Senate Dems Who Pushed Meatier ICE Reform Shy Away From Criticizing Schumer’s Softer Package ( theintercept.com )
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ICE and CBP’s Face-Recognition App (Mobile Fortify) Can’t Actually Verify Who People Are ( www.wired.com )
ICE has used Mobile Fortify to identify immigrants and citizens alike over 100,000 times, by one estimate. It wasn't built to work like that—and only got approved after DHS abandoned its own privacy rules.
DI.DAY is a Movement to Encourage People to Ditch Big Tech ( itsfoss.com )
Red Hat Plans to Add AI to Fedora and GNOME - Slashdot ( linux.slashdot.org )
hey, what the fuck!?...
Building OpenWatch: an open-source alternative to YouTube ( github.com )
I'm building OpenWatch, an open-source self-hosted video platform as an alternative to YouTube. It's designed for content creators who want to back up their content on their own infrastructure (in case of strikes) or for anyone who wants a personal video hosting solution....
Anna's Archive Loses .PM Domain, Adds Greenland (.GL) Backup ( torrentfreak.com )
The popular shadow library Anna's Archive has lost yet another domain name. The site's .pm domain was taken offline after international pressure on intermediaries continued to mount. That initially left the .li domain as the only option, but a Greenland-based backup was swiftly added.
Laptop randomly freezes. How to debug it?
Hi all, sorry if I post this the wrong place....
A new bill in New York would require disclaimers on AI-generated news content ( www.niemanlab.org )
TikTok's 'Addictive Design' Found to Be Illegal in Europe in breach of the Digital Services Act ( digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu )
The Commission's investigation preliminarily indicates that TikTok did not adequately assess how these addictive features could harm the physical and mental wellbeing of its users, including minors and vulnerable adults.
Donald Trump just shared an AI video to Truth Social depicting Barack and Michelle Obama as monkeys ( www.pennlive.com )
Europe Accuses TikTok of ‘Addictive Design’ and Pushes for Change ( www.nytimes.com )
Windscribe alleges warrantless seizure of VPN server by Dutch authorities ( cyberinsider.com )
New Objective Unlocked: Convince an astronaut to use the Fediverse from space ( www.theregister.com )
Trump posts video meme showing Barack, Michelle Obama as apes ( www.usatoday.com )
Self-Host Weekly (6 February 2026) ( selfh.st )
Hackathon this week 7-8 febuary ( piefed.social )
Hi everyone,...
Interview with a ‘Just use a VPS’ bro (OpenClaw version) ( youtu.be )
What police surveillance technology looks like in Cleveland ( signalcleveland.org )
Archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20260206123527/https://signalcleveland.org/what-police-surveillance-technology-looks-like-in-cleveland/
PSA: including a diff in your git commit message can lead to it being applied to the code ( github.com )
Self hosted alternatives to games like Wordle, Connections, and Skrbbl(dot)io?
Hi all, does anyone know of a good alternative to games like Wordle, Connection, and Skrbbl? Self-hosting puzzle and party games would be fun I think. Preferably options that have intuitive UI (else no one will use them!)...
VirtualBox upstream now supports KVM as a (still experimental) backend on Linux. ( www.phoronix.com )
