Elkjøp, likely the largest Norwegian based electronics store, is now running ads for Copilot where they speak about how great Recall is. Likely the ad is paid for by Microsoft.

They show the picture below and they talk of how great it is that the machine remembers everything you have done with it (and has the pictures to prove it!).

I guess when you make something that most people do not want, you just push it harder.

Remember that you have a choice to move away from Big Tech.

#microsoft #windows #Linux #vivaldi
#technology #AI #computing #bigTech

Absolutely, 100%, no way, in hell.

I’ll take a 1960s Roper refrigerator over this overpriced, tech-ridden garbage. The sales guy approached me as I was laughing at it and mentioned Samsung has decided to start running ads on them. Folks who fell for the scam can now have ads magically appear in their kitchens.

#InternetOfShit #AIshit #aigarbage #bigtech #bigdata #surveillancecapitalism

2025 captured in a Reddit post…

"My schizophrenic sister hospitalized herself because she thought she was having a psychotic episode where someone was attempting to communicate with her through her fridge. Turns out it was an advert on the LED screen."

https://old.reddit.com/r/LegalAdviceUK/comments/1pc7999/my_schizophrenic_sister_hospitalised_herself/

#IOT #InternetOfThings #InternetOfShit #smart #internet #online #ad #ads #advertisement #tech #BigTech #enshittification

Big Tech's love to preach "privacy this" & "privacy that" but in reality they track & collect your data.

Today we take a look at what privacy washing is, and why companies like #Gmail & #Facebook use it to gain your trust 👉 https://tuta.com/blog/big-tech-privacy-washing

#PrivacyWashing #BigTech

"Klickvieh"

Ein kleines Gedicht, welches ich am Ende meiner Keynote auf dem IONOS Summit gehalten habe und welches ganz persoenlich den #BigTech Wahnsinn der letzten Jahre zusammenfasst.

Den ganzen Vortrag gibt es 👉 https://youtu.be/0lO2dxRjJ0g

Freue mich, wenn ihr das boosten koenntet, damit das Thema noch mehr User:innen erreicht.

Danke fuer euren Support!

In the spirit of #FOSDEM2026 being sponsored by Google, I hope HackerTrain is brought to you by Ryanair.

#google #surveillanceCapitalism #BigTech #FOSDEM https://toot.si/@hook/115662561290957296

Elkjøp, likely the largest Norwegian based electronics store, is now running ads for Copilot where they speak about how great Recall is. Likely the ad is paid for by Microsoft.

They show the picture below and they talk of how great it is that the machine remembers everything you have done with it (and has the pictures to prove it!).

I guess when you make something that most people do not want, you just push it harder.

Remember that you have a choice to move away from Big Tech.

#microsoft #windows #Linux #vivaldi
#technology #AI #computing #bigTech

This is shocking. Even for someone like me who researches this stuff all the time. With a first hand account it's worse than you thought...

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/watched-tracked-targeted-israel-surveillance-gaza.html

#Gaza #palestine #surveillance #bigtech #genocide #israel #deathtech

Someone kindly reached out to ask if I would consider speaking about Gaza Verified (https://gaza-verified.org/) at the Social Web Devroom being organised by the Social Web Foundation at FOSDEM.

My answer is no.

And I feel it’s important for those of us who care about such things to understand why:

• Social Web Foundation (https://socialwebfoundation.org) partners with, and thereby whitewashes and legitimises Meta

• FOSDEM (https://fosdem.org/2026) allows itself to be sponsored by, and thereby whitewashes and legitimises, Google and IBM (Red Hat)

Meta and Google are both surveillance capitalists with strong ties to the Trump regime that is arming and financing Israel’s genocide in Gaza. IBM, apart from having helped Nazi Germany carry out the Holocaust, is also singled out by name, alongside Google (Alphabet, Inc.), as complicit in Israel’s ongoing genocide of the Palestinian people (‪https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/7/1/un-report-lists-companies-complicit-in-israels-genocide-who-are-they).

It shouldn’t be hard for organisations that purport to be alternatives to toxic Big Tech to not be sponsored and affiliated with them. But apparently it is.

Personally, I have no trouble saying no to having my name and legitimacy being used to whitewash these corporations and I have been doing so since the beginning.

• ‪ https://ar.al/2019/01/11/i-was-wrong-about-google-and-facebook-theres-nothing-wrong-with-them-so-say-we-all/

• ‪ https://ar.al/notes/rightscon-or-a-right-con/

I will not stand – literally or metaphorically – in front of their banners and talk about an initiative that tries to help the very people victimised by these corporations in their sociopathic quest for profit at any cost.

I hope more people start doing the same if we are to have any chance of making these corporations with their toxic business models and their complicity in genocide socially unacceptable. If we cannot even meet that already-very-low bar – as long as those of us with legitimacy allow ourselves to be used to normalise them – nothing will change.

#FOSDEM #SocialWebFoundation #BigTech #sponsorship #whitewashing #legitimisation #institutionalCorruption #israel #genocide #Gaza #Palestine #GazaVerified

Absolutely, 100%, no way, in hell.

I’ll take a 1960s Roper refrigerator over this overpriced, tech-ridden garbage. The sales guy approached me as I was laughing at it and mentioned Samsung has decided to start running ads on them. Folks who fell for the scam can now have ads magically appear in their kitchens.

#InternetOfShit #AIshit #aigarbage #bigtech #bigdata #surveillancecapitalism

Ieri la mia bimba più piccola è venuta a casa piangendo perché i suoi compagni di scuola sostengono che "gli #hacker sono tutti cattivi e rubano i dati".

La mia prima risposta è stata che al momento i maggiori ladri e ricettatori di dati sono #Google, #Microsoft, #Amazon, #Facebook, #IBM e #Apple (la #GMAFIA, ex #GAFAM).

Quando però mi ha risposto mortificata che aveva provato a spiegarlo, ma loro gli dicevano che questi sono "i buoni che ci difendono dagli hacker", ho provato a cercare con lei il termine hacker sulla enciclopedia #Treccani che, sebbene proponga una definizione un po' stereotipata e superficiale, almeno mi ha aiutato a rassicurarla che il suo papà non è un mostro cattivo.

Che sarà di quei bimbi che credono ciecamente nella bontà delle #BigTech?

It's a bit funny to observe Europeans proud because they fined X. 😂

One guy even told me on LinkeDisney that most European politicians already left this far right tool.

#LeaveX #Europe #BigTech

Voor wie mee wil doen met #MeshCore nu een groot stuk van Nederland verbonden is: Het is soort van Signal/WhatsApp, maar dan met tekst. Voor (nood)communicatie, maar ook als een stukje vrijheid: geen #BigTech die meeluistert. Decentraal, iedereen samen vormt het netwerk.

Benodigd: een client-apparaat (bijv. Heltec V3/V4 of MeshPocket)

Apparaat binnen? Zie voor mijn introductie in MeshCore: https://meereco.nl/communicatie/introductie-meshcore/

2025 captured in a Reddit post…

"My schizophrenic sister hospitalized herself because she thought she was having a psychotic episode where someone was attempting to communicate with her through her fridge. Turns out it was an advert on the LED screen."

https://old.reddit.com/r/LegalAdviceUK/comments/1pc7999/my_schizophrenic_sister_hospitalised_herself/

#IOT #InternetOfThings #InternetOfShit #smart #internet #online #ad #ads #advertisement #tech #BigTech #enshittification

Props to the entire @privacyguides team

Most info security & privacy guides are tough for the average user to sort through... yet their work is smart, direct, and well researched

If you or someone you know wants to get off of Big Tech or simply start taking steps in the right direction, this is the place to start: https://www.privacyguides.org/en/basics/why-privacy-matters/

#Privacy #DigitalPrivacy #Infosecurity #BigTech

“Just as Nazi Germany’s crimes could not have been committed without the technology IBM provided to track, round-up and murder Jews, Romani people and the disabled, Israel’s apartheid and genocide of the Palestinians would not be possible without Microsoft.”

https://thegrayzone.com/2025/05/23/microsoft-hub-israeli-intel/

#microsoft #israel #genocide#ethnicCleansing #apartheid#settlerColonialism#BigTech #capitalism #fascism#IBM#Holocaust

In the spirit of #FOSDEM2026 being sponsored by Google, I hope HackerTrain is brought to you by Ryanair.

#google #surveillanceCapitalism #BigTech #FOSDEM https://toot.si/@hook/115662561290957296

Flash News: Radical centrists and right-wingers want the European Union to become just another plutocrat/kleptocrat regime like the USA where big tech companies can plunder your privacy and personal data while national states deploy oppressive mass surveillance regimes. To hell with civil liberties, social rights, and quality of life for all. I don't have any kind of tolerance for that type of demagogic speech!!

"The Commission’s long-anticipated digital omnibus is being sold as a package that will reduce regulatory burdens and simplify Europe’s approach to overseeing the digital economy. In reality, it will likely wholly walk back the bloc’s ability to oversee key digital battlegrounds.

“What is described as a ‘simplification package’ to technically streamline digital regulation will in fact fracture people’s rights and freedoms, and leave the door open for AI development with significantly lower safeguards,” said the Ada Lovelace Institute.

Among some of the most troubling risks arising from the omnibus are a move to use people’s data to train AI on the basis of a “legitimate interest” — as defined by the company — rather than clear consent. It also moves to weaken core privacy protections and delays key safety measures for high risk and speculative AI technology until 2027.

As troubling as these examples are, there is also a significant risk the omnibus exposes children to additional risk and harms in digital life. A total of 15 civil society networks, reported in POLITICO, wrote to the Commission warning that lifting current protections contained within the GDPR and AI Act would result in an “unacceptable betrayal of the EU’s commitment to children, parents, and its own values.”"

https://thecounterbalance.substack.com/p/eu-digital-omnibus-sacrifices-fundamental

#EU #DigitalOmnibus #AI #BigTech #AIAct #GDPR #Privacy #DigitalRights #DataProtection

This is shocking. Even for someone like me who researches this stuff all the time. With a first hand account it's worse than you thought...

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/watched-tracked-targeted-israel-surveillance-gaza.html

#Gaza #palestine #surveillance #bigtech #genocide #israel #deathtech