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ma1.bsky.social
Giorgio Maone
@ma1.bsky.social
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Hacker, atheist, humanist, socialist, dad, mozillian, security breaker and builder, creator of NoScript, casting spells at the Tor Browser. He/him.
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leyrer.bsky.social
A cross-party group of lawmakers will urge the European Parliament to ditch internal use of Microsoft’s ubiquitous software in favor of a European alternative
www.politico.eu/article/get-...
#digitalsovereignty #digitalesouveränität
Get us off Microsoft! Lawmakers press EU Parliament to change in-house IT.
“We cannot afford this level of dependence on foreign tech,” lawmakers say in letter obtained by POLITICO.
www.politico.eu
November 30, 2025 at 7:48 PM
ma1.bsky.social
#NoScript 13.5 is out, with many user experience improvements, including

- new "cascade permissions" mode
- onboarding / site classification behavior panel
- many content #usability and #security enhancements re

Special thanks to @opentechfund.bsky.social for their strenuous support!

noscript.net
A screenshot of the new NoScript Onboarding / Site Classification Behavior page. Text: Welcome to NoScript! Site Classification Behavior Please select the way NoScript behaves when encountering unclassified sites. You can revisit this choice from the NoScript Options page and whenever you reset NoScript. - STRICT / Default Deny The traditional and most secure NoScript behavior: unclassified sites, marked as "DEFAULT", are NOT considered trusted. Potentially harmful capabilities, including scripts, are disabled. You can manually enable the sites you trust by opening the NoScript interface and marking them as "TRUSTED", or further customize their capabilities by selecting "CUSTOM". Cross-site protections are always enforced. - EASIER / Auto A compromise between security and convenience: the top level site, whose address is shown in the navigation bar, is automatically promoted to "Temporarily TRUSTED" unless already manually classified. 3d party sites still need to be classified manually. Cross-site protections are always enforced. - EASIEST / Default allow The most relaxed behavior: unclassified top-level sites are promoted to "Temporarily TRUSTED", and capabilities enabled for the top-level site are automatically cascaded to all its 3rd party unclassified sub-resources. Sites already classified as "UNTRUSTED" and "CUSTOM" are not affected. Cross-site protections are always enforced.
November 29, 2025 at 7:32 AM
ma1.bsky.social
"In Book X of The Republic, Plato excludes poets on the grounds that mimetic language can distort judgment and bring society to a collapse."

Adversarial Poetry as a Universal Single-Turn Jailbreak Mechanism in Large Language Models.

arxiv.org/html/2511.15...
Adversarial Poetry as a Universal Single-Turn Jailbreak Mechanism in Large Language Models
arxiv.org
November 20, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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ndrew.bsky.social
mr president sir theres a story coming about how you intervened to help a sex criminal. no sir, not that sex criminal you helped….no not that one either…sir, please stop guessing sex criminals that you helped. ill give you a hint sir, hes a trafficker. no sir, not that trafficker a different one
November 18, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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fabiosabatini.bsky.social
Quando la propaganda russa si fa strada nell'università e perché.
fabiosabatini.substack.com/p/la-fabbric...
La fabbrica della sfiducia
Dalle bugie del Cremlino alle bufale antivax: la propaganda autoritaria contemporanea non punta tanto a convincere, quanto a confondere e seminare sfiducia. Un trend che coinvolge anche l'università
fabiosabatini.substack.com
November 11, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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emptywheel.bsky.social
"JPMorgan on Monday said building AI infrastructure will cost more than $5tn"

Crazy idea: Why not, rather than spending $5 TRILLION dollars to pay for data centers to create fake brains, just pay actual human beings with real brains that same $5 trillion?
justinhendrix.bsky.social Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 20d
"Investors have been selling off the debt of US tech heavyweights, showing how jitters over Silicon Valley’s boom in spending on artificial intelligence have spilled into the bond market."
Investor angst over Big Tech’s AI spending spills into bond market
Debt issued by groups building data centres has been hit in recent weeks
www.ft.com
November 11, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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robertscotthorton.bsky.social
The tech bros get Trump to exercise extortionate demands on the EU to block regulatory initiatives. The tactic works flawlessly. www.ft.com/content/af6c...
EU set to water down landmark AI act after Big Tech pressure
Commission proposes pauses to provisions in digital rule book
www.ft.com
November 7, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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dittie.sheshed.rocks
It turns out that nobody will vote for you to care for their children when your leader AND HER HUSBAND get arrested for being sexual predators.
November 9, 2025 at 12:07 PM
ma1.bsky.social
Projection as a form of art.
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 25d
Mike Johnson: "If you run as a socialist, you run on a big list false claims. You promise everything to everyone, and you can't deliver, and if you were able to deliver it would be to the great detriment of the people you lured in to vote for you."
November 6, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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emma-briant.co.uk
This month Nathan Gill will be sentenced at the Old Bailey after pleading guilty to taking bribes to make statements in favour of Russia during his tenure as a member of the European parliament. This fascinating article discusses his close relationship to Farage. www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...
Reform UK, the Russian spy and rolls of Kremlin cash: the inside story of Nathan Gill
How did a former Mormon bishop end up pleading guilty to taking bribes to make statements in favour of Russia in the European parliament?
www.theguardian.com
November 1, 2025 at 11:14 AM
ma1.bsky.social
8 years ago: the pumpkin monster in chief 🎃 was already deranged, but not as much as now, and #WednesdayAddams was not on Netflix yet, but already a role model.

A merry and spooky #Halloween everyone! 🖤
A 31 October 2017 picture of @ma1 dressed and his daughter,dressed as Fester and Wednesday Addams.
October 31, 2025 at 8:18 AM
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murray.senate.gov
Speaker Johnson admits Trump & Republicans are forcing millions of kids to go hungry for political leverage. He says funding SNAP would "reduce the pressure" on Democrats. Disgusting.
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Oct 30
BASH: Even Hawley says you should move money around to feed people. Why not consider it?

JOHNSON: Because if you deviate from the goal of reopening the entire govt, Schumer & the radicals will continue to play games. If you do just part of this, it will reduce the pressure for them to do all of it
October 30, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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wellbillyboy.bsky.social
"The details of the agreement show it contains alarmingly few guardrails to ensure accuracy and scant specifics on how the data will be kept secure. Further, it explicitly does not bar DHS from deploying the SSA data for other purposes, including immigration enforcement."
DHS Agreement Reveals Risks of Using Social Security Data for Voter Citizenship Checks
A recently released agreement gives the Department of Homeland Security access to hundreds of millions of Americans’ Social Security data. It contains alarmingly few provisions to ensure accuracy and ...
www.propublica.org
October 30, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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josephcox.bsky.social
New incredible detail here: ICE says a match in its facial recognition app Mobile Fortify is a "definitive" determination of a person's status, and that this overrides birth certificates. This is an app ICE is using in the field to scan people

www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...
Ranking member of the House Homeland Security Committee Bennie G. Thompson said in a statement “Mobile Fortify is a dangerous tool in the hands of ICE, and it puts American citizens at risk of detention and even deportation.” He also said “ICE officials have told us that an apparent biometric match by Mobile Fortify is a ‘definitive’ determination of a person’s status and that an ICE officer may ignore evidence of American citizenship—including a birth certificate—if the app says the person is an alien. ICE using a mobile biometrics app in ways its developers at CBP never intended or tested is a frightening, repugnant, and unconstitutional attack on Americans’ rights and freedoms.”
October 29, 2025 at 3:03 PM
ma1.bsky.social
Make #fascists afraid again ✊

Also, TIL
libcom.org/article/vany...

#batman
From latest issue of Absolute Batman, a thug screaming "Pure power... White pow..." gets his arm broken by the dark knight.
October 29, 2025 at 4:27 PM
ma1.bsky.social
Based #Python Software Foundation, unlike those spineless big tech CEOs and founders, refuses to kiss #nazis' ass for (much needed) money 🫶🏼

Never like today it's time for #EU and democratic countries to step up and support critical #FOSS infrastructure.

pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/10/NSF-...
The PSF has withdrawn a $1.5 million proposal to US government grant program
pyfound.blogspot.com
October 28, 2025 at 11:48 AM
ma1.bsky.social
Powerful geek vibes in #Palermo today.
linuxday.thefreecircle.org/2025/en/

#linuxday #linuxday2025
@ma1 in a crowded theater, on the screen the Linux Day Palermo 2025 banner.
October 25, 2025 at 8:05 AM
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donmoyn.bsky.social
"No, we don't want a monarchy, we want a theocracy" is a not the flex they think it is.
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Oct 20
Chip Roy: "The truth is the marxist, radicals, and Islamists the Democratic Party promoted this weekend, they cannot handle the truth. The truth is that there is a king and that king is Jesus. And the president has been willing to say it, & Charlie Kirk was willing to say it & he got killed for it."
October 20, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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kedrickillian.bsky.social
The idea that there are activists and citizens who attend protests because it’s what they believe in is completely foreign to them. If it isn’t a personal grift, they don’t understand the motivation.
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Oct 13
Sean Duffy: "The No Kings protest, Maria, really frustrating. This is part of antifa, paid protesters. It begs the question who's funding it."
October 13, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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donmoyn.bsky.social
"30-year-old conservative lawyer and activist who is Trump’s nominee to lead the Office of Special Counsel, which deals with federal employee whistleblower complaints and discrimination" cancelled his colleague's hotel room so she would be forced to stay with him.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
In late July, Paul Ingrassia, the White House liaison for the Department of Homeland Security, arrived at a Ritz-Carlton in Orlando with a lower-ranking female colleague and others from their department. When the group reached the front desk, the woman learned she didn’t have a hotel room. Ingrassia then informed her that she would be staying with him, according to five administration officials familiar with the episode. Eventually the woman discovered that Ingrassia had arranged ahead of time to have her hotel room canceled so she would have to stay with him, three of those officials said.
October 10, 2025 at 1:14 AM
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dell.bsky.social
i’ve seen enough. and by that i mean lots of evidence. If you’re running an account that uses phrases like “antifascist,” or anything in the vicinity, the FBI, the NYPD, it doesn’t really matter, it’s all the same thing now, you’re on a watchlist.
October 11, 2025 at 9:31 AM
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mikeflanaganfilm.com
Pretty sure we’re living one
longfran15.bsky.social Franny Longbottom @longfran15.bsky.social · Oct 10
@mikeflanaganfilm.com can we get a George Orwell horror series?
October 10, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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justinbaragona.bsky.social
Incredible.

Jack Posobiec references the earliest version of antifa -- the anti-fascists in the Weimar Republic who were opposed to the Nazi Party -- as the bad guys.
October 8, 2025 at 8:16 PM
ma1.bsky.social
Apps being censored by corporate stores makes a great case for breaking free from centralized platforms & switching back to the open web.
And of course, for setting up onion services (community.torproject.org/onion-servic...) to prevent censorship and using the Tor Browser to stay anonymous.
October 8, 2025 at 3:58 PM
ma1.bsky.social
NoScript 13.1 is out.

- New wasm capability for per-site WebAssembly control

- Fix for some visual breakages where unrestricted CSS is off

- Best effort avoidance of extra tab bars for AI Chatbot sidebar detection

noscript.net/getit
Get it! - NoScript: Own Your Browser!
The NoScript Security Suite is Free Software protecting Firefox (on Android, too!), Chrome, Edge, Brave and other web browsers. Install NoScript now!
noscript.net
October 7, 2025 at 9:18 PM