Taara is Google, just saying.

Maybe they should also ban lobbying by Google, Microsoft etc.

And it costs innocent people their lives or makes it at least very miserable. Yeah, what to spend billions for…

Use uMatrix and see more sewage

Let’s poke the bubble.

Always have some chewing gum ready. (I would advise for cyanoacrylate but that’s illegal in some places because you could use it to stick yourself to the road as a form of protest)

Please panic. There’s Librewolf. A deshittified Firefox fork. Would be great to support that project.

Windows also used to show me the ugly face of Trump in the start menu even if I didn’t ask for it. That was more than 4 years ago. Recently was accidentally hovering over some ‘copilot’ button in Edge of a friend. And again - pop-up with Trump. So yes: fuck Windows, fuck Microsoft

We need such statements now more than ever. Thank you Codeberg <3

Green flags:

• copyleft license (GPL or better AGPL) + they accept contributions without contributor license agreement
• code written by many people who personally own the copyright
• active community

Yellow flags:

• permissive license
• business model which can’t be really be sustainable with a shit-free product

Red flags:

• VC funding (implies enshittification in future because of profit maximization)
• proprietary license
• project does not take contribution from the outside or asks to transfer copyright or sign some document (CLA)

Would be nice to have some sort of content warning for his face.

OpenAI’s notion of “fair use”: military and weapons

Those type of companies are getting so f*****g disgusting.

https://techcrunch.com/2024/01/12/openai-changes-policy-to-allow-military-applications/ https://www.theverge.com/2024/1/12/24036397/openai-is-softening-its-stance-on-military-use

It is completely creepy. Think about who is behind Open AI. That’s a mixture of Elon Musk, Peter Thiel (Palantir), Microsoft and others. A right-wing, anti democratic, anti-human and purely profit oriented group. The name “Tools for Humanity” is complete sarcasm. What they do with Worldcoin smells like a modern attempt of colonization. Collecting biometry, subverting critical infrastructure (financial systems), making fake promises, blinding poor people with shiny metal balls and a little bit of money in some cases.

This can be stopped though! The Kenyan government apparently banned the project - for good.

Would like to see this succeed but have zero insights. To you think there’s actual momentum behind the fork?

Alone the sponsors of the Rust Foundation I find very questionable (Amazon, Google, Huawei, Meta, Microsoft, https://foundation.rust-lang.org/ on the bottom). Unfortunately, corporatism is what you get from corporations. Happy to hear about the crab-lang fork.