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The Great Firewall of China has apparently experienced a great data spill. > 500gb of source code, work logs and internal communication records were leaked. Some light reading for the weekend /s

gfw.report/blog/geedge_and_mes

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“UTF-8 is a brilliant design”

The first time I learned about UTF-8 encoding, I was fascinated by how well-thought and brilliantly it was designed to represent millions of characters from different languages and scripts, and still be backward compatible with ASCII.

[...]

Designing a system that scales to millions of characters and still be compatible with the old systems that use just 128 characters

osnews.com/story/143326/utf-8-

#OSNews

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📡 Our #livestream never sleeps.

When our microfiche team clocks out, the feed rolls on – silent films, home movies & other treasures from the @internetarchive.

Kick back & watch anytime ➡️ youtube.com/live/aPg2V5RVh7U

#livenow

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i'm more than a month late on this Qualcomm processor module project for MNT Reform/Pocket/Next, but at least all components fit on the board now and "only" 542 pads left to route next week ^^

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Companies like to make metadata sound innocuous, but it matters more than you might think. Here’s why. https://ssd.eff.org/module/why-metadata-matters

🐦🔗: https://nitter.oksocial.net/EFF/status/1966970157177380928#m

[2025/09/13 21:00]

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. https://nitter.oksocial.net/_mariotrujillo presents the EFF Award for Protecting Americans’ Data to https://nitter.oksocial.net/Erie : “Erie Meyer has spent her career doing the real work of modernization and innovation inside government—by working to protect consumers and building a bench of deep technical and policy expertise.

🐦🔗: https://nitter.oksocial.net/EFF/status/1965978572679794911#m

[2025/09/11 03:19]

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Jennifer Lynch presents EFF Award for Leading Immigration and Surveillance Litigation to https://nitter.oksocial.net/JustFuturesLaw : “JFL uses the law, their longstanding connections, and their unique expertise to help immigrants, activists, organizers, and community groups fight back.”

🐦🔗: https://nitter.oksocial.net/EFF/status/1965982602676056525#m

[2025/09/11 03:35]

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Manage your servers the easy way with LazySSH—a terminal-based, keyboard-driven SSH manager! 🖥️🔐

👉 github.com/adembc/lazyssh

#linux

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🥳 duf v0.9.1 is out! 🥳

Tired of df yelling cryptic hieroglyphs at you when you just want to know how full your disks are?

Meet duf: like df, but for humans. Actually readable, colorful, user-friendly output 🌈

github.com/muesli/duf

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ICE reactivated its contract with spyware manufacturer Paragon Solutions. You can read more about it here, but what does that mean for using encrypted chat apps like Signal? 🧵(1/8) https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/09/eff-statement-ice-use-paragon-solutions-malware

🐦🔗: https://nitter.oksocial.net/EFF/status/1965175562894541229#m

[2025/09/08 22:09]

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