#digital-freedom — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #digital-freedom, aggregated by home.social.
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Albania Gambles on Re-Legalising ‘Dangerous’ Online Sports Betting
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Albania Gambles on Re-Legalising ‘Dangerous’ Online Sports Betting
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Looking for a more privacy-friendly alternative to ChatGPT? 🔐🤖
We compared Duck.ai, Proton Lumo and Brave Leo on privacy, accuracy and features.
Each takes a different approach to private AI.
Read our full comparison:
https://novacustom.com/knowledge-base/privacy-friendly-alternative-for-chatgpt/ -
Looking for a more privacy-friendly alternative to ChatGPT? 🔐🤖
We compared Duck.ai, Proton Lumo and Brave Leo on privacy, accuracy and features.
Each takes a different approach to private AI.
Read our full comparison:
https://novacustom.com/knowledge-base/privacy-friendly-alternative-for-chatgpt/ -
"Stop using clankers. You're talking nonsense."-Ettanin
Not 1 willing to even humor my idea, stuck in their unchanging Steam mindset, too afraid of change, even a hypothetical.
MC has yet to submit, even if the emotional cannot understand.
#DigitalRights #DataControl #DigitalFreedom #Privacy #Steam -
https://steamcommunity.com/discussions/forum/10/590686595450935791/
Ever bought a game you regret? Steam keeps achievements, timestamps, play history, and other identity‑linked data forever. Uninstalling isn’t deletion. Users deserve the ability to fully remove game records while keeping required banking/licensing data intact. Digital ownership should include digital freedom.
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The open web rewards contribution, not passive consumption. FediBoard 2.0 is built on that principle. Engage, earn, grow. Together. 🌐
https://fediboard.com/products/fediboard
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EU Caught Between Child Protection and Privacy With Encryption Rules
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EU Caught Between Child Protection and Privacy With Encryption Rules
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tbh the fact that Krita has the most powerful and amazing brush engine makes me giggle all the time. like, people pay for literal crap n spywhere and then ask which premium assets were used but the "premium assets" are just free brushes from a free drawing app :) never stops to make me feel satisfied. ngl i pity some of them who just never knew other options other than Adobe exist. but those who chose paid spyware? nay, i look down at them and am not ashamed. those who chose to support the enemy and to suffer in the process dont look like those who can change their mindsets, 'tis like donating to muskrat and sometimes 'tis even literally that. and they dont even get all the cool perks n features we have here in FOSS, wtf for what exactly they suffer if they dont even have anything real cool lol. like, i was an Apple user. involuntarily! but i still treat it as experience and think of it as a kinda valuable experience cuz i have all the rights to say how shitty Apple is in reality. oh fuck how i hate Apple, i could rant for whole days if i wanted to spoil my mood lol. they couldnt even steal the original code normally, they made that creepy abomination. and yet still my tech i bought for FOSS stuff costed me more than my Apple tech... amazes me every time but ig 'tis cuz my normal tech is actually good and reliable lol. and aye once again repeating it, Procreate is not suitable for dysfunctional folks, its UI was a fucking torture for me, it almost made me quit drawing cuz i was sure all apps are made this way, yet i risked and we got me a Tab for Krita and Krita appeared to be superb and a hundred times better than i expected. so, i better fr will just donate to FOSS guys when i can, enjoy their cool stuff and promote it.
#techrant #tech #crapple #krita #foss #digitalfreedom #microslop #nokings
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tbh the fact that Krita has the most powerful and amazing brush engine makes me giggle all the time. like, people pay for literal crap n spywhere and then ask which premium assets were used but the "premium assets" are just free brushes from a free drawing app :) never stops to make me feel satisfied. ngl i pity some of them who just never knew other options other than Adobe exist. but those who chose paid spyware? nay, i look down at them and am not ashamed. those who chose to support the enemy and to suffer in the process dont look like those who can change their mindsets, 'tis like donating to muskrat and sometimes 'tis even literally that. and they dont even get all the cool perks n features we have here in FOSS, wtf for what exactly they suffer if they dont even have anything real cool lol. like, i was an Apple user. involuntarily! but i still treat it as experience and think of it as a kinda valuable experience cuz i have all the rights to say how shitty Apple is in reality. oh fuck how i hate Apple, i could rant for whole days if i wanted to spoil my mood lol. they couldnt even steal the original code normally, they made that creepy abomination. and yet still my tech i bought for FOSS stuff costed me more than my Apple tech... amazes me every time but ig 'tis cuz my normal tech is actually good and reliable lol. and aye once again repeating it, Procreate is not suitable for dysfunctional folks, its UI was a fucking torture for me, it almost made me quit drawing cuz i was sure all apps are made this way, yet i risked and we got me a Tab for Krita and Krita appeared to be superb and a hundred times better than i expected. so, i better fr will just donate to FOSS guys when i can, enjoy their cool stuff and promote it.
#techrant #tech #crapple #krita #foss #digitalfreedom #microslop #nokings
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and i finally made a discord account, damn it took me fr long with all the captchas (once the bitch would know my location is the UK it'd momentarily lock me behind the age verification crap lmao). prolly will be checking as seldom as i do with emails and use it for commissions later cuz i dont plan to upgrade my tuta account to make it a business one and i dont want to upgrade proton to be able to get a second account for that stuff. also lots of people have exactly discord instead of something normal like element etc, which makes me feel uncomfortable and tired. i will never be comfortable on platforms like discord and will never discuss anything personal there, all this shite is a pure unmasked spyware with zero protection and encryption and they all are fascist bootlickers with their age verification so kinda fuck them. but sadly i had to get an account there to stay in touch with some folks from artfight. nay, shitter or instacrap accounts are never gonna happen to me, discord was the lesser sacrifice to say so. i tbh cant get how the fuck people use signal messenger if this crap requires a phone verification, 'tis like the biggest red flag and i dont care how secure this shite is fr fr.
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and i finally made a discord account, damn it took me fr long with all the captchas (once the bitch would know my location is the UK it'd momentarily lock me behind the age verification crap lmao). prolly will be checking as seldom as i do with emails and use it for commissions later cuz i dont plan to upgrade my tuta account to make it a business one and i dont want to upgrade proton to be able to get a second account for that stuff. also lots of people have exactly discord instead of something normal like element etc, which makes me feel uncomfortable and tired. i will never be comfortable on platforms like discord and will never discuss anything personal there, all this shite is a pure unmasked spyware with zero protection and encryption and they all are fascist bootlickers with their age verification so kinda fuck them. but sadly i had to get an account there to stay in touch with some folks from artfight. nay, shitter or instacrap accounts are never gonna happen to me, discord was the lesser sacrifice to say so. i tbh cant get how the fuck people use signal messenger if this crap requires a phone verification, 'tis like the biggest red flag and i dont care how secure this shite is fr fr.
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Media Changes in Montenegro Intensify Alarm About Foreign Influence
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Media Changes in Montenegro Intensify Alarm About Foreign Influence
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so, now artfight doesnt work with Privacy Badger and explicitly asks to disable it. like, what the actual fuck?! this world's gone crazy, it seems soon i'll have to ditch all platforms that use that fucked up cloudflare and 'tis like to be cut out of the internet nowadays... but am so fucking angry. i do NOT want to disable that innocent tool, 'tis like the most innocent of tools that can be used, it causes no harm to any bitcharse out there even. like literally what the actual fuck?! i wish cloudflare to burn ngl.
#techrant #tech #cloudflare #artfight #privacy #digitalfreedom #rant
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so, now artfight doesnt work with Privacy Badger and explicitly asks to disable it. like, what the actual fuck?! this world's gone crazy, it seems soon i'll have to ditch all platforms that use that fucked up cloudflare and 'tis like to be cut out of the internet nowadays... but am so fucking angry. i do NOT want to disable that innocent tool, 'tis like the most innocent of tools that can be used, it causes no harm to any bitcharse out there even. like literally what the actual fuck?! i wish cloudflare to burn ngl.
#techrant #tech #cloudflare #artfight #privacy #digitalfreedom #rant
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Because of recent ToS of #codeberg, I have to write few words.
I am from Iran. For years, we've been blocked by the US sanctions. These sanctions didn't hurt the regime much. But it does hurt me people greatly. The US isn't shy about doing whatever they want with other nations for their benefits or in the name of fighting terrorism.
#cryptocurrency has been a way for us to trade with parties abroad without any government, America or our own, being able to censor the money transfer.
Imagine, if one day the US government puts a sanction on the whole Europe, what will citizens of each side could do?
That's the power the traditional money system gives to the governments. If a US citizen wants to give me money for a job, or vice versa, what right does our governments have to prevent us from doing so? Why the governments have to interfere with every single thing their citizen does?
#Iran #US #IranWar #crypto #bitcoincash #bch #foss #USsanctions #USsanction #sanction #freedom #digitalfreedom #financialfreedom
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Because of recent ToS of #codeberg, I have to write few words.
I am from Iran. For years, we've been blocked by the US sanctions. These sanctions didn't hurt the regime much. But it does hurt me people greatly. The US isn't shy about doing whatever they want with other nations for their benefits or in the name of fighting terrorism.
#cryptocurrency has been a way for us to trade with parties abroad without any government, America or our own, being able to censor the money transfer.
Imagine, if one day the US government puts a sanction on the whole Europe, what will citizens of each side could do?
That's the power the traditional money system gives to the governments. If a US citizen wants to give me money for a job, or vice versa, what right does our governments have to prevent us from doing so? Why the governments have to interfere with every single thing their citizen does?
#Iran #US #IranWar #crypto #bitcoincash #bch #foss #USsanctions #USsanction #sanction #freedom #digitalfreedom #financialfreedom
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Digital Sovereignty – Do not bundle a remote weaponizable kill-switch!
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The Digital Front of Albania’s ‘Flamingo Revolution’
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The Digital Front of Albania’s ‘Flamingo Revolution’
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#NoSubscription #Software #OpenSource #PayOnce #Productivity #TechTips #Privacy #DigitalFreedom #SoftwareLibre
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If you have a Levoit Core 400s air purifier, you can flash it with ESPHome.
The guide says: To get to the microcontroller, it's necessary to open it from the bottom.
It's actually easier if you don't care too much about its aesthetics.There is a gray ring at the top and black latches on the inside behind the gray ring. You can push these latches in by using 2 sharp & thin knives.
One knife to lift the ring and a second one to push in the latches. Parts of these latches will break! But don't worry, it will reassemble just fine.
If you take the bottom-up path, you will have to extend the internal cables. Otherwise, you won't be able to reconnect the PCB to the unit.
Please know, you will have to take the bottom-up path halfway, otherwise you cannot see the inside latches. You have to detach the upper part from the lower part.
What a dumb design choice by #Levoit!
Great job on this, @tuct.
https://github.com/tuct/levoit/tree/main/devices/levoit-core400s
#smarthome #iotmodding #airpurifiers #esphome #homeassistant #decloudify #digitalfreedom
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If you have a Levoit Core 400s air purifier, you can flash it with ESPHome.
The guide says: To get to the microcontroller, it's necessary to open it from the bottom.
It's actually easier if you don't care too much about its aesthetics.There is a gray ring at the top and black latches on the inside behind the gray ring. You can push these latches in by using 2 sharp & thin knives.
One knife to lift the ring and a second one to push in the latches. Parts of these latches will break! But don't worry, it will reassemble just fine.
If you take the bottom-up path, you will have to extend the internal cables. Otherwise, you won't be able to reconnect the PCB to the unit.
Please know, you will have to take the bottom-up path halfway, otherwise you cannot see the inside latches. You have to detach the upper part from the lower part.
What a dumb design choice by #Levoit!
Great job on this, @tuct.
https://github.com/tuct/levoit/tree/main/devices/levoit-core400s
#smarthome #iotmodding #airpurifiers #esphome #homeassistant #decloudify #digitalfreedom
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🚨 BREAKING: Cookie banners are evil! 🚨 The EU has bravely suggested a groundbreaking solution that *literally everyone* realized ten years ago. Meanwhile, the tracking overlords are clutching their tracking pixels like it's 1999, and they won’t let go without a fight. 🙄 #SaveUsFromPopUps
https://killthecookiebanner.eu/ #CookieBannersEvil #EURegulations #TrackingOverlords #PrivacyRights #DigitalFreedom #HackerNews #ngated -
🚨 BREAKING: Cookie banners are evil! 🚨 The EU has bravely suggested a groundbreaking solution that *literally everyone* realized ten years ago. Meanwhile, the tracking overlords are clutching their tracking pixels like it's 1999, and they won’t let go without a fight. 🙄 #SaveUsFromPopUps
https://killthecookiebanner.eu/ #CookieBannersEvil #EURegulations #TrackingOverlords #PrivacyRights #DigitalFreedom #HackerNews #ngated -
Fake Social Media Accounts Target Albania Protest Supporters
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Fake Social Media Accounts Target Albania Protest Supporters
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Transparansi informasi dan keamanan data adalah kombinasi utama dalam berselancar di internet. Untuk mendapatkan referensi tepercaya terkait pemeliharaan sistem dan navigasi akses terbaru, Anda bisa memantau pembaruan di Bursaslot Info https://heylink.me/bursaslotlink/ . Informasi lengkap, responsif, dan dilindungi enkripsi SSL terbaru. 🌐🛡️ #CyberSecurity #DigitalFreedom #TechNews
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Transparansi informasi dan keamanan data adalah kombinasi utama dalam berselancar di internet. Untuk mendapatkan referensi tepercaya terkait pemeliharaan sistem dan navigasi akses terbaru, Anda bisa memantau pembaruan di Bursaslot Info https://heylink.me/bursaslotlink/ . Informasi lengkap, responsif, dan dilindungi enkripsi SSL terbaru. 🌐🛡️ #CyberSecurity #DigitalFreedom #TechNews
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#fediask #duckduckfedi + #rant
< Payment for digital art.
Stripe (or Square?) for artists as an alternative to PayPal. >So, I’ll have to open commissions (aka art for money) one day soon. And am not gonna use PayPal cuz I’ve read too many stories how they screw up artists and just all the people plus I remember that they expose billing address (which is fuckinh insane, I hope they burn for it, where the fuck is my privacy and protection?!).
So, I’ve encountered that lots of artists use Stripe. It’s even used on Lorepository and other platforms. Also something called Square was mentioned as well.
So, my question is: are these anyhow better than PayPal or should I just stick to Monero (and get no commissions lmao, the main reason am researching this stuff is that no one’s gonna pay in crypto for art and it all angers and saddens me af tbh)? I would like the payment system to not farm my data, to not screw me up (am disabled, dysfunctional, our family’s having real hard times and we might not even survive this year, am not gonna allow some bitchass platform to screw me over fr), to not disclose billing information to the paying person or any other platform. If anything, I don’t draw NSFW or any adult content so I doubt I’ll get banned for porn but if a money processing platform bans NSFW artists it’s an inhumane and unsafe platform anyways…Does this toot sound angry? Aye I bet it does. Cuz am very fuckinh angry, frustrated, upset and at my fuckong limit. I fucking dunno how to survive this fuckass capitalism, I’m almost giving up and all this shite only adds up to stress and concerns!
Or I fucking dunno, if all of the platforms are like this, how the fuck are you folks getting money for digital art? Like, queer persons, minorities, endangered persons, etc? How the fuck do you protect your data and your money, from harmful bitches, scammers, big tech and those platforms themselves?
And aye, am all about spreading kindness and I do love people dearly, but am no delusional and fully aware that scammers exist alongside with big tech and every other bitch out there. They’re kinda the reason I choose to not be like them ig.
#artthoughts #techrant #digitalart #art #commission_art #artistsonmastodon #mastoart #paymentprocessors #digitalfreedom
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#fediask #duckduckfedi + #rant
< Payment for digital art.
Stripe (or Square?) for artists as an alternative to PayPal. >So, I’ll have to open commissions (aka art for money) one day soon. And am not gonna use PayPal cuz I’ve read too many stories how they screw up artists and just all the people plus I remember that they expose billing address (which is fuckinh insane, I hope they burn for it, where the fuck is my privacy and protection?!).
So, I’ve encountered that lots of artists use Stripe. It’s even used on Lorepository and other platforms. Also something called Square was mentioned as well.
So, my question is: are these anyhow better than PayPal or should I just stick to Monero (and get no commissions lmao, the main reason am researching this stuff is that no one’s gonna pay in crypto for art and it all angers and saddens me af tbh)? I would like the payment system to not farm my data, to not screw me up (am disabled, dysfunctional, our family’s having real hard times and we might not even survive this year, am not gonna allow some bitchass platform to screw me over fr), to not disclose billing information to the paying person or any other platform. If anything, I don’t draw NSFW or any adult content so I doubt I’ll get banned for porn but if a money processing platform bans NSFW artists it’s an inhumane and unsafe platform anyways…Does this toot sound angry? Aye I bet it does. Cuz am very fuckinh angry, frustrated, upset and at my fuckong limit. I fucking dunno how to survive this fuckass capitalism, I’m almost giving up and all this shite only adds up to stress and concerns!
Or I fucking dunno, if all of the platforms are like this, how the fuck are you folks getting money for digital art? Like, queer persons, minorities, endangered persons, etc? How the fuck do you protect your data and your money, from harmful bitches, scammers, big tech and those platforms themselves?
And aye, am all about spreading kindness and I do love people dearly, but am no delusional and fully aware that scammers exist alongside with big tech and every other bitch out there. They’re kinda the reason I choose to not be like them ig.
#artthoughts #techrant #digitalart #art #commission_art #artistsonmastodon #mastoart #paymentprocessors #digitalfreedom
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🎩✨ Oh, the #IndieWeb dream: own your online existence for a penny a day! Because apparently, the only thing standing between you and total web sovereignty is the loose change you found in your couch. 😂 Forget world peace; for $0.01/day, you can at least feel superior to corporate minions while pretending you're not just part of yet another niche cult. 🌐💸
https://www.neatnik.net/hardcore-indieweb #OnlineSovereignty #DigitalFreedom #WebOwnership #NicheCult #HackerNews #ngated -
🎩✨ Oh, the #IndieWeb dream: own your online existence for a penny a day! Because apparently, the only thing standing between you and total web sovereignty is the loose change you found in your couch. 😂 Forget world peace; for $0.01/day, you can at least feel superior to corporate minions while pretending you're not just part of yet another niche cult. 🌐💸
https://www.neatnik.net/hardcore-indieweb #OnlineSovereignty #DigitalFreedom #WebOwnership #NicheCult #HackerNews #ngated -
Different nations. Different cultures. Different beliefs.
Yet ordinary people everywhere are facing the same expanding systems: digital identity, programmable finance, surveillance, automated governance and increasingly powerful AI.
This lecture is not designed to divide the world into sides. It is an invitation to recognise what we share.
Watch it. Verify it. Share it across borders.
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Different nations. Different cultures. Different beliefs.
Yet ordinary people everywhere are facing the same expanding systems: digital identity, programmable finance, surveillance, automated governance and increasingly powerful AI.
This lecture is not designed to divide the world into sides. It is an invitation to recognise what we share.
Watch it. Verify it. Share it across borders.
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Wir haben anscheinenend noch wirklich keinen breiteren Konsens darin, dass die kapitalsitische Verwertung meiner persönlichen Daten nicht hinnehmbaren Missbrauch bedeutet.
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Nowadays, censorship doesn't exist just as "blocking information". Censorship takes the form of "attacking the narrative and its sovereignty itself", such as through threatening people for their speech and opinions, defamation, and character attacks.
#censorship #freespeech #narrative #humanrights #activism #digitalfreedom #transparency #integrity #advocacy #dissent #truth #sovereignty #communication #ethics #accountability #speech #socialjustice #awareness #societalchange #freedom
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Warum Mastodon anders klingt als X – eine neue Studie liefert eine mögliche Erklärung
Eine neue Studie vergleicht X, Bluesky und Mastodon. Sie zeigt, welche Art von Beiträgen auf den Plattformen besonders viel Aufmerksamkeit bekommt. -
BIRN Report Warns Digital Repression is Worsening Across Western Balkans, Turkey
