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Google, Microsoft, Amazon, actively ramping up the use of fossil fuels with AI and machine learning.

Maddening.

https://gizmodo.com/how-google-microsoft-and-big-tech-are-automating-the-1832790799

"Your private statuses are delivered to all instances where you have followers."

As they are unencrypted, this makes it more or less not possible to post privatly. Unless you know that non of the other instances someone follows you from is hosted by an bad actor. But you won't know.

This is something that we must improofe.

#hubzilla and I think also #friendica have added encryption that works with RSA 4096-bit keys.
I'm not so shure how that works in practise. (thought it still doesn't prevent bad admin from seeing it) Reason I'm mentioning it is to show that we could have some sort of encryption also within the fediverse.

(not sayn we shall become some sort of secure darknet, but that we can improofe countering mass surveilience)

[ Répression ]

Faites attention à certains de vos témoignages, et à tout ce que vous racontez sur les manif', et votre présence en ces manifs. De plus en plus, la répression touche des gens qui ne faisaient qu'être présent-es à des rassemblements interdit ou ordonnés de se disperser. Aux yeux de la Police, (et de la loi) c'est un délit.
²Même si vous n'avez rien lancé, rien cassé, rien dit, mais que vous étiez présent-es, cela fait de vous un-e suspect-e. Prudence. La répression est terrible.

She found out she was pregnant

After digging into Grammarly's privacy policy, this Reddit user decided to uninstall. Why? He found that Grammarly...

1. Collects everything you type into the browser w/the extension
2. Can store that data indefinitely
3. May share it with 3rd parties https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/b0y95z/why_i_removed_grammarly_chrome_extension_and/

Once a factory where workers worked, lived and prayed. Now a hacker colony, where people live, work and play.

#calafou a little colony of hackers in the mountains of Catalonia, about an hour away from barcelona.

Blade Runner is set just seven months from now

Getting on Twitter to talk about the gamer challenge, where you prove you're a real gamer by deleting your account so you have more time to game

In your activism, do you view houseless people as mouths to feed and bodies to clothe, or as allies in the struggle? Do they have a way of knowing when your events are (maybe through printed schedules at FNB), know they're welcome, and have people to ride with? Can you hold a free skool and share useful skills with them, and learn from them too? Can you offer them fulfilling volunteer work at your infoshop, community garden, etc?

Are you giving them solidarity, or charity?

Wir haben hier ein cooles Lemote Yeeloong 8089D bekommen, ein Netbook, das komplett mit Freier Software läuft, vom BIOS bis zum WLAN-Chip. Darum wurde es auch von RMS höchstpersönlich verwendet und empfohlen. 😀 Leider findet sich kein aktuelles Debian oder anderes Linux mehr dafür - oder wir haben nicht ordentlich genug gesucht. Wäre toll, wenn uns hier jemand unterstützen könnte. 😍 #FollowerPower