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Really hits me to read about Conrad Rockenhaus. Guy takes blow after blow just to keep a Tor exit node clean of surveillance. That’s grit, that’s backbone - the kind of thing hacker culture used to be about.
And yet .. somewhere along the way we started cheering for all the wrong people. Heads of agencies that spied on us suddenly get invited on stage at our cons. Some industry “idols” are basically psychopaths with zero ethics, but they still get put on a pedestal. Meanwhile, the people who actually take the hits for us stay in the shadows.
Glad VX-Underground shared his story - at least more people now know his name. That’s the kind of moral compass and resistance I thought this community was built on.
This also bans trans men from all facilities and makes it *unlawful* for a women's group to include trans women even if every member and organiser wants them there.
It is quite literally to the far, far right of Thatcher's position on LGBTQ rights. It is fascism beyond measure.
The idea of the internet as a third space for co-identities, "avatars", "pseudonyms", doesn't really exist for normies. They love selfies and IDs - the net is a purely marketing platform for their Face, like the mall. They love Facebook. They'll love ID Identification.
‼️An event so massive is coming that the entire west is coordinating a massive policy push to block the internet and lock it behind a verification wall.
Even the UK is starting to ip range block vpn services.
If you have skills in this space, be prepared to use them soon.
We have passed 700k signatures! Even though this just the EU, people in other countries will likely get the benefits if passed, since once a publisher makes an EOL build, the work is already done, they may as well distribute it globally.
https://t.co/EpnNTDQAgm
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Eventually, even digital data will no longer be owned by individuals on their own initiative. Whenever there is a major change or accident in the world, in a country, in a government, in an idea, in a trend, access to it may suddenly be cut off.
btw do not switch to brave, the ceo (brendan eich) is openly homophobic and donated money to hate campaigns against queer people. he also has personal interest in destroying mozilla due to being kicked out from there
it's literally in the third sentence on his wikipedia page
Sorry! But it is *insane* to me, literally bowing my mind, that you can post absolutely *anything*—a woman celebrating that she completed her PhD, a man sharing that he’s bringing flowers for a girl on their first date—and immediately become a target of immeasurable cruelty.
Why in the actual fuck would you ever want a polish character, from a polish saga, ambiented in a slavic setting to be a generic looking anime character?
gtfoh, you don't like videogames tourist.
Argo is currently suffering under a barrage of legal attacks from ZA/UM and Moola that are not only hell-bent on preventing him from working on his game at Summer Eternal, but are trying to destroy his very existence.
Please read his fundraiser and contribute if you can!