This paper is really important, presenting empirical evidence of the imbrication bet. AI & the surveillance biz model. This is notable particularly given that most production surveillance tech is proprietary, its existence and use hidden from the public.
@Mer__edith Well, it is up to us, by boycotting businesses that produce, research, use, employ, support, sell or buy that tech as well as consequently only accepting tech and solutions that make it hard if not nearly-impossible to do these kinds of #MassSurveillance...
📝 In @StefanZoerner Architektur-Portrait Nr. 7️⃣ geht es um den Instant-Messenger #Threema. Der Austausch von Nachrichten gehört zu den meistgenutzten Funktionen auf dem Smartphone. Threema hebt sich hier wesentlich von anderen Messaging-Diensten und insbesondere vom Platzhirsch WhatsApp ab.
Weshalb das so ist, welche Ziele und Lösungsansätze 🏛🎯🗝 der Schweizer Entwickler mit der Software ansonsten verfolgt und warum Threema eigentlich Threema heißt? Lest selbst...
windows just deprecated windows mixed reality. thousands of headsets are going to become bricked. open source drivers (monado) do not fully support WMR. they are still selling WMR headsets like the Reverb G2. there is no refund policy. the only way to use WMR is to never upgrade your windows install. fuck microsoft.
I get a lot of people calling out my #Bitcoin skepticism (as in: Bitcoin is a worthless piece of hot garbage trying to kill our planet) because number is again going up. This time it's real, now that the scamers have been caught and all.
But if you want to know why Bitcoin goes up you just need to look at one curve: Tether has printed 4 billion USD from thin air in the last week.
While it's great to see the crypto scam artists SBF and CZ been caught and punished (sadly without making their victims whole) the actual rock that whole scam economy is built on is Tether. Has been Tether for years.
And I really don't get why US regulators let some weird company print fake USD.
Really proud of Signal, of this piece, and so happy to help lead an organization willing to be honest about what others hide: the incredible cost of developing consumer tech, and why it’s so hard (but rewarding!) to build tech that doesn’t rely on monetizing surveillance.
Where I speak some advantages Signal has over the bigger richer rest of tech:
“We don’t have to be full of shit. We’re not a surveillance company. I’m not trying to pretend Facebook is good. I don’t have to toe a party line that is divorced from reality”
Hell yeah #SignalApp@signalapp :party_parrot: :party_parrot:
Signal users will now be able to edit messages (very similar to how the edit feature works on @Mastodon ) 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
Proton Mail now offers "Proton Pass" -- Don't trust them.
As soon as it becomes popular, they'll limit the service, and make it part of their paid plan.
They like to get people hooked on their services, then raise their prices.
I was an early adaptor of Proton Family, before they surprised everyone by discontinuing the service, then starting it back up nearly a year later at a most costly premium. -- They did that to their paying customers. Don't trust them.
@protonmail Why is the source code for mail app not pubicly available? I want to use Protonmail app from #FDroid without any anti-features in the code but since it's not available I don't currently use any Proton services. @fdroidorg