A blog page for my own stuff, mostly about Linux and tech in general and politics.
Governments around the world have been pushing for mandatory age verification for online services for the past few years, and I’ll be direct: most of this is utter bullshit that will cripple your privacy and anonymity, all while achieving next to nothing to “protect the children!!!!”, as the people in favour of this like to exclaim. Age verification doesn’t have to be a privacy footgun, but I ...
With the recent tariffs Trump has been mindlessly applying, the only reasonable move is to counter them with our own to avoid collaboration with the insane American government, however German finance minister Jörg Kukies warns “We simply have to be cautious with digital corporations because we have no real alternatives to the offering by the American digital industry”, mentioning data centres f...
I have been working on Lemvotes, a tool to check who voted on a Lemmy post. In this blog post, I will describe how it works and the ethics of such a tool. Why I made Lemvotes Due to the way the fediverse works, virtually all your activity is public. That includes the votes you have cast. The API for listing the votes on a post is admin-only, however anyone could set up an instance and get the...
People are becoming more and more apathetic to how their data is being collected and used, and I find that disturbing. With every addition to the tracking and sale of their data they act like it doesn’t matter; “what would they use my data for?” What they would use your data for Contrary to popular belief, your data matters to advertising companies like Google and Meta. Everything they do has...
Ingredients Pesto (200g) One garlic bulb pasta (500g) Cheese (1:2 ratio of gauda or something similar and parmesan) Salt Olive oil (two spoons) Oregano (optional) Olive oil with truffles (optional) Preparation Cut the garlic into small pieces and grate the cheeses. Cook the pasta as listed on the package. When straining the pasta, make sure to save some (1dl) pasta water ...