Eruption on Mount Etna (Sicily) giving the illusion of a Phoenix in the sky.

#Photography

You just know you're doing something right when #Meta 's data protection officer talks about your ‘power’ and how she wants the #EU to ban you from doing your work.🤡

Want to help us become even more ‘powerful‘? Click here to find out how: https://noyb.eu/en/support-us

Source: https://www.mlex.com/mlex/artificial-intelligence/articles/2339824/noyb-seeks-cease-and-desist-order-against-meta-s-ai-training-in-europe

Original Art: https://www.pixiv.net/en/artworks/55975367

#Meta Skips Consent, Breaches #GDPR with EU Data AI Training. 📊🚫

#DataProtectionMatters #MakePrivacyReality

So why is Microsoft insisting on pushing out a feature it is very clear users just do not want? What is the point of it? It just does not make any sense. Recall makes no sense. It is one of rather many functions that Microsoft wants to force people into using.

Personally I also do not want Copilot on my computer and the idea that there can be a key on my keyboard that I can press that will enable by mistake it is not what I would think most people want.

I believe that there should be a very clear line between what is on your computer and what is in the cloud. Forcing people to log into a Microsoft online account to use their computer is crazy. Having people mistakenly enabling OneDrive is another disaster.

I guess this is all a great opportunity for Linux.

#Microsoft #Spyware #Recall #Windows #Linux #Computer

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cj3xjrj7v78o

The lastest release of Privacy Guides is now live!

One of the biggest changes are the following:

* We added SecureBlue, a hardened linux distribution based on Fedora Silverblue.

* The removal of Canary mail, as we do not like their latest shift towards AI inclusion into their application.

* And last but least, we now recommend social networks with our first recommendation being #Mastodon !

Thank you to all contributers!

You can read all other changes here: https://discuss.privacyguides.net/t/2025-04-15/26713

I am pleased to announce that the new version is now live!

Headlining additions are:

The new health and fitness section, containing things like fitness trackers and apps for reproductive health by @kevpham: https://www.privacyguides.org/en/health-and-wellness/

The new Maps and Navigation section, helping you find your way in meat space as well, by @eylenburg:
https://www.privacyguides.org/en/maps/

Unlike most others, we have made certain choices at Vivaldi that IMHO are important in this time and age. We believe the choices were important when we made them, but even more so today.

Our servers are in Iceland and they are our servers and not some cloud servers. We use them for all Vivaldi services, including things like Sync, Blogs, Forums and Vivaldi Social.

Electricity in Iceland is green. Most all of the power in use is hydro, with a little bit of geo thermal.

We do make use of CDNs for speed, etc., of course.

#Vivaldi #GlobalWarming #EU #Europa #Iceland #Browser #Politics

#Firefox going full steam into dark patterns.

I had disabled their pushed Pocket stories on the home/new-tab page. So to force them at me, they now pushed out a new section “Thought provoking stories” or some bullshit, which are all just ads. Meaning clickbait headlines linked to sites that say “start a trial subscription for free!”

Next week, “Return of Though Provocations” that I again have to manually disable, I bet.