submitted by TheIPW to privacy 31 points | 10 comments https://unknownuniverse.uk/privacy-security/smart-home-wifi-trap/ Mainstream tech advice treats cheap Wi-Fi smart plugs as harmless convenience, totally glossing over how much telemetry leaks out to overseas cloud servers by default. Expecting casual users to set up VLANs and firewall drop rules just to stop a £10 light bulb from phoning home is a bit of a joke. True privacy means local control without corporate middlemen. * * * Original content by The Unknown Universe, written by a human and not AI generated!

submitted by 1Malayali to memes 102 points | 8 comments www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtWu88KVLnI www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4E-cd_XKs0

submitted by Fmstrat to opensource 36 points | 10 comments Hi all, We’re looking to get off Rackspace’s email as the Spam filtering is pure garbage. We’re going to avoid the Googles and MS’s of the world, and I’m wondering if this community has suggestions for mail providers that run FOSS services (and are public about that via support), and/or are privacy focused. Note: Proton is a no-go due to having to run an IMAP middle-man service. Thanks!

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submitted by yogthos to usa 24 points | 1 comments https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/sep/14/us-companies-methane-pollution-rankings

submitted by pete_link to palestine 47 points | 4 comments https://www.commondreams.org/news/ed-sheeran-macklemore-palestine

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submitted by SocialistVibes01 to linux 58 points | 54 comments https://itsfoss.com/news/ubuntu-rustification-coreutils-migration/ Oboi here we go 🙄 > Ubuntu has managed to do away with GNU Core Utilities in its default stack. The last three holdouts, cp, mv and rm, have moved to uutils’ coreutils; the Rust reimplementation Canonical has been feeding into the distro since 2025. > They had been held back from 26.04 LTS over flaws in the uutils versions. Everything else, from ls and cat to chmod and du, made that jump in earlier releases. > This change, while big, sits hidden away in an obscure mention in Canonical’s work-in-progress release notes for Ubuntu 26.10. > It’s been a long road > Canonical started oxidising Ubuntu last year, and Ubuntu 25.10 became the first release to ship coreutils as the default. That release also made sudo-rs the default privilege tool, replacing a command that had been in place for decades. > 26.04 was the release where the plan did slow down quite a bit, as Canonical kept cp, mv, and rm on their GNU versions due to a bunch of TOCTOU issues that were blocking the full implementation. > These were caught during an audit, when Canonical commissioned Zellic for two rounds between December 2025 and March 2026, focusing on the most security-sensitive utilities first. > Across both rounds, Zellic raised 113 issues, and 44 of them were assigned CVEs. Canonical says the vast majority have been resolved. > Getting here has had its ups and downs, and the last stretch was not clean. In July, uutils cp went back into the archive and came straight out again after it broke live image builds. > The fix was quick; as the developers marked it “Critical,” the fix went upstream, and the migration landed in time for 26.10. What changes for you? > When typing commands, nothing changes for you on the surface. uutils coreutils is designed to be a drop-in replacement for essential GNU tools, and the project treats any divergence from GNU as a bug, further pointing out that some options may still be missing or behave differently. > So if you prefer staying on the GNU version, you have the option to install the coreutils-from-gnu package that houses all the required components. > The next stage > Coreutils is one piece of a broader campaign. Earlier this year, Canonical became a Gold Sponsor of the Trifecta Tech Foundation, pitching in €40,000 a year to fund memory-safe system software. > Under this, their current target is ntpd-rs, a Rust rewrite of the tools Ubuntu uses to keep its clock in sync. While work is still ongoing, it has already arrived for testing. > Its transition to being default is targeted for Ubuntu 27.04. > What Canonical is gradually building up towards is the completion of their oxidation vision for Ubuntu, and it’s not about blindly including new components. Rather, it looks like a measured approach that’s being worked out a few steps at a time.

submitted by technocrit to privacy 220 points | 27 comments https://www.404media.co/cops-search-thousands-of-flock-cameras-for-reasons-of-lmao-idk-hehe-and-asdfg/ > The EFF found cops writing “idiot,” “WEIRD KID,” “blah,” “leave me alone,” and button mashing in Flock’s ‘reason’ box.

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submitted by velma to privacy 46 points | 18 comments https://www.wired.com/story/i-felt-super-violated-men-wearing-meta-glasses-on-dates-is-an-instant-red-flag/ They met at a bar in midtown Manhattan. He arrived wearing a baseball cap pulled low and sported a pair of black-framed glasses, she says. As conversation flowed, from discussions about navigating life in New York to past relationships, he mentioned that his glasses were Meta Ray-Bans. “I wasn’t familiar with them,” McAnuff, a 28-year-old project manager who now lives in Toronto, tells WIRED. It was her first time seeing the smart glasses up close, which can record images and video from the wearer’s viewpoint. He let her try them on and even showed her a couple of videos that he’d taken previously, she says. “That was it. We stopped talking about it after that. I figured that was the end of the use.” The next day, checking her Instagram, McAnuff noticed she’d been tagged in one of his story posts. To her surprise, it was footage of them at the bar and on the subway together, en route to a basketball game uptown. In the video, McAnuff is captured from an above angle, sitting across from her date who is holding a drinking glass; WIRED has seen screenshots of the footage. “I felt super violated,” McAnuff says. “Like, what if I don’t want everyone knowing what I’m up to? He felt so free to film me and post it. There was no conversation about it.” Meta sold more than 7 million pairs of the Ray-Bans in 2025, as its smart glasses have infiltrated public spaces thanks to pranksters with dreams of viral fame, some of whom even film people while they’re at work. The phenomenon, which has also spread to pickup artists hitting on women, has earned the hardware the nickname “creep glasses.” Among singles, and particularly women, Meta’s AI-powered eyewear has become a recurring nuisance, as people share a spreading unease about being covertly filmed on dates.

submitted by builtbyashwin to privacy 14 points | 8 comments https://github.com/builtbyashwin/aero-browser I’m starting Aero, a Chromium-based privacy browser. The pitch: * Zero ads. Not “acceptable ads,” not replaced ads. Zero. * Zero telemetry. No analytics, no crash reporting, no pings. * Zero crypto, no VPN upsells, no affiliate links, no AI assistants that phone home. * Fingerprint resistance on by default. * Fork of ungoogled-chromium with a minimal patch stack. It’s not a Brave clone. Brave is a company with investors and a crypto business model — they have an ads program that replaces ads with their own, a VPN to sell you, and a wallet built in. Aero is a project with no business model. Different species entirely. Repo: github.com/builtbyashwin/aero-browser Background: I’ve contributed patches to the Linux kernel across staging, networking, media, and filesystem subsystems, reviewed by maintainers including Greg Kroah-Hartman, Dan Carpenter, and Jan Kara. Same patch-management discipline applied to Chromium. Right now it’s just me. I’m looking for 4-5 people to own specific lanes: build/CI, Chromium patches, features, docs, privacy research. Async-first. If you’re interested, check the issues — each lane has a “good first issue.” Comment there or reply here.

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submitted by Confidant6198 to memes 197 points | 38 comments This is nothing new. Liberals have always done this throughout history. They put all the blame on individuals to cover up the root cause of these constantly reoccuring wars and genocides. Netanyahu isn’t the problem. Israel is. The West is. Imperialism is. Capitalism is. By: @commie______central Source: www.instagram.com/p/DdQhoDho7R1/

submitted by lemmingsareawesome to privacy 28 points | 27 comments ive heard proton is good but its weird it doesn:t work with private browsers i turned on javascript and webgl aand it still doesnt work tuta just doesnt let me in bc of the browser its tor and up to date say if its free freenium cheap or expensive and if it can be paid for anonymously and if you can make aliases also your favorite roblox piggy character becuse idk

submitted by besmtt to jellyfin 50 points | 5 comments https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin/releases/tag/v12.1 #

submitted by geneva_convenience to palestine 59 points | 16 comments https://nypost.com/2026/09/14/us-news/macklemore-blames-jewish-nfl-owner-robert-kraft-for-getting-kicked-off-ed-sheeran-tour-and-paints-himself-a-martyr-in-wacky-statement/ Macklemore claimed Monday the Jewish NFL owner Robert Kraft pressured Ed Sheeran to drop him from his tour after pro-Palestinian elements of his show. “Ed told me Robert Kraft called him,” Macklemore wrote on X Monday. “We were scheduled to play Gillette Stadium later this month, which is owned by the Kraft group. Ed told me that Kraft said I would not be allowed to perform in his stadium.” “Ed also told me that Kraft had rallied some of the other stadium owners and collectively they gave him an ultimatum: if Macklemore stays on the tour, you will not be allowed to play in our venues,” he added.

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submitted by akunohana to linux 37 points | 33 comments Here I thought I had been insanely smart to buy a GPU from 2010 for $10 since the CPU is going to do all the encoding anyway. And because my previous card, a honking 3080, wouldn’t have allowed for the other two capture cards to be installed, taking up all the real estate. I have been trying to setup an Artix system on my own for two hours now, but GRUB won’t install in CSM mode… I’ve tried UEFI on GPT, BIOS on MBR, BIOS on GPT… 😅 Boot partition with and without file system… 💀 I’ll just buy a more modern yet slim card, I guess? Unless I wake up tomorrow and give researching the issue a chance. Night👋🔌

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submitted by akunohana to linux 29 points | 34 comments I am just about to set up my new Linux machine, which will be used to convert analog video and audio to digital video and audio. Is there any reason why I _shouldn’t_ run the system off of a live USB stick (say, a good quality one from Sandisk), that is, without installing Linux on the hard drive and _not_ setting up a boot partition, a system partition, and all that?

submitted by fpslem to usa 29 points | 2 comments https://www.propublica.org/article/donald-trump-jr-wedding-bankrolled-russian-oligarch-umar-kremlev-putin

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submitted by gif8287 to framework 32 points | 8 comments It is so difficult to find modern electronics without telemetry and ads. Smartphones, laptops, TVs, home routers, security cameras, cars, game consoles, e-readers, projectors, 3D printers, fitness trackers, speakers, and even some printers. Why can’t customers be free from this data collection and advertising? It’s not that we don’t care about it. There simply aren’t many alternatives, and the few that do exist are either more expensive or offer fewer features. Seriously, we need a list of products we can buy without worrying about telemetry or advertising.