The co-operative values of self-help, self-responsibility, democracy, equality, equity, and solidarity could easily have been used to write the #introduction to the future many envisioned when the World Wide Web went live. Although today we are far removed from this vision, projects like #SocialCoop and the #IndieWeb offer us a way back to an open, people-focused web. I am pleased to be involved.
My entire #FOSDEM journey has been worth it with this one brilliant piece of wisdom from Sage Sharp for newcomers:
Ask "what questions do you have" instead of "do you have any questions".
If you want to know what did Facebook do (now) to provoke the wrath of Apple, this article sums it up pretty good.
tl,dr; Facebook are zero-ethics scum, misleading teenagers into giving them all their data for a few bucks.
https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/30/apple-bans-facebook-vpn/
Interestingly, TechCrunch claims that Facebook aren't the only ones playing dirty this way, with Google being similarly caught red-handed.
Pink Floyd's David Gilmour is parting with his considerable guitar collection (some of his guitars are art pieces which belong in music history museums, like Leo Fender guitar #001). He hopes the collected money will help palliate urgent problems around the world.
At the same time, this has the melancholic vibe of someone making arrangements for when these guitars won't have someone to play them anymore.
Google’s also peddling a data collector through Apple’s back door
https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/30/googles-also-peddling-a-data-collector-through-apples-back-door/
Almost as if… they’re both surveillance capitalists acting exactly as you would expect surveillance capitalists to act.
Via @laura
Does your school give the data of your children to a random cloud provider in another country? Or does it what the capital of Switzerland does for its 35.000 students, keeping their data safe and secure in their own #nextcloud?
Today is the day by which the UK’s fat cat CEOs have already earned more than the average worker will earn all year: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/jan/04/uk-ceos-make-more-in-first-three-days-of-2019-than-workers-annual-salary
Worker Cooperatives Are More Productive Than Normal Companies | The Nation https://www.thenation.com/article/worker-cooperatives-are-more-productive-than-normal-companies/
#worker #workerowned #coop #coops
Google only allowing users to "pause" these data collections seems like a brilliantly devious ploy, to give users the illusion of control, while actually allowing Google to switch it back on whenever they like? I had previously switched off Location History but just found it was switched back on again.
"You say you love your children above all else, and yet you are stealing their future under their very eyes."
"If solutions in the system are so hard to find, then maybe we need to change the system itself."
Stirring speech by Greta Thunberg at #COP24. Full video here https://youtu.be/HzeekxtyFOY
#ExtinctionRebellion
“Powerful technologies, and AI is no different, are neutral in themselves,” [Hassabis] says. “So it depends on society and humanity. How we decide to share the gains is also going to determine whether it is good or bad for the world.”
In other words: AI will fuck us up if we keep developing it under capitalism, so we better get that revolution started.
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2018/dec/11/creative-alphazero-leads-way-chess-computers-science
public authorities "can secretly compel tech companies and individual technologists, including network administrators, sysadmins, and open source developers – to re-engineer software and hardware under their control, so that it can be used to spy on their users. Engineers can be penalized for refusing to comply with fines and prison"... sounds like a nightmare but it is reality in the #UK and #Australia https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/12/new-fight-online-privacy-and-security-australia-falls-what-happens-next #eff #spy #privacy #security
Will European Parliament oppose Authoritarian Censorship? Wednesday 12 December, first step against the European #totalCensorship Regulation. Parliament must refuse to outsource Internet censorship to Google and Facebook.
https://www.laquadrature.net/en/2018/12/10/will-european-parliament-oppose-authoritarian-censorship/
‘Google faces GDPR complaint over ‘deceptive’ location tracking’
https://techcrunch.com/2018/11/27/google-faces-gdpr-complaint-over-deceptive-location-tracking
‘“Google is processing incredibly detailed and extensive personal data without proper legal grounds, and the data has been acquired through manipulation techniques,” said Gro Mette Moen, acting head of the Norwegian Consumer Council’s digital services unit in a statement.’
Also on our forum: https://forum.ind.ie/t/google-faces-gdpr-complaint-over-deceptive-location-tracking/2517
Un hombre no es de donde nace, si no de donde elige morir.
A man is not from where he is born, but from where he chooses to die.
— Orson Welles