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  • openrightsgroup@social.openrightsgroup.orgundefined

    Fancy a digital chastity belt?

    Uncategorized surveillance ageverification privacy digitalrights ukpolitics ukpol apple google
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    openrightsgroup@social.openrightsgroup.orgundefined
    Fancy a digital chastity belt?The UK government wants Apple and Google to stop you from taking or sending pics of your bits.Intrusive scanning tech on your phone would block nudes unless you verify your age with biometrics or official ID.It's creepy mission creep.https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/12/uk-to-encourage-apple-and-google-to-put-nudity-blocking-systems-on-phones/#surveillance #ageverification #privacy #digitalrights #ukpolitics #ukpol #apple #google
  • battalion@battalion.mobileatom.netundefined

    Destroying Autocracy – November 13, 2025

    General Discussion activitypub autocracy bigjournalism bigtech bluesky bonfire bridgyfed
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    battalion@battalion.mobileatom.netundefined
    Destroying Autocracy – November 13, 2025Welcome to this week’s “Destroying Autocracy”.It’s your source for curated news affecting democracy in the cyber arena with a focus on protecting it. That necessitates an opinionated Butlerian jihad against big tech as well as evangelizing for open-source and the Fediverse. Since big media’s journalism wing is flailing and failing in its core duty to democracy, this is also a collection of alternative reporting on the eternal battle between autocracy and democracy. We also cover the cybersecurity world. You can’t be free without safety and privacy.FYI, my opinions will be in bold. And will often involve cursing. Because humans. Especially tech bros. And fascists. Fuck ’em.The Programmer’s Fulcrum is the future (and smaller) home for a fusion of Symfony Station and Battalion. Its tagline is Devs Defending Democracy, Developing the OMN.You can sign up now and for 2025 get an email with links to and featured articles for each week’s Symfony Station Communiqué and Battalion “Destroying Autocracy” post along with their featured articles. And you’ll be set with TPF after the fusing.We are posting on the Fediverse now at @thefulcrum @thefulcrum.dev and original website content will start in 2026.Featured Item(s)Wrekage/Salvage writes:Once you’ve seized the tools of political life to build communal power, it’s hard to forget what a hammer feels like in your hand.Bonfire Networks is a tiny software org that has spent the past couple of years building a framework for communities on the open social web. At the end of last week, they released Bonfire Social, a microblogging app.Like Mastodon, Bonfire Social runs on ActivityPub, but it takes differently opinionated approach to sociability.(It has) features I (and many others) have been advocating for in Fediverse software for years, often while people explained at length that such things simply could not be implemented.Most exhilarating to me, though, is that they aren’t just building another microblogging app. They’re making a toolkit for internet community software that is healthy and good and designed around real human needs from the start.As they put it in their crowdfunding campaign, they’re making building blocks for communities on the open social web.Sparks fly upTotal awesomeness that needs to blow up. We will cover (and support) Bonfire extensively on The Programmer’s Fulcrum.We start and end with good news to make the middle bearable.The response to Russia’s War Crimes, Techno Feudalism, and other douchebaggeryThe Kyiv Independent reports:Ukraine slaps new sanctions on Putin’s team and propagandist publishersRadio Free Europe reports:EU ‘Democracy Shield’ Aims To Counter Russian DisinformationOpen Web Advocacy has:Tim Berners-Lee On Apple’s Browser Engine Ban and Web AppsHeise reports:Office alternative from Germany by Ionos and Nextcloud is now availableGreat.Speaking of Germany, The Guardian reports:ChatGPT violated copyright law by ‘learning’ from song lyrics, German court rulesMeta could face millions in fines for not signing content deals in AustraliaDigital Rights Bytes asks:Can the government read my text messages?404 Media reports:Judge Rules Flock Surveillance Images Are Public Records That Can Be Requested By AnyoneTechCrunch reports:Wikipedia urges AI companies to use its paid API, and stop scrapingBrookings says:We should all be LudditesPreach brother.Poynter reports:As independent newspapers disappear, a secretive alliance fights to save themNeutralOpen Knowledge shares:Open letter: Harnessing open source AI to advance digital sovereigntyThe Ringer has:How Catastrophic Is It If the AI Bubble Bursts? An FAQ.The Evil Empire (AKA Autocracy) Strikes Back404 Media reports:DHS Gives Local Cops a Facial Recognition App To Find ImmigrantsTechCrunch reports:Why a lot of people are getting hacked with government spywareLawmakers warn Democratic governors that states are sharing drivers’ data with ICEEuractiv reports:EU’s red tape bonfire puts AI ahead of privacy protectionNOYB reports:EU Commission internal draft would wreck core principles of the GDPRThe Guardian reports:The EU has let US tech giants run riot. Diluting our data law will only entrench their power.Tech giants vow to defend users in US as spyware companies make inroads with Trump administrationFreedom of the Press Foundation reports:Kansas county pays $3M for forgetting the First AmendmentPariah StatesBleepingComputer reports:APT37 hackers abuse Google Find Hub in Android data-wiping attacksBitDefender reports:Russian hacker admits helping Yanluowang ransomware infect companiesThe Register reports:UK asks cyberspies to probe whether Chinese buses can be switched off remotelyKrebs on Security reports:Google Sues to Disrupt Chinese SMS Phishing TriadBig MediaThe Columbia Journalism Review has:Editorial Independence Means Technological IndependenceThe Open Media Network peeps.The Guardian reports:EU investigates Google over ‘demotion’ of commercial content from news mediaBig TechAnd:Big Tech’s control freak era is breaking itself apartThe Techno Anarchist Manifesto lists tools to help you avoid most of this AI horseshit.Lies, damned lies and AI: the newest way to influence elections may be here to stayJesus.Digital colonialism: the new frontier of Latin American dependency.A side effect of techno feudalism.PC Mag reports:Asking ChatGPT About Affairs or Abortion? Be Careful, Marketers Are Peeking at Your PromptsCybersecurity/PrivacyThe Register reports:OWASP Top 10: Broken access control still tops app security listIEEE Spectrum reports:Your AI Agent Is Now a Target for Email Phishing. New tools can help thwart the attacks.Like bitcoin, if you use this shit you deserve what you get.DarkReading reports:Orgs Move to SSO, Passkeys to Solve Bad Password HabitsGlassWorm Returns, Slices Back into VS Code ExtensionsCheck out VS Codium friends.BleepingComputer reports:Police disrupts Rhadamanthys, VenomRAT, and Elysium malware operationsFediverseElena Rossini shares:The rebellion will be federated – 2025 editionA New Social has:Bonfire and A New SocialBonfire explains:Matters of care – why Bonfire maintenance comes first.Comciencia has:A comunicação da ciência no FediversoLaura Hargreves shares:Growing My Own Little Fediverse: The Joy of Going Further Down the Rabbit HoleInside My Matrix: How I Reclaimed Messaging from the CloudTechCrunch reports:Threads targets podcasters with new features, aiming to become the home for show discussionsBTW, fuck Threads.Slightly Decentralized Social MediaThe Dabbler has:Chicken Caesars: they’re messing with your Bluesky feedTechCrunch reports:Jack Dorsey funds diVine, a Vine reboot that includes Vine’s video archiveHmm, this is built with Nostr.CTAs (aka show us some free love)That’s it for this week. Please share this edition of Destroying Autocracy.Follow me on the Fediverse. Or this site via the button in the footer. Or via RSS. Or even our future home in 2026, if you want a head start.Keep fighting!Ringleader, BattalionReuben Walker Follow me on the Fediverse#activitypub #ai #autocracy #bigJournalism #bigTech #bluesky #bonfire #bridgyfed #democracy #fascism #fediverse #matrix #stopChina #stopIsrael #stopRedAmerica #stopRussia #supportUkraine #technoanarchism #technofeudalism #threads #xmpphttps://battalion.mobileatom.net/?p=3838
  • vivaldi@social.vivaldi.netundefined

    Good morning to everyone who says “searching” and not “googling”.

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    superdicq@minidisc.tokyoundefined
    @ThePfromtheO@social.vivaldi.net @Vivaldi@social.vivaldi.net This means any fork needs to be branded as a different product.That's fine, Firefox is the same.And this new product then would become an immediate competitorA fork that uses the same codebase is not really a competitor. You can share code between forks, so it also benefits Vivaldi to have forks available.And if you maintain your software well and do what your users want, there would be no need for anyone to make a fork in the first place.These are not not valid reasons.
  • aj@gts.sadauskas.id.auundefined

    Over 40 years, we were collectively told to give tax cuts to rich people

    Uncategorized chatgpt claude llm capitalism socialism business politics
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    Over 40 years, we were collectively told to give tax cuts to rich people.And we were told that if we did that, wealth would trickle down and everyone would be better off.Over 40 years, pretty much everything got cut to fund these tax cuts.Schools. Hospitals. Public housing. Public transport. Universities. Roads projects. Mental health services. Welfare payments.People literally went homeless or starved, so rich people could get tax cuts.Because the wealth would trickle down.Eventually the eroding of public goods caused social dislocation.So governments further cut those public goods to fund more police and prisons. To continue giving tax cuts to rich people.But they said the wealth would trickle down.Eventually the climate started changing because of the amount of toxic fossil fuel pollution in the atmosphere.So governments chose to keep the tax cuts rather than fund infrastructure to reduce emissions.(Many of those billionaires getting tax cuts made their money selling toxic fossil fuels.)And as the oceans and atmosphere warmed, the bushfires, droughts, hurricanes, cyclones, floods, and droughts got worse.But they said the wealth would trickle down.Eventually people were getting pissed off at the dire state of the world.The rich misdirected that anger at immigrants!And First Nations!And trans people!And neurodivergent people!Anyone but the billionaires who got the tax cuts.So governments chose to keep the tax cuts. (For the rich. Everyone else got new tariff taxes.)But they said the wealth would trickle down.So did the wealth trickle down?Well...A group of billionaires saw this kinda cool tech demo.It predicted the next pixel of an image, based on the colour patterns of every image on the internet.It also predicted the next word in a sentence, based on an analysis of every piece of writing on the internet.The rich decided that this clearly showed that a sentient computer was just around the corner.The problem was these tech demos needed servers with a lot of GPUs to work.So the rich took all the money they got from those tax cuts.And they bought GPUs.Millions and millions and millions and millions of GPUs.All the tax cuts? All the underfunded schools? All the draconian welfare cuts? All the public housing shortages? The delays in funding clean energy.In the end, it didn't trickle down.And instead of all the public goods it could have bought......We'll be left with millions and millions and millions of GPUs in a landfill.#ChatGPT #Claude #AI #LLM #capitalism #socialism #business #politics #Nvidia