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Every second of free time you have ever had in your life was subsidized by the existence of the combine harvester.

Building a Class 100 Semiconductor Cleanroom Inside a Shed Hackaday Article

Building a Class 100 Semiconductor Cleanroom Inside a Shed

Idea: As there's many people putting in no LLM policies for making contributions to OSS... Perhaps attaching API credits for LLMs to an issue so maintainers can implement them would be a better way forward.

Anyone working on something like that?

We strongly oppose the Unified Attestation initiative and call for app developers supporting privacy, security and freedom on mobile to avoid it. Companies selling phones should not be deciding which operating systems people are allowed to use for apps.

uattest.net

EFF to Court: Don’t Make Embedding Illegal Who should be directly liable for online infringement – the entity that serves it up or a user who embeds a link to it? For almost two decades, most U.S. courts have held that the former is

Emmerich Newspapers’ arguments would make common internet activities legally risky and undermine copyright’s Constitutional purpose: to promote the creation of and access to knowledge. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

Are you aware of uses of the BLAKE3 secure hash function? Please contribute to this list!

bfswa.substack.com/p/where-is-b...

My hope is that lots of different tools all using the same secure hash function can result in “accidental” opportunity to protect and empower users.

Age verification is getting out of hand YouTube video by Louis Rossmann

A start:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZon...

Yes! And now it's up to us to push back and repeal this law, educate our lawmakers on why we want digital freedoms, and the protections they seek are directly opposed to those freedoms.

What are the best arguments to make to them?

System76 on Age Verification Laws - System76 Blog Liberty has costs, but it's worth it.

This post against "age certification" laws is yet another reason I'm proud of our local Colorado Linux computer factory, @system76.bsky.social blog.system76.com/post/system7...

This is ridiculous, @protonprivacy.bsky.social.

You gave up the identity of a customer (as required by law) via an FBI request. You could be writing a guide on how customers can help prevent this from happening again, not frivolously attacking the integrity of a nonprofit journalism organization.

screenshot of the one-pager version of the servo readiness report

How do we get to more than just three web engines owned by three US companies?

It's a gargantuan question, with no easy or right answer.

I've put together a draft report, thinking about it through a very specific approach - please enjoy:

Servo Readiness Report

webtransitions.org/servo-readin...

TikTok says it won't encrypt DMs claiming it puts users at risk TikTok tells the BBC it won't join rival platforms such as WhatsApp and Messenger in using end-to-end encryption.

TikTok announces that they’re not going to deploy “controversial privacy tech” that’s actually the same end-to-end encryption most other providers use to protect users’ DMs. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Do you work in fundraising? Do you want a job that isn't evil? Signal is hiring a director of major gifts: jobs.lever.co/signal/68f75...

The results of the 2025 State of Rust Survey are now available! 📊

blog.rust-lang.org/2026/03/02/2...

In my experience, the vast majority of waste in a software shop is time spent building things nobody wants on top of overly complex architectures that solve problems we don't have. Focus on that. Put solving your customer's actual (not imagined) problems first.
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Motorola News | Motorola's new partnership with GrapheneOS Motorola announces three new B2B solutions at MWC 2026, including GrapheneOS partnership, Moto Analytics and more.

We're happy to announce a long-term partnership with Motorola. We're collaborating on future devices meeting our privacy and security standards with official GrapheneOS support.

motorolanews.com/motorola-thr...

❌1961 - Cuba
❌1964 - Laos
❌1965 - Vietnam
❌1973 - Cambodia
❌1979 - Nicaragua
🤷🏻‍♂️1983 - Grenada
❌1986 - Libya
🤷🏻‍♂️1991 - Iraq
❌1995 - Bosnia
❌1998 - Sudan
🤷🏻‍♂️1999 - Kosovo
❌2001 - Afghanistan
❌2003 - Iraq II
❌2011 - Libya II
❌2014 - Syria

Don't worry it'll work this time.

In Machines of Loving Grace, I discussed the possibility that authoritarian governments might use powerful Al to surveil or repress their citizens in ways that would be extremely difficult to reform or overthrow. Current autocracies are limited in how repressive they can be by the need to have humans carry out their orders, and humans often have limits in how inhumane they are willing to be. But AI-enabled autocracies would not have such limits.

Dario wrote Adolescence of Technology _during_ his negotiations with the DoW

The essay was a way to explain his thinking to the public and give them time to digest it *before* the DoW clouded the airwaves with disinformation

Why mass surveillance is not merely undemocratic:

Amazon Change Means Wishlists Might Expose Your Address Amazon is allowing gift senders to choose items from third-party sellers, which could open recipients up to new privacy risks.

Amazon is opening its wishlists to third-party sellers, which means it can no longer control who has your delivery address. this is a huge privacy risk for sex workers, influencers, and anyone who uses public lists: www.404media.co/amazon-wishl...

Podcast: Ring Is Just Getting Started A leaked Ring email; looksmaxxing; and another Grok screwup.

A leaked Ring email; looksmaxxing; and another Grok screwup.

If you're worried that consuming my content will put you on some type of list, let that motivate you to learn more and help this growing community innovate new ways to push back and protect each other.

Do this so you can live your life freely without fear of oppression for viewing a YouTube video.

When police and ICE join forces, community surveillance becomes government surveillance.

Care to expand a bit? Are you explicitly defining software user agency? Or is this broader agency of the individual in general?

📣 Tune in for #LoFi/34 on Tuesday @ 8 AM PST (February 24), for our third anniversary meetup featuring:
1️⃣ Martin Kleppmann @martin.kleppmann.com
2️⃣ Nate Hardt @natehardt.bsky.social: solo dev working on local-first tools
3️⃣ Brendan O'Brien @b5.bsky.social, founder at N0.computer
🔗 lofi.so
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DHS Opens a Billion-Dollar Tab With Palantir “If you are interested in helping shape and deliver the next chapter of Palantir’s work across DHS, please reach out,” a Palantir executive wrote to employees about the massive purchasing agreement.

This agreement allows DHS agencies like CBP & ICE to essentially skip the competitive bidding process.

Palantir's software is considered dangerous primarily because its technology facilitates mass surveillance & enables targeting which erodes civil liberties.

Gift link => archive.ph/1yX5v

For the lazy, here is the link:
missing.csail.mit.edu

The Missing Semester of your CS education [MIT IAP 2026] - https://missing.csail.mit.edu

In January, @anishathalye.bsky.social, @josejg.bsky.social, and I returned to @csail.mit.edu to teach Missing Semester, a class on topics we miss from most CS programs—tools and techniques that everyone should know, like Bash, Git, CI, and AI tools. Today, we’re releasing the course for free online!

Rust compiler: “You can’t do that.”

Me: “Fuck you, I should be able to do that just fine.”

Me, five to ten minutes later: “… oh, no, I see why I can’t do that.”

How to Organize Safely in the Age of Surveillance From threat modeling to encrypted collaboration apps, we’ve collected experts’ tips and tools for safely and effectively building a group—even while being targeted and tracked by the powerful.

“If your (Signal) group has more than 50 people in it, it's not a private space for communication,” EFF’s @evacide told @WIRED. Keep truly sensitive information to the smallest possible groups, or to one-on-one communications. www.wired.com/story/how-to...

"A cornerstone principle guiding my effort is to empower individuals with agency. For me agency is inextricably linked to autonomy and personal responsibility. I see all of the Zcash mission as subsumed by this principle." 💘