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Sometimes people read things I write or watch things I say • I work at @ privacyguides and @ triplebit (ASN 401332) • Instance admin @ https:// mstdn.party , https:// mstdn.plus , and https:// neat.computer • Formerly @ techlore [ Minneapolis 🏙️ ][ Minnesota :MN: ][ USA 🇺🇸 ]

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@jonah@mastodon.neat.computer

Sometimes people read things I write or watch things I say • I work at @ privacyguides and @ triplebit (ASN 401332) • Instance admin @ https:// mstdn.party , https:// mstdn.plus , and https:// neat.computer • Formerly @ techlore [ Minneapolis 🏙️ ][ Minnesota :MN: ][ USA 🇺🇸 ]

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@jonah@mastodon.neat.computer · Mar 12, 2026

This movie came out 1.5 years ago but I still feel like the original music for the Smile 2 movie had no right to go this hard

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@jonah@mastodon.neat.computer

Sometimes people read things I write or watch things I say • I work at @ privacyguides and @ triplebit (ASN 401332) • Instance admin @ https:// mstdn.party , https:// mstdn.plus , and https:// neat.computer • Formerly @ techlore [ Minneapolis 🏙️ ][ Minnesota :MN: ][ USA 🇺🇸 ]

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@jonah@mastodon.neat.computer

Sometimes people read things I write or watch things I say • I work at @ privacyguides and @ triplebit (ASN 401332) • Instance admin @ https:// mstdn.party , https:// mstdn.plus , and https:// neat.computer • Formerly @ techlore [ Minneapolis 🏙️ ][ Minnesota :MN: ][ USA 🇺🇸 ]

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@jonah@mastodon.neat.computer · Mar 10, 2026

This is so strange, because Facebook already owns a social network full of AI agents called "Facebook" 🤔

https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/10/meta-acquired-moltbook-the-ai-agent-social-network-that-went-viral-because-of-fake-posts/

#Facebook #Meta #Moltbook #AI #AIslop

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@jonah@mastodon.neat.computer

Sometimes people read things I write or watch things I say • I work at @ privacyguides and @ triplebit (ASN 401332) • Instance admin @ https:// mstdn.party , https:// mstdn.plus , and https:// neat.computer • Formerly @ techlore [ Minneapolis 🏙️ ][ Minnesota :MN: ][ USA 🇺🇸 ]

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@jonah@mastodon.neat.computer

Sometimes people read things I write or watch things I say • I work at @ privacyguides and @ triplebit (ASN 401332) • Instance admin @ https:// mstdn.party , https:// mstdn.plus , and https:// neat.computer • Formerly @ techlore [ Minneapolis 🏙️ ][ Minnesota :MN: ][ USA 🇺🇸 ]

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@jonah@mastodon.neat.computer · Mar 05, 2026

I just found out the new Apple Studio Display XDR has an A19 Pro inside. Apple makes monitors more powerful than the MacBook Neo 😭

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@jonah@mastodon.neat.computer

Sometimes people read things I write or watch things I say • I work at @ privacyguides and @ triplebit (ASN 401332) • Instance admin @ https:// mstdn.party , https:// mstdn.plus , and https:// neat.computer • Formerly @ techlore [ Minneapolis 🏙️ ][ Minnesota :MN: ][ USA 🇺🇸 ]

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@jonah@mastodon.neat.computer

Sometimes people read things I write or watch things I say • I work at @ privacyguides and @ triplebit (ASN 401332) • Instance admin @ https:// mstdn.party , https:// mstdn.plus , and https:// neat.computer • Formerly @ techlore [ Minneapolis 🏙️ ][ Minnesota :MN: ][ USA 🇺🇸 ]

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@jonah@mastodon.neat.computer · Feb 01, 2026

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Sometimes people read things I write or watch things I say • I work at @ privacyguides and @ triplebit (ASN 401332) • Instance admin @ https:// mstdn.party , https:// mstdn.plus , and https:// neat.computer • Formerly @ techlore [ Minneapolis 🏙️ ][ Minnesota :MN: ][ USA 🇺🇸 ]

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@jonah@mastodon.neat.computer

Sometimes people read things I write or watch things I say • I work at @ privacyguides and @ triplebit (ASN 401332) • Instance admin @ https:// mstdn.party , https:// mstdn.plus , and https:// neat.computer • Formerly @ techlore [ Minneapolis 🏙️ ][ Minnesota :MN: ][ USA 🇺🇸 ]

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@jonah@mastodon.neat.computer · Jan 28, 2026

Hey, in less bleak news, it's Data Privacy Day! Spread the good word and make sure you're staying safe this year! https://mastodon.neat.computer/@privacyguides/115974133357241826

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📅 January 28th is international Data Privacy Day! It's 2026, and your personal data privacy has never been more important. Privacy is an essential right when it comes to personal safety, upholding democracy, keeping our freedom of speech, and building community. 🫂 (1/5) #DataPrivacyDay #Privacy #Democracy #DataProtectionDay #DigitalRights #HumanRights #PrivacyGuides #DataPrivacyWeek #PrivacyTips

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Sometimes people read things I write or watch things I say • I work at @ privacyguides and @ triplebit (ASN 401332) • Instance admin @ https:// mstdn.party , https:// mstdn.plus , and https:// neat.computer • Formerly @ techlore [ Minneapolis 🏙️ ][ Minnesota :MN: ][ USA 🇺🇸 ]

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@jonah@mastodon.neat.computer

Sometimes people read things I write or watch things I say • I work at @ privacyguides and @ triplebit (ASN 401332) • Instance admin @ https:// mstdn.party , https:// mstdn.plus , and https:// neat.computer • Formerly @ techlore [ Minneapolis 🏙️ ][ Minnesota :MN: ][ USA 🇺🇸 ]

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@jonah@mastodon.neat.computer · Jan 28, 2026

I think some are still missing the point. I’m not saying they’re going to lock up every single person who uses a VPN or watches porn. Your government’s strategy is to make “crimes” like this as common and easy to commit as possible. This way, if you ever do something completely legal which they *actually* don’t like, *which can be completely unrelated to VPNs or bypassing age verification,* they can pull up your internet history and easily prosecute you. Organize a legitimate protest, and the government’s swift response will be to label you a child sex offender because they found you using evil VPN technology. This is how free speech dies, not from a law that says “free speech is dead now,” but from draconian, authoritarian laws like this that give the government “plausible” reasons to go after anyone, which can’t easily be fought against. This has always been the playbook to target innocents. In the USA, drug possession laws being created as a pretense for cops to raid and dismantle minority communities, for example. And now this is coming to the digital realm.

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Sometimes people read things I write or watch things I say • I work at @ privacyguides and @ triplebit (ASN 401332) • Instance admin @ https:// mstdn.party , https:// mstdn.plus , and https:// neat.computer • Formerly @ techlore [ Minneapolis 🏙️ ][ Minnesota :MN: ][ USA 🇺🇸 ]

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@jonah@mastodon.neat.computer

Sometimes people read things I write or watch things I say • I work at @ privacyguides and @ triplebit (ASN 401332) • Instance admin @ https:// mstdn.party , https:// mstdn.plus , and https:// neat.computer • Formerly @ techlore [ Minneapolis 🏙️ ][ Minnesota :MN: ][ USA 🇺🇸 ]

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@jonah@mastodon.neat.computer · Jan 28, 2026

RE: @thenewoil@mastodon.thenewoil.org

Next up will be a VPN ban. Many tech-y people will see that and think “lol yeah well that’s not going to stop *me* from using a VPN”

A VPN ban isn’t really meant stop you from using one. It means when they catch you doing so, they’ll use the fact you’re using this harmless technology itself as a *pretense* to lock you up without needing to do any “hard work” (i.e. an investigator’s job) like actually confirming whether you committed a real crime.

Don’t think you won’t be impacted just because you know how to outsmart an ISP filter! This is not a plan to protect children or stop you from consuming adult media. It is a ploy to eventually eliminate ALL freedom of expression and free access to information in the UK.

And the same goes for Chat Control and encrypted messengers, btw

#UKpol #VPNban #PornHub #ChatControl #Privacy #FreeSpeech #SocialMedia

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Sometimes people read things I write or watch things I say • I work at @ privacyguides and @ triplebit (ASN 401332) • Instance admin @ https:// mstdn.party , https:// mstdn.plus , and https:// neat.computer • Formerly @ techlore [ Minneapolis 🏙️ ][ Minnesota :MN: ][ USA 🇺🇸 ]

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@jonah@mastodon.neat.computer

Sometimes people read things I write or watch things I say • I work at @ privacyguides and @ triplebit (ASN 401332) • Instance admin @ https:// mstdn.party , https:// mstdn.plus , and https:// neat.computer • Formerly @ techlore [ Minneapolis 🏙️ ][ Minnesota :MN: ][ USA 🇺🇸 ]

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@jonah@mastodon.neat.computer · Aug 27, 2025

The more things I connect to Ethernet, the more I'm convinced Wi-Fi was a mistake

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