The correct answer to “but I can’t make what I’m making without having it violate your consent” is always “that’s ok, don’t make it then.”
bigtech
When I first started calling Silicon Valley’s business model “people farming” I was told I was being hyperbolic and alarmist.
I don’t get told that much anymore.
#SiliconValley #BigTech #AI #surveillance #capitalism #PeopleFarming
Meta tried to discredit researchers in one of Brazil's top universities who identified fraudulent ads in its platforms:
"Defaming scientists has become a global strategy of Big Techs in order to try to silence critics in universities."
"In the United States, the social network has gone as far as banning researchers from accessing data after they did something that displeased the company."
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🚀 The Future is Federated - issue no.6 👩🚀
The Future of Social is Here: a Show and Tell (part 1: #Mastodon ↔️ #Pixelfed )
with shout-outs to @phanpy @tapbots @ivory @Tusky @dansup
✨ and special thanks to @evan @cwebber for your work on #ActivityPub, the magic protocol that is making all this possible ✨
#TheFutureIsFederated #tech #Fediverse #bigtech #socialmedia #FOSS #blog #RebelAlliance
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The Future is Federated issue 4:
« Your data, your power: the Fediverse's big advantage over the walled gardens of Big Tech »
with shout-outs to @dot_social
@mike
@johnonolan @PixelFed
#thefutureisfederated #Mastodon #Pixelfed #BigTech #tech #socialmedia #FOSS #ActivityPub #blog
🚀 The Future is Federated - issue no.7 👩🚀
The Future of Social is Here: a Show and Tell (part 2: #Wordpress ↔️ #Fediverse)
https://blog.elenarossini.com/the-future-of-social-part-2-wordpress-fediverse/
with shout-outs to @pfefferle @oblomov @evan @cwebber
#TheFutureIsFederated #tech #Fediverse #activism #bigtech #socialmedia #FOSS #blog
🚀 The Future is Federated - issue no.8 👩🚀
The Future of Social is Here: a Show and Tell (part 3: #Friendica)
https://blog.elenarossini.com/the-future-of-social-is-here-a-show-and-tell-part-3-friendica/
with shout-outs to @anubis2814 @dansup @fedidb @heidilifeldman @tchambers @kamalaharrisforpresidentnews @ryanbroderick @caseynewton @ferrante @informapirata @russandro @hankg @tio
#TheFutureIsFederated #tech #Fediverse #activism #bigtech #socialmedia #FOSS #blog #activitypub #diaspora #bluesky #tumblr
🚀 The Future is Federated - issue no.9 👩🚀
The Future of Social is Here: a Show and Tell (part 4: Lemmy, PieFed & Mbin)
https://blog.elenarossini.com/the-future-of-social-is-here-a-show-and-tell-part-4-lemmy-piefed-mbin/
with shout-outs to @informapirata @Bro666 @dansup @phanpy @fedidb @vjprema @neblem @FediTips
#TheFutureIsFederated #tech #Fediverse #activism #bigtech #socialmedia #FOSS #blog #threadiverse #mbin #kbin #piefed #lemmy #reddit #activitypub
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🚀 The Future is Federated - issue no.10 👩🚀
"My Fediverse summer & the top 3 lessons I learned"
https://blog.elenarossini.com/fediverse-summer-3-lessons/
with shout-outs to: @poliverso @phanpy @ivory @MonaApp @pixelfed @Tusky @MoogleMaestro
#TheFutureIsFederated #blog #tech #bigtech #socialmedia #FOSS #Fediverse #Mastodon #Wordpress #Friendica #Pixelfed #Lemmy #Kbin #Mbin #Firefish #Ivory #Phanpy
🚀 The Future is Federated - issue no.11 👩🚀
"Beyond technical features: why we need to talk about the values of the Fediverse (part 1)"
https://blog.elenarossini.com/the-values-of-the-fediverse-ethical-social-media/
with shout-outs to: @bengrosser @rysiek @phanpy @pixelfed and all the lovely people I've been interacting with on here ❤️
#TheFutureIsFederated #tech #Fediverse #activism #bigtech #socialmedia #FOSS #blog #privacy #consent #Matrix
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🚀 The Future is Federated - issue no.12 👩🚀
"Beyond technical features: why we need to talk about the values of the Fediverse (part 2)"
mentioning: @alttexthalloffame @Gargron @FediTips @ivory @IceCubesApp @Tusky @Simx72 @phanpy @jon @mathi_gwithyas @rysiek
#TheFutureIsFederated #tech #Fediverse #BigTech #SocialMedia #FOSS #blog #accessibility #AltText #CW #ContentWarnings #Phanpy #Ivory #Tusky #Mastodon #IceCubes
🥊 #FEDS NEED TO KEEP ITS #KNEE 🧎 🧎♂️ 🧎♀️ ON #INFLATION'S_NECK??"
In #Memory of #George_Floyd ✝️ (October 14, 1973 – May 25, 2020) was an African American man who was murdered by a white police officer in Minneapolis,
The 🇮🇱 Devil is in the 🇱🇷 Details.. WHAT DOES THAT #MEAN?? 🐍
AND WHAT IS #FINANCIAL #Hannibal_Directive??
Lets ask the recently deceased #knee_on_neck Murder Victim BY OUR OWN POLICE DEPT 🚔 for $20 alleged FAKE BUCKS shall we? 💵
WHO PAYS #TAXES in THIS COUNTRY? ANSWER? #ELITES AND #BIGTECH #WALMART, #AMAZON PAYING #ZERO IN #TAXES
FEDS NEED TO KEEP ITS FOOT ON INFLATION'S NECK bc if this Government cannot get you to pay your taxes, if any, they will #inflate the #economy by 30% in order to #TAKE TAXES FROM YOU WHEN YOU BUY #FOOD, PAY #RENT, #mortgage, BUY A #CAR ETC. ETC ETC.
That's right every time you buy food you are paying a 30-40% #markup.
That's #FORCED #INCOME_TAX Folks OF another name CALLED #INFLATION!
All Americans are PAYING AT LEAST 30% IN INCOME TAX AND THEY DONT KNOW IT?
(AKA TRUTH) Remember LAZY ASS #LOSER_CHUMP wanted to apply a 30% take on #TikTok #ACQUISITION.
#TRUMP THE #LAZY_LOSER TRYING TO #ROB THE #STAGE_COACH on its way into town >> AND WE ALL KNOW HOW THAT #ENDS??
This country will not see one penny more than there fair share of taxes. NOT #ONE_PENNY MORE!
It's in the FEDS BEST INTEREST to #PRINT MORE #MONEY to #INCREASE INFLATION NOT LOWER IT! or else the #Value of the USD dollar #WILL_COLLAPSE and GREEDY INEPT #OIL_Tycoons #DIRT_BAGS (AKA #ZIONIST_NAZI'S) benefit when the dollar COLLAPSES..
The feds need to keep raising inflation by printing money and then buffer the impact by 25 to 100 basis points FOREVER..
. in order to COLLECT the income taxes REQUIRED to run this country.
#Kicking the #can FURTHER down the #road is the only way the USA Government can now COLLECT TAXES from its Citizens.
AND That my friends is a SURE SIGN OF A #FAILED_REGIME.
Unless you are a w-2 employee (AKA GOVERNMENT OR FORTUNE 500 #SLAVE!) -- but most are now #self_employed. All of WE THE PEOPLES MONEY HAS BEEN #ROBBED, #SPENT, #PILLAGED while this Israeli regime murder's its own citizens.. gone!
aka #FINANCIAL #Hannibal_Directive.
AND THAT IS WHAT IT MEANS WHEN the "FEDS SAYS." IT #NEEDS TO KEEP ITS #FOOT ON #INFLATION'S_NECK??
Who would have known what #George_Floyds death would actually #SPARK!?;)
A DAY AFTER #GEORGE_FLOYDS #Death my #Easter_Lilly #Bloomed in Remembrance of his death.
I Post on #LinkedIn and Fediverse 5 times after very first Bloom.
#Proof that short term Memory has been disintegrated from the #food you eat, #air you breath and #people you know!
Thanks to the 🇮🇱 👹 🔥 #ISRAELI _TERRORISTS NOW RUNING OUR ONCE GREAT COUNTRY! 🇱🇷
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Floyd
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On the two year anniversary of joining #Mastodon I'm super proud to share:
🚀 The Future is Federated - issue no.13 👩🚀
"The #Fediverse has empowered me to take back control from Big Tech. Now I want to help others do the same."
with mentions of @forgeandcraft (who made this awesome Fediverse t-shirt) @phanpy @ivory @Tusky @nimi @Roneyb @davidoclubb
#FOSS #FLOSS #Matrix #TheFutureIsFederated #blog #tech #activism #BigTech #socialmedia #education
It has been know for a long time that, when it comes to AI training, quality is much more important than quantity. Yet Big Tech goes for quantity because it is cheaper and takes less time to train a model on non-curated garbage scrapped from the internet than taking the time and the (human) effort of curating the data. That is one of the problems with their models: Garbage in, garbage out.
#AI #GenAI #generativeAI #BigTech
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Part 2 of the episode on #DecolonisingComputing is now live. We talked about #TechNeoColonialism #BigTech, #AI, #Luddism and #RaisingSheepInTheHebrides, there is a bonus: an extensive reading list to show people that "The world can be done otherwise" #Education #NeoColonialism #Tech
🚀 The Future is Federated - issue no.14 👩🚀
“A new way to describe the Fediverse and its opposition to Big Tech”
https://blog.elenarossini.com/a-new-way-to-describe-the-fediverse-and-its-opposition-to-big-tech/
I think I may have finally found a way to explain the Fediverse and make it appealing to people not familiar with it - a very Italian, highly accessible way to frame it, via an analogy that anyone could understand.
#TheFutureIsFederated #tech #Fediverse #activism #BigTech #BigFood #SocialMedia #FOSS #blog #NeilPostman #healthylifestyle
Devol ⁂ 
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Come gruppo no-profit questo denaro proviene da tutti voi, da coloro che credono che serva un posto libero dalle #BigTech.
#Devol non è a scopo di lucro, ci concentriamo sulle tecnologie che tutelano la privacy e non sul compiacimento di inserzionisti o investitori.
E come organizzazione #noprofit esistiamo solo grazie al vostro sostegno:
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🚀 New on #TheFutureIsFederated 👩🚀
#GoToSocial empowers you to have your own home on the Fediverse - with unique controls
mentioning @shollyethan @ilja @gotosocial @gytisrepecka @Tusky @pinafore @phanpy @MonaApp @elk
and my GtS instance @elena
#tech #Fediverse #activism #BigTech #SocialMedia #FOSS #FLOSS #YunoHost #blog #TechEmpowerment #TechResistance
Edited 107d ago
Want to extricate yourself from USA #BigTech? This site provides useful lists of #European alternatives!
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🚀 New on #TheFutureIsFederated 👩🚀
"My Year of Fediverse explorations"
https://blog.elenarossini.com/my-year-of-fediverse-explorations/
with shout-outs to @pixelfed @dansup @pfefferle @gotosocial @yunohost @phanpy
#tech #Fediverse #BigTech #socialmedia #FOSS #FLOSS #blog #Friendica #Pixelfed #Lemmy #GoToSocial #YunoHost #Mastodon #ActivityPub #Wordpress
Colleagues have implemented TOTP as a second authentication factor on the virtual machines in the data center! 👏
But they were almost recommending that people use the Google Authenticator app... 😶🌫️
🇧🇷🇵🇹 Os colegas implantaram TOTP como segundo fator de autenticação nas máquinas virtuais do centro de dados! 👏
Mas estavam quase recomendando que a galera usasse o aplicativo Google Authenticator... ⛈️
#InfoSec #TOTP #security #segurança #BigTech #cloud #nuvem
But they were almost recommending that people use the Google Authenticator app... 😶🌫️
🇧🇷🇵🇹 Os colegas implantaram TOTP como segundo fator de autenticação nas máquinas virtuais do centro de dados! 👏
Mas estavam quase recomendando que a galera usasse o aplicativo Google Authenticator... ⛈️
#InfoSec #TOTP #security #segurança #BigTech #cloud #nuvem
🚀 New on #TheFutureIsFederated 👩🚀
"Supporting the Fediverse, one small act at a time"
https://blog.elenarossini.com/supporting-the-fediverse-one-small-act-at-a-time/
with shout-outs to: @elduvelle @nacly @nclm @thek3nger @docpop @angie_marie2 @frank @dansup
#tech #Fediverse #activism #BigTech #SocialMedia #FOSS #FLOSS #blog
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Angesichts der aktuellen Ereignisse in der digitalen Welt, bezüglich #MAGA, #gafam und #bigtech möchte ich das Buch "BigTech muss weg" von Martin Andree wärmstens empfehlen. Alles, was die #Gatekeeper aktuell veranstalten, dient einzig und alleine dazu, #Europa zu schwächen.
Die Medienlandschaft wird zerstört, die #Demokratie untergraben. Der lokale Markt gnadenlos kaputt gemacht.
Medienmonopole sind nicht tolerierbar!
https://screenforce.ch/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Screenforce-Day-2024-Martin-Andree.mp4
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