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Real bad AI trend..
#BigTech may fully internalize #AI within walled gardens, and generate all the UI's you'd ever need to do something online (likely see third party solution providers acting as intermediaries to the end customer here).
In this Brave New World any #FOSS and #OpenData is immediately candidate to be slurped up and incorporated, thus lessening the attractiveness to make the data open in the first place. It helps grow what are already a mega #oligopolies gain even more power.
"Asking enslaved people if they actually want to work the plantations for free would kill the cotton industry."
-- Nick Clegg
"Asking enslaved people if they actually want to work the plantations for free would kill the cotton industry."
-- Nick Clegg
Dear Friends in the #US 🇺🇸 ,
the number of followers of #Mastodon accounts belonging to universities and #research institutes in #Germany has surpassed the 180k mark today and continues to rise
👉 https://mastodon-listen.playground.54gradsoftware.de/?liste=institute-DE
This is a fantastic achievement, and we would like to congratulate everyone involved! 👏
It shows that the social networks of the #Fediverse can replace the increasingly antisocial networks of #BigTech.
We don't have to legitimize the spread of hate and incitement by contributing to these platforms.
We have alternatives. 🌞
And we would like to encourage you in the #USA to make stronger use of these alternatives.
In our appeall to HRK we have written: „By supporting the expansion of Fediverse services such as Mastodon, #universities can make an important contribution to strengthening our #democracy and to the #sustainable development of #science and #society.“
https://openpetition.de/Unis4Mastodon
Dear Friends in the #US 🇺🇸 ,
the number of followers of #Mastodon accounts belonging to universities and #research institutes in #Germany has surpassed the 180k mark today and continues to rise
👉 https://mastodon-listen.playground.54gradsoftware.de/?liste=institute-DE
This is a fantastic achievement, and we would like to congratulate everyone involved! 👏
It shows that the social networks of the #Fediverse can replace the increasingly antisocial networks of #BigTech.
We don't have to legitimize the spread of hate and incitement by contributing to these platforms.
We have alternatives. 🌞
And we would like to encourage you in the #USA to make stronger use of these alternatives.
In our appeall to HRK we have written: „By supporting the expansion of Fediverse services such as Mastodon, #universities can make an important contribution to strengthening our #democracy and to the #sustainable development of #science and #society.“
https://openpetition.de/Unis4Mastodon
@narF just did a great talk about how to get people to try #BigTech alternatives at a #FediForum session today.
It was very interesting and lots of things to think about.
There are slides available that people can reuse for their own "Ditch big tech" sessions, but I will let narF publicise it, as we also made notes during the session and he might want to add bits.
Thank you narF!
@narF just did a great talk about how to get people to try #BigTech alternatives at a #FediForum session today.
It was very interesting and lots of things to think about.
There are slides available that people can reuse for their own "Ditch big tech" sessions, but I will let narF publicise it, as we also made notes during the session and he might want to add bits.
Thank you narF!
✨ new on #TheFutureIsFederated 🚀
"My Fediverse Starter Guide" for newbies, based on my video and articles about Fediverse software and culture.
🔗 : https://news.elenarossini.com/my-fediverse-starter-guide/
mentioning @Mastodon @news @gotosocial @pfefferle @pixelfed @peertube
If you share it with friends/family, let me know how it goes and if this guide is helpful to them 🙏
Hey @bitwarden you are being misleading and it's making us sad.
Your website currently has a misleading link (and its affecting us being able to recommend ur tools).
Your dedicated Authentor app on the "Bitwarden Authenticator' page, has a Download it today button at the top of the page > That SHOULD take folks to the Authenticator download links (like at the bottom of the page), but instead it takes people to download the FULL Bitwarden Password Manager software.
Currently we're having to recommend folks use an alternative service as this is coming across as sneaky and dirty tactics. Really hoping it was unintentional. Regardless, pls fix so that this link takes ppl to download the tool they are expecting.
We were hoping to recommend ur service at our upcoming Digital Lounges, but we only endorse the most ethical open providers and stuff like this is the stuff the community notices.
#BItwarden #AuthenticatorApp #MFA #2FA #Authentication #Misleading #MisleadingCopy #Marketing #BigTech #FOSS
Big tech doesn’t create or do anything meaningful. They just buy the meaningful that already exists. Then they destroy it.
We don’t need AI in SBCs. That’s antithetic to the entire culture surrounding them. FFS.
Big tech needs to leave small tech alone. They’re vampires.
https://www.pcmag.com/news/qualcomm-buys-arduino-will-bring-ai-tools-to-your-diy-tech-projects
Big tech doesn’t create or do anything meaningful. They just buy the meaningful that already exists. Then they destroy it.
We don’t need AI in SBCs. That’s antithetic to the entire culture surrounding them. FFS.
Big tech needs to leave small tech alone. They’re vampires.
https://www.pcmag.com/news/qualcomm-buys-arduino-will-bring-ai-tools-to-your-diy-tech-projects
On a personal note: we, as a family, and I personally, hardly ever buy through Amazon. We conscientiously buy through our local bookstore and other shops. No prime videos. No Alexa spying devices in our house.
Stop the predatory pricing and oligopolistic behaviour.
And NO to the super rich billionaires, extracting massive wealth from our communities. And then entertaining an apocalyptic discourse, preparing themselves with private islands, bunkers and space enterprises.
Stop #BigTech, support your local democracy, shops and community.
Macron criticizes, rightfully, Europe's dependency on American and Chinese technology and the disruption this gives to our social media and democratic process.
#technology #Europe #DigitalSovereignty #Eurostack #digital #BigTech #democracy #freedom #opensource #FOSS #privacy
Macron criticizes, rightfully, Europe's dependency on American and Chinese technology and the disruption this gives to our social media and democratic process.
#technology #Europe #DigitalSovereignty #Eurostack #digital #BigTech #democracy #freedom #opensource #FOSS #privacy
We know #BigTech is a problem, but how do we actually *start* leaving it behind?
Join this (free as in free beer) 90-minute workshop on 📅 Oct 9 (16:00 UTC) to learn practical steps for transitioning your small/medium team away from corporate platforms.
Learn more & register: https://cloud68.co/blog/we-know-big-tech-is-bad-but-how-do-we-even-start-to-transition-free-workshop
This is the first event organized by the #MovementTech hosters behind the Rise Against Big Tech campaign, otherwise known as #RABT.
BIG ANNOUNCEMENT!
Our non-profit the Rebel Tech Alliance now has a #Ghost blog: The Rebel Blog
Find it here https://blog.rebeltechalliance.org
(or by clicking the BLOG menu button on our main site https://www.rebeltechalliance.org/ )
And because it's a Ghost blog you can follow it from the fediverse at the handle @index 💥
We'll be blogging about all things #privacy and ethical tech - and anything that shows how bad #bigtech is, and how we can undermine #surveillancecapitalism
BIG ANNOUNCEMENT!
Our non-profit the Rebel Tech Alliance now has a #Ghost blog: The Rebel Blog
Find it here https://blog.rebeltechalliance.org
(or by clicking the BLOG menu button on our main site https://www.rebeltechalliance.org/ )
And because it's a Ghost blog you can follow it from the fediverse at the handle @index 💥
We'll be blogging about all things #privacy and ethical tech - and anything that shows how bad #bigtech is, and how we can undermine #surveillancecapitalism
We know #BigTech is a problem, but how do we actually *start* leaving it behind?
Join this (free as in free beer) 90-minute workshop on 📅 Oct 9 (16:00 UTC) to learn practical steps for transitioning your small/medium team away from corporate platforms.
Learn more & register: https://cloud68.co/blog/we-know-big-tech-is-bad-but-how-do-we-even-start-to-transition-free-workshop
This is the first event organized by the #MovementTech hosters behind the Rise Against Big Tech campaign, otherwise known as #RABT.
📣 Hey, #Google "disable" Google apps is not "uninstalling" them. You can't dodge the EU’s #DMA rules by redefining language.
👏 Thanks to @fsfe and allies, a complaint has been filed to stop this abuse and protect user freedom.
💪 Support the FSFE's fight for digital rights: https://my.fsfe.org/donate
"Plenty of room at the bottom (of the tech stack)
Freedom or safety: choose one. This is the false bargain we were offered after 9/11, the ideology underpinning the PATRIOT Act and the (permanent) suspension of human rights. This ideology has metastasized out of the realm of airport security theater and mass surveillance, ossifying into a bedrock axiom about technology design itself..."
#BigTech #Security #Privacy #FreeSoftware #Apple #Google #Microsoft #GNU #Linux
https://pluralistic.net/2025/09/29/works-well/#fails-well
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