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anthony.buc.ci
 (3y ago)

@prologic@twtxt.net @carsten@yarn.zn80.net

There is (I assure you there will be, don’t know what it is yet…) a price to be paid for this convenience.

Exactly prologic, and that’s why I’m negative about these sorts of things. I’m almost 50, I’ve been around this tech hype cycle a bunch of times. Look at what happened with Facebook. When it first appeared, people loved it and signed up and shared incredibly detailed information about themselves on it. Facebook made it very easy and convenient for almost anyone, even people who had limited understanding of the internet or computers, to get connected with their friends and family. And now here we are today, where 80% of people in surveys say they don’t trust Facebook with their private data, where they think Facebook commits crimes and should be broken up or at least taken to task in a big way, etc etc etc. Facebook has been fined many billions of dollars and faces endless federal lawsuits in the US alone for its horrible practices. Yet Facebook is still exploitative. It’s a societal cancer.

All signs suggest this generative AI stuff is going to go exactly the same way. That is the inevitable course of these things in the present climate, because the tech sector is largely run by sociopathic billionaires, because the tech sector is not regulated in any meaningful way, and because the tech press / tech media has no scruples. Some new tech thing generates hype, people get excited and sign up to use it, then when the people who own the tech think they have a critical mass of users, they clamp everything down and start doing whatever it is they wanted to do from the start. They’ll break laws, steal your shit, cause mass suffering, who knows what. They won’t stop until they are stopped by mass protest from us, and the government action that follows.

That’s a huge price to pay for a little bit of convenience, a price we pay and continue to pay for decades. We all know better by now. Why do we keep doing this to ourselves? It doesn’t make sense. It’s insane.

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marcos-marado-atmind_booster
feeds.twtxt.net
 (3y ago)

RT by @mind_booster: ❗Breaking: Meta Tracking Tools unlawful
In a groundbreaking decision in one of noybs 101 complaints, the Austrian Data Protection Authority decided that the use of Facebook’s tracking pixel directly violates the GDPR: https://noyb.eu/en/austrian-dsb-meta-tracking-tools-illegal?mtc=tw
❗Breaking: Meta Tracking Tools unlawful

In a groundbreaking decision in one of noybs 101 complaints, the Austrian Data Protection Authority decided that the use of Facebook’s tracking pixel directly violates th … ⌘ Read more

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marcos-marado-atmind_booster
feeds.twtxt.net
 (3y ago)

**R to @mind_booster: Metaverse? Yeah, that other new thing, haven’t you notice? Nevermind that book in my shelf claiming that Second Life is Linden Lab’s Metaverse, or years of Metaverse references older than Facebook in papers, conferences, etc.: the Metaverse is now.

https://www.wiley.com/en-us/Second+Life%3A+The+Official+Guide-p-9780470096086**
Metaverse? Yeah, that other new thing, haven’t you notice? Nevermind that book in my shelf claiming that Second Life is Linden Lab’s Metaverse, or years of Metavers … ⌘ Read more

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marcos-marado-atmind_booster
feeds.twtxt.net
 (4y ago)

**RT by @mind_booster: EU Commissioner @YlvaJohansson is preparing to launch a new law to force the mass surveillance of private online communications but has refused to meet with privacy experts like @EDRi.

The Commissioner has met with Facebook but https://Has-Commissioner-Johansson-met-with-Digital-Rights-Groups.eu?

#KeepItSecure #DoBetter**
EU Commissioner @YlvaJohansson is preparing to launch a new law to force the mass surveillance of private onli … ⌘ Read more

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Planet_Jabber_XMPP
feeds.twtxt.net
 (4y ago)

Maxime Buquet: Am I allowed to say no?
People often take photographs for granted. It does seem obvious in our society
that people like to appear with their friend on Facebook, TikTok, and what have
you.

Early on I started telling people I didn’t want to have my picture taken. It
has never really been clear why, not even to myself to be honest. It might have
been out of shyness – a trait that is still ever so present – or because I
didn’t like the way I look in them, or perhaps some other reason. But I kept
telling th … ⌘ Read more

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quark
ferengi.one
 (4y ago)

I think it is long due dropping Facebook (now Meta) from the S&P 500 index funds. As an owner of some, I really have a problem with it—and yes, I know there is little I can do but voice it everywhere I make noise online.

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jlelses-blog
feeds.twtxt.net
 (4y ago)

Telegram Ads
So Telegram now has ads. But unlike the ads from Google, Facebook or Apple, the ads are not personalized and much more privacy friendly. The ads simply consist of a maximum 160-character message with no external links and are displayed only in large public channels. ⌘ Read more

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My_Blog
feeds.twtxt.net
 (4y ago)

Bookmarked : Fix Facebook by Making It More Like Google+ - The Atlantic
My colleague Adrienne LaFrance has named the fundamental assumption, and danger, of social media megascale: “not just a very large user base, but a tremendous one, unprecedented in size.” Technology platforms such as Facebook assume that they deserve a user base measured in the billions of people—and then excuse their misdeeds by noting that effectively controlling such an unthinkably la … ⌘ Read more

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www.lord-enki.net
www.lord-enki.net
 (7y ago)

Almost all the content I post to social media is posted by a small shell script that simultaneously posts to several services or through IFTTT duplicating those posts to services for which I lack an API key. When facebook broke automated posting, it meant my account went dark. I didn’t notice.

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