as long as governments mandate user-controlling apps, such as age-verification ones that require such remote-controlled operating systems, google's and apple's dominions will remain supported and required by governments, rather than challenged for citizens' sake. as long as such features as biometrics and DRM are allowed to be used to serve remote interests through users' digital devices, taking precedence over users' interests and control over users, remote interests will keep on abusing and normalizing them, and solidifying the need for such remotely-controlled devices, making it even harder for individuals and societies to escape them even through democratic governments.
semana passada, na minha #caminhada diária, eu passava de um lado da rua e do outro um cachorro de porte médio, com coleira, caminhava sozinho, no mesmo sentido. ele chegou até o portão de uma casa vazia, com várias placas de vende-se, olhou, deu meia volta e foi embora
na minha cabeça passou o filme de o cachorro ter morado ali antes, ou ter feito um amigo ali mas agora o amigo foi levado embora, quando seu senhor deixou a casa. uso a palavra senhor, não tutor, pra dar o peso do que me doeu perceber e sentir a escravidão animal naquele momento. lembrou-me cenas de audiovisuais sobre escravidão humana, em que pessoas escravizadas eram separadas de família, de amigos, de companheiros, por decisão de seus senhores. o filme biográfico do Dr Luiz Gama tem uma cena dolorida assim bem no comecinho. dizem que eram tratados como animais, mas... somos todos animais, e nem nós nem outros animais merecemos ser tratados assim.
LF has never been for freedom or ethics. it's part of the corporate contra-revolutionary movement that rejects ethics. the LF has long been funded by such evil forces. one could try to frame it as corruption, but no, it has been corrupt since its inception.
does this apply to english alone, or to other languages too?
as a non-native english speaker, brazilian portuguese native, I often find myself going for the longer, Latin-derived words that are similar in portuguese and english, rather than to the shorter anglo-saxon ones. I've been presumed arrogant over this shortcoming, but I find that presuming ableism on top is itself ableist and racist against latinos.
back when I was at school, having a richer vocabulary was regarded as a good thing. nowadays it seems that having a poorer vocabulary is more valued, but not only that, you have to have the right poor vocabulary. if your poor vocabulary prefers the longer cognate words with your other languages, it still sucks 😞
I'm in contact with a couple of people who know people in Bulgaria, and I've referred them to this thread, but... there's no contact info, and I can't assume the people in Bulgaria they might reach would be in the fediverse. it's unclear to me how anyone could help or even verify the story without such basic information.
recebi uma ligação robótica dizendo ser de um banco em que mantenho conta, pedindo pra confirmar a ativação de um celular android para acesso à conta, com opção de falar com a equipe de segurança
como não tenho celular, já me preocupei, disquei o número pra falar com a equipe de segurança, uma pessoa (?) começou a me atender, mas na hora que falei que não tinha celular, desligou. acho que foi o que me salvou.
provavelmente o script do golpe ia pedir pra eu fazer alguma coisa com o celular, e se eu acreditasse estar falando mesmo com alguém do banco, poderia me dar bem mal.
I pose that since most existing LLMs are SaaSS or nonfree, using them would teach submission rather than freedom, which would detract from the cause rather than further it
IIRC USD2G was the amount of lobbying money that was analyzed. it's been a while since I read the report, but I think the actual amount that got connected to Meta's pushing age verification legislation within the US was some USD36M.
well... that's a little dated. nowadays, even if you pay for the product, you're still the product. capitalism can't help abusing others in each and every way when others don't stand collectively for freedom.
nod. then I contacted the friend by XMPP, said what happened, passed the link google had censored, and the response I got was something like "would you help me figure out how to escape this hell?" yay!
note that it's not that it went to spam, it was outright rejected and bounced with an error message to the effect that the email didn't make it because it was considered unsolicited mail
I'm not very familiar with Jottacloud, but I'm generally wary of so-called "cloud" things. Cloud is a propaganda term to disguise the real meaning of "somebody else's computer under somebody else's control".
From what you say, it looks like you might eventually feel like self hosting such things. You may wish to follow @_elena@mastodon.socialhttps://aseachange.com/@elena and her amazing journey into the wonderful world of self hosting and reestablishing control over her own computing, and find inspiration in it 😉