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.

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 #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.

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.

It seems like the #EU #DigitalMarketsAct is already having an effect on #GooglePlay: now that they might actually have some real competition, they seem to be ramping up efforts to clean up their app store:

https://techcrunch.com/2023/11/09/google-play-tightens-up-rules-for-android-app-developers-to-require-testing-increased-app-review/

I've been getting a flood of #spam from #UK companies, but the kind where they are actual companies, not weird phishing things. They seem to provide proper unsubscribe links. Did the UK changes it laws recently to hold spamming companies less accountable? What happened?

One thing that most impressed me about the culture of Brooklyn was how after the September 11th attacks, mainstream culture rallied to protect its Arab and Muslim communities because we knew they would be unfairly targeted https://web.archive.org/web/20210712204925/https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/bs-xpm-2001-09-14-0109140289-story.html

Sadly, what I see now in Europe is the mainstream adopting the bigoted views of people like Netanyahu, Ben-Gvir, Likud, Shas, etc. and coding it nice sounding language. The #EU should protect and respect all of its citizens and residents equally.