Hans-Christoph Steiner @eighthave@librem.one

#WhatsApp is not a messenger, it really had become the next generation of #Facebook. It has all the pieces in place: masses of users, massive groups where anyone can join, #advertising, etc. The only real difference is that they have to put some of the logic in the client app, because servers see message #metadata, but not content.

As a company, Facebook only knows how to do #SurveillanceCapitalism so it is no wonder that they turn everything into #addictive spying machines to #track us.

@drwhax Sounds like a christmas cactus?

@Werhaus What is relatively new is that masses of people followed the same stupid route all while #tiktok-ing and #instagram-ing away about it. The police had to physically block the route to stop the sheeple stream

A glimpse into our future when packs of #sheeple guided by #AI gone wrong to stupid things en masse: "Google Maps misleads Californians into the desert during dust storm"

https://www.sfgate.com/travel/article/google-maps-leads-californians-i-15-desert-18509727.php

Danke #Falter, alle soll wissen dass die Nazis Autos Vorrang in die Stadt gegeben haben:

Doch der technologische Fortschritt und die nationalsozialistische Ideologie gaben den Autos Vorrang. Die Straßenverkehrsordnung von 1938 machte das „Kraftfahrzeug“ zum „Volksfahrzeug“, „der Langsame“ habe auf „den Schnelleren“ Rücksicht zu nehmen: „Im Straßenverkehr gehen die Bedürfnisse des motorisierten Schnellverkehrs den Bedürfnissen der Fußgänger vor.“
https://www.falter.at/zeitung/20231121/den-guertel-enger-schnallen

@jcaleitao thanks, great to know it is still supported! Thanks for running it.

@jcaleitao #FDroid has been trying to use your #IPFS gateway, but it does not seem to be working. https://ipfs.joaoleitao.org/ipfs/bafybeifx7yeb55armcsxwwitkymga5xf53dxiarykms3ygqic223w5sk3m returns "502 Bad Gateway" but that CID works on other gateways. Are you still maintaining your gateway? Are there restrictions on what it will host? f-droid.org is all free open source software apps, so should be uncontroversial.

@calyxos @LineageOS I can get these Motorola devices in Austria for 120€-150€, that is really affordable for a trusted phone!

@xoagray@meow.social @eff @avon_deer There are more and more options, some are even easy to switch to:

* #Jitsi hosted by an org you trust beats all the other video calls
* #Nextcloud #Syncthing etc for cloud services
* #NewPipe #ViMusic #RadioDroid for music and media
* #LineageOS #CalyxOS etc with #MicroG and #FDroid
* #Signal for messaging

I have a teapot made by a ceramics company called Emma Bridgewater, so I searched if it was dishwasher safe. No 2 on the list is this #AI #LLM generated piece of trash: https://dishwashermanuals.com/is-emma-bridgewater-dishwasher-safe/

It includes this heading that only an LLM would generate: "Are Emma Bridgewater mugs, dishwashers, and microwaves safe?" Oops, it mixed up who is doing what to who. I think it is pretty clear that this AI wave is a repeat of #cryptocurrency: 99% of use cases make our world much worse.

@rakoo @pmroman "Dying Gazans Criticized For Not Using Last Words To Condemn Hamas" https://www.theonion.com/dying-gazans-criticized-for-not-using-last-words-to-con-1850925657