Unix: An Oral History(princeton.edu)

105 points by zdw 3 years ago | 20 comments

A Brutal Sex Trade Built for American Soldiers(nytimes.com)

20 points by karaokeyoga 3 years ago | 6 comments

LK-99: The live online race for a room-temperature superconductor(forums.spacebattles.com)

489 points by fofoz 3 years ago | 492 comments

A SpaceBattles forum thread discussing claims of the LK-99 room-temperature, ambient-pressure superconductor and the online efforts to replicate it.

Discussing CNET’s content-pruning to improve SEO ranking(tedium.co)

128 points by marban 3 years ago | 61 comments

The Eleuther AI Mafia(latent.space)

70 points by swyx 3 years ago | 38 comments

Insurance companies fill their networks with ‘ghost’ therapists(seattletimes.com)

81 points by apwheele 3 years ago | 70 comments

The CEO of Mullvad is the main financer of the Swedish Örebro party(det.social)

495 points by Risse 3 months ago | 1111 comments

A Mastodon post claiming Mullvad VPN's CEO is the main financer of the far-right Swedish Örebro party, linking a Flamman article.

Chat Control Must Be Stopped(privacyguides.org)

594 points by Improvement 1 year ago | 184 comments

Privacy Guides article urging readers to act against the EU's proposed Chat Control regulation, explaining what it is and why it harms privacy and children.

Mullvad exit IPs are surprisingly identifying(tmctmt.com)

521 points by RGBCube 5 months ago | 318 comments

Blog post explaining how Mullvad VPN deterministically assigns exit IPs based on a user's WireGuard key, making them usable as a fingerprinting vector.

ChatControl update: blocking minority held but Denmark is moving forward anyway(disobey.net)

459 points by nickslaughter02 1 year ago | 318 comments

Mastodon post relaying an ISOC Global Encryption Coalition update that the EU ChatControl blocking minority held while Denmark pushes the proposal to the October 14th JHA Council.

European Parliament decided that Chat Control 1.0 must stop(bsky.app)

526 points by lemoncookiechip 7 months ago | 119 comments

Bluesky post by Tuta announcing the European Parliament voted that Chat Control 1.0 must stop, ending Big Tech scanning of private messages in the EU from April 6, 2026.

Mozilla to UK regulators: VPNs are essential privacy and security tools(blog.mozilla.org)

737 points by WithinReason 5 months ago | 318 comments

Mozilla Open Policy & Advocacy blog post urging UK regulators not to undermine VPNs, arguing they are essential privacy and security tools.