This new market form declares that serving the genuine needs of people is less lucrative, and therefore less important, than selling predictions of their behavior. Google discovered that we are less valuable than others’ bets on our future behavior

The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power
by Shoshana Zuboff

#SurveillanceCapitalism #privacy

Receiving SMS plays a long tune on my #Librem5. For a few persons I'd like to have this tune played also if they send me a message using #matrix.

A problem is that the #fractal flatpak does not use #feedbackd yet to signal new messages and on #PureOS #Byzantium there's no way to define different sounds for different notification events.

So I started testing a small script to read notifications and trigger feedback for messages coming from an account containing some string:

#!/usr/bin/python3

import gi
import time
gi.require_version('Lfb', '0.0')
from gi.repository import Lfb
from gi.repository import GLib
import dbus
from dbus.mainloop.glib import DBusGMainLoop

def print_notification(bus, message):
    keys = ["app_name", "replaces_id", "app_icon", "summary",
          "body", "actions", "hints", "expire_timeout"]
    args = message.get_args_list()
    if len(args) == 8:
        notification = dict([(keys[i], args[i]) for i in range(8)])
        if "account_i_want_to_be_notified_for_like_it_would_be_sms" in notification["summary"]:
            print( notification["summary"], ': ', notification["body"] )
            event.trigger_feedback()

Lfb.init('org.sigxcpu.lfbexample')
event = Lfb.Event.new('message-new-sms')
loop = DBusGMainLoop(set_as_default=True)
session_bus = dbus.SessionBus()
session_bus.add_match_string("type='method_call',interface='org.freedesktop.Notifications',member='Notify',eavesdrop=true")
session_bus.add_message_filter(print_notification)

GLib.MainLoop().run()

Problem: using calendar on my #Librem5 running #PureOS Byzantiu once in a while I can't add new appointments anymore and the calendar doesn't sync with my #nextcloud.

A simple goa-daemon --replace solved the problem when it occured. I automated this reading the error shown in the journal when the problem starts.

I made a workaround to monitor and replace the goa-daemon:

https://forums.puri.sm/t/gnome-online-accounts-connection-to-nextcloud-stops-working/20051/5?u=chrichri

Just ordered a #TShirt to support the #OSHWA Open Source Hardware Association.

Some time ago I wrote I would love to buy some nice #TShirts to support organizations I like - if they are not black.

Well, the 'not black' part seems to be hard.

If you've got an URL to order a support T-Shirt for some good cause I'd be happy to read about it - preferably if it is colourful or at least not black .

On the strength of Google’s inventions, discoveries, and strategies, it became the mother ship and ideal type of a new economic logic based on fortune- telling and selling—an ancient and eternally lucrative craft that has fed on humanity’s confrontation with uncertainty from the beginning of the human story

The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power
by Shoshana Zuboff

#SurveillanceCapitalism #privacy

I'm so happy that I never got into the habit of using any of the mentioned platforms.

https://pluralistic.net/2024/06/27/nuke-first/

@pluralistic@mamot.fr writes in their article

By making platforms responsible for screening the content their users post, we create a system that only the largest tech monopolies can survive, and only then by removing or blocking anything that threatens or displeases the wealthy and powerful.

This certainly is true for central platforms. I'm running a few services for family, friends and neighbours. Some of these are connected to federated systems like mail, matrix, ActivityPub instances.

I do not get stressed over copyright problems: I had personal contact to everybody having an account and I trust that they'll not misuse it.

If I'd get into stress I'd close down open registration in the one service that has it configured and only host accounts that I gave out to people I know and trust.

If someone would claim I'd infringe a right they have to something that is published on one of the services I run I'd probably take it offline, talk to the person using the account and agree on a solution.

If that person would be unhappy with our agreement they could start running the exactly same service being FLOSS and designed to be self-hosted even on a home internet connection.

I would help where I can to help people to take over the legal risks I might not be able to cover for them and be able to make their on decisions by hosting their own instances.

If this ever will happen it'll be a once in 20 years situation that I'm willing to risk getting into.

My guess is that decentralisation helps. It's good for security also: It doesn't make any code more secure, but it does make each of the small nodes in decentralized networks less interesting to attackers and it makes it harder for attackers to gain access to huge amounts of data by breaking into one single system.

Hey #flohmis! For #yunohost I configured #urlwatch for #flohmarkt to monitor the user database and not much later got an email informing me about a change .

My configuration templates can be found here as the three files named urlwatch*.

Reinvestment in user services became the method for attracting behavioral surplus, and users became the unwitting suppliers of raw material for a larger cycle of revenue generation

The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power
by Shoshana Zuboff

#SurveillanceCapitalism #privacy

If you can read this you're not affected by the following …

This #microblogpub had some load recently and I looked into it. I looked through the logs and counted the connections from each IP. These are the IPs with the highest volume:

     89 192.168.2.20
    385 202.61.242.89
    417 65.21.187.247
    433 141.95.205.35
 275698 34.229.130.24
 287955 44.206.236.255
 297312 54.164.161.50
 304990 3.238.157.198

The last for look suspicious. I looked at the kind of request that added up to those comparative high numbers:

     13 /.well-known/host-meta
     13 /.well-known/webfinger?resource=acct:chrichri@chrichri.ween.de
  22453 /o/350ab61e097f4c89bbe53836f0f5d1f6
  24681 /followers
  24684 /following
  24684 /outbox
 313796 /o/72327fd24abe48bb82564144dcee1ba6
 313803 /featured
 336225 /.well-known/webfinger?resource=acct:me@chrichri.ween.de
 336243 /

All quite common, but one of the highest counts gets one note. All of these accesses from four IPs only within less than a day.

The article that seems to be so interesting is about @midzer@chaos.socials work for flohmarkt and the fact that he can be sponsored via #github.

The four IPs are all at Amazon:

24.130.229.34.in-addr.arpa domain name pointer ec2-34-229-130-24.compute-1.amazonaws.com.
255.236.206.44.in-addr.arpa domain name pointer ec2-44-206-236-255.compute-1.amazonaws.com.
50.161.164.54.in-addr.arpa domain name pointer ec2-54-164-161-50.compute-1.amazonaws.com.
198.157.238.3.in-addr.arpa domain name pointer ec2-3-238-157-198.compute-1.amazonaws.com.

I blocked the four IPs to get the load back down to a value below 1.

If you can't read this or you'd have a clue why those IPs constantly access those few URLs - please let me know!

This symbiosis enabled Google’s algorithms to learn and produce ever-more relevant and comprehensive search results. More queries meant more learning; more learning produced more relevance. More relevance meant more searches and more users

The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power
by Shoshana Zuboff

#SurveillanceCapitalism #privacy

Just installed the ynh8 #yunohost app integration on my flohmarkt.

I added an hourly check of the user database of #flohmarkt to send out an email notification for changes.

To enable admins through the web gui to change the address I added a configuration panel and while at it I put the setup URL for the initial setup of a new flohmarkt installation on the configuration panel, too.

Now it should be easy to install and initialize a flohmarkt instance by only using yunohosts web gui.

Surveillance capitalism unilaterally claims human experience as free raw material for translation into behavioral data

The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power
by Shoshana Zuboff

#SurveillanceCapitalism #privacy

My mind is blown on every page by the depth of Shoshana’s research, the breadth of her knowledge, the rigor of her intellect, and finally by the power of her arguments. I’m not sure we can end the age of surveillance capitalism without her help, and that’s why I believe this is the most important book of our time.”

—Doc Searls, author of The Intention Economy, and editor-in-chief of Linux Journal

The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power
by Shoshana Zuboff

#SurveillanceCapitalism #privacy

If you can read this you're reading a note created on my #microblogpub instance on my #yunohost.

@t@hexa.ninja the author of microblog.pub created an integration for yunohost in package format version 1.

yunohost moved on and created the packaging format version 2.

Building on the work of Thomas I upgraded the package to the newer packaging format and integrated it into yunohosts app catalogue where it will appear within the next 24h.

If you're using microblog.pub on a yunohost you'll be offered an update of the app once it has been included into the catalog.

Thanks Thomas for that great software!

(This note is my first one written on my updated microblog.pub v2 integration on yunohost.)