2026-08-25T10:35:59Z https://yabu.me mariafarrell https://yabu.me/npub18nrqps3rpsh4zjl0vm5z5u3mwq5g26qzu998kwdhf8dt5mzy5dws5fk27q https://files.mastodon.social/accounts/avatars/109/244/727/323/831/450/original/18bcfbbc2cd73cbc.jpg https://files.mastodon.social/accounts/avatars/109/244/727/323/831/450/original/18bcfbbc2cd73cbc.jpg https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsf4yutyfuvqa6mctw6ylhtnhzjklqp5wra5gaunxswpjnf7rvad8gzyq7vvqxzyvxz752taanws2nj8dcz3ptgqts557eekaya4wnvgj3463mczkg RE: <a href="https://ec.social-network.europa.eu/@EUCommission/116766280029168108">https://ec.social-network.europa.eu/@EUCommission/116766280029168108</a><br/><br/>&#34;W&#34; - named after Musk&#39;s fascist platform X. Cringe. - is a closed protocol, for-profit, tech bro walled garden that&#39;s EXACTLY the kind of social media that made this mess.<br/><br/>I&#39;m utterly disgusted to see the European Commission supporting it and amplifying it. Today, EC President von der Leyen endorsed W on its launch. She never did that for Eurosky! <br/><br/>It&#39;s predictable that the rightwing EPP would align with a closed, billionaire fantasy social media platform, but it is sickening to see EC do it<br/>nostr:note1htc9u75vk5eztcg8kh4yqqnrjqjg0w3kcscyu85z4mmtex5xnacsnskny6<br/> 2026-06-17T16:10:10Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs2304fc5vt9lu7as0fn64hqqyghndq9sgwt628tvxguw6epv0njtgzyq7vvqxzyvxz752taanws2nj8dcz3ptgqts557eekaya4wnvgj346nyywjs &#34;I hope you find out who did this.&#34;<br/> <img src="https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/116/534/828/988/818/962/original/b8a1362fdcb829cd.jpeg"> <br/> 2026-05-07T19:00:29Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsydzc9shmq3r7cj4e5egc2eews9kzalty4djyuekzze63ecxxerjgzyq7vvqxzyvxz752taanws2nj8dcz3ptgqts557eekaya4wnvgj34600vgxr RE: <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/@Paul_Taylor/116393432979937863">https://mathstodon.xyz/@Paul_Taylor/116393432979937863</a><br/><br/>Google and Microsoft - the global email service duopoly - block other services in the name of &#34;fighting spam&#34;.<br/><br/>I get it. Spam is a perpetual arms race. But the opaqueness of Google and Microsoft&#39;s practices and decades-long predatory self-dealing mean no one trusts them to apply even their own rules.<br/><br/>Email still works interoperably. Just about. Getting off US duopolies and monopolies is vital for the future of the internet. So in that way, digital sovereignty is vital to save the internet.<blockquote class="border-l-05rem border-l-strongpink border-solid"><div class="-ml-4 bg-gradient-to-r from-gray-100 dark:from-zinc-800 to-transparent mr-0 mt-0 mb-4 pl-4 pr-2 py-2">quoting <br/><span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Article"><a itemprop="url" href="/note1lgl2m4ssdpga09twqzg5utnk9a00cfgnynu5qty0jlzhdja64raq4jv2uw" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1">note1lgl…v2uw</a></span><br/> </div> I have been using email for 40 years. It used to work.<br/><br/>As an (independent) academic researcher, I need to contact new people, primarily in universities, to ask questions.<br/><br/>I refuse to use Google, Microsoft or the other American IT giants.<br/><br/>But they are increasingly preventing refuseniks from sending email at all.<br/><br/>I know what RFC, DNS, MX, SPF and DMARC mean. My email goes through small British companies with intelligent, friendly and helpful staff.<br/><br/>mxtoolbox.com says that I must have DMARC to send email to M$. So I set it up. I now get a dozen copies of the same report from G or M$ for each email that I send out.<br/><br/>They show that my email gets to G and M$ sites, but then it is marked as spam.<br/><br/>The stupid senior management of numerous universities has surrendered their staff email to M$.<br/><br/>Web searches and AIs preach about spam. I don't send spam - I want to contact my colleagues.<br/><br/>Rumour has it that previously unknown senders are treated with suspicion and their emails are sent to spam. In other words, it is impossible to **initiate** communication with someone.<br/><br/>Let's be blunt about this. They are a mafia that is enforcing an **oligopoly**. It's got nothing to do with reducing spam --- I have no doubt that they let through emails from "trusted partners", ie companies that bribe them enough to send their spam.<br/><br/>The result of this is that it will only be possible to send emails by paying M$ to do it, and then it will only be allowed to express "approved" opinions.<br/><br/>What can we do about this?<br/><br/>At the very least, those of you with senior positions in universities can tell your management to revert to competent standards-based email systems hosted on Linux systems. </blockquote> 2026-04-13T07:02:37Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs92kjq5p596qpl7w6uca8ryhx55zj6gypf7dxmmc37z4yh7k5wdvqzyq7vvqxzyvxz752taanws2nj8dcz3ptgqts557eekaya4wnvgj346686zt2 RE: <a href="https://mastodon.social/@SteveRudolfi/116279083767770070">https://mastodon.social/@SteveRudolfi/116279083767770070</a><br/><br/>If one definition of evil is its wanton destruction of everything that is good and whole in the world, then Google is an active agent of evil. <br/><br/>It is setting out to destroy the world wide web and steal the livelihood of everyone who builds and depends on the web.<br/><br/>I honestly don&#39;t know how to mobilise normies to care about and stop this evil. It probably seems too niche and incremental until it&#39;s too late.<br/><br/>Oh yeah, and in the UK an ex-Google exec is now running the BBC. . .<blockquote class="border-l-05rem border-l-strongpink border-solid"><div class="-ml-4 bg-gradient-to-r from-gray-100 dark:from-zinc-800 to-transparent mr-0 mt-0 mb-4 pl-4 pr-2 py-2">quoting <br/><span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Article"><a itemprop="url" href="/note1tr6v5yj35630duuwcpk79l675p9nmxucnv92wpynpfeszumlcgzqnz7x2k" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1">note1tr6…7x2k</a></span><br/> </div> Welllllll this isn't great.<br/><br/>Google Just Patented The End Of Your Website<br/><br/>"...a system that evaluates your company’s landing page in real time and, if it decides the page won’t perform well enough for a specific user, replaces it with an AI-generated version assembled on the fly. The user never sees what your team built, they see what Google's machine learning model thinks they should see instead."<br/><br/><a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/joetoscano1/2026/03/06/google-just-patented-the-end-of-your-website">https://www.forbes.com/sites/joetoscano1/2026/03/06/google-just-patented-the-end-of-your-website</a><br/> <br/>#SEO #Google #AI #enshittification </blockquote> 2026-03-24T08:54:45Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqstgwzhucltq7euyp9rkev5ytywjlpppgl3gamyyac50f2a0fzm3sgzyq7vvqxzyvxz752taanws2nj8dcz3ptgqts557eekaya4wnvgj3468e2rx9 RE: <a href="https://mastodon.social/@mariafarrell/115333913079023817">https://mastodon.social/@mariafarrell/115333913079023817</a><br/><br/>Well this is admirably concise and direct by Germany&#39;s justice ministry.<br/><br/>&#34;Chat control without cause must be taboo in a state governed by the rule of law. Private communication must never be under general suspicion.&#34;<br/><br/>THANK YOU. Without Germany&#39;s support, Chat Control is dead in Council. For now at least. <br/><br/>Some serious introspection now needed by DG HOME for its antidemocratic draft law and illegal lobbying. <br/><br/>www.bmjv.de/SharedDocs/Zitate/DE/2025/1008_Chatkontrolle.html<br/><br/>(h/t <span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub1cewaxjrtaw35qece5elft9gwlv6xacqa7ya9nddfxc7t982drjfq20lmfe" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>@PrivacyMatters</span> (<span class="italic">npub1cew…lmfe</span>)</a></span><blockquote class="border-l-05rem border-l-strongpink border-solid"><div class="-ml-4 bg-gradient-to-r from-gray-100 dark:from-zinc-800 to-transparent mr-0 mt-0 mb-4 pl-4 pr-2 py-2">quoting <br/><span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Article"><a itemprop="url" href="/note1q44q0x7zmphlxw0ddjxuphjpf7kvvr2ujcmnrvrgszht3axu5z0s2g9l5t" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1">note1q44…9l5t</a></span><br/> </div> Gods I'm too fucking old and tired to rehearse the 'don't break E2E encryption' debate AGAIN, but here we are. This time the novel twist is 'client side scanning' of every European's device for CSAM, just in case. <br/><br/>I no longer make many arguments on principle. This open letter to the Irish minister who supports pre-emptive surveillance for everyone merely asks him to imagine how he'll feel when, inevitably, the powers are used against him:<br/><br/><a href="https://crookedtimber.org/2025/10/07/chat-control-in-europe-an-open-letter-to-the-irish-minister-who-wants-to-scan-all-our-messages/">https://crookedtimber.org/2025/10/07/chat-control-in-europe-an-open-letter-to-the-irish-minister-who-wants-to-scan-all-our-messages/</a> </blockquote> 2025-10-08T12:34:43Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsq26s8n0pdsmln88kkerwqmeq5ltxxp4wfvde3kp5gpt4c7nw2p8czyq7vvqxzyvxz752taanws2nj8dcz3ptgqts557eekaya4wnvgj346ckccx3 Gods I&#39;m too fucking old and tired to rehearse the &#39;don&#39;t break E2E encryption&#39; debate AGAIN, but here we are. This time the novel twist is &#39;client side scanning&#39; of every European&#39;s device for CSAM, just in case. <br/><br/>I no longer make many arguments on principle. This open letter to the Irish minister who supports pre-emptive surveillance for everyone merely asks him to imagine how he&#39;ll feel when, inevitably, the powers are used against him:<br/><br/><a href="https://crookedtimber.org/2025/10/07/chat-control-in-europe-an-open-letter-to-the-irish-minister-who-wants-to-scan-all-our-messages/">https://crookedtimber.org/2025/10/07/chat-control-in-europe-an-open-letter-to-the-irish-minister-who-wants-to-scan-all-our-messages/</a> 2025-10-07T16:50:51Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsr9qk394z7ucr94073kn9txgk03m8jyqyrl2pv0trz0wlvuxaz4egzyq7vvqxzyvxz752taanws2nj8dcz3ptgqts557eekaya4wnvgj346hnp7jp I&#39;m officially writing a book! <br/><br/>&#34;Rewild the Internet: How to Resist Big Tech&#34; will be published by Simon &amp; Schuster in NY and Bloomsbury in London.<br/><br/>It uses ecology to show why we&#39;ve got such a toxic technology monoculture through almost the whole tech stack, and how to change that. And crucially, the people who already are. <br/><br/>Hell, most of them are here in the Fediverse.<br/><br/>The more power we take from tech oligarchs, the more we take from Trump and other authoritarians. I plan to show how.<br/> <img src="https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/115/232/014/187/158/401/original/06a8ec0b2a5705a4.png"> <br/> 2025-09-19T16:59:48Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsy7438vageu547nqx6y24xf4ettrez2hjkk6fq7nycawmr20g0dzczyq7vvqxzyvxz752taanws2nj8dcz3ptgqts557eekaya4wnvgj346krl0n6 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs80apxnrvy7gel40s5c8jj4yarn6ghjd3uahnysw049kg5m8vjl5scufqym'>nevent1q…fqym</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Maybe check out the actual URL launched when a user clicks &#34;Libre Office Help&#34; in your application Help menu?<br/><br/>Because that&#39;s the &#34;usual place&#34; users actually seek help from IN YOUR APP. <br/><br/>This superior and obtuse response from you says a lot about how you treat users. 2025-09-05T07:56:44Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsg43wzmtxhzgd9uwkvd2q5yk7ywvlu6gag3qf5yl4nxse0t9d6m2szyq7vvqxzyvxz752taanws2nj8dcz3ptgqts557eekaya4wnvgj3460jlz5p In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqspfndwdjz2spd6ch467sx7acgwhgfuy05ug9w5au043crte6qxe9spuls0t'>nevent1q…ls0t</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>LO latest version as it was installed only last week: 25.8.0.4<br/><br/>The proton drive file was corrupted. The LO ODT files on my mac just simply were never created... Despite me hitting &#39;apple S&#39; multiple times yesterday while working and despite saving and closing the document before I upgraded my OS. <br/><br/>I&#39;d love to have brought this up with your support site link from the programme itself but the link doesn&#39;t even resolve... 2025-09-04T16:08:10Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqspfndwdjz2spd6ch467sx7acgwhgfuy05ug9w5au043crte6qxe9szyq7vvqxzyvxz752taanws2nj8dcz3ptgqts557eekaya4wnvgj346spsm5l In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsdnppay72f8jsvhc7ghwnd64m3s8w3z80x6yw78dxl5g5chjug7hgcd6sm0'>nevent1q…6sm0</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>What really makes me cross is that - now that I&#39;ve investigated &lt;after&gt; the problem destroyed my work - the failure to save documents properly on a macbook is a known issue? and I could and should have taken action to give LO special access rights via Mac&#39;s privacy and security settings. That may have prevented all of this but it&#39;s the first I ever heard that was needed. <br/><br/>Feels particularly ironic the work in question is a book about how to ... get off Big Tech. 2025-09-04T15:50:03Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsdnppay72f8jsvhc7ghwnd64m3s8w3z80x6yw78dxl5g5chjug7hgzyq7vvqxzyvxz752taanws2nj8dcz3ptgqts557eekaya4wnvgj34633sewx In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsvf0mqmy2m642p30mtpmq46zcex4jzgnm235un059a2e33ygw0jpcm26htp'>nevent1q…6htp</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>thanks guys, it&#39;s actually hard to say. I updated Mac OS today (sequioa 15.6.1). before I did that, I saved +closed my .odt with yesterday&#39;s work in Libre Office. restarted, then opened LO to find most recent version anywhere was almost 24 hours previous, including on proton drive back up which just had a lock file. Mac &#39;most recent&#39; had zero LO/ODT files - it had never saved any. And version control says no version older than at start of yesterday&#39;s work exists. 2025-09-04T15:46:55Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs970tp8aakmpd6ahrue24clv0c2xmaq4dtje70uhh9k2hjqj7xexqzyq7vvqxzyvxz752taanws2nj8dcz3ptgqts557eekaya4wnvgj346xlff4u So I started using LibreOffice. Did an OS update on my macbook today. Come to find out today, that LibreOffice was not saving properly on my mac, nor was it backing up uncorrupted to my proton drive.<br/><br/>I&#39;ve lost EVERYTHING from my hardest and most significant day&#39;s work, impossible to reconstruct (TCP/IP ancient history who said what when and multiple sources) and I&#39;m fucking despairing.<br/><br/>LibreOffice online help page won&#39;t resolve. Anyone out here can help get back corrupt ODT files? 2025-09-04T13:09:17Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqstyxan2f4arqt4ku7hy3a8ptsd80pty3w6pnvyk2uujdh497nu2tszyq7vvqxzyvxz752taanws2nj8dcz3ptgqts557eekaya4wnvgj346p3u20d hey <span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub1fdrpydz4n2dpgpy5xhsa6rjg8ytggn82mt0addw6sf93272nhhnqsjlvhs" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>Cory Doctorow</span> (<span class="italic">npub1fdr…lvhs</span>)</a></span> did you see this? <br/><br/>the ultimate enshittification yarn of the German bikepacking/routing company (a knowledge commons to its users and employees) that sold out to VC and ended up spreading BS AI-generated &#39;route maps&#39;.<br/><br/>and how the extractivised community is starting all over again to regenerate its knowledge commons, but this time it&#39;s open and interoperable:<br/><br/><a href="https://bikepacking.com/plog/when-we-get-komooted/">https://bikepacking.com/plog/when-we-get-komooted/</a> 2025-07-30T10:13:41Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsxdf0r2zycwjpg2a656n8pnak6t6a3jvve6pytzwsyxe6wrhqzsqgzyq7vvqxzyvxz752taanws2nj8dcz3ptgqts557eekaya4wnvgj3465kv2h9 I want to use Jitsi for interviewing people in my book research, but there seems to be no way to schedule meetings in advance and send out invitations to people. Does anyone know of third party clients that can do this and don&#39;t require a CS degree to use..?<br/><br/>Really really don&#39;t want to have to use effing zoom... but scheduling in advance and not just sharing meeting details on the fly is a must. This stuff is stressful enough as it is! Any suggestions gratefully received. 2025-07-18T12:07:33Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs28u9pys335hc5wm826jvqpq2lxz3653frqyy6ntpz9mdktvpu6dqzyq7vvqxzyvxz752taanws2nj8dcz3ptgqts557eekaya4wnvgj346slqafs In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs2ncvnz7zaxng592kt2mgdm885hz5es93wy26u82n99scqzhpv6tgj2jw7g'>nevent1q…jw7g</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>yes! when the US acts so others have nothing further to lose by looking to their own interests, it creates an opportunity for change. This was a big lightbulb moment for me, too (along with the second order consequences of scraping bans). I &lt;love&gt; a conversation when I learn a lot + my priors are first exposed and then shown to be incorrect. It just feels very very good in the brain, tbh, as well as useful, informative, etc. V. Glad we did this. 2025-07-18T08:50:06Z