Wenn Tech zur Religion wird: Warum gute Prinzipien ohne Kontext zu Dogmen werden – und wie Orientierung und realistische Schritte mehr Menschen mitnehmen. 👇

kuketz-blog.de/das-toleranzpro…

#datenschutz #opensource #tech #privacy #fedilz #sicherheit #security

Das Toleranzproblem der Tech-Szene: Menschen mitnehmen statt belehren

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RE: mamot.fr/@pluralistic/11605678…

This is what I mean when I say that politicians are supposed to be lobbyists for the people: Not only should they not be so easily swayed by corporate marketing blitzes - it's literally their job to stand firm on the public's interests in face of such efforts.

Corporate lobbyists are - again, quite literally - their adversaries & we have to start yeeting every pol who doesnt't treat them as such.

#politics #lobbyism #tech #business @pluralistic

Cory Doctorow (@pluralistic@mamot.fr)

Attached: 1 image If you don't pay close attention, you might think the most grotesque, indefensible aspect of Starmer's Labour government turning over NHS patient records to the American military contractor Palantir is that Palantir are Trumpist wa…

^{Cory Doctorow (Mamot - Le Mastodon de La Quadrature du Net)}

France launches "LaSuite," an open-source office suite for digital sovereignty, reducing reliance on foreign proprietary software. 🖥️
Built on Matrix/TChap, LiveKit/Visio, Grist, and Drive—all MIT-licensed for any organization to deploy. 🇪🇺

🔗 sinologic.net/en/2026-01/franc…

#TechNews #OpenSource #France #French #DigitalSovereignty #FOSS #Matrix #Privacy #EU #Security #Software #Linux #SelfHost #Government #Europe #Data #IT #PublicSector #Microsoft #Office #Tech #Cloud #LibreOffice

France chooses Open Source to secure European Sovereignty.

According to many European media outlets, the French government has just announced its commitment to a busines

^{Elio Rojano (Sinologic)}

99% of stakeholder "ideas" are just copying a feature they saw on a competitor's product. And the features they notice most are the ones that yell at their users the loudest.

Now all software (not just consumer apps, but also metrics dashboards) yells at you, and trains you to attend to its yelling. Strategy becomes dominated by the overriding need to make the good number go up.

productpicnic.beehiiv.com/p/th…

#tech #softwaredevelopment #ux #uxdesign #product #productmanagement

The circular logic of our metrics

We design what is familiar. The design patterns we adopt are the ones yelling at us the loudest.

^{Pavel Samsonov (The Product Picnic)}

RE: mastodon.social/@urlyman/11603…

- If you're locked in to Amazon with previous media purchases commit to no additional purchases. No more.
- Otherwise, delete your Amazon account. You can get their stuff elsewhere.
- Stop using Google's browser, search, services. Delete your account if possible.
- Stop using Microsoft's services services. Delete your account if possible.

Commit to getting out of these services. Stop using them, stop giving them your money.

#Genocide #BOYCOTT #Google #Microsoft #Amazon #Technology #Tech

RE: shakedown.social/@AAronL1968/1…

They're not working to bring automation to everyday life - they're working to normalize Reverse Centaurs*.

They want you to applaud exploitation & slavery; robotization is the facade they slap on it to give you plausible deniability, not least to yourself.

They are monsters & they want YOU to be a monster, too.

*ask @pluralistic

#tech #business #technofeudalism

Oh, I don't know...

Maybe because you run social media platforms to piece of shit!

Zuckerberg on why Meta should do less safety research: 'Apple doesn't study any of this' - 9to5Mac

9to5mac.com/2026/02/06/zuckerb…

#Zuckerberg #Meta #Safety #Apple #Research #SocialMedia #Tech

Amazon plunges 9%, continues Big Tech's $1 trillion wipeout as AI bubble fears ignite sell-off

cnbc.com/2026/02/06/ai-sell-of…

#news #tech #technology #AI #openai #chatgpt #grok #aislop #nvidia #business #aibubble

Amazon plunges 9%, continues Big Tech's $1 trillion wipeout as AI bubble fears ignite sell-off

Fears over AI spending have sparked a sell-off among tech stocks.

^{Kai Nicol-Schwarz (CNBC)}

il y a plus de 10 ans de ça, Cory Doctorow aka @pluralistic (déjà lui !) ne disait pas autre chose, à propos de la censure du web, dans une nouvelle pour le MIT tech review.

C'est la même chose (en pire) avec la reconnaissance faciale par ia :
on.
ne.
peut.
pas.
automatiser.

#Tech
#TechnoSolutionnism
#Enshittification
#ia #ai
#NightmareOnLLMstreet

Via > @Khrys 🔗 mamot.fr/users/Khrys/statuses/…
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ICE and CBP’s Face-Recognition App Can’t Actually Verify Who People Are

wired.com/story/cbp-ice-dhs-mo…
[…]

Fascinating read about the future of #AI

theguardian.com/us-news/ng-int…

#Tech

AI companies will fail. We can salvage something from the wreckage

AI is asbestos in the walls of our tech society, stuffed there by monopolists run amok. A serious fight against it must strike at its roots

^{Cory Doctorow (The Guardian)}

The most common strategy for "AI-proofing" your career is to get good at using AI tools.

This is futile, because no one is using AI tools to make things that are *good.* The goal is to check the box on the project plan at a predictable pace. As long as the box is checked, quality is not a factor.

To AI-proof your job, get out of the project game.

productpicnic.beehiiv.com/p/yo…

#AI #LLM #tech #softwaredevelopment #UXdesign #UX #design

You can't "AI-proof your career" with a project mindset

Don't try and compete with LLMs. Instead, cure yourself of computer brain.

^{Pavel Samsonov (The Product Picnic)}

If you use Notepad++ update it now.

Notepad++ Hijacked by State-Sponsored Hackers

notepad-plus-plus.org/news/hij…

#tech #technology #news #technews #security #privacy #hack #china

Canada needs to become a disenshittification nation.
“Canada is in a good position to do this. We've got motive, means and opportunity, but we're not the only ones. Most of the countries in the world are situated to take advantage of this opportunity…Their margin is our opportunity.”

Love this @pluralistic
#Tech #Canada #cdnpoli #Monopolies
pluralistic.net/2024/06/12/s-c…

Please don't keep repeating #Microslop. And definitely do not install these browser extensions:

chromewebstore.google.com/deta…

addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firef…

Featured story: U.S. law enforcement’s growing use of an array of #surveillance tools enables #police to build a robust profile of almost anyone’s life and movements without a warrant or probable cause. Experts find phone-tracking tools like Tangles particularly troubling.
texasobserver.org/texas-police…

#tech #Texas #law #privacy #politics #USpol #news

Texas Police Invested Millions in a Shadowy Phone-Tracking Software. They Won’t Say How They’ve Used It.

One sheriff who leads an anti-smuggling task force says the software helps “develop leads to eventually obtain probable cause.” Civil liberties experts say its use violates constitutional rights.

^{Francesca D’Annunzio (The Texas Observer)}

This is an essential read from @pluralistic – well worth your time to understand the points he’s making fully as he’s spot on and the excellent analogies will make it easier for you to discuss the topic with others.

theguardian.com/us-news/ng-int…

#AI #capitalism #neoliberalism #tech #reverseCentaur

AI companies will fail. We can salvage something from the wreckage

AI is asbestos in the walls of our tech society, stuffed there by monopolists run amok. A serious fight against it must strike at its roots

^{Cory Doctorow (The Guardian)}

Just a reminder! If you are looking RSS starter packs, The RSS Review has downloadable OPML files for each category. They can be imported directly into your feed reader to subscribe to the entire category at once.

the-rss-review.surge.sh/

If you want to add a feed or feed category, then post it in the comments.

#tech #technology #rss #rssfeeds #rssfeedreaders #socialmedia #indieweb #personalweb #smallweb #blogs #gis #movies #tv #books #comics #health #history #music #science #software #opml

Every non-hype defense of #LLMs starts with "you must already understand your work really well." But the people vibe coding prototypes *don't*.

As a result they scale up thoughtlessness. "Bulking out" a slapdash idea with hallucinated details only displaces the real thinking that could have led to actual innovation. The very teams the tool was supposed to help instead end up with more noise to dig through.

But teams can (and do) fight back.

productpicnic.beehiiv.com/p/vi…

#tech #softwaredevelopment

Vibe prototyping isn't solving any problems. But it's creating many new ones.

It's easy to prototype and so everyone is prototyping, without really knowing why they are doing it.

^{Pavel Samsonov (The Product Picnic)}

The UK is overexposed in its dependency on foreign tech to keep government, public services and democratic processes running.

There are moves across Europe to assert #DigitalSovereignty – Germany, France and the European Commission are all looking at developing strategies.

The time to act is now!

Write to your MP (UK) ➡️ action.openrightsgroup.org/pro…

#sovereingty #uk #tech #ukpolitics #ukpol

Protect Britain’s Digital Backbone — Ask Your MP to Act

Take action! What’s the problem? The UK’s digital backbone. The cloud services, data systems, and platforms that underpin government, public services, and democratic processes is dangerously reliant on a small number of foreign tech companies.

^{Open Rights Group}

What does a UK #DigitalSovereignty strategy look like?

⚫ Open Source software to ensure continuity. We can switch suppliers whilst maintaining critical services, because we aren't locked into a closed proprietary system.

⚫ Interoperable systems to strengthen competition and the resilience of UK tech.

#opensource #interoperability #sovereingty #uk #tech #ukpolitics #ukpol

UK national security is exposed in having vital systems supplied by a handful of foreign tech companies.

We're vulnerable to risks, such as service withdrawal, sanctions, commercial failure, geopolitical disruption and unilateral changes to service terms.

The UK government lacks effective control.

#nationalsecurity #sovereingty #uk #tech #ukpolitics #ukpol

Even secure systems are fragile if the plug can be plugged from a distance.

In an upended world, the threat is real. That's why the UK needs to steel its digital infrastructure against foreign political interference.

Tell your MP to back #DigitalSovereignty ⬇️

action.openrightsgroup.org/pro…

#sovereingty #uk #tech #ukpolitics #ukpol

Protect Britain’s Digital Backbone — Ask Your MP to Act

Take action! What’s the problem? The UK’s digital backbone. The cloud services, data systems, and platforms that underpin government, public services, and democratic processes is dangerously reliant on a small number of foreign tech companies.

^{Open Rights Group}

TikTok's transition to U.S. ownership involves collecting even more data about its users, including precise location and AI interactions. It's also likely that the new privacy policy will lead to you seeing more targeted ads. Here's the lowdown from @WIRED.

flip.it/TNynho

#Technology #Tech #TikTok #SocialMedia #Privacy #Data

Signal's popularity soars across various countries, now #1 in Finland 💙

Read more 👉 aboutsignal.com/news/signal-po…

#signal #signalmessenger #signalapp #tech #privacy #whatsapp #telegram #finland #europe #news

Signal popularity soars, number one in Finland - AboutSignal.com

Signal is being downloaded in large numbers across several European countries this month. After previously topping the charts in Denmark, Signal is now number one on Finland’s Google Play.

^{Michel (AboutSignal.com)}

When Elon Musk rolled back Grok safeguards, he enabled millions of people to be victimized. Shamefully, governments did little to protect their citizens.

The X deepfake scandal shows why we need far stricter social media regulation as a stepping stone to new platforms — not just higher age limits.

disconnect.blog/x-shows-why-st…

#tech #socialmedia #elonmusk #x #twitter #grok #deepfake #ai #generativeai

X shows why stricter tech regulation is necessary

We need comprehensive rules on social media far more than age limits

^{Paris Marx (Disconnect)}

"The collapse of the #AI bubble is going to be ugly. Seven AI companies currently account for more than a third of the #StockMarket, and they endlessly pass around the same $100bn IOU.

AI is the asbestos in the walls of our technological society, stuffed there with wild abandon by a #finance sector and #tech monopolists run amok. We will be excavating it for a generation or more."
- @pluralistic

theguardian.com/us-news/ng-int…

#Technology #ArtificialIntelligence #Business #Economy #News #World

"the promise #AI companies make to investors – is that there will be AI that can do your job, and when your boss fires you and replaces you with AI, he will keep half of your salary for himself and give the other half to the AI company.
...

Now, if AI could do your job, this would still be a problem. We would have to figure out what to do with all these unemployed people.

But AI can’t do your job. It can help you do your job, but that does not mean it is going to save anyone money."

#Tech

"This is the paradox of the growth stock. While you are growing to domination, the market loves you, but once you achieve dominance, the market lops 75% or more off your value...

Which is why growth-stock companies are always desperately pumping up one bubble or another, spending billions to hype the pivot to video or #cryptocurrency or NFTs or the metaverse or #AI...

The primary goal is to keep the market convinced that your company will continue to grow"

#Tech #AI #StockMarket #News #World

"“There is no alternative” is a cheap rhetorical sleight. It’s a demand dressed up as an observation. “There is no alternative” means: “Stop trying to think of an alternative.”

I’m a science-fiction writer – my job is to think of a dozen alternatives before breakfast."
- @pluralistic

theguardian.com/us-news/ng-int…

#Tech #Technology #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #StockMarket #Business #News #World #SciFi

There is a #tech youtuber called codehead that included a gif of #nazi nick #fuentes in one of his videos. I asked in a comment if they did it on purpose and they were coy about it with a "mayhaps" reply. They hearted my comment, maybe thinking we were doing a secret handshake or something. Here is the video. #youtube

youtu.be/PVH2D9InzCw?si=HsNLS0…

AVOID CODEHEAD. DON'T NORMALIZE NAZIS.

Attached is a screenshot of my comment and their reply. Now I gotta go take a shower.

It's official, the #Metaverse failed!
Meanwhile I don't even know 1 person who ever visited it 😅

Not one(!) after:
#Meta "...had funneled some $73 billion into Reality Labs. To put that into context, you’d have to spend $1 million per day for 200 years to match that kind of spending."
techcrunch.com/2026/01/19/well…

#FuckMeta #Demeta #Facebook #Zuckerberg #Markzuckerberg #Meta #Tech #IT #Software #News #Technology #VR #virtualreality #investment #us #usa #corporation #digital #fail #spending

Well, there goes the metaverse! | TechCrunch

The metaverse is on its last legs as VR is eclipsed by AI. But that's not the only thing that went wrong for Meta's VR ambitions.

^{Sarah Perez (TechCrunch)}