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#opensource #privacy #freesoftware #technology #apps #lifestyle #economy

Good news for #ArcaneChat / #DeltaChat users:

there is a new small (hopefully growing in the near future) list of public channels for you to join and get more content inside the app!

there is already several channels about different topics, from #food / #recipes, #news, #cybersecurity, #technology, #science, #politics, even gossips!

https://arcanechat.me/channels

We have the mind of Christ, but use the voice of a machine?

By Elizabeth Prata

I heard a really interesting thought on a Facebook short, of all places. It was a clip from an NPR interview with Dave Eggers, author, publisher, and Pulitzer finalist. The show was Wild Cards hosted by Rachel Martin. In it, Eggers said,

“This is the first time in history when a whole generation is being told or tempted to have a machine write for them to express themselves. But I say, you are one of one, unprecedented in in the history human evolution. There’s only one of you. So to give your voice to a machine to say, ‘Speak for me. I’m going to be silent.’ I’m going to tell a machine to express myself or to tell my narrative is such a crime against yourself.”

“It’s so dystopian, so beyond anything I could do in a dystopian novel, and I did a lot, and I never saw this coming. That an entire generation, too many of them, acquiescing to the silencing of their own voice in favor of a bland, unthinking machine to voice their souls.” –end Eggers quote

I think many of us who write or create never saw this coming. And since it’s still so new, we are grappling with the impact, fallout, and future of AI. His words made a lot of sense to me. For us Christians, though, it goes very much deeper than that.

Artificial intelligence technology has evolved faster than most Christians have been able to think about it. ~Samuel James, at Desiring God

Taking ‘evolution’ out of the equation, because that is a made-up untrue theory, and we all do realize we are uniquely made, yes, there is only one of me. Faceless evolution didn’t create me, the God of the universe did! And not only are we made purposely, intentionally, and with love by God, we are created in His image.

This notion should be on our minds every moment. It is a dignity afforded no other creature. It gives us the opportunity to speak His truth of the Gospel, reflect His character. Our voices are for the incredible privilege of sharing His Gospel and truths of the Bible. Why put a cold, metallic, faceless machine in that place of dignity?

Can we consider the possibility that swapping our own unique image-of-God voice for a voice of Artificial Intelligence is not only a crime against ourselves, but that giving away our God-given talents and creative abilities for the ease of a push-button machine may possibly be thought of as a crime against God? Should we be swapping our transformed mind of Christ at the cost of Jesus’ blood and death, for a man-made device? Just because it’s easier?

Further resources

 How to Spot Fake AI Photos

Phil Johnson on the flush of AI-produced fakery purporting to be John MacArthur videos– GTY’s stance on AI

How Is AI Shaping You? Three Principles for Wise Use

Council for Biblical Manhood & Womanhood: Of Machines and Men: AI and the Future of Humanity

We continue to improve; for the next version we have improved the communication between Midori Privacy and our New Tab, to offer more and better protection and information. Coming Soon Midori Browser 11.8.2

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#browser #privacy #tech #technology #web #windows #linux #opensuse

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"Realizing your trove exists is terrifying. So is learning that it’s never been more vulnerable."

Bridget Read for New York/Intelligencer: https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/your-digital-self-is-vulnerable.html

#Longreads #Privacy #Surveillance #Data #Technology #Internet

Voice Age Verification

https://agewarden.ai/

#HackerNews #Voice #Age #Verification #technology #AI #age #verification #security #privacy

RE: https://mastodon.social/@nixCraft/116759622223137823

It's transparent plastic too, they know their audience!

#Technology

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Commodore’s new flip phone runs Sailfish OS with 99% Android app support (Signal, Maps, Uber etc) but blocks browsers, social media and work emails at the OS level. Features a T9 keys, no popup notification preview outer screen (only shows the time, date, battery, and network signal), audio headphone jack, user swappable battery, and retro C64 games to reclaim your focus. What do you think?

https://commodore.net/why-a-flip-phone/

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This is screenshot of promotional banner for the Commodore Callback flip phone, featuring a woman holding an open blue color flip phone. The text reads "Flip off Always-On" against a retro or futuristic background. source https://commodore.net/why-a-flip-phone/

Starmer’s Social Media Ban: the Reinvention of the Surveillance State

Tyranny masquerading as child safety needs you to feel guilty before you feel suspicious. Downing Street is counting on it.

https://reclaimthenet.org/starmers-social-media-ban-surveillance-state

#UK #AgeVerification #IdVerification #privacy #surveillance #dystopia #technology

I discuss the problem of conflating transhumanism and evolution. I am not anti-transhuman or even anti-transsexual, but it's a category error to conflate them. Gotta stay in your lane.
https://philosophics.blog/2026/06/15/the-worlds-most-dangerous-idea/?utm_source=masto&utm_medium=social
#philosophy #blog #podcast #evolution #future #futurism #transhumanism #technology #language

Elon Musk used his platform to foment violence against immigrants in Northern Ireland, and Grok continues to generate CSAM, with no meaningful government action taken against X or its owner. @laurenshof asks what all this means for the open social web. "We might be building sovereignty infrastructure for governments that have decided they can live without it. What that means for the movement’s strategy, I really don’t know yet," he says.

https://flip.it/Sul5aI

#Technology #OpenSocial #DigitialSovereignty

Hacktivist deletes white supremacist websites live onstage during hacker conference

‚A hacktivist remotely wiped three white supremacist websites live onstage during their talk at a hacker conference last week, with the sites yet to return online.
The pseudonymous hacker, who goes by Martha Root — dressed as Pink Ranger from the Power Rangers — deleted the servers of WhiteDate, WhiteChild, and WhiteDeal in real time at the end of a talk at the annual Chaos Communication Congress in Hamburg, Germany….‘

https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/05/hacktivist-deletes-white-supremacist-websites-live-on-stage-during-hacker-conference/

Great 👏 @back2theRoot

#Ccc #39C3 #FightNazis #Hacking #Tech #Technology #Activism #HH #Hamburg #Germany

How Hackers Are Fighting Back Against ICE

‚ICE has been invading U.S. cities, targeting, surveilling, harassing, assaulting, detaining, and torturing people who are undocumented immigrants. They also have targeted people with work permits, asylum seekers, permanent residents (people holding “green cards”), naturalized citizens, and even citizens by birth. ICE has spent hundreds of millions of dollars on surveillance technology to spy on anyone—and potentially everyone—in the United States. It can be hard to imagine how to defend oneself against such an overwhelming force.

But a few enterprising hackers have started projects to do counter surveillance against ICE, and hopefully protect their communities through clever use of technology….‘

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/01/how-hackers-are-fighting-back-against-ice

#ICE #USA #Hacking #Technology #Data #Racism #Activism

The Zine from 404media About ICE Surveillance Is Here!

https://www.404media.co/icezine/

"You are holding a zine about the surveillance tools used by ICE, and what we have learned so far about how you can resist this technology.

This zine was reported and written by 404 Media, a journalist-owned investigative website and now, we suppose, a print publication. Our status as a small outfit of reporters who own the means of production (a website), means that we have the freedom to report on the topics we believe are the most important. For the last year, that has been Donald Trumpʼs mass deportation
campaign, and the technology powering it."

PDF Zine: https://www.404media.co/content/files/2026/02/404ICEZINE.pdf

#Zine #Surveillance #USA #ICE #Tech #Technology

Meta plans to add facial recognition to its smart glasses, report claims

“We will launch during a dynamic political environment where many civil society groups that we would expect to attack us would have their resources focused on other concerns,” the document reads.

#Meta considered adding facial recognition #technology to the first version of its Ray-Ban smart glasses back in 2021, but dropped the plans over technical challenges and ethical concerns. The NYT reports that the company has revived its plans as the #Trump administration has grown closer to Big Tech, and following the unexpected success of its smart glasses."

https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/13/meta-plans-to-add-facial-recognition-to-its-smart-glasses-report-claims/

#BigTech #SmartGlasses #Surveillance #FaceID

‚Bank details, sex and naked people who seem unaware they are being recorded. Behind Meta’s new smart glasses lies a hidden workforce, uneasy about peering into the most intimate parts of other people’s lives…..‘

https://www.svd.se/a/K8nrV4/metas-ai-smart-glasses-and-data-privacy-concerns-workers-say-we-see-everything

#Meta #Surveillance #Privacy #RayBan #SmartGlasses #Data #Technology

Flock Leaked Cops’ License Plate Searches via DuckDuckGo, Bing

Flock appears to be leaking tons of law enforcement vehicle queries and possible user data. Data publicly visible in search result URLs includes: license plate state and numbers, make, model, color, identifiers such as ‘window stickers’ and ‘top rack,’ case number, and more.

#flocksafety #alpr #police #dataleak #surveillance #privacy #technology #tech

https://www.404media.co/flock-leaked-cops-license-plate-searches-via-duckduckgo-bing/

Die nahe Zukunft erscheint als Cyberpunk-Dystopie, nur ohne die coole Ästhetik sondern im Grauen Überwachungskapitalismus des Spätanthropozäns.

Überlegen wir uns lieber bessere Ideen wie wir leben wollen und wie wir diese Ideen umsetzen können, anstatt so etwas abzuwarten.

"Forscher:innen aus Italien ist es gelungen, Menschen in WLAN-Feldern biometrisch zu identifizieren – und das auch, wenn diese keine Gadgets wie ein Smartphone bei sich hatten. Das eigens entwickelte System Whofi hat eine Trefferquote von 95,5 Prozent.

Die feinen Veränderungen, die menschliche Körper verursachen, wenn sie WLAN-Signale durchqueren erwiesen sich laut den Forscher:innen als so individuell, dass damit einzelne Personen identifiziert werden konnten. Ein neuronales Netzwerk war dann in der Lage, ein personenspezifisches Profil aus den vorhandenen Daten zu erstellen – und die Signaturen mit vorhandenen Personenprofilen zu vergleichen.

[...]

Ob und wann Whofi in entsprechenden Sicherheits- oder Smarthome-Anwendungen zum Einsatz kommt, ist unklar. Klar ist derweil, dass künftig ein Verzicht auf Smartphone und Co nicht mehr vor der Erstellung eines Bewegungsprofils schützen dürfte."

https://t3n.de/news/whofi-bewegungsprofil-wlan-1698674/

#Überwachung #Technology

Algorithmen auf Streife: Bremens Straßenbahnen werden zur KI-Überwachungszone

Mit #AI-Watch führt die #BSAG eine Echtzeit-Analyse von Fahrgästen ein. Was als Sicherheitsgewinn verkauft wird, markiert eine neue Stufe der #Videoüberwachung….

https://www.heise.de/news/Algorithmen-auf-Streife-Bremens-Strassenbahnen-werden-zur-KI-Ueberwachungszone-11185075.html

#Bremen #Überwachung #KI #Technology #Digitalisierung

We've updated Midori Privacy Protect, our ad and tracker blocker in Midori Browser, rewritten in Rust, making it faster, more powerful, and more secure.

Coming soon in the new version

https://github.com/goastian/midori-desktop

#browser #privacy #tech #technology #linux #windows

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Palantir tracks everyone. So we built a site that tracks Palantir. They've been watching us. Now we can watch them.

Contracts. Lawsuits. Executive pay. Global footprint. Lobbying activity. Media strategies. All in one place.

›› https://palantirwatch.org

#privacy #government #surveillance #technology #osint

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Preview of online dashboard displaying a variety of stats.

If you’ve ever experienced insomnia, you’ve probably tried lots of tricks to divert your racing brain, like listening to podcasts, ambient sounds, or light music. But if wearing earbuds isn’t helping your sleep ability, this thin, under-the-pillow speaker just might. Read more from @Techcrunch:

https://flip.it/FkkAMg

#Tech #Health #Technology

People who have been around the tech world longer than I have: I've been reading for a while how some people seem to feel like the industry peaked somewhere in the 2000s and that it all went downhill from there.

There was one hype after the next and people just kept on jumping on the bandwagon because everyone was doing it. I've read this sentiment about containers, Kubernetes, the Cloud in general but there are probably more.

Do you feel that LLMs are more of the same of this or does this feel qualitatively different? If so, how? I'm trying to find some perspective in all this as I haven't been around the block for long enough to have it myself.

Boosts appreciated.

#ai #llms #infosec #technology #kubernetes #cloud