Dropsafe

by Alec Muffett

Tag: open source

This is absolute perfection: UBUNTU SECURE BOOT AGE VERIFICATION | Hacker.House

2026/03/20
Journalists! Why you should not bother wasting your/everyone’s time covering “Age Verification” on Linux: The “Tug of War” Theory of Open Source

2026/03/04
Question: how will this supposed UK Digital ID work for people who use rooted phones and open source operating systems with alternative app stores, as demanded in the EU Digital Services Act?

2025/09/26
Making Britain “the safest place to be online” by putting all Britons in a cage… this is not a positive message about our country, and UK Civil Society is complicit

2025/07/30
AI “Safety” researchers finally have to face the question of whether they want LLMs to be *good* at state censorship, or to be *bad* at state censorship?

2025/02/02
Dan Brickley on Bluesky: “Testing DeepSeek R1 censorship UI (mobile web), since it will get heavy use worldwide” | …thread with multiple screenshots

2025/01/24
Speaking as a former Sun Microsystems employee, I look forward to Chrome being purchased by (e.g.) Oracle & taken closed-source, thereby killing an entire browser ecosystem

2024/11/19
Once Linux’s Biggest Enemy: Darl McBride Dies and Nobody Notices | FOSS Force

2024/11/04
It’s nice to see Ciaran Martin RTing Yann LeCun on AI Doomerism, and worth quoting in full

2024/05/28
GitHub Copilot is not infringing your copyright | Felix Reda | …essential debunking of “AI-generated content is derivative work” and other myths

2024/05/08
The software liability debate, writ small:

2024/04/04
Should Western Democracies ban the general public from learning about, using, or building their own AI technologies? | POLITICO

2024/03/26