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thanatosincarnate@pod.geraspora.de
Thanatos die immer skurrilere Minderheit

#gafam gonna GAFAM:

It’s Official: 3rd-Party Twitter Apps No Longer Allowed

"As per Engadget, the social networking site has updated its developer agreement to state that devs can not “use or access the Licensed Materials to create or attempt to create a substitute or similar service or product to the Twitter Applications.”"

https://www.omglinux.com/twitter-bans-3rd-party-clients-official/

#gafam #twitter #proprietary #capitalist #social #media

It's Official: 3rd-Party Twitter Apps No Longer Allowed - OMG! Linux

Welp, it's official: 3rd-party Twitter clients are no longer allowed to exist. As per Engadget, the social networking site has updated its developer

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quetzop1@diasp.org
Fritz-Ferdinand von Pinguin

Internet

I'm really annoyed by the #Internet of today:

  • #Trackers and #data #collection everywhere
  • #JavaScript-heavy #Web #applications instead of document-oriented #websites
  • No #JavaScript most often translates to an empty page with a single sentence: "Please activate JavaScript"; the page content however is often nothing that actually requires JavaScript, the website creators just want to feel like actual #application #developers, so they re-build much of what the #browser already supplies with #inefficient and #bug heavy JavaScript code
  • Content almost always behind a #login wall
  • More often than not only very superficial #information
  • #Ads
  • Thousands of 3rd party JS files included, most of which have the only purpose of tracking you across websites
  • #Misinformation and #biased #information everywhere
  • Deliberately misleading advertisment, sich as "save 80% now", and artificial time pressure)
  • "Best viewed on #Google #Chrome"
  • "Login with Facebook"
  • Newsletter subscription and cookie pop-ups featuring #dark #patterns
  • #Search #engine #optimization ( #SEO ) acts in the worst interest of the user by skewing search results
  • Artificial restriction of web #app functionality to promote their native apps
  • Large parts of the Web are only accessible by #smartphone
  • You have to provide your #phone #number to login
  • If you didn't provide a phone number, your account is being blocked right after the initial login because we suspect you being malicious actor because why not (=> #Instagram, #Facebook)
  • #Proprietary #platforms are required to participate in public #online life (Amazon, Google, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, YouTube)
  • One-sentence-paragraphs and sloppy language (especially found in #Medium #articles)
  • "We care about your #privacy" actually means: "We were forced by law to do this shit, we just want to collect and store as much information on you as possible to make money off of you now or in an undescript future"
  • JavaScript code minimizer
  • Large font sizes, much whitespace, large illustrative, but useless images, HD screen required to browse most websites
  • Lack of #government #regulation and #law #enforcement, too many malicious actors (#spam, #phishing, etc.)
  • Emotional content to increase #interaction, #clickbait

Once being an open platform geared towards information exchange and bringing people into contact, most of the public Internet today is nothing but annoying useless #marketing, #advertising and #data #collection. Providing information, connecting people, and making life convenient is definitely NOT the primary goal of whoever is big on the Internet today. It's shocking to see how much of it is only to sell you stuff or to sell your information.

And the worst is: we are even paying them to do this shit. #Marketing spending will be reflected in product prices, and with much of marketing being done in 1st world countries, a substantial amount of the price goes into this destructive industry.

I could go on with this for hours. Really sick of it.

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anonymiss@despora.de
anonymiss

The open chip #Caliptra will hopefully replace #proprietary developments like #Microsoft #Pluton.

source: https://www.opencompute.org/blog/cloud-security-integrating-trust-into-every-chip

The #OCP Foundation is pleased to provide a collaborative #framework where #AMD, #Google, Microsoft, and #NVIDIA came together to define a scalable and standards-based #solution for the benefit of the entire #industry.

#trust #cloud #server #technology #risc-v #open #freedom #hardware #news #security

Open Compute Project

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anonymiss@despora.de
anonymiss

#Debian: #Firmware - what are we going to do about it?

source: https://blog.einval.com/2022/04/19

TL;DR: firmware support in Debian sucks, and we need to change this. See the "My preference, and rationale" Section below.

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For Debian's purposes, we typically separate firmware from software by considering where the code executes (does it run on a separate processor? Is it visible to the host OS?) but it can be difficult to define a single reliable dividing line here. Consider the Intel/AMD #CPU #microcode packages, or the U-Boot firmware packages as examples.

#software #Linux #problem #news #proprietary #hardware

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schestowitz@joindiaspora.com
Dr. Roy Schestowitz

Reason number 3058573632 why #www is broken: people now craft/custom-made new fonts to convey or contain little pictures (as if characters are the new images/icons), then arrogantly assume everybody's browsers: 1) will download new fonts for one page. 2) supports #proprietary fonts. This does not save bandwidth, this harms accessibility, it's an attack on the WWW. #gulag

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danie10@squeet.me
Danie

The University of Costumed Heroes is an animated video telling the story of a group of heroes falling prey to the powers of proprietary software in education

Beware of supposedly “free” proprietary software offered to educational institutions.
We must reverse the trend of forsaking young people’s freedom, which has been accelerating as corporations try to capitalize on the need to establish new remote education practices. Free software not only protects the freedoms of your child or grandchild by allowing people to study the source code for any malicious functionalities, it also communicates important values like autonomy, sharing, social responsibility, and collaboration.

See The University of Costumed Heroes: A video from the FSF — Free Software Foundation — Working together for free software

#technology #FOSS #education #proprietary #FSF

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hackbyte@friendica.utzer.de
hackbyte (friendica) 13HB1

Mkay shit .... i totally didn't know, that you actually can use and configure Logitech proprietary Unifying Receiver USB Dongles _and_ mice, keyboards and so on......

I never really bothered until i finally got frustrated over a failling mouse calble.. We all know, selecting and buying really good HID (Human Interface Device(s)) is a very sensitive topic..

You buy sh!t once .....and you will be unnerved by it for years ... or need to buy a replacement.

So i got down the route and finally decided to get myself something good, which should not only last but even work and be satisfying to use in the long term: A Logitech MX Master 3.

Long story short; i got a used mac version, needed to buy my own usb dongle .... and so was in need to pair a mice with a dongle.

I learned, that you can actually do that from your linux desktop without any problem, all you need is Solaar and off you go.

After i finally even updated to the latest version directly from github, i even got all the fancy options to configure additional stuff on my MX Master 3, YAY!

#linux #desktop #solaar #logitech #mice #keyboard #unify #dongle #usb #hid #software #opensource #proprietary #til #randomshit

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