LOVE this article from my man @zackwhittaker:

“Age verification laws are a lazy way for politicians and governments to appear as if they are tackling online child safety, but without any forethought to the future consequences of amassing vast banks of personal information for verifying people's identities. Rather than holding the ultra-wealthy tech and social media giants accountable for their actions, cowardly and toothless governments are instead requiring ordinary people to shoulder the legal burden. These are the same tech companies that don't pay any tax, all the while governments let them get away with it.”

#ageverification #age #privacy

https://this.weekinsecurity.com/papers-please-age-verification-laws-threaten-everyones-online-security-and-privacy/

testing how quoting from #bonfire looks from #mastodon

bonfire.cafe/pub/objects/01K...

@TheBreadmonkey The jungle VIP?

If you haven't listened to it yet, check out @joshbressers interviewing Hans Steiner from @fdroidorg as they discuss how #FDroid works, the security benefits of it, and the upcoming challenges in the #Android ecosystem thanks to #Google. Great interview! 💯

https://opensourcesecurity.io/2026/2026-05-fdroid-hans-steiner/

I had a chat on #OpenSourceSecurity with Kat Cosgrove about open source being critical infrastructure (neglected critical infrastructure)

Kat has a ton of experience in the world of Kubernetes and had some really interesting things to tell us about both successful projects as well as having to shut down projects that didn't get enough resources

Kat even gives me some optimism at the end, which is in rare supply lately

https://opensourcesecurity.io/2026/2026-05-open-source-infrastructure-kat/

I spoke with @berniework for @CypherCon #HackerHistory

Bill had some great stories about how he started out helping his Dad and eventually found himself working at phone company trying to sell TV and a TV company trying to sell phones

It's a really fun story

https://hackerhistory.com/podcast/the-history-of-bill-bernard/

The #BritishAcademy closes "Global Professorships" #funding

The programme enabled "mid and senior career researchers from around the world to spend four years in the UK, enriching #Humanities and #SocialScience departments with outstanding international expertise"

But: "Following confirmation of our Spending Review settlement, we have made the strategic decision to conclude the Global Professorships programme in order to strengthen our support for international early career researchers"

#ECRs

"A couple have spent the past 20 years experimenting to perfect the practice of moulding trees so they grow into the shape of a chair.

Alice and Gavin Munro grow their creations upside down, in a process that they say typically takes between six and nine years, before each item is dried for a year.

The process involves training and pruning young tree branches as they grow over specially-made pieces of recycled plastic which help to shape the trees' growth."
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvg0yy3gp71o

After Monday Houston’s weather will turn to a much wetter pattern that is likely to persist for at least a week, maybe longer. We’re holding off issuing a Stage 1 flood alert - for now.

https://spacecityweather.com/a-very-soggy-week-lies-in-store-for-houston-with-flooding-possible/

#houwx

@fireborn @TomGrant91 Yeah lmao, if you wanna check mine out its at https://github.com/alexoloopios/discord-enhancements

Random find of the day; can't say I'm much of a K-Pop person, but it seems that there's some pretty solid K-Rock out there. And I'm a sucker for songs that use traditional instruments in unusual contexts, and take advantage of the head room being metal gives you rather than just going full metal all the way through.

youtube.com/watch?v=kbx0sg4S...

#MusicFindOfTheDay #Gayageum (I think)

A replica of the car in which Hind Rajab was killed and an ambulance destroyed in #Gaza by the Israel Defence Forces will tour Scotland later this month.

The five-year-old became an international symbol of the #genocide on the occupied #Palestine when she along with six of her family members were killed by the IDF.

Hind survived the initial attack and managed to call the Red Crescent, but an ambulance sent to rescue her was also destroyed and the two paramedics killed.

https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/25994678.art-installation-commemorating-hind-rajab-tour-scotland/

High school cookery class is an excellent way to learn how to turn £10 worth of ingredients into a meal everybody is afraid to eat.

I think I might have just accidentally become a swinger

@Gina I can't read anything about whether this also affects desktop users?

I don't have a mobile phone, let alone something with Android (or iOS), so I guess that for desktop users the occasional CAPTCHA will stay unaltered "for now"?

Then again, I don't think I use any websites requiring them, but I'm not 100% sure. I hardly have accounts anywhere I don't host myself, so probably not.

@davidgerard “ex culo” 👌

@rmondello

Something I do while installing all apps, even those dependent on location to work, is to tap the permissions dialog on installation to allow location services only when using app.

I almost never have wifi on unless intentionally, but cell connection can sometimes merge with map info, to interesting results depending how you use your phone there. Even mid air flight.

I got some weird ‘use sattelite connection? on watch or phone, and an offer (or thought I’d triggered) SOS mode

RT: @Dario5S Abbiamo visto navi da guerra israeliane avvicinarsi alle imbarcazioni della Flotilla e poco dopo abbiamo perso la connessione.

Nel frattempo alcune navi sono state intercettate. Per questo rivolgo un appello immediato alle autorità italiane e internazionali: liberate subito gli