Do you know a payment service that collects donations, tips, and monthly subscriptions that does NOT rely (only) on either PayPal or Stripe?

#AskFedi

The man who wrote "Don't be evil" said he chose it specifically so it would be hard to remove. Paul Buchheit, the engineer who later built Gmail, suggested the phrase at a Google corporate values meeting on July 19, 2001.

Then in early 2018, internal documents leaked showing that Google had signed a Pentagon contract to build AI to analyze drone footage. By April, over 3,000 Google employees had signed a letter to Sundar Pichai demanding the contract be cancelled.

The letter specifically cited "Don't be evil" as the standard the company was failing to meet. Dozens of engineers resigned in protest.

Sometime between late April and early May, the slogan disappeared from the code of conduct's preface.

#Google #AI #Tech

Google just blindly trusts any poster on Reddit
(not a joke).

https://opus.ing/p/google-ai-really-confused-about-fish-days-week

Signal is developing a standalone desktop app without requiring a smartphone for setup or use, based on recent open-source code changes. 🖥️
The update adds more desktop controls while keeping end-to-end encryption, improving device independence with a privacy-first design. 🔐

@signalapp

🔗 https://aboutsignal.com/news/signal-desktop-without-a-mobile-phone-standalone-version-in-development/

#TechNews #Signal #Messaging #Privacy #E2EE #Encryption #EndToEndEncryption #OpenSource #FOSS #Cybersecurity #Security #Data #Internet #Freedom #Software #Tech #Communication

BREAKING: Signal, the #1 privacy protecting messaging app many of us rely on, is saying they will pull out of 🇨🇦 ENTIRELY if they're scoped into #BillC22 without large changes.

This should be our final alarm bell: we can have digital privacy or we can have legislation this broad and broken, not both!

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/article-signal-warns-it-would-pull-out-of-canada-if-made-to-comply-with-lawful/

Trump's Net approval has declined in every state since he returned to office in January 2025.

The steepest drops are in Republican-leaning states.

Several battlegrounds, including Florida, Ohio and Nevada, have shifted into net disapproval.

Early pro‑Trump advantages have narrowed sharply,
even in his strongest states.

The movement is most politically significant in battleground states, where relatively small changes can have outsized consequences.

Several have crossed key lines:
🔸Florida: +9 → -12 (positive to negative)
🔸Ohio: +8 → -11 (positive to negative)
🔸Nevada: 0 → -20 (from even to clearly underwater)
🔸Nebraska: +18 → -4 (positive to negative)

Elsewhere, states like Pennsylvania and North Carolina remain competitive but show further slippage compared to the start of the term.
https://www.newsweek.com/map-donald-trump-approval-rating-crash-states-11998580

At the watering hole...

#Caturday #CatsOfMastodon

No, in case you wonder, we haven't changed our minds.

#AI #browser #technology #Google