Startalk: A Scientist's View of War

"Make it shitty": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ii-D9LaitUw

#Spyware makers sentenced to prison in #Greece for #wiretapping politicians and journalists
So... someone scraped the whole spotify database containing the catalog and audio files. Let's see how long will it take for someone else to create a #pirated free #spotify alternative š¤

We backed up Spotify (metadata and music files). Itās distributed in bulk torrents (~300TB). Itās the worldās first āpreservation archiveā for music which is fully open (meaning it can easily be mirrored by anyone with enough disk space), with 86 million music files, representing around 99.6% of listens.
#plannedObsolence with Windows 10? Switch to #Linux. It's #opensource, forever free and reliable for everyday use.
https://opensource.org/blog/end-of-10-the-open-source-alternative-to-forced-obsolescence
š£ Germany's close to reversing its opposition to mass surveillance & private message scanning, & backing the Chat Control bill. This could end private comms-& Signal-in the EU.
Time's short and they're counting on obscurity: please let German politicians know how horrifying their reversal would be.
#Consumerism is the Perfection of #Slavery - Prof Jiang Xueqin
āThe free, open access communications paradigm we have did not arrive like magic. It was the product of a fair amount of political wranglingā - that's why we must continue our fight for the web.
š @WashPost for reviewing 'This Is for Everyone'
š£ NEW -- In The Economist, discussing the privacy perils of AI agents and what AI companies and operating systems need to do--NOW--to protect Signal and much else!