Take a moment today to remember that Keonne Rodriguez turned himself into prison. Where he’ll stay for the next 5 years. For writing open source privacy software.

This is how giant bureaucracies work. A large number of disconnected sources of authority. Esoteric legalese–often not actual legislation–that mandates cross-jurisdiction compliance. Whether it's legal or not doesn't really matter... only very large players will have the resources to challenge these requests. Everyone else will simply comply for fear of being ground to dust by the legal system.

GitHub

Hey, The Good Guys just called! They'd like some data. · markqvist/Reticulum · Discussion #1004

The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding. - Louis D. Brandeis You've p...

GM maniacs. 🌞 Today; we build.

GM 🌞 So happy to be back into the code cave and done with traveling for a while. Lots to catch up on and lots to ship. 🚀

Chat control, digital ID, and age verification are all badly designed attempts at treating the symptoms of the real issues our societies are facing. Real solutions treat root causes and only come from the distributed consciousness and intelligence of all of us.

Oh yay! I now have permission to apply for permission to ask for permission to publish our app. 😭

This looks very cool.

Caligra is a new computer company.

The Linux®-powered computer designed to accelerate your work.

It's almost as if the market was the correct mechanism for making sure healthcare costs were reasonable... huh. who would have thought? 😂

I Canceled My Family's Health Insurance (and joined CrowdHealth)

How it works and why it made sense

GM 🌞 The most beautiful thing in the world is someone working hard to manifest their ideas into the world.

GM 🌞 The fight for privacy is intensifying. The time to build unstoppable tools that protect our liberty is NOW. If the EUs continued backslide into autocracy is worrying to you, we're always looking for contributors to help on @White Noise . Come build the future you want to live in with us!

Patrick Breyer

Reality Check: EU Council Chat Control Vote is Not a Retreat, But a Green Light for Indiscriminate Mass Surveillance and the End of Right to Communicate Anonymously

Contrary to headlines suggesting the EU has "backed away" from Chat Control, the negotiating mandate endorsed today by EU ambassadors in a close sp...

Happy place 😊

GM. 🌞 Build. Ship. Listen. Repeat.

GM 🌞 The next 15-20 years are going to be wild. AI, Quantum, & Fusion are all very real. We're getting close to a world of incredible abundance (and probably a lot of mess as things reorganize). And all are reasons why digital scarcity matters.

GM 🌞 Even Switzerland is moving against privacy these days… 😥

Tuta

Switzerland plans surveillance worse than US | Tuta

Revision of Swiss surveillance law VÜPF would directly target VPN & encrypted chat and email providers based in Switzerland.

GM 🌞 97 is the new 57?

@Kieran An event tomorrow is trying to live stream to zap.stream and youtube at the same time. Is the stream forwarding feature in zap.stream solid/stable or is it beta?

GM 🌞 No one is bullish enough.

Can someone explain this to me? Why would Bulgaria give up it's sovereignty to join the EU? And don't say defense, the EU has no military power.

Marmot dev call was 🔥 today. It was our first time doing demos and holy shit, there is so much being worked on right now it breaks my brain!