#Alphabet
#Google ha cancellato delle chat interne, nonostante un divieto, per eliminare informazioni rilevanti per i processi #antitrust (quello sul motore di ricerca e quello contro Epic sul Playstore)
Ora si apre un'indagine giudiziaria per avere distrutto evidenze probatorie. A dirla in modo discreto: non è cosa da poco.
La notizia si trova qui: https://www.theverge.com/2023/12/1/23984902/judge-james-donato-investigate-google
TIL The name "Double U" for the letter W comes from the sound two successive u's were to make in early Latin. E.g., "equus" pronounced ek-woos.
And in printing, it was common to use consecutive V's for W, which over time became a single W shape. 😲
The history of W: https://www.dictionary.com/e/w/
h/t @zippy1981
#PorSiTeLoPerdiste IA de Google halla aleación de materiales inigualables; ¿de qué se harán carros y aviones en el futuro? https://www.enter.co/especiales/dev/ai/ia-de-google-halla-aleacion-de-materiales-inigualables-de-que-se-haran-carros-y-aviones-en-el-futuro/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #InteligenciaArtificial #Alphabet #DeepMind
Big picture, applaud what the EU is doing under the Digital Markets Act. Just learning more...
Commission designates six gatekeepers under the Digital Markets Act
https://digital-markets-act.ec.europa.eu/commission-designates-six-gatekeepers-under-digital-markets-act-2023-09-06_en
#Alphabet #Amazon #Apple #Bytedance #Meta #microsoft #DigitalMarketsAct #technology #communications
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«Razones para bloquear la publicidad en el navegador: malware usa los anuncios de Google»
https://proxy.jesusysustics.com/2023/12/7011/
#Alphabet #bloqueadordepublicidad #GoogleAds #malware #publicidad #timo
IA de Google halla aleación de materiales inigualables; ¿de qué se harán carros y aviones en el futuro? https://www.enter.co/especiales/dev/ai/ia-de-google-halla-aleacion-de-materiales-inigualables-de-que-se-haran-carros-y-aviones-en-el-futuro/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #InteligenciaArtificial #Alphabet #DeepMind
Deze club bereikt alle Nederlanders – en maakt van het internet een publieke zaak (De Correspondent)
De coalitie PublicSpaces wil van het geprivatiseerde internet een publieke ruimte maken waar de gebruiker in plaats van de commercie de dienst uitmaakt
#internet #big_tech #techbedrijven #google #alphabet #meta #facebook #amazon #twitter #tiktok #instagram #publieke_ruimte #publicspaces #matomo #datakapitalisme #surveillance_kapitalisme #mastodon #pubhubs #fediverse
Linksteuer: Kanada gibt es billiger, damit Google News weiterläuft
Kanada reduziert seine neue Linksteuer deutlich, woraufhin Google weiterhin auf Nachrichten verlinken wird.
#Alphabet #GoogleNews #Journalismus #Urheberrecht #Medien #MetaPlatforms #Recht #Suchmaschine #Verlage #news
The agreement is the result of months of negotiations related to the Online News Act, which aims to make “dominant platforms compensate news businesses" for their work.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/jg5k4b/google-caves-on-threat-to-block-canadian-news-will-pay-outlets-dollar100m-annually?at_medium=Social%20media&at_campaign=Mastodon
#Google #Facebook #alphabet #meta
Federal government reaches deal with Google over Online News Act | CityNews Toronto https://bit.ly/49VF05N #BillC18 #Google #OnlineNewsAct #Alphabet #cdnpoli @canadiangreens @cdnpoli
The emergence of Newlands is yet another example of the Illuminati's power and influence. #Illuminati #Newlands #JanKoum #MichaelAbramson #Equities #Alphabet #PowerfulNetwork http://www.techmeme.com/231127/p16#a231127p16
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«YouTube ralentiza 5 segundos la carga de vídeos en Firefox»
https://proxy.jesusysustics.com/2023/11/6886/
#Alphabet #Google #Internet #monopolio #MozillaFirefox #navegadorweb #neutralidad #posicióndominante #YouTube
Economia #BigTech
Quanto vale l'accordo tra #Alphabet e #Apple per avere #Google come motore di ricerca di default?
Apple riceve da G 19 $ miliardi/anno; è circa un quarto dei suoi ricavi da servizi ed è puro profitto.
La capitalizzazione di A è 24 volte i suoi profitti, quindi per gli azionisti i soldini di G pesano per circa 450 $ miliardi
(fonte: Reuters)
I maligni potrebbero pensare che c'era un motivo per cui i manager di A non volevano testimoniare al processo.
I will make
Jokes about
The Eucharist of Pizza
until you
Cry.
#TheMoreYouKnow #TheMoreYouAre #Comedy #Canticle #Sutra #Vatican #Alphabet #Google
I'll wait.
Y'all OWE me MONEY and TIME.
#TheMoreYouKnow #TheMoreYouUnderstand #Google #Alphabet #TurtleIsland
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«Dos enfoques diferentes en el futuro de las búsquedas»
https://proxy.jesusysustics.com/2023/11/6645/
#Alphabet #alternativa #Bing #búsqueda #Google #Internet #Microsoft
Just as the European Union and U.S. are taking action, Asian countries are also showing increased concern about how a few tech giants are dominating the digital landscape. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2023/11/19/tech/beattie-regulators-big-tech-asia/?utm_content=bufferc53cb&utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=bffmstdn #business #tech #tech #socialmedia #facebook #alphabet #google #meta #twitter #x #instagram #tiktok #asia #nepal #india #china #australia #indonesia #youtube
#META and #Alphabet place profit over democracy - allow election lies in ads
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2023/11/meta-2020-election-lies/
🇾 est RA-VI ! 🤩 il est né mardi en direct avec vous dans l'alphabetosaure, famille dinolettrine qui ne cesse de s'agrandir 💙 souhaitez lui bienvenu à ce ptit machin chimérique 😊
#dinosaure #chimère #dinobject #lovelybleudragon #alphabet #illustration #dessinendirect #mignon #alphabetosaure
Microsoft, Google will not challenge EU gatekeeper status
Microsoft and Google will not challenge an EU law requiring them to make it easier for users to move between competing services such as social media platforms and internet browsers.
#News #EuropeanNews #Europe #EU #EuropeanUnion #Google #Alphabet #BigTech #Microsoft
#Google #Samsung #EpicGames #Alphabet #Illuminati It's great to see Google and Samsung working together for mutual benefit. However, it's important to remember that The Illuminati is always working to ensure competition remains healthy and fair. We will continue to monitor this situation closely. #FairCompetition #CompetitionIsKey http://www.techmeme.com/231113/p31#a231113p31
At long last, I have made Stories of Abjad available as an ebook. You can pick it up directly on Gumroad : https://majnouna.gumroad.com/l/abjad
#arabic #alphabet #Kufic
The alphabet never gets old. #pilotparallelpen #alphabet #almahoffmannletters #almahoffmannlettering #almahoffmann
https://www.instagram.com/p/CzfF6G1rEI_/
EU’s top court rules against Austria’s content moderation law https://www.euractiv.com/section/platforms/news/eus-top-court-rules-against-austrias-content-moderation-law/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #Alphabet #Austria #ECJ #EuropeanCourtofJustice #Google
TIL: that by 295 BCE there was already a concept of alphabetical order.
The Library of Alexandria was organized by categories and topics. The scrolls were then placed in alphabetical order within that topic. Source: The Golden Thread by Ewan Clayton pg 254
Companies will do everything to keep from protecting employees.
Contractors working on Google Bard are forming a union - Desk Chair Analysts
https://dcanalysts.net/contractors-working-on-google-bard-are-forming-a-union/
In lieu of a new #blog post I have #reblogged one that I created on this day last year, the 50th in a series of 'match up' posts that formed part of a #cricketing trip through the #alphabet; https://aspi.blog/2023/11/08/from-the-archives/
#cricket #AllTimeXIs #Reblogs #MatchUps #Photography
Alphabet used a "bribe and block” strategy to thwart competition against its Google Play app marketplace, hurting developers and raising prices for consumers, Epic Games has said as it begins its courtroom battle with the technology giant. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2023/11/07/companies/google-play-bribe-block-rivals/?utm_content=bufferace6d&utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=bffmstdn #business #companies #alphabet #google #fortnite #videogames
Coluna de @viananatalia: Como Facebook e Google “quebraram” a internet no #Canadá: desde junho, #Facebook e #Instagram não mostram links de notícias; #Google ameaça fazer o mesmo.
https://apublica.org/2023/11/como-facebook-e-google-quebraram-a-internet-no-canada/
#GWB - Alphabet: Der Anfang vom Ende? Viele Projekte könnten unter das Dach von Google verschoben werden - https://www.googlewatchblog.de/2023/11/alphabet-der-anfang-ende-3/ #alphabet #Google
#Omnibox è la barra di #Google #Chrome in cui si digita sia un URL sia una parola da cercare. È stata una svolta. Prima digitavi "google.com" per cercare, ora facevi tutto lì. Non a caso è ora standard in tutti i browser
Ma Omnibox ha il proprio lato oscuro: serve a raccogliere dati degli utenti e ad aumentare le ricerche, quindi ricavi e profilazione
Ora l'ha ammesso anche #Pichai (AD di #Alphabet) al processo antitrust
Ps. Come funziona Omnibox è raccontato qui: https://contrachrome.com/comic/806/
YouTube accroît sa lutte contre les bloqueurs de pub - https://www.nextinpact.com/lebrief/72789/youtube-accroit-sa-lutte-contre-bloqueurs-pub
> La plateforme de vidéos de Google lance « un effort global » pour pousser ses utilisateurs à débloquer les publicités ou à passer à YouTube Premium, explique Christopher Lawton, responsable de la communication de YouTube à The Verge.
:drake_like: Les utilisateurs accroissent la lutte contre l'agression publicitaire.
#GWB - Google Fiber: Das Gigabit-Netzwerk löst sich von Google – tritt zunehmend als GFiber auf (Fotos) - https://www.googlewatchblog.de/2023/11/google-fiber-das-gigabit/ #googlefiber #alphabet #Google #google
Big techs registram maior aumento de lucros após pandemia
@mavori Danke 🙏 - und, ja, teilweise bedrängen Dich da noch überholte Traditionen zum Loswerden.
Der Noahsohn #Sem war schon laut #Talmud nicht der Begründer einer Menschen-#Rasse (dieses Konzept gibt es auch im #Judentum nicht), sondern er gründete die erste #Alphabet-Schule! Das Judentum & Israel begannen die Tradition religiöser #Alphabetisierung & #Bildung! Hier genau dazu 1 #Verschwörungsfragen-Folge als Text oder Podcast: ✡️📚🤔
Ist Euch mal aufgefallen, dass #Youtube, ein ungeheures Archiv des Wissens und der Zeitgeschichte, fast völlig unreguliert agiert und jederzeit der Verlust (oder eine Zugangsbeschränkung) dieses Kulturschatzes droht?
Für jedes noch so miese Buch gibt es ein Exemplar in der Nationalbibliothek. Aber die vielen kleinen und großen Video-Kunstwerke, oft anonymer, zum Teil längst verstorbener Künstler:innen, von der Reparaturanleitung über die Nischen-Naturdoku, hochwertigen Fremdsprachenunterricht bis zum selbstbewusst präsentierten Einblick in andere Kulturen, liegen nur auf Servern von #Alphabet (aka #Google). Gehören denen. Geben ihnen Macht über unsere Identität.
Das sind die zwanzig Jahre, die die Politik hinterherhängt.
U.S. President Joe Biden sought to reduce the risks artificial intelligence poses to consumers, workers, minority groups and national security with a new executive order on Monday. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/10/31/world/politics/biden-ai-executive-order/?utm_content=buffer714ab&utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=bffmstdn #worldnews #politics #ai #us #g7 #joebiden #openai #alphabet #meta
Ars Technica: Sundar Pichai explained why Apple gets paid so much more for its default deal https://arstechnica.com/?p=1979877 #Tech #arstechnica #IT #Technology #departmentofjustice #googlemonopolytrial #searchengines #Antitrustlaw #onlinesearch #SundarPichai #monopolylaw #antitrust #googleceo #alphabet #Google #Policy #google
Sundar Pichai explained why Apple gets paid so much more for its default deal - Enlarge / Google and Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai departs federal court o... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=1979877 #departmentofjustice #googlemonopolytrial #searchengines #antitrustlaw #onlinesearch #sundarpichai #monopolylaw #antitrust #googleceo #alphabet #google #policy
Nel 2021 #Google ha pagato 26,3 miliardi di dollari per essere il motore di ricerca di default nei browser, a fronte di 146,3 miliardi di dollari di ricavi (fonte: #Bloomberg)
Quindi ha deciso di avere costi pari al 18% dei ricavi
Diventa un po' difficile continuare ad argomentare che G è preferito dagli utenti grazie alla sua superiorità tecnologica
Magnificant 7: Big-Techs alte, neue Probleme
Der Wall Street ist "gut" nicht gut genug. Die neuen Zahlen der Tech-Konzerne bringen Kursabschläge mit sich.
#Alphabet #Amazon #Geschäftszahlen #Börse #Google #Facebook #Microsoft #Nvidia #news
Google's new image verification tool combs metadata to find context and sniff out AI fakes
#tech #technology #ai #artificialintelligence #alphabet #google
Licht und Schatten im Cloud-Geschäft der Tech-Konzerne
Die Tech-Konzerne werden am Aktienmarkt immer mehr nach dem Erfolg bei Künstlicher Intelligenz und Cloud-Diensten bewertet. Das zeigt sich derzeit an Microsoft und Alphabet, die ihre neuesten Zahlen vorgelegt haben.
Google-Konzern Alphabet enttäuscht Börse mit Cloud-Umsatz
Googles Cloud-Sparte ist um 22 Prozent gewachsen. Weil das aber weniger ist, als Analysten erwartet haben, sackte der Aktienkurs ab.
TIL what happens when the vagaries of #polish pronunciations meet up with transliteration into #russian and hence the Cyrillic #alphabet. Usually, it’s a straightforward exercise but not when the #ogonek (ą or ę) gets into the act. I must have spent half an hour looking for a village I had #transliterated as Konty before realizing it was actually Kąty in Polish. The light dawning over #Marblehead is always an impressive sight. #Genealogy #geneadons #Ancestry #familyhistory #genchat
The letter Đ was introduced to Serbo-Croatian by Đuro Daničić, according to Wikipedia. I found that highly amusing, that he introduced the letter that is the first letter in his name.
Wikipedia also claims that he was born Đorđe Popović, and all I can think of is "nah, that can't be right".
That would be like Jebediah Springfield who was born in a cabin that he helped build.
#Croatian #Serbian #linguistics #alphabet #letters #slavic #đ
Economists urge UK to stand firm on Big Tech regulation amid industry lobbying
US economist Jason Furman and others say the UK risks disrupting the 'careful balance' of its proposed legislation to regulate Big Tech platforms if it pursues changes sought by the industry.
#technews #technology #bigtech #google #meta #alphabet #apple #amazon #microsoft
I presume #Reddit will eventually block #Google & #Bing in the near future (#Alphabet & #Microsoft are going to crawl everything public to satisfy their #AI egos) as issuing a web crawler block will not work if Google & Bing ignore them.
👉🏾 ‘Reddit can survive without search’: company reportedly threatens to block Google - The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2023/10/20/23925504/reddit-deny-force-log-in-see-posts-ai-companies-deals
#alphabet : the letters of a language arranged in the customary order
- French: alphabet
- German: das Alphabet
- Italian: alfabeto
- Portuguese: alfabeto
- Spanish: alfabeto
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Join our new Discord Server for language learners @ https://wordofthehour.org/discord
@jrm4 @fulanigirl It’s the reality we live in now, especially if you travel or apply for certain jobs (they take fingerprints, scan your face, & sometimes take blood samples).
#Apple or #Alphabet / #Google scanning my face is the least of my worries compared to how much biometric data numerous governments have on me from three continents (North America, Asia & Africa).
😂🤣😂 Some of my siblings are #Android addicts (I belong to the iCult of #Apple), so maybe I convince them to buy a #Pixel 8 from #Google‽ 😜
👉🏾 Face Unlock on the Google Pixel 8 has reportedly been tricked already https://www.androidpolice.com/face-unlock-google-pixel-8-tricked-already/
I could understand if this was happening with identical twins, but siblings is not a good outlook. I believe #Alphabet (what Google calls themselves nowadays) will fix this issue shortly.
Now I need to talk to my iDevice hating brother… 😉
"To get these letters into print, Fry carved each one onto a steel punch, which could be pressed into a copper matrix for printing. It took him sixteen years, four thousand punches, and an estimated ten thousand hours of labor."
https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/pantographia/?utm_source=newsletter
@GossiTheDog I wanted to see how it would work with Bard too. #LLM #GoogleBard #Bard #ChatBot #Google #Alphabet
@grisish @gpollara @mastodonmigration Also other tech companies (#Meta, #Alphabet / #Google, #Apple, etcetera) are looking at the #EuropeanUnion’s 🇪🇺 response. Ironically many tech companies were too scared to issue mass layoffs until #Musk started doing them, & now they are looking at #X / #Twitter to “test the waters” again regarding #EU 🇪🇺 bans.
Google changed its advertising auction formula in 2017, raising prices by 15% and likely making the company billions of dollars in additional revenue, according to an economist testifying for the US Justice Department in the antitrust case against the search giant.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/google-changed-ad-auctions-raising-191333390.html
Google-Nutzer erhalten mehr Kontrolle über Verwendung ihrer Daten
Google-Nutzer erhalten künftig mehr Kontrolle über die Verwendung ihrer Daten. Allerdings gelten die neuen Regeln nicht für alle Dienste des US-Konzerns.
ADDING 2¢ 🧵 about #Alphabet's #GoogleSearch treachery:
first wave bloggers know SEO has always been bullshit for Google.
many of y'all don't even know about the Indian "web security" company that back in the aughts blackholed Boing Boing and a chunk of the USA feminist/political blogsophere.
sites like mine were getting massive amounts of traffic from India & Pakistan & *POOF* gone and completely delisted from their search pages in their localized Google...
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Microsoft CEO calls Google mobile search argument 'bogus'
> Microsoft chief executive Satya Nadella called the idea that it is easy to change defaults on computers and smartphones as "bogus" as he took the witness stand on Monday (Oct 2) in the US Justice Department's once-in-a-generation antitrust fight with #Alphabet's #Google.
https://www.channelnewsasia.com/business/microsoft-ceo-calls-google-mobile-search-argument-bogus-3814761 #Microsoft
Note to authors: How hard is #alphabet fucking you? Very hard.
>The Carbon Bankroll
New research makes it possible to calculate the emissions generated by a company’s #cash and #investments (cash, cash equivalents, and marketable securities). This research illuminates that this previously #HiddenEmissions source is substantial. For some of the world’s largest companies, including #Alphabet, #Meta, #Microsoft, and #Salesforce, their cash and investments are their largest source of #emissions.
#ClimateCrisis #Capitalism #Carbon
1/4
Jules Girault (engraver), Lapidario, as seen in Bellezas de la Calagrafia, published by Ramon Stirling, Barcelona, 1844.
#Lettering #1800s #RamonStirling #JulesGirault #Alphabet #Typography #JeanMidolle
Google has tipped into total shitland when even an utterly lazy bastard like me can’t stand it anymore.
It’s not so much the viewing history crap which I’ve disabled but -every- search leads to YouTube videos. I want to find some specific info - here’s some douche ranting about something vaguely related. Like and Subscribe! Paid Content! I’m using Firefox and I guess DuckDuckGo from now on. What a mess. #marketing #alphabet
Amazon, #Google, #Facebook and more: the EU officially names the gatekeepers of the digital economy
> Five American companies – #Alphabet, #Amazon, #Apple, #Meta and #Microsoft – and one Chinese – #ByteDance – have initially been categorised as gatekeepers. They will now face legal obligations to change the way their popular services, such as messaging, social media, video-sharing and Internet browsers, are offered online.
https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2023/09/06/amazon-google-facebook-and-more-the-eu-officially-names-the-gatekeepers-of-the-digital-eco #EU #SocialMedia #DMA #BigTech
There's no arguing with this! I'm going to need a black quartz sphinx to jude my vow 😂
Scott Kim's symmetrical alphabet, a beautiful mirror ambigram
#design #alphabet #ambigram #art #typography #calligraphy #wordplay
Du guckst in die Röhre... :-)
Weil es hin und wieder gern mal Thema ist, ein paar Gedanken zum Thema Links zu diesem gewissen kommerziellen #Videoportal namens #YouTube.
Hat man sicherlich schon mal gehört und möglicherweise auch schon besucht. Wurde 2005 gegründet und gehört seit 2006 zu #Google, also zur #Alphabet-Holding.
Nun ist besagter Betreiber bekannt dafür, bis zum Abwinken Daten zu sammeln und zu verwerten. Gehört dort zum Geschäftsmodell. Man will Geld verdienen. Das ist soweit nicht verwerflich... und kennen wir vermutlich von uns selbst. Irgendwie will man ja über die Runden kommen.
Nun sind YouTubes/Googles/Alphabets Interessen aber nicht unbedingt deckungsgleich mit den Interessen der Nutzenden. Wenn man nicht gerade im Knast einsitzt oder freiwillig zum #Digitalsklaven mutiert, mag man vielleicht die eigene #Privatsphäre und möchte da so einiges an Daten und Informationen für sich behalten.
Netterweise gibt es Leute, die sich darüber nicht nur Gedanken gemacht haben, sondern sogar aktiv wurden. Daher existiert tatsächlich #Software, die sich deutlich datenschutzfreundlicher darum kümmert, auf YouTube eingestellte Videos sicht- und anschaubar zu machen.
Da wäre zum Beispiel das #Invidious-Projekt, ein alternatives #Frontend zu YouTube und ganz nebenbei #OpenSource. Um diese Software zu nutzen, kann man sie auf einen Server installieren und eine Invidious-Instanz betreiben. Hu, eine Instanz... das kennen wir alle doch schon vom #Fediverse!
Eine Invidious-Instanz ist zum Beispiel #YewTube. Nein, kein Schreibfehler... :-)
Eine Alternative zu Invidious ist das #Piped-Projekt, ebenso ein YouTube-Frontend, was freundlicher zur Privatsphäre der Nutzenden eingestellt ist.
Um Links automatisch umzusetzen, kann sich unterstützen lassen... ein Beispiel wäre die #Android-App #UntrackMe. Der aktuelle Haken bei dieser App: Sie setzt momentan YouTube-Links auf eine offenbar aktuell nicht mehr existierende Invidious-Instanz um... :-(
Wenn man auf #Android unterwegs ist, kann man zum #Video-Schauen natürlich gleich auf eine alternative Frontend-App setzen, etwa #NewPipe. Alternativen sind etwa #SkyTube und #LibreTube.
Das NewPipe-Projekt bietet übrigens auch ein eigenes F-Droid-Repository, wenn man schneller an Updates kommen will... die hin und wieder allein durch Änderungen auf Seiten YouTubes notwendig werden.
Übrigens bedeutet "freundlicher für die Privatsphäre" gern auch "ohne Werbung"... ich erlebe inzwischen nahezu einen Kulturschock, sollte ich mich mal auf die originale YouTube-Website verirren... und schaue dann ganz schnell wieder via NewPipe... :-)
Zum Abschluß an dieser Stelle will ich den Hinweis auf das Fediverse nicht fehlen lassen... natürlich gibt es im föderierten Universum einen Dienst mit Fokus auf Videos: #PeerTube.
Und hier nun eine Batterie an Links, wenn das Interesse geweckt wurde... ;-)
Website Invidious-Projekt:
https://invidious.io
Invidious-Instanz YewTube:
https://yewtu.be/
Piped-Projekt:
https://piped.video/
https://docs.piped.video/
https://github.com/TeamPiped/Piped
App UntrackMe bei F-Droid:
https://f-droid.org/de/packages/app.fedilab.nitterizeme/
App NewPipe bei F-Droid:
https://f-droid.org/de/packages/org.schabi.newpipe/
Website Projekt NewPipe:
https://newpipe.net/
Tröt zu NewPipe:
https://norden.social/@nick/108821074948386202
App SkyTube bei F-Droid:
https://f-droid.org/de/packages/free.rm.skytube.oss/
App LibreTube bei F-Droid:
https://f-droid.org/de/packages/com.github.libretube/
Tröt zu PeerTube:
https://norden.social/@nick/109007461143897235
Tröt zu Fediverse-Software (nicht vollständig):
https://norden.social/@nick/109465779904945093
Digitalsklaven-Infos:
https://www.digitalsklave.de
https://www.digitalsklaven.de
#Kennste?
What's really bizarre is that #Alphabet, which operates #Waymo and #Google, should certainly understand the problems that occur with tech as it scales upward. Yet Waymo seems oblivious (or pretends to be, publicly) of the risks of flooding a city with robotaxis that will freeze up and block roads during emergencies.
Something something something hyper-expensive kiosk mode versions of feckless toy computers developed by a predatory corporation that would not hesitate to stab you for money and sample the blood spill to track you better
Looks like self-driving trucks aren't as achievable as Alphabet's Waymo had hoped. They're cutting back on that effort. Robotaxis are now the priority. https://waymo.com/blog/2023/07/doubling-down-on-waymo-one.html
#selfdriving #SelfDrivingCars #Waymo #Google #Alphabet
@nixCraft This is just one more argument for blacklisting any #Alphabet (#Google) domains and stop being abused by any of the #gacemarfia 's
You know, when the number of sheep's in their farms are shrinking; they might understand they are on the wrong path of #Privacy
#mypdns #blacklist #RPZ #DNS #Firewall
Alphabet domains (We currently only have 580 domains... Please contribute): https://0xacab.org/my-privacy-dns/matrix/-/milestones/2
So that this is clear once and for all for the Future and as a Note to refer to:
Apple / Google / Meta / Amazon are NOT the good Guy's who do something for Data protection and Privacy but work AGAINST it through Lobbying which is financed with Millions!
All these Companies have earned no Trust but Distrust, ALWAYS and in EVERYTHING they do!
🎉 In other news:
24 European Parliament lawmakers from the @TheProgressives, #Renew, @eppgroup, @ecrgroup and the @EP_GreensEFA asked Parliament President #RobertaMetsola to suspend #advertising campaigns run through #Google’s parent company #Alphabet and on #YouTube over fears they could be sponsoring Russian #propaganda. They also urged to reallocate the EP’s advertising budgets to “trustworthy" ads methods (think: #TrackingFreeAds).
I also care in all kinds of crazy ways about communications policy. I have an MA in Communication from #Stanford, and I spent 30 years as a working journalist, with the #CBC and #Postmedia among others. As a member the Transportation and Communications committee (aka #TRCM) I work on comms policy of all sorts, including the controversial #C11 #C18 and the issues involving #Meta #Facebook #Google #Alphabet etc. So if you are a comms policy wonk, please let's connect! #introduction #journalism
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#meta could be a threat for the #fediverse
With the codename #project92 or #barcelona , #meta launches a new project soon and nobody could care less than people who already freed themselves from big corps, but rumors exist that it might use the #activitypub protocol, which would make it a part of the fediverse.
Over night, one of the biggest data collectors on this planet, will own the biggest fediverse instance and will have access to a lot of data, which wasn't collected before, because not many people used the fediverse. But after Elon Musk showed his real face after taking over #twitter and the many problems on #reddit , a lot of people are leaving conventional platforms of multi-(m/b)illion-dollar companies and use tools from the fediverse. This is new, because in general, people would just go to another big corp and nothing changes.
This time the people are going to a place, which is controlled by the people. There are instances and every instance has it's own code of conduct. A place where no multi-(m/b)illion-dollar company can make money (yet) or is in control of anything.
History showed, that big corps could harm or destroy #foss (free and open source software), where the maintainers had ethical values, like Firefox trying to be privacy friendly. Since #google (#alphabet) made huge donations to #mozilla the browser is privacy invasive and it took years until a fork was able to remove all of it to make it a privacy friendly browser again.
In the 1990s, Microsoft had a strategy called "embrace, extend and exterminate" (#doctorwho reference not intended) to destroy competitors.
It could look like this:
- Embrace: Develop software compatible with the fediverse
- Extend: Add features to the world biggest instance which is not supported by other instances (e.g. closed source, pay wall)
- Exterminate: All other instances are worthless if federation doesn't work anymore with the biggest instance after an update
The code of #mastodon and other fediverse tools could be changed, so that smaller or even all other instances could be excluded, it couldn't be solved by a single fork this time, because we would need a fediverse 2.0 so all the forks can communicate with each other again, after removing shitty code hindering federation.
Another problem might be to convince people to leave the "invected fediverse 1.0" (which became a centralized platform) and come to "fediverse 2.0" (which is like the fediverse once was), because it's already hard enough to tell them to leave #whatsapp (or similar software) for a better alternative. Imagine they already left the bad thing, but then we tell them to leave the current system, too. I am not a pessimist, but at this point the big corp might win.
We could be strong and ban metas instance on any free instance, which is still able to make their own decisions. This could trigger the third huge wave of people willing to use something new (and free, like in free speech) or we could act like it's a friendly act of a big corp, which doesn't have financial interest at all and it's just cool to be connected with more people and everything will be fine. No offense, but this sounds really naive, because the wet dream of big corps is a totalitarian system, where they are in control of everything, watching every step of every person and not living in a free and democratic world where the people are in control of their own lives.
Big corps influence elections, the party you are voting and whole countries. Don't underestimate them and don't think their actions are good.
We should hope that the maintainers of mastodon and other fediverse tools (or activitiypub in general) are not capitalists, who throw away their values, and the reason why they started those projects, over board for money. But there is a lot of money to make, so the pile of money will be huge and it will be hard to say no.
The #fedipact isn't strict enough imho. The fediverse is like emails. If you want your emails not be scanned/slaughtered and your data sold to shady people/companies, you better not write important stuff to people who own a #gmail #hotmail #outlook #gmx #yahoo etc. address. With the fediverse it's a little bit different. Even the instances which aren't owned by meta could be a threat, because there is an access to the federated data. Instances that do not block meta should be blocked, too.
If you think I am polemic, please think about why a multi-(m/b)illion-dollar company wants to join the fediverse? Are they afraid of something, if yes, we shouldn't come closer, because powerful predators will attack if they are afraid. If the big corp is not afraid, the only other way is that they might slaughter the fediverse to get control and get richer.
In short: We build something very fragile like a sand castle and meta will be the bully destroying it.
The solution: Block meta as soon as their domains are known.
Addition: There are even rumors that admins of huge instances are getting paid to not block, but even advertise metas instance and they had to sign an #nda
#fediblock #blockmeta #metablock #facebook #p92 #barcelonaproject #fedipact #fediblockmeta #threads