed from Apple App Store in China (bbc.com)

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Cloudflare tells U.S. govt that foreign site blocking efforts are trade barriers (torrentfreak.com)

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Anti-Cybercrime Laws Are Being Weaponized to Repress Journalism (cjr.org)