tired_fedora

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/50271895

Anyone know if and when the organizers will make a printer-friendly running order available for WOA 2026? Has anyone made one that they are willing to share?

The ones I can find are all online or through apps. Laminated paper has proven more reliable on previous occasions... Thanks for your input. Rain or shine!

Reddit has begun rolling out mandatory age verification for any NSFW content, as well as for some social media functions, if the AI determines you might be under a certain age.

Another good day to be on Lemmy... until the surveillance capitalist tech overlords lobby enough to get their great firewall of the West, anyway.

Further reading:

• https://support.reddithelp.com/hc/en-us/articles/50368431806484-European-Union-Digital-Services-Act-DSA
• https://cybernews.com/security/eu-age-verification-app-hack/
• https://piunikaweb.com/2026/02/19/persona-age-verification-surveillance-allegations/
• https://support.reddithelp.com/hc/en-us/articles/23595536875796-Digital-Services-Act-DSA-Information-for-EU-users

I just hit an "are you a bot" captcha screen on mojeek. At first I was shocked that mojeek, beloved search engine of the privacy crowd, would go down that path: Blocking people who use VPN and a minimal-fingerprint browser just because. However, reading the footnote and digging around a little, Mojeek seems to use Altcha, which can be self-hosted without any external calls or data sharing. https://altcha.org/docs/v2/sentinel/features/threat-intelligence/

While I can't say I identify as a threat quite now (to Mojeek, anyway), I can see how adding a little friction for the bots and scrapers out there can be a good thing for the web overall. As long as this doesn't happen on every second search and as long as the data stay where they belong, I'm chill with it. Peace out.

Edit: I now started to regularly receive a full access blocked page instead of a captcha. If anyone at Mojeek reads this: Folks, you can't claim to be "a search engine that does what's right, that values and respects your privacy" and block access because I'm using VPN and a minimal fingerprint browser. It doesn't work like that.

I was recently web searching for the EFF tool that checks how unique your fingerprint is. During that search, I stumbled upon the URL linked below. It was such a weird experience to see all the things that privacy advocates, like people in this community, complain / warn about from the other side of the aisle: How do you prevent people from exerting their right to privacy because you have dollar signs tattooed into your eyeballs. Gave me a spooky feeling I wanted to share. This relates to my previous vent about a hostile web, specifically how it gets harder and harder to use big parts of the web that used to be free and accessible if you are privacy conscious. Companies like Abstract, together with their attention merchant customers, are responsible for that. Of course their services are not perfect but it's a cat and mouse of big corpo vs small users and a handful of non-profits.

A quote from the 2023 movie "The Pope's Exorcist" comes to mind, even though it might be a little fatalistic:

"Ah, the other two percent,” Father Amorth replies solemnly. “That is something that has confounded all of science and all of medicine for a very long time. I call it…evil." (cited via).

Link to the tracking enabling company proudly advertising their services. Take a look at their services in the attached photo and despair.

This is just a vent. Disregard if not interested. Since I started my DeGoogle journey, I

• switched to a more trustworthy VPN that I use more stringently than before;
• deconvoluted personal and work accounts;
• deleted third-party Google logins and set up email / PW logins instead for corporate sites that I do use; I also started using
• NextTube;
• Lemmy;
• Matrix;
• DuckDuckGo, Qwant;
• LibreWolf, IronFox, Mullvad Browser;
• more open source productivity programs, where work admins permit;
• avoid AI use or use locally-hosted or responsibly managed AI where it actually gives me a productivity benefit.

The more I DeGoogle, the more the wonderful rainbow land that should be the internet just starts to feel like a deep dark forest where everything is purposefully designed to exploit the user or wall them off. It's tiring. User name checks out, I guess. Thanks for listening to my rant, please go on with your -hopefully- wonderful days now.

Every day I read something that makes me feel a little more like I'm living in a cyberpunk dystopia. Today it's the fact that Chromium is so dominant that a large number of website developers seem to ditch testing in non-Chromium browsers. This is evidenced by non-Chromium browsers, like Firefox, loading some sites differently, e.g., by pretending to be Chromium, because the website developers wrote sloppy code that only works in Chromium. So I guess, especially with the announced anti-adblock in the next Chromium iteration, the choice is to use a low performance browser that is actively hurting your privacy, or experience friction, knowing that Mozilla can't find and carpet over all the bugs in other people's code. For me, the answer remains Firefox and it's forks. However, for many, I fear this will ingrain Chromium dominance deeper and deeper. Please: how is this market dominance, evidence by soft-forced hot fixes only in non-Chromium browsers, not anti-trust?

Device-level ID but unchecked bots are the digital equivalent of the Amazon wage cage: The fragile human meat sack must be contained to survive an internet landscape optimized for machines.

Hi there. I'm looking for advice to improve my online privacy while browing on android. I'm currently using vanilla Firefox, strict enhanced Tracking protection (fix major site errors), HTTPS-only mode, default dns, no technical data collection, delete cookies / cache / page data on quit. As extensions, I use only Decentraleyes and uBlock extensions. However, I heard vague warnings from the privacy community about using vanilla Firefox with self-hardened privacy-conscious settings, because my settings and yours might be sligthtly different, introducing entropy that can be used for fingerprinting. The only browser I recognize by name on F-Droid is LibreLynx Lite, which is barely customizable (e.g., no 'decline cookies' or 'delete cookies on restart' setting without subscribing to pro) and was last updated 7 months ago. People on the web recommend 'Mull for android', but that was last updated in 2024 and is not on F-droid anymore. I am not generally opposed but a little candid about using Brave or DuckDuckGo Browser, as these are built on Chromium and I would prefer to stay within the Firefox ecosystem. I am also naively a fan of 'hiding in the crowd': using a common browser / what looks like a common browser to a web page being more private than using a super niche one.

Any well-supported security-hardened Firefox forks on Android to speak of? Any other recommendations?

Thanks for your thoughts.