Free Soft&Hardware Enthusiast @goatwildernesscollective@librem.one

“Folks have warned for years about the mission creep of surveillance infrastructure systems like (automated license plate readers) and this propensity for them to be abused, and we’re seeing those risks manifest today,” EFF’s Sarah Hamid told the Press Democrat.
https://www.pressdemocrat.com/2026/01/09/flock-cameras-public-safety-bay-area/

Age verification mandates. They're everywhere! But does anyone really want them? 🙅‍♀️

We're breaking these laws down, from what they do and how they harm civil liberties. Join us live next week! https://eff.org/livestream-age

Amazon’s Ring doorbell camera system won the “Worst in Show” for privacy at #CES2026 for “doubling down on privacy invasion and supporting the misconception that more surveillance always makes us safer,” EFF’s Cindy Cohn told @AssociatedPress. https://apnews.com/article/ces-worst-show-ai-0ce7fbc5aff68e8ff6d7b8e6fb7b007d

Federal agents shot and killed a community member who was observing an ICE raid in Minneapolis this morning. Reports that she was shot in the face multiple times. On the ground reports that feds refused access for medical assistance and physicians who were otg attempting to administer aid and check her pulse.

In the videos of the shooting circulating social media, it is clear she was attempting to drive away. She posed no threat to agents or anyone else. This was cold blooded murder. DHS is already lying about the murder and attempting to justify their actions.

Abolish ICE

https://apnews.com/article/minnesota-immigration-enforcement-shooting-crackdown-surge-173e00fa7388054e98c3b5b9417c1e5a

PureOS just asked me if I wanted to enable Mozilla Location Services which makes me feel really sad 😟

This actually great service got discontinued by Mozilla recently because they wanted to spend more money on AI bullshit instead or something.

Come join me and Allie Brosh for the first ever screening of “My Dog: The Paradox.”

https://theoatmeal.com/blog/dog_paradox_premiere

Meet the independent European Do It Together Linux phone.
The new Jolla Phone is now open for pre-orders at https://commerce.jolla.com/products/jolla-phone-preorder

#Jolla #SailfishOS #DeGoogle #european #DigitalSovereignty #CommunityPowered

The last coal plant delivering electricity to California has closed.
California's energy system is now coal free.

https://www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/ding-dong-coal-dead

Russia’s oil giant Rosneft reports a 70 % drop in net income for the first 9 months of 2025, down to 277 billion roubles (~ US $3.57 billion). The company cited high interest rates, lower oil prices, a stronger rouble, and rising “anti‑terror security” costs as major pressures.

Real reason: Ukrainian sanctions.

Thanks to Taym Haddadi we have noticed that is now possible to make PRs to the Servo repository on GitHub from Servo itself! 🎉

#Zoomers are officially worse at #passwords than 80-year-olds

https://www.theregister.com/2025/11/18/zoomer_passwords/

#cybersecurity

📢 BREAKING 📢
We're suing the departments of Justice and Homeland Security to get answers about ICE-spotting app takedowns. Read more about our FOIA lawsuit: https://www.eff.org/press/releases/eff-demands-answers-about-ice-spotting-app-takedowns

demands

#Phosh's file selector (pfs) picked up existing 👍-nails of files since some time but didn't create missing ones. @arunmanij fixed that by creating a thumbnailing service. The file chooser calls into this service to request the creation of the missing thumbnails.

Having things in an extra service allows us to experiment with different implementations (it currently uses GnomeDesktopThumbnail under the hood) and also to sandbox things further if desired. Since pfs is used by our portal implementation all apps using it (including #flatpak s) will leverage that automatically.

#gtk #libadwaita #gnome

FLX1s Update #2 https://furilabs.com/flx1s-update-2/

We’re excited to share that manufacturing for the FuriPhone FLX1s has been completed. Read about our progress.

#flx1s #furios #furilabs #FuriPhoneFLX1s #LinuxOnMobile