Free thoughts, free software, and freedom itself.
Watch the full video on the Internet we lost: Once upon a time, the Internet was a chaotic playground for hackers, nerds, and weirdos. Curiosity mattered, memes were handcrafted, and your homepage didn’t spy on your every move. Now? Peak capitalism has fully arrived. Corporations centralized control, stuffing every corner of the web with ads, tracking pixels, and algorithmic manipulation designed…
Apple’s crying to the European Court because the Digital Markets Act wants them to make their devices work with others. They call it “expropriation.” The Free Software Foundation Europe calls it “common sense.” Interoperability means your hardware and software can actually communicate, share data, and function together without a corporate permission slip. It is what makes the digital world open…
For years, we have been preaching about free software. We replaced Windows with GNU/Linux, dumped Chrome for Firefox, and escaped cloud traps like Google Docs for LibreOffice. But there is one device still completely under corporate control: the glowing rectangle in your hand that listens, tracks, and tattles. Yeah, your phone. Even if you flash LineageOS or ditch Google Play, your phone is still…
Yeah right. You care so much that you text me in the middle of the night about a “special discount” for car insurance when I don’t even own a damn car. Iranian phone advertising is not just annoying, it’s a national-level harassment program. These people don’t stop. They text, they call, they message, they stalk. If pigeons could carry phones, they’d train them too. They have zero respect. None.…
Because apparently freedom of speech stops where feathers begin. So here’s the new crime of the century: five parrots in a British zoo started swearing at people. Scandalous. They said bad words, laughed about it, and suddenly everyone lost their minds. The zoo decided to separate them because apparently, freedom of speech stops where feathers begin. It’s hilarious. Humans scream about freedom all…
The intro: when your access-control tool turns into a root access giveaway booth. Twelve. Years. Of Root Roulette Imagine this: a tiny bug in the --host option quietly snoozing for over a decade, politely letting users tiptoe past access controls. Twelve years of false confidence in a security fortress made of duct tape and blind faith. And Then Came the Chroot Apocalypse Next came the --chroot…
It finally clicked for me the other day when our friend Omid , the gym coach, started preaching about how the human body and mind are basically one big predictable system. He was talking about hormones, stress, protein intake, and mental states like he was reading straight out of a user manual. And that is when it hit me: humans are just biological computers, and we run on fuzzy logic. Omid the…
So, you’re a normal citizen . You don’t build bombs in your basement, you don’t run a shadow cartel, you just… exist. Congrats. You’ve unlocked premium status in the great casino of surveillance capitalism. You pay with your data, they cash out with billions, and you smile proudly: “I have nothing to hide.” That’s adorable. Like a goldfish saying, “I have nothing against living in a glass bowl.”…
hi. lately, i’ve been slipping in and out of nightmares, some while sleeping, some while wide awake. the kind that leave you frozen. the kind that don’t need monsters because your own mind knows exactly what to show you. i’ve been having a hard time talking to people. like every word feels like too much friction. like the effort of explaining myself costs more than it’s worth. i try. but it gets…
Working at my current company is a bit like being the only person with a flashlight in a cave full of people who think shadows are real and light is a conspiracy. I shine the beam, they squint and recoil, then confidently suggest I should make it more user friendly . To be fair, the company isn’t evil. They’re not malicious. They’re just catastrophically unqualified to be near anything that runs…
Where Your Latte Comes with a Side of Surveillance Welcome to the dystopian café experience you didn’t ask for. NeuroSpot, a company that clearly thought “Black Mirror” was a business plan, is now turning your local coffee shop into a full-blown surveillance lab. That’s right, AI is now tracking barista productivity, customer behavior, foot traffic, and even satisfaction. In real time. Because…
Remember that guy who sold me the MikroTik router and thought changing the admin password made him some kind of off-brand CIA contractor? Yeah. Still haven’t called him back. Never will. I don’t need him. I needed revenge. So, after nuking the router’s config like a war crime and spending hours resurrecting it from the grave I lovingly dug, I decided it was time to make it do something useful.…
Let me talk about something that’s been eating at me for a while. A few years ago, I managed to buy a legit copy of a game. Not pirated. Paid real money. Jumped through all the hoops. VPN on, foreign payment gateway, fake address in a random European village. The whole hacker in the matrix experience, just to buy a game like a “normal” human being. It worked. I was excited. For exactly two days.…
I bought fake AirPods. Not “budget” AirPods. Not “alternative” AirPods. Fake. The forbidden fruit of tech consumerism. I used them for six months. They played music. The battery lasted. Life went on. The mic? Not great. But guess what? Neither is the mic on my friend’s real AirPods that cost ten times more. So basically, we’re both shouting into overpriced plastic. Today, I casually mentioned my…
So, the brainiacs at the University of Southern California finally did it. They used one of IBM’s fancy 127-qubit quantum computers and solved a puzzle that would make your average classical computer cry itself to sleep. The headline? Quantum machines are exponentially faster. That means the speed difference doesn’t just grow a little, it explodes like your grandma’s cooking when she forgets the…
RAR files suck. Not just in a "mild inconvenience" kind of way, but in a "why are you still a thing" way. Let’s talk about it. First, ZIP files. They're simple, clean, and just work. On Linux, you run unzip and boom, you’re in. On Windows, you double-click and it opens like a folder. Even macOS plays along. No weird errors. No rituals. Just your files, ready to go. ZIP is the golden retriever of…
Scattered Spider is now hijacking airlines and executive accounts using the most advanced hacking tool known to man: a phone call. That’s right. No malware, no exploits, no USBs taped under desks. Just a bored teenager with a LinkedIn tab open and a decent fake voice saying, “Hi, I’m the CFO, I forgot my MFA, help?” And the help desk, trained for exactly zero seconds in basic skepticism, says, “Of…
So I bought this MikroTik router from a guy who apparently thinks he works for the CIA. Because instead of, you know, giving me the admin credentials like a normal human being, he changed them. Without telling me. Like it's some sort of top-secret government-issued router and I'm just some civilian who should be grateful it even powers on. Naturally, I call him. Politely, of course. By politely I…
I was all set to travel to Canada for FSF40 to talk about software freedom, community resilience, and how Iranian techies are basically magicians for building anything under a digital iron curtain. My elevator pitch was ready, bags half-packed, heart full of hope. And then… Middle East happened Iran and Israel decided to play "12 Days of Boom" — a festive little exchange of missiles, blackouts,…
Iranian hackers just wrapped up a two-year all-inclusive stay inside a Middle Eastern critical infrastructure network—brought to you by unpatched VPNs, open-source malware, and sheer audacity. From May 2023 to Feb 2025, our guests of honor (aka Lemon Sandstorm, formerly known as Pioneer Kitten—seriously, pick a name) waltzed in via old Fortinet/Pulse bugs, dropped web shells like confetti, and got…
Hey, world. Delta here. So… we’re in the middle of what feels like digital trench warfare in Iran. For ages, I wanted to start a blog — but let’s be real, procrastination is my default runtime. Today, I finally rage-quit the excuses and booted up Delta Libre — a space where I can speak freely, post recklessly, and hopefully not get firewalled into oblivion. If you’re a fellow blogger or digital…
python just sucks, thats it. Let me get one thing straight: I don’t dislike Python because it’s a bad language. I dislike Python because it tricked me. It pretended to be my friend. At first, it was all sunshine and print("Hello, world!"). Indentation felt elegant. Lists were easy. No curly braces? Cute! Until I blinked wrong and the whole thing crashed because I mixed tabs and spaces like some…