Trump Threatens To Withold Billions From States That Try To Make Broadband Affordable To Poor People… Because only the well-off should have good things. What a douchebag. #Broadband #Internet #Access #Trump #RepublicansOwnThis #Republicans #PublicAirwaves #communication
internet
LinkedIn Is Illegally Searching Your Computer
#tech #technology #BigTech #IT #enshittification #microslop #microsoft #LinkedIn #social #media #SocialMedia #data #security #safety #InfoSec #internet #web
What is the registration data lookup tool?
ICANN created this website as a free public service that gives you the ability to look up publicly available contact and other information related to a domain name or an internet number resource such as an Autonomous System number (ASN), or IP networks.
#Internet #Safety #PreventScam
#MediaLiteracy
The age-verification trap: verifying user’s ages undermines everyone’s data protection
Social media is going the way of alcohol, gambling, and other social sins: Societies are deciding it’s no longer kid stuff. Lawmakers point to compulsive use, exposure to harmful content, and mounting concerns about adolescent mental health. So, many propose to s
"I asked ChatGPT" is the new " I saw it on Facebook".
NEW: Roger Shoffstall spent three years in prison for evading income taxes.
It hasn’t stopped the FCC from sending him $1 million a year to sell obsolete internet service in Alaska.
The money comes from a special government subsidy program. You help pay for it.
https://www.propublica.org/article/alaska-telecom-subsidies-roger-shoffstall?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
What the hell is this nonsense?
The #Kremlin is preparing #Russia for life without #Internet: shutdowns and restrictions
This is #propaganda on a kid's TV show trying to sell it as a good thing
It's about control of course
Those of us terminally online can appreciate being away from the Internet as beneficial... as a personal choice
But as an imposed #authoritarian prelude to your country becoming #NorthKorea?
Not so much
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Part 3/3 See Parts 1 & 2
What is the number #1 most EFFECTIVE and Most Expensive type of Advertising in existence??
🏆 🏆 🏆 #WORD_OF_MOUTH #Advertising = TRUST! Without it?.. >> 🍲 🍲 🍲 Soup Line..
And each website (Fediverse) is also your own #Decentralized #Advertising_Hub where you make 100% ON THE Advertisement profits, sold from your site! Not #Notech! = BOOYA!
Remember 📏 #Calculators were allowed in schools? Most kids could not afford a calculator at that time. So not only did calculators divide student socially; but also the thought was that they would be used to #CHEAT_ON_TESTS.✅
🏁 #Cheating Pandemic Started There;)
But I asked myself even back then ( Just a kid being honest with himself ) " If I let the calculator do all the work; what am I learning?? And am I EXERCISING the BRAIN like my kick ass arms!??
🥊 💪 💪
The 🧠 #brain is like a #muscle if you don’t #work_it_out how is it supposed to get #BIGGER, #FASTER, #STRONGER and SMARTER?
IF YOU DON'T USE IT YOU WILL LOSE IT! And PURPOSE of Chatgpt, OpenAI and now Whale Seek. Just like your #Dumbphone and turned you into the #WALKING_DEAD!?
🧎 🧎♂️ 🧎♀️
Hello Anyone Home?
YOU are #learning #how to #copy NOT #CREATE!
YOU are being taught #HOW TO #COPY = AKA to steal is #IP_THEFT! You are kept trapped in a BOX (THINK #GAZA), just like AMERICAN ONLINE, until many realized they are not even on the #Internet.
They were #trapped in a #dedicated #CENTRALIZED #advertising_box 📦 📦 📦 ALL ALONG.. SAME SAME: Chatgpt, openAI and now Whale seek. NOT EVEN CLOSE TO #AI!
🌉 #OVERNIGHT! #YOU AND ALL YOUR #CONTENT CAN BE #BANNED, #TAKEN_DOWN AND YOU ARE #OUT_OF_BUSINESS = #LUNACY!
Considering its your livelihood under the control and Free speech is under scrutiny by inept OTHERS??
While #American_Online (AOL) was making a fortune in #advertising off of YOU, Until some (NOT ALL) actually found the REAL Internet by #accident? DURING THE LAST 2 DECADES. It was over for American online OVERNIGHT.
The Exact same IS NOW happening with (JEWS, KKK, NAZI'S PAGAN.GOV, CENTRALIZED BANKS, SOCIAL NETWORKS, BIGTECH, SUCH AS #GOOGLE, #MICROSOFT, #AMAZON, #APPLE, #META, #FACEBOOK, #INSTAGRAM, #TWITTER AND #YOUTUBE = #Centralized Social Networking and #CENTRALIZED APP STORES.
Now 🔍 🎩 🔎 Identified as #ILLEGAL #Pegasus 🦄 #ASSASSINATION 🔫 #Tracking Surveillance Hub is OVER ROVER 🛰️ 📡 #BANNED_FOREVER!!
Chatgpt, OpenAI and Whale Seek >> (Advance Predictive search with audio = #Alexa #REBRANDED).
This tech was invented in 1999 when Major Search Engines started to copy every page on the internet ( #without user #consent) and PASTED it into there data base S (THEFT) (aka LLM’s) to make money (PROFIT) from search OFF their #stolen_content (Your Content!? w/o Consent, IS INFACT the pure definition of #COPYRIGHT_INFRINGEMENT. 🚔 🚔 🚔 🚔 🚑
It gets worse.. including #Illegal Bigtech 3rd party 🍪 🍪 🍪 #Cookie injections into 3rd party #Browser's which is called #CONCEALMENT OF #LIABILITY by all bigtech ( = #Felony Section 2 Sherman Anti Trust Act) by use of 3RD PARTY #SHAWDOW_BROKER COMPANIES??
Why not make that 🥠 🥠 🥠 #fortune for yourself instead with #REAL_CONTENT.. #Yours;) Massively Improving the quality (not Quantity) of content on the 🌐 WWW Internet.
TastingTraffic launching soon. Earn up to 300K net in the comforts of your own living room.
#Big_Kudos to 🇦🇺 #Australia protecting INNOCENT HEARTS! BRAVO #AUSSIES!
“This is a global problem and we want young Australians essentially to have a childhood,” #prime_minister #Anthony_Albanese said when introducing the bill last week. “We want #parents to have #peace of #mind.”
The Online Safety Amendment (Social Media Minimum Age) Bill 2024 sets Australia up as a test case for a growing number of governments which have legislated, or have said they plan to legislate, an age restriction #on_social_media (DAVIDv COMMENT: NOTICE #CENTRALIZED_SOCIAL_MEDIA ONLY NOT THE ENTIRE #WWW INTERNET). Countries including France and some US states have passed laws to restrict access for children without parental permission, but the Australian #ban is #absolute. A full under-14s #ban in #Florida is being #challenged in court on #free_speech_grounds.
IF YOU ARE UNDERAGE YOUR PARENTS ARE YOUR FREE SPEECH! If not a #Jew_Terrorist or #Godless_Pagan_DIRTBAGS.Gov!
DavidV: "This is EXCLUSIVELY A BIGTECH CENTRALIZED SOCIAL NETWORK PROBLEM #NOT A #WWW_INTERNET_PROBLEM!"
“It’s #cart before #horse,” Sunita Bose, managing director of #Digital_Industry Group, which has most #social_media companies as members, told Reuters. “We have the bill but we don’t have guidance from the Australian government around what are the right methods that a whole host of services subject to this law will need to employ.”
https://au.news.yahoo.com/australia-ban-under-16s-social-124305590.html
📛 DISCLAIMER: We Cover the 'Way' the #News is #COVERED_UP! 👿
WELCOME TO #DECENTRALIZED_GLOBALIZATION 🌐 #GLOBALIZATION is NOT Dead! It's just the Beginning!..
The NEW DIGITAL GLOBAL ORDER | NO NATIONALITY LEFT BEHIND | COMING SOON! 🌏 🌍 🌎
🔴 The #Next #Global_Superpower Isn't Who You #Think 🧠 WHO is TastingTraffic.com?
🧠 https://youtu.be/uiUPD-z9DTg
DavidV: 25 YEARS 24/7 Experience:
* Software Architect (PhD) Supervisor -25 years 300K PMS (project management) hours
* EXPERT BLACK BOX TESTER (1999)
* Founder of WebTafficCops.com the 1ST Dedicated CLICK FRAUD ENGINE on the Planet (1999)
* Founder of SEO (Search Engine Optimization, (1999)
* Founder of RTB (Real Time Bidding (1999)
* Founder of HFT (High Frequency Trading 2001)
* Founder of the first Screen Recorder (Applets) on the Planet (2000)
* Founder of DEVSECOPS (2000)
* Founder and CREATOR OF #BULLETPROOF MONERO full NODES via WWW. (2016)
🍷 🍾 #TASTINGTRAFFIC_LLC | The Largest (WWW) #DIGITAL_TRAFFIC PROVIDER in the WORLD since 1999.
🌐 WORLD WIDE BUSINESS HOURS?? 24/7 ;)
JOBS FOR ALL WORLDWIDE COMING SOON;!
Part 3/3. See Parts 1 & 2.
Part 1/3 See Part 2 & 3. ✝️ REMEMBER ( #AOL )? #AMERICA_ONLINE?
🦅 #Baby_Boomerangs do..
Hey #Kids Your #DAD FROM #SARASOTA MADE the same DUMB big MISTAKE (oh well we learn the hard way called #LIFE_EXPERIENCES ;).
💽 📀 💽 📀 During the #AOL_CRAZE, (1000, 10,000 free internet hours discs being mailed to you weekly? (Remember?)
I am in Myakka Valley FL. Park. With my Family 🐓 #Feeding the #Gators;) LIKE PETS..
Teaching my kids >> #Face the Fear and the @Death of Fear is #CERTAIN!
🥊 #BONUS! #BigKudos to Australia protecting INNOCENT HEARTS! BRAVO #AUSSIES! ❤️ ❤️ ❤️
It's 1999 Back to the future.. ..but at the same time configuring #REAL #Internet_Access on my #Motorola Blackberry 🙃 #StarTac flip phone;) ..Best phone on the 🌐 planet at the time imho.
To my surprise was getting 900 baud rate, BACK THEN
🥊 #BOOYA!?? Took 45 min to download one photo. But it worked;)
That's called the #INTERNET kids in its infantile stages.
📥 Wasn't long after that we got rid of our phones since the advent of #email; since emails were #encrypted but phone calls were not (aka phone taps = Recordings)?? Not to mention #location_tracking by #GPS SENSOR in your Phone.
✝️ #TRUTH?? Secured email (communications) replace DUMPHONES back in 1999. Today #Dumphones are #dedicated #Tracking_Devices using APPs from #APP Surveillance #Stores #masquerading as #TRACKING_BEACONS.
👹 CENTRALIZED Social Networking aka AMERICAN ONLINE BIGTECH Prison Boxes are simply Unsuspecting ADVERTISING BOXES to LURE, CORRAL and CAPTURED YOU into A #MOUSE_TRAP>> Just like the #JEWS and #PAGAN_GOV did to HAWAIIANS. Proof the JEWS and Pagan.gov with Grade 8 educations cannot even think outside a BOX!??
🚑 🔥 🚑 🔥 THEY CORRALLED and Murdered ALL NATIVE HAWAIIANS AREAS AND BURNED THEM ALIVE.. SOME TRAPPED and burned their CARS.. while others jumped over the side of the road into the water to escape the flames???
🐊 #LEARN Online #Debian based OR #Ubuntu based Open Source LINUX Distro #Operating_Systems. The #REAL_WINDOW TO THE REAL WORLD WIDE WEB CALLED THE INTERNET SINCE 1999. LIVES ON LINUX Distro's #NOT_WINDOWS
🐊 and cannot be stopped since WWW has been an INTERNET #Standard for the last 30 years. You all have been in a #FINTECH #AOL_Prison LIKE #GAZA since 1999.
You got caught in a AOL BOX PRISON FOR THE LAST 2 DECADES CALLED #SOCIAL_NETWORKS.
Just another #Version of #AMERICA_ONLINE = bigtech AND APP ADDICTION now been Weaponized aka SURVEILLANCE by #Jew_Terrorists and #Roman_Pagan.gov to not only steal your livelihoods..??
✝️ ..but also your #FREEDOMS, #PROTECTION OF PERSONS, #PRIVACY AS WELL!?? and they will 🩸 #Murder you if you #do_not take a #knee 🧎 🧎♂️ to 👹 #satanism by a #CONVICTED_FELON of 34 #Sexual_Immoral Related #Felonies?
👹 🐍 💩 ..that has been CONCEALED by (JEWS, KKK, NAZI'S PAGAN.GOV, CENTRALIZED BANKS, SOCIAL NETWORKS, BIGTECH, SUCH AS #GOOGLE, #MICROSOFT, #AMAZON, #APPLE, #META, #FACEBOOK, #INSTAGRAM, #TWITTER AND #YOUTUBE =
ALL Centralized #Social_Networking and CENTRALIZED #APP_STORES. are #ILLEGAL #Surveillance_Tracking_Beacon_Hubs for further 🛰️ 📡 Triangulation #GPS connections.
🎯 YOU HAVE BEEN CAPTURED IN ANOTHER #AOL_BOX SINCE 1999 VIA YOUR DUMB PHONES. (a Glorified FAKE Camera, a dedicated tracking device in your pocket that costs $1000’s to purchase and $100’s in monthly expenses to maintain??)
YOU ARE 🤣 #PAYING FOR YOUR OWN# ILLEGAL 🛰️ 📡 #SURVEILLANCE??
Part 1/3 See Part 2 & 3.
Digg's short-lived reboot is on pause, and a sizeable proportion of staff is being laid off, but the story isn't over. Founder Kevin Rose sold the company in 2012 but repurchased it, alongside Alexis Ohanian, in 2025, relaunching it in open beta in January 2026 as "the front page of the internet, now with superpowers." However, it was pulled from the app store today, with CEO Justin Mezzell citing the "brutal reality of finding product fit" and an "unprecedented bot problem." What now? Rose will return to Digg full time to figure out next steps. Here's @Sarahp's story for @Techcrunch.
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After very little deliberation, I finally flushed my #LinkedIn account down the toilet. Permanent deletion. Poof! Nearly 500 connections which never helped me with anything after decades of work. You should do it, too. Stop giving your personal info away! #internet #microslop https://www.linkedin.com/help/linkedin/answer/a1379064/closing-your-linkedin-account?lang=en
Das Internet ist zweifellos eine Erfolgsgeschichte. Doch wie und wieso es funktioniert, das wissen die wenigsten. Dabei funktioniert es sehr ähnlich wie die Schweiz. Eine kurze Geschichte des Internets und wieso es so geworden ist, wie es ist.
Und was sich daran noch ändern wird. Und wieso sich viele gute Ideen in den letzten 25-30 Jahren nicht durchgesetzt haben.
Was das #Internet mit Rütlischwur, Telefonfräulein anno 1892, Wegweisern und Föderalismus zu tun hat.
#DNIP
https://dnip.ch/2026/04/27/erfolgsgeschichte-internet-fast-wie-die-schweiz/
*Sigh* I just don't even know what to say these days. This is how tired I am. Absolutely zero energy to reply.
> Hey Robert, have you considered syndicating to Substack? They have this amazing app, and since your website doesn't have an app, but Boomer technology like RSS, that means I have to open up another app to access you. That doesn't make sense to me. I like having everything inside one app. The internet’s full of Nazis so you can't escape them forever, so I don't know why this is a moral thing for you. I’d happily pay for a Substack subscription. Besides, the difference of your website throws me off. Makes it difficult trusting what website I visit because your blog looks nothing like Substack. and you'd have so many more readers and even money coming in! You always talk about how poor you are and if people are giving you money, I don't understand why you care you’re writing alongside Nazis. Your books are on Amazon and Nazis publish on Amazon so how is this different? Can't you just take Substack’s money?
My website is https://sightlessscribbles.com/
Our fights over what technology should look like is what enables it to diffuse and be useful. So to build a better future, we need to study past governance struggles.
A technology's critical junctures, can reveal entire counterfactual worlds and help us envision the steps needed to reach them.
In my newest post I briefly allude to worlds where centralized platforms aren't the lifeblood of the Internet. https://misaligned.markets/gtr-internet-history-governance/
#internet #history #technology #gopher #xmpp #googleAI #google
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There is a lot to like about this talk by Antón Barba-Kay, "The Politics of AI and the Fate of Liberal Democracy", but here's a quote that struck me:
He says this in the context of an argument that, especially in digital/online contexts, neutrality is conflated with truth, reason is identified with data and a quasi-scientific objectivity, and these conflations are damaging to democracy.
#internet #dev #tech #LLM #GenAI #GenerativeAI #democracy #politics
The conviction that technology is neutral is not itself neutral. It paradoxically functions as the conviction that this neutrality is a good thing so as to positively sanction the technological development of more "neutral" tools.
He says this in the context of an argument that, especially in digital/online contexts, neutrality is conflated with truth, reason is identified with data and a quasi-scientific objectivity, and these conflations are damaging to democracy.
#internet #dev #tech #LLM #GenAI #GenerativeAI #democracy #politics
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The funniest thing about the #goose presentation is how completely it misses the whole point of the fable.
In the original story, the goose has been providing a steady stream of golden eggs. But the farmer gets greedy, and decides that if he cuts open the goose, he can get ALL the golden eggs inside the goose at once. But after killing the goose, he finds no eggs inside, and is left with nothing.
This is a story about the financial class, #AI, and the #Internet economy.
Connecting The Meta Privacy Dots
As dangerous as it is, I find it somewhat humorous to watch the reactions to some of the actions Meta is taking to gather up and reprocess what we see and hear. Especially from the always hungry for some new cool tech crowd. On the one hand you can’t blame someone from wanting the next new thing to play with. On the other you also can’t blame tech companies for taking advantage of hobbyists’ hunger.
Every where you turn on the Internet, everyone is posting about Meta changing its Instagram policy so that unless Instagram users opted out, any of their content on that platform was now free for the grabbing by anyone using Meta’s AI tools to create and distribute. You can imagine the possible nasty outcomes of what that would be like. Certainly if you’ve been paying even a smidgen of attention to the goings on with Grok.
It’s also been interesting to watch the small avalanche of users on other social media announcing that they are taking their Instagram accounts private, opting out by flipping the designated switches, or just bailing on Instagram altogether.
Almost parallel to this policy change happening word spread from Joanna Stern, among others, about a trend (and apparent underground business opportunity) of users of Meta’s smart glasses who were disabling the mechanism that displayed the warning light when the camera was recording. Talk about a poke in the eye with a sharp stick.
Meta quickly moved to put the kibosh on that with a software update that disabled the cameras if the warning light was tampered with. (I wonder if it works if you just taped over the camera?)
Privacy focused tech geeks were all over that, praising Meta for moving so swiftly to counter the hack.
But hold on a minute. These stories don’t end there. According to a report from The Financial Times, Meta is testing ‘super sensing’ AI glasses that can record video and audio continuously.
Here’s a quote:
The $1.5tn social media platform has been advancing a new hardware line of smart glasses that would continuously record audio while taking photos every few seconds, according to multiple people familiar with the matter. A user could then use AI to help query what they saw or heard, or recall their day.
And the worm continues to turn:
With Meta’s current AI smart glasses, an LED in the corner of the frame lights up to signal to others when a wearer is taking photographs or filming.
However, executives are currently planning not to activate the LED when the super-sensing features are being used, according to multiple people familiar with the matter. That would make it harder for bystanders to know when they were being recorded, potentially intensifying the privacy concerns surrounding the technology. Those plans could still change, however, several people said.
It’s pretty easy to connect the dots between these two stories. Mark Zuckerberg wants anything and everything he can on you, and he doesn’t care how it’s used once he has his paws on it and his data centers crunching it. The privacy implications are certainly real, even if you don’t use a Meta product but fall within camera or microphone range of someone who does.
We’ve heard all of this before in different contexts. Microsoft caught all kinds of hell for Windows Recall, a feature that continually monitored and recorded what was on your screen. I’m old enough to remember the hue and cry about Google Glasses back in the day.
It’s a bit eerie how those at the time very visceral reactions seem to have softened in this new era of folks rushing to turn over their data to the AI crunchers in order to better plan a party. Should be quite interesting to watch party videos if this prototype Meta is testing ever comes to reality and becomes accepted.
I predict we’re going to keep hearing about this kind of thing again and again as the tech companies keep thirsting after any morsel of data about you, what you do, and where you do it. For their purposes that thirst will never be quenched.
It used to be “their purposes” was simply defined as selling or brokering your data for advertising purposes, because despite all of the grand promises of how this can help users, it’s always been about making a buck hustling your data for advertisting. Add AI into the mix, and it’s also about continuing to feed and train that beast to help them with that same ultimate goal.
Apple is rumored to be working on a version of AirPods Pro that contains cameras, apparently for AI purposes. All the talk you hear about Apple and others creating pendants, pins, other wearables, and counter top robots all follow the track to the same end point regardless of how the user benefits are packaged and hyped. Even if some follow Apple’s announced approach of keeping your data on whatever device is recording your every moment, those that don’t, like Meta, will spoil any potential benefit. Heck, in the long run, that’s type of spoilage is probably going to be a good thing in this era of overreaching.
It’s a damn shame really. Because there are certainly legitimate accessibilty uses for this kind of technology. But I have to say, it sure feels like that’s going to be just another hyped up smokescreen to try and mask the real purposes behind all of this.
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#ai #airpods #Apple #ArtificialIntelligence #cameras #Internet #Meta #privacy #security #Smartglasses #SocialMedia #technology
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OMFG, 🤌 **fantastic** philosophy article and video (about "unicontext"):
"A Philosopher’s One-Word Theory to Explain Why the World Feels So Weird":
https://www.derekthompson.org/p/a-philosophers-one-word-theory-to
#philosophy #culture #SocialMedia #internet
Talks about the cultural shift from "bottom-up" style vs. "top-down" style, of where to place our attention in our day-to-day lives. Also how everything got more and more abstract, as our culture became more metropolitan. All our heavy internet usage is just a continuation of this trend. @autistics
〈When did internet comments get so mean?〉
Even voorstellen. Ik ben een gepensioneerd elektrotechnisch ingenieur met passie voor #internet, #muziek (ben ook niet onverdienstelijk #gitarist, al zeg ik het zelf), #wandelen, #reizen en de ontwikkelingen in de wereld.
Ben eigenlijk politiek neutraal, dat wil zeggen dat ik per onderwerp wel bepaal hoe ik daarover denk nadat ik daar onderzoek naar heb gedaan.
Ik heb onlangs afscheid genomen van de gevestigde social media omdat het kort gezegd te giftig werd.
Overwinteren, zie hieronder
Chatkontrolle: EU-Länder sind bei Verlängerung einig
Der Verlängerung der Ausnahme für die Chatkontrolle steht nach einer Übereinkunft der EU-Länder nichts mehr im Weg – samt Änderungswünschen des Parlaments.
#Chatkontrolle #Datenschutz #EU #Grundrechte #Internet #Netzpolitik #Überwachung #news
