The Austrian Ministry of the Interior bought social media surveillance software Tangles from Cobwebs/Penlink and refuses to tell the public whether they also bought the intrusive geolocation tracking add-on Webloc, which relies on the mass collection of personal data from digital advertising and mobile apps.

Public record on the €900k Tangles contract:
https://ted.europa.eu/en/notice/-/detail/17316-2025

German-lang article by @suka_hiroakiAndreas Proschofsky:
https://www.derstandard.at/story/3000000309258/innenministerium-nutzt-ueberwachungssoftware-von-zwielichtiger-firma-will-nicht-darueber-reden

Summary on the Citizen Lab site:
https://citizenlab.ca/austrian-interior-ministry-using-cobwebs-surveillance-software/

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Terror Was Needed to Make Arabs Leave: What the Israeli Army Did in 1948".

"The area is to be cleansed of Arabs.... Every Arab who will be met with is to be annihilated.”

https://israelpalestinenews.org/what-israel-army-did-in-1948/

The thousands of newly discovered documents add to already overwhelming evidence about Israel’s displacement of Palestinians in 1948:

Ilan Pappé
https://thecordobafoundation.com/ilan-pappes-ground-breaking-book-on-zionism-launches-in-london/

#Palestine #PalestineHistory #USPol #EUPol #1948IsraeliTerror #racism #DisplacementReplacement .

Show HN: Govbase – Follow a bill from source text to news bias to social posts

Link: https://govbase.com
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47220809

I genuinely think the worst thing the internet did to reading was convince people that finishing books is a competitive sport. You don't need to read 52 books a year. You just need to read. Books you like. At your own pace. And think about them for longer than a TikTok video.

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Kicking off #MARCHintosh with the smallest Mac ever: the Pico Micro Mac!

Check out the video on Level 2 Jeff: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gOS22wEpmU

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Poll: should “reaction emojis” (which are called reactji, apparently??) be considered a valid form of email, and should your email client let you send react-o-mail?

Like = fuck no

Repost = absolutely fuck not

RE: https://digipres.club/@misty/116161501232115149

This'll be popular here in BC, but I'm personally not looking forward to it. I'm not even a morning person, but those post-9 am sunrises in winter are going to be brutal. Godspeed to everyone I have early meetings with.

PSA

To whomever this may concern and to get you a break from the international news:

Your daily driver Windows computer is not obsolete after October 13th 2026. And above all it is NOT E-waste.

Your Apple computer is not E-waste if Tim Cook says so.

Chances are that even the beige DELL tower from 2003, which is currently holding the barn door open, is not obsolete.

And if you have an old/broken computer: please sell or donate it. If nothing else, someone can learn to solder working on it.

Contact your local IT nerd for further questions. The one with an Atari or Amiga T-shirt. Someone you know will know one.

You can also contact IT nerds here in the fediverse. Almost all of us are here.

#RightToRepair #AlternativeOperatingSystems #OperatingSystems #OS #OpenBSD #FreeBSD #NetBSD #Linux #HaikuOS #Windows #Apple #PowerPC #BeOS #Ubuntu #LinuxMint #Vic20 #Commodore64 #Amiga #ComputerClubs #Learning #OldComputersAreNotE_Waste #PCB #VintageComputing #RetroComputing #Refurbishers

おはよーおはよー​​​​

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British Columbia to end time changes, adopt year-round daylight time

Link: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/b-c-adopting-year-round-daylight-time-9.7111657
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47223620

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안희정도 그렇고 자꾸 스멀스멀 기어올라오려고 하는 꼬라지를 보니 들켰다고 저승런 친 장제원순 정도면 양반인가 싶을 수준ㅋㅋ

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:uabkr6tn7ru4b4e5e6udleuf/post/3mg2qrylhfs2t

最近夢見が悪い…

The Austrian Ministry of the Interior bought social media surveillance software Tangles from Cobwebs/Penlink and refuses to tell the public whether they also bought the intrusive geolocation tracking add-on Webloc, which relies on the mass collection of personal data from digital advertising and mobile apps.

Public record on the €900k Tangles contract:
https://ted.europa.eu/en/notice/-/detail/17316-2025

German-lang article by @suka_hiroakiAndreas Proschofsky:
https://www.derstandard.at/story/3000000309258/innenministerium-nutzt-ueberwachungssoftware-von-zwielichtiger-firma-will-nicht-darueber-reden

Summary on the Citizen Lab site:
https://citizenlab.ca/austrian-interior-ministry-using-cobwebs-surveillance-software/

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I've been increasingly concerned about the corporate monopoly over frontier LLMs. While many ethically-minded people choose to boycott these models, I believe passive resistance alone cannot break the structural grip of big tech. To truly “liberate” these technologies and turn them into public goods, we need to look beyond moral high grounds and engage with the material basis of AI—specifically compute, data, and the relations of production.

I've written two posts exploring this through the lens of historical materialism. The first piece analyzes why current “open source” definitions struggle with LLMs, and the second discusses what it means to “act materialistically” in our imperfect world. My goal is to suggest a path forward that moves from mere boycotting to a more proactive, structural socialization of AI infrastructure.

If you've been feeling uneasy about the AI landscape but aren't sure if boycotting is the final answer, I'd love for you to give these a read:

• Histomat of F/OSS: We should reclaim LLMs, not reject them
• Acting materialistically in an imperfect world: LLMs as means of production and social relations

#LLM #AI #opensource #historicalmaterialism #histomat #materialism #digitalcommons

"한국 분들이 찢어진 김밥이라고 부릅니다."

The two kinds of error https://lobste.rs/s/3cq649 #programming
https://evanhahn.com/the-two-kinds-of-error/

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乾燥機が乾燥を完了したので天気が良くなりました。今週も余計な二酸化炭素を排出してしまいましたorz

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어짜피 AI가 발전하고 하니 이젠 좀 정말 일본과 중국은 뭐 알아서 하겠지만 한국도 교육 커리큘럼의 변화와 직업 프로그램에 대한 변화가 생겼으면 하는데... 잘될진 모르겠다 애들 들들 볶아대면서 공부하는것도 이제 좀 변화가 있어야할텐데... 쓸데없는 걱정 한 1초 하고 넘어감다

嫌な夢みたな……

You're paying AI companies a monthly subscription fee to be fingerprinted like a parolee.

I got bored and ran uBlock across Claude, ChatGPT, and Gemini simultaneously.

Claude:

• Six parallel telemetry pipelines.
• A tracking GIF with 40 browser fingerprint data points baked into the URL, routed through a CDN proxy alias specifically to make it harder to block.
• Intercom running a persistent WebSocket whether you use it or not.
• Honeycomb distributed tracing on a chat UI because apparently your conversation needs the same observability stack as a payments microservice.

ChatGPT:

• proxies telemetry through their own backend to hide the Datadog destination URL from blockers.
• uBlock had to deploy scriptlet injection — actual JS injected into the page to intercept fetch() at the API level — because a network rule wasn't enough.
• Also ships your usage data to Google Analytics. OpenAI. To Google. You cannot make this up.
• Also runs a proof-of-work challenge before you're allowed to type anything.

Gemini:

• play.google.com/log getting hammered with your full session behavior, authenticated with three SAPISIDHASH token variants, piped directly into the Google identity supergraph that correlates everything you've ever done across every Google product since 2004.
• Also creates a Web App Activity record in your Google account timeline. Also has "ads" in one of the telemetry endpoint subdomains.

When uBlock blocks Gemini's requests, the JS exceptions bubble up and Gemini dutifully tries to POST the error details back to Google. uBlock blocks that too. The error messages contain the internal codenames for every upsell popup that failed to load.

KETCHUP_DISCOVERY_CARD.
MUSTARD_DISCOVERY_CARD.
MAYO_DISCOVERY_CARD.

Google named their subscription upsell popups after condiments and I found out because their error handler snitched on them.

All three of these products cost money.
One of them is also running ad infrastructure.

Touch grass. Install @ublockorigin

#infosec #privacy #selfhosted #foss #surveillance

おはようございます。

I just learned that I can use `...` as placeholder for unfinished code instead of `pass` in #python
`...` is a built-n object, and it's called the *Ellipsis*

Example: Instead of

def func():
pass

one could use the ellipsis like

def func():
...

this is very tempting (alas, can't afford it atm)

⚠️ Scam warning: there are accounts posing as Mastodon admins claiming to offer "rewards" or "payments" or "partnerships".

These are scams. There are no reward or payment schemes on Mastodon. No genuine admin would ever send this kind of post or reply.

If you see scam posts like the ones in the screenshot below, report them by clicking ⋯ on the scam posts and then selecting "report".

#Mastodon

⚠️ Scam warning: there are accounts posing as Mastodon admins claiming to offer "rewards" or "payments" or "partnerships".

These are scams. There are no reward or payment schemes on Mastodon. No genuine admin would ever send this kind of post or reply.

If you see scam posts like the ones in the screenshot below, report them by clicking ⋯ on the scam posts and then selecting "report".

#Mastodon

라고 했을때 처자는게 답이었다

Hey everyone, I imagine you’re kind of tapped out with Minneapolis mutual aid fundraisers…but if you have a few bucks, this fund for rent & grocery support in my school / neighborhood is looking kind of strapped and will shortly be unable to meet ongoing needs:

https://givebutter.com/rent-and-food-support-31tt0z

1/

hmmm

Mastodon now has a button for sharing content from other websites https://www.theverge.com/tech/887791/mastodon-official-share-button-widget

SNES Controllers are (Almost) SPI-Compatible

https://hackaday.com/2026/03/02/snes-controllers-are-almost-spi-compatible/

@GargronEugen Rochko what even is this

Trying to spend more time on Mastadon. Who do I need to follow to better track US politics, Ukraine and The Middle East/Iran?

Repost for better signal boost?

I’m Tim, I run The Counteroffensive, on Ukraine, and Iran War Dispatches, which launched on Saturday!

www.iranwar.news

EMERGENCY #MUTUALAID REQUEST

Hey friends—my account is about $150 overdrawn after the credit card bill came out. Any help to get out of the hole & pay other essential bills this week would be rad af 💞

https://kind.social/@nat/116140859668993773

#mutualaidrequest #helpfolkslive2026 #begpost #transmutualaid #queermutualaid #disabledmutualaid #lgbtq #crowdfund #fundraiser

Interesting framing.

"Imagine being in a situation where you have limited internet access: your internet is slow, or you're relying on a small data bundle, or you are stuck in the middle of nowhere with spotty coverage."

https://marijkeluttekes.dev/blog/articles/2026/01/21/why-light-weight-websites-may-one-day-save-your-life/

via https://mas.to/@frontenddogma/116161611244965546

#websites #performance #SitePerformance #WebDev

People who can French braid their own hair are witches.

#트랜스여성은여성이다