Sean O'Brien

Last month, our @GetPrivacySafe instance barely had 500 total users. This month (and we're not done!) we have 500 DAU and we've more than doubled the size of our community. Join us for FREE and in FREEDOM at PrivacySafe.Social 👇 privacysafe.social

@Itsfoss This has been a consistent issue for consumers, and both @fsf and @fsfe have campaigned around the "Microsoft tax" 👇 fsf.org/blogs/communit…

Why do Linux laptops cost so much? With Windows out of the picture, should they not cost less? But you look at preloaded Linux laptops, and they are more expansive than similar spec Windows laptops. The same is the case with Linux mini-PCs. Your thoughts?

@TedRall @deprogram @JohnKiriakou congrats! you'll be adding another 0 to that in no time

Here at @DeProgram we're celebrating 30,000 subscribers on YouTube! Thank you! -- @tedrall & @JohnKiriakou

@lukOlejnik I've got video too. Will post later. I couldn't get anyone to care a few months ago but this patent makes it obvious surveillance pricing / price discrimination is the goal here. So, more of a case to be made now.

@profdiggity Okay, this is serious ;-) Not only a display but data acquisition potential!

Walmart has filed a patent for systems that use AI to predict demand and automatically adjust prices. It is installing electronic shelf labels across all US stores. Labels can be remotely updated automatically. The patent that "helps merchants make decisions" is a machine that makes the decision and hands a merchant the paperwork?

@lukOlejnik x.com/i/status/20346…

Privacy researchers seeked evidence of such deployments for years. With AI this may be possible to a degree orders of magnitude more precise than 15 years ago.

@lukOlejnik Worse, each of these tags is a Bluetooth beacon using #Apple iBeacon with the potential to geofence users and track them around the store. Screenshot of BLE activity at my local Walmart last October. Many thousands of these in store.

It's a strange feeling to be recognized not only in Grand Central but also at a #cybersecurity industry event. Times are volatile but people are hungry for what we're building, and one person at least was already on PrivacySafe.Social privacysafe.social

@missdiorsheree @GetPrivacySafe LISTEN youtube.com/watch?v=2J68nc…

@profdiggity @GetPrivacySafe That’s your first mention of grinding, #workinghard #founderspeak this month. Going to have to report you for not meeting your monthly KPIs! 😂

Yes this is my phone and I'm up at 2am working on @GetPrivacySafe ;) Insert some #foundermode speak about grinding, grindset, get after it, #dowork, carry the boats, #riseandgrind, etc. etc.

@profdiggity @GetPrivacySafe #WatchThis 💎🧳

When I exposed the CIA torture program, the U.S. government prosecuted me, sent me to federal prison, and hoped I’d disappear when I got out. That’s how it usually works for whistleblowers. Daniel Ellsberg once told me that most whistleblowers are financially ruined and never recover. Even he died broke after changing the course of American history. But I refused to let that be my story. I got out of prison determined to rebuild my life — and now something unexpected is happening. Millions of people are hearing my story. The truth has a funny way of surviving. rumble.com/shorts/v7795bo

Arcanum Ventures is back with our newly rebranded panel discussions, with some of the best and brightest builders in the tech startup realm. Social media may be becoming financial infrastructure. Meta and X are exploring stablecoin payments across apps like WhatsApp, Facebook, Instagram, and X. If money moves through the same platforms as messages, what does that mean for crypto adoption and the internet economy? Join us live for ep. 45 of "The Forum" this week! 📅 Thursday, March 19th, 2026 🕑 3PM UTC Hosts: - @ArcanumVentures - @Utopiainbeta - @MELOWILD - @IZYcastrowrites Panelists: - @ivycybered - @profdiggity - @Caf0lla - @NeoxInfra - @deeepmoist - @ChangeNOW_io - @Me3Labs - @aksenovd15 - @protocollabs

To tackle plastic waste, tackle #DRM: u.fsf.org/4au #IDAD #FSF #FreeSoftware

Would it be fair to charge you more than someone else? What if I knew you were desperate or wealthier or just a sucker for a (fake) discount? Today we discuss surveillance pricing with @ericgardner0 (@MorePerfectUS) and @JustinBrookman (@ConsumerReports). podcast.firewallsdontstopdragons.com/2026/03/16/sur…

A Funny Thing Happened to John Kiriakou rall.com/2026/03/14/a-f…

Instagram should’ve made end-to-end encryption the default for everyone, not shut it down because “very few people were opting in.” slashdot.org/story/453290

Don't be fooled. #piday is just a holiday created by Big Math to teach us more math skills so we can be replaced by computers

@DouglasTuman @xmrbazaar @DouglasTuman the reporting worked, they suspended the doppelganger

I don’t know who is behind the account. This is not the official XmrBazaar account. Please unfollow and Report. I don’t want to see people get scammed from it. We are working on getting the real @xmrbazaar account back up.