kravietz 🦇 @kravietz@social.privacytools.io

@kensanata "Why Zuckerberg’s 14-Year Apology Tour Hasn’t Fixed Facebook"

There is no other way to interpret Facebook’s privacy invading moves over the years—even if it’s time to simplify! finally!―as anything other than decisions driven by a combination of self-serving impulses: namely, profit motives, the structural incentives inherent to the company’s business model, and the one-sided ideology of its founders and some executives. All these are forces over which the users themselves have little input, aside from the regular opportunity to grouse through repeated scandals. And even the ideology—a vague philosophy that purports to prize openness and connectivity with little to say about privacy and other values—is one that does not seem to apply to people who run Facebook or work for it. Zuckerberg buys houses surrounding his and tapes over his computer’s camera to preserve his own privacy, and company employees went up in arms when a controversial internal memo that made an argument for growth at all costs was recently leaked to the press—a nonconsensual, surprising, and uncomfortable disclosure of the kind that Facebook has routinely imposed upon its billions of users over the years.

Tufekci, 2018.

https://www.wired.com/story/why-zuckerberg-15-year-apology-tour-hasnt-fixed-facebook/

#ZeynepTufekci #facebook #MarkZuckerberg #surveillance #privacy #hypocrisy #trust #sincerity #credibility

Does #Facebook use sensitive data for advertising purposes?

#acm
#privacy
#surveillancecapitalism

https://m-cacm.acm.org/magazines/2021/1/249457-does-facebook-use-sensitive-data-for-advertising-purposes/fulltext

Outlier looks pretty exciting. At first glance it appears to be something like Masterclass but for STEM, plus it counts as actual college credits for anyone in university. basically it is university level courses taught by famous experts in the field.

Also gets some brownie points from me for highlighting Hannah Fry as one of the instructors. She is awesome and has done a lot of great stuff over the years. I got to talk to a her a few times and she helped me out with some problems I was working on once or twice (not through outlier)... so cool they snatched her up.

https://www.outlier.org/ is the link for anyone who wants to check it out.

#Science #Math #Mathematics #learning #elearning @Science @math

@dielan

@rf Михаил Лидин et al. vs "Университет" Синергия - что происходит сейчас

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eq8CO9jeaQ4

@zubrzysta
Będzie bardzo przyziemnie. KDE jako najbardziej przyjazne moim zdaniem, kompletne i spójne środowisko graficzne, przy tym zawierające programy tj. Krita czy Kdenlive.
Nextcloud, który sprawił że wolę używać własnego VPS-a jako skromne miejsce na pliki niż google drive, google keep itd.
Mastodon, dzięki któremu sfederowane sieci społecznościowe nie stanowią przeszkody dla mniej technicznych użytkowników. Wyjątkowo dopracowany UX/onboarding.

Reject modernity

@icedquinn @mystik @realcaseyrollins At least we got this out of it.

@stux: Before dropping off FB I used to push the idea that for any post that someone would share to also find an additional source from a traditional (FOX would count too) source that gave detail. My conservative friends hated this idea and one common thread was, "but I don't have the TIME to search google for the same story. And I can't find it most of the times." That should be their clue but they seem to not think that means it was false because it fits their narrative.

THINK, before you #share

ElasticSearch and Kibana no longer open source according to the Open Source Initiative (OSI).

https://anonymoushash.vmbrasseur.com/2021/01/14/elasticsearch-and-kibana-are-now-business-risks

"У силовиков полный набор ОПГ: отравления, пытки, избиения, незаконное преследование и жучки. При этом уголовное дело заводится против Соболь, а Навального объявляют в федеральный розыск. Хотя должно быть с точностью наоборот".
https://t.co/v4tWum8YRz

@zorinlynx