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FreeTube ─ Watch YouTube without ads, without login, and with private playlists.
#google #YouTube #privacy #ad #safety #security #InfoSec #data #advertisement #tech #technology #BigTech #app #apps #tip #tips
FreeTube - The Private YouTube Client
FreeTube is a feature-rich and user-friendly YouTube client with a focus on privacy.freetubeapp.io
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.
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!
Nextcloud's Federation: The key to a better digitally sovereign future
Nextcloud founder Frank Karlitschek shares our latest federation features and the values central to the decentralized collaboration of tomorrow.At the core o...YouTube
#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:
🚀 The Future is Federated - issue no.13 👩🚀
"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
The Fediverse has empowered me to take back control from Big Tech. Now I want to help others do the same.
The Fediverse has helped me regain control from the behavior modification empires of Big Tech. Now I want to help other people do the same.Elena Rossini
Europe will stay free and democratic if it builds its own digital infrastructure and can‘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
Beyond Big Tech: A manifesto for a new digital economy - People vs. Big Tech
70+ orgs back bold vision for a better, fairer digital world and call on states to invest for the public goodOlivia Boyd (People vs. Big Tech)
Meta and friends – like Mastodon and Vivaldi – 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. I’d say they’re useful idiots but, let’s face it, Mastodon aren’t idiots. Vivaldi aren’t idiots. They’re smart folks. They know full well what Meta is. They clearly just don’t give a shit.
#SocialWebFoundation #Meta #BigTech #surveillance #capitalism #fediverse
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
Honest Government Ad | AI
The Government™ has made an ad about the existential threat that AI poses to humanity, and it’s surprisingly honest and informative👉 Help us keep Government...YouTube
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 🥰
https://www.techwontsave.us/episode/211_silicon_valley_deserves_your_anger_w_ed_zitron
Silicon Valley Deserves Your Anger w/ Ed Zitron - Tech Won’t Save Us
A left-wing podcast for better technology and a better world.Tech Won't Save Us
𝟮𝟬𝟭𝟬𝘀…
I worked hard on some 3D artwork. Now I'm going to publish it on social media and enjoy the likes and responses. 😊
𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟬𝘀…
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. 😖😖
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #tech #BigTech #GenerativeAI #design #art #3D #CreativeToots #FediArt #MastoArt
#bigtech 'em nie jest ale może być.
W statut ( https://bip.nask.pl/bip/status-prawny/1,Status-prawny.html ) są wpisane wszystkie kody #PKD, które są potrzebne do bycia bigtechem.
A przez swoją spółkę NASK S.A. faktycznie prowadzą działalność komercyjną https://www.nasksa.pl/ofirmie
Taka trochę dziwna hybryda instytucji publicznej, która ma zlecone ustawowo funkcje (np w zakresie cyberbezpieczeństwa) a jednocześnie działa na rynku jak korporacja.
W tekście #okopress prawnicy: dr hab. Mateusz Grochowski i dr Katarzyna Łakomiec analizują
polskie podejście do cyfrowych regulacji:
https://oko.press/polskie-podejscie-do-cyfrowych-regulacji-analiza
Autorzy piszą m.in.:
"Siła rynkowa firm z sektora big-tech łatwo przekształca się w siłę polityczną i społeczną."
Wydaje się to jednym z kluczowych argumentów dla których instytucje publiczne NIE powinny używać platform należących do #bigtech jako wyłącznego lub głównego kanału komunikacji ze społeczeństwem.
#cyfryzacja
Polskie podejście do cyfrowych regulacji trzeba pilnie zrewidować [Analiza]
Przez ostatnie lata w Polsce zmarnowano czas, który powinien być poświęcony na przygotowania do systemowej regulacji rynku cyfrowego. Co powinien zrobić nowy rząd? Piszą prawnicy dr hab. Mateusz Grochowski i dr Katarzyna ŁakomiecMateusz Grochowski (OKO.press)
Polskie podejście do cyfrowych regulacji trzeba pilnie zrewidować[Analiza]Przez ostatnie lata w Polsce zmarnowano czas, który powinien być poświęcony na przygotowania do systemowej regulacji rynku cyfrowego. Co powinien zrobić nowy rząd? Piszą prawnicy dr hab. Mateusz Grochowski i dr Katarzyna Łakomiec
https://oko.press/polskie-podejscie-do-cyfrowych-regulacji-analiza
"Gawkowski: W Ministerstwie Cyfryzacji zdanie Big Techu będzie na ostatnim miejscu"
https://wyborcza.biz/biznes/7,177150,30506469,gawkowski-w-ministerstwie-cyfryzacji-zdanie-big-techow-bedzie.html#S.TD-K.C-B.3-L.2.duzy
(wersja "zapasowa" : https://cryptpad.fr/file/#/2/file/OfAfxWVpLb-G4fErBFIFspOF/ )
#cyfryzacja #bigtech
I love how this “Created by AI, edited by humans” summary of the chat I had with Doc this month starts off mildly enough with “A great chat on FLOSS Weekly regarding alternate funding models to support ethical tech projects…“ and ends a few paragraphs later with “…Balkan provided an urgent call to action to avoid extinction at the hands of unchecked capitalism.”
Well that escalated quickly!
😬 👍
https://twit.tv/posts/inside-twit/aral-balkan-calls-new-funding-models-support-ethical-tech
#tech #ethics #BigTech #SmallTech #BigWeb #SmallWeb #VC #capitalism
Aral Balkan Calls For New Funding Models to Support Ethical Tech | TWiT.TV
On a recent episode of FLOSS Weekly, hosts Doc Searls and Dan Lynch spoke to open-source advocate Aral Balkan about the need for alternate funding models to support ethical technol…TWiT.tv
netzpolitik.org's great series on digital colonialism. In English and German. I recommend
#cyfryzajca #kolonializm #bigtech #digitalisierung #digitalisation #colonialism #Kolonialismus
Series on Digital Colonialism: How Meta aims to dominate India’s agriculture sector – netzpolitik.org
Facebook has entered a deal with India's largest corporation, Reliance Industries, in a bid to monopolize the entire food supply chain in India. This deal could put the food security of more than 820 million people at risk.netzpolitik.org
You wouldn’t have McDonald’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
'Surveillance capitalism has led us into a dystopia' - BBC Ideas
Watch the "'Surveillance capitalism has led us into a dystopia'" video at BBC Ideas. Explore other related content via our curated "Futurefest: Occupy the future" playlist.www.bbc.co.uk
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 ?
Oh wow you are on fire lately by David Revoy – Viewer - Pepper&Carrot
Official homepage of Pepper&Carrot, a free(libre) and open-source webcomic about Pepper, a young witch and her cat, Carrot. They live in a fantasy universe of potions, magic, and creatures.Pepper&Carrot
Folks: That’s an evil plan, we don’t like it.
Google: Please keep the discussion to technical issues only.
#Google #EvilAsAService #PeopleFarming #SiliconValley #BigTech #DigitalImperialism #adtech #DRM #web #standards #WebStandards #w3c
Prasówka
Vor möglicher Sperre: Kambodschas Premier wechselt von Facebook zu Telegram
In einem auf Facebook geteilten Video hat Hun Sen Konkurrenten gedroht. Das Oversight Board plädiert für eine befristete Sperre, Sen geht aber gleich ganz.Martin Holland (heise online)
Yes, they did.
Because you’re what’s for dinner.
#fediverse #mastodon #meta #Project92 #BigTech #SiliconValley #SurveillanceCapitalism
Dear @EU_Commission, here’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
#TikTok and its algos should be a controlled substance 🧠 tightly regulated
(otherwise more bears in all nations will be using it all day and long into the night 🐾 🐾)
#BigTech #Media
#Attention #Hack
#MentalHealth
#Privacy #Surveillance
#Democracy
"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/
🔎👀
#Privacy
#Surveillance
#SurveillanceCapitalism
#BigTech
#VR #AI #ML
#BigData
New research suggests that privacy in the metaverse might be impossible
Protecting privacy in the metaverse is critical, and it's shocking how little data is needed to uniquely identify a user in the metaverse.Louis Rosenberg, Unanimous A.I. (VentureBeat)
(sorry for copying the post, but for some reason we can't boost it)
https://social.librem.one/interact/109779534010876183?type=reblog
#SiliconValley #billionaires #vc #ventureCapital #BigTech #colonialism #fediverse #mastodon
“Aral, we’re just another Silicon Valley tech company, I don’t understand why you’re holding us to a such a higher standard.”
When I finally managed to pick my jaw off the floor the only retort I could manage was: “But that’s not what you tell people.”
3/3
#Mozilla #fediverse #SiliconValley #ventureCapital #BigTech
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
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/GianlucaSgueo/status/1605568631244349440
The GAFAM Empire
GAFAM Empire is a project in which we look at all the known acquisitions conducted by five big tech companies: Google, Amazon, Facebook, Apple, and Microsoft, from the moment they made their first one to the end of summer of 2022, when we stopped col…The GAFAM empire
If 400,000,000 people join BigTech.social tomorrow, that’s not a win. That’s how you recreate Twitter.
So let’s focus on what matters. Sure it‘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
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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:
• #internet
• #mobile #social
• #privacy
• #surveillance
• #AI #ML
• #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
#fediverse #BigTech #corporateCapture #warning