Fuck BigTech

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/57857013

https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/

Many websites are down, so much for decentralised internet.

cross-posted from: https://digipres.cafe/post/59518

cross-posted from: https://crazypeople.online/post/10106259

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/38225224

Microsoft is facing mounting criticism over its controversial complicity in "Israel’s" genocide in Gaza, with charges that its technologies have enabled surveillance, targeted assassinations, and repression of Palestinians. Critics say the company has played a central role in what some are calling the world’s first AI-driven genocide.

cross-posted from: https://thelemmy.club/post/37647905

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/38176168

cross-posted from: https://mander.xyz/post/40776276

‘Some may ask why we’re reducing roles when the company is performing well,’ an executive admitted, blaming AI for the layoffs.

cross-posted from: https://piefed.europe.pub/post/57228

The ads urge listeners to “join the mission to protect America” by becoming U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents, but users of the music streaming giant have taken to social media and Spotify’s website to complain, and announce their withdrawal from the audio platform.

Recently Google decided that in the future for an app to be installable on an Android device, the developer of this app needs to be ID'd and registered at Google. They claim this is in order to "to better protect users". However, I think, this is a move to get more control over the Android ecosystem, and the data they can collect with it. If anyone who wants to develop an app for Android devices has to be registered with Google, this puts all the power of who to allow distributing an app to Google.

Furthermore F-Droid shows, that safe app stores can exist without registration, neither of users nor of developers. There is zero malware or spyware on the F-Droid store. What there is on F-Droid is thousands of beautiful, useful and, most importantly, safe apps. And this entire ecosystem is at risk, because Google wants to gain more control over its users and over the Android operating system.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/36738719

cross-posted from: https://reddthat.com/post/50951788

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/35679456

cross-posted from: https://anarchist.nexus/post/103595

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/50828910

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/47641645

No matter how hard other browsers try, people stubbornly do not want to leave Chrome, and its market share is now above 70%.

Reminder: LibreOffice is a more than viable alternative.

Or even better, stop doing paper format documents on your computer. It creates data silos and often isn't really accessible either. Who (except maybe governments) does still print stuff?

Organize your data relational. Tools like NocoDB or Baserow let you do this pretty easily and in a privacy friendly manner (self hosted).

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/34898850