What is #EXIF data — and why it matters when sharing #photos

https://proton.me/blog/exif-data

#privacy

wake up babe, new manjaro moment dropped

New one

Lawmakers are “taking a hard look” at VPNs after the total flop of the UK “age verification” rollout + we all know where that’s gonna lead—censorship fanatics are gonna try to bring the ban hammer down on VPNs.

Millions use VPNs to dodge surveillance + circumvent censorship.

Can you help us remind them what a terrible idea it is to destroy essential Internet safety infrastructure?

Sign the thing at https://www.defendvpns.com

The incredible irony of every part of this

Debian 13 "trixie" is released with Ceratopsian by Elise Couper as its default theme, featured across wallpapers, installer, and login screens. https://wiki.debian.org/DebianArt/Themes/Ceratopsian #debian #debian13 #trixie #ReleasingDebianTrixie

Debian Pure Blends are a solution for groups of people with specific needs: a handy collection of specific packages, easier installation and configuration for the intended purpose. Now with Debian 13 trixie, a selection of Debian Pure Blends, such as Debian Junior, Debian Science, or Debian FreedomBox, can now be be installed directly from within the Debian installer! https://www.debian.org/blends/ #debian #debian13 #trixie #debianpureblends #ReleasingDebianTrixie

Debian 13 "trixie" has been released, thanks to everyone involved! "trixie" images are available for download at https://www.debian.org/distrib/ or you can run apt full-upgrade as always ;-) #debian #debian13 #trixie #ReleasingDebianTrixie

if you want to extract an image from a website that won't let you, open Developer Tools > Network and reload the site with Ctl+F5. now click Img and sort by size. the largest image will be the one you want most likely.

this "betanet" thing just looks like a massive grift

the internet itself is inherently decentralized, the problem is that the ecosystem has largely centralized over time to a few big players

not only does this not address that in any way, it introduces more problems by introducing a blockchain-style governance system vulnerable to 51% attacks

betanet does not have me too convinced rn.

there needs to be a slightly more abstracted and simplified explanation of the protocol, hard to see the interest in this when it's either a vague manifesto or overly technical jargon.

like what are the actual principles behind the way it's written and structured? there needs to be some actual comparison between this and other protocols (http, tor, i2p, fucking gemini or gopher or whatever the fuck)

also i'm getting that gut feeling that i get from any massive ambitious project that aims to fix everything forever.

not putting too much faith into it at the moment.

@mynameistillian@plush.city

#Meta has scraped content from tldr.nettime.org for their AI. It’s one of ~100,000 top websites reportedly used to train Meta’s proprietary AI models.

👉🏻 https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/meta-facebook-tech-copyright-privacy-whistleblower

LEAKED: A New List Reveals Top Websites Meta Is Scraping of Copyrighted Content to Train Its AI (Including Many Fediverse Instances!!!)

"The tech giant is sidestepping guardrails that websites use to prevent being scraped, data show, in a move whistleblowers say is unethical and potentially illegal."

ARTICLE: https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/meta-facebook-tech-copyright-privacy-whistleblower

FULL PDF: https://www.dropsitenews.com/api/v1/file/b3555944-e204-4f5e-9a64-e44281b19a82.pdf

#FediPact #meta #threads #AI

Confirmed, Meta has scraped my content for their AI. I have not given them permission to do this, at the same time, I did not explicitly prevent them from doing this. So I am sure by some stupid lawyer’s definition, they can use my content for whatever purpose they want.

F that.

If they want to do that, then the whole notion of “pirating video” or music, or software, or anything else that ends up in the public domain is right out the window.

On the bright side, #socialbc does not appear on the list.

I found the list here: https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/meta-facebook-tech-copyright-privacy-whistleblower

#meta #copyright #personalproperty

Reddit will block the Internet Archive https://www.theverge.com/news/757538/reddit-internet-archive-wayback-machine-block-limit

"GitHub’s leadership team will now report more directly to Microsoft’s CoreAI team."

Another step seemingly in the wrong direction as the AI-happy CEO jumps ship.

https://www.theverge.com/news/757461/microsoft-github-thomas-dohmke-resignation-coreai-team-transition

I think this shows how @linuxfoundation@social.lfx.dev is not necessarily on our side.

https://social.lfx.dev/@linuxfoundation/114993371357953940