"After quizzing these companies about data practices, I learned that most are sharing what’s happening in my home with Amazon, too. Our data is the price of entry for devices that want to integrate with Alexa. Amazon’s not only eavesdropping — it’s tracking everything happening in your home."
#GeoffreyAFowler, 'Alexa has been eavesdropping on you this whole time'
@strypey@phlogiston
The tone is also also defeatist in many ways, with "if you have the time" contact these entities to tell you don't want to be tracked- we mean- seriously.
Haaaappy birthday toooo #GNU!! Thanks for being the central originating force bringing #ethics and #computing together. It's more necessary than even in today's world where most software completely shafts individuals and divides #community.
And get well soon #RichardStallman. I was shocked to see him no longer the big hairy beardy bloke due to chemotherapy... saddened to read he's battling #cancer.
@itsfoss Sadly that is a diagnosis MANY of us will face in their lifetime! some earlier, some later. Our all end is assured. No way around that. So yeah.... Thank You for your all of your Work #RichardStallman !!! Your work really changed the world!! #GNU#OSS#LINUX#openSource#freeSoftware
The GNU Project turned 40 on Tuesday. Congratulations GNU!
In honour of the achievements of the multitude of talented people who have contributed to GNU over the last 40 years, I'm going to pull finger and teach mysefl how to install an updated mobile GNU OS on my PinePhone (props to the @PINE64 crew).
Props to the Chief GNUisance Dr Richard Stallman, founder of the GNU Project and the Free Software Foundation, and creator of the philosophical scaffolding of software freedoms and copyleft.
Without his work, we wouldn't even have this decentralised space - powered 100% by Free Code (so far) - to argue about whether he deserves props. Arguably the net as we know it could not exist.
@thenewoil@GhostOnTheHalfShell
As #RichardStallman eloquantly explains in an interview on #RT, just breaking them up isnt enough either. If the broken pieces still collect data, share and abuse it alongside repressive forces, we're no better off.
Empowering tools such as those at 'switching.software' are most helpful. Eg. #XMPP over #I2P isnt difficult to setup.
Dive into 50+ years of #Unix and #Linux copyright history and the role of #IBM as explained by Jon maddog Hall to hear his perspective on new decisions at Redhat.
@dominique et donc on jette le concept de #logiciellibre aux orties ? @ploum ne dit pas autre chose : indépendamment de qui est #richardstallman nous avons besoin de plus de liberté logicielle. Même si M. Stallman est un type odieux, son travail est d'une valeur inestimable. Au petit jeu de « jeter le bébé avec l'eau du bain » on pourrait se retrouver dans des situations vraiment absurdes.
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I’m done cross-posting @elementary to Twitter. I really hoped it would get better, but with the latest news of Elon promoting Ron DeSantis’ presidential run, I’m done. It’s become a far-right social network no different from Parlor or Truth Social and I won’t be a part of it.
"We believe that the free software and solidarity economy movements should collaborate to make software solutions that are entirely free/libre, aiming to meet the needs of the solidarity economy.
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We also envisage projects such as the production of computers to be used entirely with free software, including tablets and microservers (such as Freedom Box), by collaborative networks of community enterprises in the solidarity economy."