Notices by megfault *｡✧mostly harmless✧｡* (megfault@chaos.social)

Mastercard is selling anonymized data collected from users' purchases.

If you own a mastercard or maestro card you can opt out here: https://www.mastercard.us/en-us/about-mastercard/what-we-do/privacy/data-analytics-opt-out.html

The wording is confusing, as it sounds like you are deactivating anonymization, but the page title is "Data Analytics Opt-Out". It must be Mastercard final attempt at preventing you from doing it.

@bob If we only used systems developed by Perfect People™, we'd still be living in the stone age.

Not sure if want...

"Using voice tone and pitch , after determining race and gender, we can detect more than just moods. It can tell why the user is feeling that way. The AI started detecting, and then aggressively targeting women during the last 2 days of the luteal phase of their menstrual cycle. It discovered [...] that women would buy more in those 48h".

🤖 🔥

https://www.techpowerup.com/240655/leaked-ai-powered-game-revenue-model-paper-foretells-a-dystopian-nightmare

1st slide and I already love this talk.
"Es sind die kleinen Dinge im Leben II", about microscopes and really tiny things. It is being translated to English, btw.

#34c3

#yunohost ad at #34c3 \:D/

:'D

#fefe #34c3

It gets on my nerves that people use WhatsApp or Signal or Threema or Telegram or whatever hip new thing they came up with for instant messaging because "it is too hard/weird to create an XMPP account".

XMPP is a protocol for federated instant messaging in case you never heard of it.

If we are already getting people to use Mastodon instead of birdsite, how about we made it really easy for instance owners to also run an XMPP server using the same credentials as Mastodon for user authentication?

"Dieser Bereich wird videoüberwacht"