Signal increases limit for audio and video calls to 75 participants 📞 📹
The increase makes Signal even better suited as a secure alternative to #Zoom and #Teams.
👉 https://aboutsignal.com/news/signal-raises-limit-for-audio-and-video-calls-to-75-participants/
Signal increases limit for audio and video calls to 75 participants 📞 📹
The increase makes Signal even better suited as a secure alternative to #Zoom and #Teams.
👉 https://aboutsignal.com/news/signal-raises-limit-for-audio-and-video-calls-to-75-participants/
"DI.DAY (Digital Independence Day) Starts a Movement to Encourages People to Ditch Big Tech Services"
"A new day for privacy advocates to look forward to."
A friendly reminder to never trust manufacturers privacy protections.
I was recently attempting to get an external camera functioning, so I started polling various video devices sequentially to find out where it appeared and stumbled across a previously unknown (to me at least) camera device, right next to the regular camera that is not affected by the intentional privacy flap or "camera active" LED that comes built in.
I had always assumed this was just a light sensor and didn't think any further about it.
The bandwidth seems to drop dramatically when the other camera is activated by opening the privacy flap, causing more flickering.
This was visible IRL and wasn't just an artifact of recording it on my phone.
I deliberately put my finger over each camera one at a time to confirm the sources being projected.
A friend of mine suggested this may be related to Windows Hello functionality at a guess but still seems weird to not be affected by the privacy flap when its clearly capable of recording video.
dmidecode tells me this is a LENOVO Yoga 9 2-in-1 14ILL10 (P/N:83LC)
Command I used for anyone to replicate the finding. (I was on bog standard Kali, but I'm sure you'll figure out your device names if they change under other distros):
vlc v4l2:///dev/video0 -vv --v4l2-width=320 --v4l2-height=240 & vlc v4l2:///dev/video2 -vv --v4l2-width=320 --v4l2-height=240
"DI.DAY (Digital Independence Day) Starts a Movement to Encourages People to Ditch Big Tech Services"
"A new day for privacy advocates to look forward to."
A friendly reminder to never trust manufacturers privacy protections.
I was recently attempting to get an external camera functioning, so I started polling various video devices sequentially to find out where it appeared and stumbled across a previously unknown (to me at least) camera device, right next to the regular camera that is not affected by the intentional privacy flap or "camera active" LED that comes built in.
I had always assumed this was just a light sensor and didn't think any further about it.
The bandwidth seems to drop dramatically when the other camera is activated by opening the privacy flap, causing more flickering.
This was visible IRL and wasn't just an artifact of recording it on my phone.
I deliberately put my finger over each camera one at a time to confirm the sources being projected.
A friend of mine suggested this may be related to Windows Hello functionality at a guess but still seems weird to not be affected by the privacy flap when its clearly capable of recording video.
dmidecode tells me this is a LENOVO Yoga 9 2-in-1 14ILL10 (P/N:83LC)
Command I used for anyone to replicate the finding. (I was on bog standard Kali, but I'm sure you'll figure out your device names if they change under other distros):
vlc v4l2:///dev/video0 -vv --v4l2-width=320 --v4l2-height=240 & vlc v4l2:///dev/video2 -vv --v4l2-width=320 --v4l2-height=240
If you live in Spain, tell Pedro Sanchez what you think about his government's push to age gate the internet. Very disappointing to see this authoritarian push from the Sanchez government
#spain #socialmedia #privacy #pedrosanchez #censorship #eupol #ageverification #agegating
If you live in Spain, tell Pedro Sanchez what you think about his government's push to age gate the internet. Very disappointing to see this authoritarian push from the Sanchez government
#spain #socialmedia #privacy #pedrosanchez #censorship #eupol #ageverification #agegating
The documents provide smoking-gun evidence that Meta, Google, Snap, and TikTok all purposefully designed their social media products to addict children and teens with no regard for known harms to their wellbeing, and how that mass youth addiction was core to the companies’ business models. The documents contain internal discussions among company employees, presentations from internal meetings, expert testimony, and evidence of Big Tech coordination with tech-funded groups, including the National Parent Teachers Association (PTA) and Family Online Safety Institute (FOSI), in attempts to control the narrative in response to concerned parents.https://techoversight.org/2026/01/25/top-report-mdl-jan-25/
“These unsealed documents prove Big Tech has been gaslighting and lying to the public for years
Die IT-Waffen der Terrorbande ICE
Die ICE wächst zu einem Ungeheuer heran, einer Verschmelzung sämtlicher schlechten Seiten von GeStaPo, StaSi und dem Big Brother. Dabei helfen ihr die Big-Tech Firmen beispielsweise durch Zensur von Protesten, aber auch "neutrale" Mittel der IT. Zu letzteren gehört massiver Einsatz von #Gesichtserkennung ((KI ist toll, und so nützlich!)) oder Datenanalyse-SW aus den Häusern #Palantir oder #Paragon. Über die Auswirkungen des Einsatzes solcher Mittel hat die NY Times einen ausführlichen Artikel veröffentlicht. Achtung: Das ist keine Gute-Nacht-Lektüre!
https://www.pc-fluesterer.info/wordpress/2026/02/05/die-it-waffen-der-terrorbande-ice/
#Allgemein #Hintergrund #Warnung #bigdata #KI #privacy #privatsphäre #UnplugTrump #usa #wissen
🚨 The Snowflake network is currently overloaded and we need more Snowflake proxies.
If you have spare bandwidth or available servers, please consider running Snowflake proxies.
We urgently need more Snowflake proxies to help handle this surge and ensure that users can continue to access the open Internet.
Please share this call with your friends, communities, hackerspaces and anyone who may be able to help!
How to help
❄️ Visit: https://snowflake.torproject.org/#addonBtns
#foss #privacy #tor #censorship #iran
Die IT-Waffen der Terrorbande ICE
Die ICE wächst zu einem Ungeheuer heran, einer Verschmelzung sämtlicher schlechten Seiten von GeStaPo, StaSi und dem Big Brother. Dabei helfen ihr die Big-Tech Firmen beispielsweise durch Zensur von Protesten, aber auch "neutrale" Mittel der IT. Zu letzteren gehört massiver Einsatz von #Gesichtserkennung ((KI ist toll, und so nützlich!)) oder Datenanalyse-SW aus den Häusern #Palantir oder #Paragon. Über die Auswirkungen des Einsatzes solcher Mittel hat die NY Times einen ausführlichen Artikel veröffentlicht. Achtung: Das ist keine Gute-Nacht-Lektüre!
https://www.pc-fluesterer.info/wordpress/2026/02/05/die-it-waffen-der-terrorbande-ice/
#Allgemein #Hintergrund #Warnung #bigdata #KI #privacy #privatsphäre #UnplugTrump #usa #wissen
The Adtech industry has learned to dodge protections against cookie tracking.
Our investigation into the Adtech company, LiveRamp, showed that they use the contact details you enter into a site as proxy trackers to identify what you do online.
Read more ⬇️
https://www.openrightsgroup.org/press-releases/org-complaint-liveramp-adtech/
#adtech #dataprotection#gdpr #privacy #advertising #StopStalkerAds #ukpolitics #ukpol #liveramp
Big Bunnings is watching you - Bunnings wins fight to use AI facial recognition tech to combat store crime, opening door for other retailers https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02-05/bunnings-wins-ai-facial-recognition-tech-fight/106309308 #privacy #auslaw #auspol
So i must say me and other IT people didn't give a fair test of @delta in the past, and i must say.
I'm surprised to see it's possible to deliver email so fast that it's an instant messenger.
And without hyperscaler (what signal said is impossible)
@signalapp #signal #hyperscaler #email #instant #messenger #privacy #encryption #security #decentralised #sovereinty #eu #eupol #eupolitics #politics
Vanadium version 145.0.7632.45.0 released:
https://github.com/GrapheneOS/Vanadium/releases/tag/145.0.7632.45.0
See the linked release notes for a summary of the improvements over the previous release and a link to the full changelog.
Forum discussion thread:
https://discuss.grapheneos.org/d/31596-vanadium-version-14507632450-released
Vanadium version 145.0.7632.45.0 released:
https://github.com/GrapheneOS/Vanadium/releases/tag/145.0.7632.45.0
See the linked release notes for a summary of the improvements over the previous release and a link to the full changelog.
Forum discussion thread:
https://discuss.grapheneos.org/d/31596-vanadium-version-14507632450-released
