So, until I can get the passport working as ID, my iPhone is feature-limited.

I can live without the ability to download 18+ apps.

The ability to make in-app purchases? That's a bit more severe; there are plenty of things you can buy in-app that aren't porn or loot boxes.

And until I can somehow get this fixed, I'm a child.

To add insult to injury, I tried to look at the Apple community for similar reports and got this...

Apparently, tech support is for grownups!

Whoop de fucking doo. 2/2

The US government just banned consumer routers made outside the US

https://www.theverge.com/news/899172/fcc-foreign-router-ban

#cybersecurity #politics

🇪🇺They’ve forced a re-vote: tomorrow at 11:00 the European Parliament votes again on #ChatControl mass scanning. Liberals are divided, Socialists&ECR voted with EPP: https://mepwatch.eu/10/vote.html?v=189877
A quick phone tomorrow call might still change minds:
👉 https://fightchatcontrol.eu

🇮🇹Che ipocrisia! Roma frena il #ChatControl nel Consiglio UE, ma oggi Fratelli d'Italia, Lega e Forza Italia hanno forzato una nuova votazione dopo il NO del Parlamento! https://mepwatch.eu/10/vote.html?v=189877&country=it
Domani ore 11 il voto finale. Chiamateli stasera: 👉 fightchatcontrol.de 📞

GitHub is apparently going to start using your data for model training unless you intentionally opt out of it: https://github.blog/news-insights/company-news/updates-to-github-copilot-interaction-data-usage-policy/

It looks like this is mostly just limited to interactions with Copilot itself, but I'd turn it off anyway just to be safe...

🇪🇺 🚨11 AM #ChatControl vote: They want to crush our privacy. Pirate @marketkag.bsky.social won't surrender, and neither should you. 🏴‍☠️

Call your wavering socialist, liberal and national conservative MEPs right now. Win or lose today, they need to know we will NEVER accept mass surveillance of our private chats. Act:

☎️ https://fightchatcontrol.eu #StopScanningMe

🇮🇹 🚨 Ore 11, voto sul #ChatControl: vogliono distruggere la nostra privacy. La Pirata @marketkag.bsky.social non si arrende, non fatelo nemmeno voi! 🏴‍☠️

Chiamate subito gli eurodeputati di Fratelli d'Italia, Lega e Forza Italia. Che si vinca o si perda oggi, devono sapere che non accetteremo MAI la sorveglianza di massa delle nostre chat private. Agite:

☎️ https://fightchatcontrol.eu #StopScanningMe

You did it! 🥳

European Parliament just decided that Chat Control 1.0 must stop.

This means on April 6, 2026, Gmail, LinkedIn, Microsoft and other Big Techs must stop scanning your private messages in the EU. #PrivacyWins 💪

🇪🇺

✅ #ChatControl stopped - mass scans end on April 4!

❌ But: Age verification and new mass scans loom ahead.

How we narrowly won today's voting thriller, who voted how, and how the fight for digital freedom continues:

https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/end-of-chat-control-eu-parliament-stops-mass-surveillance-in-voting-thriller-paving-the-way-for-genuine-child-protection/

Chat Control 1 is dead. Let’s end Chat Control 2.

Members of The European Parliament: stand firm in your position – no mass surveillance whatsoever!

“To opt out, GitHub users should visit /settings/copilot/features and disable "Allow GitHub to use my data for AI model training" under the Privacy heading.” https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/26/github_ai_training_policy_changes/

FOSS community - you are really acting like a bunch of shitty bratty children over this whole systemd userdb birth date thing.

Grow the fuck up asshats. It is such an embarrassment to be associated with people who resort to "tactics" such as these.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bAN4Jam974

#systemd #linux #tech

Graphene non ti chiederà mai l’età, nemmeno se obbligata

GrapheneOS ha dichiarato che non si conformerà alle nuove leggi sull'age verification in Brasile e negli Stati Uniti. Niente dati personali, niente account, anche a costo di essere esclusi da interi mercati.

https://yoota.it/graphene-non-ti-chiedera-mai-leta-nemmeno-se-obbligata/

Una piattaforma moderna, gratuita e open source per chattare, chiamare e creare community senza compromessi. Fluxer mette davvero al centro chi lo usa. #Software #Fluxer #Voip #Linux

https://www.linuxeasy.org/fluxer-la-piattaforma-open-source-per-chat-e-chiamate-pensata-per-le-community/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=jetpack_social

It's time for this week's #Linux and #OpenSource News video, this time with a big segment on Age Verification on Linux, since this thing is escalating, with projects saying they'll never comply with these laws, and others looking at ways to support them.

We also have SteamOS moving to Wayland, Ubuntu making a few interesting moves, and more !

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYtqghw3LVY

Brazil's authoritarian age verification law became active this month. It won't be implemented by GrapheneOS. Complying would require integrating a mandatory process for each user where a third party service checks government identification and confirms a match using the camera.

if you're using AI regularly to generate text/presentations that you intend to use persuasively i don't think i can trust a single thing you say. Where does the AI end and the human begin?

I think this is why im so against AI generated commit messages especially if the code was written by a human, you wrote the code so you should be able to demonstrate that you understand what the change does and why.

If you're deferring that to an AI and you made a subtle logic error that it decides to justify for you suddenly we have obfuscated our own fucking zero days. Good luck finding the bug if the commit message describes the error as if it was intentional.

For general text, if you start with the conclusion and let the AI write the justification then there is no justification!!! Details matter, having a paper trail for decision making matters.

I wonder how many executives will escape the consequences of their white collar crimes by blaming AI.

AI zombification is coming and it's going to create a distinct difference in communication styles between those who do and don't use it, honestly that point is already here.

And we're gonna find out yet again that marx was right when it becomes clear that AI usage correlates with class lines.

the idea that the web ecosystem isn't "open" anymore because of complexity is ridiculous. anyone can still write basic html and javascript and get a site working. you don't have to use flexbox. you could just use nested tables. nobody gives a shit

the web ecosystem isn't open anymore because 5 planet spanning companies richer than god monopolize it now and you can't fix that by buying into the AI slop those very companies are peddling

https://www.techdirt.com/2026/03/25/ai-might-be-our-best-shot-at-taking-back-the-open-web/