I'm migrating out my files of #OneDrive to #ProtonDrive to walk out from #BigTech and support other players #NoBigTech as well as support #EuropeanAlternatives
@Gina
https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/policies/edic
Unfortunately, communication and news on this topic can only be followed via #BigTech social media.
It's time for this to be disseminated via #fediverse, via #Mastodon!
I'm migrating out my files of #OneDrive to #ProtonDrive to walk out from #BigTech and support other players #NoBigTech as well as support #EuropeanAlternatives
We're hosting our German #OpenDesk and French #LaSuite colleagues at the Dutch Ministry of Interior today to exchange experiences with our #MijnBureau team 🇩🇪🇫🇷
This is in preparation of the official European Digital Infrastructure Consortium (EDIC) launch tomorrow in The Hague. 🍾
The #EDIC will be a consortium of several EU member states to fund, support and build more #opensource EU alternatives together, like the sovereign workspaces replacing Microsoft.
@Gina
https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/policies/edic
Unfortunately, communication and news on this topic can only be followed via #BigTech social media.
It's time for this to be disseminated via #fediverse, via #Mastodon!
Everybody hates LinkedIn. Me too. There are many reasons for that, most of which I do not need to tell you about. I want to focus here one reason in particular, illustrated by the image below:
The 10 rows with blue and white buttons are crops of individual screen shots, each made after refreshing my browser. You see they are different each time? Not only the text, but also the color and the placement of the button you need to click to log in is different on each new visit.
You probably never see this, because you never refresh your browser (because you don’t have a decent password manager). I do and see this every time I log in, and I think it is evil. It is evil because of two effects of this unpredictability that are intended by LinkedIn:
If you’d ask Microsoft (the owner of LinkedIn) why they aim for these effects, they will probably lie to you that it is to prohibit bot-accounts or express some other security-schwalbe. Both effects have a clear objective:
I don’t want to dive too deep into why LinkedIn wants you to stay logged in and why they love you to install their app, but the summary is: only your data has value to them. Thus, #LinkedIn is #harvesting your #data as much as they can, offering you nothing but a shitty, laggy interface where you connect to your professional relations. If you don’t buy into this “contract”, LinkedIn does not shy away from intentionally annoying you.
At the same time, you’re locked in: you can’t leave LinkedIn without losing your valuable connections (your “social graph”). This locking in is the standard practice in #BigTech social media, and an essential ingredient of their sick business model.
But there is good news: There is a free and open social internet that is growing organically, where social platforms all speak the same language: the #Fediverse. Speaking the same language facilitates #interoperability: people can move freely from one platform to another without loosing their social graph. Since the platforms in the Fediverse are no fenced gardens, developers have no incentive to annoy and addict their users. Instead, in the FediVerse, those platforms thrive that people enjoy using!
The FediVerse is still relatively young and in full development. No actual replacement for LinkedIn is yet created, but really, is LinkedIn what yo want? If you’re interested and want to be among the pioneers, join now, sign up, join now for free, create an account by clicking on one of the buttons above.
#BigTech #data #fediverse #harvesting #interoperability #LinkedIn
Everybody hates LinkedIn. Me too. There are many reasons for that, most of which I do not need to tell you about. I want to focus here one reason in particular, illustrated by the image below:
The 10 rows with blue and white buttons are crops of individual screen shots, each made after refreshing my browser. You see they are different each time? Not only the text, but also the color and the placement of the button you need to click to log in is different on each new visit.
You probably never see this, because you never refresh your browser (because you don’t have a decent password manager). I do and see this every time I log in, and I think it is evil. It is evil because of two effects of this unpredictability that are intended by LinkedIn:
If you’d ask Microsoft (the owner of LinkedIn) why they aim for these effects, they will probably lie to you that it is to prohibit bot-accounts or express some other security-schwalbe. Both effects have a clear objective:
I don’t want to dive too deep into why LinkedIn wants you to stay logged in and why they love you to install their app, but the summary is: only your data has value to them. Thus, #LinkedIn is #harvesting your #data as much as they can, offering you nothing but a shitty, laggy interface where you connect to your professional relations. If you don’t buy into this “contract”, LinkedIn does not shy away from intentionally annoying you.
At the same time, you’re locked in: you can’t leave LinkedIn without losing your valuable connections (your “social graph”). This locking in is the standard practice in #BigTech social media, and an essential ingredient of their sick business model.
But there is good news: There is a free and open social internet that is growing organically, where social platforms all speak the same language: the #Fediverse. Speaking the same language facilitates #interoperability: people can move freely from one platform to another without loosing their social graph. Since the platforms in the Fediverse are no fenced gardens, developers have no incentive to annoy and addict their users. Instead, in the FediVerse, those platforms thrive that people enjoy using!
The FediVerse is still relatively young and in full development. No actual replacement for LinkedIn is yet created, but really, is LinkedIn what yo want? If you’re interested and want to be among the pioneers, join now, sign up, join now for free, create an account by clicking on one of the buttons above.
#BigTech #data #fediverse #harvesting #interoperability #LinkedIn
@ErikJonker @fedor @kevin Ja, kijk, ZO komen we er niet uit... Mensen vertellen zojuist dat ze niet aan een device van Google of Apple gekoppelt willen worden. "Koppeling aan een device" is bedrijfstaal voor "koppeling aan Google of Apple". Een cirkelredenering uit het boekje.
@djoerd @ErikJonker @fedor @kevin
Kijk naar deze jeugdserie waar op duidelijke wijze aan jongeren wordt uitgelegd hoe #BigTech werkt en met je privé gegevens omgaat:
https://npo.nl/start/serie/techbitch/afleveringen
⁂ Article
Ook DigiD naar Amerikaanse cloud
Na SIDN en de Belastingdienst, gaat straks ook DigiD naar de Amerikaanse cloud. Maar, we wilden toch juist MINDER afhankelijk worden??
Democracy is at the heart of Europe.
But democracy needs care, especially when 70% of Europeans fear foreign interference in elections.
Today we present the European Democracy Shield and the EU Strategy for Civil Society.
Together, they'll make our democracies stronger, support independent media, and empower people and civil society to play an active role in shaping Europe’s future.
Because empowered, engaged, and informed people are the heart of our democracy💪
What is #democracy worth without #citizens' #privacy rights? Abandoning parts of the #GDPR for #BigTech undermines democracy and opens the door to 1930s-style #dictatorship and mass #surveillance. Wasn't the EU founded precisely to ensure this would never happen again? Honor your humble foundations or ther is no more need for the #EU.
https://noyb.eu/en/open-letter-digital-omnibus-brings-deregulation-not-simplification
I will have to get all of my thoughts together later, but Larry Ellison saying that AI surveillance will have citizens on their "best behavior" is terrifying.
1. Who is deciding what best behavior is?
2. I feel like politicians and billionaires need more oversight as they have been fleecing the citizenry to maintain power and profit.
3. I don't need the state, AI, or a religious "Sky Daddy" watching over me to be a good person.
#Fdroid's statement re. #Google's attack on your freedom to install the apps you want on #Android devices.
#enshittification #bigtech #monopolies #oligopolies #freesoftware
#Fdroid's statement re. #Google's attack on your freedom to install the apps you want on #Android devices.
#enshittification #bigtech #monopolies #oligopolies #freesoftware
UK tech policy is shambles.
50%+ dependency on foreign cloud service providers, and instead of doing any work to reduce it Labour gov't does the opposite and placates American big tech for more investments into critical digital infrastructure...
now, after the wide outage a week ago, they want to just "draft a blueprint" in case situations like this repeat? this isn't serious.
we can't defend democracy on foreign servers.
#Tech #Technology #TechPolicy #BigTech #UnitedKingdom #UK #OpenSource
UK tech policy is shambles.
50%+ dependency on foreign cloud service providers, and instead of doing any work to reduce it Labour gov't does the opposite and placates American big tech for more investments into critical digital infrastructure...
now, after the wide outage a week ago, they want to just "draft a blueprint" in case situations like this repeat? this isn't serious.
we can't defend democracy on foreign servers.
#Tech #Technology #TechPolicy #BigTech #UnitedKingdom #UK #OpenSource
If it's not #decentralized, #federated and #FLOSS it's not worthed. Like #Matrix or #XMPP, communications should not depend on a #SPOF in some #BigTech silo.
I will have to get all of my thoughts together later, but Larry Ellison saying that AI surveillance will have citizens on their "best behavior" is terrifying.
1. Who is deciding what best behavior is?
2. I feel like politicians and billionaires need more oversight as they have been fleecing the citizenry to maintain power and profit.
3. I don't need the state, AI, or a religious "Sky Daddy" watching over me to be a good person.
So introduction time.
I am Aleksandra from russian origin, i live in EU and are pro ukraine, i run #Secureblue on computer and @GrapheneOS on mobile.
Pro #FOSS as it's the only way to brake from #US and #bigtech#Closed #source #software.
Finally i'm lesbian As such all LGBTQIA+ are welcome in DM if they have problem or need advice in this field.
Thanks for accepting me @admin 😜
#introduction #introductions
Since I was a kid, I've always wondered how people could have let the Nazis do it... now I know : « #Google’s $45 million contract to spread #Netanyahu's #propaganda »
(all sources in the article)
› https://jackpoulson.substack.com/p/googles-45-million-contract-with
#BigTech #GAFAM#Colonialism#Fascism #Palestine #FreePalestine
![The UK government will publish a plan for handling future cloud outages after last week's AWS failure knocked out several departments.
Ian Murray, minister for digital government and data, said that the AWS outage on October 20 affected a number of departments and suppliers, although all services were restored by the evening of that day.
"It will take some time to fully understand the scale of the impact. DSIT [the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology] will be gathering a full picture of the impact on government in the coming weeks," he wrote in a parliamentary written answer to Dame Chi Onwurah, Labour MP for Newcastle upon Tyne Central and West
DSIT will then "set out a clear approach" for dealing with cybersecurity and resilience incidents in a government cyber action plan it will publish this winter, he added.
Errors in AWS's DNS services in Northern Virginia affected many public and private sector sites and apps in the UK and elsewhere, including those run by His Majesty's Revenue and Customs (HMRC). They also affected "smart" internet-connected devices including mattresses, light bulbs, and cat toilets.
In response to another parliamentary written question from Onwurah, who shadowed DSIT while Labour was in opposition, Murray said the government reckons that up to 60 percent of its digital estate is hosted on cloud platforms, mostly those run by AWS, Microsoft, and Google.](https://media.mstdn.social/media_attachments/files/115/457/537/229/465/350/original/41ba57c3fc672aa9.png)
