Posts by chpietsch@fedifreu.de
(DIR) Post #B3WNNPxZ4q64yt7WaG by chpietsch@fedifreu.de
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Dank @katzenberger gibt es das A.I. seal of disapproval jetzt auch auf deutsch! Nennen wir es Siegel der KI-Ablehnung? Gemeint ist natürlich der aktuelle Hyper-Hype um generative »KI« mit LLMs.hochauflgelöste VersionReadMe mit weiteren Übersetzungen und Links zum Shop der ursprünglichen Autorin#AISealOfDisapproval #AIslop#KISiegel #SiegelDerKIAblehnung
(DIR) Post #B45286lwpqaGck8ucC by chpietsch@fedifreu.de
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@kuketzblog Ich möchte deinen Abschnitt »Die Rendite leidet« in Frage stellen. Es gibt nicht nur ethische Gründe, auf US-Aktien zu verzichten. Ich sehe die USA als Failing state, der in den Faschismus abdriftet. Darunter wird auch irgendwann die Rendite leiden. Du betrachtest aber nur historische Werte aus stabileren Zeiten.
(DIR) Post #B4FZo2uIpueOrnFsHI by chpietsch@fedifreu.de
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@emilymbender Clickable and tappable link: https://notaidoc.com/
(DIR) Post #B4ug7pIhhSGrfGqBcW by chpietsch@fedifreu.de
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Weiß jemand, was mit den Radio-Streams der ARD los ist?In den Android-Apps #RadioDroid und #Transistor kann ich sie seit heute nicht mehr abspielen. Beide verlassen sich auf das Graswurzelprojekt https://www.radio-browser.info – und die dort hinterlegten Stream-URLs scheinen nicht mehr zu stimmen.Der einzige ARD-Stream, der bei mir noch funktioniert, ist ein AAC-Stream für #WDR5, der von Akamai ausgeliefert wird: https://wdrhf.akamaized.net/hls/live/2027996-b/wdr5/192/seglist.m3u8Sollten beim Rebranding der #Audiothek in #ARDsounds alle Streams kaputt gegangen sein?#internetradio #webradio #radiodown #radio #radiostream #ard #ardaudiothek
(DIR) Post #B5Bk1h4T5SnvuJpe8O by chpietsch@fedifreu.de
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The audience at Cables of Resistance (the movement conference against Big Tech) just celebrated this talk by Simone Robutti from the Tech Workers Coalition:Reverse engineering to support workers rightsTheir basic approach is to reverse-engineer workforce apps (with cooperation from workers) to find out if they send surveillance (or other illegal data) to the companies. If they find evidence, they try to push data protection authorities to have a look at those companies' servers.More: https://reversing.worksSee also: https://personaldata.io/en/Heres is the talk abstract:We will present how technical investigations of mobile apps and websites can help platform workers to identify labor rights and privacy violations.Reversing.works is an organization developing a reproducible methodology to investigate the software used by platform workers. The goal is to find evidence of labor rights or privacy violations to help the workers build legal cases against their employers and fight back against algorithmic surveillance. Not only that, this kind of investigations can help understand the logic used by their employer to control, direct, punish or reward the workers, allowing them to build countermeasures. In our talk, we will present the context of the problem, how we perform investigations, and what an organization would need to start performing similar investigations.#TechWorkersCoalition #CablesOfResistance #reverseEngineering #privacy #workforceSurveillance #workersRights #platformWorkers
(DIR) Post #B5eMLlVrWESo9wWNZg by chpietsch@fedifreu.de
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Some rando on the Internet wrote about my likely future: Burnout caused by the “AI” usage of co-workers.https://ky.fyi/posts/ai-burnoutMaybe this will be your future, too. Caving in and using generative “AI” tools is not a healthy alternative:A recent MIT Media Lab study reported that “excessive reliance on AI-driven solutions” may contribute” to “cognitive atrophy” and shrinking of critical thinking abilities.https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2025/11/is-ai-dulling-our-minds/#genAI #aiburnout #vibecoding #cognitiveAtrophy
(DIR) Post #B5iEtbQHW9bPi7NHaC by chpietsch@fedifreu.de
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Why we must fight PalantirBecause I get asked a lot. Why we must fight Palantir, in brief, 22 Theses (April 23, 2026)1. Programmers working on the Internet have a moral responsibility to the entire world, not a single country. The Internet has been designed since its inception as a universal system for the sharing of knowledge without censorship. The Internet is not the property of any one government or nation.2. The Internet enables mass surveillance at a scale unimaginable to the Gestapo and the Cheka. Far too many programmers have wasted their lives building surveillance systems under the guise of Web advertising. Today, these web tracking systems are being used to monitor, control, and even kill humans by companies like Palantir that seek to combine state violence with corporate efficiency, and thus create a new form of technofascism.3. Surveillance justified by external national security threats will be turned against citizens inside the nation-state. Mass surveillance was once the exclusive domain of the NSA, but today it has been privatized to corporations like Palantir that are unaccountable to any democratic process. What begins as fear of external foreign nation-states turns inwards to focus on immigrants, dissidents, and eventually anyone that might challenge the status quo or try to exit an increasingly dysfunctional society.4. Everyone is a target. The “enemy within” continually expands until it encompasses the entire population of a nation regardless of their status and beliefs, justifying evermore paranoid and totalizing surveillance. The line between policing and military operations blurs, with legal frameworks being replaced by technological violence operating with total impunity.5. Surveillance can only be defeated by building software and hardware to defend ourselves. Meek calls for regulation or moralizing demands for human rights are useless in this era. Any rights must be enforced by the hard power of code. Code, not laws, can be used to uphold the right to privacy by making surveillance difficult, if not impossible, even by nation-state adversaries.6. We are ruled by a senile gerontocracy. Unlike the generations that fought in the world wars, most of our current rulers are degenerate pedophiles who would sacrifice the well-being of the youth and the entire planet due to their infantile desire for wealth and power. Technologies of surveillance and automated warfare reflect their increasingly desperate attempts to maintain archaic forms of domination.7. The American Empire is unraveling. Once, the United States of America presided over a globe where it could enforce its rule via the status of the dollar as a global reserve currency and a network of equally global military bases. Today, new regional powers directly challenge the United States as its empire dissolves in the face of internal economic stagnation, political corruption, and the inflation of the dollar.8. In a real war, fantasies of total technological dominance always backfire. When a faceless drone kills a child’s father, that child will one day take revenge regardless of the cost. This is something forgotten by those raised in comfortable suburbs. Going beyond zero-sum games, one can only truly win a battle against a people by demonstrating that your victory provides a better way of life, increased prosperity, and an inspiring philosophy.9. Oddly enough, proponents of fully automated warfare support a universal draft. Deep-down, these keyboard warriors know that their techno-fascist fantasies are a paper tiger when up against determined opponents that engage in asymmetric warfare. They also know none of their children will fight in a war for their state, but they would be happy to see other people’s children come home in body-bags.10. The problem is not whether AI weapons will be built; we must hold responsible those who are building them. No matter which country is deploying automated killing machines, no one is absolved from the murder of civilians and the destruction of infrastructure due to the parlour-trick of shifting the blame to AI.11. Atomic war is on the horizon. As various states descend into wars over increasingly scarce natural resources, the possibility of tactical nuclear strikes over Tehran, Kyiv, and other areas of conflict has returned to the historical stage. Increasingly geriatric and authoritarian rulers face less guardrails than before to deploying nuclear weapons, and may even be willing to sacrifice the survival of humanity to appease their own petty egos.12. Our goal is a world of peace where every person can be empowered by the Internet. Modern war is the quintessential game of sending young people to the meat-grinder. Why die for the profit of corrupt rulers when one could build real wealth and power for yourself using the Internet?source: https://www.nym.com/blog/anti-palantir-manifesto1/3#palantir #antiPalantirManifesto #fightPalantir
(DIR) Post #B5iEtcB4iB263FGeWG by chpietsch@fedifreu.de
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13. We should fight for the world we want, and build the tools needed by future generations. Pacifism would be suicidal in this period of global turbulence and resource wars, but real hard power lies in technology: Programmers should be creating technologies to live a free life and prosper in a hostile society of surveillance and control. Decentralization is the only way these technologies will survive against the inevitable repression.14. The State will not help us. The state is a dying pre-Internet institution that increasingly resembles nothing but a Ponzi scheme fueled by taxes and debt. None of the youth alive today will likely inherit any benefits, such as welfare and health care. Technology can support an alternative: The decentralization of power to the individual and communities that they join voluntarily.15. Centralized and opaque algorithms are a danger to free speech. Propaganda is the flip-side of surveillance, as continual propaganda prevents anyone from even thinking of challenging the system. Social media monopolies promote propaganda to create a generalized idiocy while silencing those that would dare to criticize the reigning order before they can organize against it.16. Building new forms of social organization with each other is vital to survival. The traditional mediascape of politics and entertainment exists to distract us from building networked solidarity and distributed autonomous organizations across borders. The hierarchical state is as relevant to us as the medieval church and kings were to the formation of the joint-stock corporation and the labor union.17. Digital identity is the next step in their system of control. Within the next few years, access to the Internet – including in Europe and the United States – will require biometric national identity cards, using the flimsy excuse of “protecting children.” The real goal is to gatekeep free access to subversive political content and halt cross-border communication in order to prevent new forms of self-organization and resistance from emerging.18. Only when one can be anonymous is one truly free. The freedom to express oneself without censorship and surveillance is a vital precondition for both the autonomous use of reason and the democratic evolution of society. Technology must enable the freedom to selectively reveal ourselves to the world – so that we can become who we want to be – by preserving the right to privacy over the Internet, including not just individual privacy, but also the right to transact and form contracts privately.19. America created the first global surveillance state, but it will not be the last. Too many have forgotten, or perhaps taken for granted, the revelations of Wikileaks and Snowden. States across the world from China to Russia are creating even more powerful global surveillance systems and propaganda machines. Leveraging private defense contracts in countries across the world, Palantir seeks to make itself the operating system of a cross-border global secret state while it pushes its own farcical version of ethno-nationalism.20. Culture wars are a psyop. The “Epstein class” virtue-signals about morality and the superiority of their civilization, all while trying to return to the rule of hereditary elites, even in the United States. Rather than reverse the gains of the Enlightenment, we take the side of our ancestors who fought a centuries-long battle for individual liberty, scientific progress, decentralized markets, bottom-up democracy, and the emancipation of humanity from feudal monarchs and their make-believe mythologies.21. New forms of technology can reshape the world. Technology is not just a tool, but the world we live in and an extension of our cognitive capabilities. The co-operation of humans with the collective intelligence embedded in AI could accelerate human progress and overcome planetary crises such as climate change and atomic war that threatens the survival of our species.22. Live free or die trying. We must bear eternal vigilance in the struggle against fascism, and the battlefield is technology. There is no middle ground: Technologists must choose whether to work for the enslavement of humanity or to create new spaces for freedom.source: https://www.nym.com/blog/anti-palantir-manifesto2/3#palantir #antiPalantirManifesto #fightPalantir
(DIR) Post #B5iEtcpqGbdu5gLD3w by chpietsch@fedifreu.de
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Note from Harry HalpinThese are my personal beliefs, not those of Nym. Yet as a philosopher that founded a tech startup working on anti-surveillance tech, I have a responsibility to respond to this manifesto of Palantir and it's so-called "philosopher-CEO" Alex Karp. I studied philosophy under the French philosopher of technology Bernard Stiegler, who tried to warn us of the rise of behavioral control and artificial stupidity on digital platforms. It is to his legacy that I dedicate this response. For my further thoughts on the political philosophy of technology and surveillance, see my latest philosophy paper on the "Immaterial Constitution" created by internet standards in response to the Snowden revelations of NSA mass surveillance. The battle continues, and now the stakes are even higher.source: https://www.nym.com/blog/anti-palantir-manifestoThanks to @geertlovink for posting this to https://www.nettime.org!3/3 #palantir #antiPalantirManifesto #fightPalantir
(DIR) Post #B6Hvs1fI4kRH56UFLU by chpietsch@fedifreu.de
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@Wolkensteine @veronica I just donated to @Codeberg. They need to scale up now in order to be ready for the masses leaving GitLab (and GitHub). Not everyone can self-host, and even though Forgejo does federate, there is a need for instances with more than a few users.Donations to #Codeberg will also benefit #Forgejo because “since 2022, Codeberg is backing the development of Forgejo as an umbrella organization”: https://docs.codeberg.org/getting-started/what-is-codeberg/#codeberg-vs.-forgejoIf you want to influence the direction Codeberg will take in the future, you can become a member.
(DIR) Post #B6ML48qAUwcMITHwy8 by chpietsch@fedifreu.de
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Ist generative »KI« die neue Zwangsreligion, eine kollektive Wahnvorstellung oder das trojanische Pferd des aufziehenden Technofaschismus? Oder alles zugleich?Solche Fragen gehen mir durch den Kopf, seit ich den Vortrag »Zauberhafte KI-Welt« von @Katika online sah.Am kommenden Donnerstag ist Katika Kühnreich in Bielefeld, wo sie ab 19:30 Uhr eine aktualisierte Fassung dieses Vortrags halten wird. Wir @Datenpunks haben sie eingeladen und laden euch ein, dazuzukommen:Wann? Do., 21.05.2026Wo? Buchladen Eulenspiegel, Hagenbruchstraße 7, 33602 BielefeldWer einen Sitzplatz will, sollte sich anmelden (gern pseudonym): https://datenpunks.de/event/zauberhafte-ki-welt-energie-und-arbeit-der-ki-und-was-sie-mit-gesellschaften-macht/#kiKritik #KatikaKühnreich #Bielefeld #OWL #Ostwestfalen #Veranstaltung #Vortrag #genai #antifa #Technofaschismus
(DIR) Post #B6fKJ7gDAKjSSBCSwq by chpietsch@fedifreu.de
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@rixx I no longer trust Firefox. On Android, I switched to #Ironfox by @celenity. On Linux, I use @librewolf.
(DIR) Post #B6jOadpS4ArdX9yFjE by chpietsch@fedifreu.de
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Endlich auch für Deutschkand: Jemand hat eine Karte mit geplanten und in Bau befindlichen (»KI-«)Rechenzentren gebastelt: https://heisseluft.org#Rechenzentren #CableResist #KiKitsch #KiKritik #Umweltsau #KIFabriken #HyperscalerMap #DatacenterMap #Hyperscaler #Datacenter #machismo
(DIR) Post #B7hLyEAamMvdD73apU by chpietsch@fedifreu.de
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@pixelfed I just used the statically built binaries provided by the yt-dlp project: https://github.com/yt-dlp/FFmpeg-Builds
(DIR) Post #B9qIugcfwguNK14QIC by chpietsch@fedifreu.de
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@stux Please be more specific. Are you experiencing robot registrations or robotic web harvesting or something weird on the ActivityPub level?