Changing a battery and other components is NOT hard... Together we can shift societal norms away from fast moving consumerism that hurts the planet.
Laptop's age-> 5+ yrs
#designedtolast #sustainability #earthday2021 #earthday #righttorepair
Considering the legal protections disabled & impaired people have in most of the developed world, why doesn't there seem to be any legal actions pushing back on CAPTCHAs? Even gov. sanctioned public services are imposing #CAPTCHA with reckless disregard.
Employees at a Beijing office have to smile for an AI camera to get through the front doors, change the temperature, or print documents
Please be aware that Freenode have now closed our IRC Channel as part of their continued Hostile Takeover and redirected it to "##gamingonlinux" which we do not control. DO NOTE USE FREENODE. We have moved to Libera.Chat: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/irc/
In a 2020 letter to management, Max Eliaser, an #Amazon software engineer, said #Ring is “simply not compatible with a free society”.
He's right.
--> "Amazon’s Ring is the largest civilian surveillance network the US has ever seen": https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/may/18/amazon-ring-largest-civilian-surveillance-network-us
Is GDPR worth the paper it’s printed on? According to these fine folks, “browser fingerprinting … incognito mode detection … geolocation … anonymous user detection”, etc., are all apparently GDPR-compliant without consent if done for “fraud protection.”
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Too Bad, Zuck: Just 4% of U.S. iPhone Users Let Apps Track Them After iOS Update https://gizmodo.com/too-bad-zuck-just-4-of-u-s-iphone-users-let-apps-tra-1846851013
Signal created targeted ads for Instagram that show the personal data that Facebook collects about you and sells access to.
They were blocked.
https://signal.org/blog/the-instagram-ads-you-will-never-see/
A new @accessnow report concludes digital vaccine certificates “threaten human rights by creating space for exclusion and discrimination to flourish, and posing serious long-term threats to the privacy and security of millions of people across the globe.” https://www.accessnow.org/covid-19-vaccine-passports-threaten-human-rights/
Inventive grandson builds Telegram messaging machine for 96-year-old grandmother
Monkey plays Pong through a Neuralink interface (with his mind) - we are not very far from the cyborg age anymore: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsCul1sp4hQ #neuralink #monkey #pong