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Leniwcowaty :fedora: :kdenew:

After #Firefox enabled #Sponsored Shortcuts and #telemetry AGAIN by itself I got *a bit* annoyed. Like I get it, they need to make money somehow, and gather some data. But if I opt out, then I opt out, and don't think about it anymore.
So trying out #Waterfox. Really nothing fancy, Firefox ESR but with this stuff turned off and some privacy-focused tweaks enabled by default. And it has an #android version (not ERS though).
So far really content with it. Keep up the good work, @Waterfox 💪

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BellingenNSW

Koala! Go fetch our data!

An underweight koala, with several high-tech monitoring devices attached to its body is lost in a bulldozed habitat. It is making way for cars and a highway. The endangered animal had " a collar with a VHF tracker around its neck, a pin stitched between its shoulder blades and a blue tag on its ear."
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au.news.yahoo.com/koala-wearin
#biodiversity #koalas #wildlife #harassment #mobility #roads #cars #telemetry #ethics #science #monitoring #tracking #conservation #MobilityDesign #LogisticsWarehouse #VegetationClearing #machines

Yahoo News · Koala wearing mysterious devices on busy road sparks concern: 'What's going on?By Michael Dahlstrom
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Droppie [infosec] 🐨:archlinux: :kde: :firefox_nightly: :thunderbird: :vegan:​

@mauro Oh dear oh dear. So they stuffed up recent comms; that's all that happened -- nothing actually changed adversely in the browser itself. It's been clarified already, & furthermore disabling #telemetry & #ai is elementary, both directly in the UI, & also in about:config, after doing which, even for the most Qanony conspiracist, what actually is the terrifying danger? Furthermore, Thunderbird is not even part of Mozilla anymore, & were entirely unaffected by any of this storm in a teacup. It's hilarious to observe humans behaving like stampeding cattle. 🙄🤦‍♀️

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Dendrobatus Azureus

This is how to move a government system from a proprietary software suite to a Free Powerfull OpenSource Suite without telemetry

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Province Schleswig-Holstein

An important aspect is also that the tech giant that they were locked into, is forcing artificial intelligence upon these places, where leaks of information, due to the ridiculous and myticulous telemetry, are an absolute no no

#LibreOffice #OpenSource #POSIX #GNU #telemetry #AI

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The Document Foundation Blog · Updates on Schleswig-Holstein moving to LibreOffice - The Document Foundation BlogNearly a year ago, we posted about the German state of Schleswig-Holstein’s plan to move 30,000 PCs from Microsoft Office/365 to LibreOffice. Now, Stephane Fermigier from EuroStack – which promotes European technological sovereignty and open source – has posted an update, citing an article in the German c’t Magazin. It discusses various reasons for the […]
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Thor A. Hopland

Isn't it about time we start rallying against #proprietary #firmware already?

From every #EV and #car being a glorified #telemetry machine, to every chip out there basically harboring #SecretSauce with the "trust me bro" guarantee attached.

Neither #US interests, #Chinese interests or private interests should hold so much power. No one should.

All firmware; I repeat, ALL FIRMWARE should be #OpenFirmware. The firmware isn't open? #Ban the #product outright.

tarlogic.com/news/backdoor-esp

Tarlogic · Tarlogic detects a backdoor in the mass-market ESP32 chip that could infect millions of IoT devicesBy Administrador
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