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I have been inundated with people asking about upgrading to Win 11 as the deadline for Win 10 usage approaches quickly. Many people are worried about the extra spying and differences that Win 11 brings… 

age verification

Age verification is coming for the whole internet…

Things I said would happen last year (2024) are starting to happen, and here is another article about how the tinternet is changing rapidly with age verification popping up everywhere! https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/age-verification-is-coming-for-the-whole-internet.html This follows on from… 

australian social media laws

Youtube in Australia to be banned for under 16s

The Australian govt has announced that it will ban Youtube for the under 16’s soon along with Instagram, Tik Tok, Facebook, X and Snapchat amongst others. I am hearing that in the UK these platforms… 

adguard blocks recall

Adguard to block Windows Recall

Adguard has joined the list of programs that will block Microsofts controversial Recall, a feature that it is argued poses severe risks to security and privacy. https://www.neowin.net/news/adguard-is-yet-another-app-to-block-windows-recall

brave browser

Brave browser to block Microsoft Recall

Microsoft Recall has already got a lot of bad press over privacy concerns, and rightly so – so news that Brave Browser will block Recall in an upcoming update seems to be the way that… 

blorp

Blorp – new front end for Lemmy and Piefed

The Fediverse has many great components, one of those is Lemmy (think of Reddit but federated) and the newbie on the block Piefed. Now over on one of our sister sites RelayEasy we run a… 

searxng

A new privacy focused search aggregator and engine

For anyone to use this service aggregates google/duckduckgo/bing and several more to give you great results whilst storing as little about you as it can…. try it for free below https://search.3dcandy.social

microsoft

Microsoft axe 9000 jobs in AI push

It appears that Microsoft is hell bent on going all in on AI like many other companies. I am not a huge fan of AI because it is effectively stealing other peoples work, can be… 

social media

The decline of social media in my age/peer group

I haven’t posted much recently mainly because I have been super busy on other projects and the heat in the UK has meant sitting in my studio working really hasn’t been a priority either, but…