The Open Tech Fund got killed over the weekend. It supported Signal, Tor, VPN access and lots of other good initiatives. I met some people from their team last year at a conference and asked if they were resilient to a second Trump term (they got almost killed during the first). Sad to see this happen now. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-03-17/trump-executive-order-cuts-tools-to-fight-censorship-worldwide
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Anyone know how to get around Bloombergβs paywall?
email him and inform him you are a fellow jew?
Hm, it was a free article for me, I assumed it transferred. Maybe this clicking through from here. https://bsky.app/profile/gregorykorte.com/post/3lkluavjsw22x
Thanks that worked.
Oh yup. Beat me to it...
Use archive.is π
Isn't there a browser plugin for that? It bypasses all news pay walls
This means they had a
warning to get self funded and ignored it.
Damn. OTF funded lots of good stuff including a security audit of OpenPGP.js in 2014 that identified several critical vulnerabilities.
The problem is this is not the role of the federal government in the US. This is good. The federal government should stick to its role as defined in 1791.
So about 99.999% of what it does, it should not do
Yep. Giving money to those programs was socialism. America was not founded on the idea of government funding projects like those.