Miren @miren@mas.to

(5/6) Pixelfed cannot be a better and ethical alternative if it ignores the gamification and FOMO dark patterns found on popular platforms.

Hi, all -- For some time I've seen people use the "eye contact" CW for selfies. I've hoped over time to figure out why that warning is used, and I have to admit: I'm unsure.

Would someone explain why that custom exists? (I'm not arguing with it, and I'm happy to abide by it. Just curious!)

Dear Spotify: don’t manipulate our emotions for profit

Take a stand against Spotify
's recent speech-recognition patent that claims to detect “emotional state, gender, age, or accent” to recommend music.

Music services shouldn't be using covert surveillance in their products.

https://www.accessnow.org/spotify-tech-emotion-manipulation/

Delete Chrome. Now.

Google is using its exceptionally powerful position to make *the browser itself* analyze your browsing behavior and serve that on a plate in the form of "cohorts" to anyone interested.

They are transforming Chrome into a "browsing-history-passport" - right now.

If you care about your intellectual freedom even a little bit, you must put Chrome out of your life as soon as possible. Support others doing the same.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/03/google-testing-its-controversial-new-ad-targeting-tech-millions-browsers-heres

#DeleteChrome

"The way our digital lives have been structured to depend on third party intermediaries that simply pass our communications on to our friends and families while all the time spying on us to make money isn’t fate. It is the result of many decisions made because it was easier this way or because it would make money for those in the middle."

Decentralization 2017 - Ross Schulman "Think Deeply & Rebuild Things": https://rbs.io/2017/12/decentralization-2017/

Your children are not your children.
They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself.
They come through you but not from you,
And though they are with you yet they belong not to you.

You may give them your love but not your thoughts,
For they have their own thoughts.
You may house their bodies but not their souls,
For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.

- #KhalilGibran, from "On #Children" #poetry #parenting

Wallabag is a FOSS privacy-friendly alternative to Pocket, it lets you save articles for reading later. You can follow at:

➡️ @wallabag

The official website is at https://wallabag.org

There are apps for smartphones (iOS, Android), web browsers (Firefox, Chrome, Opera) and eReaders (Kobo, Kindle, PocketBook).

You can self-host the article storage system free, or use the paid flagship instance at https://www.wallabag.it

#Wallabag #Pocket #Alternatives #Articles #FOSS #SelfHosting #Apps

Initiative for Open Citations
The Initiative for Open Citations I4OC is a collaboration between scholarly publishers, researchers, and other interested parties to promote the unrestricted availability of scholarly citation data.

https://i4oc.org/

(Companion initiative to io4a.org but maybe more challenging, definitely very interesting)

#BIR2021 #ECIR2021

Totally valid questions by EU parliamentarian @echo_pbreyer to the EU Commission:

Why don't you communicate to citizens in the #Fediverse?

https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/E-9-2020-005987_EN.html
(Via @humanetech)

Remember, there is a generation that don't see nothing wrong here.

Boost if you get it ;)

#Mapatón pon en el #mapa a las personas vulnerables
¿Tienes conexión a Internet, un PC y te pica la curiosidad esto del Mapatón?
Te proponemos una actividad desde casa, con la que ayudarás a mapear zonas propensas a desastres naturales, conflictos armados o epidemias, y mejorarás directamente la vida de las personas más vulnerables del planeta. #CruzRoja #OSM #OpenStreetMap #CartografíaColaborativa #CartografíaSolidaria
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