resist1984 @resist1984@social.privacytools.io

@josias @sotolf @alexbuzzbee @Phate6660 @zstix If you boycott a FOSS tool or platform, that's not a boycott on FOSS. It's a boycott on a particular app. From there, you can choose to give support to a competing FOSS option that is more deserving, or you can fork it to pull the code out of whatever toxic place it's in.

@zstix @Phate6660 @alexbuzzbee @sotolf @josias There are *lots* of forges out there, so indeed there is competition among the FOSS options: https://git.sdf.org/humanacollaborator/humanacollabora/src/branch/master/forge_comparison.md

@nedelne_rano i guess this impacts @Tutanota. Since #Tutanota is no longer accessible by a 3rd party app like #Electronmail, there's nothing to stop Tutanota from distributing a rogue app under this new law

I heard that ISPs in India and Serbia often offer #CGNAT connections as a budget Internet service. What other countries and circumstances is CGNAT used?

@aguasmenores would be interesting to know how that impacts their next election

A Belgian developed an app that uses AI to find mobile phones in a video stream and ID the face close to it. If the person matches a known Flemish politician, pics of them being distracted during meetings are posted publicly: https://driesdepoorter.be/theflemishscrollers/

@cnx Why does that abomination exist? Because people value others based on how many other people are seen to value others. And that flawed judgement creates value in the market of fake followers.

Scratch-off tickets to win #Twitter or #Facebook followers: https://driesdepoorter.be/vendingmachine/ 1eur for a chance to win 25k followers.

@Delib And because the public doesn't get to see the agreement between DDG & MS, there's no guarantee that DDG has mirrored through their contract with MS terms & conditions that uphold the effect of DDG's privacy policy.

@Delib DDG users are inherently subjected to the same censorship that comes from Bing because Bing is DDG's source. While that censorship hits all DDG users across the board, there is also nothing to stop DDG from putting users in Microsoft's individualized filter bubble because MS sees the IP address & queries of DDG users (since DDG is also MS-hosted).

@paysonwallach if you're in the US enforcement would be potentially as easy as filing in small claims court, although if the idea catches on it could even be filed as a class action. OTOH, perhaps Copilot would limit itself to Github (MS may want to keep users inside its walled garden), i which case the fix is trivial. Not sure if we'll be so lucky.

@paysonwallach yes, i think that's the one.

@paysonwallach I'm not finding the link now, but an #openSource license has been drafted somewhere that bans a number of activities that go against human rights. It could be expanded to ban use by entities that go against human rights.

@paysonwallach Copilot enables an evil corporation to profit from my work. I wonder if a non-free software license might actually become more interesting now: the "No Evil" license, which discards FSF's freedom 0 (the freedom to use as you please). It permits only ethical uses. That kind of license could perhaps block #Copilot.

@paysonwallach I agree with the points made but it leaves me at a loss for a solution. I will not use Github & I keep my works outside of Github, but there is nothing to stop MS from harvesting my works from softwareheritage.org and profitting from it. Normally It's sufficient to boycott, so by not using MS products/services I don't help MS profit. But #Copilot sidesteps my boycott.