Articles by pabs3
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Samsung Galaxy update removes Android recovery menu tools, including sideloading (9to5google.com)

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Why Tehran's Two-Tiered Internet Is So Dangerous (schneier.com)

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Scotiabank Divests from Elbit Systems (bdscoalition.ca)

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Eleven Freedoms for Free AI (elevenfreedoms.org)

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RFC 406i - The Rejection of Artificially Generated Slop (406.fail)

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Socialist Excellence in New York City (pluralistic.net)

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Hackers expose vulnerabilities in Discord's age verification system (ibtimes.com)

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The Hobbyist Maintainer Economic Gravity Well (softwaremaxims.com)

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The Takedown Campaign Against archive.today (2025) (algustionesa.com)

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Your tech or my tech: make up your mind quickly (2024) (berthub.eu)

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Ditching Discord (alopex.li)

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An update on upki (ubuntu.com)

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Introducing Package Chaos Monkey (nesbitt.io)

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GitHub - New repository settings for configuring pull request access (github.blog)

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On The Crank Spectrum (tive.org)

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Utter Disregard for Git Commit History (2015) (zachholman.com)

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Development on Flirt – Fabulous, Legendary, Incremental Review Tool (2025) (buenzli.dev)

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Anna's Archive 'Releases' Spotify Tracks, Despite Legal Pushback (torrentfreak.com)

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Can my SPARC server host a website? (rup12.net)

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Some Thoughts on LLM Coding (dave.tf)

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It is incorrect to "normalize" // in HTTP URL paths (runxiyu.org)

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Mid-life transitions (gnome.org)

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Digital Independence Day (di.day)

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The UK government didn't want you to see this report on ecosystem collapse (theguardian.com)

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No 10 blocks report on impact of rainforest collapse on food prices (thetimes.com)

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March for Billionaires (marchforbillionaires.org)

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The Local Weather (joeyh.name)

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LLMs sabotage existing programming practices by privatizing a public good (buddingh.eu)

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Spotify's Crackdown on Anna's Archive Domains Hits a Jurisdiction Snag (torrentfreak.com)

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Can We Build Trustworthy AI? (gizmodo.com)

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Could ChatGPT Convince You to Buy Something? (schneier.com)

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Mourning Didier Spaier of the slint accessibility Linux distro (freelists.org)

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scx_horoscope – Astrological CPU Scheduler (github.com/zampierilucas)

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National Shutdown - No Work. No School. No Shopping. Stop Funding ICE. (nationalshutdown.org)

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Disrupting the Largest Residential Proxy Network (cloud.google.com)

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The end of the curl bug-bounty (haxx.se)

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I Started Identifying Corporate Devices in My Software (lgug2z.com)

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The "Email Expiration Date" Initiative (zerocarbon.email)

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Diverging the Desktop – in search for better human computing interfaces (divergent-desktop.org)

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Who Contributed to PostgreSQL Development in 2025? (rhaas.blogspot.com)

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Open Reimplementation of Google Widevine Content Decryption Module for Browsers (github.com/tchebb)

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OpenAI Used Kenyan Workers on Less Than $2 per Hour to Make ChatGPT Less Toxic (time.com)

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AI as a Compression Problem (fifthhorseman.net)

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PanoptiCity – interactive map reveals the scale of mass surveillance worldwide (panopticity.fr)

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gasm – bare-metal i386 Gopher server for Linux (github.com/someodd)

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On FLOSS and training LLMs (mad-scientist.club)

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Text-based web browsers (cssence.com)

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Day Fifteen of Iran's Nationwide Protests: Sharp Rise in Human Casualties (en-hrana.org)

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Germany Considers Broader Legal Authority; Internet Surveillance, State Hacking (reclaimthenet.org)

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Trump may be beginning of the end for enshittification – make tech good again (theguardian.com)

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One Thousand Words (drewmayo.com)

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Debian Taco – Towards a GitSecDevOps Debian (josefsson.org)

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Public Money Public Code (publiccode.eu)

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Iran: An Uprising Besieged from Within and Without: Three Perspectives (crimethinc.com)

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European Commission issues call for evidence on open source (lwn.net)

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SFC vs. VIZIO: who can enforce the GPL? (lwn.net)

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GPLv2 and Installation Requirements (lwn.net)

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A12: Visions of the Networked Desktop (2013) (arcan-fe.com)

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GNOME: Disable primary-paste by default (gnome.org)

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XMPP and Metadata (mathieui.net)

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Go.sum is not a lockfile (filippo.io)

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The Resonant Computing Manifesto (resonantcomputing.org)

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Empire Strikes Back (At Privacy): Archaeology of Tracking on Government Websites (utah.edu)

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Declaration of Digital Autonomy (draft 0.2) (2020) (techautonomy.org)

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New York's incoming mayor bans Raspberry Pi at his inauguration party (theregister.com)

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U-Boot Has Joined Software Freedom Conservancy (sfconservancy.org)

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It's an Active Choice to Lie This Much – Micron's "Commitment" to Gamers [video] (youtube.com)

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AI data centers may soon be powered by retired Navy nuclear reactors (tomshardware.com)

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Managing Diabetes in Software Freedom (sfconservancy.org)

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AI Deregulation and Corruption: Companies Now Have Too Many GPUs [video] (youtube.com)

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Seven diabetes patients die due to undisclosed bug in Abbott's glucose monitors (sfconservancy.org)

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The Beginning of the End for OpenAI [video] (youtube.com)

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OpenAI is reportedly trying to raise $100B at an $830B valuation (techcrunch.com)

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Tinyfront (mooo.com)

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The Future of Fixing Technology (By Denver Gingerich at Fossy 2025) [video] (youtube.com)

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No Longer Evil – new life for dead/outdated Nest Generation 1 and 2 thermostats (nolongerevil.com)

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Secure Messaging and AI Don't Mix (aclu.org)

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Rote Hilfe Berlin on repression by Trump and two German banks (site36.net)

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Kimwolf Exposed: The Android Botnet with 1.8M Infected Devices (qianxin.com)

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Help my website is too small (lukeplant.me.uk)

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Texas Attor­ney Gen­er­al Sues Five Major TV Com­pa­nies for Spy­ing on Texans (texasattorneygeneral.gov)

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Judge hints Vizio TV buyers may have rights to source code licensed under GPL (theregister.com)

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Is Mozilla trying hard to kill itself? (infosec.press)

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The Generative AI Industry Is Fraudulent, Immoral and Dangerous (skoll.ca)

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Software Freedom Conservancy vs. Vizio Inc (sfconservancy.org)

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Fairly Trained AI (fairlytrained.org)

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A Lisp Interpreter Implemented in Conway's Game of Life (2021) (woodrush.github.io)

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Shell Permission Errors for Busy Coding Agents (da.vidbuchanan.co.uk)

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Over 10k Docker Hub images found leaking credentials, auth keys (bleepingcomputer.com)

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Toward a policy for machine-learning tools in Linux kernel development (lwn.net)

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Congress strips right-to-repair provisions from 2026 NDAA despite wide support (federalnewsnetwork.com)

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Is your website Archive Ready? (archiveready.com)

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How Bad is Dialup Internet in 2025? [video] (youtube.com)

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rsyslog Goes AI First (rsyslog.com)

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[flagged] A fork of Calibre called Clbre, because the AI is stripped out (github.com/grimthorpe)

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A New Anonymous Phone Carrier Lets You Sign Up with Nothing but a Zip Code (wired.com)

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Sam Altman’s DRAM Deal (mooreslawisdead.com)

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Staying ahead of censors in 2025: Fighting censorship in Iran and Russia (torproject.org)

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Thieves are starting to steal RAM now that it's as expensive as gold (tomshardware.com)

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Website Task Flowchart (xkcd.com)