++ This guest post is part of a spotlight series on the organizations defending the free Internet.++
Due to heavy information controls, people in Iran face significant barriers to accessing the Internet. Authorities have actively blocked numerous websites and apps, including conventional circumvention and digital security tools such as VPNs, social media platforms, and the app stores…
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Ente’s tweet gained a lot of attention and a huge wave of negative comments towards them appeared.
Proton AG asking Standard Notes founder to stop a new project — worth discussing
But hey… “rage bait marketing” (mirror) is all the rage, so
I’d say though, if you’re already satisfied with Ente’s product line & their feature evolution, don’t pay too much attention to the…
_This blog has been adapted from an excerpted section of 1Password’s ebook: Credential sprawl: How AI increases the risks. To read the complete ebook and learn more about the evolving challenges of credential sprawl,_ click here_._
The proliferation of credentials outside centralized visibility and control is known as “credential sprawl,” and attackers are eager to take advantage of…
A note to the very small handful of people who read and occasionally even repost the website blog items and articles that I've been syndicating from my website, where I'm currently writing this, to a small clickable link on a Mastodon post or a somewhat more human-readable excerpt on Bluesky:
As of today I will no longer be syndicating my content to my current Mastodon and Bluesky accounts at…
This could be the last time, this could be the last time, maybe the last time, I don't know
Exploring the origins of an incredibly dumb, Magic Eye-themed WHCD conspiracy theory.
At the end of each planning year, I always find myself asking the same question: what has actually changed?
Have we simply been busy? Or have we made real progress?
Looking back on 2025-26, I think we can say that this has been a year of real progress for the Policy Design Community.
A few years ago, policy design was still a relatively niche idea in government. There were talented people…
Coming from an alternative education background, I'm saddened to hear that Hampshire College is closing. I looked at attending Hampshire, and the friend of mine who I heard the news from went to the same orientation as I did and wound up going.
I didn't end up going there but always felt an affinity for the place. I believed in the model and in the need for small, funky schools, offering more…
trying to figure out how to get this thing to work.
Fediverse
Fediverse test test test 730pm
I credited a blog post to the personal blog of the pseudonymous Joel Chrono with giving me a concept for my new New Leaf Journal Blogroll. Because Joel Chrono’s post gave me an idea and I read his post because I subscribe to his RSS feed, I decided that his site should have the honor of being the first entry on my new Blogroll.
Joel Chrono’s website is available at https://joelchrono.xyz/. It…
@ngoldbaum is doing awesome work slaying Python's GIL and moving the entire ecosystem to the free-threading build. We also talked about burnout, Mercurial and Jujutsu. He likes PRs which remove 1k loc.
What are your thoughts on your own work? You get to do open source stuff and wanted to talk about this!
I discovered an unusual career niche and it's nice to show people it's possible.…
I've been working on the redesigned of the site over the last few weeks using Claude Code. I have always enjoyed working on website designs, and have a number of favorite custom designs in the history of Gathering in Light.
While he was in the process of being confirmed to run America’s public health policy, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. swore several times over that his heavily scrutinized 2019 visit to Samoa, and the island’s subsequent measles outbreak, had “nothing to do” with his vaccine skepticism.
Newly revealed emails, obtained by _The Guardian_ and the Associated Press, indicate that was not the case.
Emails sent…