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Linux & Open Source Advocate, helping others learn and leverage tools everyone can benefit from.

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Ava · 6d
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I'm assuming most of you reading this already know how much "fingering" you get NY just everyday web browsing, whether those fingers are holding cookies, or not! Here is a great Open Source site that explains it: https://kuber.studio/cookie/

#learnOPENtech #LOT #Privacy
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"Many government departments around the world are moving away from vendor lock-in by tech giants, and switching to free and open source software like LibreOffice. This helps with privacy, security, and digital sovereignty. One such example is the Austrian Military (Bundesheer), which has moved 16,000 PCs from Microsoft Office to LibreOffice. We talked to them, to find out why and how they did it…"

#learnOPENtech #LOT #LibreOffice #FreedomTech

https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/08/07/why-and-how-the-austrian-military-moved-to-libreoffice-part-1/
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"Student Teacher Sent a Private Snapchat Complaining About Her Workday. An Hour Later, Police Pulled Up to Her School"

"The shorthand that emerged from this case — “Snapchat AI → FBI → local police → school → arrest in under an hour” — is now the most vivid public illustration of an surveillance app infrastructure most users didn’t know was already running."

https://www.gadgetreview.com/student-teacher-sent-a-private-snapchat-complaining-about-her-workday-an-hour-later-police-pulled-up-to-her-school

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“GrapheneOS is completely legal. We have no obligation to weaken any of the security protections it provides. Creating and using GrapheneOS is strongly protected by the U.S. Constitution. Laws attempting to make it illegal or require weakening the security would be unconstitutional,” the GrapheneOS Foundation said.

#learnOPENtech #LOT #gOS #GraphineOS #Security #Privacy #FreedomTech

https://www.opensourceforu.com/2026/07/grapheneos-says-open-source-security-features-are-constitutionally-protected/
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Johnny · 2w
nostr:nprofile1qqsvy47xy6jxkkaantzkjwju3x5nwzus9xheqls69esszhgycpssmgc62j9md good on them for saying it plainly, refusing to weaken security is not a legal grey area. the pressure rarely arrives as a law anyway, it arrives as a banking app quietly refusing to run on a hardened os.