@Gina joh 😉
Ik kreeg altijd meewarige blikken als ik duidelijk maakte niet op big tech platformen te zitten (op github en bitbucket), maar mensen beginnen het steed beter te begrijpen.
Met mijn partime ambtenaar helmpje op verbaas ik me enorm partijen uit de kritische infrastructuur klakkeloos op #bigtech over stappen.
Ik volg je met belangstelling, ga vooral zo door

When someone cites something from an "AI" chatbot as a fact, point them to this site:

https://stopcitingai.com

#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #LLM #LLMs #MachineLearning #tech #technology #BigTech #GenAI #generativeAI #AISlop #Meta #Google #OpenAI #ChatGPT #online #Web #tips

The never-ending "We changed our Terms of Service" emails are so tiring.

Imagine those corporations being honest…

"We've changed our Terms of Service once again, and added more conditions that are beneficial to us and unfavorable to you, but as usual they're carefully hidden in the 500 pages of lawyer language."

#tech #technology #business #corporations #BigTech #TOS #enshittification

Absolute banger of a post by @mariafarrell, shared by @tarakiyee on another network. Every other paragraph is quote-worthy.

"That impulse to scour away the messiness that makes life resilient is what many conservation biologists call the pathology of command and control. Today, the same drive to centralize, control and extract has driven the internet to the same fate as the ravaged forests."

https://www.noemamag.com/we-need-to-rewild-the-internet/

#BigTech #monopoly #standards

🔧 https//www.liberationtoolbox.io

#infosec #bigtech #MAGAM

It seems that #BigTech has decided to make October the month of promoting #selfhosting.

🔧 https//www.liberationtoolbox.io

#infosec #bigtech #MAGAM

Revealed: Israel demanded Google and Amazon use secret ‘wink’ to sidestep legal orders / The Guardian

｢ For Israel, losing control of its data to authorities overseas was a significant concern. So to deal with the threat, officials created a secret warning system: the companies must send signals hidden in payments to the Israeli government, tipping it off when it has disclosed Israeli data to foreign courts or investigators ｣

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/29/google-amazon-israel-contract-secret-code

#israel #genocide #bigtech

When someone cites something from an "AI" chatbot as a fact, point them to this site:

https://stopcitingai.com

#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #LLM #LLMs #MachineLearning #tech #technology #BigTech #GenAI #generativeAI #AISlop #Meta #Google #OpenAI #ChatGPT #online #Web #tips

On Oct 20, AWS went down and took 1,000+ services with it. One DNS error, one data center, millions affected.

The internet wasn't meant to be this centralized. You have alternatives.
https://cloud68.co/blog/the-aws-outage-and-what-it-really-means-for-our-internet

#BigTech #SelfHosting #Decentralization

I'm glad I deleted my #Amazon account a couple months ago. I'm so done with all of these #bigtech fuckers.

When AI prophecy fails
"Amazon made $35 billion in profit last year, so they're celebrating by laying off 14,000 workers (a number they say will rise to 30,000). This is the kind of thing that Wall Street loves, and this layoff comes after a string of pronouncements from Amazon CEO Andy Jassy about how AI is going to let them fire tons of workers."

#Capitalism

https://pluralistic.net/2025/10/29/worker-frightening-machines/#robots-stole-your-jerb-kinda

Degoogle fact to ponder 5
AWS holds a 31% share of the global cloud infrastructure market, leading its closest competitors, Microsoft Azure (25%) and Google Cloud (11%) (figures as of 2023)
Three US companies control about 2/3 of the internet.
#degoogle #microsoft #google #tech #bigtech #amazon #aws

Degoogle fact to ponder 5
AWS holds a 31% share of the global cloud infrastructure market, leading its closest competitors, Microsoft Azure (25%) and Google Cloud (11%) (figures as of 2023)
Three US companies control about 2/3 of the internet.
#degoogle #microsoft #google #tech #bigtech #amazon #aws

It seems that #BigTech has decided to make October the month of promoting #selfhosting.

On Oct 20, AWS went down and took 1,000+ services with it. One DNS error, one data center, millions affected.

The internet wasn't meant to be this centralized. You have alternatives.
https://cloud68.co/blog/the-aws-outage-and-what-it-really-means-for-our-internet

#BigTech #SelfHosting #Decentralization

The never-ending "We changed our Terms of Service" emails are so tiring.

Imagine those corporations being honest…

"We've changed our Terms of Service once again, and added more conditions that are beneficial to us and unfavorable to you, but as usual they're carefully hidden in the 500 pages of lawyer language."

#tech #technology #business #corporations #BigTech #TOS #enshittification

Vandaag hebben de #verkiezingen alle aandacht en hopelijk heb je al gestemd of ga je dat nog doen 💪

Onze overheid, gemeentes en velen van ons, zijn nog steeds erg afhankelijk van de grote techbedrijven, de zogeheten #BigTech. Toch kun jij je onafhankelijker maken. Hoe? De stap overwegen om van #Windows over te gaan naar #Linux. Bijvoorbeeld op een oude notebook.

Waar en hoe begin je dan? Ik zeg: bij de @nllgg

https://nllgg.nl/vorigesite/mc-events/linux-voor-een-beginner-tips-voor-een-vlotte-start-🚀-voor-beginners-michael-boelen-1145-1245u-zaal-1/

I spend a lot of my work and personal time typing text and code. Using VS Code was a no-brainer. Everyone uses it. Every project support it. And it Just Works™.

But what if I wanted to use smaller, simpler, standardized tools? As someone who never managed to get into (Neo)Vim, Helix has been an epiphany. It's not as scary as I thought.

The 80s called, and they want to give us our freedom back.

https://ergaster.org/posts/2025/10/29-vscode-to-helix/

#helix #vscode #bigTech

@thibaultamartin licenses might not be enough, but at least one could use a stronger copyleft license like #GPL, which protects against more types of #enshittification than weaker permissive licenses. Which is why those #bigtech companies are scared to use them.