The first week of our Open Letter to Keep Android Open has been a resounding success! Our signatories list has grown to nearly 50 organizations from 20 countries around the world, including the
@eff, @OpenMediaOrg, @brave, @Vivaldi, and many more!

https://keepandroidopen.org/open-letter/#signatories

During the McCarthy era, my dad — a University of Michigan professor — was asked by the FBI to name communists or other subversives at the University. He refused. He told us they came several times to his office to pressure him, even threatening him with being called before the Committee (a career-ending event everyone feared). He refused every time. The University administration backed him up. A decade later I overheard some faculty (partygoers at our house) talking about the events with respect.

I never thought those days would come again.

Don’t be a snitch on friends and colleagues. Don’t cooperate. Keep your self respect and earn the esteem of others. Plus it is the right thing to do.

Claude is down again and I am seeing people basically go through withdrawal.

If you are feeling it, recognize it for what it is.

a fairly detailed analysis of the california "age assurance bill" by fellow #AlpineLinux contributor @RunxiYu

https://runxiyu.org/comp/ab1043/

Wait what, you can't use a *code* editor when you're under 18 now? 🤔

to be honest, i am kinda just not into the idea of even being staff on a mastodon instance anymore. this is no longer "fun" to me.

for example, two people got into a fight yesterday -- a local user got into a fight with a remote user that went *very* sideways.

what does that have to do with me? well, a fucking fediblock post was made specifically tagging *me* into the fight, a fight that i had absolutely nothing to do with, in order to pressure me into taking the side of the remote user.

so then what happens? i get blocked by a bunch of people for no reason. the instance gets blocked by a bunch of instances for no reason.

i am sick and tired of it. i am probably going to just move to my own personal GTS instance or hachyderm or something.

but to be absolutely clear: I *do not* run the day to day affairs of treehouse anymore, and haven't in a long time. it has been run by a collective for the past 18 months.

⚠️ Update: #Iran's internet blackout has now exceeded 120 hours with connectivity still flatlining around 1% of ordinary levels.

Meanwhile, an increasingly Orwellian environment is emerging as telcos threaten users who try to connect to the global internet with legal action.

Hi everyone! We are still fighting with an ongoing DDoS attack against our service on the network level. We do not yet have any ETA on recovery time, as we're still investigating different mitigation strategies.

As always, we are very grateful for your support and patience.

There's nothing controversial about E2EE.

Unless you think it's controversial for private conversations to be.... private?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cly2m5e5ke4o

I love the EU

 19:27 <@f_> https://xcancel.com/vonderleyen/status/2027756878575362119
 19:27 <@f_> "Please respect office hours"
 19:28 <[ REDACTED ]> look we need the EU to pass a law saying websites should only be accessible during business hours
 19:28 <[ REDACTED ]> to combat, uh, internet addiction. yeah.
 19:28 <[ REDACTED ]> and then we need the US to do the same.
 19:28 <[ REDACTED ]> and then Japan
 19:28 <@f_> great idea