Notices by Patrick Leavy (patrickleavy@mastodon.social)

@eff great article - thank you! I think this ban should also include a ban on companies keeping persistent #profiles on us.

It's not enough for us to have the right to request the deletion of the profile, it should be illegal to build and keep that #behaviouralprofile in the first place.

What do you reckon?

#surveillancecapitalism #tracking

@pluralistic I would just like to say thank you for your long form writing - it is excellent!

I've taken your advice and follow it via an RSS reader. That's great, but it also means you don't know I'm reading your work.

So I'm publicly thanking you here 🙏

#CoryDoctorow, you da man 👊

Here's a good example:
https://pluralistic.net/2024/11/15/radical-extremists/

(About the terrible #DMCA 1201 copyright law)

@br00t4c Trump is a red herring. It's #bigtech who are pulling the strings in the background.

@aral small tech could be funded out of these billions being reclaimed from #bigtech

Hate bullies? You'll love this story - #Apple just got kicked in the balls AGAIN for #antitrust violations.

The #DMA is badass. Serving up #bigtech before they can enact their endgame.

https://www.reuters.com/technology/apple-set-face-fine-under-eus-landmark-digital-markets-act-sources-say-2024-11-05/

@aral the internet needs a new business model.

#surveillancecapitalism is toxic.

Any ideas what a better replacement could look like?

@aral I saw what you're doing with the Small Tech Foundation and it looks promising.

The idea of #web0 is interesting - does #Nostr play nice with that concept? Or is the #bitcoin association too strong?

@pluralistic EXCELLENT article!

Have you had a look at #Nostr too? It can be bridged with #ActivityPub and it appears to be totally resistant to #enshittification by design.

A little bitcoin-bro heavy in these early days, but it can outgrow that I think.

@Gargron more precisely "to deliver and then enshittify"

Since it's #musiciansday here's a side project: an acoustic version of Billy Idol's Rebel Yell.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1UjbgrYCs_qk3KPxOHu4SwgZZe0EnQvXh/view?usp=drivesdk

I wanted to see if an upbeat rock song would sound good as a slow, more emotional acoustic song. What do you think?

#billyidol #rebelyell #acousticcover #acousticguitar #rockmusic #sideproject

@dansup why do you use Threads? That's meta spyware isn't it?

I sometimes think that no one cares about online privacy, which makes me really sad, then I read this from @pluralistic - good to know!
https://pluralistic.net/2024/08/07/revealed-preferences/#extinguish-v-improve

So maybe people DO care, but just feel like they can't do much about it?

#surveillancecapitalism #dataprivacy #datarape #tracking

@dansup I'm not familiar with Pixelfed.
Is it privacy focused? If so, to what extent?