like, is the fediverse just high school 2 now? i thought we wanted to be better than twitter but now we're just inventing new ways to bicker and hate eachother. we're going to fucking implode if we don't get the fuck along
I donate to Mozilla every month and will continue to do so, regularly.
The story making its rounds on Mastodon and the Fediverse, is one that was often shared on Twitter, by haters of Mozilla and Firefox. By a "libertarian" with both a political and personal agenda.
Pay it no mind, it is the same nonsense every year. 🙄
Irgendwelche Technik-Journalierende, die süffisant meinen, dass wenn das Fediversum sich nicht den großen Playern öffnen will, müsse es halt unter sich bleiben.
Richtig, liebe Journalierende. Es mag euch äußerst seltsam vorkommen, aber es gibt viele wunderbare und sehr kluge Menschen, die auf die riesigen Internetkonzerne keinen Bock haben, sich bewusst für ein freies soziales Netzwerk entscheiden und sich darin sehr wohl fühlen. Für euch sind diese Menschen wie Außerirdische, nicht wahr? ;-)
Ironically, Mastodon, which boasts of being free and caring for freedom, often ends up being fundamentalist. Herd thinking is inevitable when thousands of people identify with some. It seems that if non-free or centralized networks are on one political side, then Mastodon automatically has to be on the other side.
The biggest problem is not the algorithm or the advertising, it is not the surveillance. The problem is that we are the same ones who go from one network to another carrying and migrating our data and with them our biases.
I see people trying to make this place a kind of refuge from the burning world, but they bring the fire in their backpack when they come.
The main reason I joined was to follow programming and hacking people and topics, but then I met autistic people and people who are almost philosophers.
It's inevitable, we are like that. But it would be interesting to remember that the restrictions, aggressiveness and turbulence that keep us away from other platforms must be left there.
Maybe no one cares, but I still wanted to say it.
> Just as GitHub was founded on Git, today we are re-founded on Copilot. 🤖 See how GitHub’s AI-powered platform vision evolved into a new reality for the world’s developers, and find out everything we announced at this year’s #GitHubUniverse. https://nitter.net/github/status/1722309261680607674?s=20
For years I've been saying that using Microsoft GitHub to host #FLOSS code is dangerous and would backfire. :blobcatcoffee:
Shure I could spin up a #GitLab but then try to find some Hoster that is willing to deal with #KiwiFarms apologists #DDoS'ing it offline or harrassing staff of said hoster.
I know #Microsoft - like #AllGafamsAreEvil and they are a #PRISM collaborator, but I've yet to see a better option that doesn't cost me €€€€€, cuz my projects have literally ZERO funding.
That doesn't mean others are less bad - I'd also not trust #AlibabaCloud for that matter and I'd even be wary about #OVH tho not because they're bad but because France has some legal issues that I want to avoid entirely.
Google has removed a video posted by academic researchers demonstrating how a newly discovered side channel in Apple's A- and M-series CPUs can be used to steal a password.
I thought for sure the removal was a mistake, but a Google representative told me the video was removed for violating a term of service barring "demonstrating how to use computers or information technology to steal credentials, compromise personal data, or cause serious harm to others."
The video, demonstrating important research by @genkin, @YuvalYarom , @themadstephan and jason kim, is here:
Just to underscore how arbitrary and patently asinine Google's ToS enforcement is here, two additional videos the researchers posted demonstrating the same side channel remain available.
I wonder how researchers from #projectzero feel about this. Is there any chance any of them can intervene?
In der Diskussion um die #Chatkontrolle heisst es auch immer wieder Apple hätte #CSS aufgrund des Gegenwinds aus der #digitalrights Szene zurück gezogen.
Das ist nicht der Fall, das Problem liegt auf der technischen Ebene, der Mythos von „We only need to nerd harder“ ist in diesem Zusammenhang quatschen.
Das stellt auch Apple klar:
“We concluded it was not practically possible to implement without ultimately imperiling the security and privacy of our users.” https://www.wired.com/story/apple-csam-scanning-heat-initiative-letter/
"Central region of Castilla La Mancha, which produces a quarter of all Spanish grain, is expected to lose 80 per cent to 90 per cent of 2023’s harvest, and water restrictions loom large."
Facebook is planning to build a €1 billion (S$1.5 billion) data centre in the middle of the drought area.
"Meta expects the facility to use about 665 million litres of water a year, and up to 195 litres per second during “peak water flow”
Ich lese ja via nitter.net bei einigen ausgewählten Accounts immer noch beim X vorbei, und inzwischen bin ich regelmäßig irritiert über so selbstverständliche Dinge, die sie dort nicht haben, wie z.B. >400 Zeichen und einen Edit-Button.
Diese Selbst-Antworten, die nötig sind, um ein Wort oder einen einzigen Buchstaben zu korrigieren, ganz, ganz furchtbar.
Und dann weißt du, dass die nichtmal die Beiträge von Leuten sehen, denen sie folgen, wenn der Algorithmus das anders entscheidet.
Today in The Struggle Of Existing As A Vagina Museum In The Digital World: Google have flagged a learning resource as "sexually explicit". As a small charity, we use Google Drive for many tasks, including hosting resources, as it's an affordable solution.
Google is trying to put the web in a cage in the same way they put your devices in a cage (Android, ChromeOS).
There’s one really easy, simple and efficient way to fight them: uninstall Chrome/Chromium, use #firefox
Do it. Now.
– But I prefer Chrome because of…
If you are not ready to sacrifice a little comfort (so little, Firefox is great) to save the web, then you don’t deserve a free web anyway. You are part of those killing it.
Stories like this remind us why being mindful of protecting one's privacy online is important and that "private" messages in the majority of places aren't private at all without end-to-end encryption.
Be mindful of what sensitive data you're relinquishing to companies.
@TiffyBelle And if that's not reason enough to demand :fediverse: instances to sign the #FediPact and universally ban and defederate anything #NSAbook touches then IDK what else would be...