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Right now there are a lot of new eyes on Signal, and not all of them are familiar with secure messaging and its nuances. Which means there’s misinfo flying around that might drive people away from Signal and private communications. 1/

End-to-end encryption is secure because it protects the contents of your communications in transit between the endpoints. If you make one of those endpoints an editor at The Atlantic, no amount of encryption is going to save you from your own stupidity.

people say “you can’t tax the rich, they’ll just leave” like that’s not the best possible outcome

bribecoding is a new phenomenon where you pay open source developers a living wage to work on projects that your business uses

Some customers, some jobs, you just don't ask.

#justprintshopthings.

A website guiding users to disable their adblocker is no different than a phishing email asking users to disable their security software.

Both intend to do you harm.

Nobody can lose, leak, lease, loan or liquidate your data if they don't have it. That's why we work hard to remove metadata from our systems, so your personal data is not even there to be gathered, let alone mishandled.

https://social.librem.one/@guardianproject/114222147812437231

As the day ends, the Trump gang is not backing off an inch from its use of Signal, in blatant violation of the Federal Records Act. Democrats haven't yet focused on it; nor has most of the press.

But Josh Marshall gets it: "These are disappearing communications. They won’t be in the National Archives. Future administrations won’t know what happened. There also won’t be any records to determine whether crimes were committed."

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/signalgate-is-bad-but-opsec-isnt-even-the-worst-part-of-it

Yeah, that ship has long since sailed...

Let’s Encrypt at risk from Trump cuts to OTF: “Let’s Encrypt received around $800,000 in funding from the OTF”

Dear @EUCommission, get your heads out of your arses and let’s find @letsencrypt €1M/year (a rounding error in EU finances) and have them move to the EU.

If Let’s Encrypt is fucked, the web is fucked, and the Small Web is fucked too. So how about we don’t let that happen, yeah?

(In the meanwhile, if the Let’s Encrypt folks want to make a point about how essential they are, it might be an idea to refuse certificates to republican politicians. See how they like their donation systems breaking in real time…)

CC @nlnet @NGIZero@mastodon.xyz

#USA #fascism #OpenTechFund #LetsEncrypt #SSL #TLS #encryption #EU #web #tech #SmallWeb #SmallTech https://mastodon.social/@publictorsten/114223873439053263

Wow, this Pixelfed bug is *nasty*. Allowed users to access private posts of remote users they're not following so long as another user on the same Pixelfed server legitimately followed that account.

If you're running a Pixelfed server, definitely upgrade immediately now that the vulnerability is publicly known.

https://fokus.cool/2025/03/25/pixelfed-vulnerability.html

Hey everyone. If you're looking for a reliably good, local cause to support with your time or donations consider your local food bank. Reuters reports that many food banks across the country are already strained by rising demand and will have less food to distribute because of least $1 billion in federal funding cuts and pauses by the POTUS.

"Hunger in the U.S. has ticked up in recent years with rising inflation and the end of pandemic-era programs that expanded food aid. President Donald Trump's administration has vowed to lower inflation by cutting back on government spending, including two U.S. Department of Agriculture programs that helped schools and food banks buy food from local farms."

"Reuters spoke with food banks in seven states who said cancellation and pauses of the programs meant they expected to offer less produce, meat and other staples in the coming weeks and months, leaving scarcer food for those reliant on free supplies that helped stave off hunger."

"One reason is fewer expected shipments from USDA's The Emergency Food Assistance Program (TEFAP), one of the agency's core nutrition programs that buys food from farmers and sends it to food pantries, some of the organizations said."

https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-cuts-hit-struggling-food-101121569.html

https://www.cleveland.com/news/2025/03/too-stupid-for-words-trump-pulls-back-20-semi-trucks-of-food-from-clevelands-food-bank.html

. @kimzetter is on the money here re Signal:

The government is taking dramatic steps in response to Teslas catching on fire and what's weird about this is they only care when there are *not* people in the car. If a Tesla catches on fire while it is empty that is a big deal to the government and they investigate it as terrorism and hate crimes. But if a Tesla catches on fire while people are driving it that is normal and the government sees nothing there to investigate

Alt Text: ‘The people who hid Anne Frank were breaking the law.

The people who killed her were following it.’

And remember Anne Frank wasn’t living in Nazi Germany or Hitler’s homeland of Austria. She was living in Amsterdam, Netherlands.

Fascism not only turns law and order on its head…it spreads beyond borders.

GNOME 48 is on its way to Fedora 42 and Ubuntu 25.04!
But why wait? If you’re as excited as we are, you can try it out right now in a virtual machine with GNOME OS!

Try GNOME 48 today: https://os.gnome.org/

Today -- March 25 -- is equal pay day. It is the day which marks how far into the new year that the average full-time woman has to keep working to earn the same amount that her male counterparts made in the previous year. 84 extra days.
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/03/25/equal-pay-day-highlights-stalled-progress-on-closing-gender-pay-gap.html

Toronto Star: Ottawa freezes Tesla’s $43-million rebate payments, bars it from future rebates because of tariffs

https://archive.is/fCfth

I wanted to go to bed early and I said, "because I'm a lazy girl", but it didn't feel right to say that, even as a joke. So I corrected myself, and said, "actually I'm a tired girl who's been worn down by life."

So anyway, just a reminder: be kind in your self talk