Ebay opted you in to AI training on your personal data.
Perhaps #question this trend? I doubt many of you want this.
Apparently, "To turn this off, sign in to your account click on the Hi (your name)! > My eBay > Account > AI training preferences and you can toggle off the permission.'
From our "Digital Crossroads" collection:
The Gizmodo Guide to Stopping Algorithms From Ruining Your Life - https://gizmodo.com/the-gizmodo-guide-to-stopping-algorithms-from-ruining-your-life-2000584899?ref=feedle.world
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So site blocking in the US could very well become law in the near future thanks to #FADPA unless we all speak up.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/04/congress-reviving-site-blocking-and-its-just-dangerous-ever
From our "Digital Crossroads" collection:
What to do with your life & NaNoWriMo goes bankrupt - https://creativerly.com/what-to-do-with-your-life/?ref=feedle.world
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The Best Eggless Quiche Recipe on the Internet Uses Tofu Instead of Eggs https://www.diningandcooking.com/2003254/the-best-eggless-quiche-recipe-on-the-internet-uses-tofu-instead-of-eggs/ #best #DinnerPartyIdeas #eater #EaterAtHome #eggless #eggs #FrontPage #instead #internet #Of #on #quiche #recipe #Recipes #RecipesTopics #the #Tofu #Uses #WhichRecipeIsTheBest
Deutschland finanziert #Satelliten-#Internet für die Ukraine: #Eutelsat statt #Starlink. Noch weniger als 1000 Terminals im Einsatz, schnell bis zu 10.000 möglich. https://winfuture.de/news,150159.html?utm_source=Mastodon&utm_medium=ManualStatus&utm_campaign=SocialMedia
https://www.europesays.com/fr/8108/ la possible mise en vente de SFR met le secteur en effervescence #Actualité #blog #blogs #Business #Économie #Economy #FR #France #gadget #gadgets #HighTech #internet #iphone #multimédia #NouvellesTechnolgies #Orange #PatrickDrahi #SFR #smartphone #tablette #technologie #Telecoms #TIC #web #widgets
"Most often, I tend to locate the web’s significance in something that feels concrete: in pirate libraries, censorship circumvention, collective knowledge projects, and open data. One thing I think the web does very well [...] is to collapse a lot of things — people, times, places, images, writing — into one place, together."
Is there a way...
To migrate a Mastodon instance from one domain to another? I think Mastodon 'locks' itself to the domain as it's identity so it's not possible?
I'm wanting to switch the top level domain of one of the servers I maintain [ .io -> .ca ], that's the back story.
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Stay Connected on the Go: How to Turn Your Phone Into a Mobile Hotspot
For individuals seeking internet access while traveling or working remot...
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Internet Democracy
One of the frustrating aspects of being an inventor of a new democracy is not being able to find people outside the status quo.
About 20 years, I found this fellow with interesting out-of-the-box ideas. Here is my review of his work:
https://tiereddemocraticgovernance.org/blog_details.php?blog_cat_id=21&id=44
I disabled #AI assist on #DuckDuckGo, but even when I do, I still get a bunch of search results that point me to 100% AI-generated web pages. Nowadays anyone can just fuzz search engines like #Google for lists of commonly searched queries, then generate slop responses to these queries, then cache the slop, and then use shady SEO techniques to get these slop pages to show up at the top of search results. And this is what I have been getting from a lot of my web searches lately, content from slop shops.
A part of me thinks companies like Google, Microsoft, and Amazon may themselves be investing in these shady slop shops to deliberately make traditional search engines useless, which would “incentivize” people to use #LLM -based AI like Gemini or #ChatGPT more often, though that is purely speculation on my part.
If you had asked my 20 years ago that the #Internet of the future would rapidly devolve and become increasingly useless as time went on, I would have dismissed you as a paranoid crackpot. Here we are in the future and I still can hardly believe how shitty technology is becoming.
From a review in #TheGuardian
What I know from others' summaries makes me think these profs do protest "partisan bias" too much, suggesting that the #pandemic wasn't as bad as the political response, and that #maskMandates and #lockdowns should have been based on public opinion.
After a few decades on the #internet the highlighted text told me everything I needed to know.
![Screenshot from The Atlantic. It has the cover of Stephen Macedo & Frances Lee's book "In Covid's Wake," with a thumbs-down emoji some enterprising and no doubt good-looking person pasted over it.
The text of the article shown is: Policy learning seemed to be short-circuited during the pandemic,” Lee said. “It became so moralized, like: ‘We’re not interested in looking at how other people are [responding to the pandemic], because only bad people would do it a different way from the way we’re doing’.”
She and Macedo spoke to the Guardian by video call. The Princeton University professors both consider themselves left-leaning, and the book grew out of research Macedo was doing on the ways progressive discourse gets handicapped by a refusal to engage with conservative or outside arguments. “Covid is an amazing case study in groupthink and the effects of partisan bias,” he said.
The highlighted text is " The Princeton University professors both consider themselves left-leaning"](https://media.infosec.exchange/infosec.exchange/media_attachments/files/114/291/127/181/127/304/original/9d3ba78fe7c40bc6.png "Screenshot from The Atlantic. It has the cover of Stephen Macedo & Frances Lee's book \"In Covid's Wake,\" with a thumbs-down emoji some enterprising and no doubt good-looking person pasted over it.
The text of the article shown is: Policy learning seemed to be short-circuited during the pandemic,” Lee said. “It became so moralized, like: ‘We’re not interested in looking at how other people are [responding to the pandemic], because only bad people would do it a different way from the way we’re doing’.”
She and Macedo spoke to the Guardian by video call. The Princeton University professors both consider themselves left-leaning, and the book grew out of research Macedo was doing on the ways progressive discourse gets handicapped by a refusal to engage with conservative or outside arguments. “Covid is an amazing case study in groupthink and the effects of partisan bias,” he said.
The highlighted text is \" The Princeton University professors both consider themselves left-leaning\"")
Why Germans put up with snail-speed internet.
The largest European economy has serious coverage issues, and not just in isolated areas but also in large cities such as Berlin and Munich.
A study found that mobile networks run at speeds slower than in Albania.
The early birds tickets for the @publicspaces Conference 2025 are available now!
Friday, June 13th 2025
Shaping our Digital Future
L’impatto dei #meme sulla #violenza di massa.
Antonio Pellegrino spiega come i contenuti ironici virali si siano trasformati negli ultimi anni, uscendo dai canali virtuali di #Internet per ritagliarsi uno spazio sempre più rilevante nel #dibattitopubblico, nella #politica, nel mondo reale.
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