Chris Vogel shared a month ago
Chris Vogel shared a month ago

The remarkable questions here concern the facts that our lives are rendered as behavioral data in the first place; that ignorance is a condition of this ubiquitous rendition; that decision rights vanish before one even knows that there is a decision to make; that there are consequences to this diminishment of rights that we can neither see nor foretell; that there is no exit, no voice, and no loyalty, only helplessness, resignation, and psychic numbing

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

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Predictions about our behavior are Google’s products, and they are sold to its actual customers but not to us. We are the means to others’ ends

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

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Chris Vogel shared 2 months ago

We are no longer the subjects of value realization. Nor are we, as some have insisted, the “product” of Google’s sales. Instead, we are the objects from which raw materials are extracted and expropriated for Google’s prediction factories

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

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Hm, does someone know a client that works from the on with 1und1.de ?

I tried

  • linphonec, but didn't get it to register on my arm64 debian installation
  • I like baresip, but I couldn't configure it to register to register with 1und1.de
  • sipsimpleclient.org - worked somehow on my desktop, but didn't get it installed on arm64

It doesn't need to be fancy, I'm just looking for a simple tool to let a phone ring. No need to connect nor for audio transmission.

At first those raw materials were simply “found,” a by-product of users’ search actions. Later those assets were hunted aggressively and procured largely through surveillance

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

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Chris Vogel shared 2 months ago

Google had discovered a way to translate its nonmarket interactions with users into surplus raw material for the fabrication of products aimed at genuine market transactions with its real customers: advertisers

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

About – SHOSHANA ZUBOFF shoshanazuboff.com

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

About – SHOSHANA ZUBOFF shoshanazuboff.com

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

A problem is that the flatpak does not use yet to signal new messages and on 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()
Chris Vogel shared 2 months ago

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

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

Chris Vogel shared 2 months ago

Just ordered a to support the Open Source Hardware Association.

Some time ago I wrote I would love to buy some nice s 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 😉 .

Chris Vogel shared 4 months ago

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

About – SHOSHANA ZUBOFF shoshanazuboff.com

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 ! For I configured for 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*.

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