Is owning websites for private individuals become forbidden by our governments ?
cross-posted from: programming.dev/post/13465911...
Microsoft will now urge you to ditch local accounts on Windows 10 (www.xda-developers.com)
New Windows driver blocks software from changing default web browser (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
HP disables customers’ printers if they use ink cartridges from cheaper rivals (www.telegraph.co.uk)
Your Computer Isn't Yours: Apple stores every program Mac users run, and when and where they ran it (sneak.berlin)
cross-posted from: mbin.grits.dev/m/technology@beehaw.org/t/95555...
TikTok ban: all the news on attempts to ban the video platform - The Verge (www.theverge.com)
'Our long-term objective is to make printing a subscription' says HP CEO gunning for 2024's Worst Person of the Year award (www.pcgamer.com)
Didn’t GNU project start because of a printer?
How Google Alters Search Queries to Get at Your Wallet (www.wired.com)
3D model of stallman?
I would like to build bust of stallman from concrete. The plan is to 3D print him and then make a mold. Then i would bolt that bust in place infront of shity software companys with some of his quotes. So how do i get a 3D model of him to start?
Polish train manufacturer Newag proven to use geolocation to lock-up trains at third party service depots (social.hackerspace.pl) Polish
A Mastodon thread by @q3k, who, together with @redford and @mrtick have reverse engineered the PLC code of NEWAG Impuls EMUs
You may need to provide a reason now when quitting OneDrive (ghacks.net)
Samsung disables customer phones remotely, holds data hostage until Mexican government stepped in (odysee.com)
Philips Hue will force users to upload their data to Hue cloud (www.home-assistant.io)
Today’s story is about Philips Hue by Signify. They will soon start forcing accounts on all users and upload user data to their cloud. For now, Signify says you’ll still be able to control your Hue lights locally as you’re currently used to, but we don’t know if this may change in the future. The privacy policy allows...
Edge sends image you view online to Microsoft and raises privacy concerns (alternativeto.net)
Google’s nightmare “Web Integrity API” wants a DRM gatekeeper for the web (arstechnica.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/2437896...
Expected: I cancelled our subscription with HP and they blocked us from being able to use the rest of the ink in our cartridge. (younsfw.com)
also from r/StallmanWasRight
Autodesk screws customers by turning lifetime licenses into subscriptions (farside.link)
Louis Rossmann bringing us good summary again
Apple already shipped attestation on the web, and we barely noticed (httptoolkit.com)
also on r/programming
This Is What Happens When People Start Actually Reading Privacy Policies (themarkup.org)
Users notice that Zoom changes privacy policy to expressly allow them to use your private Zoom chats, video calls and other services to train A.I. and this IS NO OPT OUT.
When Open Becomes Opaque: The Changing Face of Open-Source Hardware Companies (blog.adafruit.com)
also on r/StallmanWasRight
‘Too greedy’: mass walkout at global science journal of publishing giant Elsevier over ‘unethical’ fees (www.theguardian.com)
r/StallmanWasRight...
Remember what "subscription" used to mean?
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/1381019...
The Right to Read - A Dystopian Short Story by Richard Stallman (1996) (www.gnu.org)
From The Road To Tycho, a collection of articles about the antecedents of the Lunarian Revolution, published in Luna City in 2096....
Facebook turns over mother and daughter’s chat history to police resulting in abortion charges (www.theverge.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/1874795...