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Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
davidgerard@circumstances.run ("David Gerard") wrote:

@fsjr @soatok @ww it's called trustless to remind you you can't trust these people

Boosted by jwz:
jalefkowit@vmst.io ("Jason Lefkowitz") wrote:

Oh my god. Their FACES

https://pulpcovers.com/blood-orgy/

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
vapourisation@tech.lgbt wrote:

@soatok while its always bad when this sort of thing happens, as I'm always reminded, every single company offering any sort of service in this world WILL either have to hand over whatever info they have (maybe very very little) to law enforcement OR shut down.

Those are the two options. If a sufficiently legal request comes in, they HAVE to comply or cease to exist.

Mullvad has a solid approach to this in that you only have an account number and simply add credit to that account AND accept crypto or cash (and apparently delete any card payment details after a short amount of time) but even that's not perfect.

Boosted by keul@fosstodon.org ("Luca Fabbri"):
SmudgeTheInsultCat@mas.to ("Smudge The Insult Cat 🐀") wrote:

db@social.lol ("David Bushell ☕") wrote:

Noted: 404 Media clickbait and email privacy

https://dbushell.com/notes/2026-03-06T07:04Z/

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

@protonprivacy was extra sleazy by invoking the shooting at a cop incident to justify handing over the data, as if the person in question was a suspect (they weren't).

In fact, this story of a cop being shot at was used to justify cops murdering a protester Manuel Paez Terán who was found dead with multiple gun shot wounds in his back, implying he was attempting to fee when murdered.

Proton out here acting like a cop. This is cop behavior. I don't do business with cops. Fuck Proton.

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

Doctor: "You should really try to avoid stress"

Ah yes, of course. Right after I finish following my financial advisor's strategy of "just be rich".

Amazing how many complex life problems can be solved with absolutely no actionable steps.

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

@protonprivacy how can Proton claim to be held to Swiss-only law, when the Swiss government isn't even held to Swiss-only law?

The FBI can, apparently, compel Proton to hand over any data they demand about anyone regardless if a crime has been committed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutual%5Flegal%5Fassistance%5Ftreaty

Boosted by jwz:
mhoye@cosocial.ca wrote:

These two headlines are five days apart, today Hegseth is ducking questions about who is responsible for the bombing of a school and the deaths of 180 children and their teachers, and I'd like to wish everyone at Anthropic a very happy complicity in war crimes.

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

I'm very familiar with how cops and FBI have gone after Stop Cop City protesters. It's a level of fascism that most of the country has yet to experience.

@protonprivacy effectively handing over credit card data of someone who has not committed a crime, makes them no different than any American tech company.

If you're familiar with Stop Cop City, then you know Proton put someone's life at risk.

https://www.404media.co/proton-mail-helped-fbi-unmask-anonymous-stop-cop-city-protestor/

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
lcamtuf@infosec.exchange ("lcamtuf :verified: :verified: :verified:") wrote:

If you ask AI to rewrite the entirety of an open-source program, do you still need to abide by the original license? In philosophy, this problem is known as the Slop of Theseus

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
rawenwolf@meow.social ("RawiWoof") wrote:

@soatok
The story also reminds me of one more thing that, pardon my language, "privacy freaks" are ignoring en-masse.
NO ENTITY, not a single one, no matter what they claim, will go against law enforcement, when it knocks on their door, unless they have some super powerful legal leverage (at which point LEA won't go in there in the first place unless you're in a place with "Gestapo on crack" LEAs at which point nothing saves you from "chains and gallows") or they're "untouchable" (which would more likely be a red flag because how come they're untouchable).
But when LEA comes in with "Comply or Die", you only have these options, comply or die.

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
stefenauris@furry.engineer ("Stefen Auris 🖖​") wrote:

@soatok and I've deleted my proton mail account. I am so glad I decided not to migrate everything to it!

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
ww@xyzzy.link ("ww 🩶") wrote:

@soatok aside from everything else, it's funny how paying for your encrypted email puts you at much greater risk than using the free tier. self-defeating business model, to an extent.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
altocicada@mstdn.jp ("蝉コロン(oφo;)📷️") wrote:

散って尚あざやか
#マストドン写真部 #photography #eosR8 #SIGMA #bloomscrolling

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
sambowne@infosec.exchange ("Sam Bowne :donor:") wrote:

The 14 worst-paying college majors, 5 years after graduation https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/05/the-14-worst-paying-college-majors-5-years-after-graduation.html

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
bluefops@fox.yt ("Nev :3 :nev_owo: 🔜 NextCon") wrote:

Made it to #FursuitFriday , I have a very fluffy weekend planned.....

#fursuit #fursuitfriday #furry #cosplay #mascot
📸 - Everest.

soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker") wrote:

I'm not gonna say it

Just read this story

It says more about my point than I ever could

https://www.404media.co/proton-mail-helped-fbi-unmask-anonymous-stop-cop-city-protestor/

Boosted by jwz:
paul@oldfriends.live ("Paul Chambers🚧") wrote:

Afroman heads to court this month after deputies sued him for turning their unfounded raid on his home into viral music videos that exposed their faces and actions when he used his security camera footage of the raid.

The trial begins March 16 in Adams County, #Ohio, where the legal battle between the rapper and law enforcement has become a test case for free speech rights in the digital age.

Afroman’s argument is straightforward: he documented what happened to him and turned his story into art. #Law #FreeSpeech #Music

The music video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oponIfu5L3Y

The article: https://allhiphop.com/news/afroman-battles-deputies-in-court-over-viral-music-video-from-home-raid/

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen") wrote:

I won't volunteer to be a moral crumple zone.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
mhoye@cosocial.ca wrote:

I think of myself as a model citizen, in the sense that I'm always wrong but occasionally useful.

NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

@fromjason I use a little script that creates a new YYYY-MM-DD.md file each day, and will append the current time to the file when I open it.

My editor (#Helix) can easily search/page through previous days, so I don't feel the need to keep everything in one file.

If I have a topic that I know I'll collect notes on over a long time span I'll just create a file for that topic.

Boosted by NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈"):
sstephenson@indieweb.social ("Sam Stephenson") wrote:

“I then started in an empty repository with no access to the old source tree, and explicitly instructed Claude not to base anything on LGPL/GPL-licensed code.”

idk, it’s just baffling to me that a professional software developer who’s been maintaining a project for over a decade can so fundamentally misunderstand what LLMs do

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen") wrote:

All watched over by machines of loving grace but it's all the creatures big and (especially) small we have coevolved with that keep this tiny oasis of life in a vast cold universe thriving.

cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen") wrote:

"Shipping a button in 2026..."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xE9W9Ghe4Jk

I think it ends on a positive note. 😄

Boosted by jwz:
GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social ("Kevin Beaumont") wrote:

proud to work for satan on designing hell

Boosted by jwz:
sstephenson@indieweb.social ("Sam Stephenson") wrote:

This issue has it all!
- Original copyright holder makes a straightforward claim of violation
- Sloppers try to defend it using the Oracle v Google ruling
- Armin “Plausibly Deniable” Ronacher shows up to do nothing but sow doubt
- Maintainer in question replies with a response obviously written by Claude, saying he instructed Claude not to reference any copyrighted code

https://github.com/chardet/chardet/issues/327

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
frutiger@floofy.tech ("frutiger 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

I got this proper badge made by an artist now (kelaric_ on Instagram)

#furryart

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷"):
killyourfm@layer8.space ("Jason Evangelho 🐧🎒") wrote:

I’m such a sucker for contrast. Fortunately, New Melones Lake delivers!
#hiking #nature

pzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷") wrote:

This is not her "O" face, it's her "Uh-oh" face.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/03/05/kristi-noem-has-been-taken-out-to-the-gravel-pit/