There are many reasons for choosing #private alternatives to Big Tech. Tracking cookies, targeted ads, and closed source software are just the tip of the iceberg. 🧊
What #privacy concerns are keeping you up at night? 🤔
Sometimes I'm busy and can't read at that moment, so I save the article/news as plain text in a PDF file to read it later. It works most of the time, but it's not perfect.
You'll need: torsocks (optional), lynx and LibreOffice installed.
Save it as a #bash file like "pdf.sh", make it executable with "chmod +x pdf.sh" and then use it like this:
I had been meaning to look at using #Ollama for local #AI & today I caught this excellent video how-to. Still not sold on the current hype of AI but it would be foolish to overlook its place in our future.
Honestly, this little project was the most fun I’ve had in a while: installing/using different AI models, using AI in the #terminal, then in a #browser, even creating a persona for the prompts. And it’s all running locally (no internet needed!), so it’s #private. 🤓
You can say the #First#Amendment only applies to the #government, not #private entities—which is undeniably true—and therefore #social#media sites have no obligation to provide a platform for speech the owners of the site don’t like. This is a reasonable and defensible position.
Or you can say social media sites are the new #town#squares, and therefore the owners have a moral if not legal obligation to allow anyone to say practically anything using their platforms. You can even point out that the government charters corporations, and is responsible for a lot of #telecom#infrastructure, so by allowing censorship in that particular environment, the government is at least complicit in interfering with free speech rights. This is also a reasonable and defensible position.
Maybe you can even try to find some kind of well-articulated middle ground between these positions, although I have to say I don’t remember ever seeing anyone do so. I think most people do hold opinions somewhere between the two, but they don’t tend to spell it out.
What they do instead is argue either side as it’s convenient, which is irritating as hell. And yes, this is a rare bit of “both sides” on my part. I see a whole lot of leftish folks, who are generally not big fans of corporate power, deploying the first position against right-wing types—while complaining about the arbitrary and often clearly biased way #Facebook et al. censor left-wing statements.
The complaints are justified. Hypocrisy is not.
Just pick a position, be honest with yourself about what that position is, and stick to it. No matter where you fall on this spectrum, you have to be aware that the mechanisms of speech, and by extension the press, have changed dramatically over the last thirty years and will continue to do so. Knowing where you stand is important.
«Oh great – now #Facebook and #Instagram want your #private data to train Meta's latest AI pipe dream.
You’ll totally be able to opt out… right?»
I used to be on #Meta but that was a long time ago. That doesn't mean that they don't have any of my #data and are now using it. In general, I think #AI is bad #IT, partly because of that.
Apart from the fact that #anarchists are mentally different and not fixated on #capital, the content of this article is exciting:
«How a 27-year-old busted the myth of Bitcoin’s anonymity. Once, #drug dealers and #money launderers saw #cryptocurrency as perfectly untraceable.
JUST OVER A DECADE AGO, #Bitcoin appeared to many of its adherents to be the crypto-anarchist holy grail: truly #private#digital#cash for the #Internet.»
I have software (goddinpotty) I use to publish a personal wiki-like site, and I’d be happy to help you use it for yours if you like (I write the content in Logseq which is similar to Obsidian). One thing it does is let you tag particular pages or chunks of a page as #Private so they don’t get published.
I guess it is pretty similar in functionality to Quartz, which might be easier for you to use, but let me know if interested.
Biden Ordered the DOJ to Stop Using #Private#Prisons. Thousands Are Still Being Held Inside.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren and others are looking into the discrepancy further.
The order restored an #Obama era policy first announced in 2016—and later suspended by #Trump administration—after a damning federal report found that private federal prisons were less safe and less secure than their publicly run counterparts. No longer would the Bureau of Prisons sign deals...
#Privacy tip, for those wanting to purge big social media as much as you can. On #Android , you can set your #private#DNS to "extended.dns.mullvad.net" to add an DNS filter that blocks those domains. Of course it has #AdBlock, tracker, and malware blocking as well on top of it, so it's just safer in general.
#Mullvad 's DNS service is awesome, and you can basically set it up for any device! I have it set up on my #Linux workstations, and even my router as well.
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