Tunisia: Man handed death sentence for criticizing the president on Facebook. ⌘ Read more
Maybe someone can explain this to me.
An #EU citizen trying to access Facebook today faces the following choices (see screenshots).
In there, they say that they are asking this again to comply with #EU rules, and yet the question - and the options to choose from - are the same they had in the past.
So, hm, how does this make them comply with something they weren’t complying before? What’s the detail I’m missing?
184,162,718 Passwords And Logins Leaked — Apple, Facebook, Snapchat ⌘ Read more
My icon on here will never not crack me up. It’s so low quality, it feels like a facebook mom meme. Perfect for random corners of the indie web.
i got a shelf for all my cassette tapes! from a lovely person on facebook marketplace :] i don’t think they produce these anymore, i think i got a good deal
FTC v. Meta (The Case That Could Break Up Facebook)
How likely is it that Meta is found to be a Monopoly and gets broken up? ⌘ Read more
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@doesnm@doesnm.p.psf.lt nah, I’m fine without a web ui. But I like what the dev did with the 2009 facebook/VK look, it kind of feels notsalgic. (the tld is a .me not a .com if anyone else wants to take a look atit)
I found this cat on Facebook. His name is boobs. I love him so much it hurts. My aunt asked if he had a job 💀 ⌘ Read more
Meta Rolls Out AI Assistant Across Europe
Meta has announced the rollout of its AI chatbot across Europe starting this week. The AI assistant will appear across WhatsApp, Facebook, Instagram, and Messenger platforms in 41 European and 21 overseas territories.
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The tell-all memoir Mark Zuckerberg tried to stop you reading
It’s hard to know whether the Facebook boss’ symbolic ways of currying favour with China, such as asking President Xi Jinping to name his unborn child, are more remarkable than Meta’s apparent plan to let the Communist Party snoop on users outside the country. ⌘ Read more
The Most Important Tech News of January 2025 (That Only The Lunduke Journal Covered)
H1-B Visas, Non-Woke Operating Systems, Facebook ending DEl, Memory Leaking Rust, Godot Went Woke Went Broke, Debian Linux Doubles Down on Wokeness, & more. ⌘ Read more
The Birth of a New Tech Myth: “Facebook Says Linux is Malware!”
We are witnessing a new “Computer Myth” being created before our eyes, as several “Tech News” outlets repeat a false statement about Facebook & Linux. ⌘ Read more
No, Facebook is Not Censoring “Linux”, Only “DistroWatch”.
Facebook is flagging and censoring links to DistroWatch.com as “malware”. ⌘ Read more
Meta: Ending DEl, Ending “Fact Checking”, Allowing LGBT Criticism & Vaccine Skepticism
Facebook employees “in meltdown” over changes which allow people to say “LGBT are mentally ill”. ⌘ Read more
Meta Ends Fact-Checking on Facebook, Instagram in Free-Speech Pitch
Meghan Bobrowsky, - The Wall Street Journal
_Stephan: I have been telling you for several years now that social media is a flowing turd-filled sewer spewing hate, resentment and disinformation. And it is about to get much worse. Mark Zuckerberg who put more than a million dollars into Trump’s pocket is joining his fellow billionaires, to end any attempt at fact-checking. Any resemblance … ⌘ Read more
Social media is in a worrying state. TikTok in the hands of autocratic China, X (formerly Twitter) in the hands of Elon Musk, who gets crazier every day and hangs out too much with Donald Trump (and recommends a fascist party in Germany), and now Mark Zuckerberg with Meta (Facebook, Instagram, Threads) is also joining the group of friends around Trump and removing fact checks in the name of “free speech”. What could possibly go wrong? ⌘ Read more
Dead Internet Theory is Facebook’s New Business Model
Al Bots will soon have profile pictures & bios, “exist on [Facebook], kind of in the same way that accounts do.” ⌘ Read more
Thousands of Australian Facebook users to share $50 million after privacy scandal
Meta has agreed to a record settlement with Australia’s information commissioner, ending years of legal proceedings over Facebook’s infamous Cambridge Analytica scandal. ⌘ Read more
DRM-Free, Downloadable Media is a Good Thing
The Lunduke Journal adds DRM-free MP4 downloads to the many ways to enjoy the show (Locals, YouTube, X, Rumble, Facebook, Patreon, & Podcast feeds). ⌘ Read more
Australia To Ban Under-16s From Social Media After Passing Landmark Law
Australia will ban children under 16 from using social media after its senate approved what will become a world-first law. From a report: Children will be blocked from using platforms including TikTok, Instagram, Snapchat and Facebook, a move the Australian government argue is necessary to protect their mental health and wellbeing.
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Facebook fights celebrity scams with facial recognition
Four years after shutting its facial recognition function down over privacy concerns, the tech giant is bringing it back to rein in celeb-bait scams. Here’s how. ⌘ Read more
Last week at The Lunduke Journal (Oct 6 - Oct 12, 2024)
GNOME Layoffs! Woke Software Alternatives! Internet Archive Hacks! Facebook Censorship Portal! ⌘ Read more
Facebook Developed Custom Portal to Help Biden Administration Censor Americans
All while storing your password as plain text, accessible to 20,000 Facebook employees. ⌘ Read more
Meta Unveils ‘Orion’ Augmented Reality Glasses
Facebook parent company Meta today unveiled “the most advanced pair of AR glasses ever made,” called Orion. Meta claims Orion looks and feels like a regular pair of glasses, but with augmented reality capabilities.
The glasses have been in development for the last five years, and Meta describes them as lightweight and great for indoor and outdoor use. Unlike a VR heads … ⌘ Read more
Meta admits Australians cannot opt out of ‘predatory’ AI data scrape
Senators are calling for stronger privacy laws to give Facebook users the ability to block the company from using their posts to train its AI models, as users can in the EU. ⌘ Read more
Zuck Regrets Censoring Facebook at Request of Democrats
“The White House, repeatedly pressured our teams for months to censor certain COVID-19 content, including humor and satire.” ⌘ Read more
The Facebook problem that only hurts Australians
Frances Haugen made global headlines when she blew the whistle on Facebook. She says the company treats Australia differently to other markets. ⌘ Read more
How to Run Llama LLM on Mac, Locally
Llama is a powerful large language model (LLM) developed by Meta (yes, the same Meta that is Facebook), that is able to process and generate human-like text. It’s quite similar to ChatGPT, but what is unique about Llama is that you can run it locally, directly on your computer. With a little effort, you’ll be … Read More ⌘ Read more
If some of you budding fathers want to know how I created a computer nerd to one day work for Facebook in the big USA, well you purchase a $1000 Xmas present, an enormous thick book with C++ programming, and say, you can play as many games as you like kids, but James has to create them using computer software.
SO James created once a 3D chess program with sound, took 6 months or so, really hard to beat, not based on logic moves point by point like other chess programs, this one was based on the depth of looking for patterns, set it to 5 moves ahead and you were toast every time. Nice program too, sadly gone over the years, computers suffer from bit rot. We used to try and mark rotten hard drive discs once as bad sectors, not sure how UBuntu does this these days, I see a dozen errors on the screen every time I load.
Today I would purchase for my kids AI CAD simulation software with metal 3D printer and get your child to build fancy 3D models and engines from scratch. This will make them an expert in the CAD AI industry by the time they are 14 years old. Sadly AI is here to stay and will spoil the Internet.
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QOTD: What’s your favorite technological advancement in the last ~10 years? 🤔
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@movq@www.uninformativ.de @prologic@twtxt.net @aelaraji@aelaraji.com , yeah, I have one. First one I bought was the first oculus on kickstarter. Then facebook delivered their first (after they bought oculus) on my doorstep for free (since I backed the first oculus on kickstarter). I use it a lot, especially for Xplane (flight sim) and Elite: Dangerous etc. It’s not one of those quest standalone VR headsets I have, it’s the one you hook up to a computer.
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The “Matrix Experiment”, i.e. running a Matrix server for our family, has failed completely and miserably. People don’t accept it. They attribute unrelated things to it, like “I can’t send messages to you, I don’t reach you! It doesn’t work!” Yes, you do, I get those messages, I just don’t reply quickly enough because I’m at work or simply doing something else.
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I admit I’ve always compromised on this way too much myself, always to this day having Facebook Messenger just to communicate in my families group chats. Sure I run it in a Work profile on my GrapheneOS phone that I can switch off at any time, I can completely cut it off from network access any time as well, I can have a lot of rudimentary control over it, I use it as sparingly as possible, but it doesn’t change the fact everytime I use it we’re funneling private convos through bloody Meta’s servers and trackers etc.
MoonBit: 大模型时代下的编程语言探索
大家下午好，谢谢主持人的介绍，我现在是IDEA粤港澳大湾区数字经济研究院的讲席科学家，今天跟大家分享我的话题，就是AI时代下的编程语言。
一般来讲我们说的语言都是像微软、谷歌这种比较大的公司做的事情，所以先简单介绍一下我过去的背景。我从本科毕业以后，大概过去十几年都在编程语言和开发者工具这一块工作。在我还在念书的时候，很荣幸参与到OCaml编程语言的核心维护中，10年以后，去年OCaml获得了ACM系统软件奖，今年编程语言的获奖者是Rust。我的第一份工作是在纽约，自己写了一门编程语言叫ReScript，很荣幸这门编程语言被一些公司商业化用到了，Facebook 的messenger，chats也用到的它，我回国之后，Facebook破例让我在国内继续维护这个ReScript编程语言，在Facebook的5年时间，我还参与到另外一门编程语言 … ⌘ Read more
Facebook, Instagram are using your data – and you can’t opt out
If you’re one of the millions of Australians using Facebook or Instagram, Meta is using your data to train its AI – and unlike people in the European Union, you can’t stop them. ⌘ Read more
How to Hide iPhone Keyboard When It’s Covering Buttons & Won’t Go Away
Some iPhone users may find that the onscreen keyboard occasionally gets stuck on screen and covers buttons or other elements on the the screen, preventing interaction with the iPhone and preventing the dismissal of the iPhone keyboard. This can happen for a variety of reasons, whether in Messages, Whatsapp, Instagram, FaceBook, Mail, and basically any … [Read More](https://osxdaily.com/2024/05/01/fix-iphone … ⌘ Read more
SCOTUS hears case that could reshape social media
The Supreme Court on Monday heard arguments on the constitutionality of laws in Texas and Florida that would regulate how social media companies like Facebook, TikTok and X control the content posted on their sites. FOX 5’s Katie Barlow breaks it all down. ⌘ Read more
Playful Armadillo Becomes One With Ball at San Antonio Zoo
A three-banded armadillo named Wilson entertained visitors at the San Antonio Zoo recently, as he played with a toy Spurs basketball and incorporated it into his roly-poly form. Footage posted to Facebook on Saturday, February 24, shows Wilson promptly grabbing and rolling over with a ball after a keeper places him in a San Antonio Spurs-themed enclosure. The footage also shows ho … ⌘ Read more
How to Delete a Threads Account Without Leaving Instagram
When Threads debuted from Meta (FaceBook), it was intricately linked to Instagram, and initially when you went to delete or deactivate a Threads account, it had the unfortunate side effect of also deleting the related Instagram account. But that is no longer the case. Now you can choose to delete a Threads account without impacting … [Read More](https://osxdaily.com/2023/12/31/how-to-delete-a-threads-account-without-le … ⌘ Read more
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Did not expect anything less from meta. Pay or we will track you. Should be illegal. Media
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@prologic@twtxt.net I only use it so that family that follow me can see the images I post.
I do not browse around and spend time there, just check what family and friends have posted.
But still - makes me mad that they put that tracking infront of a paywall like that.
Hate putting money in zuckerberg’s pocket.
Same with VR - you need a meta account to use the oculus.. and you get full screen notification inside the VR headset if you do not use that.. Luckily there is a trail going on in Norway now..
https://www.datatilsynet.no/en/news/aktuelle-nyheter-2023/meta-case-brought-to-the-european-level/
Run Threads on Desktop with Mac, Windows PC, Linux
Threads, the social network microblogging Twitter/X competitor launched by Meta (Facebook), is typically thought of as a mobile only experience, with users having the Threads app on their iPhone or Android device. But, if you have a Mac, Windows PC, or Linux computer, and you want to use Threads on your desktop computer, you can … Read More ⌘ Read more
wanted to use my oculus to do some flightsimming on Friday, but now Meta forces you over to facebook. super annoying message that constantly pops up in the desktop client, but then after 10 minutes of flying they show the same message in fullscreen inside the VR glasses. so fuck them. I will try and get it to work on linux instead one day soon when I have time.
RT by @mind_booster: ❗Breaking: Meta Tracking Tools unlawful
In a groundbreaking decision in one of noybs 101 complaints, the Austrian Data Protection Authority decided that the use of Facebook’s tracking pixel directly violates the GDPR: https://noyb.eu/en/austrian-dsb-meta-tracking-tools-illegal?mtc=tw
❗Breaking: Meta Tracking Tools unlawful
In a groundbreaking decision in one of noybs 101 complaints, the Austrian Data Protection Authority decided that the use of Facebook’s tracking pixel directly violates th … ⌘ Read more
Lunduke’s Normal Computing News - Nov 9, 2022
Listen now (35 min) | Apple worth more than Google + Facebook + Amazon, Microsoft sued for GitHub Copilot, Canonical shows future of Ubuntu ⌘ Read more
**R to @mind_booster: Metaverse? Yeah, that other new thing, haven’t you notice? Nevermind that book in my shelf claiming that Second Life is Linden Lab’s Metaverse, or years of Metaverse references older than Facebook in papers, conferences, etc.: the Metaverse is now.
https://www.wiley.com/en-us/Second+Life%3A+The+Official+Guide-p-9780470096086**
Metaverse? Yeah, that other new thing, haven’t you notice? Nevermind that book in my shelf claiming that Second Life is Linden Lab’s Metaverse, or years of Metavers … ⌘ Read more
Linus Torvalds threatens to punish developers by putting Rust in the Linux Kernel
Linux would join Microsoft, Amazon, and Facebook in usage of Rust as a disciplinary tool. ⌘ Read more
**RT by @mind_booster: EU Commissioner @YlvaJohansson is preparing to launch a new law to force the mass surveillance of private online communications but has refused to meet with privacy experts like @EDRi.
The Commissioner has met with Facebook but https://Has-Commissioner-Johansson-met-with-Digital-Rights-Groups.eu?
#KeepItSecure #DoBetter**
EU Commissioner @YlvaJohansson is preparing to launch a new law to force the mass surveillance of private onli … ⌘ Read more
Maxime Buquet: Am I allowed to say no?
People often take photographs for granted. It does seem obvious in our society
that people like to appear with their friend on Facebook, TikTok, and what have
you.
Early on I started telling people I didn’t want to have my picture taken. It
has never really been clear why, not even to myself to be honest. It might have
been out of shyness – a trait that is still ever so present – or because I
didn’t like the way I look in them, or perhaps some other reason. But I kept
telling th … ⌘ Read more
“How Telegram Became the Anti-Facebook”
I read this very long article about Telegram today and somehow it left me with mixed feelings. The article is also from WIRED, but it offers more balanced coverage than an article from a year ago. ⌘ Read more
Toi aussi, gère la page Facebook d’un parti belge - Médor ⌘ Read more
Peter Saint-Andre: A Friend by Any Other Name
It is said that when the ancient Greek philosopher Epicurus died, he left behind thousands of friends. This was 2300 years before Facebook, so how could he have befriended so many people?… ⌘ Read more
Btw… You guys have gotta start posting more pictures/videos a bit more regularly 😂 Every time I show Yarn.social off to a friend to “sell” them the platform and get them off their privacy eroding garbage Facebook/Twitter/etc) The no. #1 question I get asked is:
Oh is this only comments/text
🤣 Let’s show off the platform as a whole a bit eh? 😅
The Metaverse Was Lame Even Before Facebook - The Atlantic ⌘ Read more
I think it is long due dropping Facebook (now Meta) from the S&P 500 index funds. As an owner of some, I really have a problem with it—and yes, I know there is little I can do but voice it everywhere I make noise online.
Telegram Ads
So Telegram now has ads. But unlike the ads from Google, Facebook or Apple, the ads are not personalized and much more privacy friendly. The ads simply consist of a maximum 160-character message with no external links and are displayed only in large public channels. ⌘ Read more
Bookmarked : Fix Facebook by Making It More Like Google+ - The Atlantic
My colleague Adrienne LaFrance has named the fundamental assumption, and danger, of social media megascale: “not just a very large user base, but a tremendous one, unprecedented in size.” Technology platforms such as Facebook assume that they deserve a user base measured in the billions of people—and then excuse their misdeeds by noting that effectively controlling such an unthinkably la … ⌘ Read more
On the blog: Let’s Fix…Facebook https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2021/10/17/facebook.html #lets-#fix #facebook #socialmedia
Facebook’s Day Off! - Computerphile ⌘ Read more
Facebook can be offline for you, everyday.
One. Simple. Step. Do it. You know you want to. Paradise awaits. ⌘ Read more
Germany’s Far-Right Political Party, the AfD, Is Dominating Facebook This Election – The Markup ⌘ Read more
#event Upcoming Workshop / algolab: Music and Live Coding @ CPH Music Maker Space / facebook event
#event Upcoming Workshop / algolab: Visuals and Live Coding @ CPH Music Maker Space / facebook event
Sometimes the Facebook Oversight Board is right, Trump will be better on his own platform. ⌘ Read more…
How Facebook, Twitter and other data troves are revolutionizing social science ⌘ Read more…
USA : The liberal election is happening on Instagram ⌘ https://www.axios.com/instagram-facebook-liberal-election-1e0e1fef-364e-4857-b539-a852b892d798.html
The Citizens - @facebook is trying to censor/takedown “the real #Facebook Oversight Board” - We have to stop @finkd from harming the Internet. ⌘ https://the-citizens.com/real-facebook-oversight/
Delete your Facebook account ⌘ https://hack.org/mc/blog/facebook.html
How to Leave Facebook ⌘ https://aaronparecki.com/2020/06/14/14/how-to-leave-facebook
Facebook includes weird messages inside Oculus Touch controllers - Business Insider https://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-weird-messages-oculus-touch-controllers-2019-4
Random link from the archives: https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/vbanny/we-should-replace-facebook-with-personal-websites originally archived Thu Dec 20 10:50:07 EST 2018
A Good Place: When Shazam fails you, this Facebook group comes through | The Outline https://theoutline.com/post/7282/when-you-can-t-find-the-song-on-shazam
Facebook Ad Algorithm Is a Race and Gender Stereotyping Machine https://theintercept.com/2019/04/03/facebook-ad-algorithm-race-gender/
Facebook Stored Hundreds of Millions of User Passwords in Plain Text for Years — Krebs on Security https://krebsonsecurity.com/2019/03/facebook-stored-hundreds-of-millions-of-user-passwords-in-plain-text-for-years/
Facebook filed a patent for a ‘civil’ political debate forum - The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2019/2/28/18244632/facebook-political-debate-system-digital-forum-reputation-patent-filing
Why intuition leaves us vulnerable to conspiracy theories - The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2019/3/4/18250292/facebook-moderation-conspiracy-theory-mike-wood-psychology-interview
AI won’t relieve the misery of Facebook’s human moderators - The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2019/2/27/18242724/facebook-moderation-ai-artificial-intelligence-platforms
The secret lives of Facebook moderators in America - The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2019/2/25/18229714/cognizant-facebook-content-moderator-interviews-trauma-working-conditions-arizona
Inside the Secret Facebook War For Mormon Hearts and Minds https://www.thedailybeast.com/inside-the-secret-facebook-war-for-mormon-hearts-and-minds
I Blocked Amazon, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, and Apple https://gizmodo.com/i-cut-the-big-five-tech-giants-from-my-life-it-was-hel-1831304194
Monday is Data Privacy Day. Celebrate by convincing Facebook that you are at least 120 years old & drive a pink car.
Want to get away with posting fake news on Facebook? Just change your website domain. – Poynter https://www.poynter.org/fact-checking/2019/want-to-get-away-with-posting-fake-news-on-facebook-just-change-your-website-domain/
Almost all the content I post to social media is posted by a small shell script that simultaneously posts to several services or through IFTTT duplicating those posts to services for which I lack an API key. When facebook broke automated posting, it meant my account went dark. I didn’t notice.
Facebook Algorithms and Personal Data | Pew Research Center http://www.pewinternet.org/2019/01/16/facebook-algorithms-and-personal-data/
Thieves of Experience: How Google and Facebook Corrupted Capitalism - Los Angeles Review of Books https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/thieves-of-experience-how-google-and-facebook-corrupted-capitalism/
Goodbye Facebook https://jasongullickson.com/posts/goodbye-facebook/
Facebook and Google’s Targeted Advertising Is Ruining the Internet and Breaking the World - Motherboard https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/xwjden/targeted-advertising-is-ruining-the-internet-and-breaking-the-world
Economists calculate the true value of Facebook to its users in new study | Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/12/economists-calculate-the-true-value-of-facebook-to-its-users-in-new-study/
[Essay] Machine Politics by Fred Turner | Harper’s Magazine https://harpers.org/archive/2019/01/machine-politics-facebook-political-polarization/
Facebook workers are the only people who can hold the company accountable. https://slate.com/technology/2018/12/facebook-workers-privacy-violation.html
We Should Replace Facebook With Personal Websites - Motherboard https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/vbanny/we-should-replace-facebook-with-personal-websites
The Cost of Living in Mark Zuckerberg’s Internet Empire - The Ringer https://www.theringer.com/tech/2018/12/19/18148701/mark-zuckerberg-facebook-year-in-review
Mark Zuckerberg did everything in his power to avoid Facebook becoming the next MySpace “ but forgot one crucial detail… • The Register https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/12/20/facebook_disaster/
Amazon and Facebook Reportedly Had a Secret Data-Sharing Agreement, and It Explains So Much https://gizmodo.com/amazon-and-facebook-reportedly-had-a-secret-data-sharin-1831192148
It’s the End of News As We Know It (and Facebook Is Feeling Fine) – Mother Jones https://www.motherjones.com/media/2018/12/facebook-propaganda-trump/
facebook ?~L~X https://notiz.blog/b/4uV
Berners-Lee takes flak for ‘hippie manifesto’ that only Google and Facebook could love • The Register https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/11/09/berners_lee_criticism/
Scammers Are Uploading Tutorials on How to Fool Facebook with a False ID - Motherboard https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/53d5gk/scammers-are-uploading-tutorials-on-how-to-fool-facebook-with-a-false-id
Why targeted Facebook ads are so weirdly personal - Vox https://www.vox.com/the-goods/2018/9/25/17887796/facebook-ad-targeted-algorithm
I’m back on #facebook! Visit my profile @ follow me here: http://shorturl.at/suwFH
What It’s Like to Download Your Facebook Data - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/09/download-your-facebook-data/565736/
Ready Player One is the roadmap to digital dystopia - The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2018/4/19/17250892/ready-player-one-book-facebook-internet-dystopia