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Jonah Aragon @jonah@mastodon.neat.computer

· 2mo ago

#Mullvad's co-CEO claims to support "freedom" while also supporting remigration, because his concept of personal freedom is tied to privilege and wealth, and preserving those things. That is unrelated to freedom. Opposing immigration is incompatible with supporting freedom. We are only free when everyone is free.

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Jonah Aragon @jonah@mastodon.neat.computer

· 2mo ago

There's no way in hell Brendan Eich would have been kicked out of today's Mozilla

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Jonah Aragon @jonah@mastodon.neat.computer

· 4w ago

Don’t get scammed by Apple’s new Quest Labs integration. You can get those labs from Quest via Goodlabs.com for WAY less than $120, and it’ll still sync to Apple Health through Quest’s portal. #AppleHealth #AppleEvent #Apple

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Jonah Aragon @jonah@mastodon.neat.computer

· 3mo ago

Just adopted this handsome boy 🥰

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Jonah Aragon @jonah@mastodon.neat.computer

· 4mo ago

If anyone uses #AppVerifier on #Android we are hoping to publish a database of APK signatures to privacyguides.org soon, and are accepting crowdsourced submissions now: https://github.com/privacyguides/verified-apps/issues/new?template=app-submission.yml

If you can contribute some apps you use, we'd appreciate it!

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Jonah Aragon @jonah@mastodon.neat.computer

· 5mo ago

I bought 256GB RAM in 2024, so now I understand how smug boomers must feel about buying houses.

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Jonah Aragon @jonah@mastodon.neat.computer

· 4mo ago

Replying to

Hey, speaking of weirdness, what the hell does this line in GitLab's even mean? Did they have slaves not making the choice to work for GitLab? 😂

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Jonah Aragon @jonah@mastodon.neat.computer

· 5mo ago

RE: @privacyguides@mastodon.neat.computer

This was one of @Em0nM4stodon@infosec.exchange's final projects she did with us, and I'm super happy to finally be able to share it with you all. It's a very comprehensive resource I hope privacy advocates will find valuable!

💛 Our ongoing work at Privacy Guides doesn't come cheap. If you find the work we're doing valuable: reaching new audiences via video, reviewing new privacy projects, and creating resources and community for those passionate about data privacy; we greatly appreciate those who become a member or send us a one-time donation at https://www.privacyguides.org/donate

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Jonah Aragon @jonah@mastodon.neat.computer

· 2mo ago

Honestly I've never seen anyone on Mastodon post about content warnings (one way or the other) as much as @mattblaze@federate.social does lol However, if you are the type to "demand" he (or anyone else) use content warnings, can I introduce you to Mastodon's keyword filters? You can literally add content warnings to any person's post on your own: https://docs.joinmastodon.org/user/moderating/ The number of politics-related keywords you'd have to add to a filter in order to block 99.9%+ of political posts is really quite short actually. It is not an unreasonable burden to filter them yourself. 10/10 recommend if you don't want politics on your timeline 👍️

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Jonah Aragon @jonah@mastodon.neat.computer

· 2mo ago

What does my dog think I’m doing when I use the computer all day?

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Jonah Aragon @jonah@mastodon.neat.computer

· 4mo ago

Replying to

@aral@mastodon.ar.al not commons, and it requires an account, but a free and Italian option for people in the meantime: https://www.actalis.com/subscription

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Jonah Aragon @jonah@mastodon.neat.computer

· 4mo ago

Finally got to publish another great video, we got a chance to speak with Naomi Brockwell, a legendary privacy advocate making a foray into policywriting with the Surveillance Accountability Act.

If you're in the USA and want to get involved, or if you're elsewhere and want inspiration for your own advocacy work, absolutely give it a watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9Vb3hTxdP4

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Jonah Aragon @jonah@mastodon.neat.computer

· 4mo ago

Replying to

AI has successfully replicated that time I was 13 and got a camera and had horrible taste with full access to color adjustment sliders:

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Jonah Aragon @jonah@mastodon.neat.computer

· 2mo ago

Replying to

@neatnik@social.lol I like to think about kindness in the way people describe my home state, “Minnesota is nice, but not kind” 😆 I think the people you are talking about want to build a nice internet. Whether that internet is kind is less/not relevant to them lol

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Jonah Aragon @jonah@mastodon.neat.computer

· 5mo ago

It looks like I’ve got some reading to do!

ICYMI, “Prophecy” by @carissaveliz@mstdn.social, and “Privacy’s Defender” by @eff@mastodon.social’s Cindy Cohn are both new releases you can order now. AND we just had the opportunities to interview both of them this month at @privacyguides@mastodon.neat.computer – find the videos on our channel 😉

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Jonah Aragon @jonah@mastodon.neat.computer

· 4mo ago

My grandmother just sent me a screenshot(!) to ask about a problem 😮

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Jonah Aragon @jonah@mastodon.neat.computer

· 5mo ago

This movie is going to be shit unfortunately, but the marketing team really cooked with these propaganda posters 😂

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Jonah Aragon @jonah@mastodon.neat.computer

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@BasicAppleGuy@mastodon.social if they acquired Ubiquiti to get back into the AirPort space *and* the enterprise equipment space that’d be rad as hell actually. I want a macOS Server comeback on Apple Silicon 😭

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Jonah Aragon @jonah@mastodon.neat.computer

· 4mo ago

$750 for Plex Pass is INSANE. If I really liked #Plex "because it has more client apps" I could probably just swap out every streaming client I have for less than the new Plex Pass price.

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Jonah Aragon @jonah@mastodon.neat.computer

· 5mo ago

Boosted by @kkarhan@jorts.horse

What the heck? I just found out about this insane archive.today stuff from a couple months ago https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/02/wikipedia-might-blacklist-archive-today-after-site-maintainer-ddosed-a-blog/ I used this site so much, now what? 😭

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Jonah Aragon @jonah@mastodon.neat.computer

· 4mo ago

RE: @jonah@mastodon.neat.computer

Now I've made a YouTube video about Cape. But if you're interested you'll have to find it yourself, because if I get too many views from an external link YouTube will hate my channel 😂

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Jonah Aragon @jonah@mastodon.neat.computer

· 5mo ago

Replying to

You can use coupon KCBXADYH at https://cape.co/get-cape?referral=KCBXADYH checkout if so 🤷‍♂️

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Jonah Aragon @jonah@mastodon.neat.computer

· 5mo ago

Annual reminder to get new insurance quotes. I'll save $1100 to get better insurance from a different company this year 💀

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Jonah Aragon @jonah@mastodon.neat.computer

· 5mo ago

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Jonah Aragon @jonah@mastodon.neat.computer

· 5mo ago

Boosted by @kkarhan@jorts.horse

The increased prominence of domain verification, across basically *everywhere* in the upcoming Mastodon 4.6.0 release, is extremely cool. Great change!

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Jonah Aragon @jonah@mastodon.neat.computer

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@neatnik@social.lol I read this as "LinkedIn" initially

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Jonah Aragon @jonah@mastodon.neat.computer

· 4mo ago

Replying to

@SeeS@mastodon.nl because I can only use one (with how we've currently setup things) and we already use GitHub. We've mostly decided we don't want to switch to Forgejo until it supports federation.

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Jonah Aragon @jonah@mastodon.neat.computer

· 4mo ago

Much like Nostr, given the sort of content that is on Freenet, this is not surprising to me in the slightest.

edit: I guess I meant to reply to @tek@freeradical.zone and messed it up somehow, oh well.

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Jonah Aragon @jonah@mastodon.neat.computer

· 4mo ago

Saw a paper recently that said LLMs can correctly answer multiple choice questions without knowing the question being asked.

And people online are all impressed/confused about it of course, but like… surely anyone can look at a list like:

(A) cos(x)
(B) sin(x)
(C) -sin(x)
(D) sin(2x)

And immediately intuit that B is the right answer, no? This is how I did all my tests in school lol

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Jonah Aragon @jonah@mastodon.neat.computer

· 4mo ago

Replying to

@compfu@mograph.social oh, hahaha- that is just not how I read articles I guess 😆

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Jonah Aragon @jonah@mastodon.neat.computer

· 4mo ago

Replying to

@picofarad@noauthority.social honestly if this is a joke and they’re about to launch a phone with no AI features at all, so the original photos are the actual selling point, this would be very funny marketing. I don’t have enough faith in companies to believe this is the case though.

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Jonah Aragon @jonah@mastodon.neat.computer

· 4mo ago

Replying to

@light@noc.social yeah. Roaming, but I definitely wouldn’t want to use it outside the US lol

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Jonah Aragon @jonah@mastodon.neat.computer

· 5mo ago

RE: @ifin@infosec.exchange

Could be especially bad news for the people who switched to their short-lived certificates 👀

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Jonah Aragon @jonah@mastodon.neat.computer

· 5mo ago

RE: @nateb@mastodon.thenewoil.org

it’s all fun and games until the condensation forms inside your phone

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Jonah Aragon @jonah@mastodon.neat.computer

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@tuneintodetuned @privacyguides hey, they boost the algorithm though 😆 Actually, also not as bad as I thought it might be knowing how social media typically reacts to things lol

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Jonah Aragon @jonah@mastodon.neat.computer

· 4mo ago

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@samuel this may just be my conspiracy theory, but I think that if YouTube thinks you have enough of an external audience to bring in, they will not boost your video internally edit: not unheard of in general. hacker news is well known to do this

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Jonah Aragon @jonah@mastodon.neat.computer

· 4mo ago

Replying to

@Only_Exception@mstdn.plus IIRC it is the Renegade at Valleyfair lol

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Jonah Aragon @jonah@mastodon.neat.computer

· 2mo ago

Replying to

@codinghorror@infosec.exchange I was wondering how they got away with adding nested replies

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Jonah Aragon @jonah@mastodon.neat.computer

· 2mo ago

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Bro’s big mad LOL she cooked him

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Jonah Aragon @jonah@mastodon.neat.computer

· 4mo ago

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@light@noc.social that being said… with the way things are going in other countries I hear of (Australia at least) maybe just being able to obtain a SIM at all is a useful thing 💀 I think Silent Link might be better at this though.

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Jonah Aragon @jonah@mastodon.neat.computer

· 2mo ago

RE: https://mastodon.social/@zackwhittaker/116976288125973754

Prosecutors later charged Tunick under a federal statute that makes it unlawful to knowingly destroy or damage property to prevent authorities from seizing it.

They did successfully seize the phone (the physical device) though 🤔

Notoriously (in privacy-related cases) you don't have property rights over your data, it's not a commodity. If the government can claim this is property, can I now sue data brokers for stealing/possessing my property?

I am not a lawyer, obviously.

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Zack Whittaker

@zackwhittaker@mastodon.social

The person's attorney said feds are using a rarely used federal statute, and security experts said they hadn't heard of similar cases. This raises fresh questions about constitutional rights and device searches at the U.S. border. Also: the DOJ's indictment had a notable typo. Read on for more. https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/24/us-accuses-american-of-allegedly-wiping-his-phone-using-a-duress-password-during-border-search

Open quoted post

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Jonah Aragon @jonah@mastodon.neat.computer

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@WastedRadiance@urbanists.social @privacyguides@mastodon.neat.computer None of these things change anything. I really don’t see facial scans as an acceptable alternative. Among other privacy issues, they are inaccurate (thus likely requiring an even more privacy invasive fallback option), and normalize facial recognition in other areas of society as merely another way to identify yourself. Any form of facial recognition that would even possibly approach acceptability would have to be so unrestrictive that they might as well not exist at all. Anything less, i.e. requiring some black box AI model and/or “verifiable” (by some third party) code execution essentially becomes a DRM scheme, another technology the FOSS community also cannot find acceptable. If society demands OS-level age gating, it can only come in the form of a user self-attesting their age at setup and the OS storing that information. There is a massive practical benefit to parents even in this case. Yes, kids could lie here, but parents only have to ensure they don’t lie a single time (during setup) rather than that they don’t lie every time they enter their DOB on a random website or app. It’s understandable for parents to want more robust parental controls, but they should come at a cost of even a tiny modicum of parental responsibility. Eschewing ALL responsibility for parenting your children to a third-party (even a face scanning system with all the protections Proton's post describes) makes 0 sense, and is unacceptable for adults also swept up in this.

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Jonah Aragon @jonah@mastodon.neat.computer

· 2mo ago

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@voxel@infosec.space thanks for sharing your thoughts! I disagree with many of these takeaways. There is one I (somewhat) agree with, regarding Section 86a and the political insult law: I think the source article made a small error, or at least if they were correct I cannot find a source for this. The error is that the statistic that was doubled being cited here refers to investigations of §86 and §86a combined, not §86a alone; so I can't definitively say "under 86a" specifically, rather it should be "under 86 and 86a" BKS published statistics in this 2025 document, and in table 2 of the document it notes section 86 and 86a propaganda offenses at 30,379 in 2025. Compare to this 2015 document which states that 35.1% of the political offenses listed are 86/86a propaganda offenses, which would be roughly 13,700. 13,700 -> 30,379 is comfortably double the number. The ordinary political insult figure comes from PKS 2025 which notes 4,792 cases. (in Excel format, annoyingly) It is also worth noting that these are police-recorded "offenses," which are probably higher than the number of "investigations" depending on how you define an investigation. I would imagine that the number of investigative proceedings is correlated and so the statement is still at least approximately true, but I would say it would be more accurate to have said "police-recorded propaganda offenses." Anyways, the number of "Nazi symbol ban" specific offenses may or may not have doubled, but the number of political propaganda offenses certainly did double, which was really the crux of the story. Your other notes are largely semantics or stretches which I do not believe affect the facts or meaning of the story we shared in that episode. In particular, your "fact check" regarding the UN does not negate what we or the article stated. The fact that Irene Khan's findings/report are not the official position of the UN does not change the fact that the investigation itself was performed under the UN's mandate by a UN appointed expert, constituting a UN investigation.

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Jonah Aragon @jonah@mastodon.neat.computer

· 2mo ago

Replying to

@codinghorror@infosec.exchange we tried it out in one thread and generally people were not too thrilled with it lol https://discuss.privacyguides.net/t/defaulting-new-posts-to-use-nested-replies/39302/1

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Jonah Aragon @jonah@mastodon.neat.computer

· 4mo ago

Honestly why aren’t ALL my medical records just available in MyChart? I’ve been making release of information requests manually and they are pretty useful/insightful.

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