Trust Us: The Algorithm Is Confusing by Design

New episode: Dr. Suresh Venkatasubramanian talks about how intentionally opaque algorithms shape the future of democracy—and why it is time to demand accountability.

🎙️ Listen here: https://youtu.be/GQiFnpK7Wyo

#TheInternetIsCrack #AIethics #AlgorithmPower #TechTransparency #AIBillOfRights #Podcast

Rare sight: Tech executive actually admits worrying about "enshittification" 😲 Discord's CTO is openly discussing fears of platform decline while others pretend everything's fine. From game chat to community hub, they're trying to evolve without losing their soul. Refreshingly honest! 🎮 #Discord #TechTransparency

https://slashdot.org/story/25/06/05/2057234/discords-cto-is-just-as-worried-about-enshittification-as-you-are

A Look at AI's Carbon Cost: User Impact vs. Sector Reality

#AI #AICarbonFootprint #AIEnergy #ChatGPT #EnvironmentalImpact #TechTransparency #SustainableAI #AIInfrastructure #DataCenters #GreenTech #AIethics #LLMenergy #xAI #Memphis #AirPollution

https://winbuzzer.com/2025/05/07/a-look-at-ais-carbon-cost-user-impact-vs-sector-reality-xcxwbn/

🚨 Update on My Bluesky Review 🚨
I reached out to Bluesky on April 15th with serious questions about their moderation practices, vague ToS, and reports of graphic content.
As of today — 48 hours later — there’s been no response.

A second follow-up has now been sent. Whether they answer or not will be part of my upcoming review, publishing after Passover.

Accountability matters. Transparency matters. Stay tuned.
— Yossi Schmidt, The Digital FreePress | yossi@thedigitalfreepress.com

#FreeSpeech #Bluesky #TechTransparency #TheDigitalFreePress

Twitch streamers, take note: Over the past week, I ran a series of controlled tests to find out why my streams weren’t getting views or revenue. What I uncovered points to intentional suppression—and Twitch just confirmed it in writing.

https://medium.com/@chanda.mandisa/twitch-is-suppressing-small-streamers-and-profiting-from-it-eca40a39dab0

Please boost if you care about platform transparency.

#Twitch #StreamerSupport #PlatformAccountability #TechTransparency

🕯️ Behind the Code: Why Open Source Matters for Small Business Survival #OpenSource #Cybersecurity #SmallBusinessSecurity #DigitalFreedom #TransparentTech #PrivacyMatters #SecureByDesign #FOSS #InfoSec #SecurityAwareness #DataProtection #ZeroTrust #AuditTheCode #OpenSourceSecurity #TrustButVerify #TechTransparency #MatrixProtocol #Passbolt #Bitwarden #Nextcloud #OpenSourceTools #SecurityFirst #DigitalSovereignty #TechEthics #SecurityForAll

http://tomsitcafe.com/2025/04/11/%f0%9f%95%af%ef%b8%8f-behind-the-code-why-open-source-matters-for-small-business-survival/

Sharing some technical details about how I'm setting up the hosted email service. It will not be a service of BSD Cafe but tied to my own business. It will run entirely on BSD systems and on bare metal, NOT on "cloud" VPS. It will use FreeBSD jails or OpenBSD or NetBSD VMs (but on bhyve, on a leased server - I do not want user data to be stored on disks managed by others). The services (opensmtpd and rspamd, dovecot, redis, mysql, etc.) will run on separate jails/VMs, so compromising one service will NOT put the others at risk. Emails will be stored on encrypted ZFS datasets - so all emails are encrypted at rest - and only dovecot will have access to the mail datasets. I'm also considering the possibility of encrypting individual emails with the user's login password - but I still have to thoroughly test this. The setup will be fully redundant (double mx for SMTP, a domain for external IMAP access that will be managed through smart DNS - which will distribute the connections on the DNS side and, in case of a server down, will stop resolving its IP, sending all the connections to the other. Obviously, everything will be accessible in both ipv4 and ipv6 and in two different European countries, on two different providers. Synchronization will occur through dovecot's native sync (extremely stable and tested). All technical choices will be clearly explained - the goal of this service is to provide maximum transparency to users on how things will be handled.

#BSD #FreeBSD #OpenBSD #NetBSD #emailHosting #encryption #ZFS #dovecot #opensmtpd #rspamd #emailSecurity #techTransparency #ipv6 #Europe

If you're confused about what's happening at #OpenAI, you're not alone.

This article by Karen Hao and Charlie Warzel offers a rundown of events leading to Sam Altman's dismissal from the company.

A lot of decisions are still being made behind closed doors – ironic, given the company's "Open" namesake.

#TechTransparency #ArtificialIntelligence

https://loom.ly/R5P8I8Y

Children as unwitting participants: the urgent need for oversight in tech

Mohammed Umer Waris is a family physician.

https://youtube.com/shorts/JGFRHL1XJes

Listen here: https://kevinmd.com/podcast

#ChildrenNotExperiment #TechOversightNow #MentalHealthMatters #EndTechExperiment #ProtectOurYouth #DigitalWellBeing #SocialMediaReform #ChildSafetyOnline #TechTransparency #PublicHealthPriority