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FreeTube โ”€ Watch YouTube without ads, without login, and with private playlists.

https://freetubeapp.io

#google #YouTube #privacy #ad #safety #security #InfoSec #data #advertisement #tech #technology #BigTech #app #apps #tip #tips


Let's play a game.

Don't say PowerPoint presentation, say slidedeck
Don't say Word, say text document
Don't say Photoshop, say image editing
Don't say Excel, say spreadsheet
Don't say...

Language is important. When corporate companies own the names of the tasks or the digital items you create, you have become a cog in their branding machine.

#bigtech #DataSociety #academicchatter


Nextcloud's federation: for a better digitally sovereign future!

At the core of Nextcloud's mission: We don't want to live in a world where 5 #BigTech companies control all communication and collaboration.

We all deserve something better!

https://youtu.be/exuVtfM8-5Q


#FOSS community. How much did WE vote democratically for current #fascism trends, with the wallet of our ergonomic coding keyboards?

https://social.coop/@smallcircles/113908811338200792

#FOSS has failed as a concept. It's software ate the world.. and runs #BigTech #fascism now.

How much of our #WorkingInPublic and #SoftwareFreedom was gratis fundamental #innovation and applied #OpenScience, that is oh so bad for revenue. Gladly delegated to volunteer losers who can work on just #morals and values that're alien to #corpo?


On the two year anniversary of joining #Mastodon I'm super proud to share:

๐Ÿš€ The Future is Federated - issue no.13 ๐Ÿ‘ฉโ€๐Ÿš€

"The #Fediverse has empowered me to take back control from Big Tech. Now I want to help others do the same."

https://blog.elenarossini.com/the-fediverse-has-empowered-me-to-take-back-control-from-big-tech-now-i-want-to-help-others-do-the-same/

with mentions of @forgeandcraft (who made this awesome Fediverse t-shirt) @phanpy @ivory @Tusky @nimi @Roneyb @davidoclubb

#FOSS #FLOSS #Matrix #TheFutureIsFederated #blog #tech #activism #BigTech #socialmedia #education


Today's manifesto by over 70 CSOs underlines the need to put core our democratic values in technology first. I agree.
Europe will stay free and democratic if it builds its own digital infrastructure and canโ€˜t be blackmailed. The recent threats by J.D. Vance and big tech companies should spurn us to act swiftly.
https://peoplevsbig.tech/beyond-big-tech-a-manifesto-for-a-new-digital-economy/
@PeopleVsBigTech @lobbycontrol
#bigtech #surveillancecapitalism #opensource


Meta and friends โ€“ like Mastodon and Vivaldi โ€“ form Social Web Foundation.

May I be the first to say:

Fuck the Social Web Foundation.

https://socialwebfoundation.org

I am so fucking sick of this bullshit happening over and over again. Iโ€™d say theyโ€™re useful idiots but, letโ€™s face it, Mastodon arenโ€™t idiots. Vivaldi arenโ€™t idiots. Theyโ€™re smart folks. They know full well what Meta is. They clearly just donโ€™t give a shit.

#SocialWebFoundation #Meta #BigTech #surveillance #capitalism #fediverse


On my own time, I have to read a ~50 page document produced for the #EuropeanCommission in order to effectively participate in a two hour meeting where #FDroid is pitted against #BigTech on the #DigitalMarketsAct and its requirements around installing and allowing other #AppStore options.
Its all NDA'ed so I can't ask for help.
This game is really rigged for the megacorps. Wish me luck! Here's to fighting the good fight!


Need a brief and accessible explainer about the actual harms of AI?

Show folks this:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TtVJ4JDM7eM

@thejuicemedia hitting it out of the park, yet again.

#ai #corporations #corporatocracy #billionaires #climateCrisis #BigTech #SiliconValley


Ed Zitron comments in the last episode of tech won't save us something that I find interesting to point out about #generativeAI , even if it is obvious:

Let's imagine we all accept #AI generators and create a new internet based on them (or a large majority, at least). In that case (which is somewhat the business model pursued by #bigtech), we would reach a point where systems would be able to be trained only on content created by themselves.

Thanks @parismarx ๐Ÿฅฐ

https://www.techwontsave.us/episode/211_silicon_valley_deserves_your_anger_w_ed_zitron


๐Ÿฎ๐Ÿฌ๐Ÿญ๐Ÿฌ๐˜€โ€ฆ
I worked hard on some 3D artwork. Now I'm going to publish it on social media and enjoy the likes and responses. ๐Ÿ˜Š

๐Ÿฎ๐Ÿฌ๐Ÿฎ๐Ÿฌ๐˜€โ€ฆ
I worked hard on some 3D artwork. Before it will be ready to publish, I need to make a compilation of work-in-progress screenshots and wireframes, to prove that it's not AI-generated, and to avoid people asking what AI prompt I used to generate the image. ๐Ÿ˜–๐Ÿ˜–

#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #tech #BigTech #GenerativeAI #design #art #3D #CreativeToots #FediArt #MastoArt


@Kierunkowy74 @Martin Be @Fundacja Technologie dla Ludzi
#bigtech 'em nie jest ale moลผe byฤ‡.
W statut ( https://bip.nask.pl/bip/status-prawny/1,Status-prawny.html ) sฤ… wpisane wszystkie kody #PKD, ktรณre sฤ… potrzebne do bycia bigtechem.
A przez swojฤ… spรณล‚kฤ™ NASK S.A. faktycznie prowadzฤ… dziaล‚alnoล›ฤ‡ komercyjnฤ… https://www.nasksa.pl/ofirmie
Taka trochฤ™ dziwna hybryda instytucji publicznej, ktรณra ma zlecone ustawowo funkcje (np w zakresie cyberbezpieczeล„stwa) a jednoczeล›nie dziaล‚a na rynku jak korporacja.


W tekล›cie #okopress prawnicy: dr hab. Mateusz Grochowski i dr Katarzyna ลakomiec analizujฤ…
polskie podejล›cie do cyfrowych regulacji:
https://oko.press/polskie-podejscie-do-cyfrowych-regulacji-analiza
Autorzy piszฤ… m.in.:
"Siล‚a rynkowa firm z sektora big-tech ล‚atwo przeksztaล‚ca siฤ™ w siล‚ฤ™ politycznฤ… i spoล‚ecznฤ…."

Wydaje siฤ™ to jednym z kluczowych argumentรณw dla ktรณrych instytucje publiczne NIE powinny uลผywaฤ‡ platform naleลผฤ…cych do #bigtech jako wyล‚ฤ…cznego lub gล‚รณwnego kanaล‚u komunikacji ze spoล‚eczeล„stwem.
#cyfryzacja


Polskie podejล›cie do cyfrowych regulacji trzeba pilnie zrewidowaฤ‡

[Analiza]Przez ostatnie lata w Polsce zmarnowano czas, ktรณry powinien byฤ‡ poล›wiฤ™cony na przygotowania do systemowej regulacji rynku cyfrowego. Co powinien zrobiฤ‡ nowy rzฤ…d? Piszฤ… prawnicy dr hab. Mateusz Grochowski i dr Katarzyna ลakomiec

https://oko.press/polskie-podejscie-do-cyfrowych-regulacji-analiza

#cyfryzacja #bigtech


I love how this โ€œCreated by AI, edited by humansโ€ summary of the chat I had with Doc this month starts off mildly enough with โ€œA great chat on FLOSS Weekly regarding alternate funding models to support ethical tech projectsโ€ฆโ€œ and ends a few paragraphs later with โ€œโ€ฆBalkan provided an urgent call to action to avoid extinction at the hands of unchecked capitalism.โ€

Well that escalated quickly!

๐Ÿ˜ฌ ๐Ÿ‘

https://twit.tv/posts/inside-twit/aral-balkan-calls-new-funding-models-support-ethical-tech

#tech #ethics #BigTech #SmallTech #BigWeb #SmallWeb #VC #capitalism


You wouldnโ€™t have McDonaldโ€™s teaching your kids about nutrition or Philip Morris teaching them about maintaining a healthy lifestyle. Why are you happy having a surveillance capitalist like Google or Facebook teaching them about technology?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/ideas/videos/surveillance-capitalism-has-led-us-into-a-dystopia/p06p0tdy

#surveillanceCapitalism #technology #web #education #SiliconValley #BigTech


Hey thanks for quick reply. It was this file (image) i was referrer to https://www.peppercarrot.com/en/viewer/misc__2023-07-02_Oh-wow-you-are-on-fire-lately_by-David-Revoy.html, the one with the two foxes. And thanks for your lovely drawings, they are need and lighten the day with a smile.

If you are bored some day, maybe I could ask you, if it could be possible to have you making some drawings about #privacy vs the #bigtech ?


Google: Hereโ€™s our latest evil planโ€ฆ

Folks: Thatโ€™s an evil plan, we donโ€™t like it.

Google: Please keep the discussion to technical issues only.

#Google #EvilAsAService #PeopleFarming #SiliconValley #BigTech #DigitalImperialism #adtech #DRM #web #standards #WebStandards #w3c


Prasรณwka



Some fediverse instance admins: โ€œHow cool, Meta invited us to the adult table.โ€

Yes, they did.

Because youโ€™re whatโ€™s for dinner.

#fediverse #mastodon #meta #Project92 #BigTech #SiliconValley #SurveillanceCapitalism



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The US understands the threat of foreign tech companies/apps gathering data on US citizens and manipulating their behaviour and is looking to ban TikTok.

Dear @EU_Commission, hereโ€™s an incomplete list of foreign tech companies/apps gathering data on EU citizens and manipulating their behaviour:

- Meta Platforms, Inc. (Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, etc.)
- Alphabet, Inc. (Google, YouTube, etc.)
- Twitter, Inc.
- Microsoft (Windows, etc.)
- Snap, Inc.

Thoughts?

#SiliconValley #BigTech #us #eu


Hmmmm, federated cocaine? ๐Ÿง

#TikTok and its algos should be a controlled substance ๐Ÿง  tightly regulated

(otherwise more bears in all nations will be using it all day and long into the night ๐Ÿพ ๐Ÿพ)

#BigTech #Media
#Attention #Hack
#MentalHealth
#Privacy #Surveillance
#Democracy


Ya think? ๐Ÿคฆ๐Ÿปโ€โ™‚๏ธ

"New research suggests that privacy in the #metaverse might be impossible:
https://venturebeat.com/virtual/new-research-suggests-that-privacy-in-the-metaverse-might-be-impossible/

๐Ÿ”Ž๐Ÿ‘€

#Privacy
#Surveillance
#SurveillanceCapitalism
#BigTech
#VR #AI #ML
#BigData


At #FOSDEM, @marcel_kolaja will present the #EU pilot project to look into open-sourcing the EU's apps and publishing them outside of #BigTech including on @fdroidorg. @eighthave will join, talking about how F-Droid will help pull the EU towards #FreeSoftware.

(sorry for copying the post, but for some reason we can't boost it)
https://social.librem.one/interact/109779534010876183?type=reblog



Celebrating Silicon Valley billionaires and venture capitalists showing an interest in the fediverse is like celebrating wolves showing an interest in your chicken coop.

#SiliconValley #billionaires #vc #ventureCapital #BigTech #colonialism #fediverse #mastodon


โ€ฆ Or, in what a previous head of public policy at Mozilla told me while we were chatting before our talks at a data protection conference:

โ€œAral, weโ€™re just another Silicon Valley tech company, I donโ€™t understand why youโ€™re holding us to a such a higher standard.โ€

When I finally managed to pick my jaw off the floor the only retort I could manage was: โ€œBut thatโ€™s not what you tell people.โ€

3/3

#Mozilla #fediverse #SiliconValley #ventureCapital #BigTech


RT @GianlucaSgueo@twitter.com

Have you seen @Info_Activism@twitter.com new project '#GAFAM Empire'? It's amazing. They look at all the known acquisitions conducted by 5 #bigtech companies (Google, Amazon, Facebook, Apple, Microsoft) from their first one to the end of summer of 2022 https://gafam.theglassroom.org/#landscape-of-acquisitions

๐Ÿฆ๐Ÿ”—: https://twitter.com/GianlucaSgueo/status/1605568631244349440


When posting stats about the number of people (not โ€œusersโ€) joining the fediverse (not โ€œMastodonโ€), please also post about the number of instances.

If 400,000,000 people join BigTech.social tomorrow, thatโ€™s not a win. Thatโ€™s how you recreate Twitter.

So letโ€™s focus on what matters. Sure itโ€˜s great that the fediverse is becoming more popular but the character of that popularity matters. How it scales matters. Avoiding corporate capture matters.

#BigTech #fediverse #scale #focus


THIS great sentiment
+
maybe we ALL take a serious & sober look at how ABSENCE of LAW over past 18 years (not bad law, shitty or law unfair law... no law)
in:
โ€ข #internet
โ€ข #mobile #social
โ€ข #privacy
โ€ข #surveillance
โ€ข #AI #ML
โ€ข #data #governance

This is a massive #mastodon #fediverse opportunity we can collectively capitalize on before #SiliconValley #BigTech #VC carpet baggers arrive.

#my2cents

@klonick@davew@craignewmark@jeffjarvis@daphnehk@qjurecic@blaine @@profcarroll


Seeing Big Tech folks jump into the fediverse and โ€“ without so much as a โ€œhow do you do, fellow kids?โ€ โ€“ roll up their sleeves to write the rules, dream up commercial services, and pontificate about how advertising should run on it. ๐Ÿ‘€

#fediverse #BigTech #corporateCapture #warning

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