Interesting post on 2026 trends:

The 26 Most Important Ideas For 2026

Modern trends and history lessons—across culture, politics, AI, economics, science, and the long story of progress. But first: an announcement!

Do not use Proton mail service. Seems they deliver all customers data to government Here are some detailed sources describing the Proton Mail vs. Phrack controversy from September 2025: - The Intercept's investigative article (one of the most comprehensive journalistic accounts):

The Intercept

Proton Mail Suspended Journalist Accounts at Request of Cybersecurity Agency

The journalists were reporting on suspected North Korean hackers. Proton only reinstated their accounts after a public outcry.

- Phrack's own article (Issue 72, which includes the original exposé on North Korean cyber-espionage and a timeline of the Proton account suspensions at the top):

Phrack

APT Down - The North Korea Files

Click to read the article on phrack

(or the Markdown version:

Phrack

Introduction

Click to read the article on phrack

- A blog post analyzing the incident from redact.dev:

Redact

Phrack Journalists Suspended from Proton Mail

Proton suspended email accounts tied to a Phrack investigation after a CERT alert, then restored them following public pressure. Here is what happe...

- Another blog-style breakdown on Substack (The Lunduke Journal):

The Phrack, North Korea, & Proton Mail Story

A hacker for the 1980's zine, Phrack, gained access to a North Korean cyber espionage system...

Skills > Prompts

⬇️ One tool to download videos from almost anywhere A new free utility makes it possible to download videos from nearly the entire internet locally, fast, and without relying on cloud services.

GitHub

GitHub - nexmoe/VidBee: Download videos from almost any website worldwide

Download videos from almost any website worldwide. Contribute to nexmoe/VidBee development by creating an account on GitHub.

🔸 Supports 1,000+ platforms, including YouTube, TikTok, Twitch, Vimeo, Kick, and more. 🔸 Lets you download only specific segments, not the full video. 🔸 Handles multiple downloads at once, no need to queue manually. 🔸 Includes quality selection, from low-res to the original source. 🔸 Can download subtitles alongside the video. 🔸 Supports auto-downloading new videos from a feed or channel. 🔸 Runs entirely locally, no accounts or cloud processing. 🔸 Has a browser extension, one click and the video is saved. This feels like a “Swiss army knife” for video downloading: simple on the surface, but surprisingly powerful under the hood.

#Bitcoin developers are sleepwalking towards collapse

Bitcoin developers are sleepwalking towards collapse

Why Bitcoiners should care about quantum computing, in simple terms

The Tor Project is switching to Rust

It's FOSS

The Tor Project is Making a Switch to Rust, Ditches C

Arti, the Rust rewrite of Tor, brings circuit isolation and onion service improvements in its 1.8.0 release.

GM #Nostr 💜 #Bitcoin isn't just money; it's a decentralized network. No CEO, no headquarters, just code and consensus. It’s financial power returned to the people. ✊🌐

The Agent Smith Effect In the movie, The Matrix, Agent Smith has the ability to enter any body, at any time, and that often happens when the Matrix is threatened by Neo. This senario is a reflection of our real world. For example, you're having a conversation with a friend and everything is fine until you mention something like, "vaccines are poison", "earth is flat", "9/11 was an inside job" Now watch what happens, up pops Agent Smith, to replace the person you were just having a conversation with to attack you because all truths threaten the Matrix. Most people have had the Agent Smith Matrix programming since birth. These programmed people become the guardians of the economic Matrix that keeps them slave's, protectors of the code. The police of mind control and enforcers of the indoctrination which holds together our false concept of reality like super glue.

Explore what the browser exposes about you

ExposedByDefault - What Your Browser Reveals About You

Discover all the information your browser shares automatically, including fingerprints, permissions, hardware, and privacy settings. 100% client-si...

#Bitcon and the Quantum problem - Part 2 The Quantum Supremacy

Bitcoin and the Quantum Problem – Part II: The Quantum Supremacy

Why a cryptographically-relevant quantum computer undermines Bitcoin, and why I think it's likely one emerges in the next decade

Rob Braxman, 'The Internet Privacy Guy' or serial scammer?

Rob Braxman, 'The Internet Privacy Guy' or 'serial scammer'? - 12bytes.org

alternative information, tech talk, fragments

The CloudFlare outage was a good thing

Gist

The CloudFlare outage was a good thing

The CloudFlare outage was a good thing. GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.

Cloudflare, the CDN provider, suffered a massive outage today. Some of the world's most popular apps and web services were left inaccessible for serveral hours whilst the Cloudflare team scrambled to fix a whole swathe of the internet. And that might be a good thing. The proximate cause of the outage was pretty mundane: a bad config file triggered a latent bug in one of Cloudflare's services.

X (formerly Twitter)

Dane Knecht 🦭 (@dok2001) on X

I won’t mince words: earlier today we failed our customers and the broader Internet when a problem in @Cloudflare network impacted large amounts...

The file was too large (details still hazy) and this led to a cascading failure across Cloudflare operations. Probably there is some useful post-morteming about canary releases and staged rollouts. But the bigger problem, the ultimate cause, behind today's chaos is the creeping centralisation of the internet and a society that is sleepwalking into assuming the net is always on and always working. It's not just "trivial" stuff like Twitter and League of Legends that were affected, either. A friend of mine remarked caustically about his experience this morning "I couldn't get air for my tyres at two garages because of cloudflare going down. Bloody love the lack of resilience that goes into the design when the machine says "cash only" and there's no cash slot. So flat tires for everyone! Brilliant." We are living in a society where every part of our lives is increasingly mediated through the internet: work, banking, retail, education, entertainment, dating, family, government ID and credit checks. And the internet is increasingly tied up in fewer and fewer points of failure.

Ars Technica

A single point of failure triggered the Amazon outage affecting millions

A DNS manager in a single region of Amazon's sprawling network touched off a 16-hour debacle.

It's ironic because the internet was actually designed for decentralisation, a system that governments could use to coordinate their response in the event of nuclear war. But due to the economics of the internet, the challenges of things like bots and scrapers, more of more web services are holed up in citadels like AWS or behind content distribution networks like Cloudflare. Outages like today's are a good thing because they're a warning. They can force redundancy and resilience into systems. They can make the pillars of our society - governments, businesses, banks - provide reliable alternatives when things go wrong. (Ideally ones that are completely offline) You can draw a parallel to how COVID-19 shook up global supply chains: the logic up until 2020 was that you wanted your system to be as lean and efficient as possible, even if it meant relying totally on international supplies or keeping as little spare inventory as possible. After 2020 businesses realised they needed to diversify and build slack in the system to tolerate shocks. In the same way that growing one kind of banana, 

Treehugger

How the World

The original banana used to be as ubiquitous as its replacement, the Cavendish, until it became the extinct banana.

nearly resulted in bananas going extinct, we're drifing towards a society that can't survive without digital infrastructure; and a digital infrastructure that can't operate without two or three key players. One day there's going to be an outage, a bug, or cyberattack from a hostile state, that demonstrates how fragile that system is. Embrace outages, and build redundancy.

XDA Developers just covered rns-vpn-rs, Beechat's open-source project that brings full VPN functionality to the Reticulum cryptographic mesh. rns-vpn-rs bridges the gap between conventional networking and trustless mesh systems. It assigns static IPs to cryptographic nodes, letting any IP-based app run securely over Reticulum, even without Internet or infrastructure. Underneath, Reticulum provides asynchronous, store and forward routing, up to 128 mesh hops, and end-to-end encryption, forming a self-healing, delay tolerant transport layer. As XDA's Joe Rice-Jones points out, this has major potential for field operations, disaster zones, and decentralised systems that must keep working when everything else fails. Full article here:

XDA

I found an off-grid open source VPN, and it's amazing

What if setting up your software was the hardest part of networking?

Mullvad will shut down its privacy-focused search proxy, Leta, on November 27, 2025

Samourai Wallet dev gets max sentence in a case closely watched by privacy advocates Samourai Wallet developer Keonne Rodriguez was sentenced to five years in prison. In a letter to the judge, his attorneys had requested a sentence of one year and one day. His co-founder will be sentenced later this month.

DL News

Samourai Wallet dev gets max sentence in a case closely watched by privacy advocates

Samourai Wallet developer Keonne Rodriguez was sentenced to five years in prison. In a letter to the judge, his attorneys had requested a sentence...

My X account has been suspended due to inauthentic behaviors. This has never happened to me before; has anyone else experienced this, and will I be able to recover my account?

Leaked documents reveal that Amazon and Google, under Israel’s Nimbus cloud contract, agreed to secretly notify Israel whenever they hand over data to foreign governments — even when gag orders prevent disclosure. They use a coded “winking mechanism”: each request triggers a symbolic payment to Israel matching the foreign country’s dialing code (e.g. ₦IS 1,000 for the U.S., ₦IS 3,900 for Italy). If disclosure is legally forbidden, the firms must pay ₦IS 100,000 within 24 hours. The Guardian and +972 Magazine say this arrangement bypasses U.S. and EU laws that forbid third-party notification. Unlike Microsoft— which ended a contract with Israel’s Unit 8200 over surveillance concerns — Amazon and Google agreed not to suspend Israel’s access even if terms are breached. Both companies also reportedly fired employees who opposed their Israel work.

X (formerly Twitter)

Clash Report (@clashreport) on X

BIG: Leaked documents reveal that Amazon and Google, under Israel’s Nimbus cloud contract, agreed to secretly notify Israel whenever they hand ov...

Disclose.tv

Amazon, Google secretly tell Israel about data handed to foreign goverments

Breaking news from around the world.

How to run ADB and fastboot in Termux without root to unlock bootloader, run ADB commands, remove bloatware, flash ROM, or even root another Android https://www.mobile-hacker.com/2025/06/16/how-to-run-adb-and-fastboot-on-a-non-rooted-android-smartphone-using-termux/: 1. It supports debloating of various manufacturers and mobile carriers such as LG, Samsung, Xiaomi, Huawei, Oppo, Realme, Vivo, ZTE, OnePlus, Nokia, Sony, Asus, Google, Fairphone, Motorola, Tecno, Unihertz. 2. Full access to the app’s private storage — including databases, tokens, cached credentials, config files, or even offline user data. 3. Another common issue in AndroidManifest.xml is this flag: When enabled (which it is by default unless explicitly disabled), Android allows the app’s private data to be backed up via ADB — again, even on non-rooted devices. Android, use termux-adb command instead of adb

GitHub

GitHub - nohajc/termux-adb: Run adb in Termux without root permissions!

Run adb in Termux without root permissions! Contribute to nohajc/termux-adb development by creating an account on GitHub.

Android debloater for PC and Debloat lists

GitHub

GitHub - Universal-Debloater-Alliance/universal-android-debloater-next-generation: Cross-platform GUI written in Rust using ADB to debloat non-rooted Android devices. Improve your privacy, the security and battery life of your device.

Cross-platform GUI written in Rust using ADB to debloat non-rooted Android devices. Improve your privacy, the security and battery life of your dev...

Obtainium

"I think in the short term, everything will be offered with great benefits. It was quite interesting what you were talking about...Sam Altman offering his Worldcoin by literally paying people for their biometrics. So your biometrics link you, your physical self. So, your biometrics is biological identifier. So your face, your iris, your fingerprints, whatever. That links the physical you to your digital twin, and your digital twin exists in the virtual world, so whatever happens or whatever rules are applied to your digital twin will have an impact on you as a person. We'll have programmable digital currency, then your digital currency doesn't work outside of your 15-minute city. So...there's not a wall stopping you leaving the city, your physical self. But once you're outside of the city, you can't buy anything or pay for anything. So you are geo-fenced. You're geo-fenced into that locale because you haven't got any means of supporting yourself outside of it. So this is the kind of thing that they're working on. This is the kind of thing that they're testing. They envisage, what ultimately, I suppose, the umbrella term that we could use for all these different things...15 minute city, human settlement, resilient city...is smart city. And that's definitely coming from a global governance level. The commitment is part of what they call the New Urban Agenda." - Iain Davis

Iain Davis

The Technocratic Dark State - Iain Davis

Sonia Poulton and Iain Davis discuss Iain's new book The Technocratic Dark State. They look at who is behind the digital transformation.