Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

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

🎉 Applications for the Sovereign Tech Fellowship are officially open!

What’s new? For the first time, community managers, and technical writers can apply alongside open source maintainers until April 6, 2026, to become Fellows.

The #SovereignTechFellowship invests directly in the people behind the code, supporting key experts whose work underpins the health and stability of critical components in the #opensource ecosystem.

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Kansas invalidates license of a trans person who didn't even change their gender marker https://www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-news/kansas-revokes-license-no-gender-change

So who, and when, flagged her as transgender? And in what way is this in violation of the law?

They just want to harass trans people.

A cartoon on the Iran-Contra scandal, in which the US sold arms to Iran, despite an embargo, to use the proceeds to fund the right-wing Contras' attempt to overthrow the Nicaraguan government.

From Ireland, the international magazine of the Workers' Party, 1987.

Turns out DHS is buying ad data, and you've got whole new reasons to run ad blockers and pi-holes.

Run Privacy Badger. Run Pi-Hole. Block ads, save bandwidth, #FuckICE, and #FuckTrump.

“Squirter:” The Catastrophic Stupidity that May [Have] Set Off a Larger Religious Conflict - https://emptywheel.net/the-catastrophic-stupidity-that-may-have-set-off-a-larger-religious-conflict/ "there are almost no people in Trump’s inner circle who have been paying attention. Instead, he’s got sycophants, Crusaders, and venal developers advising him, deliberately trying to purge anyone who has been paying attention."

A combat-unit commander told non-commissioned officers at a briefing Monday that
⚠️ the Iran war is part of God’s plan and that Pres. Donald Trump was
💥“anointed by Jesus to light the signal fire in Iran to cause Armageddon and mark his return to Earth,” according to a complaint by a non-commissioned officer.

From Saturday morning through Monday night,
👉more than 110 similar complaints about commanders in every branch of the military had been logged by the Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF).

The complaints came from more than 40 different units spread across at least 30 military installations, the MRFF told me Monday night.

The MRFF is keeping the complainants anonymous to prevent retribution by the Defense Department.

https://jonathanlarsen.substack.com/p/us-troops-were-told-iran-war-is-for

Medical journal The Lancet blasts RFK Jr.’s health work as a failure
Kennedy's destruction "might take generations to repair," The Lancet said.
https://arstechnica.com/health/2026/03/medical-journal-the-lancet-blasts-rfk-jr-s-health-work-as-a-failure/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

Who wants to share (a) decent zine(s) on putting on a music show for one's first time?
Bonus if it has details on fundraiser shows and touches on potential hostile venues/door-attendees.

(@'ing is welcome)

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My experience of the #fediverse :

Year 1 (2023):
It feels a little lonely as 99% of my friends stayed on Big Tech platforms.

Year 2 (2024):
I start a blog - #TheFutureIsFederated - to explain the fediverse to "normies"... and I make a lot of new (techie) friends.

Year 3 (2025):
My techie friends encourage me to start self-hosting with #YunoHost... and I do! (GoToSocial, PeerTube, NextCloud...) I LOVE it.

Year 4 (2026):
I plan to buy a Heltec to try out off-grid mesh radio communication 💁‍♀️

As a child, I thought the lesson of history was that the good guys always win. As an adult, I realized the actual lesson is that the winners declare themselves the good guys.

The voluntary commitments proposed by #Apple won’t fix this. The #UK Competition and Markets Authority must mandate interoperability by default, ensuring all developers, including #FreeSoftware #OpenSource ones, get equal access to Apple’s OS (#iOS) and hardware features.

@stephen @RedRobyn

oh, yes! Georeferencing the Black Maps was one of the Summer Student projects at Environment Canterbury for years. You can access many of them now on Canterbury Maps:

https://canterburymaps.govt.nz/news/check-out-our-newly-digitised-historic-maps-black-maps/

Which also means you can add them as layers onto other maps!

And you can read more here: https://apps.canterburymaps.govt.nz/BlackMaps/index.html

Where I come from, the WW2 hasn't ended yet.

#Croatia

Forget a presidential library. He's gonna end up as bunch of jars in his own wing at the Mütter Museum.

Which services do you have an account on?

Since i'm getting tired of gitlab but am staying in part because it feels like moving to something "more obscure" would be a barrier to contributors

Boosts welcome

A Dubai based hedge-fund executive has said to the FT:

No one knew 'you were getting exposed to geopolitics when moving to Dubai. It was not a consideration. People have moved families. This element of concern is new'!

Given the Hedgies are supposed to be the smart guys, how did they miss the Middle East is suffused with global oil politics, and that it has been unstable politically for generations....

Oh that's right; low taxes, folks... it'll all be fine

#politics #MiddleEast #Geopolitics

Housing Justice: A Lexicon for Building Solidarity provides accessible language for housing scholars and activists. This Kickstarter supports the publication and dissemination of this vital volume. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ww3/housingjustice

Contributors draw from case studies and organizing experiences around the world, foregrounding the complex entanglements of housing with racial capitalism, settler colonialism, migration control, and state violence.

Chapter 18 of 'Cooperative Enterprise & Market Economy' just dropped!

"In this chapter, Luis Razeto identifies the key to the democratic transformation of the market – “the formation of a new social block, a subject of transformational action, the bearer of a new structure of social action” – and analyzes the various theoretical and practical obstacles that must be overcome in order for it to occur." ~ @Matt_Noyes

https://geo.coop/articles/cooperative-enterprise-and-market-economy-chapter-18

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