Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange:

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Jan Wildeboer 😷:krulorange:
🛡️ jwildeboer_at_social.wildeboer.net@momostr.pink
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My private account. Posts/Opinions are my own. Focused on #Open and TCP/ID, identity ownership in the real and digital world. 3D printer. Can solder and repair. Antifascist. European. Policy hacker. Rambles around at times. He/Him/His $argon2id$v=19$m=512,t=256,p=1$SWmoDffV/hOu+/Vii5Nxsw$zYZ5n+cXxZLKoLnXZJjll1JWcCFyiRVli7xOPqu63GM Blocks threads.net Works at Red Hat. :newspaper_fb: My Blog: https://jan.wildeboer.net :peertube: My Videos: https://makertube.net/a/jwildeboer/video-channels :codeberg: Codeberg: https://codeberg.org/jwildeboer Gists: https://codeberg.org/jwildeboer/gists
Mastodon is secretly sponsored by a cartel of cat food and cat toys manufacturers. Its main purpose is to get you to want a cat in your household so they can sell you more of their stuff. And it is working quite well, as far as I can see. And that's why Mastodon/ActivityPub will always beat Bluesky and other services. Smart stuff. Really smart stuff ;) #SarcasmButOnlyHalf #caturday
After almost 9 months of observation, here's a "funny" correlation. Every time I post (and you good people like/boost) my blog post on "residential proxies" that really are just botnets for hire, some other folks decide to turn exactly these botnets on my mail server for a few days. So please, keep linking/boosting to make sure I can catch and block them all ;) The attached screenshots are around 25% from the list for today after I linked to my post in a reply yesterday.
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Botnet Part 2: The Web is Broken
I guess you have all heard about the growing problem of AI companies trying to aggressively collect whatever data they can get their hands on to tr...
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Years ago I got one of the first Alexa devices and I was really looking forward to install it. When it arrived and I powered it on for the first time, its LEDs blinking, I felt a panic creeping up in me. It was the moment I understood that centralised collection of such amounts of private data is unacceptable and will ultimately break democracy and free societies. That was the moment I decided to go decentralised. That Alexa device is still here, visible but unconnected. To remind me every day.