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Anyone else going to be attending the #bsides conference in Idaho Falls the 19th and 20th of September? #bsidesidahofalls #idaho #eastidaho #idahostateuniversity #techconf

"Embrace AI or get out"

Welcome to the out club.

@pkw @uberduck

"I guess I'm a luddite"

The Luddites were right though. They weren't against technology, they against the way technology was used to destroy lives.

Any recommendations for #lemmy clients on #android? I've been using #jerboa for awhile and it has served me quite well but I'm interested in some other options. To my knowledge @boostforlemmy is closed source so that is out of the picture. @voyagerapp looks pretty nice.

Delta airlines has announced a new surveillance pricing plan: they're going to feed an AI the nonconsensually harvested personal data that data-brokers and credit bureaux hold on you to predict the maximum you're willing to pay, and then price their tickets accordingly:

https://fortune.com/2025/07/16/delta-moves-toward-eliminating-set-prices-in-favor-of-ai-that-determines-how-much-you-personally-will-pay-for-a-ticket/

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If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2025/07/30/efficiency-washing/#medallion-clubbed

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๐Ÿšจ Microsoftโ€™s Recall is capturing your screen ๐Ÿšจ

Don't let this AI-powered tool fool you as "convenient" ๐Ÿ‘‰ It's invading your PRIVACY.

Turn it off now: https://tuta.com/blog/how-to-disable-microsoft-recall

@cwtch I really would like to have a better understanding of the differences (not so technical, but also pros and cons) of decentralised messaging services, in comparison:
@cwtch
@element
@delta

Do you know if that exists?

I'm on @signalapp , love it, but I realise that another centralised solution might not be the ultimate solution...

And I need to think wisely before bringing all my people to a new platform ๐Ÿ™ƒ

Thank you!

#cwtch #matrix #deltachat #signal

Oh wow, #hamradio to the rescue

Remember that hurricane data that is being cut off by the US government? Guess who figured out how to get the data anyway?

The Register: Radio geeks reveal how to access crucial hurricane data after US Department of Defense cut it off

Hams for the win: Amateur-built decoder taps SSMIS satellite data amid NOAA cutoff

https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/21/ssmis_satellite_decoder

#hurricanes #weather #wx #satellites

Radio geeks reveal how to access crucial hurricane data after US Department of Defense cut it off

: Hams for the win: Amateur-built decoder taps SSMIS satellite data amid NOAA cutoff

The Register