საბა @saba@mastodon.sdf.org

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conspiracies are a lie made up by Big Conspiracy to sell books and podcasts

Nod emphatically if you think the ability to physically cut the main power circuit of a device without voiding warranty should be a standard feature on all electronics.

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wow, this is a new one

if you need my “personal data” to pay your staff then you need to find a more ethical fucking business model

Very cool little offering from the folks at SDF@mastodon.sdf.org which I only just learned about, thanks to @mrguilt - historical versions of UNIX installed on VMs, accessible from your browser! https://unix50.org. Yes, it's Javascript, but it's for a good cause so pinch your nose and check it out.

never forget https://wilwheaton.tumblr.com/post/181588397734/never-forget

lmao

HAPPY FESTIVUS!!!!!!

@strypey

Back in the GTalk days, you could talk to your entire Google contacts list via federated XMPP.

So even back then I had way more contacts on XMPP than GNUSocial or Identica.

Google played a large role in killing off XMPP usage and the day they announced sunsetting GTalk was when I realized they're just another embrace-extend-extinguish monopolist.

Society needs self-hostable, scalable and functional alternatives to surveillance capitalist systems of manipulation and censorship.

sums it up

You should probably go fuck yourself.

Here's the direct link to the findings from those documents:

https://www.parliament.uk/documents/commons-committees/culture-media-and-sport/Note-by-Chair-and-selected-documents-ordered-from-Six4Three.pdf

It is really quite damning.

* Facebook deliberately obscured from users what information they were collecting about them & how to opt out

* Facebook used its monopoly to cripple competing applications and services

* Facebook signed agreements to acquire data other app developers collected in exchange for some of its own

* Companies could circumvent user permissions by signing an agreement with Facebook