My icon on here will never not crack me up. It’s so low quality, it feels like a facebook mom meme. Perfect for random corners of the indie web.

i got a shelf for all my cassette tapes! from a lovely person on facebook marketplace :] i don’t think they produce these anymore, i think i got a good deal

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FTC v. Meta (The Case That Could Break Up Facebook)
How likely is it that Meta is found to be a Monopoly and gets broken up? ⌘ Read more

@doesnm@doesnm.p.psf.lt nah, I’m fine without a web ui. But I like what the dev did with the 2009 facebook/VK look, it kind of feels notsalgic. (the tld is a .me not a .com if anyone else wants to take a look atit)

I found this cat on Facebook. His name is boobs. I love him so much it hurts. My aunt asked if he had a job 💀 ⌘ Read more

Apple fined for €500 million by EC, Facebook for €200 million
The European Commission has levied fines against both Apple and Facebook for violating the Digital Markets Act. Apple has to pay a €500 million fine, and Facebook a €200 million fine. Apple is breaking EU law by not allowing application developers to inform users of other offers outside the App Store. The Commission found that Apple fails to comply with this obligation. Due to a number of restrictions imposed … ⌘ Read more

The tell-all memoir Mark Zuckerberg tried to stop you reading
It’s hard to know whether the Facebook boss’ symbolic ways of currying favour with China, such as asking President Xi Jinping to name his unborn child, are more remarkable than Meta’s apparent plan to let the Communist Party snoop on users outside the country. ⌘ Read more

‘I feel utter anger’: from Canada to Europe, a movement to boycott US goods is spreading
In Canada, where the American national anthem has been booed during hockey matches with US teams, a slew of apps has emerged with names such as “buy beaver”, “maple scan” and “is this Canadian” to allow shoppers to scan QR barcodes and reject US produce from alcohol to pizza toppings. In Sweden, more than 70,000 users have joined a Facebook group calling for a … ⌘ Read more

The Most Important Tech News of January 2025 (That Only The Lunduke Journal Covered)
H1-B Visas, Non-Woke Operating Systems, Facebook ending DEl, Memory Leaking Rust, Godot Went Woke Went Broke, Debian Linux Doubles Down on Wokeness, & more. ⌘ Read more

The Birth of a New Tech Myth: “Facebook Says Linux is Malware!”
We are witnessing a new “Computer Myth” being created before our eyes, as several “Tech News” outlets repeat a false statement about Facebook & Linux. ⌘ Read more

No, Facebook is Not Censoring “Linux”, Only “DistroWatch”.
Facebook is flagging and censoring links to DistroWatch.com as “malware”. ⌘ Read more

(#y67iq2q) @arne@arne To be honest I don’t really understand why anyone would use Facebook™, X/Twitter™, TikTok™ Instagram™, et …
@arne @uplegger.eu To be honest I don’t really understand why anyone would use Facebook™, X/Twitter™, TikTok™ Instagram™, etc… When it clearly states in their Terms of Conditions that the content you “enter” into their systems, is NOT yours. ⌘ Read more

Meta: Ending DEl, Ending “Fact Checking”, Allowing LGBT Criticism & Vaccine Skepticism
Facebook employees “in meltdown” over changes which allow people to say “LGBT are mentally ill”. ⌘ Read more

Social media is in a worrying state. TikTok in the hands of autocratic China, X (formerly Twitter) in the hands of Elon Musk, who gets crazier every day and hangs out too much with Donald Trump (and recommends a fascist party in Germany), and now Mark Zuckerberg with Meta (Facebook, Instagram, Threads) is also joining the group of friends around Trump and removing fact checks in the name of “free speech”. What could possibly go wrong? ⌘ Read more

**(#cmttsmq) @bender@bender Yes they are rather large 🤣 Here you go:

proxy-1:~# cat /etc/caddy/waf/bad_asns.txt
# CHINANET-BACKBONE No. ...**
[@bender](https://twtxt.net/user/bender/) Yes they are rather large 🤣 Here you go:

proxy-1:~# cat /etc/caddy/waf/bad_asns.txt

4134

4837

9808

32934
proxy-1:~ … ⌘ Read more

Dead Internet Theory is Facebook’s New Business Model
Al Bots will soon have profile pictures & bios, “exist on [Facebook], kind of in the same way that accounts do.” ⌘ Read more

Thousands of Australian Facebook users to share $50 million after privacy scandal
Meta has agreed to a record settlement with Australia’s information commissioner, ending years of legal proceedings over Facebook’s infamous Cambridge Analytica scandal. ⌘ Read more

DRM-Free, Downloadable Media is a Good Thing
The Lunduke Journal adds DRM-free MP4 downloads to the many ways to enjoy the show (Locals, YouTube, X, Rumble, Facebook, Patreon, & Podcast feeds). ⌘ Read more

CREM kampaň o mediálnej gramotnosti „Čítaj medzi riadkami!”
Maglić, 12. november 2024 – Organizácia CREM (Creativa Media) z Maglića úspešne zrealizovala kampaň o mediálnej gramotnosti s názvom „Čítaj medzi riadkami!” v obci Báčsky Petrovec a okolí. Kampaň bola realizovaná na sociálnych sieťach Facebook a Instagram, ako aj prostredníctvom guerillovej akcie lepenia nálepiek s QR kódmi, ktoré vedú k vzdelávaciemu obsahu. Cieľom kampane bolo zvýšiť povedomie o dôl … ⌘ Read more

Comment on Easily upload photos to Facebook in Ubuntu with ‘Starry hope Uploader’ by Upload Photos To Facebook From Ubuntu Desktop With Starry Hope Uploader » Windows Expert
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My very strong opinion on the use of Twtxt is if you intend to use it, you should be prepared to let people pull your feed or at least check it …
My very strong opinion on the use of Twtxt is if you intend to use it, you should be prepared to let people pull your feed or at least check it and regular rentals.

Otherwise get out and go use something that’s either a distributed (Mastodon, AT, etc) or centralized (Facebook, X, etc) network. ⌘ Read more

Facebook fights celebrity scams with facial recognition
Four years after shutting its facial recognition function down over privacy concerns, the tech giant is bringing it back to rein in celeb-bait scams. Here’s how. ⌘ Read more

Last week at The Lunduke Journal (Oct 6 - Oct 12, 2024)
GNOME Layoffs! Woke Software Alternatives! Internet Archive Hacks! Facebook Censorship Portal! ⌘ Read more

Facebook Developed Custom Portal to Help Biden Administration Censor Americans
All while storing your password as plain text, accessible to 20,000 Facebook employees. ⌘ Read more

Meta admits Australians cannot opt out of ‘predatory’ AI data scrape
Senators are calling for stronger privacy laws to give Facebook users the ability to block the company from using their posts to train its AI models, as users can in the EU. ⌘ Read more

Zuck Regrets Censoring Facebook at Request of Democrats
“The White House, repeatedly pressured our teams for months to censor certain COVID-19 content, including humor and satire.” ⌘ Read more

The Facebook problem that only hurts Australians
Frances Haugen made global headlines when she blew the whistle on Facebook. She says the company treats Australia differently to other markets. ⌘ Read more

How to Run Llama LLM on Mac, Locally
Llama is a powerful large language model (LLM) developed by Meta (yes, the same Meta that is Facebook), that is able to process and generate human-like text. It’s quite similar to ChatGPT, but what is unique about Llama is that you can run it locally, directly on your computer. With a little effort, you’ll be … Read More ⌘ Read more

I admit I’ve always compromised on this way too much myself, always to this day having Facebook Messenger just to communicate in my families group chats. Sure I run it in a Work profile on my GrapheneOS phone that I can switch off at any time, I can completely cut it off from network access any time as well, I can have a lot of rudimentary control over it, I use it as sparingly as possible, but it doesn’t change the fact everytime I use it we’re funneling private convos through bloody Meta’s servers and trackers etc.

MoonBit: 大模型时代下的编程语言探索
大家下午好，谢谢主持人的介绍，我现在是IDEA粤港澳大湾区数字经济研究院的讲席科学家，今天跟大家分享我的话题，就是AI时代下的编程语言。

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一般来讲我们说的语言都是像微软、谷歌这种比较大的公司做的事情，所以先简单介绍一下我过去的背景。我从本科毕业以后，大概过去十几年都在编程语言和开发者工具这一块工作。在我还在念书的时候，很荣幸参与到OCaml编程语言的核心维护中，10年以后，去年OCaml获得了ACM系统软件奖，今年编程语言的获奖者是Rust。我的第一份工作是在纽约，自己写了一门编程语言叫ReScript，很荣幸这门编程语言被一些公司商业化用到了，Facebook 的messenger，chats也用到的它，我回国之后，Facebook破例让我在国内继续维护这个ReScript编程语言，在Facebook的5年时间，我还参与到另外一门编程语言 … ⌘ Read more

Facebook, Instagram are using your data – and you can’t opt out
If you’re one of the millions of Australians using Facebook or Instagram, Meta is using your data to train its AI – and unlike people in the European Union, you can’t stop them. ⌘ Read more

How to Hide iPhone Keyboard When It’s Covering Buttons & Won’t Go Away
Some iPhone users may find that the onscreen keyboard occasionally gets stuck on screen and covers buttons or other elements on the the screen, preventing interaction with the iPhone and preventing the dismissal of the iPhone keyboard. This can happen for a variety of reasons, whether in Messages, Whatsapp, Instagram, FaceBook, Mail, and basically any … [Read More](https://osxdaily.com/2024/05/01/fix-iphone … ⌘ Read more

SCOTUS hears case that could reshape social media
The Supreme Court on Monday heard arguments on the constitutionality of laws in Texas and Florida that would regulate how social media companies like Facebook, TikTok and X control the content posted on their sites. FOX 5’s Katie Barlow breaks it all down. ⌘ Read more

Playful Armadillo Becomes One With Ball at San Antonio Zoo
A three-banded armadillo named Wilson entertained visitors at the San Antonio Zoo recently, as he played with a toy Spurs basketball and incorporated it into his roly-poly form. Footage posted to Facebook on Saturday, February 24, shows Wilson promptly grabbing and rolling over with a ball after a keeper places him in a San Antonio Spurs-themed enclosure. The footage also shows ho … ⌘ Read more

If we call Alphabet “Google” instead, we could have:

BAG MAM

BAM GAM

If we also replace Meta with “Facebook” it could be:

FB-MAGA

FAB-MAG

🤔 ⌘ Read more

How to Delete a Threads Account Without Leaving Instagram
When Threads debuted from Meta (FaceBook), it was intricately linked to Instagram, and initially when you went to delete or deactivate a Threads account, it had the unfortunate side effect of also deleting the related Instagram account. But that is no longer the case. Now you can choose to delete a Threads account without impacting … [Read More](https://osxdaily.com/2023/12/31/how-to-delete-a-threads-account-without-le … ⌘ Read more

Run Threads on Desktop with Mac, Windows PC, Linux
Threads, the social network microblogging Twitter/X competitor launched by Meta (Facebook), is typically thought of as a mobile only experience, with users having the Threads app on their iPhone or Android device. But, if you have a Mac, Windows PC, or Linux computer, and you want to use Threads on your desktop computer, you can … Read More ⌘ Read more

@eldersnake@we.loveprivacy.club interesting, because some people are writing articles declaring the metaverse dead: https://www.businessinsider.com/metaverse-dead-obituary-facebook-mark-zuckerberg-tech-fad-ai-chatgpt-2023-5

@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.

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

Lunduke’s Normal Computing News - Nov 9, 2022
Listen now (35 min) | Apple worth more than Google + Facebook + Amazon, Microsoft sued for GitHub Copilot, Canonical shows future of Ubuntu ⌘ Read more

**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

Linus Torvalds threatens to punish developers by putting Rust in the Linux Kernel
Linux would join Microsoft, Amazon, and Facebook in usage of Rust as a disciplinary tool. ⌘ Read more

Yahoo joins Facebook owner Meta in testing metaverse tech in Hong Kong
The US internet company says it will hold virtual concerts and exhibitions on a metaverse platform, after Facebook owner Meta announced similar plans. ⌘ Read more

**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

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

“How Telegram Became the Anti-Facebook”
I read this very long article about Telegram today and somehow it left me with mixed feelings. The article is also from WIRED, but it offers more balanced coverage than an article from a year ago. ⌘ Read more

Toi aussi, gère la page Facebook d’un parti belge - Médor ⌘ Read more

Peter Saint-Andre: A Friend by Any Other Name
It is said that when the ancient Greek philosopher Epicurus died, he left behind thousands of friends. This was 2300 years before Facebook, so how could he have befriended so many people?… ⌘ Read more

The Metaverse Was Lame Even Before Facebook - The Atlantic ⌘ Read more