The already visible trend, as we shall see in the coming chapters, is that any actor with an interest in purchasing probabilistic information about our behavior and/or influencing future behavior can pay to play in markets where the behavioral fortunes of individuals, groups, bodies, and things are told and sold
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power
by Shoshana Zuboff
Chris Vogel shared 6 months ago
Setting up my federated fleamarket with flohmarkt
Yesterday, I set up an instance of flohmarkt on a Raspberry Pi, to experiment with a self-hosted, federated "fleamarket" system, for advertising some old tech stuff that really needs a new home.
It's alpha, and has a few rough edges, so perhaps my notes will help:
https://neilzone.co.uk/2024/10/setting-up-my-federated-fleamarket-with-flohmarkt/
Thanks to everyone who helped test it!
The nature of its products explains why Google repeatedly claims that it does not sell personal data. What? Never! Google executives like to claim their privacy purity because they do not sell their raw material. Instead, the company sells the predictions that only it can fabricate from its world- historic private hoard of behavioral surplus
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power
by Shoshana Zuboff
In my post about waking my #Librem5 by calling to receive matrix messages I forgot to mention one of the actors: #PhoshAntiSpam.
PhoshAntiSpam rejects or silences incoming calls depending on a text file containing phone numbers and/or your address book.
If you're using #Phosh on your mobile phone and you get calls you do not want, it'll be of great help. Shoutout to @kop316@fosstodon.org 
@agx@librem.one Thinking about #chatty: Another really cool feature would be a bridge between matrix and SMS... 
Chris Vogel shared 6 months ago
@me a nice feature of SMS is that you can put the metadata into the SMS so one can e.g. just fetch that one single message in matrix (once chatty supports this, l already added support to libcmatrix)
Chris Vogel shared 6 months agoWaking my #Librem5 from suspend when a new #matrix message triggers a notification.
Starring:
- matrix server: #conduit
- #UnifiedPush and notification server: #ntfy
- #sip client: #pjsua
- #fractal: matrix client
- #feedbackd: rhythm & sound
It's not that I have something to hide. I have nothing I want you to see.
In German I even like it better:
Ich hab' nichts zu verbergen. Da ist nur nichts, das ich euch zeigen will.
"The Girl" from the movie Anon
I really don't understand why people still use Gitlab. I can't login using my main firefox that I use on
All other sites I use work in that profile, too.
Only to Gitlab I can't login.
Note to myself: if I'm running various #firefox instances using different profiles and do not want to be interrupted by unattended updates needing a restart of firefox I need to set app.update.auto in each profile.
encryption is the only positive action left to discuss when we sit around the dinner table and casually ponder how to hide from the forces that hide from us
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power
by Shoshana Zuboff
Note to myself: if you play with sound-themes on your #Librem5 (and probably any other #MobileLinux device) and you seem to be stuck with the default sound theme (freedesktop) then delete ~/.cache/event-sound-cache.tdb* and restart #feedbackd.
Thanks to @agx@librem.one for helping me on matrix:community-librem5 and for the great software!
After the release party yesterday for #flohmarkts beta 0.2.0 - first version tagged ever - we cleared out a last issue to make the beta release available for #yunohost. You'll find the yunohost soon in the app catalog - hopefully with the antifeature for alpha stage gone.
Actually the yunohost version is one step ahead of the official beta .
Chris Vogel shared 7 months ago
PSA: Today, 20:00 CEST #flohmarkt Beta Release Party 🚀
You find us on #IRC and on #Mumble, check https://codeberg.org/flohmarkt/flohmarkt/wiki#support
Chris Vogel shared 7 months ago
#flohmarkt goes international!
we have finished #i18n and are now ready for #localization
🇳🇱 🇩🇪 🇫🇷 🇪🇸 🇩🇰
These are the five #language s we're starting with! If you want to help with #translation s, you can do so under https://translate.codeberg.org/projects/flohmarkt
if you want to add another locale, open an issue on codeberg and we'll hit you up :)
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
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
Chris Vogel shared 7 months agoWas habe ich denn da gerade feienes geboostet? Könnte es etwa sein, dass #flohmarkt gerade markdown-Unterstützung erhalten hat? :)
Vielen dank an @midzer für die Pionierarbeit.
Die software gibts wie immer auf:
https://codeberg.org/flohmarkt/flohmarkt
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