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If you use #Telegram and think that your conversations are encrypted, you are wrong. 99% of conversations on Telegram are plain-text and perfectly readable by telegram-people and the Russian administration. It is not some weird technical trick. Telegram is *NOT* encrypted. Never was. Marketing is (always) a lie. Telegram only encrypt special "secret chats". If you don’t know what those are, then you are part of the unencrypted 99%. (and the 1% is badly encrypted). Use @signalapp !  @ploum Hi, check out this guy's website in case you want to change service. Lots of suggestions of privacy-protecting services, and he is quite rigorous in his selections: https://digdeeper.club/ « Tout ce que l’on fait et ce que l’on pense est défini et contrôlé par les médias. Ce sont eux qui définissent notre réalité. Et c’est la raison pour laquelle nous nous trouvons sur une voie rapide au bout de laquelle nous attend une récompense darwinienne collective : l’extinction de notre espèce. » Paul Watson, fondateur de Sea Shepherd, récemment arrêté au Danemark. https://ploum.net/2024-02-23-culture-ecologie-pirates-metabullshit.html @ploum Dans ce monde #technocapitaliste ou plus rien n'est gratuit qu'est ce que le Japon a promis au Danemark pour son arrestation. Do you miss blogs? Do you feel that people are not blogging any more? Then explore a nicely curated blog directory:  @ploum what are the flags in the end of every entry? Country? Language? Something else?
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  @ploum Leave Google now and help others doing the same by: 1. Switching #Duckduckgo or #Kagi (using !g if Google is really needed) 2. Creating an email account on one of the many ethical alternative while asking gmail to redirect all email received. 3. Trying @organicmaps and adding your business information on OpenStreetMaps (opening hours, etc) 4. Creating a @peertube account on an instance and uploading your videos there All those steps can be achieved by yourself, alone! @ploum @organicmaps @peertube Organic Maps is amazing because it works fully offline. And OSM is great in general because of all the small things that are marked there. There's a single small water fountain beyond security at the Hamburg Airport, and it's tucked away on a separate floor so you'll only see it if you happen to go to one of the few gates there (I assume the shops that sell water in plastic bottles lobbied for this). But OSM has it, as well as the gates, defibrillators & more! Thanks everyone! We closed the loop! Most websites are now publishing algorithmic generated content in order to please ranking algorithms from search engines in order to display generated ads that will be clicked by crawling bots and automatically generated social profiles. No humans needed any more! Which means that you can now close your laptop, watch a sunset and talk to real humans near you. Enjoy your life far from your screen.
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 @ploum it's getting that way... According to one study some 50% of Internet traffic is bot activity. #deadinternet here we come! https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/dead-internet-web-bots-humans-b2530324.html @ploum which supports my theory that the corporation is the dominant organism on this planet. Dear people writing announcements and blog posts about the new version of your product, You lost me at the "new AI integration". Les femmes préfèreraient croiser un ours qu’un homme. Je ne sais pas si c’est vrai mais je pense que les hommes n’imaginent pas à quel point les femmes ont peur. https://ploum.net/la-moitie-du-monde-qui-vit-dans-la-peur/index.html Une bulle d’intelligence artificielle et de stupidité naturelle @ploum ya d'autres changements de paradigme qui ont aussi beaucoup changé sans que l'on s'en souvienne @ploum Pour l'ubiquité de la voiture et le reste d'ailleurs, il faut prendre garde à ne pas avoir une vision trop ethnocentrée ou occidentale...Si on peut penser que la voiture peut voir sa place diminuer dans nos grandes capitales européennes, c'est très différent en Afrique, Asie du sud-est, sous continent indien pour une période similaire. Idem pour les moyens de communications et l'omniprésence de l'électricité. Un monde sans électricité et sans pétrole ? on a du boulot pour s'y faire
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You cannot apprehend the sheer power of Streetpass without using it. Just install it, makes its button visible in your browser main bar and continue your online life as usual. After a few days, you will realize how many individuals you have crossed paths with, how the words you were reading came from real people. The #fediverse is already everywhere ! Of course, it works best when reading blogs and independent websites. But that’s our shared goal, isn’t it? According to Apple’s lawyers, "no reasonable user would expect that their actions in Apple’s apps would be private from Apple." I repeat to make it clear: According to Apple itself, no reasonable Apple user should expect privacy when using the device. So let’s make it even more clear: if you expect basic privacy using your Apple device, you are "unreasonable" (= a fool). (originally posted by @mysk )
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@ploum @mysk The other alternative is Google. A complete duopoly nightmare. They are public companies which are required to use whatever they can to make profit.  @ploum @mysk Well, I think that you *are* a fool, if you expect privacy in your Apple device. But, "reasonable person" isn't defined the same way that I do in terms of a legal definition. "reasonable person," tends to me roughly "typical person." To me, "reasonable person," is someone who has a more than passable understanding of basic logical concepts. Ie. making a statement that self proves itself (ie. shows itself to be false) is not reasonable. It is typical. Je voudrais juste rappeler qu’en 1973, comme le prix du pétrole a subitement augmenté, la France a sérieusement discuté de l’idée d’interdire les sports automobiles. Je pose ça là, juste pour dire que discutter de prendre des mesures extrèmes et impopulaires, c’est une possibilité quand le danger est important. Pour le portefeuille. Pour l’avenir de la planète ou de l’espèce, évidemment, c’est une autre histoire. https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interdiction_des_sports_motoris%C3%A9s#France
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If you think that AI could write a text for you, maybe that text was not really needed, nobody will care to read it. If you think that AI could illustrate your blog post, maybe your blog post didn’t need any illustration. If you think that AI can summarize a book or a long article for you, maybe you didn’t need to read it in the first place (because in a long read, long is part of the experience). Yes, AI is replacing every useless thing we should have never done in the first place. Inspiré par la mise hors-ligne de #sourcehut, l’hébergeur de mon blog, une réflexion sur la pérennité d’une présence en ligne, le tout en lançant l’année des 20 ans de mon blog: https://ploum.net/2024-01-18-perennite-dun-blog.html (je ne suis pas sûr que tout le monde aie accès à cet article, il y a un délai de propagation DNS) @ploum Très chouette billet, comme d’habitude, qui résonne avec beaucoup de questions que je me pose moi-même en ce moment. As-tu déjà envisagé d’imprimer une sélection de tes écrits les plus importants pour toi sous forme de livre, à la façon de Low-tech magazine ? https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/fr/offline-reading/ In other news, Discourse, the free forum platform, is now joining the Fediverse. Yep, Discourse forums will become compatible with Mastodon!
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@ploum @Ursalzona as much as I hate it I kinda understand. Google was deemed a monopoly and that may torch a huge chunk of Firefox cash infusion. They must go for new revenues, and today's world value AI and Ads. Seems like the only way out for them since people won't donate nor adhere for any kind of subscription service.
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typical no context post
Mozilla appears to have 750 employees, so this is 1% of headcount ?
maybe 2% of programmer headcount ?
which means 98% of programmers working on other stuff (maybe)
@ploum ugh, mozilla is really going downhill.
I'd rather work for Canonical than Mozilla.