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Just another average person who wants to escape the tech giants.

Tbh I started to think those branded themselves as "Made in the EU" or "EU Alternatives" are not much different to the US Big Tech. The only difference is, they're not Big Tech NOW. Some of them will in a few years.

The only way to protect yourself is to diversify your data and your service providers, or even start to self-host your services. Time to sacrifice your convinence, learn tech and get your hands dirty.

Replacing real reviewers with AI, then flood these AI-generated content to real review sites like metacritic. This is real bad for consumers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-Vrhzqwr10

Dead Internet Theory Is Real: Resident Evil Requiem Exposed It

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The worst thing about online learning is that everything has become a video. Every code tutorial. Every design tutorial. Nobody actually writes out a guide anymore. It's just "hey guys welcome to my tutorial" and watching 10 minutes of content that isn't remotely relevant...

What kind of app do you mostly use to interact with Mastodon?

Please consider boosting for a larger sample.

#poll #fediverse #mastodon #app #formfactor

Official web app.
24.7%
A mobile app.
68.3%
A cli app.
0.4%
Other, please comment.
6.6%
Poll ended at .

I KNOW somebody in this community can win this money.

“Fulu’s latest bounty is for Ring’s video doorbell cameras, meant to encourage hackers and tinkerers to disable software features that require the devices to send data to Amazon. The reward is a potential payout of $10,000 or more.” https://www.wired.com/story/a-10k-bounty-awaits-anyone-who-can-hack-ring-cameras-to-stop-sharing-data-with-amazon/

A $10K Bounty Awaits Anyone Who Can Hack Ring Cameras to Stop Sharing Data With Amazon

The Fulu Foundation, a nonprofit that pays out bounties for removing user-hostile features, is hunting for a way to keep Ring cameras from sending data to Amazon—without breaking the hardware.

WIRED
Urgent warning to headphone-wearers as scientists discover TOXIC cancer-causing chemicals in 81 popular devices from Bose, Panasonic, Samsung and Sennheiser

Scientists have issued an urgent warning to headphone-wearers as toxic chemicals have been discovered in 81 popular devices.

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Happy New Year everyone! 🎊🎊🎊
#newyear #2026newyear #newyear2026 #fedinewyear
@mailbox_org Can you suggest the most convenient way to access your email service using an Android smartphone? Access your webmail then create a webapp for it? Or using a third-party app like Thunderbird? If the answer is using a third-party app, could you please suggest settings, or you point me to the webpage and I see that myself? Thank you so much!
@admin Is it possible to add Hong Kong?

Oh, I just realized that Discord and Pinterest are not banned...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAzFCwCkAgI

Why Australia Is Banning Social Media for Under-16s

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