The Netherlands Institute for Human Rights rules that Facebook's advertising algorithm discriminates on the basis of gender.
Read more below and use Firefox local translate if your Dutch is a bit rusty
PS: The Netherlands Institute for Human Rights is also represented on the Fediverse, follow them:
@collegevoorderechtenvandemens
"Your #iCloud storage is full" LOL Nice try #Apple
‘Global Witness posted a range of real-life job adverts on Facebook… In the Netherlands 97% of those [who] were shown an ad for a receptionist were women and 79% who were targeted with an ad for a role as a chef were men.’ https://globalwitness.org/en/press-releases/facebook-accused-of-gender-discrimination-new-research-finds-bias-in-advertising-algorithm/
Now, the Dutch non-discrimination authority concludes that Meta discriminates illegally (indirect discrimination) https://oordelen.mensenrechten.nl/oordeel/2025-17
Well, this is rather fascinating! Some mad genius hacked a Nokia Lumia 1020 to run #Apple’s #iOS for #iPhone. The trick? Inside the Lumia is an iPhone SE 3!! Still pretty damned cool, if I do say so myself. #retrocomputing #hardwarehacks #tech https://www.macworld.com/article/2611931/someone-hacked-a-windows-phone-to-run-ios.html
Oh great, it doesn’t boot. Init fails to launch.
Is it because I used musl instead of glibc? I’ll never know because NO FUCKING ERRORS ARE OUTPUTTED.
Someone, please tell me how to try make a distro with musl… I’m really stupid.
Do I use another #Distro like alpine as a base or?
TL;DR: In response to concerns about TikTok's potential ban, millions of U.S. users turned to the Chinese social network RedNote, raising critical privacy concerns. A recent report highlights significant security vulnerabilities within the app, emphasizing the importance of encryption and proper data handling. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/02/crimson-memo-analyzing-privacy-impact-xianghongshu-aka-red-note #law #tech #legaltech
Living in Hell.
"As she (Col. Racheli Dembinsky) described how AI had provided Israel “very significant operational effectiveness” in #Gaza, the logos of #Microsoft Azure, #Google Cloud and #Amazon Web Services appeared on a large screen behind her."
https://apnews.com/article/israel-palestinians-ai-weapons-430f6f15aab420806163558732726ad9
To my followers who use #RSSReaders, what are your favorite #RSSFeeds? Can be about anything relating to #tech, #accessibility, #disability, #science, #news, #books, #SelfHosting, #programming, or just anything you think I might like. Looking for new feeds to subscribe to.
#RSS #MiniFlux #technology
A guide to
.As with all of these things, there’s a cohort of people for whom modern social media (“Web 2.0”) is what they want out of the internet. For whatever reason, these people are no more likely to pull up sticks and join the indieweb now than they were to roll a blog or run a personal collective back in the early 2000s (or a newsgroup or BBS before that). They’re also the people most likely to get annoyed by any attempt to get them to do so. This class of people also includes most anyone with an Extremely Online career — influencers, journalists, “creators” and so on — which I think is why fedi and the indieweb tend to get such a beating in “mainstream” outlets (with “mainstream” being defined here in the modern sense of “anyone with, or trying to create, a monetisable broadcast channel”).
So. This is not for them. Is is for anyone, however, who enjoys Doing Things Online as a hobby, not a career (potential or actual). For anyone who wants the small scale, the friction, the jank, the weirdness. Who wants to sit in front of text editors and command lines. Wants to do things the old way, the slow way. Wants to wrangle and learn technologies and protocols and processes older than they are, older than their parents are, maybe.
These people have always existed, will always exist; the punks and the weirdos and the outsiders. The internet used to be theirs near entire, and while that hasn’t been true for a lifetime now, there’s still plenty of us around, lurking in our neon-dark and pastel-bright corners. And still plenty of space for anyone new who wants to join in.
"#Germany’s #Habeck slams ‘#tech #oligarch’ #Musk, calls for a #European #X" / #Twitter
I'm trying to think of a #socialmedia, founded in Germany, with a strong commitment to #privacy and #rights and already in full compliance with #German law
I think it was founded in 2016, by a computer science student at the University of #Jena... named Eubert? Imogen?
The mascot is a hairy elephant I think?
I can't seem to recall
Do you know it, Habeck?
I hear Codecademy is doing a thing. Let's check out the #accessibility of said thing. in half an hour, I will hop on #twitch and #youtube in order to give their so-called Öperation Codebreaker" a look from a #screenReader perspective. We'll be talking #WCAG, #blindness, #accessible interface design, the works.
See you then over at:
- https://twitch.tv/IC_Null
- https://youtube.com/@blindlyCoding
- I'm sure there's a tiktok stream as well but don't go there :P #selfPromo #stream #coding #tech #a11y
TL;DR: WhatsApp has reached the threshold to be classified as a Very Large Online Platform under the EU's Digital Services Act, resulting in heightened regulations for the messaging service in Europe. https://www.theverge.com/news/614445/whatsapp-channels-very-large-platform-vlop-digital-services-act-eu #law #tech #legaltech
All #kindles can now be jailbroken, thanks to new #jailbreak method.
https://kindlemodding.org/jailbreaking/WinterBreak/
#WinterBreak is a jailbreak which was released on New Year’s Day 2025 by HackerDude
It is based on Mesquito
Niccolò Ve is a KDE developer and Linux enthusiast who creates videos about FOSS, Linux, computing and the internet. You can follow their video account at:
There are already over 380 videos uploaded. If they haven't federated to your server yet, you can browse them all at https://tube.kockatoo.org/a/veggero/videos
Kindle Is Making It Harder to Switch to Rival eReader Brands.
https://www.howtogeek.com/kindle-discontinues-download-transfer-via-usb/
Hey #tech folks of the fediverse. I'm trying to remove more of my data from big tech. What is an easy and affordable way to set up a private backup/server/cloud.
Goal: Back up docs, photos, design files etc, so I can reduce use of Google Drive and Apple Cloud. Have the data accessible remotely and securely. Automatic backup. Maybe help with some of the safeguarding research stuff via bit torrent. Not a gamer. Don't care about streaming videos.
Tech level: I'm a ui person. The extent of my backend skill is that I can set up a wordpress site on hosting. I do not know hardware, servers, or linux. I have to lookup every command I've ever put in a command line. Aka I can learn and configure stuff, but I'm not this sort of techy.
Supplies: I don't have any extra computers or hard drives laying around.
This would be ideal if it didn't have bad reviews. Wouldn't mind more storage: https://www.amazon.com/SSK-Portable-External-Wireless-Auto-Backup/dp/B07T3KD58D/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_product_top?ie=UTF8
Germany’s Habeck slams ‘tech oligarch’ Musk, calls for a European X.
Green chancellor candidate warns that Europe’s reliance on Silicon Valley is a threat to democracy.