Surveillance Pricing Ripping You Off? How to Stop Your Data From Being Used Against You.

It's disgusting that online corporations do this. Always clear your history.

investopedia.com/surveillance-…

#SurveillancePricing #Cdnpoli #Tech

The UK's love affair with Big Tech is toxic.

A small number of companies have captured the market for the UK’s critical infrastructure from the NHS to defence.

From this position, they’ve influenced policies that entrench the UK’s dependency.

It's time to course correct with Digital Sovereignty.

Read more ⬇️

theregister.com/2026/04/15/uk_…

#DigitalSovereignty #bigtech #tech #opensource #ukpolitics #ukpol

UK told its Big Tech habit is now a national security risk

: Open Rights Group says years of reliance on US giants have left Britain exposed

^{Carly Page (The Register)}

You Don't Need a Tech Stack. You Just Need a Text Editor.

Plain text files built the internet before technology stacks were a thing. Honestly, there is no reason why your web presence cannot just be a simple TXT file.

readbeanicecream.surge.sh/2026…

#tech #technology #plaintext #textfiles #indieweb #writing #blogging

RE: framapiaf.org/@Framasoft/11641…

« Move fast and break kings »

Je vous conseille souvent de lire le formidable Cory Doctorow aka @pluralistic et là en plus merci @Framasoft c'est en français !
Prenez le temps c'est long mais c'est passionnant et enthousiasmant !

#informatique
#tech
#interopérabilité
#internet
#liberté
#nightmareOnLLMstreet

Framasoft (@Framasoft@framapiaf.org)

Attaché : 1 image En décembre dernier, l'auteur et militant Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr donnait une conférence au 39C3 intitulée « L'internet post-étatsunien ».

^{Framasoft (Framapiaf)}

Mastodon, I need your help! As more European countries and orgs look to ditch US technology and move to sovereign or open source alternatives, I'm trying to track these efforts.

So far, I've found more than half a dozen government agencies, cities, orgs, that are embracing digital sovereignty but want to hear about other examples that I've missed. Who else should I be adding to this?

Here's a list of what I have so far:

*Edit: This list is now on Proton Sheets, as I should have seen that coming*

docs.proton.me/sheet?mode=open…

#digitalsovereignty #opensource #europe #tech

Proton Docs

Edit documents in real time, fully end-to-end encrypted.

^{docs.proton.me}

Pluralistic: A Pascal's Wager for AI Doomers (16 Apr 2026) pluralistic.net/2026/04/16/pas… by @pluralistic

FTA: "In short, I worry that AI is the asbestos we're shoveling into our civilization's walls, and our descendants will be digging it out for generations"

#AISlop #sloperator #cogsucker #tech #BadEconomy #corruption #exploitation

A growing number of MPs that have signed the Early Day Motion calling for a Digital Sovereignty strategy and spoken out in debates.

It'll take political courage to end our digital dependency on powerful tech companies. But the risks of not acting are greater.

Sign and share our petition ⬇️

you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions…

#DigitalSovereignty #bigtech #tech #opensource #ukpolitics #ukpol

Stop the "Kill Switch": Demand the UK takes back control of our technology.

From the NHS to our energy grid, we are too reliant on US tech. Help us demand digital independence.

^{38 Degrees}

The way forward is having the leadership to promote alternatives to Big Tech and using shared, Open Source tech.

It isn't about 'Buy British'. Open Source allows multiple partners and governments to develop the tools they need.

That means no vendor lock-in that frees us from coersion and control.

#DigitalSovereignty #bigtech #tech #opensource #ukpolitics #ukpol

The dominance of Big Tech in social media is itself a risk to democracy.

Yet the government supports Big Tech monopolies with ad spending and content without publishing on the alternatives.

They complain about Big Tech’s failures, while only giving users the opportunity to engage through Big Tech.

#DigitalSovereignty #bigtech #tech #opensource #ukpolitics #ukpol

Digital dependence poses serious democratic risks.

They include lobbying, interference in trade agreements, deregulation and producing e-waste.

Governments become spellbound by techno-solutionism as vendors promote their way of doing things.

This only leads to greater economic extraction.

#DigitalSovereignty #bigtech #tech #opensource #ukpolitics #ukpol

Making ourselves dependent on Big Tech has been a fatal mistake.

The Post Office scandal didn't come from nowhere. Outsourcing our systems to the exclusive product of a single provider means we're locked-in to using it and them.

This leads to over-charging that costs in failure and extracts value.

#DigitalSovereignty #bigtech #tech #opensource #ukpolitics #ukpol

The UK government has blanked the risks of US tech dependency for too long.

Our digital infrastructure is a strategic asset.

But that understanding is absent in how we hand out public sector contracts and allow UK tech sector sell-offs to foreign companies.

We must shift the dial.

Read more ⬇️

openrightsgroup.org/blog/the-c…

#DigitalSovereignty #bigtech #tech #opensource #ukpolitics #ukpol

The case for Digital Sovereignty and the Digital Commons

Our new report asks a profound question: just how dependent is the UK on US technology, and what could that mean for the UK’s sovereignty?

^{Open Rights Group}

Stories of AI "accelerating" work describe problems as though they were solutions. "This PM had an LLM generate their product strategy." "This designer shipped a prototype with a backend running in Google Sheets." "This engineer no longer reads the code they release."

Releasing things is not an unalloyed good. "Build to learn" only works if you can learn something - and overwhelming your org's ability to absorb information is NOT the way to learn!

productpicnic.beehiiv.com/p/de…

#UX #tech #AI #LLM

Designers will never have influence without understanding how organizations learn

We confuse prototypes with demos, and validation with confirmation bias. As a result, we cannot lead — instead, we are led.

^{Pavel Samsonov (The Product Picnic)}

"For years, a handful of Big Tech companies have used their power to gain control of the UK’s digital infrastructure, locking the government into wasteful contracts and shaping tech policy in their favour."

🗣️ ORG's @jim on our new report calling for UK Digital Sovereignty.

Find out more ⬇️

itpro.com/infrastructure/uk-to…

#DigitalSovereignty #opensource #bigtech #tech #ukpolitics #ukpol

Digital rights organizers warn UK is too reliant on big tech, urge digital sovereignty

The Open Rights Group calls for open source tech to drive digital sovereignty in the UK public sector and protect national security

^{Nicole Kobie (IT Pro)}

The advantage of UI redesigns no one is talking about: lost users will be clicking on more things as they try to find what they are looking for, sending your traffic analytics through the ROOF

#ProductManagement #UXDesign #tech #softwaredevelopment

RE: mastodon.social/@madeindex/116…

"...to help workers feel connected" - yeah, not even a little; absolutely NOBODY will come away from this with any other feeling than the exact opposite.

This is the world's most expensive way of telling your employees to go fuck themselves.

One can only hope the board starts to wonder why they need to pay the real Zuck for a job he isn't doing.

#AI #Meta #tech #business

MadeInDex 📰🌎

2026-04-14 10:02:11

Does the world need more billionaires?

Guess we will soon find out, as they multiplying now, and not even naturally:

theguardian.com/technology/202…

#News #Tech #Technology #AI #Artificialintelligence #Zuckerberg #markZuckerberg #Billionaires #Corporation #Meta #Facebook #Future #IT #Chatbot #MetaAI #DeMeta #MadeInDex

Meta creating AI version of Mark Zuckerberg so staff can talk to the boss

Digital clone being trained on his thoughts, tone and mannerisms to help workers feel connected

^{Claudia Efemini (The Guardian)}

Does the world need more billionaires?

Guess we will soon find out, as they multiplying now, and not even naturally:

theguardian.com/technology/202…

#News #Tech #Technology #AI #Artificialintelligence #Zuckerberg #markZuckerberg #Billionaires #Corporation #Meta #Facebook #Future #IT #Chatbot #MetaAI #DeMeta #MadeInDex

Meta creating AI version of Mark Zuckerberg so staff can talk to the boss

Digital clone being trained on his thoughts, tone and mannerisms to help workers feel connected

^{Claudia Efemini (The Guardian)}

Mark #Zuckerberg is reportedly building an AI clone to replace him in meetings

The AI version of Zuckerberg is trained on his mannerisms, tone, and public statements, according to a report from the Financial Times.

theverge.com/tech/910990/meta-…

#news #tech #technology #AI #grok #aislop #nvidia #meta

Mark Zuckerberg is reportedly building an AI clone to replace him in meetings

Meta is working to build an AI version of its CEO Mark Zuckerberg, which he will use to interact with employees, according to a report from the Financial Times.

^{Emma Roth (The Verge)}

Everyone is prototyping (sometimes, instead of doing their actual jobs). But the amount of insights has not increased.

A prototype is a research tool. These prototypes just getting shopped around as demos to stakeholders. When they are used for research, it is only as a tool of confirmation bias.

And if the prototype didn't change any decisions, then it doesn't matter how fast you made it. It was waste.

productpicnic.beehiiv.com/p/de…

#UX #ProductManagement #tech #softwaredevelopment

Designers will never have influence without understanding how organizations learn

We confuse prototypes with demos, and validation with confirmation bias. As a result, we cannot lead — instead, we are led.

^{Pavel Samsonov (The Product Picnic)}

Turns out we’ve been selling our mouses (mice, mousse, mooses?) a bit short. Case in point: the middle mouse button. Most people only use it to scroll. But you can open links instantly in a new tab, close tabs, and so much more. PC World, which wisely only used the singular, offers up the details:

flip.it/CTlprg

#Tech #Computers #Devices #Technology

Your mouse's scroll wheel can do way more than you think

Open, close, and manage tabs faster with these simple middle-click shortcuts and tricks.

^{Sam Singleton (PCWorld)}

On jailbreaking a forced-obscelescent Kindle ...

"When my wife's beloved Kindle DX was bricked by obsolescence through no fault of her own, it gave me a frisson of excitement and anticipation to take on Darth Bezos and break open the Kindle so she could once again read her favorite books on one of the largest-format Kindle devices ever made."

Bonus points for "Darth Bezos" 😁

zdnet.com/article/your-kindles…

#Amazon #Kindle #Jailbreak #Tech

Your Kindle's not obsolete, it just needs a jailbreak - and I'll show you how it's done

You can transform your old Kindle - even a bricked device - into the ultimate open-source reader. Here's how.

^{David Gewirtz (ZDNET)}

European money pours into Palantir: Over 100 asset managers and banks boost their investments in the controversial tech company.

Investors across the continent have already put more than $27 billion into this leader in military-grade AI that has been accused of numerous human rights violations.

mediafaro.org/article/20260411…

#Palantir #Tech #HumanRights #AI #Investing #AssetManagement #Banking #Politics #Business #Europe #OECD #EU #Democracy #PeterThiel

European money pours into Palantir: Over 100 asset managers and banks boost their investments in the controversial tech company.

^{El País}

Sam Altman has a new plan to make money from generative AI: he wants intelligence to be treated like water or electricity — and we’ll all have to pay him for it.

His chatbots are degrading people’s ability to retain information and think critically. Now he wants to sell smarts back to us.

disconnect.blog/make-em-dumb-s…

#tech #chatgpt #samaltman #artificialintelligence #generativeai

Make ‘em dumb, sell ‘em smarts

Sam Altman wants intelligence to be a utility that you pay him for

^{Paris Marx (Disconnect)}

Google’s AI Overviews are providing “tens of millions of wrong answers … every hour — and hundreds of thousands every minute.”

wow, i love the AI future!

futurism.com/artificial-intell…

#tech #ai #google #generativeai #artificialintelligence

Analysis Finds That Google’s AI Overviews Are Providing Misinformation at a Scale Possibly Unprecedented in the History of Human Civilization

A new analysis commissioned by The New York Times suggests that Google's AI Overviews are wrong an astonishing percentage of the time.

^{Frank Landymore (Futurism)}

Remember the cyberattacks on the U.S. government in the early 2020s? The Biden admin asked tech companies to help and got some “free” upgrades.

The Trump admin is doing similarly with AI. But our reporting shows there’s no such thing as a free lunch.
propublica.org/article/federal…

#News #Cybersecurity #Government #Trump #Microsoft #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Tech #Technology

The Federal Government Is Rushing Toward AI. Our Reporting Offers Three Cautionary Tales.

We’ve been reporting on cybersecurity for years. As President Donald Trump and his Cabinet say artificial intelligence will transform the nation, the messaging isn’t new. It follows a familiar pattern.

^{shoshana.gordon@propublica.org (ProPublica)}

LLMs have no concept of "true" or "good." But they are trained to signal high-quality work. Meanwhile, bosses are pressuring workers: go faster, produce more, let the AI cook.

Study after study documents what this does to the human brain: cognitive surrender. We're "in the loop" but the bot calls the shots.

Read more in this week's issue of the Product Picnic newsletter:

#LLM #AI #UXDesign #tech #softwaredevelopment #software

productpicnic.beehiiv.com/p/ai…

AI mandates are a demand for cognitive surrender

Studies show that reducing our scope of judgment to checking AI outputs leads to abandoning critical thinking altogether.

^{Pavel Samsonov (The Product Picnic)}

new writeup: why eval pipelines matter more than model selection.

teams with good evals ship 3x faster. teams without them are flying blind, afraid to change anything because they can't measure regression.

covers: building your first eval suite in a weekend, common anti-patterns, and the ROI argument for the skeptics on your team.

telegra.ph/Evals-Are-All-You-N…

#AI #MLOps #LLM #MachineLearning #tech

Ok, @surf image viewer on the web is magical. Such a better way to view image focused posts from across the Fediverse.

Big 👍

#surf #social #surfsocial #tech

#ElonMusk has made a particularly bold demand of his #WallStreet advisers ahead of the #IPO of #SpaceX.

#Musk is requiring banks, law firms, auditors & other advisers working on the IPO to buy subscriptions to #Grok, his #AI #chatbot, which is part of SpaceX, acc/to 4 people with knowledge….

Some of the banks have agreed to spend tens of millions on the chatbot, & they have already started integrating Grok into their #IT systems….

#tech #business #law #SEC #antitrust
nytimes.com/2026/04/03/busines…

The #Artemis II crew is reporting problems with #Microsoft #Outlook after leaving #earth.

From the article:

"I have two Microsoft Outlooks, and neither one of those are working."

theregister.com/2026/04/02/art…

#hilarious #funny #humor #software #space #artemis2 #tech #technews #news

Artemis II astronaut: 'I have two Microsoft Outlooks, and neither one of those are working'

: In space no one can hear you scream, at Microsoft

^{Richard Speed (The Register)}