Brutkey

Tuta
@Tutanota@mastodon.social

Age verification is spreading like cancer.

First they came for adults site and social media; now they are already discussing about putting VPNs and app stores behind #AgeVerfication 🇬🇧🇦🇺

What’s sold as “online safety” means #surveillance via IDs checks or face scans.

Privacy & anonymity protect journalists, whistleblowers & activists.

We must fight against age verification - or the free web dies!

👉 More: https://tuta.com/blog/age-verification-kills-anonymity

Veronica Explains
@vkc@linuxmom.net

Learn to self host now. While you still can.

Adam Demasi
@kirb@hachyderm.io

In 2009, Microsoft made it a focus of the Windows 7 user experience guidelines to reduce pointless notifications. They point out notifications like the classic “There are unused icons on your desktop” as being in the Windows XP Hall of Shame™. Seriously, it’s in there: https://learn.microsoft.com/windows/win32/uxguide/mess-notif

In 2026, Windows interrupts you to ask if you want to clean up printers you haven’t used in a while. The intent is unclear (which printers?), there are too many choices, and it stays visible until you click an option.

For a good while, Microsoft were limping their way to good UX, and this doc was finally a clear set of guidelines. Now, it feels like they’ve slipped back into the Windows XP Hall of Shame™ era, and any good UX they happen to come up with is an accident.

#windows #windows11

KDE
@kde@floss.social

You don't need to pay Apple or start a new subscription to unleash your creativity. We asked creatives what free software they use to get the job done and here are their picks.

A thread 🧵

#creativity #design #audio #art #video

The New Oil
@thenewoil@mastodon.thenewoil.org

Government U-turns on mandatory digital ID cards for workers

https://news.sky.com/story/government-u-turns-on-mandatory-digital-id-cards-for-workers-13493917

#privacy #UK

Soatok Dreamseeker
@soatok@furry.engineer

This is a good move for Bandcamp.

https://consequence.net/2026/01/bandcamp-bans-all-ai-music/

LibreWolf
@librewolf@chaos.social

To support Firefox' changes to (finally! ;) respect XDG directories, LibreWolf sticks to ~/.librewolf if it already exists, for backward compatibility; but will use $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/librewolf otherwise.

Unfortunately, we've also had to drop 32bit builds for Windows starting with this release.

See https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/147.0/releasenotes/ for upstream changes.

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LibreWolf
@librewolf@chaos.social

LibreWolf @librewolf@chaos.social

#LibreWolf v147.0-1 is now available!

https://codeberg.org/librewolf/bsys6/releases/tag/147.0-1

https://librewolf.net/installation/

Notable Changes:

Thanks to our two new core contributors (<3) we've now fully moved our CI and main release artifacts to @Codeberg@social.anoxinon.de! (this might be relevant to check for any downstream packagers) and managed to tackle a whole bunch of other long-open issues!

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Sue is Writing Solarpunk 🌞🌱
@susankayequinn@wandering.shop

the kids remain undefeated