Andy

[🇫🇮✸⌘Lucien Lambent⌘✸🇫🇮🇪🇪🇲🇳🇭🇺 @LambentLucien]

EU friends, read closely and retweet aggressively.

Chat Control will mean scanning of private messages and a complete destruction of your privacy as a citizen.

You don't need to be a tech expert to protect yourself. Here's a setup and instructions that will that help a lot in retaining your privacy:

Step 1: Buy a phone from outside the EU.

This is absolutely non-negotiable and the foundation of your entire privacy stack. Buy a US or Japanese model Google Pixel phone if possible. It's easier to set up privately

Step2: Use Signal for messaging.

Step 3: Download all your apps from third party sources; Discord, Whatsapp, TikTok — all of it.

Stop downloading them from Google Play and Apple's App Store. This is called "sideloading". Most of the apps you use today can be downloaded as sideloadables, including Twitter/X itself.

Step 4: Get a VPN

Consider Mullvad or Proton VPN since they don't keep logs. This is a powerful way to hide your location even if the EU attempts to ban virtual private networks.

For Android:

Consider GrapheneOS. It's a free privacy-focused system. It removes a lot of tracking.

This combo makes it much harder for unwanted scanning or tracking. It's not perfect, but way better than default settings.

Look it up on GrapheneOS dot org or PrivacyGuides dot org.

Start small and tell your MEPs you want real privacy, not mass surveillance.

Our tireless fight against Brussels' hegemonic steamrolling of our sovereignty continues. Never stop.

Stay secret! Stay safe!

#Privacy #EU #ChatControl

[Andy @andripool9]

The horror!

[Tuta @TutaPrivacy]

🚨 #ChatControl 1.0 HAS PASSED - despite a majority voting against it (314:276) 🚨

After the EU parliament has rejected #ChatControl TWICE in the past, it has been pushed as an urgent procedure for a new plenary vote. TODAY the EU parliament has voted YES for #ChatControl 1.0😡

The EU has simply continued to put the vote on the agenda to get the outcome they've wanted since the start. This is not democratic‼️

What does #ChatControl 1.0 mean for us now?

🚩 Every photo, every message, every file you send will be scanned by Big Tech automatically

🚩 Mass surveillance of 450 million EU citizen without warrants

🚩 Every citizen is put under general suspicion

Here's what you can do to stay private on the internet:

✅ Use end-to-end encrypted messengers & email (like Signal or Tuta Mail)

✅ Use Linux instead of Windows & Apple

✅ Switch to GraphenOS or LineageOS

It's a sad day for the privacy of EU citizens but we will not let this stop us from continuing to fight for what is right.

At Tuta, we will continue to provide end-to-end encrypted email to everyone, and we will continue to fight for everyone's right to communicate without surveillance.

Pictured: Parliament President Roberta Metsola (EPP) who revived Chat Control 1.0 shaking hands with Mark Zuckerberg!

Taken from EP_President on Twitter/X.

[DAGRD - Medellín @DAGRDMedellin]

5:06 p.m Se registra tormenta eléctrica en el distrito , con #BomberosMedellin atendemos inundación en glorieta Monterrey. Evite realizar actividades a cielo abierto. Reporte emergencias a través de la línea 123. ⚠️

[Windscribe @Windscribe]

TikTok has shadowbanned us and won't show our any of our new posts to anyone outside Canada, including the HUGE GIVEAWAY VIDEO! And while we love our Canadians since that's what we are, it would still be nice to let the whole world view our content. @TikTokSupport please help 🙏

[Proton Mail @ProtonMail]

mfw my TV gives me an AI summary of the movie I'm about to watch

[Wes Roth @WesRoth]

Yann LeCun explains that large language models are trained on about 30 trillion words, representing nearly all public internet text.

He says it would take a human over 500,000 years to read that much.

But a 4-year-old child sees just as much visual data in their first few years of life.

This shows how much richer and more complex real-world experience is compared to reading text.

Training on the web is huge but it still doesn’t match what a child learns just by living.

[Teleantioquia @Teleantioquia]

Tres personas que permanecían secuestradas en el sector de El Poblado, en Medellín fueron rescatadas con vida, tras un operativo que permitió además la captura en flagrancia de dos hombres, señalados de participar en un secuestro extorsivo. https://t.co/Jr4oDzCtri

[Andy @andripool9]

COP30 in Brazil adopts climate deal that omits calls to phase out fossil fuels
https://t.co/eD3oeQCtoL #groundnews via @Ground_app

[Obsidian @obsdmd]

You can now convert your Notion pages and databases to durable, private, local files.

Your data, offline, forever, for free.

[Fermat's Library @fermatslibrary]

Johannes Kepler died on this day 395 years ago.

He gave us the 3 laws of planetary motion, uncovered that Mars moves in an ellipse, and helped Newton see that a single inverse-square force governs the Solar System.

[Windscribe @Windscribe]

Ever wonder why you always see the same handful of VPNs being recommended on every single "VPN Review" site? It's because they offer the best affiliate payouts. Some tech sites will not even rank you if you don't meet a minimum affiliate payout per acquisition. (1/4)

[Windscribe @Windscribe]

It appears Google is going full evil. We cannot update our browser extension.... because it has too many privacy features. @googledevs @ChromiumDev wtf?

This was a response to an appeal of an earlier rejection.

[Internal Tech Emails @TechEmails]

Steve Ballmer on Vista: "we cannot do that again"

February 23, 2007

[Running With Scissors @RWSstudios]

https://t.co/s4DcCzdhBR

There are three types of people against the Stop Killing Games movement:
1 - Those who misunderstand it
2 - Those who don't care, but still care enough to crap all over it
3 - Those who are part of the industry and give no fucks about the customers and their rights because they thrive on these practices (the worst kind)

Arguing with any of those 3 is like playing chess with a pigeon. They'll knock over the pieces, they'll crap on the board, and they'll fly back to their flock and claim victory.

This is why it's important to focus all efforts on the actual petitions and to reach as many people as possible. There's less than a month left, it's time to make a change before allowing the normalization of yet another bad practice.

Share the website:
https://t.co/s4DcCzdhBR

[Andy @andripool9]

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[GOG.COM @GOGcom]

Modding is a huge part of PC gaming history. But for many, it isn’t the easiest thing to do.

That’s why we’re thrilled to introduce another initiative of ours:

GOG One-click Mods – a curated selection of premium mods directly packed with the game for the smoothest installation!

👉 https://t.co/g9NA2YoYJ7

While mods can breathe new life into games, especially classics, managing them can be daunting: file digging, installation guides, compatibility nightmares, and so on.

With GOG One-click Mods, that’s no longer the case. Everything is pre-packed, pre-tested, and ready to go. You click “install”, and then you play.

Right now, you can enjoy these absolute legends:

- Heroes of Might and Magic III: Horn of the Abyss
- DOOM 3: Phobos
- Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines: Unofficial Patch
- Fallout: London One-click Edition (an even easier way to play this beauty)

And one more title joining later this year… Skyblivion!

These mods aren’t just tweaks, they’re preservation work – passion projects. One of the reasons classics stay alive, grow stronger, and stay relevant.

But enough talking, go try them out right now! 💜

[kepano @kepano]

OpenAI is now required by court order to preserve all ChatGPT logs including "temporary chats" and API requests that would have been deleted

if I understand this correctly, it means data retention policies for apps that use OpenAI API simply cannot be honored

[GrapheneOS @GrapheneOS]

We're looking into using https://t.co/ZqnfwKyssd to provide built-in text-to-speech and speech-to-text to greatly improve the out-of-the-box accessibility of GrapheneOS for blind users. We already have a screen reader included via our fork of the open source variant of TalkBack.

[vas @vasuman]

Claude 4 just refactored my entire codebase in one call.

25 tool invocations. 3,000+ new lines. 12 brand new files.

It modularized everything. Broke up monoliths. Cleaned up spaghetti.

None of it worked.
But boy was it beautiful.

[GrapheneOS @GrapheneOS]

A growing number of apps are using the Play Integrity API to enforce installation from the Play Store. This is clearly highly illegal anti-competitive behavior. It doesn't impact GrapheneOS users installing apps with the sandboxed Play Store but does impact other install sources.