Ruben @sergeant@social.cleverlibre.org

Interesting: ProtonMail finally admits that Germany "is a good choice given Germany’s strong privacy laws and culture that make it almost as strong as Switzerland."

For once, we couldn't agree more. 😀

We'd even argue Germany is much better as we do not have data retention laws (which would be against the German constitution) - while in Switzerland large tech companies are forced by law to retain data: https://tutanota.com/blog/posts/data-retention-germany

#germany #privacy #security

Marriage is a lot like a casino: You go in excited and optimistic, but leave broke, drunk, and talking to yourself.

The difference between people's attitudes to #privacy offline vs. online is known as the #privacyparadox. We recently conducted a survey among internet users in the UK together with @yougov to better understand this phenomenon.

https://www.techradar.com/news/big-tech-is-watching-but-most-brits-dont-know-how-to-protect-their-privacy-online

#InsultAFictionalCharacter #HashtagGames

Get out of my face, you little Alien, or I’ll call your mothership!

Location services was turned off.

Time for the #VisualWritingPrompt for 06/21/23!

Write a 480-ish character #SciFi story about this AI generated image.

#WritingCommunity #Midjourney #WritingPrompt #SecretSciFiNetwork

The Windmill and the Star Trails
Credits: Antonio Gonzalez
#nature #space #astrophotography

ik zag dit langskomen en dacht dat het de neus van een beest was

het moeten dus zwarte gaten voorstellen 🤭

Allegany State Park NY #NaturePhotogaphy #photography

Won’t that end up doubling the number of homeless people?

"You'll never find a rainbow if you're looking down." -- Charlie Chaplin

"Unless you're 30,000 feet in the air." -- This lucky airborne photographer

It's possible to build an app with zero tracking. 😎 #Tutanota #Gmail

Sign up now: https://mail.tutanota.com/signup

And make use of our current 50% discount. 🥳

Your emails deserve #privacy. 🔒

I hope the people on the Titan are rescued. I don't care about their economic status

Enjoying #SUSECON with the openSUSE Project booth & showing off The Inkscape Project on #Leap, #tumbleweed & #Ubuntu in #containers on #AEON MicroOS + showing the #flatpak #app Run old & new!

This made me giggle (yes, I realize the orcas are really just attacking innocent, eco-friendly, casual small sail boaters, but... still). #orca #meme

Dus als ik het goed begrijp: wanneer ik een film of boek download zonder te betalen of een betaalmuur omzeil, bega ik een misdrijf, zelfs als ik de kopie voor mij houd, maar wanneer OpenAI en collega's het hele internet zonder toestemming kopiëren en verwerken om geld van te maken, dan heet dat artificiële intelligentie en stuwen ze de mensheid vooruit?
#AI #goebezig

This is more semi-meta, so do what you will with that, but I want to explicitly tie together two conversational threads from yesterday:

1. I think the structure of Mastodon really amps rumors and misinfo because the mechanisms we use elsewhere to pass around and find corrections (visible replies, quote-posts, search) don't work here.

2. Instance admin politics are rarely discussed in a public, easily re-findable place—that, too, fuels the rumor-mill, as we saw re: Meta meeting discussions.

If you see a black person cross your stream, you better follow them goddamnit. It’s white as rice in here.