RE: https://cyberplace.social/@GossiTheDog/115944285350406235
Big tech is not your friend. They don’t care about you. Remember this when making decisions while using any of their products.
Djoerd Hiemstra 🍉
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Op dezelfde dag dat @publicspaces samen met oa @kbnationalebibliotheek een oproep doet om Nederland weerbaar te houden, kom ik een vacature tegen bij diezelfde KB voor een Lead Software Engineer die aan de slag mag met de migratie naar MS Azure van de login infra voor de NL bibliotheken.
@kbnationalebibliotheek hoe verhoudt onderstaande vacature tekst:
zich tot deze oproep:
https://publicspaces.net/2026/01/20/houd-nederland-weerbaar-maak-de-digitale-publieke-ruimte-een-speerpunt-in-de-formatie-en-het-regeerakkoord/
Ik snap er niks meer van.
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Houd Nederland weerbaar; maak de digitale publieke ruimte een speerpunt in de formatie en het regeerakkoord!
Een groeiend deel van ons dagelijks leven draait op digitale omgevingen die worden gestuurd door private en vaak buitenlandse belangen. Hierdoor dreigen we de controle kwijt te raken over onze digitale leefwereld. In al onze sectoren worden de gevolgen hiervan zichtbaar. Jongeren ervaren oplopende m
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@JulianOliver/115940654458570258
This and also, delete your #Amazon account.
Why in the ever-living-fuck is anyone still giving money to any #US #bigtech #fascist boot-licker unless there is no other choice for something that is essential? Don't feed the fascist machine.
Rather than talk about the latest corporate streaming tv show you enjoyed, share about your boycott of those companies. Give your money to #PBS instead. Use your library.
Chewie
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In the leadup to & throughout WW2, US tech giant IBM chose to be the "information muscle" of the Nazi Party, running census & kill accounting for Hitler's Final Solution.
As this shitty loop comes round at scale, tech giants once again center themselves within the white supremacy project. Rather than combine their power to fight back, the CEOs & investors of these corps *choose* to side with the hateful & increasingly lethal regime.
Helping friends & fam off #bigtech is a moral imperative.
If you are in the US and have an Amazon Ring camera, disconnect it. The camera may be being used by ICE, by way of its participation in a Flock AI surveillance network.
Or sure, smash if it feels better.
In the leadup to & throughout WW2, US tech giant IBM chose to be the "information muscle" of the Nazi Party, running census & kill accounting for Hitler's Final Solution.
As this shitty loop comes round at scale, tech giants once again center themselves within the white supremacy project. Rather than combine their power to fight back, the CEOs & investors of these corps *choose* to side with the hateful & increasingly lethal regime.
Helping friends & fam off #bigtech is a moral imperative.
Billy Smith
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Amazing. W (I kid you not): A bunch of VC-funded European Big Tech assholes attempting to rewrite history by erasing the federated European alternatives that already exist to create their own centralised, surveillance-ridden X clone.
Same shit, different flag.
And I’m sure the usual fools will flock to it the moment it’s ready.
Fuck these people.
#EU #bullshit #W #BigTech #surveillance #capitalism #peopleFarming @nicolasvivant https://colter.social/@nicolasvivant/115929963687586528
Djoerd Hiemstra 🍉
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@Marloezovic Cash is king anyway. En de afhankelijk van banken houdt ook meteen afhankelijkheid van #bigtech in. Want banken passen zeer veel #appdwang toe.
Lees hier waarom appdwang ook problematisch is:
Ik gebruik een #Linux telefoon ( #Librem5) en kan nu niet meer alle bankhandelingen online doen.
De bank dwingt me naar de de apps die alleen verkrijgbaar zijn via Apple of Google. En die wil ik niet.
narF 😵✌️
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Jeff Bezos is saying the quiet part out loud. They want to kill local computing.
You will own nothing and be happy. You will rent your computing power from the cloud. You pay a subscription for the privilege of using a computer.
AI demand is artificially spiking DRAM prices and Big Tech is pushing "AI PCs," the squeeze is on to force us into a rental model.
Reject this future. 
Keep your hardware local.
Run #Linux. 
Own your data.
The "cloud" is just a landlord for your data.
#NoAi #FOSS #OpenSource #Privacy #SelfHost #SelfHosting #BigTech #RightToRepair #RAM #Amazon #EatTheRich
Alex Akselrod
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This is just a reminder that not using Netflix is free.
"Netflix announced during its Q4 earnings call that it will redesign its app in 2026 with a TikTok-style vertical video feed. The feed will feature short-form clips from Netflix shows, movies, and podcasts, essentially turning Netflix into a doomscrolling platform."
#Enshittification #NetFlix #NoAI #deGoogle #AntiBigTech #BigTech
Ethical Technology or Feudalism?
https://yewtu.be/watch?v=FsF4sdMPYas
A talk I gave six years ago that I’d highly urge you to watch. Still entirely relevant today, if not more so (sadly).
(What I call the Indienet in the talk is what I now call the Small Web; a peer-to-peer Web owned and controlled by people not corporations or governments.)
🪤 Escaping the trap of US tech dependence
｢ Protecting the global market share and curtailing attempts to rein in U.S. tech companies is bipartisan policy in the United States. They may occasionally get angry at certain domestic consequences of the tech products they depend on, but Democrats and Republicans alike are not very concerned about how those issues play out beyond the country’s borders ｣
https://disconnect.blog/escaping-the-trap-of-us-tech-dependence/
Aral Balkan
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”Incrível. W (sério, não estou brincando): um bando de arrogantes da Big Tech europeia, financiados por capital de risco, tentando reescrever a história ao apagar as alternativas federadas europeias que já existem, tudo para criarem sua própria cópia do X centralizada e cheia de vigilância.
Mesma merda, bandeira diferente.
E tenho certeza de que os trouxas de sempre vão correr para ela assim que estiver pronta.
Que se lasque esses caras."
https://cybernews.com/tech/europe-social-media-w/
#Fediverso #Mastodon #bigTech #tecnologia
@fediverse @tecnologia @academicos @internet (pode seguir para acompanhar os assuntos ou marcar para amplificar a postagem até no #lemmy tb)
”Incrível. W (sério, não estou brincando): um bando de arrogantes da Big Tech europeia, financiados por capital de risco, tentando reescrever a história ao apagar as alternativas federadas europeias que já existem, tudo para criarem sua própria cópia do X centralizada e cheia de vigilância.
Mesma merda, bandeira diferente.
E tenho certeza de que os trouxas de sempre vão correr para ela assim que estiver pronta.
Que se lasque esses caras."
https://cybernews.com/tech/europe-social-media-w/
#Fediverso #Mastodon #bigTech #tecnologia
@fediverse @tecnologia @academicos @internet (pode seguir para acompanhar os assuntos ou marcar para amplificar a postagem até no #lemmy tb)
The Fulcrum
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What does digital independence look like for a #university?
At the University of #Groningen, this conversation has been growing bottom-up: academic & professional support staff are driving a move away from #BigTech toward shared, #open alternatives.
With support from the Uni Board, this effort is shaping a community-driven 5-year roadmap towards #DigitalAutonomy by 2030.
Newspaper Ukrant covered the shift.
https://ukrant.nl/magazine/we-can-do-without-them-how-the-ug-is-cutting-ties-with-big-tech/?lang=en
This is just a reminder that not using Netflix is free.
"Netflix announced during its Q4 earnings call that it will redesign its app in 2026 with a TikTok-style vertical video feed. The feed will feature short-form clips from Netflix shows, movies, and podcasts, essentially turning Netflix into a doomscrolling platform."
#Enshittification #NetFlix #NoAI #deGoogle #AntiBigTech #BigTech