VPN use may cue government surveillance Lawmakers sent Tulsi Gabbard a letter asking for clarification about how the use of VPNs affects Americans’ privacy rights

Does using a VPN subject you to warrantless government spying? Lawmakers are asking Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard to disclose more information.

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Protest in DC 20-22 November. 20th is Congressional visits, the last day before they break for Thanksgiving. 21st is a veterans rally. 22nd is a massive rally and Dropkick Murphys will be there. Join the Fam of Liberty any day that you can. If you cannot make it all 3 days, be there Saturday.

Cobardes con mascaras

El live stream del concierto de #BadBunny está bien cabrón watch.amazon.com/detail?gti=a...

#puertorico

Cory Doctorow at CF 25: How Enshittification Conquered the 21st Century and How We Can Overthrow It YouTube video by CloudFest

Cory Doctorow being a fucking boss

mamot.fr/@pluralistic

youtu.be/_Ai-fC-2Bpo?...

#enshittification #tech

Thanks for reminding me! Closing my account now.

Está cabrón lo influyente que todavía es y no nos enseñan sobre él

Hoy conocí sobre unos de nuestros grandes Antonio Lopez es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonio...

Un ilustrador de calidad mundial que todavía inspira a nuevas generaciones de creativos.

#puertorico #jibarospalmundo

The Democratic Socialists of America want to win Inside the Chicago convention where the group hoped to pave a path forward.

“We need relationships with regular people who believe a better world is possible."

@ninaber.bsky.social gives us a look inside this year's Democratic Socialists of America conference, where the group hoped to pave a path forward.

I freaking love following @merriam-webster.com
This is great. I really appreciate the “we’re not the word police” stance.

It was just last week that I analyzed Trump’s use of “rising crime” as pretext for domestic military operations at PN. Already we’re seeing him and Republicans calling for more.

www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-nati...

Wall Street Stocks Take a Plunge As Computer Crash Hits Markets (Published 1988)

#OnThisDay Front page, New York Times, August 10th, 1988.

Thanks to digitization efforts we can check out the coverage in the NYT TimesMachine archive. Far out!

📰 www.cyberdelianyc.com/www.nytimes....

1,507 systems. Happy #ZeroCoolDay.

#hackers #hackersmovie #hacktheplanet

Three screen caps from the movie Hackers with text. First screen cap: Protagonist Dade (Zero Cool) explains that “I’ve got a record. I was Zero Cool.” Second screen, his friends explain: Zero Cool crashed 1507 systems in one day. Biggest crash in history. Third screen, another friend says: Front page New York Times August 10, 1988

HACK THE PLANET!!! Happy Zero Cool Day to all who celebrate!

I'm up way to late but I pushed out a new blog post after a very long hiatus

Working with TODO comments: froi.dev/posts/workin...

#todo_comments #coding #editor_plugins

Froilán Irizarry Rivera Codeberg is a non-profit, community-led organization that aims to help free and open source projects prosper by giving them a safe and friendly home.

After procrastinating for way to long, I started to move all my repos to Codeberg.org

I might take my time to move all of my repos and I'm probably going to mirror some over to GitHub.

New profile at codeberg.org/froi

GOP shuts down doing work for the American people because they're scared about what is going to come out with the Epstein Files

Puerto Ricans hope for change as Bad Bunny sings about the island's turmoil and identity Bad Bunny’s latest album, “DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS,” is sparking global conversations about Puerto Rico’s culture and struggles.

Bad Bunny's latest album, "DeBI TiRAR MaS FOToS," is sparking global conversations about Puerto Rico's culture and struggles.

FOIA doesn’t apply to ICE’s for-profit detention network. It should ICE isn’t the secret police, and it shouldn’t be allowed to operate a de facto secret prison

ICE isn’t the secret police, and it shouldn’t be allowed to operate a de facto secret prison network.

Private prisons, detention facilities, and detainee transport services that contract with the federal government should all be subject to the Freedom of Information Act.

Some personal thoughts on the meaning of Trump’s depraved bill. @karaswisher.bsky.social @pivotpod.bsky.social

Powerful take by @profgalloway.com. 👊🏻💥

OpenTelemetry High-quality, ubiquitous, and portable telemetry to enable effective observability

Mis colegas, si están trabajando con micro servicios, sin importar donde están corriendo, por todo lo que es santo y bueno en este mundo usen #opentelemetry desde el principio.

opentelemetry.io

#otel

Every time they say “we can’t afford that,” remember: they could afford armored tanks, a dictators birthday parade, and enough tear gas to choke a city. They just don’t want you fed, safe, or alive.

LibreELEC on the Raspberry Pi 5 : Jeff Geerling : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive Originally published on YouTube in May 2024, this video was removed a year later, in June 2025, under the 'Dangerous or Harmful Content' content strike...

I've uploaded the video to the Internet Archive (and donated $50 to help them out): archive.org/details/libr...

🔔 Join us for a conversation about the Trump admin’s attacks on broadcast licensees and nonprofits, featuring FCC Commissioner Anna Gomez, Elias Law Group political law Chair Ezra Reese, and FPF's Caitlin Vogus.

🗓️ June 9, 2 p.m. EDT/11 a.m. PDT

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Signal blocks Microsoft Recall from recalling Signal is making it harder for your private messages to get pulled into Microsoft’s new Recall AI feature

Signal is making it harder for your private messages to get pulled into Microsoft's new Recall AI feature, which records Windows users' activities and could be a gold mine to attackers.

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Default styles for h1 elements are changing | MDN Blog Browsers are starting to roll out changes in default UA styles for nested section headings. This post describes the incoming changes, how to identify if it's an issue on your websites, and hints for conformant and better-structured pages.

🔔 ICYMI: Changes in default UA styles for <h1> in <section> <article> <nav> & <aside>

• No implicit <h1> styles based on surroundings
• A <h1> will always look like a <h1>
• Lighthouse will flag missing font-size on <h1> in <section>s, etc

Read more 👇
developer.mozilla.org/en-US/blog/...

Getting ready for our panel- You can carry on where 18F left off! #CfASummit

Watch @laurenleharper.bsky.social ‬ on @meidastouch.com ‬’s “Court of History” explain how the Trump administration is misusing secrecy to control the news narrative — and how a FOIA win by ‪FPF revealed the truth.

When the government hides facts, it makes us all less safe.

Appreciate Tamika Williams lessons this morning at #CFASummit.

#CivicTech

Looking forward to #CFASummit this week in DC.

Are there unofficial networking events happening near the conference this year?