@nils@hollo.weisensee.me
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Product Manager at OCCRP. Passionate about journalism, media management, and human rights. Former Chief Product Officer at Korea Risk Group and Head of Operations at Choson Exchange.
An absolutely insane story about when U.S. sanctions go wrong and seemingly name the wrong person.
conic.al
A fictitious Sean Byrne ended up on a U.S. government restricted-party list. Sixteen years later, Apple, Nasdaq and others have mistaken me for him.
The offline messaging apps challenging internet shutdowns
https://restofworld.org/2026/india-github-geoblock-jack-dorsey-bitchat/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into Latest Stories @latest-stories-restofworld
restofworld.org
Jack Dorsey’s Bluetooth messaging app surged during India’s internet blackout — and the government’s response suggests a new tech battleground.
Sehr praktisch im Urlaub, wenn man auf Datenstaubsauger wie Google Lens verzichten möchte:
Die recht junge App "Offline Translator" ist schon verdammt gut! Text, Bilder, Dokumente - komplett offline. Keine Anfragen werden an externe Server gesendet.
https://github.com/DavidVentura/offline-translator
Killer Feature ist die Live Video-Übersetzung. Eben wie Google Lens, nur datenschutzfreundlich. Das gab es meines Wissens bisher nicht als freie Software in der Qualität.
Details hier:
https://blog.davidv.dev/posts/mobile-translator-video/
#translation #ubersetzung #floss #foss #opensource #freiesoftware #fdroid #urlaub
blog.davidv.dev
Lens who?
"The historians [of the future] are our children. We will find no mercy from them."
-- Philipp Ruch
If you record someone’s conversation without letting them know, you’re putting them at risk.
https://werd.io/people-are-transcribing-your-conversations-without-asking-that-puts-you-at-risk/
werd.io
Apps like Granola make it easy to transcribe conversations without asking for consent. Those transcripts are a subpoena honeypot.
Don’t ask:
“What niche should I choose?”
Ask:
“What can I see because of where I’ve been - and who else desperately needs help seeing it too?”
That question will give you a body of work.
That’s a lot better than a “content” category.
https://www.joanwestenberg.com/p/dont-pick-a-writing-niche-find-the
joanwestenberg.com
How to build a niche from first principles
The future of privacy may come down to a very awkward sentence:
“Yes, I do mind. Please turn it the fuck off.”
joanwestenberg.com
Stop Bringing Your AI to Coffee
@iris_meredith Should we do that? Vote now on your phones!
A new modular Matrix client, Continuwuity of Theseus, experimental user status indicators coming to Element X, and a live P2P Matrix demo! This and more happened This Week in Matrix!
https://matrix.org/blog/2026/07/17/this-week-in-matrix-2026-07-17/
matrix.org
Matrix, the open protocol for secure decentralised communications
@matrix A hackable Matrix client? Love it!
European Password Manager Shares Origins and Updates with State-Certified Russian Firm
occrp.org
Passwork, a Spain-based password manager used by European government agencies and universities, shares technological ties with a Russian counterpart — an arrangement that experts say poses a state-level security risk.
Peace through strength. Cartoon for Dutch newspaper Trouw.
Cartoon showing the inside of a factory. On the top floor, eggs are hatching, and baby doves are carried to a hole in the floor by robot arms, where they are dropped to the story below. Here the doves get filled up with explosives, while another robot arm puts an olive branch in their beaks, before they are dropped a floor lower. Here they fall into the bottom half of a mold shaped like a missile, before the top half of the mold comes down and presses them into their final shape. Outside the factory, there is a sign that shows a muscular dove of peace with one paw on a pile of skulls and the text 'Peace through strength'. Missiles are loaded up to a fighter jet, while in the background we see another fighting jet already firing missiles into a ruined city on fire.
The co-founder of an Israeli cyber-intelligence company that developed the powerful Pegasus spyware entered Panama in December 2013 using an Israeli diplomatic passport, migration records obtained by journalists show.
@manlycoffee Public repo yet? I'm curious!
How long until someone creates a better mobile app for #Logseq? Please. It must be done. It could be you. It could be great.
Here's a brilliant essay about the abusive relationship we have with our phones. Go read it.
"A smartphone worthy of our love and trust would want the best for us and would actively help us to achieve it. [...] Instead of monetizing our distraction, a trustworthy smartphone would help us do the sustained intellectual and creative work that gives our life meaning. It would deepen and broaden our relationships, not exploit them for a social graph. It would dive into immersive storytelling and communication with the goal to make new ways for us to love and be loved."
conversationalist.org
Let’s face the truth. We are in an abusive relationship with our phones.
"If the app detects a Bluetooth signal from a nearby hardware device made by Meta or Snap, the app will send the user an alert."
https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/02/nearby-glasses-new-app-alerts-you-wearing-smart-glasses-surveillance-meta-snap-bluetooth/
techcrunch.com
A hobbyist developer's new app, which can detect nearby smart glasses, comes amid resistance to always-on recording and listening devices that invade people's privacy.
#Phandroid 2.0.2 has been released.
For those, that are interested: How does this work?
I have an cron job running that checks for upstream ( @phanpy ) releases every 6 hours, pulls the changes, builds the apk and pushes the build to my staging environment.
I test it manually and (when satisfied) then push the release to the Codeberg repository which makes it available to Obtainium (or for manual installs).
https://codeberg.org/umrath/Phandroid/releases/tag/v2.0.2
(Reminder: 2.0.0 had a breaking change!)
codeberg.org
Flohmarkt is a free open platform for small ads and selling things ("Flohmarkt" is the German for flea market). It's part of the Fediverse so the small ads can federate to other servers, and people can interact with Flohmarket from Mastodon etc accounts.
If you want to post an advert there is a server list:
🌱 https://codeberg.org/flohmarkt/flohmarkt/wiki/flohmarkt-instances
There is technical info on their Codeberg page:
🌱 https://codeberg.org/flohmarkt/flohmarkt
You can follow their lead dev's account at:
codeberg.org
federated decentral classified ad software using activitypub
You don't have to censor a newsroom to censor the news. You just have to penalize those who share it.
Protecting press freedom must mean protecting everyone who reads, circulates, and discusses reporting.
https://freedom.press/issues/the-government-wants-to-scare-americans-out-of-sharing-the-news/
freedom.press
The Department of Homeland Security has a new tactic to suppress reporting: silence people who repost information from news stories
@paolo I don't know the area but I do know how to identify ridge lines :)
📝 My Tweetdeck-like app for Mastodon/Bluesky, FediDeck is starting to pick up users. Excited for this.
Check it out here: https://fedideck.app and help sustain it here: https://ko-fi.com/fedideck
@paolo Weggis or Vitznau, on Lake Lucerne, Switzerland, looking toward Mount Pilatus
Let me propose the humbly-named Tinworth’s Law:
"The amount of actual good, useful and productive work an individual is doing is inversely proportional to the amount of noise they are making on LinkedIn."
What do you think?
Wir setzen uns für das EU-Grundrecht der Freizügigkeit ein – auch wenn die Bundesregierung es missachtet. Unterstütze uns jetzt dabei. Werde jetzt Fördermitglied: https://freiheitsrechte.org/mitmachen
freiheitsrechte.org
Jetzt erfahren, wie dein Einsatz für Grund- und Menschenrechte aussehen kann.
Everyone's using AI to write code faster. Almost nobody's using it to write code better. It's where the next wave of breaches and a 2am page will come from... So I built something to help myself, and I'm putting it out there.
It's a Claude Code skill called senior-engineering-partner. It's not autocomplete. It's the strict senior engineer who reviews your pull request, asks why you skipped the tests, and won't let you ship a hardcoded secret because you were "just prototyping."
A few things it does:
・ Enforces a real workflow. Agree on the spec, plan in verifiable steps, write the test first, then prove the work before calling it done.
・ Holds a security floor that never moves. Whether you're prototyping or running in production, the secrets and input-validation basics stay non-negotiable. Cheap doesn't mean insecure.
・ Refuses to hallucinate. It verifies claims about your environment by running a real command, rather than inventing a flag or an API that sounds right.
・ Switches modes depending on how you call it: reviewer, debugger, mentor, or pair programmer.
It's open source under Apache-2.0, stack-agnostic, and built around Python, Bash, Apps Script, and JavaScript.
Here's my ask. Use it. Then tell me where it's wrong. I want the good feedback and the brutal feedback, plus any capability you wish it had. The whole point is to encode what senior engineers actually do, and I'd rather hear it breaks on your stack than find out later.
What would you want a skill like this to enforce?
https://github.com/bjgreenberg/senior-engineering-partner
#ClaudeCode #AI #SoftwareEngineering #AppDev #DevOps #security #privacy #cloud #infosec #cybersecurity
"What do you want to do?"
The new https://fediverse.info will be a powerful onboarding resource, and is shipping later this week!
New fediverse.info redesign, showing the new Apps page
Our @jacob has just released an MCP token that alerts on connection (or on specific MCP Calls).
You can check out his brief blog post at https://blog.thinkst.com/2026/06/one-for-all-the-models-out-there.html.
The token is available completely free¹ on https://canarytokens.org
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¹ As always
