DataKnightmare @dataKnightmare@octodon.social

Don't Be Evil https://logicmag.io/03-dont-be-evil/

"Facebook confirms that it tracks how you move mouse on the computer screen"
https://www.indiatoday.in/technology/news/story/facebook-confirms-that-it-tracks-how-you-move-mouse-on-the-computer-screen-1258189-2018-06-12

Whatever you think of "moving beyond matter as a computing substrate" (which has been the subject of far more serious sci-fi), it's not implausible that our AI descendants could decide to leave. In fact, "mostly indifferent" volitional AI seems more plausible to me than "good" or "evil" AI. And von Neumann probes could rapidly (within a generation) produce more offworld compute capacity than could ever be safely operated on-planet.

Incels and entitlement: something is wrong with our men: https://www.girlonthenet.com/2018/04/30/incels-entitlement-somethings-wrong-men/

"On FOSS as a capitalism-like structure"

https://medium.com/@cassolotl/on-foss-as-a-capitalism-like-structure-baf89973c6a1

"The more I think about it, the more I see FOSS as a microcosm of capitalism."

Not wrong.

"Henry A. Giroux: The Nightmare of Neoliberal Fascism"
interview by M. Karlin

https://truthout.org/articles/henry-a-giroux-the-nightmare-of-neoliberal-fascism/

"Technically Wrong
Sexist Apps, Biased Algorithms, and Other Threats of Toxic Tech"

http://www.sarawb.com/technically-wrong/

[#Actu] « Optical Center sanctionné par la CNIL pour son manque de vision sur la sécurité des données clients » https://www.numerama.com/politique/383377-optical-center-sanctionne-par-la-cnil-pour-son-manque-de-vision-sur-la-securite-des-donnees-clients.html?utm_medium=distibuted&utm_source=rss&utm_campaign=383377 #politique #sécurité #cnil

https://revealingerrors.com/autoresponder_road_sign

The Case of the Welsh Autoresponder

The English half of the sign is printed correctly and says, “No entry for heavy goods vehicles. Residential site only.” Clearly enough, the point of the sign is to prohibit truck drivers from entering a residential neighborhood.

Since the sign was posted in Swansea, Wales, the bottom half of the sign is written in Welsh. The translation of the Welsh is, “I am not in the office at the moment. Send any work to be translated.”

tech bros on twitter arguing against libraries in favour of "spotify for books" because authors/publishers (or rather VC investors) can't use libraries as their primary source of profit is just a perfect example of silicon valley's willful ignorance or complete contempt for the ideas of public service and the commons.

rather than everybody creating a public space and sharing resources they'd have us all completely separated and paying countless times over for the same thing.

Github is now a fully owned, proprietary tool of Microsoft.

It's time to decide.

Do we as a community allow our future to depend upon commercial interests of a company that to this day spreads FUD and minimizes our impact when it suits their plans?

Or do we step up, do what we do best and take our code to somewhere created by the us for us and the good of the community?

This isn't about hating Microsoft. It's about loving our own sovereignty and controlling our *own* future.

Please Boost.

What you buy a product for and what the product actually does are diverging at an alarming rate 😟

Why is an electric toothbrush demanding access to your phone's microphone and location? Why does a television send data about you to 700 addresses in the first 15 minutes?

These aren't cheap shady no-brand devices, these are expensive products from big consumer companies.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/jun/01/uk-homes-vulnerable-to-staggering-level-of-corporate-surveillance

#Privacy #InternetOfThings #Nest #Samsung #Philips #alexa