Steinar @Steinar@snabelen.no

Tek Fog in Action: Targeting Women Journalists, Pushing Communal Narrative on COVID, Delhi Violence
https://thewire.in/tekfog/en/3.html

"TekFog" is a platform used for automated targeting journalists, activists, etc., in order to silence them, and then... take over their accounts to use them to spread right-wing propaganda.

It's automated, targeted cyber-bullying.

This is a third piece in this investigative series. And it is damn chilling. Go, have a read.

#TekFog

T-shirts and hoodies available!
https://fosdem.org/2022/news/2022-01-13-tshirts/

"In a groundbreaking decision, the Austrian Data Protection Authority ("Datenschutzbehörde" or "DSB") has decided on a model case by noyb that the continuous use of Google Analytics violates the GDPR."

"This is a very detailed and sound decision. The bottom line is: Companies can't use US cloud services in Europe anymore."

from https://noyb.eu/en/austrian-dsb-eu-us-data-transfers-google-analytics-illegal

Wir engagieren uns in einer Gruppe die die #Barrierefreiheit der Dienste der Stadt #Bonn verbessern möchte.

Gibt es eine Stadt die dies vorbildlich macht und wovon wir lernen könnten?

(Gerne boosten für Reichweite.)

It's funny how things go full circle. So I now sometimes read FOSS people making exactly the same argument as Bill Gates in 1976. Essentially, “what software professional can afford to work for free?” (as in beer). They've got N kids to feed.

It indicates that this is really a philosophical or structural bind that's somewhat timeless at least under capitalism. The need for monetization tends towards enclosure of value production and dominance of a small group.

The idea of a global commons seems if not deprecated then maybe shuffled to the back of the room, behind the elephants.

Public Money. Public Code.

https://publiccode.eu/

*ID* –> “Whirlpool”
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It's a kind of situation that sucks ! haha... ha-hem... :)
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this is for illustrationday.com

Have a great week Mastodon !

- #mastoart #art #illustration #illustrationday -
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https://www.gynux.com/v2/lesnews/?p=3341&rub=news&tag=en&preview=true

Corporations are private fiefdoms that should not have power over our social lives.

To keep an online community free and inclusive, while also excluding hateful and dangerous behaviour, is a thorny problem with no perfect solution.

One thing is clear: Proprietary platforms make it all so much worse. They lock users in with #SwitchingCosts. Tabletop Simulator users who find it unsafe can't simply bring their games nor their community with them when they leave.

I denne kronikken var det mykje godt. Eg veit ikkje noko om skribenten, men han har fleire poeng. https://www.nrk.no/ytring/nar-markedet-tar-over-1.15793955

.. og litt om forholdet mellom NFT-er og copyright. https://bearstrong.net/kaninhullet/tech/web3/nft/andsverk/

"...In the 1950s.... the American Can Company, Owens-Illinois Glass Company, Coca-Cola, and the Dixie Cup company got together to design a solution to the growing pressure to regulate disposable packaging. They knew the issue of litter would not go away and was increasingly unpopular with the public, but disposable packaging was incredibly profitable. They needed a way to avoid regulation that might limit the use of disposables, and their solution was cunning.

They founded a nonprofit called Keep America Beautiful and poured significant amounts of money into environmental awareness campaigns. This helped them look good, but the real genius was in the message behind the campaigns - that litter on the streets had nothing to do with the producers, but was the fault of the person who dropped it - the litterbug. Keep America Beautiful managed to shift the entire debate around Americas garbage and litter problems away from the industry and on to consumers, and the strategy has been copied to time and time again since."

-- "Sustainable Web Design"

Sound familiar?

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RT @teachergoals@twitter.com

I feel seen. 🙌

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/teachergoals/status/1473293389126852620

Threema: Three Strikes, You’re Out - Soatok: https://soatok.blog/2021/11/05/threema-three-strikes-youre-out/