Roman Mindalev @r000n@librem.one

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

Official statement from @Mer__edith: the new EU chat controls proposal for mass scanning is the same old surveillance with new branding.

Whether you call it a backdoor, a front door, or “upload moderation” it undermines encryption & creates significant vulnerabilities.

https://signal.org/blog/pdfs/upload-moderation.pdf

"The fact that the EU interior ministers want to exempt police officers, soldiers, intelligence officers and even themselves from chat control scanning proves that they know exactly just how unreliable and dangerous the snooping algorithms are that they want to unleash on us citizens."

https://t.co/52zLSfsqPU

Systemd 256.1 Fixes "systemd-tmpfiles" Unexpectedly Deleting Your /home Directory
https://www.phoronix.com/news/systemd-tmpfiles-purge-drama

Just when you thought Systemd couldn't get any more monstrous. 😚

#Linux #OpenSource

This is another proof that systemd is an anti-pattern for security: with its crawling and ever extending web of dependencies, it extends the surface of vulnerability to orders of magnitude, and once embraced not even large distro communities can defend you from that.