Leute, das muss einfach raus:
#DigitaleSouveränität ist eine Frage der #Bildung und #Medienkompetenz, keine technische. Es geht hier eher um Entscheidungen, #Politik und (Aus-)Bildung als um #Technik und Features. Konzernprodukte von fragwürdigen Akteuren gut zu finden (#Apple, #Microsoft, #Meta, #Alphabet, #TwitterX), heißt nur: #nixverstanden. Wer illegale, milliardenschwere, mit Steuer/Militär$ entwickelte Produkte mit Hobbyprodukten der #Opensourcewelt vergleicht, hat nix kapiert. Aufbruch!
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Valve doesn’t let Dbrand’s coolest Steam Machine accessory leave the testing facility
Dbrand announced that users who ordered the Companion Cube skin for the Steam Machine will not, in fact, find companionship after the “skin” was removed from its website.
https://9to5google.com/2026/06/29/valve-shuts-down-dbrand-steam-machine-skin/
#Tech #Technology #TechNews #AI #Gadgets #Software #Cybersecurity #Apple #Google #Microsoft #Startup #OpenSource #9to5Google [9to5Google]
I just got this bill from #microsoft for #github usage. See if you can spot what is ridiculous about this bill.
https://deadeclipse666.blogspot.com/2026/03/
Yeah, well, presumably Microsoft corporation or someone who works at it is the one who did that to you, not all users of affected Microsoft products. So shut the fuck up.
I fucking hate people who punish or blame innocents in their blind rage.
#ethics #cybersecurity #responsibledisclosure #NightmareEclipse #Microsoft #Windows
Meta Pulls AI Image Feature From Instagram Days After Launch
Remember that new feature Meta announced last week that let people use public Instagram posts and reels to generate AI content? It didn't last long. Meta pulled the feature from Instagram late on Friday, following wides…
https://www.macrumors.com/2026/07/13/meta-pulls-ai-image-feature-from-instagram/
#Tech #Technology #TechNews #AI #Gadgets #Software #Cybersecurity #Apple #Google #Microsoft #Startup #OpenSource #MacRumors [MacRumors]
Ok I am truly sorry to be that guy. BUT:
Can we PLEASE, leave the "#AI improves #accessibility" talks to people who actually benefit from #accessibility?
I see SO MANY articles, On LinkedIn, on Slack, on Medium, about how AI improves #accessibility metrics, compliance, automates all the things.
Newsflash: your metrics are likely incomplete or inconclusive, compliance is at best an illusory snapshot, and automation for #accessibility is still a pipe dream, and that's coming from someone who actually uses these tools OUTSIDE a presentation room.
I don't care if you're #microsoft, #salesforce or whichever other big name that makes you feel authoritative. You're wrong, sorry to say.
Want ACTUAL stories from ACTUAL people using #AI to improve #accessibility? Hire me and I'll talk your ear off. That's been me for months now.
Don't want to, right before #GAAD? Welp ... that tells its own story then, doesn't it?
I tested all three OpenVPN tiers: Why the free version is still the best choice for most users
OpenVPN offers three modes of deployment with varied pricing based on the same underlying protocol. Here are the pros, cons, and costs associated with each.
#Tech #Technology #TechNews #AI #Gadgets #Software #Cybersecurity #Apple #Google #Microsoft #Startup #OpenSource #ZDNet [ZDNet]
Why I'm using wired Android Auto when all the cool kids are switching to wireless
Sometimes, you have to dial back the tech to make ends meet.
#Tech #Technology #TechNews #AI #Gadgets #Software #Cybersecurity #Apple #Google #Microsoft #Startup #OpenSource #ZDNet [ZDNet]
Microsoft hates Doom, creates doom.
#computer #games #gaming #id #IdSoftware #IdTech #Microsoft #XBOX #Doom #Quake
#computer #games #gaming #id #IdSoftware #IdTech #Microsoft #XBOX #Doom #Quake
“#Windows est un logiciel de #surveillance” : un identifiant caché piste 1,4 milliard de PC, même sous #VPN, la preuve vient de tomber
"Chaque PC sous Windows embarque un identifiant unique, invisible, que #Microsoft peut relier à votre activité en ligne. Un VPN n'y change rien. Aucun réglage ne permet de le désactiver. C'est un document judiciaire américain, rendu public cette semaine dans une affaire de cybercriminalité, qui en révèle l'existence et la portée. 1,4 milliard de machines sont concernées."
Claude can now use your 1Password credentials for you
1Password has launched a new browser integration for Claude that allows the Anthropic chatbot to access stored security credentials like usernames and passwords. The 1Password for Claude feature means that users can aut…
https://www.theverge.com/tech/966442/1password-anthropic-claude-browser-integration
#Tech #Technology #TechNews #AI #Gadgets #Software #Cybersecurity #Apple #Google #Microsoft #Startup #OpenSource #TheVerge [The Verge]
A lot of people are moving away from Big Tech. Many more would like to do so, but they do not know that it is really easy to do so and that there are good options.
You do, given that you are here. Maybe time to help your friends?
Some good options, that I use myself :
OS : Linux.
Browser : Vivaldi.
Mail client : Vivaldi.
Calendar client : Vivaldi.
Mail Service : Proton, FastMail.
Social : Mastodon & Fediverse in general.
Office package : Libre Office.
Video conference : Whereby.
Feel free to suggest more options and share with your friends!
#Linux #BigTech #Microsoft #Apple #Google #Alternative #EU #Europa #Vivaldi #Browser #Mail #Calendar
Microsoft loses Brazilian court case after telling hacked Xbox user to re-purchase games — tech giant ordered to restore Xbox account with all games and pay $400 in damages
A Brazilian gamer who lost his Microsoft account and all his digital games has won a court order requiring the company to return them.
#Tech #Technology #TechNews #AI #Gadgets #Software #Cybersecurity #Apple #Google #Microsoft #Startup #OpenSource #TomsHardware [Tom's Hardware]
Woke up this morning to discover that, after an update, Microsoft no longer trusts me to edit my own files and folders on my own external hard drive. I was trying to update a portable application and the usual warning popped up that was asking me, was I sure I wanted to paste these files? And I better do it with administrative rights, even though I am the fucking administrator of this Gods damn PC, so I hit continue with administrative right. You do not have permission to edit these files. I am the fucking administrator, you dolts. I am not a casual user, endless screaming. Gods, I wish #Linux was... just better at screen reader accessibility overall, but just... *sigh* I am gonna be one of those seniors that movies love to mock where they know nothing of technology because I'll just stop doing new tech things. #Microsoft
《The complaint quotes a Microsoft representative describing the GDID as “a persistent, device-level identifier designed to uniquely identify an installation of a Windows operating system on a device, either a physical device (e.g., a mobile phone or laptop) or virtual machine, across certain Microsoft services and scenarios.”》
《Microsoft only told the public about it once a court forced the issue.》
Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, children of all ages, it's all true!
It's now basically inevitable that we'll have AGI superintelligence by the end of 2024.
And there's a 10% chance this AGI superintelligence, which will basically be LLM software running on physical hardware that fills a massive data centre with the energy and water use of a small European country, will cause humans to go extinct by 2030.
And by extinct, I don't mean as a result of climate change from the fossil fuel air pollution we're using to fuel it. Please don't think about that stuff!
No, I mean by, erm... Things like hacking the power grid and such... Which would also presumably cause it to cease existing... Which wouldn't exactly be superintelligent.
But... y'know... details!
How will we ever stop it?!
I mean, it's not like we live in a world where less intelligent creatures and even inanimate objects kill off more intelligent creatures every day.
It's not like we live in a world where virii and microbes and bricks can kill off more intelligent creatures.
Brains beat brawn every time!
Put a statistician in a fight with an MMA champion and clearly the maths professor is going to win, right?
And if that doesn't sound true when it's phrased like that, then you need to just shush for a moment and pretend that it does.
And if one of our LLMs in a massive hyperscale AI data centre somehow magically became sentient, it's not like we could just shut off the water. Or the electricity. Or stop delivering massive quantities of gas and oil to the onsite gas turbines.
Or just find the nearest Telstra pit and put a bloody shovel through the fibre optic cables that connect it to the outside world.
So we need to immediately figure out ways to stop this happening!
What's that?
You say we could prevent this happening by just not building the massive AI data centres?
You say we could tax the rich so they don't have the money to build massive AI data centres?
No! We absolutely must not do that under any circumstances!
See, our position is really quite straightforward.
We're claiming our product poses an existential risk to humanity that justifies urgent action to mitigate the risk, but also simultaneously we don't want you to think it /genuinely/ poses an existential risk to humanity that /actually/ justifies urgent action that would be guaranteed mitigate the risk, such as not building massive AI data centres, or by not providing access to the ginormous quantities of water and land and energy and capital that our product which is causing this supposed threat depends on.
So why say it?
Mostly, because if we say things like: "We can make a product that could make massive monopolistic short-term profits in a few years, but there's a 10% chance it kills everyone alive, give us money to build it," then the Silicon Valley VCs and Wall Street bankers will throw literal billions our way.
Whereas if we were to say: "We can make a product that solves a genuine problem and we have a sustainable business model for it that will deliver stable long-term returns," then they won't.
Because under American capitalism, "a chance it kills every person" is seen to be a worthwhile risk to take in exchange for short-term profits.
I really hope that clarifies our argument.
#AI #LLM #DataCenter #DataCentre #GenAI #tech #Anthropic #OpenAI #Google #Microsoft #Gemini #Copilot #Claude #AGI #capitalism #aimarketing #BigTech #tech
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OK now what? Any reasonable legal regime dictates that an enterprise built on a theft should not be permitted to retain the fruits of that theft. Have we really entered a fully lawless era in the world of business?
#AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #LLM #OpenAI #Microsoft #web #IP #labor #theft
Executives working on AI at Microsoft and OpenAI admitted what its critics have been saying all along: Large language models are predatory pieces of technology that have been built on what a Microsoft executive called “an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions,” and the “largest theft of labor in human history.” An internal Microsoft document said generative AI products have created a “doom loop” that is killing “the entire web.”Nice reporting from @jasonkoebler https://www.404media.co/doom-loop-openai-and-microsoft-admits-llms-are-destroying-the-web-and-built-on-theft/
#AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #LLM #OpenAI #Microsoft #web #IP #labor #theft
Mural seen in San Francisco, California.
#bigtech #AI #Google #degoogle #oracle #microsoft #apple #Techbros #fascism #politics #streetart #graffiti #neoliberalisme #technology #Capitalism #Capitalisme #technofeudalism #technofascism
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Hello. Have you made a #capitalist uncomfortable?
Welcome to being a #terrorist in #America. A mom made a website tracking money flowing to the armed thugs shooting people. To #DHS, that is “anarchist extremism”, according to a secret intelligence bulletin DHS sent to local and federal law enforcement in February, targeting Berlin’s website. The nationwide alert was issued by the #Philadelphia PD; make it make sense.
DHS used the same alert for Berlin’s website as for domestic terrorists. In the past, DHS has used code HSEC SIN 8, (Homeland Security Standing Information Need 8) to flag information on ISIS beheading videos and pipe bombs in cities.
Edit: editing.
#ice #dhs #fascism #citizensbank #GEOGroup #CoreCivic #ATT, #Comcast, #Dell, #Deloitte, #FedEx, #Motorola #Palantir #openai #microsoft #anthropic #ManagementandTrainingCorp
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So, not a surprise that Apple is renaming Lake Ontario to appease the child rapist that occupies the White House.
If you're stuck using an iPhone or other Apple device you don't have to use Apple Maps or their services. For maps download a privacy respecting, open source map app like Organic Maps.
Pull your data out of iCloud and use a service like Proton which offers a package that includes email, cloud storage, documents, Password manager, VPN, etc.
Boycott #Apple #Google #Meta #Amazon #Microsoft and any other #US #Tech that supports fascism.
No one forces you to use or pay for their services. Move your data. Boycott them.
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/organic-maps-offline-maps-gps/id1567437057
I stopped using #Google and any other #bigtech products a long, long time ago (2015-ish? maybe earlier). It's time for everyone else to move away too, and this includes #Apple, Microslop (#Microsoft), #Meta, #Amazon and many others.
ONLY use #openSource products:
- use #linux
- use degoogled Android ROMs like @GrapheneOS, and many others for any Android phone
- use @fdroidorg as your store
- use #OpenStreetMap clients (like @organicmaps)
- music: @powerampache
Reply here or DM me for guidance
#Microsoft/TracerAI withdraws copyright takedown against #Luanti
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RE: https://tldr.nettime.org/@remixtures/117343043005349161
i want people to give the government of #Brazil their flowers for their brawl with Microsoft back in 2005.
they predicted exactly this mess with the #ICC. they didn't even talk about “digital” #sovereignty. they went to the heart of the matter: dependency on foreign companies to run their government was a threat to their political sovereignty and national security.
that whole #Brasil vs #Microsoft radicalized me as a #FLOSS user and advocate.
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Anyone have seen an error "451 4.7.500 Server busy" from Microsoft mail server this morning (8 to 12 UTC+2) ?
Quelqu'un a vu des erreurs "451 4.7.500 Server busy" depuis les serveurs mail microsoft ce matin ?
#sysadmin #mail #microsoft
Quelqu'un a vu des erreurs "451 4.7.500 Server busy" depuis les serveurs mail microsoft ce matin ?
#sysadmin #mail #microsoft