A political appeal by a democratically minded European based on the dramatically changing situation and its consequences in the field of technology and IT:

Guys, if for whatever reason you are still working with Windows (or Apple, Google...), I can only urge you to take the current circumstances as a reason to switch to Linux and free software! Never has such a switch been more appropriate and important!

The end of Windows 10, Microsoft's coercion towards MS accounts and cloud compulsion, all the advertising spam from MS within Windows 11, the artificial hardware requirements for it, the AI compulsion in Windows, the data exploitation including data sales and telemetry behavior, the integrated spyware, and so many other negative and bad things!

And on top of that, there are the current political developments in the fascist states of America. Uneducated idiot, fascist, anti-democrat and narcissist with a severe minority complex – and best friend of child molester Epstein – Trump is turning the country into a fascist dictatorship, and the big American tech companies are bowing to the convicted criminal, most recently Tim Apple– ready to hand over all the data he demands and install surveillance tools, and not even stopping at Europe and Europeans.

Trump's hatred of Europe is well known, as is his admiration for war criminal and mass murderer Putin. Who knows what other brown crap will spill over the Atlantic to us.

That's why, dear people, and especially those outside the US (unfortunately, we can't help the good and decent people there, but they elected the brown problem in the White House themselves): Linux and free software now!

Auf Whatsapp wurde ein 'erweiterter Chat-Datenschutz' implementiert. Ein Kettenbrief warnt vor 'automatischem Zugriff' auf private Chatinhalte durch MetaAI.
Laut Minikama soll MetaAI nur auf Inhalte zugreifen, wenn Beteiligte im jeweiligen Chat die KI aktiv nutzen.

Echt jetzt? - Tut mir leid. Ich glaube es nicht. Selbst mit eingeschaltetem Chat-Datenschutz und dem Hinweis, dass 'MetaAI in diesem Chat nicht erwähnt werden kann' glaube ich Meta nicht.

(Nutze v.a. Signal!)

¿Algo que nunca pedí, ni deseé ni necesité pero que los monopolios tecnológicos #bigtech dicen que necesito y buscan imponerme como sea?

La IA.

Has the #Threads interpolation deal made the #Fediverse better or worse?

**not shocking face**

"A federal jury found on Friday that Meta violated the California Invasion of Privacy Act, the state's wiretap law, by collecting data from a period-tracker app without user consent.

Plaintiffs in a class-action case proved by a preponderance of evidence that Meta intentionally eavesdropped on and/or recorded conversations using an electronic device, said a verdict form released yesterday in US District Court for the Northern District of California. Plaintiffs also proved that they had a reasonable expectation of privacy and that Meta did not have consent from all parties to eavesdrop on and/or record the conversations, the jury found."

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/08/jury-finds-meta-broke-wiretap-law-by-collecting-data-from-period-tracker-app/

Metan omistama Threads tuplasi käyttäjämääränsä vuodessa

Threadsilla on nykyisin yli 400 miljoonaa kuukausittaista aktiivista käyttäjää

https://dawn.fi/uutiset/2025/08/13/threads-400-miljoonaa-kayttajaa-kuukaudessa

#Btrfs le ha ahorrado a #Meta miles de millones de dólares en costes

#Linux #file #system (vs #ext4 )

https://www.muylinux.com/2025/08/12/btrfs-infraestructura-meta-facebook/

Instagram prepara ‘Picks’, a função que vai mostrar quem partilha os seus gostos
 https://tugatech.com.pt/t70601-instagram-prepara-picks-a-funcao-que-vai-mostrar-quem-partilha-os-seus-gostos

Why did #Meta go in $14.3 billion on Scale AI? They're betting on data labelling. AI training sets can be incomplete, inaccurate, or offensive, so it's up to humans to fine-tune the models.

“We found a huge gap between what the human experts mentioned in an image, and what the machine learning model could recognize."

To train an expert AI, we still need human expertise. https://spectrum.ieee.org/data-labeling-scale-ai-agents?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Mastodon-Daily-Pipeline

https://www.europesays.com/fr/316761/ Les autorités serrent la vis et limitent les appels via WhatsApp et Telegram #Actualité #Actualités #Censure #Facebook #FédérationDeRussie #GuerreEnUkraine #Instagram #Kremlin #Meta #Monde #News #Russia #RussianFederation #Russie #Telegram #VladimirPoutine #WhatsApp #YouTube

Per quanto riguarda la protezione da #Meta-Threads su #MastodonUno, è stato attivato a titolo precauzionale un silenziamento: su tutti gli account comparirà quindi un avviso/avvertimento che meta è considerata a rischio.
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Lasciamo libere le persone di scegliere se seguire gli account o bloccare l'istanza.

Bloccare l’istanza dal punto di vista della privacy è però praticamente inutile: Meta conosce comunque tutto ciò che scriviamo e continua a scaricare i nostri contenuti!

Segui su: @fediverso

Es ist #schulanfang .
Auf dem Kuketzblog gibt es eine Argumentationshilfe für Elternabende gegen #whatsapp für Alternativen wie #signal.

Nutzt das gegen den digitalen Gruppenzwang!

https://www.kuketz-blog.de/argumentationshilfe-fuer-elternabende-warum-whatsapp-in-kita-und-schule-keine-gute-wahl-ist/

@kuketzblog @signalapp
#Fedieltern #schule #FediLZ #Einschulung #datenschutz #messenger #MetaAI #facebook #meta #psa