Vivaldi is now the first major browser to ship with Proton VPN built right in, giving uncompromising privacy from two of Europe’s most trusted tech companies.
As long as we talk about tech independence or digital #sovereignty primarily in terms of geography and jurisdiction, we will lose as users and as people with rights:
1. Because this narrative can easily be co-opted by antidemocratic, nationalistic forces.
2. It takes away attention from what actually provides us with independence: software #freedom, #interoperability, a power shift away from #bigtech to small, decentralised, ethical tech.
23andMe Sold Access to Your DNA Library to Big Pharma
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/xwkaz3/23andme-sold-access-to-your-dna-library-to-big-pharma-but-you-can-opt-out
If only some of us had seen this coming and warned people… oh, wait…
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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.
It’s clear from this that Ireland should be stripped of the authority to enforce GDPR and, really, people farmers – and the business model of people farming in general – should be banned in the EU.
True, however the most important criterion is that a replacement messenger app for #WhatsApp must have any chance at replacing #WhatsApp. As a friend of mine phrased it here on Mastodon: "I have a hard time convincing my friend and family even to switch to [the known services,] #Signal or #Threema. As...
"👉#WhatsApp says journalists and civil society members were targets of #Israeli spyware,... #ParagonSolutions...1) 👉Nearly 100 journalists and other members of civil society👈 using WhatsApp, the popular messaging app owned by #Meta,...
👉It is way past midnight to stop using #Meta products 2). 👈
Article on Polish tech news site on how Streamyard screwed over our tiny not-for-profit (and, no doubt others) by automatically upgrading us to a plan at twice the price.
Det er blevet tid til at forlade tech-oligarkerne. Derfor har Rod & Lund valgt at lave en særkampagne for at støtte alle der gør det rigtige. Fra marts ind til sommersolhvervet kan alle der forlader Facebook og Instagram få en rabat på 20% i planteskolen. Sådan fungerer det:
Opret en konto på Mastodon, Pixelfed eller et andet sted i det åbne, sociale web – også kaldet fediverset.
Få andre med. Gå på de technofeudale platforme (Facebook, Instagram eller hvad det nu er) og inviterér venner, bekendte, dine foreninger eller familiemedlemmer til at komme med dig.
Skriv et opslag og deltag i samtalen – uden manipul
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Det er blevet tid til at forlade tech-oligarkerne. Derfor har Rod & Lund valgt at lave en særkampagne for at støtte alle der gør det rigtige. Fra marts ind til sommersolhvervet kan alle der forlader Facebook og Instagram få en rabat på 20% i planteskolen. Sådan fungerer det:
Opret en konto på Mastodon, Pixelfed eller et andet sted i det åbne, sociale web – også kaldet fediverset.
Få andre med. Gå på de technofeudale platforme (Facebook, Instagram eller hvad det nu er) og inviterér venner, bekendte, dine foreninger eller familiemedlemmer til at komme med dig.
Skriv et opslag og deltag i samtalen – uden manipulerende algoritmer, shadow banning og reklame-spam fra robotter. Du kan fx fortælle om at du deltager i den her kampagne (gammeldags mund-til-mund metode som vores planteskole er helt afhængig af fordi vi ikke investerer penge i reklamer). Eller læg nogle billeder op af hvad du glæder dig til at dyrke i år med hashtag #plantechat.
Send os et screenshot af din aktivitet på fediverset med din bestilling på kontakt@foolrodoglund.dk. Det kan også bare være adressen til din konto. Du får rabatten og en tak for at investere i et internet fri fra tech-oligarker.
Har du brug for hjælp? Så er der godt nyt. En gruppe omkring kooperativet data.coop har startet et online forum kaldet Farvel Big Tech. Der man kan spørge om hjælp og råd til at skifte. Forummet befinder sig selv i det frie, åbne web og forbinder sig til Mastodon, Pixelfed osv, så folk kan deltage i samtalen der hvor de er. Hvis du deltager i forummet på Farvel Big Tech, vil du allerede have en konto i fediverset!
Hvorfor laver I denne kampagne? Vi ønsker ikke at investere i Metas overvågningskapitalisme. Vil du overleve på de platforme som virksomhed, skal du give Meta penge: Stort set hele deres omsætning (97%) kommer netop fra den reklameplads. Den anden ting der holder de platforme kørende er alle os der stirrer på de tidslinjer af reklame og drama, de “fodrer” os med. Når børnene en dag bliver unge voksne, vil de spørge os: Hvad gjorde du dengang tech-oligarkerne tog magten?
Vi vil gerne bakke vores holdninger op med handling. Derfor får alle der flytter væk fra tech-oligarkernes platforme en rabat på 20% hele det her forår. På den måde investerer vi i en anden verden.
Kampagnen starter på jævndøgnsfuldmånen d. 14. marts og slutter ved solhverv 21. juni.
Husk: Vi sælger kun til afhentning efter aftale og modtaget betaling. Minimumordre er altid 500 kr. og vil fortsat være det. Vi er stadig en lille planteskole der producerer stort set alle planterne selv og bruger det meste af vores tid på netop dét.
"The #fediverse won’t succeed just because it’s better. It will succeed if and only if people choose it. If they reject the idea that being trapped in someone else’s ecosystem is just the cost of existing online. If they stop believing that “free” means surrendering ownership of your own connections, your own history, your own data. The #internet was built to connect us, not silo us to pad a wealth-extremist’s bank account." (#westenberg) #bigtech #openweb #indieweb joanwestenberg.com/the-fediver…
For years, the internet has been shrinking. Not in size, not in data, but in ownership. A vast, decentralized network of personal blogs, forums, and independent communities has been corralled into a handful of paved prison yards controlled by a few m…
...by several former #Trump staffers [and coordinated by the infamous rightwing #HeritageFoundation], has 👉called for the agency to be “broken up and downsized”, claiming the agency is “harmful to #US prosperity” for its role in #ClimateScience.👈 [aka "#BigOil" and tRump's crucial #DrillBabyDrill campaign.]
...it’s been a longtime goal of corporations that rely on Noaa data to...
We’re not going to get out of this simply by voting with our wallets, but still, we might at least try and hurt the fuckers in the only place they feel any pain…
(And don’t get me started on “European Values”. No, we don’t get a gold star while letting refugees drown off our coasts and being complicit in the Israeli genocide of the Palestinian people. We’re just not fully fascist yet and might just avoid it… maybe. It’s a pretty fucking low bar.)
How did we end up in technofascism? Watch this talk I gave over a decade ago warning of the dangers of Silicon Valley and Big Tech and urging us to embrace alternatives.
It’s a web browser. But fun. It comes with a bunch of clever features built-in. It’s super flexible and does not track you. Get the Vivaldi browser for desktop, mobile, and your car!
Elon #Musk thinks of himself as the #RebelAlliance from #StarWars. He is the richest #oligarch in the world and the best friend of the US #president, he is the fucking empire. #BigTech is the fucking #empire! We here in the #Fediverse are the Rebel Alliance and we need to finally blow up this ventilation shaft and stop this fucking empire!
That is true. In fact, any more sophisticated #BigTech device should be avoided for this reason. In particular if it is from the #US or #China.
I write "device" b/c any time there is hardware that runs with a proprietary software or even an operating system, the user looses control (e.g. an #Amazon #Alexa or a #Tesla, or a #Huawei smartphone as examples for the latter, an #Android or #Apple app or #Windows #OS for the former.)
We’ve been listening to some of our community’s concerns with parts of the TOU, specifically about licensing. Our intent was just to be as clear as possible about how we make Firefox work, but in doing so we also created some confusion and concern.
Anything you say or do in Firefox may be used by Mozilla against you. You have the right to use a different browser. If you cannot find a browser that doesn’t fuck you over one way or another, one will not be provided for you because capitalism is working exactly as designed.
