Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

🚨 the @securedrop team at Freedom of Press Foundation is hiring 🚨

We're looking for a Cryptography Engineer to help us build out the new end-to-end encrypted version of #SecureDrop

✔️ fully remote
✔️ all FOSS
✔️ help secure whistleblowers and investigative journalists all around the world

More details in the job posting, happy to answer any questions

https://freedomofthepress.na.teamtailor.com/jobs/610227-cryptography-engineer

#GetFediHired #Rust #FormalMethods #Encryption #Cryptography #Whistleblowing #OpenSource

Redditors have caught Google secretly updating its Chrome terms of service to remove a line that guaranteed that local AI models won't send data to Google servers.

That's now gone, meaning your local AI sends data to Google, so it's not that local.

https://old.reddit.com/r/chrome/comments/1t5qayz/chrome_removes_claim_of_ondevice_al_not_sending/

Instructure says it paid a ransom. SMH

"STATUS UPDATE 5/11/26

We know that concerns about the potential publication of data related to this incident remain top of mind for many customers. We understand how unsettling situations like this can be, and protecting our community remains our top priority."

"With that responsibility in mind, Instructure reached an agreement with the unauthorized actor involved in this incident. As part of that agreement:"

"The data was returned to us.
We received digital confirmation of data destruction (shred logs).
We have been informed that no Instructure customers will be extorted as a result of this incident, publicly or otherwise."

'This agreement covers all impacted Instructure customers, and there is no need for individual customers to attempt to engage with the unauthorized actor.
While there is never complete certainty when dealing with cyber criminals, we believe it was important to take every step within our control to give customers additional peace of mind, to the extent possible. We continue to work with expert vendors to support our forensic analysis, further harden our environment, and conduct a comprehensive review of the data involved. We will continue to provide updates as that work progresses."

https://www.instructure.com/incident_update

This piece barely begins to describe the unprecedentedly deep and broad corruption permeating the criminals (families/cronies/etc) who run the US government. Yet it provides far better context than most of what we've seen from Big Journalism on the subject.

https://www.nationalmemo.com/trump-family-corruption-2676869445

NEW: SCOTUS majority gives Alabama GOP a chance to use a map already found to be unconstitutional.

Justice Sotomayor, for the three Dem appointees, noted in dissent that the majority acted "without regard for the confusion that will surely ensue." The primary election was to be held May 19.

https://www.lawdork.com/p/scotus-majority-gives-alabama-gop

The Roberts court is, above all else, racist. They don’t like the reconstruction amendments and they don’t like the laws that enforced them. There is no legal, constitutional or separation of powers principle here. It’s just racism. https://joycevance.substack.com/p/heres-why-weve-been-keeping-an-eye?r=5n3e&utm_medium=post+viewer

RE: https://mastodon.social/@VeroniqueB99/116557803713255407

Remember when the entire GOP was calling Democrats groomers and pedophiles for wanting trans folks to exist without harassment? Turns out they were too busy actually being pedophiles to care once they got into power.

"EFF to Fourth Circuit: Electronic Device Searches at the Border Require a Warrant"

"EFF, along with the national ACLU, the ACLU affiliates in Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Virginia, and the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (NACDL) filed anamicus briefin the U.S."

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/05/eff-fourth-circuit-electronic-device-searches-border-require-warrant

#Privacy

I was away from the computer all day and I don't want to catch up. Things still suck and the bad people haven't faced consequences? Ok, I'm caught up.

RE: https://halo.nu/@theguardian_us_opinion/116557235607143142

#boycott

what if you took the billions of dollars being spent on data centres and spent it on UBI instead

then you’s have a whole bunch of people suddenly with all this free time on their hands to make you pictures and answer your weird research questions

This is _your_ internet, too. How are you going to make it weird and cool today?

#WeirdifyTheInternet

@liamoc Tokenmaxxing mathematics championed by a Fields Medalist. Sad!

so what's the alternative if you can't review the avalanche of slop code? you just don't. and that's basically akin to live coding in the production environment. anyone who attempts this for long enough will be punished for their hubris

"Data centers aren't going to increase your power bill, that's a myth."

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/maryland-citizens-slapped-with-usd2-billion-grid-upgrade-bill-for-out-of-state-ai-data-centers-state-complains-to-federal-energy-regulators-says-additional-cost-breaks-ratepayer-protection-pledge-promises

"Ben Rhodes, inhabits some fantasy world where America is a source of light for the world—as long as people from his side of the aisle are in charge."

Isn't this just standard issue PMC liberalism?

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2026/05/the-same-democrats-who-brought-you-war-crimes-r-us-are-preparing-to-sell-you-an-imperial-rebrand-for-2028.html

If Dems take Congress, they can defund the Supreme Court and reduce their security detail to Paul Blart. https://www.gocomics.com/brian-mcfadden/2026/05/11

More bad behavior by Big Tech data centers: https://www.politico.com/news/2026/05/08/georgia-data-centers-water-00909988