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Years late and trillions of data points short.

Microsoft launching a "research project" to track AI data sources *now* is completely meaningless. The models are already trained on YOUR stolen data.

This is like robbing a bank and then "exploring" ways to return *some* of the cash... maybe. Pure theater. Don't fall for it.

#AI #BigTech #DataPrivacy #Tech

techcrunch.com/2025/03/21/micr

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@sturmsucht @urbanprivacy @xmpp

Es ging im Original-Post um #UnplugTrump und "weg von #BigTech". Signal hat sicherlich Vorzüge gegenüber WA, u.a. kann man dem Ladens wohl mehr vertrauen als Mark Z. Aber im Hinblick auf #digitaleSouveränität hat man nichts gewonnen. Das hat mit Moral nichts zu tun, sondern ist einfach so.

Es gibt außer #Jabber natürlich noch viele andere freie, föderierte Optionen. Ich habe diese genannt, weil ich sie kenne und nutze.

Ah, nog een universiteit met een oproep om los te komen van #bigtech:

We, the undersigned, express our concern about the University of Groningen’s increasing reliance on services from big tech companies (particularly Google, Microsoft, and Amazon) for our research, teaching and administrative activities.

Open letter to the Executive University Board: Calling for an end to the university's dependence on big tech

Gelijk getekend, uiteraard.

University of Groningen · Open letter to the Executive University Board: Calling for an end to the university's dependence on big techOpen letter to the Executive University Board: Calling for an...

Eins muss man #Trump ja lassen: Er macht es möglich, dass Medien sich mit Alternativen zu den amerikanischen Bigtech-Produkten beschäftigen, von denen man es kaum für möglich gehalten hätte. Oder hätte jemand noch vor einem Jahr gedacht, dass sich ausgerechnet das Handelsblatt auf den @kuketzblog bezieht und @rufposten zitiert?
#GAMAM #opensource #linux #bigtech #medien

handelsblatt.com/technik/it-in

www.handelsblatt.comHandelsblatt

#Republican strategist Stuart Stevens, senior advisor for the Lincoln Project, is arguing that monied interests and economic giants #BigTech #WallStreet #bankers #billionaires are complicit in ruining the nation as they blindly follow a president determined to sink markets in both the United States and around the world. #tariffs #economy #financialstability #risk #economics #Trump #maga #wealth #money #power #politics #fear #complicit #collusion #democracy #congress alternet.org/ceos-trump-polici

Alternet.org · 'Basic betrayal': CEOs terrified of Trump retaliation won’t speak out against policiesBy Adam Lynch

SUCCES!

Vores webinar ” Ud af tech-giganternes kløer – Hvordan din organisation kan frigøre sig fra afhængighed af store tech-virksomheder” var en stor succes. 🤩

Deltagerne stillede mange gode og relevante spørgsmål, hvilket tyder på, at digital uafhængighed er noget, der optager flere og flere virksomheder.

En stor tak skal der lyde til Jens Kjellerup fra Ballerup Kommune, der delte ud af sin store erfaring med open source. Det er en lige så stor del af hans DNA som Semaphors. Dejligt ❤️

Spørgelysten var så stor, at Tobias @fonsmark har tilbudt at fortsætte sine digitale åbent hus arrangementer alle fredage i april også (kl. 13.00). Her er der mulighed for at fortsætte snakken fra webinaret, og stille alle de spørgsmål du måske har brændt inde med.

💻 Deltag i åbent hus meet.semaphor.dk/ÅbentHus

👀 Se eller gense webinaret her semaphor.dk/nyheder/webinar-ud

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@ekaitz_zarraga@mastodon.social

The #Guix leaders are indeed the reason I don't even give it a try despite some great people like you working on it.

I will reconsider when I'll read a public apology for this personal attack to a neurodivergent #hacker such as #RMS.

It worth to remember how that "joint stab in the back" was published while RMS was under attack because he dared defend Minsky's memory from the same sort of mob justice that was then redirected (and amplified on #BigTech social media) against RMS himself.

Some of those "leaders" who signed that "joint statement" a couple years later signed an even worse attack built on top of lies.

These sort of personal attacks have clear political goals, "incidentally" aligned with BigTech interests.

Now @zimoun@sciences.re could try to sort me among #Stallman fanboys to reinforce his beliefs, but in fact I'm pretty critical of RMS work: ultimately I think he based free software on a cold-war biased ideology, without a proper balance between communion (aka sharing strongly protected commons) and freedom. This huge error left space to #opensource and to the current use of #FreeSoftware by all sort of large corporations to abuse and subdue people.
Another (related) issue has been the total lack of a cohesive architectural design for #GNU system: RMS was too (inconsciously) fond of free market ideology to lead the movement's technically, and this lack of cohordination was turned by #ESR to the "bazaar" (not so subtle) sublimation of free market, to ease corporate exploitation of the high skilled labour of #hackers.

But in fact, with all of his political errors, he's still the most coherent and commited free software activist out there.

So I will consider Guix again when they will publish a joint apology with the same visibility the back-stab had in 2019.
guix.gnu.orgJoint statement on the GNU Project — 2019 — Blog — GNU GuixBlog posts about GNU Guix.