Great news for the Right To Repair:
"EU: Smartphones Must Have User-Replaceable Batteries by 2027 | PCMag"
#RightToRepair #EU #Europe #phone #batteries #tech
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The European Parliament just caused a major headache for smartphone and tablet manufacturers.Matthew Humphries (PCMag)
So Google is now preventing people from removing location data from photos taken with Pixel phones.
Remember when Google's corporate motto was "don't be evil?"
Obviously, accurate location data on photos is more useful to a data mining operation like Google.
From Google: "Important: You can only update or remove estimated locations. If the location of a photo or video was automatically added by your camera, you can't edit or remove the location."
It's enshitification in action.
Source: support.google.com/photos/answ…
#technology #tech @technology #business #enshitification #Android #Google @pluralistic #infosec
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🚨Bellingcat will host its next hackathon between April 21 and 23.
The event will have a specific focus on increasing the accessibility of software tools used in digital investigations.
Find out more and sign up here:
bellingcat.com/april-hackathon…
#osint #tech #journalism
Bellingcat will host a remote global hackathon to increase the accessibility of software tools used in digital investigations between 21 and 23 April. Sign up to take part here.bellingcat
Not only does Elon Musk not have a clue what he’s talking about, but this is *exactly* what he tried to do at PayPal, claiming it needed a full “V2” rewrite of the code when it didn’t.
Instead, it shifted resources away from key areas, caused PayPal to lose much more money to fraud, and eventually got him ousted as CEO.
Last month, I wrote about Elon Musk’s time at PayPal and how he’s repeating his mistakes from that period: disconnect.blog/p/elon-musk-wa…
#tech #elonmusk #twitter #paypal
What PayPal’s history teaches us about Elon Musk’s management of TwitterParis Marx (Disconnect)
Hi, thank you so much for participating in this survey. I am giving a presentation about ageism in technology at Axe Con, an online conference dedicated to digital accessibility in March 2023.Google Docs
The #FreeBSD Foundation is hiring:
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#softwaredevelopment #hiring #jobs #tech
Are you a versatile problem-solver with a knack for operating system development? Do you thrive working in an open source development environment with a diverse team? If so, the FreeBSD Foundation is searching for a software developer with varied i…Open Source JobHub
ChatGPT gets treated like technological magic, but that ignores the humans behind the curtain that make it function.
OpenAI paid Sama to hire Kenyan workers at $1.32 to $2 an hour to review “child sexual abuse, bestiality, murder, suicide, torture, self harm, and incest” content. Their work made the tool less toxic, but left them mentally scarred. The company ended the contract when they found out TIME was digging into their practices.
time.com/6247678/openai-chatgp…
OpenAI used outsourced workers in Kenya earning less than $2 per hour to scrub toxicity from ChatGPT. Here's what to know.Billy Perrigo (Time)
The internet consumes a lot of electricity. 416.2TWh per year to be precise. To give you some perspective, that’s more than the entire United Kingdom.Website Carbon Calculator
Elon Musk suspended Linette Lopez from Twitter after years of critical reporting on his companies.
In a new piece, she lays out Elon Musk’s playbook of exploiting workers while building a cult following. These tactics aren’t new. Musk has always been this way, regardless of what former boosters like Kara Swisher want you to believe. They were just happy to ignore it for access while journalists like Lopez did the work.
businessinsider.com/elon-musk-…
#elonmusk #tech #tesla #twitter #spacex
Elon Musk has used the same playbook at all of his companies from Tesla to SpaceX. Sadly for him, his model will cause Twitter to go down in flames.Linette Lopez (Insider)
This is a nostalgic look back at the evolution of personal websites, and a look forward to how we can recreate this magic today. It's a manifesto for buildin...YouTube
Ep. 232 Software engineer, computer scientist, and creator of Web3 Is Going Just Great Molly White helps us determine whether Web3 is really going just great for humanity — and helps us figure out how much skepticism to have about the blockchain.Team Human
After you’ve drawn such a strong distinction on speech and human freedom, you can’t make any mistake about the side on which you belong.isaac-schorr (Mediaite)
STUDY: Privacy Violations Occurred At Least 50% Of The Time When Taking Devices For Repair
#News #Study #tech #privacy #computer #phone #data
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Not surprisingly, female customers bear the brunt of the privacy violations.Ars Technica
4 years using and championing the #fediverse full time and I've never written a #introductions toot. Well, or I have and can't find it.
I'm a #blind guy from 🇬🇧 with a passion for #technology and #programming, particularly #lowLevel #systemsProgramming in #C, #C++, #Rust, etc.
I've been a huge #freeSoftware / #openSource advocate for the majority of my life. I run #Linux and I love open, #decentralised technologies like #ActivityPub, #Matrix, #bitTorrent etc.
In my view, technology is built to make our lives easier, and in many ways, it isn't these days. It is truly my opinion that the only way #tech can be sustainable is if it's built using #FOSS, and does not give ultimate control to any 1 entity, individual or corporate. If technology is to help the people, it must be built *for* the people.
Currently working on odilia.app, various projects with the rest of the Lower Elements gang at lowerelements.club, and a Computing Science BSC at the #University of #stirling
Welcome to Odilia! Odilia is a new screen reader for the Linux desktop. It’s written in Rust, for maximum performance and stability.odilia.app
Project Zero calls out Android and Pixel for not fixing a GPU vulnerability.Ars Technica
WhatsApp data breach sees nearly 500 million user records up for sale
If you use WhatsApp, your details could well be up for sale
#news #tech #technology @WhatsApp #security #privacy #databreach
I'm going to #boost this a bit, to at least broaden its reach. Likes/favorites don't play into an algorithm here (thank goodness) and don't help visibility, and not all servers are federated (and some federated feeds are firehoses anyway).
@bookstodon, if you're tired of having to throw out still perfectly working #tech that suffers #PlannedObsolescence only because the closed-system software bricks them, check out this #petition.
Same to artists everywhere, @Curator.
I can't sign this as I am not a constituent of the EU, but I hope this comes to pass and the EU forces some responsibility into the #tech corporations. Goodness knows the US isn't going to lead the way.
#OpenSource #ConsumerRights #Computers #PlannedObsolescence #FOSS #ElectronicWaste #environmentalism #RightToRepair
Testuji infoek.cz účet i na alternativním Instagramu #Pixelfed. 😊
👉 Účet: pixelfed.cz/i/web/profile/4990…
👉 Článek o Pixelfedu: infoek.cz/socialni-sit-pixelfe…
👉Možnost registrace na Pixelfed.cz
👉 Aktuálně dostupná appka pro Android: f-droid.org/en/packages/org.pi…
#tech
Společnost Meta si je moc dobře vědoma, že Facebook dnes mladé netáhne. Není však schopna vymyslet nic nového,Adolf Pupík (Infoek.cz)
Oh great, looks like Fedora has lost hardware-accelerated video support BECAUSE PATENTS… ffs!
Small is Beautiful #23: What is the Small Web and why do we need it?
You can now watch the recording of yesterday’s live stream at:
small-tech.org/videos/small-is…
#SmallIsBeautiful #SmallWeb #SmallTech #web #dev #humanRights #decentralisation #tech #kitten #domain
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“A protest planned by hundreds of bank depositors in central China seeking access to their frozen funds has been thwarted because the authorities have turned their health code apps red, several depositors told Reuters.”
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Isn’t “smart tech” just wonderful? :)
Via @didek
🤔 ICYMI from April, a good (long-form!) essay about how #addiction to #tech (in general, but also #smartphones and #socialMedia in particular) is affecting human #attention spans in a negative way.
💡 Raises an interesting idea about it causing or reinforcing cultural "learned helplessness" that crosses over into many other areas of modern tech-facilitated life. (Something @lightweight has long discussed.)
🔖 Take a read this weekend and tell us what you think?
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I recently realized that absorbing the constant inflow of information from my smartphone, always readily available in my pocket to capture any free moment of attention, had fragmented my attention span.Tom Johnson
Avoiding USB-C on iPhones may get harder for Apple as Brazil considers mandate
#smartphones #Policy #Brazil #iphone #apple #USB-C #Tech #USB
Brazil joins EU and efforts from US politicians in universal charger push.Ars Technica
Podcast release - Adrian Cochrane [Audio Interview]
DRM Media + Browsers + WWW Redesign + Other Technology...
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#LibrePlanet #2022 #Talk #Artificial #Scarcity
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