What is up with the amount of trackers in Ironfox? Way more than any other apps.

Surely this is not in keeping with their whole privacy vibe?

https://github.com/hagezi/dns-blocklists

And

https://github.com/laylavish/uBlockOrigin-HUGE-AI-Blocklist

Concern over US effort to prosecute Sam Tunick, accused by authorities of wiping his phone using GrapheneOS

Those who use the SimpleX application, I would like to know if there are communities or privacy groups, the truth is Lemmy is my only social platform, a few years ago I closed everything I had to finally stop being part of the herd, or if possible.

https://simplex.chat/

Link from the local news org

Link says he's charged with petit larceny, which is a misdemeanor in USA. IDK where the destruction of property charges land.

He's receiving donations for his defense from across the country.

A new report from the Government Accounting Office reveals that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) plans to nearly triple the number of surveillance towers along U.S. borders, from the current 830 to 2,300 by 2034.

DHS expects to expend $1 billion in taxpayer dollars for this dangerous expansion of a surveillance network indiscriminately trained on towns, school playgrounds, backyards, and vehicles—threatening the privacy and civil liberties of everyone in the border regions.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/49761199

If you have been wondering about the effectiveness of the social media ban of under 15 year olds, this study got you :)

Spoiler: 92%+ of kids age 14-15 in Australia still use it 🥳

Meanwhile IMO forced verification of users had a much better success rate 😉

Source: https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w35162/w35162.pdf

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/49760662

I received the email this morning from Proton announcing improvements to Drive speed, and they just happened to tuck this in there:

... It also allowed us to focus on deeper integration with the rest of the Proton ecosystem (such as Drive in Lumo) and support for a Linux client, which we're now actively building.

Glad I won't have to continue using my cobbled together Syncthing solution much longer.

Here's the full email for anyone interested, seems the announcement isn't on their website yet.

I feel a bit silly asking this but no matter what I do, I can't load the Mozilla add-on page in Ironfox. I'm on a Pixel 8a, up to date Android, and I have changed every setting I can find in Ironfox and it simply will not load. I can get to the extension page in settings but when I click the purple button it goes to the browser and stalls. Even if I put in the base Mozilla address it stalls.

I'm just trying to install Privacy Badger!

I'd really appreciate if anyone could suggest anything that might help.

Thanks!

Just wanted to share my review and experiences of using Lumo 2.0, which is Proton's new LLM.

Given that many of us use Proton services and are privacy conscious, I thought this might be of interest.

The below is a lightly edited from another post.

It broadly speaks to the integration (or lack thereof) of Lumo with other Proton services, rather than the privacy angle (which I am sure you're aware of), though I can speak to that too. EDIT: see my below follow up.

I see no reason at this point to continue with my subscription, and if anything, I'm thankful for the shot in the arm to improve my self hosted stack / create an equivalent or better service for myself.

TL;DR: With some elbow grease and know how you can probably create something equivalent or better home.

I keep seeing suggestions here that Proton should adopt Kimi K3, or otherwise move to a much larger and more fashionable model.

I am increasingly unconvinced that model capability is Lumo’s primary problem.

Lumo Lite appears very likely to be based on a Qwen 27B-class model, judging from the behaviour and the Artificial Analysis results Proton have stated.

(That identification is not proven, obviously, but it is plausible enough for my broader point).

A model in that class should already be an excellent all-round foundation for Lumo.

My humble suggestion:

Serve it at FP8 or comparable precision. Optimise it properly. Keep latency reasonable. Increase the context length.

Then spend the engineering effort on the things that would actually distinguish Lumo from every other chatbot:

• Reliable Proton Mail, Drive, Calendar and Contacts integration

• Authoritative and current Proton product information

• Deterministic tools for calculations, dates, prices, plan limits and account features

• Exact-span retrieval rather than loose paraphrasing for proton_info

• Visible source dates and document versions

• A clear distinction between retrieved evidence and the model’s interpretation.

At present, Lumo can (apparently) retrieve information about Proton’s own products and then produce an answer that reverses or mangles the source.

Something like “it is not $12.99” becoming “$12.99” is not a problem that Kimi K3 or GLM inherently solves.

It is a grounding and validation problem.

A larger model may paper over some failures. It may phrase uncertainty more elegantly. It may recover from poor retrieval more often.

But it does not make stale information current, and it does not make an unreliable tool pipeline deterministic.

IMESHO, Proton’s strategic advantage is not that it can host the largest open model.

Other companies will always have larger models, more compute and faster release cycles.

Its advantage is that it owns a private productivity ecosystem, with only one real mind share competitor.

A smaller model that can reliably search my mail, locate a Drive document, understand my calendar, retrieve the correct Proton support information, chat, OCR (native ability with latter Qwen models iirc), image manipulation and perform bounded actions would be considerably more useful than a stronger general-purpose chatbot with shallow integration.

I would much rather Proton solidify Lumo Lite into a dependable, deeply integrated assistant than keep changing the model underneath it in pursuit of benchmark gains.

The model is probably already good enough.

The product around it is not.

ICBW and YMMV.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/49729865

However you look at it age verification is a major change to the internet and our freedoms.

We've seen all kinds of legislation pushed through in the past, often even against major resistance.

What makes me suspicious this time is the speed at which some of the slowest bureaucracies in the world are adopting it and how it's happening in 20+ countries in parallel.

It's like they're all in a group chat, fast-tracking this before resistance can even form.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/49722402

Swedish VPN vendor Mullvad is facing a backlash from some customers after co-founder Daniel Berntsson personally donated SEK 5 million (£385,000, $519,000) to the controversial populist Örebropartiet, which is running in Sweden's national elections for the first time.

Berntsson has this week published a blog post explaining the donation, alongside posts titled "Immigration," "Political individualism," and "Moral individualism." Before that, he had not posted since 2019.

The flurry of posts follows weeks of customer criticism over the donation – for example, Finnish blog Moonwriting's post "I'm done with Mullvad." Another blog, Unutterable, is more direct: "Mullvad funding the far-right and the problem with tech company ownership." The Hacker News discussion thread about the donations has reached a remarkable 1,784 comments so far.

Mullvad was co-founded and is still jointly owned and run by two CEOs, Berntsson and Fredrik Strömberg. Its name, as reflected in the company's logo, is Swedish for "mole." It also offers the Mullvad Browser, a privacy-enhanced fork of Firefox ESR co-developed with the Tor Project. Swedish socialist newspaper Flamman ("The Flame") revealed the donation in its story "High-profile techie gives millions to the Örebro Party."

In a post on X, the company said it was devoted to freedom of speech and tolerance, saying: "It should be obvious that Daniel's private donation to a political party is not part of Mullvad's values or mission, in the same way that someone's opinions on animal rights, taxes or public healthcare policy isn't."

Hopefully more states follow suit.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/49717026

🐍 Not shocked by #Meta or the kind of people they put in charge of their “digital experiences for kids”¹.

Exactly the kind of person to entrust with social media #ageverification (calls, live videos, photographs etc.).

I mean they already love scanning messages for child sexual abuse material via #ChatControl².

☑️ Entrust children's data to the people literally caught exploiting them, all under the banner of protecting kids?

¹ https://cybernews.com/cybercrime/meta-engineering-manager-caught-sexting-teen

² https://www.techspot.com/news/113062-eu-revived-law-meta-google-scan-messages-critics.html

Con Gooliver APS abbiamo appena concluso il progetto "Next Station: verso il cinema del futuro", un percorso di formazione audiovisiva realizzato in diverse scuole padovane.

Durante l'anno scolastico 2025/2026 abbiamo portato laboratori di produzione video in 7 scuole di Padova: IIS Giovanni Valle, Liceo Concetto Marchesi, IC III Briosco, ITC Calvi, IC Donatello, Smart Innovation School e la scuola dell'infanzia Bruno Munari (in questo caso il percorso ha coinvolto i docenti). Gli studenti hanno lavorato concretamente sulla produzione di un video: scrittura, riprese e montaggio, con anche incontri con professionisti del settore.

Il **21 maggio 2026 **abbiamo chiuso il percorso con una proiezione al Cinema Multiastra, dove abbiamo mostrato i lavori realizzati dagli studenti durante l'anno.

Il progetto rientra nel Piano Nazionale Cinema per la Scuola (fondi MiC-MIM) ed è stato possibile grazie alla collaborazione di diversi partner del territorio, tra cui Comune di Padova, Università di Padova, Cinema Multiastra e Cinema Rex.

Se qualcuno è interessato al tema della didattica attraverso il cinema, siamo disponibili a rispondere a domande nei commenti.

per il progetto "Next station, verso il cinema del futuro" realizzato con i Fondi del Piano Nazionale Cinema per la Scuola MiC-MIM 2024_azione B.2.

Iniziativa realizzata nell'ambito del Piano Nazionale Cinema e Immagini per la Scuola promosso da MiC e MIM.

Archive: https://archive.ph/9FwUX

ACLU Surveilllance Discovery Project: https://www.aclum.org/campaigns-initiatives/surveillance-discovery-project/

YouTube video of live stream https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=56-DCAHU29Y

Audio from live stream in case you don't want to use YouTube. To get it under 200mb and because nothing interesting is happening on the video i decide to remove it. https://files.catbox.moe/p2uiz0.mp3

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/49682374

Surprise Surprise Meta Lies Lies Lies ;)

cross-posted from: https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/64349462

The EU is about to sell our most sensitive data to the US for visa-free travel

Cross posted from https://mander.xyz/post/55420710

Cross posted from https://mander.xyz/post/55420709

...more Atlanta News First Investigates identified at least 19 Georgia cases in the past year involving alleged personal searches, including accusations of stalking. MORE ON THIS INVESTIGATION: atlantanewsfirst.com/2026/07/17/ai-audit-tool-flags-suspicious-police-searches-flock-misuse-cases-mount-georgia