It's FOSSLinux can tile windows, run on ancient hardware, and skip forced updates.
Windows? Not so much. 🐧
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Kim Spence-Jones 🇬🇧😷@karmaburrito @pluralistic
But the biggest enshittification of the Internet by far is Government backed: age verification.
Apparently, the biggest sponsor of lobbying for this is… (can’t you guess?) Meta. It’s nothing to do with protecting children, and everything to do with collecting more data about us all.
Let’s regulate the TechBros’ algorithms, not us poor users. Treat the disease, not the symptom.
But the biggest enshittification of the Internet by far is Government backed: age verification.
Apparently, the biggest sponsor of lobbying for this is… (can’t you guess?) Meta. It’s nothing to do with protecting children, and everything to do with collecting more data about us all.
Let’s regulate the TechBros’ algorithms, not us poor users. Treat the disease, not the symptom.
🅰🅻🅸🅲🅴 (🌈🦄)‘Pokémon Go’ players unknowingly trained delivery robots with 30 billion images.
The article closes with:
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So, next time you see someone in a park trying to “catch ‘em all,” it’s quite possible the data gleaned from that scavenger hunt could play a key role in determining whether the pizzas of the future make it to their destinations on time.
"""
Haha, cute. Training pizza delivery robots with crowdsourced data (that players didn't know they were providing)—isn't that quirky.
Until it isn't...
What happens when they start selling that data to governments to help target drone strikes?
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That mapping effort got a significant boost in 2020, when the app added what it called “Field Research,” a feature prompting players to scan real-world statues and landmarks with their cameras in exchange for in-game rewards.
"""
Corporations, dubious ethics, and money always end up in bed together, hate-fucking the 99%.
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Ten years ago, Cambridge Analytica used data from Facebook games to tweak UK and US voters and torque world geopolitics. Today we find out that the company behind Pokémon Go used all your data finding Pikachus to teach autonomous robots how to navigate and take away your jobs. https://www.popsci.com/technology/pokemon-go-delivery-robots-crowdsourcing/
George Takei 
🏳️🌈🖖🏽When the outlook is so poor that you have to crack down on reporting about it, it's a sign you’re in an authoritarian system.
Vee
RE: https://mastodon.social/@ppcland/116239035356638322
Adobe products, while still industry standards, are horrible, bloated apps not worth the extortion fee charged. They started the SaaS craze along with subscriptions that hold creators’ work hostage. They only get worse and still refuse offer standalone apps again.
Between Apple’s recently acquired Pixelmator and Affinity products, I have finally removed Adobe from my life in the same way I eschewed Microslop Orifice in favor of LibreOffice. Fewer subscriptions, better functionality. #software
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Seán Fenian"Online age verification"?
You need to know this.
https://web.archive.org/web/20260313090844/https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/1rshc1f/i_traced_2_billion_in_nonprofit_grants_and_45/
tl,dr: ALL of the online age verification bills being presented in multiple states right now were written by Meta, which spent huge amounts of money to get them before legislatures, and they create a pervasive #surveillance layer within the operating system which allows anything running on your computer to query the age bracket of whoever is using the computer at any time, for any reason.
The original report to r/linux was suppressed by astroturfing, also apparently by Meta, around 40 minutes after it was posted. The Digital Childhood Alliance that supposedly backs these bills doesn't legally exist. It's not registered anywhere and doesn't have an EIN.
ADHDBardMeta Is Turning Its Smart Glasses Into A Mass Surveillance Tool… And You Can’t Stop It
#surveillance
Meta Is Turning Its Smart Glasses Into A Mass Surveillance Tool… And You Can’t Stop It - Yanko Design
If not Palantir, why Palantir-shaped?? Palantir builds spy tech for the CIA, DHS, and ICE. It aggregates data, maps your life, and tells governments who to watch. Meta is building something with the same bones. It's called Name Tag, a facial recognition feature coming to Ray-Ban smart glasses that lets a wearer look at a
JA WestenbergConservatives built an economy that requires two incomes to do what one did and then blamed women for going to work