PawsUp

cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/tech/p/1284443/meta-nvidia-microsoft-a16z-and-others-sign-a-letter-defending-open-weight-ai-jensen-huan

Lobsters.

Tesseract is a web client for Lemmy that was found to be secretly and arbitrarily blocking users, communities and even entire instances. You can see if you're one of the kool kidz by running

curl -s https://tesseract.dubvee.org/tesseract/api/system/policy | base64 -d | gunzip > policy.json

and grepping your name / instance. Further details can be found in this post.

The poem above is adapted from Bertolt Brecht's The Burning of the Books, which can be read here. If you would rather read it in the original German, go here.

cross-posted from: https://pawb.social/post/47585034

Source

cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/tech/p/1284061/new-jersey-bans-grocery-stores-from-using-shoppers-personal-data-to-set-prices

cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/tech/p/1283882/volkswagen-profits-drop-10-as-embattled-automaker-considers-massive-job-cuts

Fucking Cowards

India has directed GitHub to disable access to the repositories of Bitchat, Jack Dorsey's decentralized Bluetooth mesh messaging application, under Section 79(3)(b) of the Information Technology Act and the IT Rules, 2021. According to the official notice issued by the Indian Cyber Crime Coordination Centre (I4C), authorities argue that Bitchat's decentralized architecture, lack of mandatory user registration, absence of centralized logging, and ability to operate without internet connectivity make lawful interception and criminal investigations significantly more difficult.

edit: I swear google has some code that listens to background noise and does this on purpose

Is there no git hosting service left that isn't pushing censorship and fascism? I think I should just start self-hosting at this point.