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You may now add me to the list of FOSS folks directly impacted by unethical AI scraping effectively performing Denial of Service attacks.

My wife informed me this morning that our billing system had been knocked offline.

The reason? #Amazon, #OpenAI, and similar bot scraping traffic blew up my access logs to the point of filling that server's entire drive. They're constantly scraping and re-scraping my FreeBSD wiki.

arstechnica.com/ai/2025/03/dev…


#Trump's bullying is apparently working against #India.

#Reuters: "India will scrap a tax of 6% on digital #advertisements online, easing costs for U.S. tech giants such as #Google, #Meta and #Amazon as a way of soothing U.S. trade concerns."

#Europe must not be intimidated by bullies.

Source: reuters.com/world/india/india-…


Reacher Season 3: I just finished and it was pretty meh.

Six really slow episodes with tiny sporadic bursts of unmemorable action. A 7th episode rushing to get plot lines aligned for an 8th episode crammed full of hard to follow action. The pacing was horrible.

I wouldn’t mind the show wrapping it up now. But we know another season is coming.

#tv #amazon #reacher


Amazon är ytterligare ett av de fem stora IT-företagen. Precis som när det gäller Meta Platforms stöder Amazon och dess ägare Jeff Bezos Trumpregimen. Det finns alltså flera god skäl att överge även Amazons olika produkter.

blog.zaramis.se/2025/03/30/ave…


Und "NEIN" #Signal ist kein sicherer #Messenger! Auch wenn - der von Signal bezahlte #Influenzer - Mike #Kuketz das gebetsmühlenartig immer wiederholt Mit der #SignalApp bekommen US Giganten wie #Google, #Amazon #Microsoft & #Cloudflare wertvolle #Metadaten von Dir & Deinen Kontakten #Unplugtrump


Replaced IMDb with TMDb. One less Amazon product used.

#amazon #imdb #tmdb


South America – Stories | Droughts in the Amazon | Musuk Nolte

Elidia Carolina lives with her partner and their two-year-old daughter in a “floating house” built on stilts. Due to the droughts, the area around their home now resembles a desert, and they must walk almost 2km to reach the shore of the Solimões River. Manacapuru, Amazonas, Brazil, 3 October 2024.

@photography
#Amazon
#drought
#women


DSGVO-Verstoß: Luxemburger Gericht bestätigt Rekordstrafe für Amazon

Amazon soll seine Rekordstrafe für Datenschutzverletzung zahlen, sagt das Verwaltungsgericht Luxemburgs: 746 Millionen Euro.

heise.de/news/DSGVO-Verstoss-L…

#Amazon #Datenschutz #DSGVO #Werbebranche #Recht #Wirtschaft #news


Spider-Bond? Bond, Harry Bond?

theguardian.com/film/2025/mar/…

#jamesbond #bond #mgm #amazon #movies


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I completely agree that the #billionaires should suffer, not the common folk.

However, that same common folk continues to buy from #Amazon & the like en masse.

That same common folk voted for #Trump, many of whom indicate that they'd *still* vote for Trump even now.

That common folk stayed absent during the elections because they didn't agree with either candidate.

Not trying to defend billionaires, but come on....

Democracy doesn't protect itself, the people protect their #democracy.


For quite some time I knew that the #irish #dataprotection institution was an underfunded, understaffed, weak #pontemkin village #bigtech was taking advantage of - and only #noyb was really getting on their nerves.

I ordered it yesterday and will have the book in my hands tomorrow ( certainly not from #Amazon, but local bookshop! )
Well ... feels like another not so nice day coming. :mastoshrug:


#FTC Removes Posts Critical of #Amazon, Microsoft, and #AI Companies
Business-guidance content published during the Biden administration has been removed from the Federal Trade Commission website.
wired.com/story/federal-trade-…
archive.ph/2Hbgw


#SurveillanceState #Surveillance #Technology #Meta

👉Which #Messenger To Replace the #DataKraken #WhatsApp with? 👈

#FightTechnofeudalism

👉 #SignalHack👈

(15/n)

...Clouds of #Google, #Amazon, #Microsoft & #Cloudflare. They can de-anonymise every user!

Here are all the tech details:

primal.net/e/note14hf9%E2%80%A…

Weitere Infos zum #SignalHack:

social.tchncs.de/@Optimus/1140…

fed.brid.gy/r/bsky.app/profile…

chilemasto.casa/@sebagutiem/11…

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Die verwendeten Mobilnummern stammen (möglicher Weise) von diesem Twillo Hack vor einigen Jahren. Dabei sind die Hacker an Mobilfunknummern gekommen, die die #Signal bei der Registrierung erzwingt und die über SMS verifiziert wird. tarnkappe.info/artikel/it-s...

Signal Messenger betroffen: Tw...



@thevril @pluralistic @kino

#SurveillanceState

👉Which #Messenger To Replace the #DataKraken #WhatsApp with? 👈

#FightTechnofeudalism

(7/n)

... 👉our international discussion: 👈

pleroma.iselfhost.com/objects/…

In conclusion, as all services using #US servers like signal have been compromised since the #CloudAct went into force,

"Since #Signal's entire traffic runs over the clouds of #Amazon [#AWS,] #Google, #Microsoft & #Cloudflare.

👉All US services...


#Privacy #SurveillanceCapitalism #Amazon's #Alexa

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... for a copyrighted work:

pluralistic.net/2024/05/24/rec…

That means that once Amazon reaches over the air to stir up the guts of your Echo, no one is allowed to give you a tool that will let you get inside your Echo and change the software back. Sure, it's your property, but exercising sole and despotic dominion over it requires breaking the digital lock that controls access to the firmware, and that's a...


#Privacy #SurveillanceCapitalism #Amazon's #Alexa

(1/3)

👉Amazon annihilates Alexa privacy settings, turns on continuous, nonconsensual audio uploading👈

Is this globally?

How e. g. in the EU.
US laws don't apply there.

"If the #Echo is your property, how come Amazon gets to break it? Because we passed a law that lets them. Section 1201 of 1998's #DigitalMillenniumCopyrightAct makes it a felony to "bypass an access control"...

pluralistic.net/2025/03/15/alt…


'My wife asked why I carry a gun around the house.

I looked at her and said "Spyware". She laughed, I laughed, Alexa laughed, I shot Alexa, it was a good time."

#Amazon #spyware #Alexa #Echo #HomeAssistant
arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/0…


If you still have an Echo turned on anywhere, now's the time to crush it like the bug it is.

arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/0…

#ai #surveillancecapitalism #amazon #broligarchy


Mail from #Amazon:

Dear Amazon customer,
You know that option that you checked in your User T&C, "Please encrypt & protect my personal data"? Well we have decided to change that to "Please do whatever the fµck you like with all my personal data".🙂
Thank for your naivety in continuing to be a profitable product for our company.


Amazon is going to be disabling the privacy feature that processes voice commands locally on Echo devices at the end of this month. Instead, all voice commands will be sent to Amazon's cloud for processing.

I have already followed my own steps to remediate this:

1. Unplug Echo Device
2. Throw Echo Device in Trash
3. Done

#amazon #echo #privacy


Welp, I just closed my #Amazon account.

My first order with that service was on the 22nd of October 1999. I ordered a copy of the User Friendly comic book. At the time, I was living in a student home.

If you think it's because Jeff Bezos supports #fascism in the #USA, directly and indirectly with the #WashingtonPost, you'd be wrong.

I mean, those are great reasons for sure! But whatever moral strength I may possess, I am also a creature of convenience. I managed to get away from #Google ...



#Amazon #forest felled to build road for #climate #summit 😱


source: bbc.com/news/articles/c9vy191r…

A new four-lane #highway cutting through tens of thousands of acres of protected Amazon rainforest is being built for the #COP30 climate summit in the Brazilian city of #Belém.


#Brazil #fail #environment #nature #politics #future #earth #emissions #problem #ethics #humanity #news


Amazon is now using AI voices to dub movies for streaming on Prime.

This technology "underscores their commitment to inclusivity" — for everyone except the voice actors who will lose work if we accept this.

cordcuttersnews.com/prime-vide…

#Streaming #Amazon