This is just a podcast about why they are bad, right? Think I remember listening a while back. No action though, right?

great interview thank you for sharing your experience

Host your own git, or Gitlab ...

Soooo.... #GitHub is down. Any idea when #nostr git will be working?

#meme #memes #memestr #plebchain

Thinking of Aaron Swartz today & I’m stuck on this photo - he & OpenAI CEO Sam Altman (both circled) each scraped 1000s of docs but one did it to make the knowledge free for all while the other did it to make $$$$ through probabilistic plagiarism. The US DOJ only came after one of them & the other is feted by tech bros and executives.

Thank you Aaron for so much, for RSS, for Markdown, for Creative Commons and more. I’m sorry our society failed you.

Best pods of 2025?

This is just a podcast about why they are bad, right? Think I remember listening a while back. No action though, right?

Someone point me to a lawyer/group that’s going to bring the case. Been asking for years why we haven’t moved to abolish KYC/AML regulations. Will donate. nostr:note126vyewmqzm92ak22mmekzqnq5xjl8wjw4yrafjmdgxztw4mpffvq29eg76

ESG dying is a great sign. Don’t get complacent though. Time to move on to the next narrative to destroy: privacy is bad and data collection is necessary.

Abolish the Bank Secrecy Act by proving that KYC/AML is more of a net negative and harms people financially and physically.

Can one have an tombomb without measurable increase of radioactive activity?

what's the best working private keyboard app for graphene?

100% agreed.

And what about WikiLeaks? You would think that a hacker congress would celebrate the fact that the Assange was finally released in some way or the other. The only talk this year even mentioning WL was about an art piece about Julian Assange. Don't get me wrong, art is cool, but are you fucking kidding us?

CCC organizing people are a bunch of cowards.

They enjoy their positions of power and political influence and relenave so much that they'd rather not stir the pot.

I want to talk about something that some people may find offensive, and that I can’t talk about on Twitter to not get shadow banned as I have to rely on reach for my work.

The first time I attended Chaos Computer Congress was over 15 years ago. It had the best parties in town, and we would sneak in for the nightlife.

As I rekindled my interest in politics, computers and the internet, I became more aligned with the CCC’s mission: hacking the planet to hold power to account.

While I was already disappointed with some of the CCC’s policies – particularly on things like COVID and Bitcoin – this year was the first time that I seriously lost hope for and trust in the CCC as an institution – starting with its opening speech.

The CCC’s opening speech sets the theme for the event. This year, it was dedicated to the global rise of fascism. Speakers talked about Germany’s protests against the far-right AFD, about Donald Trump, LGBTQ and abortions, and pro-democracy protests in countries like Georgia.

But not a single word was lost to the genocide in Palestine.

Checking the CCC’s schedule, I merely found a single talk on Palestine, which explicitly made clear that it did not take a stance on whether Israel was right or wrong in its operations.

There were still a lot of great talks at the congress, and many assemblies showed their solidarity, but this complete lack of mention is what really stood out for me.

To understand what a hackers congress has to do with genocide, we need to take an uncomfortable look at Nazi Germany.

What enabled the Holocaust 80 years ago was not just a bunch of bloodthirsty eugenicist maniacs high on ungodly amounts of speed and their fascist ideologies. It was the streamlining of exploitation and murder to never before seen efficiency, with the help of new, more efficient technologies.

It is these same advancements in technology that are fueling the genocide in Palestine today. It’s surveillance on an unprecedented scale, evermore invasive spyware, AI enabled targeting and automated drone warfare.

You can think of Palestine what you want, but this technology is being exported from Palestine to the rest of the world today.

It’s facial recognition systems and license plate scanners that Israel uses to enforce apartheid that you’ll soon see scanning your biometrics for your next flight on holidays, or your car on your next trip to work.

It’s spyware companies that test their products to soon sell them to governments around the world targeting activists, journalists and opposition.

It’s psychological warfare utilizing dating sites like Grindr to social engineer Palestinians into spying on their peers and extort their sexual preferences.

Just last month, the a16z portfolio company Skydio, which is a major Israeli military contractor, was caught providing its surveillance drones to Yale University to monitor and track student protestors.

Some of you may find this topic uncomfortable as it may not align with your political views.

But the reality remains that the genocide in Palestine is a testing ground for never before seen surveillance tech that will soon be used on you. And the world’s most renowned hackers are silent.

Elon Musk's villain arc is ramping up. Within the last two weeks:

1) Advocated against the American labor force. Got absolutely ratioed on his own platform and got his panties into a bunch.

2) Removed Blue Checks, wiped subscriptions, demonetized and deplatformed many of those with "negative" dissenting opinions.

3) Announced an algorithm change to further punish "negativity" which is completely subjective based on his closed source, proprietary AI models. So much for the "free speech town square" of the Internet.

4) Adjusted his account so only verified or mentioned accounts can reply to him. Anyone want odds that he isn't or won't be going after verified accounts behind the scenes?

That is full mask off dictator level behavior. Combine the fact they're launching X Payments and X AI to give him even more data and control over his paywalled fiefdom... Uh, no fucking thanks.