"O mia Rosina, tu mi piaci tanto,
e come il mare piace a una sirena.
E quando non ti vedo piango tanto
che non mi scorre il sangue nelle vene.
Meglio sarebbe se non ti avessi amato.
Sapevo il Credo ed ora l’ho scordato.
Pur non sapendo più l’Ave Maria,
come potrò salvar l’anima mia?
O mia Rosina, mi hai ridotto male:
andavo a messa e non so dove sia;
sapevo le parole del messale,
ed ora non so più l’Ave Maria. "
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Do you remember the surprise announcement of a new social network in Davos this past January? Something that promised to be the "first" European social network?
Its name is #WSocial and it's a fork of #Bluesky. Its founders have ties with European politicians - but there is no official involvement by the EU.
You wouldn't know any of this from media reports because they all rehashed their talking points. So I wrote a post about it, dispelling some myths:
blog.elenarossini.com/w-social…
W Social uncovered: the reality behind the hype
In January my corner of the social web was abuzz with the surprising announcement at Davos of a new social network: W Social, which aspires to be an alternative to X, based in Europe, with "identity verification to fight disinformation." Its goal? To foster social sovereignty for European citizens, away from the control and influence of U.S. tech behemoths.There was a lot of ambiguity surrounding the announcement with implications that this may be an initiative driven by European politicians. Was the European Commission involved? Would governments be funding a new social platform for European citizens that required ID verification? It was hard to tell.
Meanwhile, many European newspapers, blogs, radio and TV stations covered this announcement extensively, with great enthusiasm - day after day for what seemed like a full week. Most of the reporting seemed to be a simple rehashing of a press release.
It took me about 5 minutes of research to start uncovering some really surprising elements. The contrast between the media hype and the reality was so jarring, that I decided to start collecting evidence and share what I found in a blog post.
With my article today I aim to share the reality behind the hype, doing the work that journalists should have done at the beginning.
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Disclaimer:This article represents my personal opinions, commentary, and conclusions formed through independent research using publicly available sources. Any characterizations, interpretations, or inferences are presented as opinion, not as statements of objective fact. Readers are encouraged to review the referenced materials and draw their own conclusions.
Why should YOU care?
World events from the past two years have pushed a lot of European leaders to start reassessing Europe's dependence on American tech infrastructure.European politicians and policy experts have started holding meetings to discuss "Trusted European Platforms (TEPs) to strengthen Europe’s strategic autonomy." W Social is being mentioned in these discussions:
Sovereign Democracy & Trusted European Platforms: starting!
Sovereign Democracy & Trusted European Platforms: starting!Stars4MediaStars4Media Project
I understand that doing due diligence requires time and technical expertise.I would like to collect in this post all the evidence I found of why I personally don't think W Social is a solution for Europe’s digital sovereignty.
If anything, we should exercise critical thinking, follow the money and analyze who has control over social media platforms. It is no coincidence that tech oligarchs in the U.S. have been on a media purchasing spree, scooping up newspapers, TV stations and social media networks - especially in the past 4 years. Controlling the flow of information is a potent thing - and we should be very careful of whom we give that power to.
A word from the author
Before we get started, why should you listen to me?Well, I have been very active on decentralized social networks for four years now, championing these online spaces over centralized offerings by Big Tech platforms.
I have been invited to speak about my views and experiences at Journées du Logiciel Libre in Lyon, PublicSpaces in Amsterdam, Berlin Fediverse Day, Social Media Strategies in Bologna and this past month I gave a talk at the Ministry of Culture in Paris and delivered the opening keynote at 2MR in Hamburg.
a photo of me on stage at Social Media Strategies in Bologna, Italy - next to Niccolò Venerandi and morloi
In addition to my advocacy, I have been self-hosting my own social media platforms (GoToSocial, PeerTube and Pixelfed instances) and I’ve set up essential services like NextCloud… purposefully using domain name registrars, web and VPS hosting companies based in Europe.The topics of open social networks, FOSS alternatives to Big Tech platforms and European cloud infrastructure are my bread and butter.
I have been alarmed by the hype around the launch of W Social and all the inaccuracies in news reports. Thus my speaking up.
Issue no.1: How W Social ignored existing European initiatives
People in my circles discussed the announcement of W Social with disbelief and a touch of anger. At launch, the official website of W Social showcased a world map, with icons of American tech platforms (Bluesky, Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, Reddit, Snapchat, TikTok US, Whatsapp, X and YouTube) superimposed over the map of the United States; then over Russia you can see the logos of OK and Vkontakte, over China there is QQ, TikTok, WeChat and Weibo, and over India there is ShareChat. A circle is drawn around Europe... but there are no icons inside. The message: W Social is here to fill that void and provide a European social network.a screenshot of the initial landing page for W Social on January 21st 2026
This provoked the ire of many of my friends and fellow Fediverse netizens - because decentralized social media platforms like Mastodon and PeerTube originated in Europe; the Fediverse has over 12 million users. Omitting this felt like a strange choice. Even the European Commission has an active Mastodon account: on their own server, with over 154,000 followers!
European Commission (@EUCommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu)
3.58K Posts, 10 Following, 154K Followers · News and information from the European Commission. A project to foster our presence in the fediverse and support our commitment to European social media platforms based on open source technology. 🇪🇺 Official Mastodon account as verified by the official EU domain in our server’s address (https://europa.eu).European Commission on Mastodon
While most people focused their frustration on that omission, I thought of something else entirely: for months I had been hearing about the development of Eurosky, based on Bluesky's ATproto.A mission statement, from Eurosky's website (a note: I grabbed this text in January and the page has since changed. But you can see the original courtesy of the Internet Archive):
Eurosky is building the future of social media - open, pluralistic, and made in Europe. We believe social media should serve our economies and societies, not monopolies. Eurosky is a public-interest infrastructure project that puts control in the hands of users, businesses, and European society. By combining European cloud infrastructure with open standards and democratic governance, we’re creating a new ecosystem where innovation thrives, moderation is transparent, and no single company or country can dictate the rules.
a screenshot of Eurosky's website from late January 2026
By reading articles about W Social, you could easily think journalists were discussing Eurosky. The two platforms are so eerily similar in their stated goals, that when I heard that a new European social platform was launching to rival X, when I read it was called "W Social" my first thought was that Eurosky must have rebranded and changed its name. After all, it was supposed to launch in January 2026 and the announcement of W Social was made in Davos on January 20th 2026.Oh no. They are two completely different initiatives.
Here is what Robin Berjon - one of the architects of Eurosky - had to say about W Social:
a screenshot of a post by Robin Berjon of Eurosky
While the two initiatives share similar goals, their execution could not be more different.Eurosky has been slowly and carefully planned out, online and behind the scenes. Its website is sleek and professional, with extensive information explaining what the project is about, team bios, a timeline of objectives. When French and German political leaders met in Berlin in November 2025 at the Summit on European Digital Sovereignty to discuss European tech sovereignty plans, Eurosky team members organized their own conference in Berlin as a "side event", in order to show policy makers what they were working on. This is a very well prepared team of experts.
By contrast, if you visited the website of W Social on its launch day, all you had was a rudimentary landing page with a map of Europe and the invitation to enter an invite code. Any 14-year-old with an hour to spare and a free Canva account could have designed something more professional looking.
Now the page has been updated with a slightly sleeker design for its landing page but it is still lacking any content (as of May 7th, 2026):
the landing page of W social on May 7, 2026
W Social's announcement at Davos felt very rushed, with minimal preparation just to get the word out there about their plans and get a leg up in the news cycle about European platforms as alternatives to Big Tech offerings from Silicon Valley.With work on Eurosky being well under way (they eventually opened migrations to their server from Bluesky in February), I kept wondering: "Why? What is the point of W Social, another European fork of Bluesky?" And then everything clicked: maybe W Social is banking on mandatory age verification for European users in order to use social media. This could be their "leg up" over Eurosky: the need for an official government ID to open an account and use it.
Issue no.2: W Social's bungled attempt to conceal they are using Bluesky's AT Protocol
How will W Social work? Which technology will it employ to power its revolutionary European social network?You would think journalists would ask these questions.
Sadly, that wasn't the case.
Online sleuths discovered the page stage.wsocial.eu that revealed WSocial is none other than a fork of Bluesky, thus based on ATProto.
Developers typically test out platforms on a staging website before launching or going in production... the staging page for W Social was exactly like the Bluesky login page. If you clicked on the "x" to close that preview window, you would see a Bluesky feed:
screenshots putting the landing page of Bluesky and the staging page for W Social side by side...
a screenshot of W social's early feed from the staging page. basically a Bluesky feed
That page was active for a few days: if you shared a link to it from Signal for example - like I did - you would see a preview card with the Bluesky logo. So much for calling out Bluesky and conflating it with other Big Tech offerings by Meta and ByteDance.
Additional proof: the URL dev-pds.wsocial.eu which showed the ATproto logo and stated "this is an AT Protocol Personal Data Server" (the two URLs have since been migrated):
This Scooby-Doo unmasking meme shared by DoktorZjivago on Mastodon is a perfect illustration for this:
I'm guessing that after catching some flack online – regarding their high aspirations of having a European tech stack but picking the American Bluesky and their protocol – someone in charge of W Social commanded that their staging website scrap all evidence of ATproto.So the stage.wsocial.eu webpage a few days after the official announcement looked like this:
Issue no.3: W Social's cavalier attitude towards online security
Did you notice anything wrong in the previous screenshot?Well, the operation scrapping of all Bluesky branding resulted in the loss of the page's SSL certificate.
This is a LOGIN page into their system.
Why is it bad? Well, when you type a password into a webpage that doesn't have a working SSL certificate, the connection between your browser and the website is unencrypted. That means the password travels as plain text across the Internet.
Did I mention that W Social's value proposition is verified identity and they will require a government ID to create an account? They are asking for your most sensitive data... and yet have a cavalier attitude towards security.
On announcement week, Tom Casavant shared these messages on Bluesky about W Social and its dev-pds.wsocial.eu page (I'm sharing this with Tom's permission):
How bad is this?Potentially catastrophic if the wrong person could so easily gain access into their system.
Am I theorizing about things that may never happen? Sure. But we should all be very careful about the organizations we trust with our most sensitive data. A few months ago a Discord data breach exposed the government IDs of 70,000 users:
Discord Data Breach - 1.5 TB of Data and 2 Million Government ID Photos Extorted
Discord has confirmed a significant data breach that exposed sensitive user information after an attacker compromised a third-party customer service provider.CybersecurityNewsGuru Baran
Now, I have heard through the grapevines (and read confirmation in the press - more on this later) that W Social hired a team of software engineers and now have more than 20 employees, so I think they are taking things more seriously. Still, their early blunders were really shocking to me.Issue no.4: the founders or: who are we trusting with our communications?
W Social is being built by a Swedish company called W Social AB, which is a subsidiary of We Don't Have Time, a climate-focused media platform. The W Social project is led by Anna Zeiter, a Swiss privacy expert who previously served as Chief Privacy Officer at eBay for more than a decade; she holds a PhD in law from the University of Hamburg. Not the typical background for a tech founder.a screenshot of Anna Zeiter's profile as it appears on Bluesky
According to an article on Impact Loop, W Social received 2.5 million Euros in funding and has a team of 25 people. Its board of advisors includes very powerful, well-connected people in the world of business and politics, including Cristina Caffarra (chair of EuroStack), Elizabeth Denham (former UK Information Commissioner), Sandrine Dixson-Declève (Honorary President of the Club of Rome), Yariv Adan (former Head of AI at Google), Pär Nuder (former Swedish Minister of Finance), Marc Placzek (former CPO at PayPal) and Philipp Rösler (former German vice-chancellor).At Davos, Zeiter was interviewed during a We Don't Have Time segment and had a chance to talk about her intentions for the platform - the video was posted on X, but I am using the alternate site nitter.net to display it (so you won't need an X account to see it):
Direct link: nitter.net/WeDontHaveTime/stat…Zeiter said:
Everything is data-driven. Ten years ago we said 'data is the new oil', right now we say 'high quality data is the new oil.' And this is what we are seeing, that competitors in the U.S. and China are using a lot of personal data to analyze, to target... and also sometimes to manipulate users. We want to be different in that respect. Of course, we want to respect GDPR and other European laws because we are run, built and governed in Europe and we would also like to give back to the users. We like to give for example, the face identification process, we want to make sure that users can govern their own data and also their own algorithms, so that users can really choose: "do I want to stay in my filter bubble?" or "do I want to see a little bit more of what is going on in society?" or "do I want to have the full spectrum?"
This is their pitch: a social media platform with a pick-your-own algorithm, that requires government ID to sign up.What I take issue with here is the sentence "we are run, built and governed in Europe." Why hide that they are using the ATproto infrastructure to operate? Theirs is not a novel, completely original, built from the ground up platform. It is based on Bluesky's ATproto. And yet, this protocol has never been mentioned in any interviews.
Software engineer Maho Pacheco theorized:
I have strong suspicions about why W selected ATproto instead of Activity Pub. Basically there is more power in the biggest actors, a more "centralized" control, to ban/shadow-ban/censure and pull the plug. In other words it is more impactful when Bluesky sidebanned someone or some community than if mastodon.social would do it. The firehose/relay is a the biggest point of control. So in my opinion it is more interesting for investors to create a platform that can be controlled, even if it is just to introduce ads or control the discourse. Technically is because setting-up/supporting/maintaining the firehose/relay layer is very expensive. Every single message would flow through there; creating the biggest firehose in Europe is such a power. So, it is easier to be controlled, and very unlikely to be replicated by other entities.
Issue no. 5: lack of transparency
Following their surprise announcement at Davos, there were dozens of news reports in newspapers, radio shows and TV news shows about this "new European network that will replace X" - with strong implications that it may be an official initiative by the European Union.a screenshot showing articles about W Social on Google News
This went on for TEN DAYS - with zero fact checking by media organizations or corrections by the W Social founders.The first news organization to fact check and debunk the myth of official involvement by the European Union was Euronews. In a segment for The Cube (which you could watch here), journalist James Thomas said:
Claims are spreading online like wildfire that the European Union is setting up its own social media platform to rival X. These posts have spread primarily on X itself, with thousands of views and say that taxpayers money will be used to set up W as an alternative to Elon Musk's platform. Some posts describe it as a state-run censorship platform that has receive funding from the European executive, but these claims are misleading. A European Commission spokesperson told The Cube that the EU is not launching, funding or operating any social media platform. There is no European-backed projected called "W".
This came ten days too late, with dozens of news reports legitimizing W as an official European alternative to X.Let's do some role-playing here: if I were to launch a privately funded project that received extensive media coverage in newspapers, on the radio and TV, but with reports wrongly claiming that the government was behind it... well, the first thing I would do would be to contact journalists to rectify the mistake. I may even put text on my website to correct the assumptions.
W did not do that. I will always remember their silence on this.
I am not sure I can fully trust an initiative that lacked clarity and honesty on two crucial points:
- hiding that they are a fork of Bluesky;
- not correcting wrong claims about their origins, letting people believe that they are part of a European Union initiative - whereas in reality they are a private venture, funded by private investors.
And then there is the thorny issue of their required ID verification, the erosion of privacy and the end of internet anonymity. Em wrote an excellent article pointing out the problems with age verification laws for social media users - it is a must read and covers many of the reasons why government IDs to use social media is a very bad idea:
Age Verification Wants Your Face, and Your Privacy
Age verification laws forcing platforms to restrict access to content online have been multiplying in recent years. The problem is, implementing such measure necessarily requires identifying each user accessing this content, one way or another. This is bad news for your privacy.Privacy GuidesEm
The Electronic Frontier Foundation also has a superb piece about this topic:
10 (Not So) Hidden Dangers of Age Verification
It’s nearly the end of 2025, and half of the US and the UK now require you to upload your ID or scan your face to watch “sexual content.” A handful of states and Australia now have various requirements to verify your age before you can create a social media account.Age-verification laws may sound…Electronic Frontier FoundationRindala Alajaji
Final Thoughts
I have a lot more to say about this but I realize that in this post-literate era I have already written a very long post that will take time to read and fully digest. I will stop here - for now. W Social is set to launch tomorrow May 9th on Europe Day. As it happened when it was first announced in January, it is likely to receive a lot of uncritical, superficial press coverage. Please exercise critical thinking and try to look at the reality behind its hype. And if you are not familiar with open social networks, please take a look at a better option: the Fediverse.Thanks for being here,
Elena
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Regarding my W Social exposé: it was months in the making and I could have written a LOT more, showing additional examples of technical blunders, but I kept it "brief" at 3500 words 😅
I ran out of characters to tag all the awesome people I mentioned in the piece: @doktorzjivago (thanks for the top notch meme), @tom @mapache and @Em0nM4stodon
And special thanks to people who volunteered to proof-read a draft and gave me fantastic feedback: @bitzero and @DataKnightmare
It takes a village ❤️
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In this case: it takes some federated villages. Thank to you for the awesome inquiry.
Thanks! Let's hope the message lands!
Journalism has been disappointing. One journalist picking up on it was working for Dutch NOS. On launch she asked "Bluesky fork?" and got shut down with a "we'll share tech details later". ⏰🔔
>Eurosky .. carefully planned out,
But also dishonest. Eurosky is an offshoot from a failed global grift now trying the Europe angle.
On launch I emailed back-and-forth with them multiple times to fix their privacy policy. Even now they make false claims.
This is truly an excellent piece! Thank you for conducting this important research, and for bringing this issue to the attention of the public. This is a very important topic!
And thank you so much for linking to my article 
I just refreshed the #WSocial website and it's showing a MAJOR redesign... with a label at the top stating "built on the open AT-protocol."
This is the first time ever they acknowledge this – I know, as I've been visiting their website for MONTHS and also never heard about this in any interviews. So the claims in my exposé stand (the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine would confirm this).
Of note: they changed their URL from wsocial.eu to wsocial.news
BTW thanks for all your feedback ❤️
still no mention of Mastodon or the Fediverse, LOL. That .news TLD really brings back to memory that failed attempt to capture the Xodus and the short-lived post.news experiment (shut down in 2024)
techcrunch.com/2024/04/19/post…
Taking bets on how long W will last!
Post was backed by Andreessen Horowitz and Scott Galloway, an NYU professor and tech commentator, but the platform never disclosed how much it raised.Amanda Silberling (TechCrunch)
Félicitations, Elena Bly* Rossini.
(* Nellie Bly, trailblazing female figure in investigative journalism.)
the "trusted feed" thing will be interesting. I'm trying out eYou Social - mobile-only for now, fully proprietary, but, it also promises an EU-based, trusted platform. The "trust" element comes via an AI verification that happens on *every* post; and it gets tripped up (?) on certain things... just imagine posting about the rights of certain groups in society - opinion, or fact? Hmm! It's a dangerous and tricky path, and those AIs are not always great at that. 😬
Let's see how W does.
it's pretty interesting they still really want to avoid saying "Bluesky" and only say "AT-proto".
Almost every other project goes as far as including "sky" in their name and repeatedly mentions Bluesky because that's the thing some people might know at this point so it's good marketing...
Except if you're trying to present yourself as the new European social platform that replaces the US ones such as Bluesky I guess.
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„Issue no.1: How W Social ignored existing European initiatives“
I would say: They ignored all non-commercial media. And mastodon = european? Mostly. But it doesn’t mather. „Es gibt keine Nationalstaaten mehr“ is a trent un SF shows 😀
#wsocial #raumpatrouille
seeing how gullible people on X are, though, is really something...
Après cinéaste et photographe, tu pourrais maintenant ajouter journaliste d'enquête.
Merci pour cet article très fouillé et très recherché.
At least for me it's clear... W social is a financial project to grap some founding money. It's not a project with European sovereignty in mind or with sovereignty for Europeans.
Therefore, it should be avoided.
You can kinda think of Blacksky's app as a truly different instance of Bluesky, if that helps understand it in fediverse terms (though it's not a perfect translation since both protocols have very different approaches to infrastructure).
Blacksky started as a community and safe space for black people inside Blueksy, they started as a feed and moderation service. But today they are much bigger than that. They have their own app totally independent from Blueksy but it is compatible with communicating with people using Blueksy.
Their app started as a fork from Bluesky's but they are expanding and exploring different features for some time already (like having a way that a post is only visible on Blacksky and Blacksky users, pronouns displayed for everyone, and are now developing integration with long-format blog posts that already exist on atproto).
They also launched Acorn, which is a super toolkit for communities to have a similar structure as they have (app branding, moderation, statistics…) with less friction of building from zero.
Same shit as US big tech, wearing an EU mask…
Which is what I think a lot of this sovereignty hype will boil down to:
A lot of US companies will establish subsidies, that will ”Eurowash” their products. In the background the data access for them stays, and nothing changes. We use the same products under a different name and somebody gets a cut.
Neoliberal corporatism is an ideology, and this is the result. So very few people can even see it.
@gimulnautti that is a valid concern but saying that's how it *will* end up i's a very cynical outlook for an effort that could still produce something positive... people need to get involved and fight against the forces that try to make it fail like that even if it is difficult when faced with lobbyists like these.
@ikuturso Yes, I hope it will not. The risk is real however, and this is essentially the status quo.
We should recognize how bad things really are. I feel the most danger is that people want to feel hopeful and they close their eyes on how the train tracks are laid down.
Fun, private, and ethical. We're changing the way social media is done around here, all without your personal data taking an unexpected trip down south.Gander Social
@jaj you’ll enjoy this, then… eupolicy.social/@hpod16/116538…
Excited to announce that the @EUCommission has updated it's follow buttons on the website footer!
What's that first platform there? Could that be #Mastodon?
And where did the link to #X go?
All the posts and comments here on Mastodon calling for this, trust me we read them!#SocialMedia #EU #EuropeanCommission #FollowUs
@wraptile would have to disagree that it's the only one but it is a pretty significant one and also has implications for how independent anything based on their platform and protocol can really be.
Dries Buytaert (Drupal) wrote about some of the limitations when it comes to software sovereignty, Bluesky would get a "C" under his framework and that's before we even consider the network effects inherent to a social platform:
dri.es/the-software-sovereignt…
Digital sovereignty depends less on where software comes from and more on who controls it. This post introduces a scale showing which technologies can never be taken away.Dries Buytaert
Thank you, this kind of work is so important and sadly underappreciated.
The difficulty for a lot of people (like me!) is not really understanding the tech we're using. So we end up trusting whatever we're told.
Hopefully, articles like this will gradually educate people so they understand how to make their choices align with their principles.
Fantastic work, as always Elena!
Great exposé!
anytime you see a privacy policy page with anything more than we don’t collect your data you should run screaming .. and they have a very lengthy privacy policy.
Is this different than eYou ?
WSocial and Eurosky.Social are not a fork of BlueSky. In fact all of them are AT protocol instances. Which btw. you could also host yourself. Basically very comparable with the many ActivityPub instances. I think we in the Fediverse should keep being fair.
Definitely better at AT protocol is, that you can move your account including your posts. You can even keep your handle if you have an own domain. Something that the Fediverse could do better.
When the people from Bluesky decide to block you from their AppView, then you are cut off. AFAIK there is currently only the AppView from the people from Blacksky as an alternative.
Different apps don't help, because they need to talk to an AppView server and your PDS. And the PDS needs AppView for the message flow.
This was great, thanks!
And maybe it's because I'm old, but I would have gladly read a much longer article shining light into the dark corners of W.
Good article, but I just want to correct one information from a quote you added to the article.
[...] Technically is because setting-up/supporting/maintaining the firehose/relay layer is very expensive. Every single message would flow through there; creating the biggest firehose in Europe is such a power. So, it is easier to be controlled, and very unlikely to be replicated by other entities.
This is very outdated information. Currently, it's very cheap to run an atproto relay ( bsky.app/profile/bad-example.c… ), there are multiple of them up and running pulsar.feeds.blue/ (both relays and firehoses). So this theory has no foundation. Though it is a centralization point of an app (if the app doesn't allow you to change your relay, because some Bluesky clients allow that) that can be used as an additional moderation point for the app, which can end up in censorship if things go evil (though so far relays only block spam networks).
Dashboard of currently active AT Protocol relays and Jetstream serverspulsar.feeds.blue
I didn't pay attention to Davos so I missed it. To many rich people high-giving each other for being rich.
Thank you for digging into what is going on behind the scenes. Are the investors just more techbros, just European?
Some relevant updates.
Between March 26 and 29, we had the AtmosphereConf in Vancouver. People from W Social and Eurosky were there, and they even did presentations.
I feel like W Social relationship with Atproto devs is more amicable now, compared to their first impression, which wasn't that good.
During the conference, Eurosky announced they will take the infrastructure path, not building a social media themselves, but instead offering the infrastructure for European builders (for both atproto and activity pub btw).
Eurosky presentation: atmosphereconf.org/event/ja4oo…
W Social lightning talk: atmosphereconf.org/event/000WS…
Both links have video recording available bellow the description.
ATmosphereConf is the global atproto community conference. Join us in Vancouver, Canada, March 26th - 29th, 2026.atmosphereconf.org
also see infosec.exchange/@adfichter/11…
#Wedium #AnotherShadyW #TikTokAlternative
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Eurosky only having a PDS is correct, you can see what they have and are working on here: eurosky.tech/build/
Eurosky is a European initiative to build and operate sovereign social web infrastructureEurosky
I need to read this for real.
I was excited about trying out a new platform.
Just finished reading your article and wow lots of interesting points to digest.
I went to the website the other day it definitely looks a ton more polished than back in January when it was first announced.
As usual I signed up for beta access because I like seeing new social platforms but this one has age verification and that's a deal breaker for me right there.
Great post Elena and excellent information in the article.
@marjolica just the nature of free software that anyone can use it for any purpose. There's a North Korean Linux distro but that's not because Linus Torvalds or any of the contributors support North Korea.
Nobody has to federate with them and in fact they decided they don't want to federate with anyone anyway.
IIRC Truth Social was in breach of the license terms at first but later started releasing their changes to the source code too.
The space between all things.
Everything dances in #Iceland. The place where the planet smells freshly baked. If the earth doesn't knock you down with its swaying, the wind will. The only way to stay upright is through dance.
#illustration #art #dance
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D'ora in avanti il mio lavoro sarà (purtroppo) molto più lasso e diluito, quindi:
cerco lavoro, anche in collaborazione esterna o di qualsiasi altro tipo, principalmente da remoto, come editor di redazione / redattrice editoriale.
Negli ultimi 7 anni mi sono occupata di editing digitale, progettazione e creazione di corsi FAD, revisione, correzione bozze, manutenzione della piattaforma Moodle, schede prodotto, un po' di servizio clienti via email.
Ho ovviamente anche esperienza sul cartaceo.
Ho un corso di copywriting fresco fresco.
C1 in inglese e spagnolo, B1 in francese.
Ovvia conoscenza del pacchetto office + iSpring suite.
Spippolo con Canva.
Creativa, risolutrice di problemi col pensiero laterale, adattabile, poliedrica, autonoma, jack of all trades
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Profitez des vidéos et de la musique que vous aimez, mettez en ligne des contenus originaux, et partagez-les avec vos amis, vos proches et le monde entier.NBTVEVO (YouTube)
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@mek2600 @Gina He was only ever an external party who sold phones with GrapheneOS while misrepresenting himself as having created and founded GrapheneOS to help him sell phones. He would repeatedly agree to stop misrepresenting himself while secretly doing it on a far grander scale than we realized behind our backs. He was extremely manipulative and dishonest. He also seems to believe the phony stories he comes up with about himself. Check out his site:
14 zero days ontdekt. 13+ jaar darknet ervaring. Wij denken als hackers — zodat jij ze niet hoeft te vrezen.AquaX Cyber Division
@Elizafox It's the name of a Dutch website which is why it's capitalized. You appear to be misunderstanding our usage of the word. Our previous post mentioning it called it Tweakers.net and we can edit this one to refer to it the same way but it doesn't seem necessary considering which already made it clear it's a website called Tweakers.net and capitalized it in the subsequent reply.
Tweakers also does still have the same meaning they're using for their website in the US despite the other use.
heads up, the word “tweaker” in the US means something else, usually referring to an unstable/paranoid/twitchy user of meth 😅
We’d say enthusiast, modder, or power user
People have no shame!
Here's scammer Abdoul Rasnab in action.
I don't know if this will help, but there's a TV show in the Netherlands that exposes scammers. Who knows? Maybe they can help with this situation:
opgelicht.avrotros.nl/
On the show, they expose scammers and collaborate with agencies such as the police and the tax office.
Another option is the online help desk: fraudehelpdesk.nl/
I checked the government website, and they redirect to this address.
They provides all kind of informations on what to do if someone is scammed in the Netherlands. They can refer you to the agency that handles these matters. It's for individuals and businesses. But make sure you do your research, because here in the Netherlands, nonprofit organizations receive a lot of support, and legal services are often free.
I imagine the process is complicated.
But have you considered filing a report with the Dutch police and pursuing legal action?
Opgelicht?! is hét platform met informatie over online oplichting. Lees hier over de meest actuele cybercrime en krijg tips van experts om zelf niet in de va...Opgelicht?!
@caveknoll We have bigger fish to fry with legal action.
Debunking this and showing how ridiculous it is should defuse the ability for it to cause harm to us.
It would be a huge pain to take legal action against someone in Europe so it better be worth it. We don't think he's going to cause much harm to us with us debunking it.
We can hopefully get multiple news organization to look into the situation and correct their articles.
It's genuinely ridiculous how much bullshit we deal with...
@Cambion Excellent! I already saw @arnoudwokke 's reply, but missed the GoT thread 😀 mastodon.xyz/@arnoudwokke/1163…
hi, the author from Tweakers.net here! Thanks for pointing that out, I will rectify it right away and we will not be naming him as co-founder of GrapheneOS in the future. You might be pleased to hear that I've heard this from 7 different people and angles over the last few hours, so your messages are most certainly reaching Holland. Thanks again!
@Joris
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In a topic on Tweakers Abdoul replied:
gathering.tweakers.net/forum/l…
Imho it makes him look worse. He replies with inconsistencies, simply denies without any follow-up, stays vague, tries to redirect the topic away from the actual questions, and best: his screenshots seem to line up with @GrapheneOS their story
He also uses some similar tricks to "cyber security expert" Rian van Rijbroek, from overly referring to secret services to using previous publications to proof how trustable he is
@Joris
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Tweakers also confirmed Abdoul personally asked to be named this way. His own screenshot even shows him sending Tweakers "sort of co-founder. Please change".
And they confirmed that @GrapheneOS already said this back then (in 2020):
"Co-founder isn't an accurate description of his role. Where are you getting that from? Did he say that to you?"
Tweakers also mentioned that they're not sure why it wasn't removed back then, implying it should've and didn't get redacted as an oversight
Abdul is a so well positioned opportunist... And the media articles borrowing from his exploits....
Maybe he is more than simply an opportunistic criminal. Might be something far worse posing as one
what a loser
life doesn't sound fair when this defamation has no consequences
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Oil and acrylic on canvas
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not 3D or KI ? 🤔
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This is stunning!
Thanks for sharing.
Surely a #britton person must have passed by to tag #Salt ( #Sel ) on the wall, and promote #BeurreSalé 😆 #Bretagne 
Or is there a specific reference?
This looks a little solarpunk and I love it.
The # SolarPunkSunday folks might like it, too!
NO a Palantir in Europa: ecco l'iniziativa europea per chiedere all'Unione Europea di sospendere ogni rapporto con Palantir
Chiediamo ai governi europei di:
- Bloccare la firma di nuovi contratti con Palantir.
- Rivedere e rescindere gradualmente i contratti in essere con l’azienda.
- Investire in alternative europee trasparenti e pubblicamente responsabili.
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Una potente azienda statunitense di spyware tecnologico è collegata al genocidio a Gaza, alle separazioni delle famiglie dell’ICE e alla guerra di Trump in Iran.WeMove Europe
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Che cosa curiosa!
Dopo avere firmato la petizione l'ho condivisa su Facebook e del tutto casualmente il link è svanito dal mio post, c'è solo il testo che ho scritto io. Chissà come mai!
Aggiungete che Tiel, il fondatore di Palantir, è stato uno dei primi e più importanti finanziatori di Facebook, e fate 1+1.
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"saremmo qui un po' per questo, insomma"
(Cit. Anna Marchesini).
@elettrona @cgbencini @m3nhir @ilsimoneviaggiatore ad esempio puoi degoogleare quanto ti pare, ma se devi cercare un pdi su una mappa hai una sola scelta! Maps.
Poi che in autostrada here we go dallo schermo del telefono, quando non canna le interruzioni, sia 100 volte meglio, o in città grandi a piedi organic maps si il migliore è un discorso diverso.
Ma se mi dicono che lo studio di tizio si trova di fianco al bar di caio, la scelta è una.
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Qwuant chiede le ricerche a Bing; se lo scopo è liberarsi di tecnologia americana non ci sono molte soluzioni, tranne MoJeek che è del Regno unito e che da risultati abbastanza osceni.
Se invece basta non usare Google o Microsoft, si può usare brave (sempre americano, ma con risultati indipendenti).
Ecosia and Qwant today reveal a new joint venture, European Search Perspective (EUSP), to develop and build search engine infrastructure in Europe.Team Qwant (Better Web)
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Beh, felice di sbagliarmi!!
Questa è una notizia enorme, tanto più che quando ho usato Qwant per un periodo mi era sembrato sviluppato molto bene a livello di app.
Non mi è chiaro se la cosa è già in atto, perché parla al futuro...
Comunque grazie!
scuola.wiki: una istruzione libera grazie a strumenti open source
Da qualche tempo mi sono messo al lavoro per creare un elenco breve e ragionato dei programmi adatti all’istruzione. Oggi nasce quindi scuola.wiki una raccolta “essenziale” di software open source da cui le scuole possono partire per svincolarsi da sistemi operativi e programmi proprietari. 🎓
#Scuola #ScuolaOpenSource #SoftwareLibero
Directory di risorse open source per il mondo dell'istruzionescuola.wiki - software libero per l'istruzione
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Ecco due strumenti che ho creato per la didattica della filosofia:
Qui invece un mio manuale ad accesso aperto sulla didattica della filosofia con risorse open:
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My version👇
I want Elon on a one way 🚀 to Mars
I resist all AI use
I don't want any data centres
I want TotalEnergies to stop drilling and to start paying
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Survivre is good enough for you.
#WorldrEvolution Death is life :
I want us have a better live with wild animals back
I dont want to destroy the house of our children
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Please verify your age:
(_) /bin/zsh
(x) /bin/bash
Imagine a newspaper publisher announcing it will no longer allow libraries to keep copies of its paper. That’s effectively what’s begun happening online in the last few months.Electronic Frontier Foundation
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Open Collective is adding KYC from Peter Thiel backed Persona. If you are not familiar with Persona: openrightsgroup.org/press-rele…
Here is the github issue where its being worked on:
github.com/opencollective/open…
Overview I am a fiscal host admin and I want to avoid making payments to payees who are in the process of KYC verification. I am a fiscal host admin and I want to be alerted when payout methods are...Betree (GitHub)
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This needs to be acted against NOW. If people on Discord managed to get up in arms enough to get them to chance course, we should be better prepared for then them to make them change course
Here is an @heisec article about Discord trying to distance themselves from this company that Open Collective is now integrating into their platform:
heise.de/en/news/After-user-pr…
The social media platform explains that a "limited test" by Persona in the UK for age verification has ended. Users had complained.Andreas Knobloch (heise online)
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Overview I am a fiscal host admin and I want to avoid making payments to payees who are in the process of KYC verification. I am a fiscal host admin and I want to be alerted when payout methods are...Betree (GitHub)
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Open Source Collective is a non-profit fiscal host for open source projects. Get Transparent fundraising, money management, and legal representationoscollective (Open Source Collective)
They are already testing integrating Persona's API with hosted projects on Open Collective that are using Open Source Collective (the fiscal host). Maybe you haven't heard of Persona yet?
"All of these personal details and images can be shared with Persona’s “global network of partners,” including vendors, law enforcement, and 17 “subprocessors” that sift through personal data on Persona’s behalf."
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F-Droid is an app store ecosystem and curated repository of FOSS Android apps, labeling potential anti-features like tracking and advertisements.opencollective.com
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GoToSocial is an ActivityPub social network server, written in Golang.Liberapay
Because of Open Collective's belief in transparency, you can see directly how much @OpenSourceCollective is paying to use Persona and when those payments started:
Open Collective's Frontend. A React app powered by Next.js. - Add persona info to dashboard components by hdiniz · Pull Request #11988 · opencollective/opencollective-frontendGitHub
Soooooo @Mastodon is using @OpenSourceCollective as their fiscal host...
Mastodon is a free, open-source social network server based on ActivityPubopencollective.com
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the Executive Director of @OpenSourceCollective replied:
Hi, Lauren here. I'm the ED of OSC and happy to chat. In this expense, the payee was presented with options that would not require a KYC with Persona; they confirmed, so we will be able to pay them through this method. KYC's are a rare edge case for us and are not issued on all expenses.
I will publish a general statement on the OSC updates page - but yes. We started using Persona before the news broke. We are currently looking for non-US providers and are open to suggestions.
the developer who is currently adding this Persona integration into @opencollective has replied to this thread here:
@opsocket
We're indeed adding a persona integration on the platform to help Open Source Collective manage their KYC program. It is not something we're forcing on anyone, just a bridge we're creating for fiscal hosts relying on this service.For the rest, I'll let Open Source Collective comment.
They're aware of this thread and are preparing a reply as we speak.
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I am profoundly worried about age verification and more so to see @opencollective join the Peter Thiel backed Persona.
We're here together precisely to fight against these techbros, to resist tech monopolies and surveillance capitalism, to help people become autonomous and assure basic human values as privacy and solidarity.
We should be able to give donations without becoming part of the authoritarian tech stack? Well that's what we work on together. So let's hope OpenCollective reverts course.
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@opencollective @OpenSourceCollective srsly , persona??!!??
Go diaf with your fascist data collection bullshit 🖕🖕
@opsocket copy-pasting the reply I've made on the Github issue:
We (opencollective.com) are agnostic to the KYC provider that fiscal hosts use. Our integration was built primarily as a manual KYC tool, and you can use any backend you want - or even run your own program.
@opsocket
We're indeed adding a persona integration on the platform to help Open Source Collective manage their KYC program. It is not something we're forcing on anyone, just a bridge we're creating for fiscal hosts relying on this service.
For the rest, I'll let Open Source Collective comment.
They're aware of this thread and are preparing a reply as we speak.
@lanodan behind the scenes it always amounts to selling the data to the highest bidder. Often with very sloppy access controls.
Even companies that have totally unrelated business models will do this.
Hey @CryptPad, Open Collective is voluntarily integrating a fascist surveillance tool. Would a subscription on your official instance support you in the same way as an OC contribution?
@alxndr Ugh, thank you for pointing this out. We are very sorry to learn this. We will do our best to find an alternative but we're pretty tied to OC at the moment.
Indeed subscribing on our flagship instance is another way to support the project, you get benefits in return such as more storage and priority support.
I work with an NPO which currently uses Open Collective and likely would vote to stop using Open Collective if this level of corporate doxxing is required to interact with their platform.
Don't dare open source hackers, we can switch/build services in a heartbeat.
We are not trapped like teenagers hooked on discord, we can simply leave and never look back if forced.
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@sef @nullagent big FOSS developers have no problem actively maintaining and contributing to mass survailence and fascism, its been shown time and time again at this point 
like yknow i feel like we all got the gist of how these things will go.. we all say 'hey what the fuck why are you doing "identity verification" let alone with fucking surveillance state company
they give some speil about """safety""" and [insert scapegoat here].. and basically ends up with 'fuck you were doing it anyway' ..
this is how it goes every fucking time 
@sef I mean, probably the most famous example:
lwn.net/Articles/131657/
However, note that we're discussing building services for _ourselves_, not other people. We can throw together something that's extremely rough around the edges that scratches our itches, but isn't ready for the rest of humanity!
Now that BitKeeper is no more, how will the kernel development process function? In the short [...]LWN.net
@havchr
look okay we just "need" mass privacy violations, we just *need* to destroy all anominity on these projects, its super important! we just need to discriminate against people who are not 'blessed' by teh state with the privledge of being able to exist.
yeah; how about no;
i do not care how 'palletable' you try to make this dystopian bullshit
please fuck off
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@havchr "proving personhood" again please fuck off with this shit.
"proving personhood" means that someone can just decide your not a 'person', or that you are a "person" its discriminatory, and creates extreme power dynamics (which is what IDs are for, the other part is survailence)
ive been told for ages im not really a person you know, i don't actually have a magic id card that says i 'count' actually;
a person is anything that says it is, fuck you. stop trying to enforce dehumanization actually
i don't need to fucking 'prove' to fucking anyone ever; and i hope your system gets hacked to fuck; (i mean, you cant do 'privacy preserving, identify verification'' its self-contradictory)
and fuck the linux foundation for enabling this shit too actually
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also despite obvious social and generally horrible shit this entails that your apparently fine with "super nessecary" somehow
. what you are describing is impossible to do privacy-preserving way and still achieve say preventing bot contributors
you claim its privacy-perserving, however you want to use it to prevent an army of fake contributors? how could that ever work? you'd need some way to detect those contributors are actually the same 'person' in which case, you have just tied multiple identities to a single person; (even if you dont know which person it is specifically- you know their the same person;)
which is like super bad for privacy and opsec actually, being able to tell that this account, and this other account are actually the same person makes it significantly easier to track them down.
and without this , there is nothing stopping someone who is 'blessed' to "count" as person-enough; from just creating multiple billion contributor accounts anyway,
@abekonge @jowek @ukrudt @tak @ruben @magnus
the chair of the board of directors of F-Droid just responded to my tag here seemingly in agreement
social.seabass.systems/@seabas…
I would say that the MAJORITY of 2714 collectives that OSC fiscal host has would be entirely opposed to being subjected to having to have their personal data sent to Persona. A large majority of them have a presence right here so tagging projects seems like it would definitly stir shit up.
@jowek @ukrudt @tak @ruben @magnus
Yes haven't checked out the state of petition-software lately.
One low effort/complexity way of doing it would be to write a letter in ukrudt's hedgedoc and just ask projects to sign it if they agree - sign it by way of writing their name in the bottom: hedgedoc.ukrudt.net/ - we can then create a public read-only link and share that.
@jowek @ukrudt @tak @ruben @magnus
Another issue is the whole governance issue - their 2022 stated goal for "Exit to Community" has resulted in:
"That vision became reality in 2024, when stewardship of the platform transitioned to a new nonprofit: the Open Finance Consortium Inc. (OFiCo), a U.S. 501(c)(6) association created by and for the fiscal hosts and communities who rely on it.
OFiCo now governs the platform collectively, while its subsidiary OFi Technologies (OFiTech) operates the platform. Together, they continue the original Open Collective mission: enabling transparent, collaborative finance for communities everywhere."
What does "govern the platform collectively" mean?
The OFi Consortium site says they are "community governed", and then later, that they are formed by 5 organisations including Open Collective Europe and Open Source Collective, that "represent thousands of Collectives and guide our strategic direction".
I'm in several collectives that are fiscally hosted by Open Collective Europe, and I have never been asked to "guide their strategic direction" in any real governance sense. And looking through their (OCE) site - there is nothing I can find about hosted collectives having governance. For me "exit to community" means that the community, in this case, the collectives, have governance - but I don't see it.
Am I missing something?
This is probably next-step stuff. But it is a lingering question I have had for a while. I have a good relationship with OCE, and I believe they are well-meaning. My worry is that if there is no real community governance, then it becomes "community-washing" instead of "community-governance".
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@poohlaga hi Lauren, sorry to make your acquaintance on such an unpleasant matter. While I am glad to hear that you are using them only in "rare edge cases" it seems that their API is getting directly integrated into Open Collective's code base (github.com/opencollective/open…)
I think for the present moment there needs to be a very clear statement about *exactly* how you are using Persona and what data and what edge cases would end up triggering you to initiate sending *any data* to their API.
Open Collective's Frontend. A React app powered by Next.js. - Add persona info to dashboard components by hdiniz · Pull Request #11988 · opencollective/opencollective-frontendGitHub
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> you can see directly how much @OpenSourceCollective is paying to use Persona
I am more interested in the reverse flow. As I just can not imagine someone within the FLOSS environment did not due dilligence about "third party contribution". The first page of nojs DDG search is full of "persona" warnings so it flashes.
OpenCollective responded to our collective concerns about identity verification and halted their use of Persona. I'm really happy to see this reaction by @opencollective -
opencollective.com/opensource/…
Thanks to @liaizon to raise the alarm bells and so many who spoke up in this rather sensitive matter - people do need the money for their communities, but we need to have more control over the process. OpenCollective and @Liberapay are important actors here for the ecosystem.
Of course much concern remains for the reliance on US law (OpenCollective) and all credit card payment providers are under US control. Recall what happened to the ICC judges? So we need to work towards more reliable systems under our control.
To be continued. The @fkinstitute and the DemocraticTech.Fund will be working with these concerns in mind.
As a nonprofit fiscal host, OSC supports over 2,500 open-source projects worldwide. Last year, as part of ongoing improvements to our risk and compliance processes, we began verifying the identity of users requesting payments when: When we...opencollective.com
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The European Commission has spent years advocating for open standards, vendor neutrality, and digital sovereignty. The European Interoperability Framework explicitly recommends open formats for public sector digital services.Italo Vignoli (The Document Foundation)
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I strongly agree. But the instructions are too unclear for me. Please provide simpler steps for us who wish to support you in this.
I can't very well send a message signed the board of directors...
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Not sure where #Google asked for feedback about their developer verification program, but they surely didn't talk with #FLOSS devs, civil society, privacy organisations or their #Android users
#FDroid did since September, and interacted with folks in the Fediverse, forum, email and in person
They all voiced one opinion: "developer verification must be stopped"
@marcprux has written an open letter, signed by likeminded organisations who want to #keepandroidopen
Click: f-droid.org/2026/02/24/open-le…
As we wrote about back in September in F-Droid and Google’s Developer Registration Decree, Google plans to enforce mandatory developer registration as a requ...f-droid.org
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F-Droid is being translated into 126 languages using Weblate. Join the translation or start translating your own project.Hosted Weblate
China already has many stores. And all are subject to their regulation Google is now copying.
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China announces new regulations requiring all app providers to register business detailsMatthew Zucca (Android Police)
Do you remember the first slogan of google ? The "don't be evil" ?
Google is clearly evil now.
@marcprux
Thank you F-droid, for providing alternatives to Google crap.
I hope that Google changes its mind, but as a shareholder company, they aren't a community. So I don't hold out too much hope.
But what I do hope is that AOSP eventually forks from Google, and other Open source mobile OS's start growing their market share away from Google. Its time for these options to go mainstream. We need F-Droid to be there for this.
Eventually we need an OpenAPK standard to build around that is not reliant on Google.
Would this new policy apply to F-Droid on /e/ OS and LineageOS? Both of those are 'de-googled' so I'm curious how far that goes.
Google is attempting to block the use of side loaders and APK files to download apps outside of their play store by requiring developers to submit their IDs and addresses.Brian Wahl (Change.org)
I completely agree with everything written by F-Droid, and I have signed the petition, but still this is the reminder for all developers why should prefer the only truly free platform for development of applications, which is the Internet itself, and #Webapp s . Yes, it is not fit for every application, but everywhere else you are #Sharecropper on your master’s plantation.
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Thank you, @timbray for reminding us!
The world of Nostr isn't stressing out over this because we use the new Zapstore that allows developers to directly sign and release apps using the Nostr protocol.
F-Droid could release apps over the Nostr protocol, and offer their own Nostr appstore client, and bypass Google completely.
Zapstore just released version 1.0
Zapstore.dev
@firedragon It does not matter how the bits travelled through the ether.
Will #Zapstore bow down to #Google and become a registered dev? A registered store? If not... then 3.9 billion users can't install zapstore-1.0.0.apk. The end.
@npub1fkluklzamwpyn7w8awxzrcqe7z8mldlvthk4gz9kz3vsh6udz62s9qj48l Zapstore can't be installed on Google controlled devices, how do you use it?
/PS: Nice PR campaign to piggy-back on #keepandroidopen wave of support to promote #zapstore, too bad somebody did not grasp what is actually at stake.
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Questa azienda ha trovato un modo geniale per dire addio al polistirolo: imballaggi fatti… con i funghi! Un packaging naturale, compostabile, che protegge i prodotti come fa il polistirolo ma senza inquinare per centinaia di anni.
Meno AI e più questi tipi di innovazione che dovremmo vedere ovunque. 🌍✨
🌱 Altre innovazioni per un mondo migliore le trovi nel gruppo @ambiente@diggita.com, se ti appassionano le soluzioni concrete per un pianeta più sano, unisciti alla conversazione!
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@mariosiniscalchi bello anche se resta ancora il problema del costo. Vedo che un se per mettere al sicuro una bottiglia o una candela sta a circa 1.5£ medi.
Con quel costo un'azienda ci imballa almeno 10 bottiglie con il package tradizionali.
Ben vengano comunque iniziative del genere perché presto verranno scalate per diventare più economiche ed appetibili a chi dell'ambiente se ne frega e guarda solo al profitto.
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Sono molto critico dell'IA generativa, sin dagli albori, ma ho sempre parlato con piacere con chi la sostiene.
Più passa il tempo, più li vedo fare atti di contorsionismo per ignorare quanto sia problematica. Sospendiamo un attimo le questioni etiche e parliamo solo di quelle pratiche:
1) è impossibile assemblarsi un PC perché non si trovano RAM, hard disk e GPU (se prima erano colpiti solo i gamer, ora sono colpitx tuttx)
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2) I prodotti consumer sono sempre più costosi e non riescono a uscire (Valve e Sony stanno rinviando le console, etc.)
3) I data center, anche ignorando i problemi ambientali, spuntano come funghi e rendono la vita un inferno a chi li ha vicini. Banalmente, consumano così tanto che aumentano a dismisura il costo della corrente, che è un bene di necessità primaria.
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Sarebbe sensato se stessimo parlando di una tecnologia in grado di risolvere i grandi problemi dell'umanità.
Un simile investimento di risorse sarebbe giustificabile a fronte di grandi salti nella medicina e nella logistica.
Invece sono macchine che non fanno nulla che prima non potessimo fare, e che nonostante le bugie di chi vuole vendercele lo fanno peggio di noi.
Sono interessanti? Sfiziose? Divertenti? Sì, volendo. Ma valgono questi incubi logistici? No. Chi ci guadagna? Non noi.
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già.
Ho sempre trovato angosciante il fatto che si siano “appropriati” di un campo così delicato come quello della creatività, della generazione di testi, immagini, suoni, automatozzandoli.
Da un lato credo permettono a tutti di avere accesso a un'esperienza di “creazione” che altrimenti sarebbe preclusa, richiedendo anni di tentativi e fallimenti. Dall'altro, velocizzano questi “processi” e li mettono chiavi in mano a chiunque con la scusa della democratizzazione.
Io certi tipi di modelli li utilizzo per sviluppare farmaci.
Un po' di mesi fa ci siamo aggiudicati un po' di soldi ed abbiamo deciso di cominciare a montarci un nostro piccolo cluster di calcolo in modo da non dover dipendere sempre dai centri di super computazione.
Credo che ad oggi abbiamo un 150,000€ da spendere a questo proposito.
Per iniziare abbiamo fatto un ordine piccolino: un rack con un server e un paio di GPU, saranno un 25-30 mila euro o giù di lì.
Già sono passati un po' di mesi e qualche settimana fa è arrivato il rack. Di lì a poco ci ha chiamato l'azienda che dice che li hanno contattati quelli di Lenovo che dato che sono aumentati i prezzi dei componenti (tutto già pagato, s'intende) non assicuravano inviarci il server.
Nulla, al momento brancoliamo nel buio: a quanto pare nessuno ha schede grafiche. Stiamo seriamente pensando di metterci a comprare schede usate, perché i soldi li dobbiamo spendere.
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@elettrona Qui il link all'audiolibro: podcast.kenobit.it/@assaltoall…
Capisco cosa intendi. Penso che l'IA generativa abbia applicazioni utili, soprattutto nell'accessibilità. La mia amica Greta Carrara, che con il suo collettivo Giochiamoci si occupa di accessibilità ai videogiochi per non vedenti (e non solo) dice giustamente che in certi ambiti l'IA è stata una svolta.
QUELLO è un uso interessante. La buona notizia è che le cose più utili si possono fare con modelli in locale, meno "spreconi".
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@ziriuz84 Non a caso ho specificato "IA generativa". Sono d'accordo, lo spiegavo un paio di giorni fa in una lezione: l'IA è un campo dell'informatica che esiste dagli Anni 60 e il machine learning è una tecnologia importantissima.
Anzi, sono proprio arrabbiato con il marketing di OpenAI e affini per aver appiattito il significato ed essersi appropriati del termine (danneggiando tra l'altro chi si occupa di IA negli altri campi).
@elettrona Sì, il fatto che la macchina non sia in grado di sapere se sta dicendo il vero oppure no è un problema insormontabile di questa tecnologia. E anche il fatto che, per questo, ti dica sempre di sì.
Per questo servirebbe parlarne in maniera concreta, fuori dall'hype, ma è veramente difficile farlo con il chiasso del marketing.
@elettrona bene, così inizio ad ascoltarlo. Spero che ci sia la possibilità di scaricare gli episodi e ascoltarli offline, se no va bene anche così.
Cavolo, sono ancora triste per la cosa del drm...
c'e' il feed rss, lo aggiungi a un client per podcast tipo antennapod, e te lo scarica tutto
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Ti ha dato l'indirizzo del suo server castopod, che e' proprio una di queste piattaforme di cui parla nel libro.
L'audiolibro e' distribuito come un podcast standard, e non ha ancora finito di leggerlo.
Il feed rss ha il vantaggio di permettere di iscriversi, cosi' ti accorgi dell'uscita dei nuovi capitoli e li puoi anche scaricare automaticamente.
Castopod permette anche di ricevere notifiche in timeline, tramite il fediverso
Poi certo, alla fin fine sono solo file mp3.
sono d'accordo su quello che dici sull'AI-gen. In questo caso però vorrei sottoporre il mio punto di vista da studente universitario.
L'AI-gen, sempre se usata con criterio, aiuta molti studenti a sbobinare il materiale preso durante la lezione, crea dei quiz/flashcard per aiutare a memorizzare le nozioni e organizza il lavoro in maniera eccellente. Come hai detto tu è tutta roba che sapevamo fare anche prima dell'AI, ma impiegando una quantità di tempo decisamente maggiore.
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I average about 8 or 9 years per set of eyeglasses.
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All told we're probably paying about as much. Especially with the mad king randomly taxing stuff now.
We just get nothing for it. Absolutely nothing. Every penny goes into corporate pockets now.
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That should be Denmarks/the EU's answer to sending a hospital ship to where nobody needs one because the health system is much better than in the states.
Lets fund US schools and universities to teach Americans how people can actually live in a democracy, how "we, the people" actually works when the "we" is not the oligarchs. How their riches can actually benefit PEOPLE, those who have been exploited to accumulate that wealth for the very few.
And I've always been for creating a fund that would finance European student exchange years for American teenagers so that they can see through all that nationalist propaganda. That would easily finance itself by saving hundreds of millions or even billions wasted through silly trade wars because those people would oppose to electing another crazy isolationist. 100,000 students a year. That would have an effect.
It's not America which helps spreading democracy. It's America which needs help building real democracy at home. One that can't be bought so easily.
Don't use that term for the RIGHTS Europeans have fought for, and which are only possible because we have democracies where the common good is not an empty phrase. That's the difference between having parliamentary representation of citizens and an oligarchy where people are hoping for "benefits" from their master, err..., employer.
I disagree with the vanishing. Democracies worldwide are under attack from antidemocrats. The US oligarchs. The Russofascists. The Chinese capitalist communists. To name only the biggest fish here.
They all see democracies as an obstacle in their power games. They are funding and supporting especially right wing parties with propaganda and fake news aiming at dividing the EU, to weaken it and to destroy it, the largest entity of western democracy in this world. BUT, democracy is not receding. It's bending like a tree in a storm. The more it is under pressure, the more do people realize how important it is. Strong civil societies can withstand such attacks. But it's not an easy task, no question.
But ironically, here in the EU, and seemingly in Canada and other places, the orange attacks kind of make it easier. Dump is the best helper to revive the silent majority, so to speak. By being so immorally disgusting, by being a vulgar, corrupt idiot, big-mouthed, and empty of moral values, and completely free of empathy, he shows everybody what we HAVE and don't want to lose.
When it comes to the global south, I don't know enough to have an educated opinion. Probably, it all has to start with grassroot campaigning and convincing people that these strongmen I listed are not the solution but the problem.
Isn't education the best weapon against propaganda? You can only brainwash people who are not aware of the facts, and are unable to differentiate between facts and fiction. The problem is when people have not learned critical thinking and self-reflection.
And I don't mean conspiracy theorists who probably think they were the best critical thinkers available. In a complicated world, simple answers are usually wrong. But understanding the complicated ones is often tiresome and hard. That's why conspiracy theories from UFO nonsense to antivaxxer lies are so en vogue in some circles. In the best case, they are simply misled into believing nonsense. In the worst case, they are purposely led away from more important issues.
What I mean is that the ability to reflect on information and weigh different sources against each other and come to an educated conclusion based on PLAUSIBILITY and KNOWLEDGE is the best antidote against brainwashing. Education!
Take the antivaxxer movement. Their ideas are backed by NO scientific evidence. RFK's agitation against measle vaccination, for instance, has led to an epidemic in the US. Children have died from a disease that was practically eradicated. Even more have permanent damage. But those numbers are CONCENTRATED within those who won't vaccinate their children. QED
Sure! I'm always curious to hear from other places. Although I'm not so sure that I myself are so impressed with my own skills. 😉
That's the crux not only in your country. People seem to forget what's important, and with the advent of social media, the ways to get yourself lost in meaningless entertainment have exploded. Not that the mechanisms had changed. Even back 2 millennia ago, the Romans knew that "Bread and Games" will keep the poeple from rioting.
Only the media have changed, and maybe the attention span. Hence, a government that has the media in its hand can do bad things with them. Literacy rates are probably only one factor in this.
But I'm curious, what's the primary source of information for those people you are referring to? TV/Radio? Or their mobiles? And if so, how do they use the phones when they are illiterate?
That sounds a lot like this:
de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raiffeis…
(translate the German page into English, the English page is only about the banks)
During the industrialization, there were many initiatives like this for cooperative associations in Germany, along with social reforms and worker associations, aka unions. Germany is the land of cooperatives anyway. 😉 Which the Americans would call "socialist" (which it is not) because they are conditioned that you have to be "better than everybody else and fight alone" and not collaborate to make it better FOR everybody. But what happens there is that the individual is weak and is exploited by corporations who tell them that "SOSHALISM" is bad. Talk about propaganda by the ruling class...
For Germany (and, in similar ways, the rest of Europe), this is exactly what brought prosperity to the communities of farmers and also workers. Cooperate, bundle resources, knowledge, and money.
I think it's a great thing you are doing because poverty is best fought together.
@HarryMutt
If people we're not affected by the capitalistic mindsets, the world would be better. Our initiative is currently under a crisis where we have been forced away from the land we have rented for two years to do our activities. We're doing our best tj raise funds and purchase pur own land which would be a big step towards making our dream a reality. Your support via our gofund.me page would make a significant impact towards that goal.
If I knew the answer to that, I'd earn a Nobel prize.
I can only look back at our own history, and I have to tell you, it took a long time, and also many wars and conflicts. My country alone is the best example. Divided into up to 300 states, from small city states to large ones like Prussia, it was often the place of proxy wars between the big powers. Most notably the war of 30 years where they all fought on German soil, in volatile coalitions, and pretending it was about religion, which, of course, was an excuse to gain power. England, France, Austria, Sweden, and a few others who sent their armies. And as if this hadn't been bad enough, after that war, some of them just took a piece out of the cake and kept it. If that sounds familiar for you, well, I guess, there is a reason for it. Then, the first, nationalist, unification of Germany was a reaction to the Napoleonic occupation which led to nationalism all over Europe, which also fired up the wish for a strong and united Germany. And it was not a peaceful unification. Where this all led to in the 20th century can be read in history books.
Tribalism still exists in Germany, and in the whole of the EU, of course. But at least the latter is not a forced unification, although it was a reaction to the terrible wars before. Sometimes, reason does work.
Better don't admire so much what they created. By today's standards, they were war criminals. And what they created was the foundation for colonialism, two world wars, and more than one genocide, also on the African continent.
Today's Germany has not much in common with what they imagined. Democratic, inklusive, pluralistic, not nationalistic like theirs. Not "we against them", or worse, the out-of-context misinterpretation of "Deutschland über alles" (which meant "a united Germany over the fragmented entity that was not a real nation like everybody else had one". Instead a country that is built on human rights, equality, not submission, cooperation, not confrontation. Flawed, and full of people who want back to the old ways of nationalism, racism, and imperialism. But they are a loud minority. The majority has long realized that real prosperity comes from cooperation, not wars. The people you listed would feel very displaced in this country which has values so far from theirs.
But those were the lessons from the unimaginable crimes that were committed in this nation's name.
Don't admire countries or historical people. Stay with being a human being with empathy for others and take from our history what suits your situation best. At least, we can serve as bad example, sometimes even as a good one.😀
Anyway, I think what you are doing is the right way. Convincing people to work together, that they have common interest to come together and put their stuff together. That the whole is more than the sum of its parts. All too often, this only happens with a negative narrative, "we against the others". But if it happens out of positive sentiments, "we, the people, together", it is a much more stable foundation to build on.
“I like to pay taxes. With them, I buy civilization.”
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
There are many other benefit to Norwegian taxes.
Lots of people have really good govt jobs here. Good conditions with good pay. This places pressure on corporations to offer good conditions as well. Everyone benefits even if they don't work for the govt.
They also have a wealth tax, which has the net effect of keeping housing affordable. Instead of investors buying lots of houses to rent out and driving up the cost of home ownership, people have a real shot at buying a home to live in.
The third benefit I should mention is everyone in Norway gets to bitch and moan about how much tax they pay, because they have so much time off work to gather and talk to one another!
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La nostra intervista al magistrato Luigi Marini
Luigi Marini ha svolto funzioni di giudice e pubblico ministero e collaborato alla riforma del Ministero della Giustizia.globalist (Globalist.it)
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vorrei spiegarvi una cosa, visto che da tempo monitoro la presenza di #ICE in Italia
dopo aver letto i cablo di #WikiLeaks sulla macchina dietro le #Olimpiadi e #CampionatiMondiali,ho contattato il #PublicAffairsOffice di #ICE
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I'm coming to Colorado! Catch me in #Denver on Jan 22 at The Tattered Cover:
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* The Enshitification Life Cycle with David Dayen (Organized Money)
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* How to Stop “Ensh*ttification” Before It Kills the Internet (Capitalisn't)
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* Enshittification on The Daily Show
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As a holiday treat, we bring you a new conversation with author and Organized Money alum Cory Doctorow about his new book Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It. Recorded earlier this year at a live book event,...Buzzsprout
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I'm coming to Colorado! Catch me in #Denver on Jan 22 at The Tattered Cover:
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And in #ColoradoSprings from Jan 23-25, where I'm the Guest of Honor at COSine:
Then I'll be in #Ottawa on Jan 28 at Perfect Books:
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I'm on a tour with my new book, the international bestseller *Enshittification*!
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The Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Criticizing AI: My speech for U Washington's Neuroscience, AI and Society lecture series.
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Last night, I gave a speech for the University of Washington's "Neuroscience, AI and Society" lecture series, through the university's Computational Neuroscience Center. It was called "The Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Criticizing AI," and it's based on the manuscript for my next book, "The Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Life After AI," which will be out from Farrar, Straus and Giroux next June:eventbrite.com/e/future-tense-…
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Future Tense: Neuroscience, AI and Society with Cory Doctorow
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* Politics and Capitalist Stagnation unpopularfront.news/p/politics…
* An Analysis of the Proposed Spirit Financial-Credit Union 1 Merger chipfilson.com/2025/12/an-anal…
* Zillow deletes climate risk data from listings after complaints it harms sales theguardian.com/environment/20…
* After Years of Controversy, EU Chat Control Nears Its Final Hurdle: What to Know eff.org/deeplinks/2025/12/afte…
* How dollar-stores overcharge cash-strapped customers theguardian.com/us-news/2025/d…
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A Guardian investigation reveals Dollar General and Family Dollar stores often fail to honor their shelf prices – charging more at checkout for everything from frying pans to Frosted FlakesGuardian staff reporter (The Guardian)
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#20yrsago Haunted Mansion papercraft model adds crypts and gates haunteddimensions.raykeim.com/…
#20yrsago Print your own Monopoly money web.archive.org/web/2005120203…
#15yrsago Bunnie explains the technical intricacies and legalities of Xbox hacking bunniestudios.com/blog/2010/us…
#15yrsago How Pac Man’s ghosts decide what to do: elegant complexity web.archive.org/web/2010120504…
#15yrsago Glorious, elaborate, profane insults of the world reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comment…
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#15yrsago Wikileaks cables reveal that the US wrote Spain’s proposed copyright law web.archive.org/web/2014072323…
#15yrsago Cities made of broken technology web.archive.org/web/2010120313…
#10yrsago The TPP’s ban on source-code disclosure requirements: bad news for information security eff.org/deeplinks/2015/12/tpp-…
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EE UU ejecutó un plan para conseguir una ley antidescargas. La Embajada estadounidense en España diseñó una minuciosa estrategia en 2007 y colocó la propiedad intelectual como tema prioritario en su agenda.EL PAÍS
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#10yrsago Hacker dumps United Arab Emirates Invest Bank’s customer data dailydot.com/news/invest-bank-…
#10yrsago Illinois prisons spy on prisoners, sue them for rent on their cells if they have any money chicagotribune.com/2015/11/30/…
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He calls himself Hacker Buba, and he's shared tens of thousands of customers' complete financial information.Kevin Collier (The Daily Dot)
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#10yrsago In the first 334 days of 2015, America has seen 351 mass shootings (and counting) web.archive.org/web/2015120900…
#10yrsago Not even the scapegoats will go to jail for BP’s murder of the Gulf Coast arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20…
#10yrsago Urban Transport Without the Hot Air: confusing the issue with relevant facts! memex.craphound.com/2015/12/03…
#5yrsago Breathtaking Iphone hack pluralistic.net/2020/12/03/min…
#5yrsago Graffitists hit dozens of NYC subway cars pluralistic.net/2020/12/03/min…
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Explosion killed 11 workers, spewed 134 million gallons of oil, and fouled the coastline.David Kravets (Ars Technica)
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#5yrsago The Ministry For the Future pluralistic.net/2020/12/03/min…
#5yrsago Monopolies made America vulnerable to covid pluralistic.net/2020/12/03/min…
#5yrsago Section 230 is Good, Actually pluralistic.net/2020/12/04/kaw…
#5yrsago Postmortem of the NYPD's murder of a Black man pluralistic.net/2020/12/04/kaw…
#5yrsago Student debt trap pluralistic.net/2020/12/04/kaw…
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Wednesday's threads: A year in illustration (2025 edition); and more!
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My latest novel is "Picks and Shovels," a historical technothriller set in the Weird Era of the PC, about Ponzi schemes, techbros, and the dawn of enshittification:
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My latest nonfiction book is the internationally bestselling "Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It," from MCD/Farrar, Straus and Giroux:
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My ebooks and audiobooks (from FSGxMCD, Tor Books, Head of Zeus, McSweeneys, Beacon, Verso and others) are for sale all over the net, but I sell 'em too, and when you buy 'em from me, I earn twice as much and you get books with no DRM and no license "agreements."
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Upcoming appearances:
* Virtual: Poetic Technologies with Brian Eno (David Graeber Institute), Dec 8
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* #Madison, CT: Enshittification at RJ Julia, Dec 8
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* #Hamburg: Chaos Communications Congress, Dec 27-30
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* #Denver: Enshittification at Tattered Cover Colfax, Jan 22
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“By poetic technologies I refer to the use of rational and technical means to bring wild fantasies to reality. Poetic technologies, so understood, are askoshika (David Graeber Institute)
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Recent appearances:
* Enshittification (Future Knowledge)
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* We have become slaves to Silicon Valley (Politics JOE)
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* How Enshittification is Destroying The Internet (Frontline Club)
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* Escape Forward with Cristina Caffarra
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* Why Every Platform Betrays You (Trust Revolution)
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The internet wasn’t ruined by accident—it was ruined on purpose. In this episode, Cory Doctorow joins us to break down enshittification, his term for the slow, deliberate process that transformed a...Future Knowledge
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I'm on a tour with my new book, the international bestseller *Enshittification*!
Catch me next in #Madison, CT; #Hamburg and #Denver!
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I love this succinct definer: "classical social democratic politics—the era of generous redistribution and worker protections"
From the Ganz "Politics and Capitalist Stagnation" article linked in your post.
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If you can, read this absolute banger of a post from @pluralistic about AI, what’s behind the bubble, and what it means for all of us in the context of #classwar! mamot.fr/@pluralistic/11566747…
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Such a great piece! Looking forward to the book too!
It hit so many things that are so important, I particularly like this part
#AI #AISlop
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oh nice analogy! Coincidentally I just spammed out a thread about the category mistake and how it leads us (or at least, AI researchers and some AI "critics") to worry about something that will never happen, instead of the thing that has already been happening forever
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"Cognitive task" is an ontological sleight-of-hand used to obscure the distinction between the way a human would perform the task, and the nature of the task itself.James Fairbairn (Mastodon)
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Great speech, but let’s not get ahead of ourselves:
> The AI Safety people say they are worried that AI is going to end the world
I’m just going to stop you right there and point you to some of Robert Miles’s essays: youtube.com/@RobertMilesAI
because it’s not about that, and he (much better than I could) will give you several reasons to care about AI Safety before AGI is even plausible.
Videos about Artificial Intelligence Safety Research, for everyone. AI is leaping forward right now, it's only a matter of time before we develop true Artificial General Intelligence, and there are a lot of different ways that this could go badly wr…YouTube
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Thanks for sharing this and I will take a look.
I will say I think what is important and that Cory raises quite well is understanding the power dynamics of this, which is we need more unions and more negotiation on this from the workers side that is the true safety to the workers no matter the industry.
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1. Buying the book the second it comes out.
2. "Seven AI companies currently account for more than a third of the stock market ...""
My jaw just hit the floor. This pop! is going to hurt.
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When does "alternative money" just become the equivalent of worthless coal town company scrip?
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Coal barons **hated** FDR for outlawing company scrip in 1938.
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Now company scrip is back again. With all its pernicious uses.
When a company can fire you just before you vest your stock options, were you really paid for all that under-the-table overtime?
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By Jonathan Grossman When he felt the time was ripe, President Roosevelt asked Secretary of Labor Perkins, 'What happened to that nice unconstitutional bill you had tucked away?'DOL
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> And I'm here to tell you they are wrong:w rong because
Typo
The saddest part about losing sectoral bargaining is that the only way we're going to successfully campaign to get it back is a full general strike, where *every* sector shuts down with the specific demand to repeal Taft-Hartley.
It ties back into how in a world of perfect law enforcement, social progress becomes impossible. The optimal amount of crime in society is not 0.
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"It's because in a creative market dominated by five publishers, four studios, three labels, two mobile app stores, and a single company that controls all the ebooks and audiobooks, giving a creative worker extra rights to bargain with is like giving your bullied kid more lunch money."
I gotta work that into a conversation sometime soon.
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Plus:
"AI is the asbestos in the walls of our technological society, stuffed there with wild abandon by a finance sector and tech monopolists run amok."
Evocative enough to make me cough.
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Una volta si parlava di cattura del regolatore o #regulatorycapture (andreasaltelli.eu/file/reposit…). Ora invece il motto è: Don't capture the regulator: become the regulator!
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La notizia è rimbalzata in tutta #Europa come un boomerang di indignazione: l’#Irlanda ha nominato #NiamhSweeney, ex #dirigente e #lobbista di #Meta (#Facebook), come nuova #vicecommissaria per la #protezionedeidati personali. In altri tempi sarebbe stata una curiosità burocratica; oggi, nel cuore dell’era #digitale e sotto l’ombrello del #GDPR, è una bomba politica.
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An Italian journalist's car was destroyed by an explosive device.
An explosive device detonated under the vehicle of prominent Italian investigative journalist Sigfrido Ranucci overnight, as it was parked outside his home, without causing casualties, his investigative television news show announced on Friday
Italian leader Giorgia Meloni denounced it as a 'serious act of intimidation.'
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An explosive device detonated under the vehicle of prominent Italian investigative journalist Sigfrido Ranucci overnight, as it was parked outside his home, without causing casualties, his investigative television news show …Le Monde
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Folks, Salem needs a tent.
Thanks to your help, we were able to help him evacuate to the South last week during our Gaza Verified Emergency Appeal but we could not get him enough to also get a tent.
He’s now sharing a tent with another family and things are difficult.
Please help if you can and please share it so others can help also.
This is a link to his fundraiser: gofund.me/03d81d6e
And he is on Gaza Verified: gaza-verified.org
Thank you!
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@aral @joy I have evacuated to the south and am currently staying in my friend’s tent, but he is starting to feel uncomfortable because of the limited space. I beg you from the bottom of my heart to help me buy a tent for myself and my children.Salem Dawoud (Mastodon)
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Friends, today I face a challenge. My sister urgently needs her treatment — $160 covers her medicine for one week. Who will step up and help us make it happen today? Every dollar counts, and together we can give her the care she desperately needs. I believe in the power of community, and I know someone out there will be the first to answer this call. Please, if you can, be the reason she gets her treatment this week.
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My name is Eslam Mohammad, I’m 24 years old, and I’m from Gaza. Over the past year, I’ve lived through unimaginable horror. I lost my home, my work as a photographer and artist, my friends, and the sense of stability that once grounded me.Chuffed
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Folks, Eslam is one of our new members.
She is, herself, in Egypt but her family are based in Gaza.
Please help if you can and share.
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❗️❗️Purtroppo non potrò partecipare: per questo metto a disposizione il mio #PassStampa a chi fosse interessato. Se ti/vi serve, scrivimi e lo giro io.
Mercoledì e giovedì prossimi (10–11 settembre) #Berlino si trasformerà nel centro dell’#IntelligenzaArtificiale: sono attesi oltre 8.000 ospiti al #BIGBANGKIFESTIVAL presso la #AlteMünze (Molkenmarkt 31, 10179 Berlino) – il più grande evento #B2B d’#Europa dedicato all’#IA.
Il festival non è un convegno specialistico per pochi esperti, ma 1/n
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rende l’IA accessibile a un vasto pubblico: #imprenditori, #politica, #cultura, #media e #sport si incontrano per mostrare come l’#IntelligenzaArtificiale stia cambiando la nostra vita quotidiana, l’#economia e la #società.
Sul palco si alterneranno #figure di primo piano di #OpenAI, #Google, #SAP, #NVIDIA e molti altri #protagonisti della #tecnologia – insieme a voci note e #decisoripolitici, tra cui:
📍Karsten Wildberger (#MinistroperilDigitale)
📍Verona Pooth
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📍Jan Josef Liefers
📍Richard David Precht
📍Felix Kroos
📍Prof. Karl Lauterbach
📍Carsten Schneider (#MinistrodellAmbiente)
📍Christian Dürr (leader FDP)
📍Gregor Gysi
Il portale di prenotazione sarà attivo solo fino a lunedì alle ore 12.00!
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in reply to 🅰🅻🅸🅲🅴 (🌈🦄) • • •Roknrol
in reply to 🅰🅻🅸🅲🅴 (🌈🦄) • • •When I was packing up all of my shit to move to France, I took half of our televisions (LCD, nothing special, but large and *dumb*).
My wife laughed and suggested that I was being silly by not just buying new televisions when I made it across the pond.
The last time I was in her house I heard so many advertisements, so many "AI Assistants" listening, and she (a supposed liberal) has a fucking Ring doorbell.
I'm happy with my dumb TVs, my dumb DVD players, my dumb media server, my dumb record player, and my dumb doorbell.
Before I buy anything "smart" I will first find out how the "smart" can be disabled (the fridge we bought was 'wifi capable', so I opened the back and yanked the wifi card - that trick probably won't work anymore).
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in reply to Roknrol • • •Pretty sure they had a "smart" player, as in "skip the ads"
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in reply to gkrnours • • •We have several boxes of oldish DVDs and none have a commercial...I don't remember seeing ads on DVDs.
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in reply to gkrnours • • •"regional"
I was wondering the same.
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in reply to gkrnours • • •@gkrnours Almost all of my DVDs have been ripped from original disks with all of the preview crap and advertisements cut.
The disks will soon start failing though, so I'll need to dedicate some time to re-ripping them lest I lose my catalog lol
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in reply to Roknrol • • •@roknrol My TV is a 2006 model, bought in 2018 from an old Kurdish man in the banlieues of Stockholm. It has one HDMI port, some analogue ports that look like dogshit with consoles, a VGA port(!) and an analogue tuner that no longer has a use. It (coupled with a HDMI switch) does the job.
I’m told that denying internet access to modern “smart TVs” is not an option, as they will nag you obstructively until you plug them in, as they’re sold at a loss recouped from ad/tracker revenue.
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in reply to acb • • •@acb That is what I heard as well, and every story gives me a small reason for a sigh of relief.
@alice
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"digital signage displays", they might fit your needs better. 😀
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in reply to Nenon • • •Spoontaneous Consumption
in reply to 🅰🅻🅸🅲🅴 (🌈🦄) • • •One day, you won't be able to pay for your groceries because you don't have a smartphone that uses AI to solve the captchas at the checkout terminal and the AI teller won't accept your wrinkly cash.
And then you'll walk out of the store with your stolen groceries but the door won't open until someone else walks out because 'smart'.
And then you won't have paid for your food and nobody will be after you because they'd try to punish you by locking you out of their discount program instead.
And then you'll be a thief and you'll feel really bad because of that only because you didn't buy smart devices.
At least that's what I expect to happen to me 😅 And after feeling bad there's free food.
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in reply to Cavyherd • • •I am very glad to have a stand mixer and a fridge and running water, those are pretty damn convenient.
Jer-Bear 😎🐻
in reply to eestileib (she/hers) • • •@eestileib Yes but there is no good reason for any of those to connect to the Internet
@cavyherd @alice
Juniper likes skunks
in reply to Jer-Bear 😎🐻 • • •I can think of some reason I might want some appliances to connect to the network (not necessarily the Internet) if only capitalism didn't take that as an excuse to prevent me having control of those devices.
@eestileib @cavyherd @alice
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in reply to 🅰🅻🅸🅲🅴 (🌈🦄) • • •Janneke
in reply to 🅰🅻🅸🅲🅴 (🌈🦄) • • •Marketing lingo, who doesn't hate it?
Who are these people that have no problem whatsoever lying to us?
Jesse McClure
in reply to 🅰🅻🅸🅲🅴 (🌈🦄) • • •Smart people know they will be happy with simple devices.
Simple people think they will be happy with smart devices.
Ganondalf
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in reply to 🅰🅻🅸🅲🅴 (🌈🦄) • • •In my experience "smart" cars are quirky, occasionally unpredictable and subject to subscription-based enshittification
None of these are traits I want in a car. At all.
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in reply to 🅰🅻🅸🅲🅴 (🌈🦄) • • •gary
in reply to 🅰🅻🅸🅲🅴 (🌈🦄) • • •the anti ai rant leads you to a place where you are compromised and it is just a negative space, i'd rather go hybrid and look at things a bit more realistically and subjectively
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in reply to 🅰🅻🅸🅲🅴 (🌈🦄) • • •James Donohoe
in reply to 🅰🅻🅸🅲🅴 (🌈🦄) • • •I dread the day I have to replace my old TV - my plan is to buy a large computer monitor instead though I expect it will be more expensive.
ente
in reply to 🅰🅻🅸🅲🅴 (🌈🦄) • • •Sue Briccay
in reply to 🅰🅻🅸🅲🅴 (🌈🦄) • • •There is a definite gap in the market for 'dumb' products.
#LudditesRus
Mungen Cakes ✅
in reply to 🅰🅻🅸🅲🅴 (🌈🦄) • • •Plutarch
in reply to 🅰🅻🅸🅲🅴 (🌈🦄) • • •Dizzy 0069 Stiff Assed Crip
in reply to 🅰🅻🅸🅲🅴 (🌈🦄) • • •The Doctor
in reply to 🅰🅻🅸🅲🅴 (🌈🦄) • • •❄️SnowyIn❄️ 🇨🇦🚫🦻
Unknown parent • • •I hear that. Do you think it regional? ?By country, I mean...
@gkrnours @roknrol
Andrew Zonenberg
in reply to 🅰🅻🅸🅲🅴 (🌈🦄) • • •I work in computer security and do a lot of work on automotive stuff.
People ask me what I think of self-driving cars.
I tell them I get to work on a bicycle. The smartest thing on it is the USB charge controller for my headlight and if it makes a funny noise or starts smoking I can yank it off the handlebars and yeet it somewhere far away from me.
Andrew Zonenberg
in reply to Andrew Zonenberg • • •If I am ever forced to buy a 2015+ vehicle (or whenever they started putting telematics on cars) due to lack of alternatives, you can bet I am going to go bumper to bumper with a spectrum analyzer and nearfield probe set and neutralize every radio transmitter on the car by any means necessary.
Removing the entire ECU? Cutting traces to the antenna and replacing them with a 50-ohm terminator? High voltage into the antenna until it stops responding?
One way or another, it won't phone home. But the longer it takes and the more work it requires, the more pissed I'll be.
Andrew Zonenberg
in reply to Andrew Zonenberg • • •Mr. Scam Likely
in reply to Andrew Zonenberg • • •@azonenberg I've got a sturdy 20+ year old sedan, and I'm realizing I should just plan to keep it running forever as long as the frame is intact.
Theres decades of compatible parts lying around in warehouses and junkyards, and I don't care if I have to swap an engine that isn't "compatible" and custom mount it. That sounds better than a new surveillance-mobile.
Andrew Zonenberg
in reply to Mr. Scam Likely • • •@unlofl I'm hoping one day a bunch of angry nerds will design either an entire suite of new electronics/controls for a popular late model vehicle, or better yet an entirely new vehicle, that is simple, low tech, repairable, and open source to the extent practical.
Rip out the CAN bus controlled door locks and replace them with ones that use physical keys that don't need batteries.
Remove the touchscreen HVAC controls and put in physical knobs.
No fly-by-wire anywhere except where required to perform a key safety function like ABS. If you have to put software between human control inputs and steering/braking/acceleration, it should be as minimal as possible, formally verified, and multiply redundant processors, sensors, and actuators.
Publish full mechanical drawings of common wear components to make third party replacements easier and allow the vehicles to outlive the manufacturers if they later go out of business.
No ADAS features whatsoever.
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divVerent
in reply to Andrew Zonenberg • • •You can, but that is likely illegal. In Germany even twice illegal:
- Operating a bicycle without a light
- Littering
Obviously, if the Li-Ion battery started smoking, that'd count as a justified emergency. Although it can be quite tricky to figure out where thou lobbest thy holy hand grenade of Li-Ion, if no qualified foe is nearby.
Najmies
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in reply to Quinn Norton • • •Quinn Norton
in reply to Vysogota • • •I will cut you
😂
Aisling "cromulent fuckcrustable of a deer" Fawn
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Unknown parent • • •Zimmie
in reply to 🅰🅻🅸🅲🅴 (🌈🦄) • • •I want my car to be smart. I want it to have enough sensors it can diagnose problems for me. “Rear-left tower accelerometer says your shock is blown.” Unfortunately most seem to only diagnose problems for the manufacturer, not for the owner. Big displays in the dash, but nobody seems to include even a code reader the owner can access directly on the car.
I really like my water leak detectors and smoke alarms which can send notifications to my phone while I’m out.
It sucks that “smart” has been so routinely abused to mean “dumb to the point it won’t function without an Internet connection”.
❄️SnowyIn❄️ 🇨🇦🚫🦻
Unknown parent • • •@gkrnours @roknrol
"speedrunning..."
Canada has the same problem.
Our PM is making sure we burn the planert.
James Donohoe
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VANTABlack
in reply to 🅰🅻🅸🅲🅴 (🌈🦄) • • •These days "Smart" devices feels like 1 of 2 things "A ticking time bomb waiting to suddenly require a subscription" and/or "A spying device collecting as much data as it can to sell"
And in the special case of a certain smart mattress brand I can't remember the name of "Overheats when AWS goes down" lol.
Stryder Notavi
in reply to VANTABlack • • •Tom 🇨🇦
Unknown parent • • •Ada (Redemption Arc) 🏳️⚧️
in reply to 🅰🅻🅸🅲🅴 (🌈🦄) • • •Brokar
Unknown parent • • •The hammer is only for printers. I read that somewhere 😉
And yes, i could never understand how people could install Ring cams on their doors or put something like Alexa in their kitchens.
They basically beg to get spied on and are upset if somebody actually does.
Tesla? Same thing.
I drive a 20 year old car. Repairs are becoming expensive because spare parts are becoming rare, but the car is mine.
🟥 Eveline Sulman 🇳🇱🇪🇺🇺🇦
in reply to 🅰🅻🅸🅲🅴 (🌈🦄) • • •Kirtai 🏳️⚧️
in reply to 🅰🅻🅸🅲🅴 (🌈🦄) • • •[17921] /bin/cat(girl)
in reply to 🅰🅻🅸🅲🅴 (🌈🦄) • • •EndlessMason
in reply to 🅰🅻🅸🅲🅴 (🌈🦄) • • •solo
in reply to 🅰🅻🅸🅲🅴 (🌈🦄) • • •tbh at this point I don't trust anything unless I can modify all of the software running on it however I see fit.
either that, or it is not permitted to have an internet connection.