Roman Mindalev @r000n@librem.one

Google just called its new AI Search the "biggest upgrade in 25 years" but really, it's killing the open web.  😡

The open web was built by millions of people sharing knowledge freely → Now, Google who owns the monopoly on Search is ruining it. 

We wrote about what's really happening, and what you can do about it 👉 https://tuta.com/blog/why-google-ai-search-is-bad

#AI #AISearch #Google 

We are pleased to announce that Proton VPN has passed its 5th annual 3rd-party audit, confirming our strict no-logs policy.

Unlike some providers, we openly publish full no-logs reports for anyone to read.

Claims should be investigated & verified, including our own.

Read the updated blog, with links to the report itself 👇

https://protonvpn.com/blog/no-logs-audit

Our statement on the UK government’s demand that all content on all devices sold or used in the country be scanned, on the presumption of nudity, using a dystopian combination of age verification and content scanning. This proposal will not safeguard children. It endangers us all.

https://signal.org/blog/pdfs/2026-06-08-uk-surveillance-is-not-safety.pdf

Privacy and freedom are non‑negotiable. As governments and Big Tech fuse power, we build devices and free software that put control back where it belongs: with you.

https://puri.sm/posts/purisms-product-philosophy-in-an-age-of-government-big-tech-convergence/

#privacy #DigitalFreedom #OpenSource #security #FOSS #PureOS

Don’t call it age verification. Call it centralised personal data collection. And understand that it serves surveillance, not safety for children.

Privacy and security on computing devices need to become far stronger to protect people from pervasive violations of their rights. Users have their privacy pervasively violated by corporations, criminals and governments. There are endless privacy and security weaknesses in software with exploits of those happening on a large scale. Operating systems, browsers and other apps need to do a much better job protecting users. Enormous progress is needed on both privacy and security.

🚨 OPT OUT & say NO to #GitHub using your interaction data to train & improve its AI models. 🚨 

GitHub is the next company to choose to opt you into having your data used - by default. 🚩

Opt out in Settings --> Copilot --> Features.

Under "Allow GitHub to use my data for AI model training" -→ Disabled.

It recently announced that if you do not opt out before April 24th, it will use your interaction data when using Copilot.

A part of this is that we're launching Proton Meet: end-to-end encrypted video calls where no one can listen in, not even Proton. Built on the same zero-access architecture as Proton Mail. Try it free now: https://meet.proton.me

We'd like to dedicate today's #LiberatedScreens to @devuan & Co. After systemd recently merged infrastructure code for age verification and locked discussions afterward, some of you may want to consider init freedom. Please see https://www.devuan.org/os/init-freedom for your options. #XLibre

In a landscape of increasing consolidation and imposed defaults, Devuan stands as a crucial project dedicated to choice and freedom. We provide a clean, systemd-free Init Freedom for the GNU/Linux ecosystem.

Our work ensures users and developers have a reliable, simple, and modular base system. This isn't just about an init system; it's about preserving the Unix philosophy and the user's right to control their own OS.

GrapheneOS exists for the purpose of creating highly private and secure devices which are highly usable and compatible with all of the apps people want to use. GrapheneOS doesn't exist to provide a Canadian smartphone OS and eventually hardware. It's based in Canada because it was a pragmatic decision and we believe it's currently a better location for privacy projects than the US or EU. If that significantly changes, we're open to creating a non-profit elsewhere and moving our operations there.

Let's remind everyone what a safe internet actually means. 🌐🌍

Share this & Spread the word!

#SaferInternetDay26 #SID

Gmail welcoming the Gemini era?

That's it. Guide to disable Gemini everywhere: https://tuta.com/blog/how-to-disable-gemini-on-android

French law enforcement hijacked the servers of companies selling secure phones multiple times and is comparing us with those companies. They've made it clear they expect access to phones and will go after us if we do not cooperate. Cooperating with that means adding a backdoor.

We have an increasing number of questions from our Linux community about using Wayland. Our take is that Wayland remains an experimental, evolving idea. It is still missing basic functionality that KiCad users have come to expect. We hope that it continues to improve. But for now, if you need to use KiCad on Linux, we recommend installing X11.

https://www.kicad.org/blog/2025/06/KiCad-and-Wayland-Support/

Some Clarity On The Linux Kernel's "Compliance Requirements" Around Russian Sanctions

When a number of Russian Linux developers were removed from their MAINTAINERS file in the Linux kernel, it was described as due to "compliance requirements" but vague in what those requirements entailed. Linus Torvalds then commented on the Russian Linux maintainers being de-listed and made it clear that they were done due to government compliance re…
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Compliance-Requirements