Johnnie Darko @inhji@chaos.social

'The goal is to automate us': welcome to the age of surveillance capitalism https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/jan/20/shoshana-zuboff-age-of-surveillance-capitalism-google-facebook

I'm trying to take more control of my data (i.e. stop using Google for everything), so I'm trying to figure out what to do.

Does anyone know of a checklist or an extensive guide to self-hosting and related things?

I've looked into a few services but it's confusing, there are so many things out there. Does anyone use NextCloud?

I made a little thing on Glitch for making blackout poetry, so you can be emo on the internet faster and more efficiently https://blackoutpoetry.glitch.me

Hi! Squarespace is absolute fucking garbage.

(cw racism)
https://medium.com/@amelielamont/not-a-black-chair-8a8e7e2b9140

Facebook routinely tracks users, non-users, and logged-out users outside its platform.

Here’s a video about what Privacy International found…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0GMwaHqTQpQ

#SurveillanceCapitalism

This is really cool. A list of things made for IPFS ((ipfs:// and ipns://) A decentralized protocol like dat:// or ssb://):

https://awesome.ipfs.io/

ok i think i fixed the video and the css. thanks everywun! so here is the big Reform status update https://mntmn.com/media/news_md/2019-01-14-status_update_on_reform.html

Empfehlung - Was bei der Diskussion über Doxing gerade hinten runterfällt http://bit.ly/2VRIIqR

@imacrea

Some suggestions to start you off:

@dansup (maker of @pixelfed )

@eliotberriot (maker of @funkwhale )

@matt (maker of #WriteFreely and @write_as )

@Chocobozzz (maker of #PeerTube)

@BaptisteGelez (maker of #Plume)

@heluecht and @hypolite and others (makers of #Friendica)

@mhall119 (maker of @GetTogetherComm )

Joel hits it on the nose: https://video.jacky.wtf/videos/watch/061afca2-ed9d-4741-b244-6f58a3d47051?start=12m23s

when I first ran D&D, my grandmother, who had bought fully into the IT'S SATANISM hype, insisted on sitting and watching the first session

about an hour in, she threw her hands up and yelled 'THIS IS JUST MATH' and stormed off

at this stage I really just don't have any patience for any of the arguments about whether or not adblocking is "ethical."
I'm going to block as many ads as I can. No, you can't stop me. No, if you try, I'll just leave and use some other website. No, it's not theft. No, I don't give a shit. Get off my lawn.

Boost this to instantly become gay and gain 5 skill levels in Programming

Don't forget that you all are writing new chapter in the internet history just by being on Fediverse. Its emergence is best thing that happened to the cyberspace in a loooong time IMO.

Google and Facebook releasing all these (objectively amazing) #opensource #machinelearning tools is shrewd in so many levels: Signals engineering strength, buys developer good will, trains potential employees, calms people down about the "scary AI", diverts attention from the real issue of private data feeding the algos...