"Data for Generative AI Improvement Can LinkedIn and its affiliates use your personal data and content you create on LinkedIn to train generative AI models that create content? Use my data for training content creation AI models" The toggle is set to off

Act quickly; you have until November 3, 2025, to let Microsoft know that you don't want your LinkedIn data used for AI training.

You're opted in by default... Head to Account - Settings & Privacy > Data privacy > Data for Generative AI Improvement & toggle the switch off.

FreeVPN.One's listing in the Chrome Extensions store, showing it is verified.

This FreeVPN Chrome Extension was taking screenshots of every website users visited, and had over 100k downloads.

What did Google do? Gave them a verified badge. The moral of the story is that Big Tech cannot be trusted to curate these things - do the research before downloading.

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Lumo is the first AI chat that is private by default.

Your chat history is protected with zero-access encryption, and Lumo keeps no logs, or paw traces. 🐾

🔒Read Lumo's Security Model → proton.me/blog/lumo-se...

Introducing Proton Authenticator: Secure 2FA, your way | Proton We're launching a secure, independent authenticator app available on desktop and mobile, to help you secure your online accounts.

Introducing Proton Authenticator – a free cross-device 2FA app. Protect yourself from hacks & breaches.

✔️ Offline support
✔️ Easy import
✔️ Auto backup
✔️ Sync between devices
✔️ Biometric & PIN unlock

Secure your Proton account or any other; no Proton login required.

proton.me/blog/authent...

Pseudowork: How we ended up being busy doing nothing Pseudowork: How we ended up being busy doing nothing - Kindle edition by Nørmark, Dennis. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Pseudowork: How we ended up being busy doing nothing.

Absurd and thought-provoking about part of today's office jobs in both the private and public sectors. Recommended.

www.amazon.com/Pseudowork-e...

Europe’s tech sovereignty watch | Proton for Business Europe’s biggest businesses run on US tech — putting its privacy and sovereignty at risk. Read our study on how bad the problem is and why we urgently need a Europe-first tech policy.

Europe’s digital house is built on foreign foundations.

Our latest study reveals that over 74% of publicly listed European companies host email—and by extension their entire tech stack—on US platforms subject to foreign laws.

Find out why and what needs to change 👇

Weather at Brønnøysund airport - kjetilg.no Weather at Brønnøysund airport

Displaying weather data from my local airport here (visualising data from api):
kjetilg.no/bnn/
...and 5 out of the 7 small games available from the menu, such as this:
kjetilg.no/games/neon_s...

@proton.me Thank you for #Lumo 👍 What about dark mode? 😎

A Friendly Introduction to SVG • Josh W. Comeau SVGs are one of the most remarkable technologies we have access to on the web. They’re first-class citizens, fully addressable with CSS and JavaScript. In this tutorial, I’ll cover all of the most imp...

Oooh @joshwcomeau.com does it again with this amazing SVG article!

I love all of the interactive bits!

www.joshwcomeau.com/svg/friendly...

Excellent, interactive and inspiring! Thanks!

Took the liberty of posting this on Mastodon (Miss you there, by the way. Considered becoming active there again?)

Velfjord/Brønnøy - Vakkert småbruk 30 minutter fra Brønnøysund. 436 dekar, hvorav 26 dekar fulldyrket. Jaktrettigheter. BeliggenhetIdyllisk småbruk som ligger fint til i et område med spredt bebyggelse, kulturlandskap, skogsområder og vakre fjell. Fra eiendommen er det

For sale: Idyllic smallholding, cultural landscapes, woodlands, beautiful mountains. 30-minute drive to the town and municipal centre of Brønnøysund with all service functions, airport, etc.

Northern Norway south of the arctic circle.

#smalllholding #norway #forsale

www.finn.no/realestate/h...

Starlink er for godt til å boikottes Starlink er den største nyheten innen telekom siden mobilnettet. At Elon Musk kontrollerer eierselskapet, bør neppe utelukke bruk av nettverket.

Forsker Tarik Cicic mener Starlink er for godt til å boikottes, men hvilke alternativer finnes? Bli med på foredraget om europeiske alternativer til Starlink 4. juni.
www.dn.no/innlegg/elon...
attac.no/arrangement/...

Windows Is Adding AI Agents That Can Change Your Settings Microsoft says the new AI agents can find and change settings for users when given a natural language command.

Do you want an AI agent to be able to edit how your computer functions?

Microsoft is going to allow Copilot to change your Windows settings.

It's unclear yet what it will have access to, but if you don't want it near your setup, it might be time to disable it...

www.cnet.com/tech/service...

During Easter I installed Linux Mint and startet using that instead of Windows. I feel liberated 🐧

I agree. I am using Norwegian Jottacloud which has a Linux cli tool. Why don't you also start with that? Doesn't havet to be a complete GUI tool, at last not from day one.

Lei av at våre felles sparepenger støtter okkupasjon og folkemord? mdg.no/gaza for å signere 🇵🇸 @uneaba.bsky.social

KrFs landsmøte har vedtatt at de vil forby prideflagg for at skolene skal være «helt nøytrale».

Regner med de nå går til valg på å fjerne K i KRLE da.

Vil frigjere universitetet frå Microsoft Med Trumps handelskrig er uroa akutt: Kan akademia rive seg laus frå dei amerikanske teknologi-gigantane?

Med Trumps handelskrig er uroa akutt: Kan akademia rive seg laus frå dei amerikanske teknologi-gigantane?

Jeg raser over høyfrie bensinstasjoner. Hester blir underprioritert av de reaksjonære carbrains. Det syns jeg er en trist utvikling. Simen Velle griner over én energistasjonn uten fossilpumper. Hvor mange stasjoner er det med høy og vanntrau da?
takke meg til for grønn omstilling, mer gress💚

Ja!

Har byttet ut Israel-vennlige og amerikanske #pepsimax med #colax fra norske #grans (fås på Rema) 🇵🇸 🇳🇴
Den er faktisk i tillegg minst like god og tror den er billigere 😋

Donate to Help Bring Flashes for Bluesky to Android!, organised by Sebastian Vogelsang Hi everyone! I’m Sebastian, the developer behind Flashes for Bluesky - … Sebastian Vogelsang needs your support for Help Bring Flashes for Bluesky to Android!

We hit $2,000 in 24 hours, but I still need your help to keep momentum!

Bringing Flashes to Android means more people breaking free from Big Tech. Every donation—big or small—helps!

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A professor at Trinity College in Dublin found what could be considered a GDPR violation in Google's Android.

DSID cookies, which are used for personalized advertising, were found to be active even before opening an app and continue sending data even after logging out.

Europe first - kjetilg.no European apps and services as alternatives to the big tech players

Inspired by a recent Norwegian article (link at the bottom of the page), I've added a page to my website promoting European apps and services as alternatives to the big tech players.

#europe #europeFirst #longliveUkraine #trumpIsAnIdiot #bigtech #privacy #alternative #software

You don't have to. Enjoy your free time 🧘🙂 I do.

MDG vil forby goretexjakker og teflonpanner Kjemikaliane som gjer jakkene våre vassavstøytande kan vere helseskadelege.

– Jo meir det blir forska på PFAS, dess meir alvorleg ser det ut til at effektane er. Dette er allereie eit folkehelseproblem.

Nestleder @ingridlil.bsky.social mener norske bedrifter vil få flere fordeler enn ulemper om de må forholde seg til et særnorsk forbud.

The cost of healthcare/insurance in the US This little article of mine is unlikely to have any effect, but I just need to vent my thoughts. I don't have health insurance, but do what most Norwegians do, use the public health service.

In the wake of a murder that caused surprising(?) reactions in the United States.

#usa #healthinsurance #healthservices #medication #expensive #cost #BrianThompson #LuigiMangione #americanpublic #americancitizen #grasrootmovement #democrat #republican #scandinavia #norway

Any chance you guys at @microsoft.com can fix this bug in #Edge?
I spent some time debugging a java app, until I discovered it worked in other browsers.

An empty json array requires a trailng newline for it to show in Edge.
#bug #json "Unexpected end of json input"

Etter tek-gigantene Et manifest for en ny digital økonomi

«De store teknologi-selskapene har låst oss inne i en trang og forvrengt versjon av den digitale verden som undergraver demokratiene våre og konsentrerer rikdom, samtidig som de forverrer globale skjevheter.»
https://attac.no/2024/11/20/etter-tek-gigantene/