I posted about degoogling yesterday, and ironically today this shows up in the mail.

"pwease can we have your data 👉👈 we will pay for it"

All jokes aside this is insane. I will never need money so badly I voluntarily handover things to Google.

#degoogle #DeGoogling #fuckgoogle #privacy #informationsecurity #dataprivacy

🚨 BREAKING: Microsoft just renamed Office to "Microsoft 365 Copilot app"

All users are now "AI users"

And this will lead to higher prices: https://tuta.com/blog/microsoft-365-price-increase

#Microsoft #Copilot

I was asked by a family member why it was taking so long to paste something large into a new Microsoft Word document on their computer, I sarcastically replied it was because it takes a while to upload it all to the copilot AI nonense first. And then I realized accidentally I might be right...I disabled copilot in Word and it went back to being instant again

So that's cool that Microsoft seems uploading everything you paste into a new Word doc to their servers now.

we've built our global economy on the premise that software has a certain bar of quality, which as it turns out was based only on the goodwill of early enthusiast programmers.

now that the market has caught up and erased the negotiation power software engineers once enjoyed, the world is careening head first into a harsh reality of bug-ridden, adversarial software at odds with everyday life.

free software is still our north star. it's more important than ever.

⚠️ Scam alert: if anyone ever asks you to "temporarily change" the email address on your Mastodon account, DO NOT DO THIS.

There is currently a scammer posing as a server admin telling people to temporarily change their Mastodon account's email to an address supplied by the scammer. This is a scam, don't do it.

Real admins will NEVER ask you to do this.

You can see examples of this scam in the thread at https://ohai.social/@redsad/115708030185038699

(Thanks @markwyner for the warning about this! 🙏 )

#FediTips