Dead Internet as a service.



RE: https://masto.ai/users/unusual_whales/statuses/114342858574544048

De-censoring a video's never been easier.

Check out how quickly people were able to undo the pixelization in one of my YouTube videos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acKYYwcxpGk

Blog post if you don't enjoy video: https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2025/its-easier-ever-de-censor-videos

Looks like is worth trying this cult, classic app again. 😁👍

#Pidgin #FOSS

https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/13/pidgin_chat_client_uopdate/

Ed ecco finalmente scoperte le carte: #LLM (#IA) non plus ultra tecnologico? No, no, miei cari, è sempre la solita minestra.

Cosa produce quest' innovazione assoluta? Un social network. Sì, esatto, un ALTRO.

25 minuti di applausi per essere riusciti a prendere in giro mezzo mondo. Ci sarà ancora chi ci crederà ovviamente, ma forse ora qualcuno in più vedrà l'intento predatorio per quello che è

OpenAI is building a social network | The Verge

https://www.theverge.com/openai/648130/openai-social-network-x-competitor

Google is so sneaky. This prompt inside Gmail gives you three options. The two most visible options (number 1 is 'Try it now' and number 2 is 'Continue') basically mean 'Enable Gemini AI to write emails.' The third option cancels it which is hidden well. Google, you could do better than this. This is a perfect example of a dark pattern. For those who want AI to write basic emails can enable it but there is not need to do this kind of "shady" stuff.

#ai #privacy

Fedora 42 – Guida Post Installazione https://www.marcosbox.com/2025/04/15/fedora-42-guida-post-installazione/ #fedora #fedora42 #Linux #UnoLinux

BlueSky isn’t just censoring posts in Turkey to match government demands, already happening in other countries too.

I really wish the media would stop calling it decentralised. It isn’t. It’s like calling Shell oil nature lovers, because they claim they love nature.

The European Union Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA) launched the European Union Vulnerability Database (EUVD) website https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/

#ENISA #EUVD #CVE #Security #Europe #EuropeanAlternatives

Oh boy do I have news for you

Why should public institutions use Free Software?

🔓 Freedom to use & share

👀 Transparency & adaptability

🛠 No vendor lock-in

💰 Public funds = public benefit

Public Money? Public Code! #publiccode #freesoftware

https://publiccode.eu/

Recall still scoops up WhatsApp and Signal chats, haven't tried others yet. Fully searchable and stored as text in the local Recall database. My blur on screenshot.

Surely nothing will go wrong with this... nothing dystopian or privacy harming about this at all.

If your open source project is using Discord as its real-time chat, support, and/or development communication platform *please* reconsider:

https://gizmodo.com/discord-begins-testing-facial-scans-for-age-verification-2000590188

L’AGCOM ha approvato un nuovo sistema per la verifica dell’età sui siti internet

Leggi tutto: https://ilpost.link/HD3FM3ULBa

informapirata@mastodon.uno ildisinformatico@mastodon.uno

The web is broken, IMHO

So there is a (IMHO) shady market out there that gives app developers on iOS, Android, MacOS and Windows money for including a library that sells users network bandwidth. Infatica [1] is just one example, there are many more.

I am 99% sure that these companies cause what effectively are DDoS attacks that many webmasters have to deal with since months. This business model should simply not exist. Apple, Microsoft and Google should act.

1/8

[1] https://infatica.io/sdk-monetization/

L'#IA è ora in grado di analizzare le immagini caricate riconoscendo dettagli minuscoli che potrebbero sfuggire all'occhio umano.

La capacità di identificare con precisione luoghi da immagini casuali facilita pratiche come il doxing, la diffusione pubblica di informazioni private, in particolare relative all'ubicazione o alla residenza di una persona. Questa pratica, spesso motivata da intenti malevoli, mira a dirigere attenzioni indesiderate verso le vittime designate.

https://www.tomshw.it/hardware/chatgpt-identifica-i-luoghi-dalle-foto-mettendo-a-rischio-la-privacy-2025-04-20

tbh the people that reject things like GPL or AGPL offer zero alternatives other than "get fucked"

I recently came across two videos by this Jules on YouTube about how the current state of the internet is not only devoid of any humanity, but it also abuses our minds in ways that most people don't realize. What is talked about is not even the same kind of argument regurgitated by a hundred other videos, it goes much deeper, and I think more people should watch them.

Gen Z's Unique Oversocialisation: https://youtu.be/V5m2oKe9-sE

State of The Dead Internet: https://youtu.be/GELgKl_Wow8

[1/2] https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/lyft-conversation-transcribed-1.7508106

Canadian friends riding in a Lyft car found that their conversation had been recorded and sent in the form of text to the phone of one of them. This is supposed to be illegal, but Lyft says it shouldn't have been possible and it doesn't understand what happened. I can't draw any specific moral conclusions about Lyft from these fragments of understanding, but it is clear that microphones in cars are

glad we're at the stage of our cyberpunk hell-timeline that we have corporate botnets DDoSing the free software communities that they rely on, leading to an arms race between the biggest companies in the world and a virtual anime person developing a proof-of-work proxy with an anime girl mascot that's now deployed by the united nations

Everything you say to #Alexa now becomes training material for #AI, and no, you cannot opt out

https://adguard.com/en/blog/your-voice-alexa-ai-training-material.html

#privacy #Amazon

"yea bro you can host your own relay" yeah i can, and i can host my own appview and my own pds. congrats. im no longer using bsky but my own atproto network i am hosting. this isn't decentralization. i don't have to host an entire fediverse to talk to my friends lol