Mastodawn

The data broker industry must be destroyed: https://www.theverge.com/news/897145/kash-patel-ron-wyden-fbi-location-data-no-warrant

The FBI is buying Americans’ location data

In a hearing before the Senate Intelligence Committee, the FBI director admitted that the agency is turning to data brokers to get around warrant requirements.

The Verge

Etoneya 1d ago

deech 1d ago

It's hard to impress upon non-tech people how much we actually despise computers.

Etoneya 1d ago

Computer Facts 1d ago

metaverse wasn't inevitable
ar glasses weren't inevitable
blockchain wasn't inevitable
nfts we'rent inevitable
ai isn't inevitable
nothing is inevitable!!!!
the ultimate hidden truth of the world is that it is something that we make
and could just as easily make differently
make choices
make choices
make choices

Etoneya 5d ago

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Jeff Atwood Mar 15

"land of the free, home of the status quo"

Etoneya 5d ago

Simon Brooke Mar 15

Guess who's behind the sudden rush of age verification legislation?

In the US, #Meta is spending $26.3 Million to hire at least 86 Lobbyists from 40 lobbying firms, and lobbying in at least 45 states. It is confirmed that Meta wrote the Louisiana age verification bill.

In the EU, Meta is spending ten million euros annually on lobbying, retaining 18 lobbying firms.

Edit: this article is based on LLM generated material, and I haven't spent the time to check its sources

https://tboteproject.com/

Age Verification Lobbying: Dark Money, Model Legislation & Institutional Capture

Investigative research into age verification lobbying, dark money, and model legislation

The TBOTE Project

Etoneya 5d ago

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GrapheneOS 6d ago

Unified Attestation will permit using products from the companies involved in it while forbidding using arbitrary alternatives. They clearly aren't going to enforce reasonable security standards since their products wouldn't meet those. The whole purpose of the system is to permit their products regardless of merit and convince banking/government apps to adopt it.

There's nothing neutral or fair about a system controlled by companies approving their own products while disallowing other options.

Etoneya Mar 15

Ashe Dryden 🙆🏼‍♀️🐈🐈‍⬛Mar 15

Tired. Time to break out the good stuff.

If instance admins allow AI Agents on their platform and they keep harassing us I have no other choice then to silence that instance

Again, I do not pay these massive costs each month to host robots

Let's keep the #Fediverse human shall we?

#AI #LLM

Etoneya Mar 14

DrWhax Mar 13

"End-to-end encrypted messaging on Instagram will no longer be supported after 8 May 2026."

https://help.instagram.com/491565145294150

Help Center

End-to-end encryption adds extra security and protection to your messages and calls in a chat so that only you and whoever you're talking to can see, hear or read them.