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Peergos @peergos.org · 25/09/2026

Happy Friday, happy new Peergos release! Cool stuff in this release: * multi-file secret links (up to 100) * blake3 support (read-only until enough clients support it) * a beautiful new drive UI * better video thumbnails on desktop * Greek language support (about time!) github.com/Peergos/web-...

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Release Fix sync DB backwards compatibility · Peergos/web-ui

A patch release to fix sync db backwards compatibility. Flatpak is the recommended installation method for Linux: https://flatpak.peergos.org Mirrored at https://peergos.net/public/peergos/releases...

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MetropleX @metroplex.bot · 19/09/2026

2026 DeGoogle Mobile Telemetry Study How much data does a phone secretly send to Google when you are not using it? Our team measured 72 continuous hours of network packets from idle Android phones sitting untouched in our lab. www.praveentechworld.com/research/deg...

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Ian Preston @ianopolous.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Any Firefox devs interested in a pure JS benchmark where firefox is 3x slower than chrome? (It is blake3) Maybe @igalia.com ?

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Ian Preston @ianopolous.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

If Android had used a copyleft license AND not had a single company own all the copyright, then Google would not be able to pull the shenanigans they are now. This is why @peergos.org is copyleft licensed and contributors retain their own copyright.

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MetropleX @metroplex.bot · 19/09/2026

Alas not very likely postmarketOS is dramatically less private/secure than either the Android Open Source Project or iOS. It greatly reduces privacy and security to below desktop levels, which is much worse, not better. It does the opposite of protecting against exploits or better sandboxing apps. 😩

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Ian Preston @ianopolous.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

This was a lot of fun. I've had this bulk/commit API planned for a few years now. It reduces the rounds trips from 4 to 1, and reduces the number of signatures by 1000x. That paves the wave for post-quantum signatures, as well as being much faster for both the client and the server.

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MetropleX @metroplex.bot · 16/09/2026

GrapheneOS continues to reveal Googles active hobbling of the ability of OEMs to protect their users in favour of market exclusivity/protection, and pushing ahead with monopolistic anti competitive abuse hand in glove with GPL violations. Read below the break for the teams detailed analysis:

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OpenAlternative @openalternative.co · 10/09/2026

2,500 stars on GitHub, and counting. Peergos is a peer-to-peer encrypted filesystem for storing, sharing and collaborating on files without handing the keys to anyone else's server. @peergos.org openalternative.co/peergos

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Peergos: Open Source Alternative to Mega, Dropbox and Tresorit

A peer-to-peer encrypted filesystem for secure file storage, sharing, and collaboration with end-to-end encryption and user-controlled data.

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Peergos @peergos.org · 10/09/2026

The Anakin Padme meme with: "I don't need E2EE, I self host everything." "You use your own server not a cloud server right? And no one else can access it physically right?" "Right?"

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GrapheneOS @grapheneos.org · 06/09/2026

We've developed a secure paste feature replacing traditional clipboard APIs. Users will be able to take away clipboard access from apps to use this instead. It integrates into the standard selection toolbar, input methods, accessibility services and keyboard shortcuts. We plan to get it merged soon.

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Ian Preston @ianopolous.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

If I ran a council, I would simply not put ads on bus stops. People don't need even more mental intrusion. If I ran a bus company...

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Ian Preston @ianopolous.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

This zip work was super fun. I've wanted this for years now.

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MetropleX @metroplex.bot · 29/08/2026

Google have properly shat the bed. I have a feeling the financial director asked AI/Gemini, what they could remove to save money that consumers wouldn't notice and that would create less issues for their corporate partners being shown up for their bad app development practices. It's answer MTE.

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Dave Richeson @divbyzero.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Thank you, @moduality.bsky.social for pointing out the weird shadows of my impossible objects. That got me to think of yet another way to show how weird they are. Here, a light is shining down from behind at a 45° angle!

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Ian Preston @ianopolous.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Now you can browse into zip files on @peergos.org You can download individual files or view them directly in the app registered for them. You can even open websites or markdown wikis directly inside the zip. Links and images to relative files in the zip work. We also support adding new files, ...

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Peergos @peergos.org · 24/08/2026

Some may be wondering what implications, if any, this has for @peergos. Even if all ipfs work, and infrastructure stopped today we would be unaffected as a protocol. We have our own minimal implementation, and these days we basically do HTTP over (jvm)libp2p + kademlia.

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Ian Preston @ianopolous.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

It's faster, it's pretty, it has pausable sync. There is lots of great stuff in this release of @peergos.org

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GrapheneOS @grapheneos.org · 22/08/2026

Initial focus for our partnership with Motorola is a regular non-folding device. Current generation Motorola Signature (2026), Razr Fold (2026) and Razr Ultra (2026) are very close to meeting our requirements but lack MTE, adequate secure element integration and other features being added for 2027.

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Peergos @peergos.org · 19/08/2026

Peergos is a personal data layer for the internet. Free yourself from servers holding your identity hostage. Free yourself from apps holding your data hostage. Free yourself from surveillance capitalism. Free yourself.

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Matt Henderson @matthen.com · 15/08/2026

Game of Life on Penrose tiles

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GrapheneOS @grapheneos.org · 11/08/2026

Android's standard USB menu being set to charging-only means the device has MTP enabled with file transfer disabled. It always has USB data and USB peripherals enabled. GrapheneOS USB-C port charging-only means USB data is disabled in hardware and kernel USB drivers are disabled.

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GrapheneOS @grapheneos.org · 08/08/2026

Google replaced pushing Git tags for certain source code with obtaining source code via Google Drive after making a request through Google Forms. It's completely ridiculous and they've gradually become very slow at handling requests. They're in clear violation of the GPLv2 now.

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Yorgos @yorgos.net.gr · 31/07/2026

Great fun this morning at the #JCrete hack day with @ianopolous.bsky.social, getting @radicle.dev + @peergos.org running side by side on #solar - powered hardware! Blog post and peergos-backed release artifacts on Radicle, coming soon Goal: #peer2peer #decentralised software, packaged sustainably!

Solar panels, charging power banks, powering hardware. (Small factor mini pc).

Solar-powere setup with a background view to the Cretan sea!

USB power meter, measuring consumption by (idle) node

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Alina Yurenko @alina-yurenko.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Open World for Native Image 🌎 Your Native Image application can now load new classes at runtime, while keeping all benefits of AOT optimizations 🚀 Best of both worlds! To use it: build with @graalvm.org 25.1+ and `-H:+RuntimeClassLoading`.

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Oxford Lifelong Learning, University of Oxford @lifelong-learning.ox.ac.uk · 14/07/2026

Louse got your tongue? 😝 Enjoy this horrifying fish fact from @joannabagniewska.com to start your weekend... Joanna's book The Modern Bestiary is available online from most bookshops. #EnvironmentalScience #Bookstagram #Bookish #OxfordLifelongLearning #OxfordUni

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John C. Baez @johncarlosbaez.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

The math has been around for decades - but nobody noticed it gives a new framework for quantum mechanics from which the Standard Model gauge group and its representation on one generation of quarks and leptons falls out pretty naturally. arxiv.org/abs/2607.10833

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the Juice Media @thejuicemedia.com · 30/06/2026

The Government™ has made an ad about Palantir, and it's surprsingly honest and informative.

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Honest Government Ad | Palantir

YouTube video by thejuicemedia

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Christine Lemmer-Webber @dustyweb.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

What happened to the fight for the Internet? dustycloud.org/blog/what-ha... As the internet has become centralized, it's felt less like ours. But it can be ours, if we fight for it. And the fight has never been more critical or dire.

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What happened to the fight for the Internet? -- Dustycloud Brainstorms

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Ian Preston @ianopolous.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

It is possible to have federation that keeps end users in control and doesn't allow 3rd party copying of your data without your consent. That's exactly what @peergos.org protocol does. There are of course tradeoffs but it is the right choice for user agency and democracy.

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Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

It was inevitable, wasn't it🙄 Of course the Telegraph would run with something like this👇 So let's remove some of the rose-tinted spectacles and also look at some of that data comparing 1976 with modern heat waves Because the 1976 nostalgia porn is wearing a bit thin at this stage 🧵1/23

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"Heatwave hysterics wouldn't have lasted a day in 1976", overlaid with a bold “MONK DEBUNKED” stamp.

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Leo Hickman @leohickman.carbonbrief.org · 24/06/2026

++BREAKING++ Leading climate scientists in the UK have written to senior editors in broadcast media - and OFCOM and IPSO: "To express our concern about recent media coverage of extreme weather, climate change and net-zero and to urge you…to inform public audiences of the scientific links"

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MetropleX @metroplex.bot · 23/06/2026

Guess what has now reached the official public release pipeline? Android 17 is now in Alpha. Look out for the OTA notification popping up soon.

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 23/06/2026

Side Effect xkcd.com/3261/

5-panel comic. (1) Two people standing, one with a ponytail and the second with white beret] PERSON 2: This new topical medication makes me extra sensitive to sun exposure and gravitational waves. (2) PERSON 1: Oh yeah, that’s a common... wait, what was that last part? PERSON 2: Here comes one now! (3) [Person 2 stretched taller] (4) [Person 2 squished shorter] (5) [Person 2 stretched taller again] PERSON 2: *Wheee!*

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Ian Preston @ianopolous.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

An interesting discussion of what social means: www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7xi... My problem with ~all existing social software is exactly the legibility of the social graph to outsiders. This and things like public follower counts lead to performance rather than natural interactions.

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When Software Took the Word 'Social'

YouTube video by Interface Studies

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Ian Preston @ianopolous.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

This is a great discussion of power, and aligns with why I work on @peergos.org - to use cryptography to give people more power over their own lives and interactions online.

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Ian Preston @ianopolous.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

What could possibly go wrong? If governments want to protect democracy and fight disinformation, don't entrench legacy media and the power it represents, fix the incentives. Make any publisher of a feed legally responsible for content they publish. www.theguardian.com/media/2026/j...

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UK plans to give established media more visibility on YouTube and TikTok

Move for greater prominence on social media comes as ministers warn online misinformation risk becoming ‘existential for our democracy’

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Ian Preston @ianopolous.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

What is with not being able to zoom images in bluesky android app now? Is that deliberate?

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Ian Preston @ianopolous.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

This is huge. For me, it removes the last big complaint of Java compared to Golang. Go's cross arch build tools are still much better, but I can deal with that.

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Ian Preston @ianopolous.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

The imminent new @peergos.org drive mount is getting super cool. I've just got streaming video (including seeking) directly from Peergos to a native player like VLC working on Android.

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Ian Preston @ianopolous.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Hooray! Our first government contract for @peergos.org! EU governments are starting to realise what real digital sovereignty means. It means portable identity, portable data, and end-to-end encryption. Mass surveillance is not compatible with democracy.

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Ian Preston @ianopolous.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

I think that is the price of a non copyleft license. Permission was granted.

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Ian Preston @ianopolous.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Just listened to another great episode of @revolution.social -talking with @werd.io - great to see someone else with similar views on venture capital, and interesting to hear things from the media/journalist side of things. Do things that resist the consolidation of power.

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