Roelant (EN)

Geek with an above average interest in (internet) ethics, laws, privacy, infosec, sustainability and gadgets that make life easy. Former Tweakers.net, Risk Manager and DPO for Independer.nl

This is an experimenting with a separate English-only profile: if you don't speak Dutch (and/or don't care about Dutch stuff trough the translator), follow me here. If you also want the Dutch stuff, follow me here: @Roelant

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Larry GarfieldCrell@phpc.social
2025-06-21
A post from @laurenkayes.bsky.social 

It's so cool that cities are like “pweeease only turn your AC on if you're actively dying and don't go below 79" while the Al nobody asked for is slurping up the power grid to make 1image of a girl with 5 tits.
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fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻fromjason
2025-06-21

Mark Zuckerberg is so leveraged, investing billions and billions of dollars on AI and infrastructure, that if this doesn't pan out for , they're in trouble.

In other words, if we figured out a way to get people to walk away, it would be a devastating blow.

Pipe dream, I know. But if there were ever a time to strike, it would be right now.

2025-06-19
2025-06-18

@adam @alvan though the downside is very short daylight in winter, obviously 😬

2025-06-18

@adam 10pm, but we cheat with our timezone*. 😜

*) see en.gobettertimes.org/proper-ti if you’re curious 😊

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someone wasn’t monitoring the situation

#IranIsraelwar

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2025-06-18

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Meredith WhittakerMer__edith@mastodon.world
2025-06-17

Use Signal. We promise, no AI clutter, and no surveillance ads, whatever the rest of the industry does. <3

Image of a screenshot of news headline, saying, "WhatsApp is getting ads using personal data from Instagram and Facebook
Forced Consent & Consent Bypass
 / 
16 June 2025
Meta announced today that it also wants to introduce ads on WhatsApp, which will be based on personal data from Facebook and Instagram. This further integrates WhatsApp into other Meta services - an originally independent app, which initially was available for just $1 per year without ads or data usage. This also means that Meta is consolidating its social networking monopoly. EU law was actually supposed to prevent this."
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MOVED to: @Linux@mastodon.auLinux@mk.absturztau.be
2025-06-10

@stux@mstdn.social

I think people should protest, but you may want to be careful what is on your phone. As you may recall, I work for Meta. We're currently spying on people.

We are helping the government to identify people who were in the protest. We are currently helping identify people who want to protest. We are currently helping government agents know where and when protest may happen.

If you have any Facebook apps - Facebook Messenger, Facebook, WhatsApp, Threads, Instagram -- Uninstall the app.

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Marijke Luttekesmahryekuh@hachyderm.io
2025-06-10

“We care about your privacy” said the app whilst the user declined cookies once again.

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2025-06-10

Your reminder that HTML is pretty fantastic all on its lonesome.

sans.style

#WebDev #HTML

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2025-06-09

Voor wie ‘m nog niet kent: randombonuskaart.nl:

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2025-06-09

The web is much like giving away candy at Halloween. As long a real people show up it's fun and community building. But AI companies show up with a 1000 clones wearing jeans and a Hulk mask and demand all the candy (and don't build community).

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Michele Feltman Stridermichelestrider
2025-06-09

Please do not use Facebook as your business website.

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Smudge The Insult Cat 🐀SmudgeTheInsultCat@mas.to
2025-06-09
Julie Hull @juliejhull Leave it to a lab person to create the pic that's worth 1,000 words #WearAMask Sophie Rapp @SophieSRapp - 19h Medical lab tech Katie Corley coughed on two petri dishes, one while wearing a mask, and one without a mask. (From her public FB post.) with mask (no culture seen) without mask (LOTS of bacteria culture)
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David Larletdavid@larlet.fr
2025-06-09

Zen quote of the day.

On a TRMNL board: Too many requests. Obtain an auth key for unlimited access.
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donthatedontkilldonthatedontkill
2025-06-08

So whatsapp sent me a message about how secure they are right after I set an autoresponse message telling people to find me on Signal. It could be a coincidence, but at this point.... The optics are not great, Meta.

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2025-06-07

New FAIR Project Aims to Decentralize WordPress/.org Services, Backed by Linux Foundation and Hundreds of Contributors
therepository.email/fair-to-de

2025-06-07

This is good news for everyone who relies on #WordPress but wasn’t happy with Matt Mullenweg going crazy, and having doubts of being able to stay there long term:

wpmastodon.es/@javiercasares/1

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2025-06-07

WordPress veterans launch FAIR project to tackle security and control concerns
fastcompany.com/91347003/wordp

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