My real worry with Google's voyage into enshittification (thanks to Cory Doctorow @pluralistic the term) is YouTube.
Through YT, for the past 15 years, the world has basically entrusted Google to be the custodian of pretty much our entire global video archive.
There's countless hours of archived footage — news reports, political speeches, historical events, documentaries, indie films, academic lectures, conference presentations, rare recordings, concert footage, obscure music — where the best or only copy is now held by Google through YouTube.
So what happens if maintaining that archival footage becomes unprofitable?
It’s also gobs of telemtey and AB testing constantly watching how you’re interacting with what’s on the page and changing what you see to figure out what makes you engage more & longer. All that processing requires a lot of resources compared to sites that respect your privacy.
Finance worker pays out $25 million after video call with deepfake ‘chief financial officer’ (edition.cnn.com)
CIA Vault7 WikiLeaks source sentenced 40 years (convicted of possessing child sexual abuse material) (www.aljazeera.com)
Ex-CIA software engineer who leaked to WikiLeaks sentenced to 40 years...
I made a spreadsheet that ranks messengers for privacy (privacyspreadsheet.com)
I’ve been working really hard to research and rank messaging apps by their privacy. The more green boxes the better....
Dream Job - Work Chronicles (workchronicles.com)
Cross posted from: lemmy.tf/post/3676196
Me and my 756 closest friends... (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
TIL about Swatch Internet Time, a decimal time system that has no time zones. (en.wikipedia.org)
I feel that this is what we should be using instead of the current illogical time system.
Good news, EU citizens! (lemmy.world)
at first I read that one header as “We’re Not Changing”
Purism (creator of FOSS friendly laptops and phones) offers buying shares of the company, reports revenue of 8M in 2022 and 5M in 2021 (puri.sm)
Root access vulnerability in glibc library impacts many Linux distros (securityaffairs.com)
Tails 5.22 Enhances File Access and Persistent Storage Repair (linuxiac.com)