Nobody

Live and let live.
Ideas are bulletproof.

[Nobody @nobody_root]

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[Threema @ThreemaApp]

You don’t need a reason to protect your privacy.

[Nobody @nobody_root]

@rebelliousdogra https://t.co/1P6dpAFfgY

[Ratna Singh @whattalawyer]

I spoke to Junaid over the phone this morning. He is safe.

Please do not spread unverified or false information. Verify facts before sharing them.

He has received legal assistance, and I am in touch with him.

[Nobody @nobody_root]

@rebelliousdogra https://t.co/qBtAu4lLFn

[Cockroach is Back @Cockroachisback]

Instead of going after criminals, UP Police is wasting its time going after our volunteer Mohd Junaid who has been serving food and water to people.

Now they’re harassing him and his family in UP. Our team is in touch with him and we will never let them victimize him or his family.

It is no longer shocking how this govt responds to dissent, but we will not be intimidated by these cowards. Every illegal action of the Police will be challenged in courts.

[GG @UnruggableGG]

India just gave the whole internet a free lesson on the power of FOSS (Free and open-source software).

The Home Ministry's cybercrime unit ordered GitHub to delete BitChat. Three hour deadline. Comply or face legal action.

Here's the problem with that plan.

BitChat runs on pure Bluetooth mesh. No internet. No SIM. No phone number. No central server. Protesters started using it precisely because the government kept shutting the internet off, and it just kept working.

You cannot delete an app that's already living on people's phones and passing messages device to device.

And the source code? Open source. Within hours it was mirrored to a decentralized platform. Every person who copies it becomes another node the order can't reach.

This is the whole point of self custody thinking, applied to communication instead of money.

You can serve a takedown to a company. There's a CEO, an office, a legal team, a single point of pressure.

You cannot serve a takedown to a network that nobody owns.

India didn't kill BitChat. It ran a live demo of why unkillable infrastructure exists.

#FOSS #PrivacyIsNotACrime

[rohitmalekar.eth @RohitMalekar]

A note for tech folks in India who see no issue with the current regime's approach to digital rules

You don't design rules, powers, or precedents for the government you currently trust. Parties change. Regimes fall.

You design them for the worst-case future government you might have to live under.

Once you expand state capacity, lower procedural safeguards, normalize exceptional powers, or erode institutional norms, the toolkit doesn't disappear when the administration changes. The next government, possibly one you never want to see in power, inherits it.

And then the bar spirals downward...unless you speak up, every single time regardless of who is in office.

This is why the last few years should concern anyone in tech, irrespective of where you stand on this government.

Through a string of legal acts and expanding online censorship powers, digital autonomy and online privacy in India have been steadily eroded. The slow accumulation of takedown powers, surveillance provisions, and compliance burdens have quietly become permanent features of how the Internet works here.

If you work in tech and don't see a problem with any of this because you trust who is at the helm now, ask yourself whether you'd trust every future government that could hold it.

That is all that matters.

[Nikhil Pahwa @nixxin]

This order is illegal and unlawful and there’s no law as far as I know that allows the Government of India to do this. They’re acting as a law unto themselves.

Let me explain:

1. Bitchat itself has not violated any law. It’s a piece of software that people use to communicate without the Internet. If a threat was created using Microsoft Word OFFLINE, would you hold Microsoft responsible for it. If that is the principled rationale here, then every software in the world is susceptible to the vagaries of actions from the Indian government.

2. Such an act of disproportionate blocking needs to be backed up with proof: merely being able to communicate without surveillance, is not a violation of any law. Neither the platform nor the government of India can track what is being done with it. On what basis is this order being issued?

4. Decentralised technologies are critical to the functioning of the web: they allow users to take control over their own Internet usage, without dependence on a single platform. Maybe that’s exactly it: the Indian government controls our speech and our communications THROUGH concentrated large platforms like x, Instagram, Facebook, and the idea of decentralisation, where they can’t order a single player to take something down, seems unmanageable to them.

4. An act of blocking has to be proportionate: there is legitimate speech potentially on the platform itself. We don’t know what is the actual speech which it thinks (doesn’t know) is illegal. By taking down these platforms you censor/prevent people from having the opportunity to communicate privately, and legitimately.

5. Directing Github to remove this app is also deeply problematic: not only is Bitchat not illegal, a platform that allows you to download an app or code for your own personal usage, for legal purposes, is also not illegal. Github is at risk because it’s a centralised platform btw.

6. No law in India mandates an app to have mandatory user registration, phone number verification or centralised logging of communications. There is no ban on anonymous coordination. Surveillance isn’t mandatory. In face, many existing communications apps do not do this. THIS as a basis for issuing a blocking order is itself illegal - no law supports this action.

7. The order says that the platform is capable of being used for unlawful activities: I’m afraid that’s no reason for blocking something. A messaging app can be used for illegal activities, it can be used for legal activities. A knife can be used to till or cut fruit. You don’t ban knifes.

Again, this order is illegal and unlawful and there’s no law as far as I know that allows the government of India to do this. They’re acting as a law unto themselves.

[Bitchat Community @BitchatMe_]

Official notice from the Indian government to GitHub regarding the removal and disabling of bitchat.

Governments that fear people talking without permission will always go after the tools that make it possible.

[Internet Freedom Foundation (IFF) @internetfreedom]

Defending the Constitution is the highest patriotism. In 2017, the Supreme Court made privacy a fundamental right, even in public. Yet Delhi Police is running live facial recognition on peaceful protesters, with no legal basis. This is unconstitutional mass surveillance. IFF has filed 4 RTIs and a representation to the Police Commissioner.

[𝕷𝖚𝖈𝖎𝖋𝖊𝖗 @LucifersTweetz]

Opinion: It all started going bad when people began idolizing billionaires instead of treating them like the greedy, resource-hoarding, human-exploiting, planet-destroying sick fucks they really are.

[WTFGOP @doggintrump]

Fuck this asshole

[Mutahar @OrdinaryGamers]

You retards fail to understand the Internet is an open platform. Putting age verification on VPNs serves nothing but a way to surveil and catalogue individuals who use these services to bypass your shit blocks. You don't give a fuck about kids or else you would focus on the parents handing devices to their kids with no oversignt.

People should bypass this by using no ID services like Mullvad so they never have to provide a piece of ID to even make an account. People should also consider using OSS platforms like Signal to bypass your attacks on encryption as well.

Fuck you and fuck the draconian world you want to build.

[Rei 🇳🇴 @reikodev]

Your privacy is worth protecting.

If you’re tired of being tracked, here are some easy swaps for the apps you use every day that don't harvest your data.

[Pirat_Nation 🔴 @Pirat_Nation]

Google Chrome is quietly downloading a roughly 4 GB AI model to many users’ computers without clear upfront consent.

The file, called weights.bin, is part of Google’s Gemini Nano on-device language model and lands in the browser’s user data folder under OptGuideOnDeviceModel.

It powers built-in AI tools such as “Help me write,” smarter tab suggestions, on-device scam detection, and page summarization. The download triggers automatically for devices meeting minimum hardware requirements, and Chrome often replaces the files if deleted.
While the model processes data locally, installation happens in the background with minimal notification.

The scale is noteworthy. Hundreds of millions or billions of installations add up to thousands of tonnes of carbon emissions globally from data transfer, even though each is a one-time event.

To prevent or remove it, go to chrome://flags, disable the entries for the optimization guide on-device model and Prompt API, restart the browser, and manually delete the folder.

[AI-Curious @AiCuriousHQ]

“Predictions are not facts.”

@CarissaVeliz on why AI predictions can shape the outcomes they claim to measure.

If an algorithm decides someone is “unemployable” and no one hires them…
was it accurate or did it create the result?

🎧 https://t.co/0XoHTvbdxy

[Nobody @nobody_root]

@speedymogalis @albertaradios 1)In this tax filing case, it only affects 1 person, only they get audited.
2)This person is influencing their 18K followers. There needs to be credibility. That's why creds are imp. while educating large group.
3)Trying to insult while debating shows your lvl of thinking only.

[Nobody @nobody_root]

@albertaradios @speedymogalis So credentials hold no value here because you are in Alberta?

[Nobody @nobody_root]

@albertaradios @speedymogalis I mean the teachers teaching in schools in all countries in this picture.

[Nobody @nobody_root]

@speedymogalis @albertaradios If u believe & change your opinions based on what a random guy is saying in 2026 without any credible sources then best of luck.
Creds matter when someone is educating others on something. Parents send kids to school where teachers have valid creds. Why is that? Coz it matters.

[BlackRoomSec @blackroomsec]

If cheering for this were a sport, I'm its gold medal champion.

I would just love to tell Altman and his counterparts there ARE 8 other billion people in the world besides them.

Why do they get to use up all the resources to further goals which they have stated will be detrimental to us all?

So, am I cheering, if this is true? You bet I am.

They should try COEXISTING with the rest of us for a change. Not all about them. And, no one but them cares one whit about their world domination goals.

Clock's ticking, Sammy. Next year you go bankrupt.

[nixCraft 🐧 @nixcraft]

OpenAI doesn't have any money left to run sora 😂 RAM makers are now finding out sama overcommitted and can't pay for RAM. the only good thing coming out of this is lower RAM and SSD prices for us. these idiots can cry all they want. at the end of the day money talks