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An open letter to a billionaire. (Note: might be easier to read from the ALT tag than the image.) #meta #facebook #algorithmicfeeds
Zuckerberg Says Meta's AI Systems Have Begun Improving Themselves, And Developing Superintelligence is Now in Sight - Mark Zuckerberg said Wednesday that Meta's AI systems have begun improving themsel... - https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/07/30/1359201/zuckerberg-says-metas-ai-systems-have-begun-improving-themselves-and-developing-superintelligence-is-now-in-sight?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed #facebook
Mark Zuckerberg said Wednesday that Meta's AI systems…
tech.slashdot.org"Friendship books" were the #Facebook of the 17th and 18th centuries (without the ads and data mining). Here's a fine example of one begun in 1795 by the aunt of the poet Felicia Dorothea Browne: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/the-friendship-book-of-anne-wagner-1795-1834 #FriendshipDay
That moment, when you want to map a store in #openstreetmap, but the store doesn't have a website, but only a #facebook or #instagram account to get the information from... 
Btw: Do you add social media links for #x, #facebook, or #instagram into POI in OSM?
Meta Names Shengjia Zhao As Chief Scientist of AI Superintelligence Unit - Meta has appointed Shengjia Zhao as Chief Scientist of its new Meta Superintellige... - https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/07/25/2143237/meta-names-shengjia-zhao-as-chief-scientist-of-ai-superintelligence-unit?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed #facebook
Meta has appointed Shengjia Zhao as Chief Scientist…
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@missbullitt@masto.bikePetit rappel que Facebook et Instagram, ça n'est pas Internet !
C'est sites ne sont accessibles qu'à leurs utilisateurs. Certes ils sont nombreux mais si vous ne faites votre communication que là bas, une bonne partie de la population n'y a pas accès.
Professionnels, institutions, organisateurs d'événements, faites vos communications sur des sites accessibles et pas sur des plate-formes fermées (et fascisantes en plus)
Sur Instagram ou Facebook, Meta force désormais ses…
Numerama#Meta investors, #Zuckerberg reach settlement to end $8 billion trial over #Facebook #privacy violations
I Tried the Mediterranean Diet: Review and Experience https://www.diningandcooking.com/2181833/i-tried-the-mediterranean-diet-review-and-experience/ ##twitter #Alzheimer's #Amy #atkins #BusinessInsider #ChristieBrinkley #diet #Facebook #FormalDiet #grabbagreen #INSIDER #Mediterranean #MediterraneanDiet #MediterraneanWine #Texas #Wine
Zuckerberg Pledges Hundreds of Billions For AI Data Centers in Superintelligence Push - Mark Zuckerberg said on Monday that Meta would spend hundreds of billions of dolla... - https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/07/14/165238/zuckerberg-pledges-hundreds-of-billions-for-ai-data-centers-in-superintelligence-push?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed #facebook
Mark Zuckerberg said on Monday that Meta would spend…
tech.slashdot.orgWhile looking for something else, I just found a blog post about Diaspora I wrote in 2012;
But what I was really pleased to stumble upon is the post I wrote in 2019 about replacing FarceBook;
This one is definitely going to get an update-and-repost on the new Disintermedia blog.
EDIT: replaced links, hopefully this won't slashdot archive.today sites ...
Meta an evil company? How can it be?! They’re partners, alongside Mastodon gGmbH, at the @swf (https://socialwebfoundation.org)
#institutionalCorruption #mastodon #fediverse #SocialWebFoundation #whitewashing #meta #facebook #threads #BigTech https://mastodon.au/@Linux/114821179079336678
Towards a bigger, better fediverse
Social Web FoundationEvery post you’ve ever made anywhere within Meta’s ecosystem. Every photo you’ve ever shared. It doesn’t matter if you thought it was “private” or shared only with yourself — the AI has access to everything.
As the old saying goes: "All your base are belong to us!"
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Meta #Facebook #Threads #Instagram #WhatsApp
Interestingly enough, if you shared the current whereabouts of someone who does not support Donald Trump — such as Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez or Jasmine Crockett — there would be no delay in Meta’s general feed.
This paints an awful image, especially since the justification for delaying posts about Donald Trump and his associates is "general safety."
Additionally, if you share any current information concerning Donald Trump and his associates, your post may be delayed from appearing in the general feed.
For example, if you saw Robert F. Kennedy Jr. eating a hamburger at McDonald’s and posted a selfie with him in the background, no one would see that you shared it for several hours.
Meta is protecting ICE.
If you post about an ongoing event involving ICE, your post may be delayed from appearing in the general feed.
If you encourage people to assist those under threat from ICE, your account may be suspended or terminated, and your information may be forwarded to law enforcement.
I really do work for an evil company.
@floehopper@ruby.socialTIL courtesy of @pluralistic’s talk at Coop Congress: In Facebook’s early days, it solicited your MySpace login and then scraped the site for your social graph.
#Facebook is always hungry for all of your data.
The ecosystem maintained by #Meta will always try to scoop as much data as possible about you.
And they also love to spy on you while you’re not even using their services.
The “Meta pixel” has so far been adopted by ~20% of most visited websites.
It’s an invisible element rendered on all those webpages whose purpose is to spy on you. It’s thanks to these pixels that Meta probably has details about your tax returns and medical records.
But that isn’t enough for the espionage company better known as Meta.
After rolling out the tracking pixels about 10 years ago, many browsers and extensions have learned how to block them.
If you use Firefox in Strict mode, and/or the Facebook Container extension, and/or Privacy Badger or uBlock Origin, then chances are that your browser is blocking Meta’s creepy eyes.
Probably there aren’t a lot of people out there who take these measures, as they usually involve some degree of tech-savvyness. But the fact that there are still some people on planet earth that are trying to block their creepy eyes, some people whose tax returns, health records or sexual habits aren’t known to them, makes Meta uneasy. After all, it’s a company explicitly designed to know EVERYTHING about EVERYONE!
So what have they done?
Well, they basically opened a local backdoor on all Android phones that have some of their apps installed.
Usually a mobile app with INTERNET permissions can bind to any non-privileged TCP port on the local interface.
And that’s exactly what their mobile apps are doing.
They open a localhost socket, and then whenever you open your mobile browser on a website that has one of their trackers the JavaScript code tries to connect to that port to push scraped data from your browsing history to their apps.
They basically abuse the localhost sandbox, usually used by developers and less subject to the scrutiny of tracker-blocking software, to funnel private data scooped up from your usage of other websites, unencrypted, to their own apps, which in turn pushes it to their servers.
To be clear, this isn’t something new. Yandex has been doing it since 2017. And by now you probably shouldn’t trust any large-scale apps that come out of the US, Russia or China because they are all funded by State-sponsored programs whose aim is collective espionage and data collection.
If you want to protect yourself:
Never use Chrome for browsing. Only use Firefox or one of its forks. And, since Firefox is the only mobile browser that supports extensions, don’t forget to install Facebook Container (which limits all activities related to known Meta domains in their own sandbox), Privacy Badger and uBlock Origin on it. And I would also recommend NoScript - better to explicitly whitelist all JavaScript content that you want to run on your devices than risking your data leaking to unintended actors. The way Meta exploits these loopholes in the browser to violate people’s privacy shows that it’s no longer tolerable to have browsers that don’t actively provide users ways to block trackers. Google acknowledged Meta’s abuse, allegedly provided a patch to close the localhost loophole, but still doesn’t provide privacy-focused features in their browser because they have a strong conflict of interests - because they also profit from violating people’s privacy. Ditching their products has now become a civic duty.
Uninstall the Facebook and Instagram apps. Use the website instead. Webpages run in the browser’s sandbox and can’t just arbitrarily access the storage or start TCP services. I know that Facebook and Instagram in a browser suck, and that’s deliberate - it’s all part of Meta’s plan to force people to use their apps instead. But maybe it’s a good way to limit your usage of this crap.
Avoid using WhatsApp through their app directly too if you can (sure, individual messages are E2E encrypted, but there’s plenty of juicy metadata that they can still scoop up from your app usage). I personally use Matrix with a WhatsApp bridge, so I can interact with my conversations directly from my Element app instead of using WhatsApp directly on the phone.
Use Meta’s services as little as possible. If there’s some data point that they can harvest and sell about you, then rest assure that they will do. Moving to privacy-aware decentralized solutions like the Fediverse is now a civic duty. The more people move over their content, the more Meta’s services lose their value, the less people will be inclined to use them even if they hate them just because “everyone else is there”.
ORG's new report exposes Meta’s intrusive profiling of its users.
With the introduction of Generative AI to Meta’s ad tools, existing problems with opacity will get worse.
Anna Dent, author of 'Profiling by Proxy'.
#meta #facebook #instagram #threads #adtech #surveillancecapitalism #advertising #privacy #ukpolitics #ukpol #AI
