ZURICH - FUCK OFF GOOGLE !!!! @FuckOffGoogleZurich@mastodon.social

Sidewalk’s end: How the downfall of a Toronto ‘smart city’ plan began long before COVID-19

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/article-sidewalks-end-how-the-downfall-of-a-toronto-smart-city-plan-began/

(paywalled, dumped here https://pastebin.com/JYibUfA1 )

When the Quayside project got scuttled earlier this month, it was the final blow in a years-long conflict among urban designers, their Silicon Valley bosses and multiple levels of government. Insiders tell the story of how it all went wrong.

#Google #FuckOffGoogle #FuckOffSideWalkLabs #Toronto

Well it took over a year but we managed to get Google Fonts removed from the Mozilla Rust project. Thanks to everyone who helped out and supported this.

https://github.com/rust-lang/mdBook/pull/1188

Devs don’t let devs add surveillance to their tools.

#SurveillanceCapitalism

#FSFE calls for a more inclusive competition #law in #Europe http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/137785 ironically FSFE took money from those most guilty...

Big Blue Button: Wie CCC-Urgesteine gegen Teams und Zoom kämpfen - Golem.de
https://www.golem.de/news/big-blue-button-wie-ccc-urgesteine-gegen-teams-und-zoom-kaempfen-2005-148560.html

#ccc #bbb #videoconferences #golemde

@FuckOffGoogleZurich spread the word https://org.meet.coop/

Besser spät als nie...

https://myaccount.google.com/delete-services-or-account

Danke @kuketzblog und @digitalcourage für Eure großartige Arbeit, die mir als erstes die Augen geöffnet hat. 🧙

Wer möchte sich noch von #Google befreien oder hat es schon getan?

#Google defeated in #Berlin, #Toronto.. Also #NYC Where ppl successfully fought against an #Amazon HQ..

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/technology/article-google-affiliate-sidewalk-labs-abandons-toronto-smart-city-project/

People organized in decentralized ways, offline and online, without hierarchical structures but vast networks of local solidarities demonstrate WE CAN defeat the most powerful entities!

What next? Amazon tower in Berlin! https://wiki.fuckoffamazon.info "SmartCity" coming back in a devastated NYC! https://theintercept.com/2020/05/08/andrew-cuomo-eric-schmidt-coronavirus-tech-shock-doctrine/

The beat goes on!

#FuckOffGoogle #FuckOffAmazon

Guys, I am tired of people posting screenshots, graphs, "news" and "information" without a reference to a source. All that is useless unless it's verifiable with a quick search. The fediverse isn't resistant against false information just because it's the fediverse. Use common sense, ask for a source and debunk fake news.

Anschauliche Arte-Sendung »#Seekabel: der unsichtbare Krieg«

»Google, Facebook und Microsoft versuchen ihre Macht auch durch die Verlegung von Kabeln auszuweiten. Letztendlich wird in ihrem Angebot dann nur der Internet-Zugang fehlen, der z.Z. noch von den Telefonanbietern vermarktet wird, bevor sie das gesamte Ökosystem des Internets kontrollieren.«

Zur Sendung: https://www.arte.tv/de/videos/078191-009-A/mit-offenen-karten-seekabel-der-unsichtbare-krieg/

Videolink: https://arteptweb-a.akamaihd.net/am/ptweb/078000/078100/078191-009-B_EQ_0_VA_04925596_MP4-1500_AMM-PTWEB_1K9B1S1Mkm.mp4

#GAFAM #Internet #Infrastruktur #Überwachung #Snowden

We are now part of the european Librehosters network.

"librehosters is a network of cooperation and solidarity that uses free software to encourage decentralisation through federation and distributed platforms. Our values connect transparency, fairness and privacy with a culture of data portability and public contributions to the commons. "

https://libreho.st/

Google enforces its dogfooding policy
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/pranavdixit/google-bans-zoom

10 years ago WikiLeaks published "Collateral Murder", the brutal murders of civilians in Iraq by "dudes" acting like in a video game.. part of a series of releases that forever changed our view of the war.

https://challengepower.info/collateral_murder

Today, #Assange rots in jail, particularly vulnerable to #Covid19 with chronic lung illness, awaiting extradition in the US where he faces 175y for these uncompromising acts of journalism.

Time to tell that story again! #FreeAssange #DontExtraditeAssange #StopWars

@stvo

The Data Protection Commissioner in Zurich about #Zoom:

"Zoom can only be used during the #corona crisis. The Global Data Processing Addendum must be signed and returned to Zoom."

The original text in German:

"Zoom kann nur während der Corona-Krise eingesetzt werden. Voraussetzung ist, dass das Global Data Processing Addendum unterzeichnet und an Zoom retourniert wird."

https://dsb.zh.ch/internet/datenschutzbeauftragter/de/themen/digitale-zusammenarbeit.html

The 26 pages (!) Addendum:
https://zoom.us/docs/doc/Zoom_GLOBAL_DPA_December_19.pdf

#GDPR #deGoogle
#Jitsi #Nextcloud

#Zoom is taking it to a new level - after leaking your webcam data to anyone who knows your computer's IP for Mac & leaking your data to Facebook on iOS, Windows 10 is next with leaking your login credentials.
https://www.zdnet.com/article/windows-10-alert-zoom-client-can-leak-your-network-login-credentials/

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- https://hostux.pw - Cryptpad
- https://hostux.im - xmpp server
- https://hostux.ninja - disposable email addresses
- https://rss.hostux.net - RSS client
- https://paste.hostux.net - pastebin
- https://hostux.cloud - Nextcloud
- https://hostux.pics - image hosting
- https://passwd.hostux.net - password manager
- https://git.hostux.net - Gitea

Zoom Meetings Aren’t End-to-End Encrypted, Despite Misleading Marketing

https://theintercept.com/2020/03/31/zoom-meeting-encryption/

I just made a 1000€ #donation to #Framasoft.

They offer #FreeSoftware solutions without #SurveillanceCapitalism for just about everything.

Since the #SocialDistancing started I made two videocalls with their #Jitsi instance and that saved me from feeling completely isolated. Unfortunately free telecommunication services are completely overloaded atm, but that's why it's so important to #DonateToFreeSoftware projects, especially right now.

Thanks @Framasoft ❤️

@eff yes, and EFF also needs to stop calling their TWTR feed "official" & their #Mastodon feed "unofficial". EFF should not even mention their TWTR feed outside of TWTR. Send website visitors to Mastodon instead.

@FuckOffGoogleZurich good news: they just removed #Google #STUN servers by default
https://github.com/jitsi/jitsi-meet/pull/5433

but now the servers need to be updated 🤞