Below Radar is a community for business owners and freelancers who don’t want to rely on Facebook, Google or marketing techniques that fuel surveillance capitalism.

Trump’s indictment of 15 Minneapolis protesters is a well-worn strategy to criminalize political resistance as a “conspiracy.”

This talk tells the story of how I tried to solve a problem - and in doing so, understood how push notifications actually work. Why my first approach didn’t scale. Why almost every app uses Firebase or APNs. Why even Signal knocks at Google’s door. And why, since the Wyden letter of 2023, this is a documented privacy problem: “We kill people based on metadata.”

A step-by-step guide on how to use Cloudflare’s WARP with WireGuard.

Mullvad is one of the few VPN providers that offers multiple exit IPs for its servers. If two people connect to the same server, they will usually end up with different public IPs.With only 578 servers (compared to Proton VPN’s 20,000), this kind of vertical scaling makes sense to avoid cramming too many users onto one IP, which would be a problem on sites with overzealous IP blocks and ratelimits.

Surveillance capitalists siphoning off sensitive data in health exchanges. User data like race, location and immigration info to companies like Meta, TikTok, and Google.

A web page that tells you what your browser gave away the moment you arrived.

A web page that tells you what your browser gave away the moment you arrived.

A web page that tells you what your browser gave away the moment you arrived.

A web page that tells you what your browser gave away the moment you arrived. No login, no form, no permission. Most pages do this. None of them tell you.

Meta is installing new tracking software on U.S.-based employees’ computers to capture mouse movements, clicks and ​keystrokes for use in training its artificial intelligence models, part of a broad initiative to build AI agents that can perform work tasks autonomously, the company told staffers in ‌internal memos seen by Reuters.

The tech industry is so effed.

Help to configure plain text email and learn its norms and conventions.

Meta is installing new tracking software on U.S.-based employees’ computers to capture mouse movements, clicks and ​keystrokes for use in training its artificial intelligence models, part of a broad initiative to build AI agents that can perform work tasks autonomously, the company told staffers in ‌internal memos seen by Reuters.

A platform providing online services based on principles of freedom, privacy, federation and decentralization. Includes XMPP, email, cloud storage and more.

Free XMPP messaging service with public accounts, plus the gold-standard Android XMPP client with OMEMO encryption

Open-source XMPP client for iOS and macOS with OMEMO encryption, audio/video calls, and push notifications. Privacy like it’s 1999.

Open-source tool to read, format, share and export .md files elegantly and 100% privately. File content lives in the URL fragment and never hits the server. CLI: npm i -g sdocs-dev.