David Culley

In case you didn’t notice the rise of fascism in your home country or the genocideS, the days of staying away from politics are over. Use your voice.

I’m a data engineer in Germany. My academic background is in deep learning, but I switched careers. I’m anti “AI” and surveillance.

Capitalism always results in fascism b/c it demands infinite growth on a finite planet.

If you believe that communism is anti-democratic, you were lied to about what communism means.

Israel is committing genocide.

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2026-10-29 15:50:54 GMT

In Europe, Doctolib is a software that helps doctors manage their patients' appointments and sends the patients reminder messages for their appointments. A calendar software for doctors, basically.
Doctors can also add their notes to Doctolib, like the reason for the visit: depression, ear infection, warts, sexually transmitted disease, you name it.
Doctolib trains their own LLM on that highly sensitive data, and does all sorts of other disgusting shit with it. Recently Nvidia partnered with Doctolib.
Doctolib tries with all sorts of trickery to weasel out of the GDPR so that they legally may do whatever they want with your health data. It's disgusting.
Just today I went to have my blood checked, for my vitamins B and D values. (I'm a vegetarian.) And it was really hard to find a doctor who doesn't use Doctolib. I refuse to go to doctors who sell my data to "AI" companies or use it to become one themselves.
#nevent1q…vxqs

2026-10-28 15:22:52 GMT

Anthropic made:
- 1.5 billion USD losses in 2023
- 8.3 billion USD losses in 2024
- 42.0 billion USD losses in 2025
- 80.7 billion USD losses in the first half of 2026 alone
- losses in every year since its founding
Per its own admission, Anthropic may never be profitable.
But "the genie is out of the bottle, it can't be put back into the bottle." "AI is here to stay." It's very intelligent of business leaders to fire the only people who still understand their codebase and have the institutional knowledge of how their employer's business works.
#nevent1q…u2j4

2026-10-12 23:55:34 GMT

The fridge manufacturer Danfoss basically configures its fridges with the username/password combination admin/admin.
A supermarket in France negligently made its fridges directly accessible from the internet … and was unsurprisingly "hacked" by someone guessing the username/password combination.
The sensational media inflated the attack to "the biggest cyber ever" and spoke of swarms of autonomous AI agents.
LinkedIn is now full with grifting security vendors trying to sell useless expensive "AI" protection measures to brain-dead C-level executives who now are scared to shit of autonomous AI agents raiding their business but who have never talked with an actual software engineer they employ.
Did I summarize this correctly? 🤦🏻‍♂️
To cut losses, the competent people who could have told the CEO that this is unnecessary will probably have their free beverages taken away from them, or 10% of the workforce will be fired. "It hurts us more than it hurts you."
#nevent1q…sqvz

2026-10-04 09:44:25 GMT

"AI" companies are companies such as OpenAI or Anthropic. These are billion dollar companies. Training LLMs requires *massive* amounts of resources that regular people or small companies who aren't already funded with billions of dollars, simply don't have.
It's not that Mom and Pop can start a company, make a business out of training "AI", and make a living being their own bosses.
Allowing anyone to train "AI" on copyright-protected content benefits *only* the billion-dollar companies and cements the stranglehold on power they already have. It benefits nobody else.
If I purchase a paperback book, I may post a photograph of one page or so for a book review. That is considered fair use. If I upload photographs of all pages and thus reproduce the book in its entirety, I'll quickly hear from lawyers. What is different when "AI" companies integrate the copyrighted book in its entirety into its corpus and the reproduce it?
Today's "AI" companies should be abolished. Certainly not allowed to train on copyrighted material, which benefits only them. And they'll pull up the ladder behind them. I distinguish between "AI" companies and AI companies. Anyone can train a Convolutional Neural Network and then run it on $100 hardware for object detection to activate the cat food dispenser when the camera sees the cat enters the room, or detect when the delivery guy delivered a package at the front door and send a notification to Home Assistant if you're not at home. Nobody except Big Tech can train a LLM.
The @nprofile…fu0r asks for our opinion. Be sure to use the URL they provided, don't just comment in a Mastodon reply.
#nevent1q…6qhg

2026-10-02 21:33:51 GMT

The gas-fired power plants for just the planned "AI" data centers yet to be built (not even including anything already existing) will emit as much greenhouse gasses as the entire UK.
#nevent1q…0km4

2026-10-02 07:42:44 GMT

Anthropic's entire loss for 2025 was $42 billion.
But as some tech bros recently explained to me, making losses is just how you become successful in capitalism, a good business practice. Making losses is good actually. Your losses will someday somehow magically turn into profits, don't you know? That's why 100 of every 100 startups succeed and why venture capitalists cast such wide nets. Don't you worry about finances. The more losses you make the better, actually. If you think making losses in the billions is a sign of failure, you're uneducated and don't understand how to successfully run a business.
Losses are profits. War is peace.
#nevent1q…rqm2

2026-09-30 11:07:00 GMT

The Vice President of the European Commission.
A constructive step towards peace would be if Israel stopped committing genocide.
Call it a genocide, Kaja, it's not a war.
How about Israel withdrew from Gaza about 80 years ago, not "eventually"?
How about rather than helping Gaza to "recover" after they've been exterminated, you do something to stop Israel *now*? Trump also has some plans to help Gaza "recover" after the "war".
And how about doing something against European countries like Germany continue exporting weapons to Israel? Aid in through the front door, death in through the back door?
But you don't even try to push to sanction Israel, because that would require a unanimous vote from European countries, and that's not going to happen anyway according to you, so … 🤷‍♀️
I guess we'll just hope that Israel someday becomes tired of committing genocide and commits fully to the idea of not committing genocide. Let's give Israel some more time, I guess, while we continue to hope your plan "would" be a success if everyone "would" fully commit to your plan.
I don't welcome whatever the USA does regarding Gaza. And stop calling whatever the USA does a "deal". That's Trump-pleasing language.
And how about you finally leave X, the child-pornography generating propaganda medium by the pedophilic nazi Musk, while the EU continues to force #ChatControl on us, ostensibly to "protect the children"?
https://media.hachyderm.io/media_attachments/files/117/359/657/316/915/262/original/40aaae91e7e3838d.jpg

2026-09-17 20:50:39 GMT

Please check out #GazaVerified and donate to help victims of genocide:
https://gaza-verified.org/donate/
You can't expect genocide victims to not intrude into your discussions to ask for help and simultaneously *not* donate to them. Not if you don't want to be complicit in genocide by actively ignoring it.
@nprofile…s4ce and @nprofile…vkpw built https://gaza-verified.org/donate/ so that you won't get spammed every day by dozens of messages from Palestinians who feel they have no other choice. This can work only if we donate enough though, so that they don't feel compelled to knock on every door.
Palestinians don't send you unsolicited messages because they want to annoy you or because they have nothing better to do. They feel *ashamed* for having to ask for help and *they too* would prefer not having to knock on every door they can find. They do this only because they aren't supported enough, and of course because our governments are complicit in genocide to begin with.
Don't forget Palestine.

2026-09-08 03:48:15 GMT

It can't be said often enough: Fuck Palantir.
#fascism #palantir

2026-08-29 06:17:52 GMT

A vim expert on the attitude of the neovim maintainers (who have been found to be fascists, at least three of them, one of them a Palantir employee):
#nevent1q…8jv4

2026-08-28 17:15:48 GMT

As part of my anti-fascism, I changed my domain from davidculley.com to davidculley.eu a while ago.
I thought it merely a symbolic gesture, but maybe it's not so symbolic after all.
The top-level domain .com is controlled by Verisign, a greedy US company. Depending on US companies is problematic as can be seen by what happened to the Italian anti-fascism collective.
Verisign also lobbied hard so that they're allowed to increase their prices by 7% every year in 4 out of 6 years. A few years ago it had cost only $9 to renew your .com domain. Soon it'll already be at $15 a year.
Maybe 7% doesn't sound much per individual domain, but consider there are millions if not billions of domains that need to be renewed every year. This is a cashcow for Verisign. They make their profits through quantity. They provide nothing at all in return for their price increases. Verisign is a leech.
Meanwhile a .eu domain costs $5 a year. There's no monopoly on the .eu top-level domain. The EU Commission chooses from a pool of applicants every few years and the current mandate is given to a Belgian company.
I'm not a commercial entity. I don't sell you anything. I'm a person within the EU with a personal homepage. I'm aware the EU has its problems too (Europ€an value$), especially at its borders, but for now the .eu TLD represents me better than the .com TLD.
Cutting your dependencies on US companies is not merely symbolic as can be seen by what happened this week to anti-fascists worldwide.
#fascism #capitalism #WebDev
#nevent1q…2zey

2026-08-20 14:26:17 GMT

From 2020–2022 people were complaining how taxing it is to stay at home during the pandemic.
For me, an introvert enjoying indoorsy things and having alone-time, it was the easiest thing.
I'll likewise manage to never use LLMs.
#nevent1q…wuj6

2026-08-20 06:03:11 GMT

No German person I've talked to offline—in Germany, I'm German—thinks Elon Musk is a Nazi. Or at least they refuse to say it openly. I don't know if this makes me sad or angry.
Even after I showed them pictures of Musk doing the (in Germany forbidden) Sieg Heil ("Hail victory") Nazi salute … did they still doubt me.
When I said at work that Musk is a Nazi (in the context of Schrems II and unlawfully sending data from the EU to the USA), not thinking much about it because it's the plain truth, my boss threatened to fire me if I utter the word "Nazi" one more time at the workplace, for being "political" at work.
I don't know how we will overcome capitalism if even Germans cannot recognize a Sieg Heil. Or are too chicken-shit to stand by their principles.
#nevent1q…3hnc

2026-08-12 06:59:10 GMT

Eliezer Yudkowsky is the guy who coined the term Effective Altruism, the toxic ideology that billionaires and capitalism-brained aspiring millionaires use to excuse their greed.
They tell themselves, for example, that it's good to work at awful companies such as Facebook/Meta to make ungodly amounts of money because, "look at all the good things I could do with all that money," while ignoring all the awful consequences of them working for these companies.
Eliezer Yudkowsky is in large parts responsible for introducing and turning billionaires to this toxic ideology. He's also responsbile for another toxic ideology called Rationalism where they suppress all their feelings, and its communities such as LessWrong or Slate Star Codex.
He apparently also wrote a fan-fiction book for Harry Potter, called "Harry Potter and the Method of Rationality". Its premise is that Harry Potter was raised by scientists and University of Oxford professors (🙄), and at the age of 10 having already received a rigorous scientific education, before being sent to Hogwarts, where he then examines the magic through the lens of science.
"Productivity YouTuber" Ali Abdaal who has millions of uneducated gullible followers, is now promoting that book with a video literally titled, "I am begging you to read [this book]."
Promoting Harry Potter in 2026 is definitely a choice. J. K. Rowling is doing her best to ensure the death of all transgender people. What Rowling is doing literally falls under the definition of genocide.
Promoting the works of Effective Altruists in 2026 is definitely a choice.
Ali Abdaal represents everything that is wrong with Gen Z aspiring to become millionaires by way of becoming YouTubers. Please stop watching him.
I discovered his channel in 2018 or so, when he showed his viewers the flashcard app Anki. And I learned how to study effectively thanks to him, something school or my parents never taught me. But I quickly got turned off by his channel around 2019 or so when he started pivoting to iPad reviews like every other tech channel. And especially when his popularity exploded in 2020 with everyone stuck at home due to the pandemic.
Please stop watching him if you do.
#EffectiveAltruism #TESCREAL #HarryPotter

2026-08-10 01:54:15 GMT

#TIL (Today I Learned) that when you use LVM (Logical Volume Manager) on Linux (to abstract your storage), you should prefer the volume path
/dev/my_volume_group/my_logical_volume
provided by LVM over the more low-level volume path
/dev/mapper/my_volume_group-my_logical_volume
that is provided by the underlying device mapper framework.
You should never interact with the underlying device mapper framework directly, and rather interact indirectly with it through the LVM and/or cryptsetup abstractions because the filepaths provided by the device mapper framework are 'intended for "internal use" and subject to possible "change between releases and distributions",' as the Arch Wiki puts it.
Sources:
- https://man.archlinux.org/man/lvm.8#VALID_NAMES
- https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/LVM#LVM_building_blocks
#Linux #LVM #Arch #ArchLinux #Gentoo #GentooLinux

2026-08-09 19:16:45 GMT

The reason for why LLMs work as expected for some people in some use cases is not that language models are intelligent. It's because of the tendency of humans to see faces in inanimate objects.
#GenAI

2026-07-26 05:07:15 GMT

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@nprofile…s5s2 I feel like you. 🤗 In 2026, I'm a bit too intimidated by all the scrapers to make my self-hosted git forge publicly accessible.
Besides being best practice anyway, you no longer have to worry about that by putting your forge behind a VPN. 🙂

2026-07-26 03:26:22 GMT

The AI bros don't understand collectives.
Codeberg's decision to not tolerate LLM slop wasn't a top-down decision made by some CEO/dictator.
Codeberg is a collective and anyone can become a member with voting rights. The members voted democratically, and about 70% of the members were in favor of not tolerating LLM slop.
This decision is the will of the majority. It's the democratic will of the collective.
For talking so much about how "AI" democratizes this or that (software engineering, music making, …), the AI bros really don't understand democracy.
Nobody is forcing AI bros to use Codeberg if they don't like that decision. Codeberg isn't a monopoly. Unlike with the monopolies these "Zero to One" Thiel fans love so much, there are plenty of alternatives where they can take their LLM slop (GitHub, GitLab, CodeFloe, …) if they dislike Codeberg. The AI bros can even self-host a forge of their own with Forgejo. Which they can do free of charge thanks to Codeberg.
I won't say more to avoid giving the AI bros ideas. Just read my post again to know what I hold back.
These CEO-loving monopoly-loving AI bros cannot handle it when other people have different opinions than them, that don't even affect them.
"There can be no other god but my god."
These AI bros live lives that are so empty in their chase for ever more money, in their chase for status, for titles—their lives lack any sort of meaning or purpose or community, or true happiness and self-acceptance—that they try to fill the void in their lacking lives with a religious fervor not much different from Christian missionaries or conquistadores.
Finally: If you like the idea of collectives and community, you'll like #anarchism. Anarchism is democracy without a state, according to David Graeber. If you like Codeberg's approach, follow @nprofile…dqex and check out @nprofile…20kd.
#nevent1q…dndq

2026-07-25 15:06:46 GMT

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@nprofile…s5s2 Ideally nothing on your server is reachable from the internet anyway … if you're using Forgejo only for yourself. Put everything behind a VPN/Wireguard connection to your server.

2026-07-22 07:00:51 GMT

People are now betting on wildfires on Polymarket. 😡
Of course people are now incentivized to first make a bet and then start the fire themselves, to make a quick buck.
France is now considering banning Polymarket.
Polymarket is a scourge of humanity and I hope the get sued and banned.

2026-07-21 20:00:22 GMT

Do not travel to the USA.
Not for work, not for a conference, not for a vacation, not for a festival, not for your son's college graduation, not for your daughter's wedding.
It's not worth getting "detained" (getting locked away in a concentration camp).
Do not travel to the USA.
#nevent1q…ljqh

2026-07-18 20:59:56 GMT

Fuck every YouTuber who interviews DHH, invites DHH, collaborates with DHH, makes tutorials for DHH's Omarchy, speaks at DHH's conference.
Lately I've been learning a lot about Linux and the terminal, so that I can move away from macOS and GUI apps, and regrettably that involved giving some of those YouTubers views.
There are a lot of such YouTubers for whom it's no problem whatsoever to associate with full-blown Nazis. For a start, search for the conference OMACON and who spoke there.
https://www.omacon.org/#speakers
Tech enthusiasts are way too tolerant of literal Nazis. Fuck these people.
#fascism
#nevent1q…m9ct

2026-07-17 20:56:56 GMT

Fuck Palantir.
German public broadcasting did a podcast series called "Inside Palantir" where they interviewed an ex-employee of Palantir and whistleblower.
The whistleblower said that when you apply at #Palantir, you are asked: "How comfortable are you to work on software that is used for killing people?"
I simply refuse to believe that anyone (including an utterly naive twenty-something who freshly graduated from college and never reads any newspaper) could accidentally slide into a job at Palantir without knowing what Palantir is doing and what they're applying for.
I refuse to believe, "I didn't know what I was signing up for when I applied at Palantir—I was so inexperienced and naive—but now that I'm at Palantir and know better, I cannot resign because my health insurance is tied to this job."
When you apply at Palantir, you know full well what you're signing up for. The CEO is not exactly shy about it, newspapers report about it, and Palantir itself fucking tells you—before you even get your contract, during your application—that they will use *your work* to kill people. You cannot land the job without knowing you'll be an accessory to murder.
Even the most naive gullible person should run away at that point.
Fuck Palantir. Fuck everyone who works for them. Fuck everyone who works for them and refuses to resign.
Resigning from Palantir won't clear the blood from your hands when you knowingly accepted their offer in the first place. Resigning won't open the gates to Heaven for you. But it is a great and necessary first step.
Also, fuck everyone who collaborates with Palantir employees. Fuck every open-source project whose maintainers include Palantir employees. (Looking at a certain text editor whose maintainers also like to hang around with fascist DHH and speak on his conference OMACON.) Fuck everyone who is friends with a Palantir employee and doesn't talk some sense into their friend or ends the friendship.
The podcast series will be released on July 31.
Apologies for linking to a news site that uses the "Pay or Okay" model to force you into accepting tracking. Check out Bayrischer Rundfunk (BR) for the root source. Everything's in German anyway in case you don't speak German.
https://www.golem.de/news/einstellungsgespraech-palantir-fragt-toetungsbereitschaft-der-entwickler-ab-2607-210971.html

2026-07-11 14:27:42 GMT

The German government now intends to put into law to punish Germans with up to 5 years in jail if they deny Israel's "right to exist".
Such a law would of course very likely violate the German constitution, like virtually everything the current German government does these days. And Germany already has a law that protects anyone from incitement and hate against the group they belong to, including jews. A law that specifically protects Israel no matter what Israel does serves of course only to suppress valid criticism of genocide and Israel's hard-right course who currently want to attack Iran *again*. In a country that respects its own constitution, this planned law would never even have been proposed.
Hat tip to @nprofile…czzv.
As I write this, Germany's foreign minister, Johann Wadephul, is on visit in Israel, Germany's "good and close friend", to "keep communications channels open" as public hostility towards Israel increases.
And Germany's minister of the interior, Alexander Dobrindt, and the federal presidents of Germany's police have had multiple visits in Israel, Germany's "natural partner", to start training each other's police and to learn from Israel how it controls a population in an apartheid state using technology and AI (the real, working all-too-well AI, like computer vision, not the LLMs that are sold to us as "AI").
https://www.nd-aktuell.de/artikel/1201039.bundesrat-existenzrecht-israels-bundesrat-will-leugnung-des-existenzrechts-israels-bestrafen.html
#Israel #Germany #surveillance #authoritarianism

2026-07-07 15:20:00 GMT

Some gamers apparently defend Microsoft's Xbox division after Microsoft fired thousands of Xbox employees.
The Xbox CEO who seems nice on the surface, has previously gifted the gaming community with some nice freebies before the proverbial butcher pulled out his butcher knife.
Also, reminder that the president of Xbox attended Peter Thiel's fascist secret society event called "Dialog".
#nevent1q…hatm

2026-06-30 18:00:42 GMT

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@nprofile…0e5v EU law technically forbids sending personal data about European citizens into countries whose data protection laws aren't as good as the European laws.
This European law is from 1995, from before most people alive even knew what the internet is and before US surveillance capitalism was so pervasive and from before every mediocre developer bundled the Facebook SDK into their app.
Since the year 2000 this law has been a farce because the EU Commission just started saying, "Yup, the USA is just as good as the EU with their data privacy laws." Still does so today.
If yesterday's ruling has consequences, we would return to the good times of 1995–2000, regarding this law, so to speak. "No way is the US as good as the EU regarding data privacy laws. Therefore, no data crossing the border allowed."

2026-06-30 06:50:30 GMT

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Yesterday the fascist Supreme Court of the US (SCOTUS) ruled that the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) isn't independent anymore. This is huge, on multiple levels.
For US-Americans it's just bad, but for Europeans there could be something good in it that the US fascists probably didn't consider … provided that the EU Commission doesn't stab European citizens in the back.
The FTC being independent is the entire basis for (and the only reason) why Europeans are allowed to send personal data from the EU to the USA.
Without this basis, Europeans aren't allowed to send any personal data from the EU to the USA. To give the maybe most concrete example, Europeans will be forbidden to use Google Analytics once this comes into effect.
In fact no US agency is independent anymore.
Did Trump's fascist cronies in the SCOTUS basically self-destruct US tech dominance over Europe? In their race to a dictatorship, they declared every US law unconstitutional that allows any US agency any independence from Trump. But without independence from Trump, the EU treaty collapses that allows Europeans to send personal data to the USA.
This means, Europeans aren't allowed to use Google Analytics anymore. No more Google Firebase, no more Braze, no more Sentry. NO MORE PALANTIR.
> noyb has sent a formal letter to the European Commission today, asking the Commission to take the appropriate steps to repeal the EU-US data deal in an orderly way.
> noyb will also file a lawsuit in the coming weeks, aiming to allow the [Court of Justice of the EU] to annul the current deal. However, such a lawsuit typically takes 2-3 years until a final decision is reached.
If your employer uses Google Analytics, they better start migrating to a self-hosted solution like Matomo or Plausible. Or they will face hefty fines.
This would be the biggest self-own and favor the USA could have done us Europeans. This seems too good to become reality?!
To be clear: This is extremely bad for US-Americans. The SCOTUS just made the USA even more fascist than it already was. And for the EU, a fascist USA isn't good either. But unless the EU bows to the pressure once the USA realize their mistake, Europeans could become free of US surveillance tech.
https://noyb.eu/en/us-supreme-court-just-blew-eu-us-data-transfers

2026-06-30 06:13:32 GMT

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Falls es wer noch nicht weiß: ⬆️
Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg ist der Mann von Katharina Reiche: die Frau, die unser aller Zukunft verbrennt.
Während sie die Interessen der Fossilindustrie umsetzt, hängt er wohl mit Demokratiefeind Peter Thiel ab.
https://correctiv.org/aktuelles/lobbyismus/2026/06/26/guttenberg-der-mann-aller-maerkte/
#DEpol

2026-06-28 11:38:37 GMT

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@nprofile…w0mx To your last point: Yes, that is true. If you pay Mullvad in cash or use a voucher code bought from Amazon (which is what I do/did), then Mullvad doesn't know who you are. Mullvad is unique in this aspect (as far as I know), which is one reason I chose them when I needed a VPN (and before I learned a few days ago that 70% of the donations to the Swedish Nazi party come from one of Mullvad's CEOs).

2026-06-28 11:17:02 GMT

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@nprofile…w0mx Your examples of hotel Wi-Fi and Starbucks Wi-Fi are valid use cases for a VPN. They are covered by my point "If you don't trust your ISP and would rather trust someone else." A VPN is not just for piracy. But a somewhat technical person can just connect to their Raspberry Pi at home (or a VPS rented for 5 EUR a month if your home internet is slow). You don't need to subscribe to a paid VPN service for this if you know how to set up PiVPN.
Even in a coffee shop (or university/library) Wi-Fi I consider a VPN necessary. Look up "transparent proxy". They can decrypt your HTTPS connections. To them it's HTTP traffic. They're essentially performing a man-in-the-middle attack against you. When I was a student, classmates regularly were warned by the university for torrenting in the library rather than at home due to its better internet speeds. And although HTTPS hides which specific porn movie you watched, the Wi-Fi admin still sees that you visited the domain pornhub.com. Use a VPN to hide that information from Starbucks. But again, you can connect to a Raspberry Pi at home or a VPS under your control, you don't need to pay for a VPN subscription.
Mullvad isn't a poor example because I wasn't talking about Mullvad tracking you. I was talking about Google being able to track you (despite using a VPN) if you watch YouTube videos while being logged into your YouTube account. That applies to all VPN providers including Mullvad.

2026-06-28 01:51:35 GMT

People fundamentally misunderstand VPNs. A VPN doesn't make you anonymous in any way whatsoever. Here's why:
All a VPN service does is hide your traffic from your Internet Service Provider (ISP). For example, from Vodafone.
Using a VPN makes your internet traffic go through the VPN provider instead. For example: #Mullvad.
If you browse the internet while being logged into any account (Amazon, Google, Netflix, etc.) or you fetch your emails, the web of course still knows who you are. From your account that tells them your name.
You don't become anonymous by using a VPN.
You would use a VPN only if you don't trust your ISP and would rather trust someone else. For example: If your ISP is a surveillance capitalist (like Google Fiber) or part of a repressive regime, or if you intend to do something illegal. Like pirating movies.
Again: A VPN doesn't make you anonymous.
If you intend to do something illegal, you're just hoping that the VPN provider won't rat you out to authorities when your ISP would.
The VPN provider very much knows that you pirated that movie. Unlike your ISP, they just won't give out that information to the cops though. That's their entire selling point … they help you evade prosecution. But the VPN provider still very much knows who you are and what you did. And you can trust them only so long as they keep their promise to not rat you out.
Many people fundamentally misunderstand VPNs. In large part due to the outrageously wrong/misleading marketing by VPN providers.
There is no anonymity while browsing the internet unless you use Tor. Especially if you don't also drastically change your habits. Browsing the web while being logged into any of your usual accounts still allows them to track you across multiple sites due to using the same IP address and providing them an identity they can link your traffic to. The IP address is just a different one now. Just paying a company 5 EUR a month while not understanding or changing any of what I described, does absolutely nothing to protect you on the internet. Unless you want to do piracy and fear your ISP would rat you out but hope the VPN provider won't.
If it becomes too risky for the VPN provider to cover for you, they will start to rat you out as well.

2026-06-22 22:18:18 GMT

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@nprofile…s4ce I told the CEO of my employer in an all-hands meeting in front of all employees that the company he leads does business with multiple companies that are complicit in a genocide, and asked him whether he is fine with that. Which is true because my employer does business with Microsoft, Amazon *and* Google, for a start. As probably *all* tech companies do.
My boss intervened and tried to stop me. He said I'm rude to the CEO and furthermore, making unfounded accusations isn't conductive to a respectful conversation. My question wasn't answered.
I'm afraid that people are doing worse than if they simply did nothing.
What the fuck isn't yet clear to these shitheads about the proven fact that Microsoft, Amazon, and Google are complicit in genocide?!?

2026-06-22 21:49:32 GMT

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@nprofile…s4ce
> It was not Hitler or Himmler who abducted me, beat me and shot my family. It was the shoemaker, the milkman, the neighbor who received a uniform and then believed they were the master race.
— Karl Stojka, Auschwitz survivor
I am scared of my co-workers and neighbors although they are (as of today) nice to me and never harmed me (thus far) because I know *for sure* (through interactions and discussions with them) that they would be the shoemaker, milkman, or neighbor in this quote.
Once the Nazis start sacking the socialists, unionists, communists—generally, the leftists—they'll turn on me personally.

2026-06-20 12:16:20 GMT

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@nprofile…fu0r The ATproto protocol is a technically bad protocol, inferior to the protocol that Mastodon/Fediverse uses, and it's developed by shady cryptocurrency scammers with anti-government views.
Add to that the death of anonymity plus advertisements/tracking and the tolerance of literal neo-nazis, and you have W Social.
Why would any sane person join W?!?
Ursula von der Leyen joining W on launch day, but having no presence on Mastodon despite Mastodon existing for over a decade, sends a conflicting signal that is opposed to the EU Commission claiming to want to continue their presence on Mastodon.
#Wsocial

2026-06-14 06:50:16 GMT

The mayor of Berlin, Germany (Kai Wegner) now allows IAI (Israel Aerospace Industries), Israel's biggest aerospace company, to build their drones of type Heron TP in Berlin.
The drones of type Heron TP are those that fly over Gaza and sound like a lawnmower—that constant, omnipresent roaring that you often hear in videos of Palestinians.
Germany buys these drones from Israel/IAI. Germany doesn't just export weapons to Israel, Germany also imports weapons from Israel.
The two biggest German customers of IAI are:
- Airbus Defence, stationed in Bremen, Germany
- the German army (Bundeswehr)
Airbus operates the drones for Frontex in the Mediterranean Sea.
The German army uses these drones in Afghanistan and to defend the Baltic Sea from Russian aggression, among other use cases.
Thus far, IAI manufactures these drones in Israel and ships them to Germany. The mayor of Berlin just signed off the construction of a so-called "IAI-Berlin Aerospace & Defense Innovation Center" in Berlin-Adlershof. Israelis will now build their drones in Berlin for Germany (Airbus/Frontex and Bundeswehr).
The mayor of Berlin plans to transform the Adlershof neighborhood of Berlin into an Israeli factory of war machinery.
Source in German:
https://www.nd-aktuell.de/artikel/1200372.vereinbarung-mit-kai-wegner-israels-staatlicher-ruestungskonzern-soll-in-berlin-produzieren.html
Continue reading on in this thread. ⬇️ Transforming Berlin into a "Silicon Valley on German ground" for Israel's war industry is just one part of the grand plan that Germany's law-breaking, authorization-overstepping, far-right minister of the interior, Alexander Dobrindt, has for Germany's partnership with Israel, whom Dobrindt called a "natural partner" and "premium partner". ⬇️
#Germany #Israel #Berlin #Frontex

2026-06-09 16:45:17 GMT

I learned touch typing with the website monkeytype.¹
It's a nice website, but it's full of surveillance-capitalism crap, like Google's Firebase. Its developer is a twenty-something five years out of college. He started monkeytype in 2020 while still being in college, so I presume he doesn't know how to achieve his idea in a different way and maybe isn't even aware of the problems that using Google's technology entails.
Users can already be uniquely identified by their typing patterns.²
I am thus sceptic of storing extremely detailed information about my keystroke dynamics (like which letters I misspell the most, which of my fingers are strong and which are weak, how many milliseconds lie between certain bi-grams such as 'th', 'ng', 'he', 'lo', et cetera) in a database on Google's infrastructure.
Knowing Google, they might someday use that information to track me. So I don't want to give it to them in the first place.³ I don't think I'm overly paranoid here.
Has anyone already thought about this?
¹ https://monkeytype.com
² https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keystroke_dynamics
³ I use monkeytype only while being logged out and blocking all Firebase-related network traffic.
#moneytype #TouchTyping #MechanicalKeyboards

2026-05-29 17:36:02 GMT

If you ever were interested in the Ketogenic Diet (possibly after listening to podcasters like Lex Fridman, Joe Rogan, Jordan Peterson, What I've Learned, etc.), then please listen to this piece by Rebecca Watson.
Some guy – a firm believer in the keto diet, who is also a giant charlatan – set out for a study to prove once and for all that conventional medical wisdom is outdated and that the ketogenic diet doesn't cause plaque in your arteries.
When he found that the keto diet in fact increased plaque worse than diabetes or obesity, on average by 42% within a year when he expected 0%, he omitted that information from his study.
If you don't want to die from a heart attack in ten years, please don't follow the ketogenic diet.
#JordanPeterson #LexFridman #JoeRogan
#nevent1q…nx8v

2026-05-25 16:40:10 GMT

California and Colorado legislated that Linux distributions, being free and open-source, are exempt from the age verification in operating systems, unless they are proprietary like SteamOS (and Windows).
Too bad the systemd developers already complied with fascism in advance before the bills were even finalized.
Will Lennart Poettering and his followers now please remove the birthDate field from systemd?
P.S.: If you reply with any variation of "You need to calm down," I will block you.
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/05/colorado-and-california-age-verification-bills-exempt-open-source-operating-systems/
#fascism #surveillance #AgeVerification #Linux #systemd

2026-05-24 15:19:06 GMT

Why then is the "Trans-Atlantic Data Privacy Framework" (TADPF) still in place when
Trump fired all employees of the "Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board" (PCLOB) in January 2025?
@nprofile…fu0r Why is it not yet illegal to send data from Europe to the USA when the USA doesn't have anything remotely equivalent to European regulations in place to protect the data of Europeans?
Why did the EU's General Court dismiss on September 3, 2025 the arguments by French MP Philippe Latombe that the TADPF isn't secure?
#nevent1q…q5l7

2026-05-24 12:19:32 GMT

You know that fake website that lists a fake phone number where people can call to report foreigners to ICE to be deported?
Most people call that number because they can't get daycare for their child and need to remove someone from daycare so they can get in. Or because they are jealous of their neighbor.
Yeah, many of us are petty like that.
And when the reality is repeated to them—that this phone call is staged, or even just that they called to have someone deported, which is factually what they did—they get really angry.
I am scared of the people living around me. Even of the "nice" people, or maybe *especially* of the "nice" people.
It also shows how important fighting capitalism is, to ensure everyone has access to daycare or affordable housing, etc.
#fascism
#nevent1q…apxr

2026-04-01 16:45:55 GMT

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@nprofile…s4ce After we banned Anthropic employees from open-source projects, we could continue with banning Anthropic employees from everywhere else, including public life, too.
And Palantir employees too. On that note: I recently learned that one of #Neovim's maintainers, MariaSoOs, is an employee of Palantir.
In 2026 I refuse to accept stupidity or naivety as excuse for working at Palantir. Anyone working for Alex Karp is an enemy of every decent person.
We need to show these fucking assholes that being an asshole working at vile companies has consequences and isn't socially accepted.
Time to migrate to Helix, unless the @nprofile…a628 maintainers kick MariaSoOs out of the team.

2026-03-26 13:15:21 GMT

Hüseyin Dogru is a German journalist with Turkish-Kurdish roots who has been writing critically about Israel and the genocide in Palestine. He also founded a socialist, anti-fascist news outlet.
Since May 2025 he is sanctioned by the EU like a Russian spy would be. This means all his bank accounts are frozen and he is forbidden from traveling within or into the EU.
He, together with his wife and three kids now face homelessness because he cannot pay his rent or any bills. All transactions he tries to make are simply rejected by his bank, a subsidiary of Commerzbank.
The court in Frankfurt now confirmed his sanctions: The journalist has no rights whatsoever to fight this in any way.
EU says with his reporting about the genocide in Palestine, he would be sowing "ethnic, political and religious disharmony" and supporting Russian destabilization. The EU sanctioned him without even listening to his side or giving him the chance at a fair trial.
All the while,
- German "family minister" Karin Prien is defunding all NGOs who fight for democracy.
- German "culture minister" Wolfram Weimer (who founded the far-right outlet Cicero and was head of disgusting outlet "Die Welt", part of Axel Springer Press) is coming after left-leaning book stores and portraying them as extremist.
- German "minister of the interior" Alexander Dobrindt shakes hands with Netanyahu, buys Israeli tech to suppress the German population, sends police to raid homes of leftists for alleged terrorist attacks, and wants to send refugees to prison camps outside the EU.
In a recent poll, 42% of all Germans under 18 years old said they would like to emigrate and leave Germany. There is no hope here for young Germans. Government is re-introducing military conscriptions. Young Germans will be sent to die in war while all their rights are removed at home.
And still, when I say "most genocide deniers on Mastodon are German", German morons jump into my mentions either asking "source?" or denying it "that can't be true, denying genocide in Germany is illegal. Government would come after them if they denied genocide."
#Germany #Israel #fascism

2026-03-26 12:42:31 GMT

The conservatives in EU parliament just helped the nazis get a majority to build prison camps for refugees outside of the EU.
The nazis can't believe their success and are clapping out of joy.
One of the key figures is Manfred Weber, German of the party CSU. He is behind much of the international collaboration between Nazis, be they German AfD, Meloni's Italian Nazis or whoever.
#fascism
#nevent1q…plx2

2026-03-22 03:58:10 GMT

On a planet that is boiling and will cook people alive because we cannot stop burning fossil fuels, the rich are pushing for fascism to prevent the dying people from revolting.
In such a world, with this context, the rich are saying, "All those people posting anonymously—we want to know who they are, where they live."
How can—in such a world—anyone believe that "age verification" or "chat control" is about protecting children? More so, when children are raped by the Epstein class and forced below the poverty line by neoliberals and nobody is ever held accountable.
How can anyone say, "Let's give these neoliberals the benefit of the doubt?"
#surveillance #fascism #ClimateCatastrophe #ChatControl #AgeVerification #Chatkontrolle
#nevent1q…dvar

2026-03-01 22:16:00 GMT

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@nprofile…5ekp Yes. The steel in my thermos bottle doesn't insulate as well as previous generations of that same product with better steel. The new generation of my drug store tissues to wipe my glasses clean now tear because they've been made much thinner.
One doesn't have to look to Big Tech for enshittification.

2026-02-19 22:05:33 GMT

#Germany — “Hi #Israel, can you teach us some of the technology you use to oppress an entire population?”
#nevent1q…n6ml

2026-02-08 20:17:11 GMT

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@nprofile…zhky No Kings protests seem to be a trap.
What has improved after many, many No Kings protests? The elites don't fear them.
But one day of a general strike? That had caused a great, great stirr-up in the CEO class. They panicked and shat their pants that a second day or even an entire week of general strikes would follow. Because a general strike was the first thing, finally, to achieve something.
One single fucking day of striking.
Have you noticed that there was a No Kings protest soon after the general strike? Why would any thinking person abandon what puts the fear of God into the billionaire class (general strike) and instead go to a No Kings protest that they can and will ignore? It's a distraction.
Focus on what is working: Organizing general strikes.
#fascism #resistance #capitalism #strike

2026-02-02 20:08:09 GMT

Ditch your iPhone. Get GrapheneOS.
I have been an iPhone user for about 13 years.
In 2016, I became annoyed at my iPhone 5 which came with only 16 GB of storage. For the first time I seriously became interested in an Android phone because I liked the idea of expanding your phone with an SD card instead of paying the Apple tax. In 2016, the 16 GB of my 4-year-old phone just wasn't enough anymore.
I bought a Motorola phone which was as close to stock Android as you could get at the time (as far as I know). I hated everything about Android and after 6 months of Android—as soon as the iPhone SE was released—I went straight back to iOS. So you cannot say I didn't give Android a fair chance. And this was stock Android without all the Samsung crapware.
Fast forward to 2023: I ditched my iPhone and got myself a Pixel with GrapheneOS. And I love it! It's a completely different experience than in 2016.
All of this is to say, as someone who hated Android with a passion, that I now find that "Android" has now surpassed iOS in terms of user experience.
iOS used to be simple. Then Apple added setting after setting after setting. Soon enough, I couldn't find anything anymore. Every setting was buried in unexpected places. Discoverability became really bad on iOS. With 2026's Android, everything is easy to find. The discoverability is so much better than on iOS.
And with GrapheneOS, I know that my phone is as secure as it can be. It has many great privacy-related features.
I can now walk around the city and know that nearby shopping locations cannot "personalize my shopping experience". It feels very good to know that my data is much better protected than on an iPhone.
And in 2023, I didn't even foresee yet that Tim Cook is courting fascists, rapists, and pedophiles. In 2026 you should definitely consider getting rid of your Apple products.
Between iPhone, iPad, and Mac, the iPhone is surprisingly the easiest Apple product to part ways with. GrapheneOS is that good. And I say that as a 13 year-long user of iOS who disliked Android with a passion.
https://manganiello.eu/objects/32f58009-1689-4c50-929d-de5d1a718e85

2026-01-30 20:37:06 GMT

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Gewerkschaft der Polizei nutzt ChatGPT.
https://hachyderm.io/@davidculley/115968309704610020
@nprofile…lpd8
#nevent1q…9hsy

2026-01-30 17:19:01 GMT

@nprofile…6zp3 Hello Mahmoud, I'm so sorry for all the suffering you have to endure. 💔
You will collect more money faster if you speak with the #GazaVerified team because then you will be included in the overview of families who need help:
https://gaza.onl/campaigns/accounts
You can schedule a video call with them as described here:
https://gaza-verified.org/join
Much love and solidarity for you. ❤️🫂🇵🇸

2026-01-27 17:46:15 GMT

German police¹ is using ChatGPT to fake images of injured police officers.
The German union of police officers (GdP²) condemns violence … against police officers. 😡
They are the ones who beat up anyone who protests against fossil fuels or genocide, and then they fake their propaganda using GenAI to incite against "violent radical leftists".
¹ Sachsen, not even the infamous Berlin police
² which is also the source of this image, see https://www.gdp.de/sachsen/
#PoliceViolence #Germany #ACAB
https://media.hachyderm.io/media_attachments/files/115/968/309/483/231/541/original/360cd13c43a4dadb.jpeg

2026-01-21 15:51:13 GMT

You might have thought it not possible, but Google is going to spy on you even more.
Gotta feed those AI agents!
#capitalism #surveillance #google #GenAI #LLM
#nevent1q…c7sv

2026-01-13 16:26:47 GMT

Over the weekend, Germany's fascist minister of the interior, Alexander Dobrindt, visited Israel and Netanyahu to "learn from Israel".
That fascist fuck Dobrindt wants a partnership with Israel (and got it) to learn how to deploy the surveillance tech that Israel uses against Palestinians, against the German population. 🤬
After Dobrindt spent the past days inciting clueless German centrists and "moderates" against imagined radical leftists. After a recent blackout in Berlin, Dobrindt again accused "leftists" (anyone who isn't a Nazi) of being terrorists.
Netanyahu was very happy with the meeting, and called Israel and Germany "natural partners".
All while the equally fascist and utterly incompetent German chancellor Friedrich Merz was in India, courting the right-wing Indian prime minister Modi who is spreading hatespeech against the Muslim minority in India.
https://www.jungewelt.de/artikel/515522.dobrindt-in-israel-beim-nat%C3%BCrlichen-partner.html
#germany #israel #fascism #DEpol

2026-01-07 18:59:57 GMT

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@nprofile…dymg Communism is the idea of a classless, stateless, moneyless society. The world has never seen a communist country thus far. Communism has always remained an ideal, never achieved.
What *was* achieved was countries that perverted these idealistic ideas into dictatorships and called it "pragmatic socialism", presenting their very much class-based society as the only realistically achievable form of communism.

2026-01-07 10:43:02 GMT

The judge of Netanyahu's corruption case was killed on Sunday.
He was driving his motorcycle when suddenly an off-road vehicle came from off-road and rammed him.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/beersheba-district-court-president-benny-sagi-killed-in-shocking-crash-on-route-6/
#israel

2026-01-02 13:35:17 GMT

Criticism of OpenAI/LLMs
"Hey ChatGPT, I want a new TV. I heard that LG TVs are good. Which LG TV is the best?"
"Good choice! You are absolutely right that LG TVs are a popular choice. But have you heard about [brand] TVs? [brand] TVs are [advertisement here]. Do you want me to show you where you can get a good deal on the [brand] XY-1234?"
This is the future.
ChatGPT will soon generate answers that have advertisements woven into them. What ChatGPT will tell you will be influenced by which company paid OpenAI the most.
I wonder how many people won't be bothered by that at all and continue to use ChatGPT, just as many people (boomers mostly) aren't bothered by advertisement breaks when watching cable TV and continue to find excuses for using the product.
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/openai-chatgpt-sponsored-ads
OpenAI is still struggling to make profits off of this crappy technology. And that after announcing an "erotic chat mode", making ChatGPT "more horny". In a last effort to prevent the AI bubble from inevitably bursting, OpenAI is turning to the only reliable profit model they know: enshittifying products with ads. The LLM technology is a dying techology, similar to how nobody hears of 2021's NFTs anymore. Maybe the AI bubble won't burst in 2026 just yet, if enough naive people keep using ChatGPT so that the new ad revenue can keep OpenAI afloat for a little while longer. But the bubble will burst. Businesses betting on this technology, in 2026, isn't an intelligent move, to say the least. If your employer is fully committed to the AI hype, consider looking for a new job … while you still receive a salary and can take the job search more casually.
#LLM #GenAI #OpenAI

2025-12-29 11:31:10 GMT

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@nprofile…xgcl One of the worst parts about crimes is how the perpetrator messes with their victim's psyche. How the perpetrator makes the victim feel guilty/ashamed/unworthy. 😔 Like: "It wouldn't have happened to me if I didn't deserve it."
It's not your fault for having these feelings. It's very natural to have these feelings. Especially after all the horrors and trauma that that already happened to you and still happen to you. Please try to fight these feelings though. Don't internalize them! It's not your fault.
Nobody deserves what is being done to you. Nobody! Nobody!
Nobody deserves being stuck in a warzone.
Nobody needs to first earn it before they may feel they deserve leaving this shelling, destruction and disasters.
Life is to be lived, not to be earned.
Every human has the right to live a life in peace, without constant and ever-present violence and killings.
Maybe love is the only true answer to your feelings. We love you. ❤️ Maybe we can't do or say anything to help you with these feelings. Maybe you yourself can't do anything about these feelings. But we love you and you deserve to have a live without destruction. Every human is worthy of human rights.

2025-12-25 00:29:01 GMT

Last year I received a death threat online. Some fascist German MAGA excuse for a human wanted me dead.
I then spoke with @nprofile…9s8h, a German organization that helps people who are threatened or abused online or by hate speech.
I coincidentally heard many stories of people who were threatened much worse than I was, whose life was turned into a living hell. We absolutely do need organizations like HateAid, nowadays more than ever before.
They are now themselves attacked … by the US regime in their global quest against "antifa(scism)". 😠
The US fascists officially won't let them enter the USA anymore. The US nazis claim "censorship" as their justification. This is just the beginning.
Think about that: The USA is attacking civil organizations of a country (Germany) that once was one of its closest allies.
Our time is no longer nation against nation. In the light of global catastrophes such as the climate crisis, it's a trans-national group of ultra-rich people against the trans-national collection of non-billionaires … which now no longer includes just the countries of the Global South that privileged people like my German countrymen and countrywomen ignored oh so conveniently.
This trans-national worker collective that is so openly attacked now also includes Western white people who thought themselves so privileged and exempted.
As the saying goes: Fascism is what white people call it when their governments eventually start doing to them what they've been doing to people of color all this time.
Anyway, that's a small report of how it's currently going in #Germany for those who don't speak German. If you, reader, are German, donate to @nprofile…9s8h .
These days, everyone who talks about "freedom of speech" is a motherfucking asshole: a fascist, plain and simple, and/or just somebody too lazy a thinker to hear the dog whistle.
#fascism #USA #Germany
https://mastodon.social/@peterjelinek/115773502170416186

2025-12-22 04:44:48 GMT

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@nprofile…d3n5 Cool, then I was misinformed. In that case I'll consider Bunny again. 🙂 Thanks for the info! 🤝

2025-12-22 00:57:55 GMT

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@nprofile…d3n5 How much would Bunny cost for a tiny website with basically no traffic? I think they have a 5 EUR minimum per month, no?

2025-12-10 18:11:39 GMT

With virtually the entire tech world going fascist, you should at least know about alternatives to YouTube.
Maybe one day, all the creators and influencer's you follow will wean themselves off of Google's teats.
Let's start switching to #PeerTube sooner than that.
#GiveUpYouTube
https://framapiaf.org/@peertube/115688834621367195

2025-11-15 11:53:25 GMT

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@nprofile…hpz8 Podcasters and influencers (non-legacy media) often aren't better, many of whom are full-on MAGA.
Thus "corporate media is beyond hope" is more fitting than "legacy media".

2025-10-31 01:54:11 GMT

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A warm welcome, @nprofile…9z9w @nprofile…7cv9 ❤️🇵🇸
And thank you as always, @nprofile…lu0c @nprofile…k7yn @nprofile…uhc0 🫂

2025-10-29 07:52:04 GMT

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@nprofile…55n5 I wish I could reduce your fear. 😔 And stop the genocide.
We Germans must stop our government from giving weapons to Israel. As must other complicit countries.
I don't know how you can avoid being hit by the bombings. 😞 It pains me reading your messages powerlessly.
We are with you in our thoughts, every day. ❤️

2025-10-28 08:17:06 GMT

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@nprofile…j4ac @nprofile…0q98 Ü35-Jährige sind nicht gegen LLMs, weil sie erfordern mit den über die Jahre angewohnten Verhaltensweisen zu brechen, sondern weil LLMs den Planeten zerstören, die einzige "Ware" der Arbeiterklasse entwerten und sie in prekäre Verhältnisse zwingen, und einfach auf massenweisem Diebstahl intellektuellen Eigentums basieren.

2025-10-19 21:24:37 GMT

If you want to donate, please support @nprofile…k5qq.
His cousin was randomly shot by 'the most moral army' in the world during a supposed ceasefire.
He urgently needs surgery to survive.
#gaza #palestine #genocide #ceasefire
https://mas.to/@bilal_mo/115402252264714218

2025-10-18 11:08:04 GMT

Imagine tasting chicken again for the first time after almost a year. After two years of genocide, after often having to go to sleep with a belly hurting from hunger.
Imagine it, even if it's only a tiny, tiny piece because you have to share 1 kg between 18 people.
Although there is supposed to be a ceasefire, food is still very expensive and Palestinians can't afford it without income.
Imagine the sheer joy of getting a glimpse of what you get to have every single day: tasting bits of meat.
Please consider donating to @nprofile…k5qq to allow him to have something else for dinner than blank rice or blank lentils (or nothing at all). Even if it's just $5, you have that.
https://gofund.me/36056f38d
Read this thread to delight in his joy over such a simple thing as having chicken for dinner:
https://mas.to/@bilal_mo/115390757675764402
#genocide #gaza #palestine

2025-10-02 06:51:18 GMT

The Israeli military kidnapped Greta Thunberg and many other peaceful unarmed activists tonight, after violently capturing their ships.
Italy's biggest union is calling for a national strike for tomorrow, out of solidarity.
And Germany? The obedient subservient timid fearful Germans would never strike.
It's "back to work" and "don't talk about politics at the workplace" for Germans.
#FreePalestine #germany #SumudFlotilla #palestine

2025-05-20 11:21:25 GMT

"AI" is not intelligent. Nor is it conscient.
There is no "it" behind LLMs. Only rich people who want you to unlearn all your skills, by relying more and more on their LLMs. And once you've unlearned all your skills and once you're so utterly dependent on LLMs because you're so helpless without them and once you no longer know how to do *anything* without consulting a LLM, these rich people will crank up the subscription prices and become even richer. Because in rent-seeking capitalism, of course everything is a subscription.
Companies like OpenAI keep telling you that AI is real and will soon™️ become sentient and destroy the world. And for that reason, OpenAI and its likes are actually public benefit companies, at least according to their own arguments, because they—the good people, the Sam Altmans of the world—work on making AI safe, and are thus the saviors of the world!!! Messiah-complex much?
And because these companies now positioned themselves as public benefit companies, they get massive funding. It's all just a giant grift, designed to make rich bastards even richer. And people who spend way too much time on LinkedIn fall for it, in masses.
It's time to wake up! You've been utterly fooled if you didn't know any of this. But it's not too late. Do the programming yourself again instead of vibe-coding some shit you don't understand. Unless you *want* to pay ever-increasing subscription fees to the Sam Altmans of the world, like a serf, milking you until the day you die.
#AI #LLM #madness #rant

2025-05-09 07:41:19 GMT

Using Grok for "general learning" … you might as well ask for a SS commander or Hitler himself as your history teacher. Grok is completely biased.
If you're still watching or listening to the Lex Fridman podcast, you're supporting/enabling someone who supports ultra right-wing ideology and fascism. Yes, fascism. Lex had Balaji Srinivasan on his show, to name just one asshole Lex platformed. What need I say more?
Personally, I had multiple co-workers tell me, "I watched RFK Jr. on the Lex Fridman podcast. He made total sense to me, he's not the conspiracy theorist everyone says he is."
It's like Gandalf warns in the LotR: Don't let Saruman speak. His words will put a spell on you. And before you know it, you're hailing and praising fascists.
#LexFridman
https://media.hachyderm.io/media_attachments/files/114/476/743/160/442/819/original/f70c23be1eeea9af.png

2025-04-18 20:45:40 GMT

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@nprofile…uzew Hi Paris, would you consider offering Liberapay in addition to Patreon, to accept money? That way you could keep more money for yourself.
Liberapay takes away only the processing costs for Stripe/Paypal, but doesn't take an additional 10% or whatever Patreon takes nowadays.

2025-01-26 23:22:03 GMT

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@nprofile…79ya I also have that issue on iOS.
When I don't check a list every day and go without opening that list for a couple of days, Ivory often (but not always) brings me to the current moment, which means I "lose" the messages of the last couple of days for that list.
Unless, of course, I scroll back, but that's inconvenient if Ivory forgot the last post I viewed.

2025-01-25 19:52:47 GMT

”You can be intelligent and a Nazi. Then you are not decent. You can be decent and a Nazi. Then you are not intelligent. And you can be decent and intelligent. Then you're not a Nazi.“ — Gerhard Bronner

2025-01-03 18:53:43 GMT

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@nprofile…d6h6 I assure you there are people (me, for example) who like (your) essays. And facts.
Not all is lost.
Please don’t quit writing. 🙏

2024-12-27 18:32:52 GMT

1 Jahr ist es her, dass @nprofile…75xm das Geheimtreffen zur Vertreibung Nicht-Deutscher aufdeckte.
Kürzlich schleusten sie sich erneut undercover in ein Geheimtreffen rechtsradikaler Politiker und rechtsextremer Jugendbanden ein, diesmal in einer Schweizer Kleinstadt.
Bitte spende an CORRECTIV, falls du mehr Geld verdienst als du ehrlich brauchst. Sie werden für allerlei Schwachsinn verklagt, das frisst Geld. Die Spende kannst du sogar von der Steuer absetzen.
#38C3
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2024-11-13 08:17:51 GMT

Do even academics not understand the network effect?
Lately, I’m seeing lots of follow-worthy people posting that it’s much nicer over at #BlueSky than it’s here at #Mastodon, persuading us to move to BlueSky too. Sure, I believe that.
But BlueSky is just another (VC-funded) platform owned by capitalists.
If people stayed at Mastodon, we could avoid the forming of the network effect that made it so hard to escape Twitter/X.
A strange notion to escape X just to hop into BlueSky‘s lap instead.