Mastodawn

The goal is to make corporate data less profitable.

Even stuff as simple as setting your birthdate to 1970-01-01 everywhere, adding [TEST] or [DELETED] as your name or account notes anywhere you don't need them to know your name.

Using plugins like AdNauseam to poison ad trackers (and cost them marketing dollars).

Using VPNs set to different locations.

Signing into data broker sites to "correct" outdated info (they'll often let you do that with little-to-no proof of identity, but will require your passport or state ID in order to delete your info). Bonus points if you correct it to someone else's info on their site that's similar to yours.

Only fill in required fields when you sign up for anything, but only provide correct info if it matters for you to use the service, otherwise provide plausible, but incorrect, data.

If you use LLMs anywhere, use the free tier and always vote thumbs up for bad answers and down for good ones. It wastes their resources and drives up their costs while making their training data worse.

AidanOnLearning Mar 9

Rik Viergever Mar 7

Read below 👇 why you should start using LibreSpeed from now on for internet speed tests

"Speedtest and Downdetector were just sold to Accenture for $1.2 billion. (...) Ookla, the parent company of both tools, has been acquired by the global IT consulting giant Accenture (...).

The open source alternative: LibreSpeed. No tracking scripts, no GPS harvesting, no profile building, no ads and no data sold to anyone."

https://librespeed.org/

https://www.reddit.com/r/xprivo/comments/1rmalpy/news_librespeed_opensource_alternative_made_in/

#FOSS #opensource

LibreSpeed - Free and Open Source Speedtest

Free and Open Source Speedtest. Run it right now in your browser, or self-host on a PHP, Golang, Rust or Node server. License: LGPL.

AidanOnLearning Feb 22

Vee Feb 22

Air guitar

AidanOnLearning Feb 6

Emeritus Prof Christopher May Feb 6

For those of you looking for something to watch, I can recommend the Australian comedy series Fisk.

There are three series & like all great series the focus is pretty tight on an ensemble to actor-comedians delivering more laughs that you would expect from a sitcom about a probate lawyer... but actually its laugh-out-loud comedy...

If you liked Colin from Accounts or Bump, then this will be for you.

#TV #Australia #comedy

https://www.netflix.com/title/81675379

Watch Fisk | Netflix

Family feuds. Money squabbles. Wobbly furniture. A no-nonsense lawyer joins a low-rent wills and probate firm after her marriage and career implode.

AidanOnLearning Jan 24

ploum Jan 22

Why there’s no European Google?
And why it is a good thing!

My answer to the European Commission "call for evidence on Open Source."

https://ploum.net/2026-01-22-why-no-european-google.html

#geminiprotocol link: gemini://ploum.net/2026-01-22-why-no-european-google.gmi

Why there’s no European Google?

Why there’s no European Google? par Ploum - Lionel Dricot.

AidanOnLearning Jan 23

Queeróg (siad/iad/comrádaí) 🍉Jan 23

Hahahaha, nach berk ollmhór é

#mastodaoine #amadán

AidanOnLearning Jan 13

Paul Kirschner Jan 13

There’s a crucial difference between using AI to support thinking and using it to substitute for thinking. Offloading supports cognition. Outsourcing replaces it.

https://www.kirschnered.nl/2026/01/13/understanding-ai-offloading-or-outsourcing-thinking/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=jetpack_social

AidanOnLearning Jan 2