keverets @keverets@librem.one

Great #DSA report by @bitsoffreedom about how #Snapchat manipulates its users through notifications:

"From 109 notifications we categorized 39 as misleading." They contained "false information (e.g., “check out this post from someone you follow”—even though we weren't following anyone), resembled a personal message from other users, or were incorrectly labeled as being “time-sensitive”."

https://www.bitsoffreedom.nl/2025/12/05/how-snapchat-manipulates-its-users-through-notifications/

#DigitalRights #DarkPatterns #DigitalServicesAct #BigTech #InterfaceDesign

"Any workplace surveillance should have strict limitations on its use," EFF’s @legind told Business Insider. That might include not using the technology outside the workplace or beyond work hours. https://www.businessinsider.com/employee-surveillance-how-boss-monitors-your-work-2025-12

The United Nations opts for @CryptPad, an open source alternative to #GoogleForms.

https://news.itsfoss.com/un-ditches-google-form/

#OpenSource #CryptPad #UN #UnitedNations #foss

At Fairphone, we believe that true ownership isn't just about hardware, it's also about code 💚
We're proud to be one of the few brands offering the necessary resources for users to develop and run their own software. We publish kernel sources, device trees, and work hard to maintain buildable code for our devices. We also published this week our detox feature Moments of our Gen 6.
https://www.fairphone.com/en/2025/12/04/were-big-fans-of-open-source-buildable-code-at-fairphone-heres-why/?trk=feed-detail_main-feed-card_feed-article-content

Cory Doctorow @pluralistic on how to criticise AI.

I love his writing style and the way he provides clear, understandable explanations of everything he write about. (And I love his sense of humour)

https://pluralistic.net/2025/12/05/pop-that-bubble/

Seeing family for the holidays? Remember to help your loved ones install Privacy Badger to stop online trackers from following them around the web. https://privacybadger.org

Remember how every December your CD player did not confess that it had been spying on what you listened to all year

We are thankful for the help from Consumer Reports on our #OptOutOctober project. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/09/opt-out-october-daily-tips-protect-your-privacy-and-security

If you are concerned about this remember to address directly it with the person wearing the Meta glasses, rotating with your hips and core for power and aiming through their face rather than at it

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:vk7rduhvom3rq6dyluce5wzf/post/3m3ug5d4gv22o

Security conference talks fall into two categories
* we designed a distributed entropy siphon to perform a black-box hypervisor side channel escape and chain-load a persistent rootkit into the CPU cache
* we looked behind the sofa and found an entire industry of products/services that have made no attempt at security at all and are therefore vulnerable to the most basic issues that we've been finding in everything for the past 30 years, and no-one else had bothered to look.

This is maybe the biggest FINALLY in my career as a purveyor of Oddly Specific Objects: The Open Book is in prelaunch at Crowd Supply! But it's not the same old Open Book; we're launching the all-new, completely reimagined Open Book Touch with WiFi and Bluetooth support, a higher-resolution display, capacitive touchscreen, and frontlight with adjustable color temperature. Subscribe for updates here! https://www.crowdsupply.com/oddly-specific-objects/open-book-touch

Absolutely obsessed with framing your employees sleeping on the floor as a humble brag

“Look how hard my team works” no dude you’re just bad at project management.

Competent companies ship products without cosplaying being homeless