Maximilian Ast
@maximilianast.com
Scuba Diver 🤿 | Software Architect 🧑💻
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Last chance to turn it off.
On Monday, November 3rd, Microsoft will start using your LinkedIn data for AI training. And remember, you're opted in by default.
To toggle it off 👉 Account - Settings & Privacy > Data privacy > Data for Generative AI Improvement.
On Monday, November 3rd, Microsoft will start using your LinkedIn data for AI training. And remember, you're opted in by default.
To toggle it off 👉 Account - Settings & Privacy > Data privacy > Data for Generative AI Improvement.
October 31, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Last chance to turn it off.
On Monday, November 3rd, Microsoft will start using your LinkedIn data for AI training. And remember, you're opted in by default.
To toggle it off 👉 Account - Settings & Privacy > Data privacy > Data for Generative AI Improvement.
On Monday, November 3rd, Microsoft will start using your LinkedIn data for AI training. And remember, you're opted in by default.
To toggle it off 👉 Account - Settings & Privacy > Data privacy > Data for Generative AI Improvement.
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The Stop Killing Games movement says it has verified almost half the signatures on its EU petition, and is “confident" that it will be debated in the European Parliament.
The UK petition is set for a parliamentary debate on 3 November 2025.
The UK petition is set for a parliamentary debate on 3 November 2025.
Stop Killing Games Has Verified Almost Half of Its EU Signatures
Waiting only on France and Germany, 15 countries have met their verification threshold with only 3% of signatures failing
thisweekinvideogames.com
October 29, 2025 at 9:07 AM
The Stop Killing Games movement says it has verified almost half the signatures on its EU petition, and is “confident" that it will be debated in the European Parliament.
The UK petition is set for a parliamentary debate on 3 November 2025.
The UK petition is set for a parliamentary debate on 3 November 2025.
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It looks like the EU won’t put an end to end-to-end encryption (for now)! ✊
🇪🇺Germany's Minister of Justice today: "Suspicionless #chatcontrol must be taboo in a state governed by the rule of law." Private communication cannot be placed under general suspicion. "Germany will not agree to such proposals at the EU level." […]
Original post on digitalcourage.social
digitalcourage.social
October 8, 2025 at 2:50 PM
It looks like the EU won’t put an end to end-to-end encryption (for now)! ✊
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Spotify is now instituting face scans and ID checks ... to listen to music.
Porn was only ever the excuse. The only thing that surprises me is how quickly the government surveillance mandate has spread to absolutely every service we use.
www.404media.co/spotify-uk-a...
Porn was only ever the excuse. The only thing that surprises me is how quickly the government surveillance mandate has spread to absolutely every service we use.
www.404media.co/spotify-uk-a...
Spotify Is Forcing Users to Undergo Face Scanning to Access Explicit Content
Submit to biometric face scanning or risk your account being deleted, Spotify says, following the enactment of the UK's Online Safety Act.
www.404media.co
July 30, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Spotify is now instituting face scans and ID checks ... to listen to music.
Porn was only ever the excuse. The only thing that surprises me is how quickly the government surveillance mandate has spread to absolutely every service we use.
www.404media.co/spotify-uk-a...
Porn was only ever the excuse. The only thing that surprises me is how quickly the government surveillance mandate has spread to absolutely every service we use.
www.404media.co/spotify-uk-a...
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Is your doorbell becoming an AI-ASSISTED SNITCH?
Ring doorbells and cameras will use AI to "learn the routines of your residence" using a feature known as Video Descriptions.
Terrifying, especially given their relationship with the law: protonvpn.com/blog/amazon-...
Ring doorbells and cameras will use AI to "learn the routines of your residence" using a feature known as Video Descriptions.
Terrifying, especially given their relationship with the law: protonvpn.com/blog/amazon-...
June 27, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Is your doorbell becoming an AI-ASSISTED SNITCH?
Ring doorbells and cameras will use AI to "learn the routines of your residence" using a feature known as Video Descriptions.
Terrifying, especially given their relationship with the law: protonvpn.com/blog/amazon-...
Ring doorbells and cameras will use AI to "learn the routines of your residence" using a feature known as Video Descriptions.
Terrifying, especially given their relationship with the law: protonvpn.com/blog/amazon-...
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It sucked getting phished, but I couldn’t be happier with the community responses and positive outcomes from sharing this experience 😊
Having read @troyhunt.com's article on being phished www.troyhunt.com/a-sneaky-phi... I have today gone through my @1password.bsky.social vault adding 2FA and Passkeys where I can. Also cleaned out quite a few redundant credentials. #security #daywellspent 👍
A Sneaky Phish Just Grabbed my Mailchimp Mailing List
You know when you're really jet lagged and really tired and the cogs in your head are just moving that little bit too slow? That's me right now, and the penny has just dropped that a Mailchimp phish h...
www.troyhunt.com
March 26, 2025 at 9:30 PM
It sucked getting phished, but I couldn’t be happier with the community responses and positive outcomes from sharing this experience 😊
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I was doing some research on employees 40, 50 years ago, and I thought I would use AI to do some of the deep research. I had some good results but this version of Gemini was a mess and made some clearly biased choices. Remember people, these are trained on biased information. Verify.
March 27, 2025 at 6:16 AM
I was doing some research on employees 40, 50 years ago, and I thought I would use AI to do some of the deep research. I had some good results but this version of Gemini was a mess and made some clearly biased choices. Remember people, these are trained on biased information. Verify.
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ENCRYPTED COMMUNICATIONS BANGER SKEET JUST DROPPED 13 years ago
@scott.hanselman.com
@scott.hanselman.com
March 25, 2025 at 3:04 AM
ENCRYPTED COMMUNICATIONS BANGER SKEET JUST DROPPED 13 years ago
@scott.hanselman.com
@scott.hanselman.com
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Everyone wants all the features in the MVP. Just build and keep rapidly iterating. Optimize for delivering high quality features with speed.
February 9, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Everyone wants all the features in the MVP. Just build and keep rapidly iterating. Optimize for delivering high quality features with speed.
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📢 Bluesky 1.97 is rolling out now!
• User profile pages now include a "Video" tab!
• After reporting a user in DMs, you are now given a quick menu to block the user and/or delete the conversation
• Updated translations
• User profile pages now include a "Video" tab!
• After reporting a user in DMs, you are now given a quick menu to block the user and/or delete the conversation
• Updated translations
January 27, 2025 at 5:05 PM
📢 Bluesky 1.97 is rolling out now!
• User profile pages now include a "Video" tab!
• After reporting a user in DMs, you are now given a quick menu to block the user and/or delete the conversation
• Updated translations
• User profile pages now include a "Video" tab!
• After reporting a user in DMs, you are now given a quick menu to block the user and/or delete the conversation
• Updated translations
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Hit home today that Elon’s zooming in to a rally of the German hard right to tell them to stop feeling bad about the past and embrace German glory was right before Holocaust Remembrance day.
January 28, 2025 at 1:12 AM
Hit home today that Elon’s zooming in to a rally of the German hard right to tell them to stop feeling bad about the past and embrace German glory was right before Holocaust Remembrance day.
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Das Wahlprogramm von Friedrich Merz stimmt teils wortgenau mit den Forderungen der Chemie- und Metallindustrie überein. Ob das wohl Zufall ist? Wir haben frühere Geschäftspartner und Arbeitgeber angeschaut – und decken bisher unbekannte Verbindungen zu Top-Lobbyisten und Wirtschaftsgiganten auf.
Der Mann der Großkonzerne: Das Lobby-Netzwerk von Friedrich Merz
Merz steht der Wirtschaft nah – vielleicht zu nah. CORRECTIV-Recherchen weisen neue Verbindungen zu BASF nach und werfen heikle Fragen auf.
correctiv.org
January 28, 2025 at 7:26 AM
Das Wahlprogramm von Friedrich Merz stimmt teils wortgenau mit den Forderungen der Chemie- und Metallindustrie überein. Ob das wohl Zufall ist? Wir haben frühere Geschäftspartner und Arbeitgeber angeschaut – und decken bisher unbekannte Verbindungen zu Top-Lobbyisten und Wirtschaftsgiganten auf.
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Today is Data Privacy Day! 🙌 To celebrate this awareness day, we’ve created a sticker collection dedicated to online privacy. Like and repost to win a set! threema.ch/bp/dpd25
January 28, 2025 at 8:47 AM
Today is Data Privacy Day! 🙌 To celebrate this awareness day, we’ve created a sticker collection dedicated to online privacy. Like and repost to win a set! threema.ch/bp/dpd25
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Today, we remember all the victims murdered during the Holocaust.
We mark the 80 years since the liberation of the Nazi concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz-Birkenau.
This memory must be passed to future generations.
#HolocaustRemembranceDay
We mark the 80 years since the liberation of the Nazi concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz-Birkenau.
This memory must be passed to future generations.
#HolocaustRemembranceDay
January 27, 2025 at 8:35 AM
Today, we remember all the victims murdered during the Holocaust.
We mark the 80 years since the liberation of the Nazi concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz-Birkenau.
This memory must be passed to future generations.
#HolocaustRemembranceDay
We mark the 80 years since the liberation of the Nazi concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz-Birkenau.
This memory must be passed to future generations.
#HolocaustRemembranceDay
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Tech oligarchs are a huge problem.
That's why Proton is not controlled by any individual, but by the non-profit Proton Foundation, which has neutrality in its governing principles.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
That's why Proton is not controlled by any individual, but by the non-profit Proton Foundation, which has neutrality in its governing principles.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Trump inauguration: Zuckerberg, Bezos and Musk seated in front of cabinet picks
Seatings come under fire from Trump critics as sign of oligarchy and the powerful influence they wield
www.theguardian.com
January 24, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Tech oligarchs are a huge problem.
That's why Proton is not controlled by any individual, but by the non-profit Proton Foundation, which has neutrality in its governing principles.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
That's why Proton is not controlled by any individual, but by the non-profit Proton Foundation, which has neutrality in its governing principles.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Hundreds of subreddits are considering banning all links to Twitter/X in a pretty powerful display of collective action:
www.404media.co/hundreds-of-...
www.404media.co/hundreds-of-...
Hundreds of Subreddits Are Considering Banning All Links to X
Dozens of big subreddits have already banned all Twitter links, and posts about potential bans are some of the most popular on the site.
www.404media.co
January 22, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Hundreds of subreddits are considering banning all links to Twitter/X in a pretty powerful display of collective action:
www.404media.co/hundreds-of-...
www.404media.co/hundreds-of-...
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Our vision for energy? Clean, affordable, and proudly made in Europe.
By investing in next-gen clean energy like fusion and geothermal, we are ensuring a sustainable future for all Europeans.
Our success over the past two years is clear. And the third quarter of 2024 proves it ↓
By investing in next-gen clean energy like fusion and geothermal, we are ensuring a sustainable future for all Europeans.
Our success over the past two years is clear. And the third quarter of 2024 proves it ↓
January 23, 2025 at 8:15 AM
Our vision for energy? Clean, affordable, and proudly made in Europe.
By investing in next-gen clean energy like fusion and geothermal, we are ensuring a sustainable future for all Europeans.
Our success over the past two years is clear. And the third quarter of 2024 proves it ↓
By investing in next-gen clean energy like fusion and geothermal, we are ensuring a sustainable future for all Europeans.
Our success over the past two years is clear. And the third quarter of 2024 proves it ↓
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Do me a favor, friends who are on TikTok, go and repost this to try to push back against some of the nonsense conspiracy theories www.tiktok.com/t/ZT28V4ukK/
Replying to @Curated X Cassandre Meta is in the TikTok app?!? #conspiracytiktok
TikTok video by Scott Hanselman
www.tiktok.com
January 23, 2025 at 6:27 AM
Do me a favor, friends who are on TikTok, go and repost this to try to push back against some of the nonsense conspiracy theories www.tiktok.com/t/ZT28V4ukK/
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In video custom feeds, you can swipe up to enter a timeline of only video posts.
Try it yourself by clicking into this video custom feed and scrolling up. bsky.app/profile/bsky...
Try it yourself by clicking into this video custom feed and scrolling up. bsky.app/profile/bsky...
January 20, 2025 at 3:41 AM
In video custom feeds, you can swipe up to enter a timeline of only video posts.
Try it yourself by clicking into this video custom feed and scrolling up. bsky.app/profile/bsky...
Try it yourself by clicking into this video custom feed and scrolling up. bsky.app/profile/bsky...