macfranc
@macfranc@poliversity.it  ·  activity timestamp 23 hours ago

Perché le grandi aziende tecnologiche rappresentano una minaccia per i diritti umani? Il post di #Amnesty

Le Big Tech o grandi aziende tecnologiche come #Meta, #Google, #Microsoft, #Amazon e #Apple influenzano il nostro modo di accedere e interagire su Internet. Controllano settori chiave come la ricerca, i social media, il #cloud computing, l'e-commerce e i sistemi di produzione di telefonia mobile. L'accesso a questi servizi è quasi altrettanto importante per i nostri diritti e il nostro sostentamento quanto servizi di pubblica utilità come acqua ed elettricità.

https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2025/08/why-are-big-tech-companies-a-threat-to-human-rights/

@eticadigitale
European Commission
@EUCommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu  ·  activity timestamp last week

Europe’s taste is timeless and protected.

From golden Mediterranean olive oil to summit-aged cheeses, over 3,600 products are registered as Protected Designation of Origin (PDO), Protected Geographical Indication (PGI) and Geographical Indication (GI).

These labels don’t just reveal the story behind the name. They preserve it, celebrating the communities behind it, their craft, and its quality.

This summer, discover the flavours that define Europe 👇

https://europa.eu/!DByXmJ

A map of Europe showing the number of geographical indications by country. Each country is a different shade of green, and the numbers are in yellow circles. Italy: 889 France: 771 Spain: 388 Greece: 282 Portugal: 207 Germany: 179 Hungary: 88 Croatia: 74 Romania: 75 Bulgaria: 72 Austria: 57 Slovenia: 46 Czechia: 43 Belgium: 39 Netherlands: 39 Poland: 38 Slovakia: 29 Cyprus: 26 Sweden: 26 Ireland: 13 Lithuania: Denmark: 13 Finland: 13 Latvia: 5 Luxembourg: 3 Malta: 4 Estonia: 2
A map of Europe showing the number of geographical indications by country. Each country is a different shade of green, and the numbers are in yellow circles. Italy: 889 France: 771 Spain: 388 Greece: 282 Portugal: 207 Germany: 179 Hungary: 88 Croatia: 74 Romania: 75 Bulgaria: 72 Austria: 57 Slovenia: 46 Czechia: 43 Belgium: 39 Netherlands: 39 Poland: 38 Slovakia: 29 Cyprus: 26 Sweden: 26 Ireland: 13 Lithuania: Denmark: 13 Finland: 13 Latvia: 5 Luxembourg: 3 Malta: 4 Estonia: 2
A map of Europe showing the number of geographical indications by country. Each country is a different shade of green, and the numbers are in yellow circles. Italy: 889 France: 771 Spain: 388 Greece: 282 Portugal: 207 Germany: 179 Hungary: 88 Croatia: 74 Romania: 75 Bulgaria: 72 Austria: 57 Slovenia: 46 Czechia: 43 Belgium: 39 Netherlands: 39 Poland: 38 Slovakia: 29 Cyprus: 26 Sweden: 26 Ireland: 13 Lithuania: Denmark: 13 Finland: 13 Latvia: 5 Luxembourg: 3 Malta: 4 Estonia: 2
René
@muzicofiel@mastodon.nl replied  ·  activity timestamp last week
@EUCommission still trying to implement #chatcontrol #css not listening to experts and citizens. Only ears to shady companies who Will spy on us. Supporting #meta the evil tech compagnie who works for fascists governments So, no #europe for me
Rhys 🌱
@rhyseverquill@social.coop  ·  activity timestamp last week

I just discovered that #WhatsApp doesn't completely encrypt the list showing members of a Community. This means that third-party apps like #Beeper can display the number of people in a Community along with their profile pictures, allowing you to identify individuals if they have a profile picture set. Phone numbers appear to be obscured with random digits.

#SecurityTips#Meta#InfoSec#Cybersecurity cc @Em0nM4stodon @privacyguides@feed @404mediaco @Bellingcat
Raphael Albert
@r_alb@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

LLMs are harmful. Not just because of their output, but also because of the output their owners explicitly design them not to produce.

For example, try asking Meta's LLM what the company does to prevent their tech from having inappropriate conversations with minors and see corporate censorship in action.
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#IrresponsibleTech#LLMs#Meta
IEEE Spectrum
@ieeespectrum@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

Why did #Meta go in $14.3 billion on Scale AI? They're betting on data labelling. AI training sets can be incomplete, inaccurate, or offensive, so it's up to humans to fine-tune the models.

“We found a huge gap between what the human experts mentioned in an image, and what the machine learning model could recognize."

To train an expert AI, we still need human expertise. https://spectrum.ieee.org/data-labeling-scale-ai-agents?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Mastodon-Daily-Pipeline

Robert W. Gehl
Mre. Dartigen [maker mode]
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🌈✨ vanta rainbow black ✨🌈
@vantablack@cyberpunk.lol  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

STAY WEIRD FEDI: IN DEFENSE OF THE ECCENTRIC, ECLECTIC, AND ERRATIC

by vanta rainbow black

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"queer people joined, and furries. it comes in waves." --Gargron, 2018

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a person's attitude towards furries is a great litmus test for their level of tolerance generally, and the presence of furries and queer people and other outcasts in a space is a major sign of a healthy social ecosystem. maybe the biggest one even. with statistics showing the vast majority of furries are queer in some capacity, it makes sense that 2000's era meme furry hate was nothing more than thinly-veiled bigotry

the fediverse is an interesting place. what happens when you accidentally sextuple-overbook the same convention center with a queer pride event and furry convention and punk show and kink festival and antifa assembly and hacker conference? you get early mastodon, essentially. the november 2022 twitter waves and meta threads' activitypub integration have diluted this vibe considerably, but the fighting spirit of the fediverse is still there. and as corpo gentrifiers (meta, etc.) continue to attempt to chip away at what makes the fediverse so wonderful, here's why it's worth saving:

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ONE: because it's beautiful

the fediverse is the only major social media platform where trans people can freely express themselves and be visible without fear of experiencing unmoderated hate-speech. provided your instance has adequate moderation, of course. but this is the case more often than not. sure, the occassional new bigot pleroma instance pops up once in a while. but at least you can trust that something will actually be fucking done about it when you submit a report. nazis get banned and defederated. it's such a low godddamn bar to clear... and yet, by and large, the fediverse is the only major social media platform that actually manages to do this (the decent sections of it, at least). why? well, here's the big secret: BECAUSE WE DON'T GIVE A FUCK ABOUT PROFIT!!! big companies allow nazis to fester on their services because it makes them money, and here we're not beholden to such a corrupting influence. that's kinda the entire point

all the good servers have all the bad ones blocked. that's the beauty of the fediverse. they're essentially isolated from the good portion of the network. in a book i got interviewed for (Move Slowly and Build Bridges: Mastodon, the Fediverse, and the Struggle for Democratic Social Media by Robert W. Gehl) this is termed the "covenantal fediverse" due to said instances broadly following the mastodon server covenant, the most important point of which is "active moderation against racism, sexism, homophobia and transphobia." the rest is just technical stuff. still important, but nowhere near as influental

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TWO: because it's subversive

c'mon. being "normal" is boring as fuck. "is anything as strange as a normal person? is anyone as cruel as a normal person?" pushing back against the mainstream is awesome and epic and cool as fuck. not just for the sake of it of course, but because the mainstream SUCKS. compulsive heterosexuality, patriarchy, transphobia, ableism, competition instead of cooperation, sanitized advertiser-friendly language ("unalived" etc.), silence in the face of injustice, compromise, conformity, boring watered-down top 100 pop hits playing on the radio and barbeques with a biological family who harshly judges and really just outright hates you

DON'T WE FUCKING DESERVE BETTER?!?!?!?!?!?!

i think we do. let's be less like uptight milquetoast suburbanites and more like the neighbors down the street who they despise -- the punk house with a front yard full of empty beer bottles and crumpled up anarchism zines that's constantly getting noise complaints. in other words: let's have fun, and be awesome, and fuck the corpo stiffs trying to stand in our way!

you can't even say swear words on tiktok. and other corpo social media platforms don't fare much better. that's no way to live. FUCK!!!!!

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THREE: because it's important

as fascism ever-encroaches digital spaces free from corporate tyranny will only become more important. as trans people are being actively genocided here in the U.S. and abroad, alternative social media systems are a place where we can truly express ourselves. find ourselves. become ourselves. corporations are rolling back DEI initiatives and rules against queerphobia. these corpo platforms are no place to thrive. when i joined mastodon in 2017, it was at a crucial time in my gender journey. fedi singlehandedly saved me from being some doofy techbro and turned me into the amazing cyberpunk catgirl i am today. it gave me the critical positive trans representation i so desperately needed, and gave me a likeminded community. a space to learn and grow, and try on new aspects of identity to see what fit. i credit it almost entirely with shaping me into Vanta Rainbow Black

it's a common thread on the fediverse. always has been. even today. so much so that i came up with a name for it, way back in 2017: The Fediverse Effect. people tend to join and realize they're trans due to the sheer abundance of trans people on the network. it really helps to have positive representation y'know? like actual tangible people to dispel common myths and misconceptions, who you can even talk to personally about this stuff. it was indispensible in my journey towards finding myself and molding myself into the person i was meant to be

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in closing... fuck meta. fuck automattic. fuck flipboard. and fuck all the other corporate gentrifiers in the future who might try to encroach upon our beautiful weird digital haven in the name of turning a profit. you have nothing but my contempt

we should stay weird. unsanitized. unmarketable. for to do otherwise would be to forfeit the very soul of what makes the fediverse so special

stay weird fedi

also published on my blog: https://vanta.blog/posts/2025-8-14-stay-weird-fedi

#StayWeirdFedi #fediverse#FediPact #meta #threads #automattic #flipboard

Cassidy James :gg: :fh:
Richard MacManus
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izzy :: izjustpixels ✨
@izjustpixels@mastodon.art  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

aaaand it's official: as of today, I am #fediverse exclusive!! 🎉💜

the last account to go was #instagram. I am so done with #meta.

so if you enjoy artisanal, hand-made, free-range, AI- and NFT-free #pixelArt - maybe give this account a follow and share it with all your fedi friends 💜

here, have this remaster of a #demake from years ago as a treat:
"Plumber Kart 8 Demake" (2025)

#pixelartist #retroart #retrogames#yegArts #demake #demaster

A pixel art demake of a popular video game. We see a plumber with a red hat and blue overalls on a small metal kart, driving on a dirt road through rolling green hills with some trees on them. There is pixel art UI, like a yellow star in the top left, and a position indicator in the bottom right. The colours are bright and warm.
A pixel art demake of a popular video game. We see a plumber with a red hat and blue overalls on a small metal kart, driving on a dirt road through rolling green hills with some trees on them. There is pixel art UI, like a yellow star in the top left, and a position indicator in the bottom right. The colours are bright and warm.
A pixel art demake of a popular video game. We see a plumber with a red hat and blue overalls on a small metal kart, driving on a dirt road through rolling green hills with some trees on them. There is pixel art UI, like a yellow star in the top left, and a position indicator in the bottom right. The colours are bright and warm.
A pixel art demake of a popular video game. We see a plumber with a red hat and blue overalls on a small metal kart, driving on a dirt road through rolling green hills with some trees on them. There is pixel art UI, like a yellow star in the top left, and a position indicator in the bottom right. The colours are bright and warm. The pixel art piece is sitting in front of a dark grey background.
A pixel art demake of a popular video game. We see a plumber with a red hat and blue overalls on a small metal kart, driving on a dirt road through rolling green hills with some trees on them. There is pixel art UI, like a yellow star in the top left, and a position indicator in the bottom right. The colours are bright and warm. The pixel art piece is sitting in front of a dark grey background.
A pixel art demake of a popular video game. We see a plumber with a red hat and blue overalls on a small metal kart, driving on a dirt road through rolling green hills with some trees on them. There is pixel art UI, like a yellow star in the top left, and a position indicator in the bottom right. The colours are bright and warm. The pixel art piece is sitting in front of a dark grey background.
Max Schrems
@maxschrems@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 4 months ago

What is the best "impact assessment" for an NGO? If a huge Big Tech company like #Meta publicly says your work should be prohibited.. 😂

If you wanna join @noybeu and make us even more "powerful" click here: support.noyb.eu/join 😜

(From a paywalled MLex Article)
izzy :: izjustpixels ✨
@izjustpixels@mastodon.art  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

aaaand it's official: as of today, I am #fediverse exclusive!! 🎉💜

the last account to go was #instagram. I am so done with #meta.

so if you enjoy artisanal, hand-made, free-range, AI- and NFT-free #pixelArt - maybe give this account a follow and share it with all your fedi friends 💜

here, have this remaster of a #demake from years ago as a treat:
"Plumber Kart 8 Demake" (2025)

#pixelartist #retroart #retrogames#yegArts #demake #demaster

A pixel art demake of a popular video game. We see a plumber with a red hat and blue overalls on a small metal kart, driving on a dirt road through rolling green hills with some trees on them. There is pixel art UI, like a yellow star in the top left, and a position indicator in the bottom right. The colours are bright and warm.
A pixel art demake of a popular video game. We see a plumber with a red hat and blue overalls on a small metal kart, driving on a dirt road through rolling green hills with some trees on them. There is pixel art UI, like a yellow star in the top left, and a position indicator in the bottom right. The colours are bright and warm.
A pixel art demake of a popular video game. We see a plumber with a red hat and blue overalls on a small metal kart, driving on a dirt road through rolling green hills with some trees on them. There is pixel art UI, like a yellow star in the top left, and a position indicator in the bottom right. The colours are bright and warm.
A pixel art demake of a popular video game. We see a plumber with a red hat and blue overalls on a small metal kart, driving on a dirt road through rolling green hills with some trees on them. There is pixel art UI, like a yellow star in the top left, and a position indicator in the bottom right. The colours are bright and warm. The pixel art piece is sitting in front of a dark grey background.
A pixel art demake of a popular video game. We see a plumber with a red hat and blue overalls on a small metal kart, driving on a dirt road through rolling green hills with some trees on them. There is pixel art UI, like a yellow star in the top left, and a position indicator in the bottom right. The colours are bright and warm. The pixel art piece is sitting in front of a dark grey background.
A pixel art demake of a popular video game. We see a plumber with a red hat and blue overalls on a small metal kart, driving on a dirt road through rolling green hills with some trees on them. There is pixel art UI, like a yellow star in the top left, and a position indicator in the bottom right. The colours are bright and warm. The pixel art piece is sitting in front of a dark grey background.