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Re:Ask HN: Imgur Alternative?
on Sunday December 08, 2019 @05:28AM (#21735227)
Pixelfed, a decentralized alternative.
A Dutch town put traffic lights on the ground for people staring at their phone
Why Are We On Social Media?
Small Is Huge
How the Global Tech Elite Imagine the Future
Re:Ask HN: Keybase.io About Transparency and Open Alpha status
on Monday March 04, 2019 @06:58AM (#19300577)
Anyway I created a post mentioning Keybase on our community forum to a topic where we track similar identity systems and technologies.
Ask HN: Keybase.io About Transparency and Open Alpha status
Keybase is widely used by members of HN, and discussed in many threads before. I really like the ideas behind the software and the vision to bring public key encryption to the masses.But what I find odd, and not addressed in any discussions I've seen, is that a commercial company (Keybase Inc) that is about delivering products to prove ones identity, has so little information about themselves....
Ask HN: More background on these Brave browser findings?
Interesting thread on the fediverse about Brave browser, but lacking more background and sources. This toot [0] and this msg:"first, they sold exceptions to privacy tracking to Facebook and Twitter, now it comes out they've got a header override that allows them to set header exceptions on demand."[0] https://glitch.social/@tessaracht/101572578668968885
Re:Apple Is a Hypocrite on Data Privacy
on Monday February 04, 2019 @07:08AM (#19075630)
Article title is "Apple’s Empty Grandstanding About Privacy"
Meet the data guardians taking on the tech giants
Fortnite Addiction? China Has the Answer
How Social Media and AI Hijack Your Brain
The Digital Product Ethics Canvas
Thank You Google for Sharing My Data
Former Google Design Ethicist: Big Tech in Schools Is Race to the Bottom (2018)
Re:Let’s talk about open-source sustainability
on Friday January 18, 2019 @03:33AM (#18937896)
You were downvoted, maybe because some people consider all advertising as evil per definition, but ethical advertising is an interesting subject. I made mention of Codefund in a forum discussion we have on the topic:
https://community.humanetech.com/t/humane-advertising-ethica...
Copyright Directive: how competing business lobbies drowned out critical voices
“Black Mirror” isn’t just predicting the future–it’s causing it
Re:Media are unwittingly selling us an AI fantasy
on Sunday January 13, 2019 @09:44AM (#18896836)
Direct link to paper on which the article is based (PDF, 10 pages): https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/sites/default/fil...
Re:I was wrong about Google and Facebook: there’s nothing wrong with them
on Saturday January 12, 2019 @06:09AM (#18890709)
Reference to Mastodon discussion on the article: https://mastodon.ar.al/@aral/101399355594255147
Re:I was wrong about Google and Facebook: there’s nothing wrong with them
on Saturday January 12, 2019 @03:25AM (#18890312)
This really shows the power of money, size and market dominance, and on the consumer side of course the power of the business model of providing 'free' products and services. Convenience, network effects, FOMO, and very little awareness of what the dangers and capabilities of progressing surveillance capitalism now and in the future are, or the impact of (big) tech on society.
There are hopeful trends, but it is a David against Goliath fight, going back and forth and really slowly.
Re:Article 13 is almost finished and will change the internet as we kn...
on Friday January 11, 2019 @07:52AM (#18883182)
> Licenses that platforms take out cover uploads by their users, as long as they act non-commercially or “don’t generate significant revenues”
Am I reading correctly that when you have a forum (e.g. Discourse) which is non-commercial i.e. for an open community, that any users uploading stuff or quoting article sections are exempt from this regulation (even though the forum is hosted on Discourse servers on a paid plan)?