Paul Sutton @zleap@qoto.org

#WhatsApp is currently down. This is your regular reminder that centralized platforms are centralized: a single point of failure and control.

Help spread the word about open decentralized networks.

If you want to migrate your family or other social group away from proprietary apps but don't know how, that's what we're here for. You can self-host Snikket or sign up for our hosted platform. After setup, invite your contacts with a simple link and you're done.

https://snikket.org/service/quickstart/

Good luck!

"Offshore" is bullshit. The call is coming from inside the house.

And the business about how this is all legal? It's also bullshit. Yes, there are plenty of people who manage these corrupt arrangements without breaking laws, but that's not the whole story.

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Over and over, the Pandora Papers show the same procurers, banks, and structures that are used by "law abiding" plutes are also being used by literal murderers like "Lell the Fat One," a mafia hitman, and corrupt officials who embezzle billions from government treasuries.

These systems aren't kept secret because the people who design, operate and use them are planning to share them with us later and don't want to ruin the surprise.

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Facebook is putting profit before public good, says whistleblower Frances Haugen https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/oct/03/former-facebook-employee-frances-haugen-identifies-herself-as-whistleblower

Did you know that it’s prohibited for a teacher to read my previous post out in class in English schools?

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2020/sep/27/uk-schools-told-not-to-use-anti-capitalist-material-in-teaching

#capitalism #freedom

Good news for #macOS users : lately Lukas Oberhuber is contributing to package the dev version of #GIMP (and has contributed a few fixes to GIMP code too). More issues must be handled, yet looks promising ! 🙌
(real screenshot though apparently not fully functional GIMP yet)

The #PandoraPapers contain 12M documents from 14 service providers.

Our investigation uncovers the financial secrets of 35 current and former world leaders, 330+ politicians and public officials, and a global list of fugitives, con artists and murderers.

https://www.icij.org/investigations/pandora-papers/global-investigation-tax-havens-offshore/

Refugees help power machine learning advances at Microsoft, Facebook, and Amazon
Big tech relies on the victims of economic collapse.
https://restofworld.org/2021/refugees-machine-learning-big-tech/

TIL that iphones regularly transmit the Mac addresses of devices attached to the same WiFi network to Apple. In addition to their geographical location of course.

So essentially you can be tracked across all locations where an iPhone is near you (and you haven't disabled your WiFi).

Wow.

https://www.tomsguide.com/news/android-ios-data-collection

I have decided to delete my YouTube account. It is done. I will set up a Peertube instance instead. Peertube is a decentralized video hosting service, and entirely Free Software: https://joinpeertube.org/

Pandora Papers leak: “a sweeping look at an industry that helps the world’s ultrawealthy, powerful government officials and other elites conceal trillions of dollars from tax authorities, prosecutors and others."

https://inkl.com/a/zQkdlYuwPNw

#PandoraPapers