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A major data privacy lawsuit has concluded. The class action against Flo Health and Meta Platforms stemmed from allegations that the Flo period-tracking app shared sensitive user health information with third parties, including Meta, without proper consent. This isn't just about privacy — it's about accountability.

I used to pay £23 for #Google and #Microsoft accounts per month, just to have cloud storage and #Office.

I've since moved to #Proton for storage, VPN and email (about £10). The money saved has gone towards monthly donations to #LibreOffice (365 replacement) and #Signal (#Meta #WhatsApp replacement) - both #FOSS.

What I'm trying to say, I guess, is that if you #LeaveBigTech - and can afford it - donations to the organisations that try to keep the internet free and private would be excellent.

Mark Zuckerberg's vision of 'personal superintelligence' just sounds like supersurveillance. Again.

"Personal devices like glasses that understand our context because they can see what we see, hear what we hear, and interact with us throughout the day will become our primary computing devices."

meta.com/superintelligence/ #meta #generativeAI #hype

www.meta.comPersonal SuperintelligenceExplore Meta's vision of personal superintelligence, where AI empowers individuals to achieve their goals, create, connect, and lead fulfilling lives. Insights from Mark Zuckerberg on the future of AI and human empowerment.
Today on NovaLandia, Ass Smellyburger thinks the world will replace their phones with intelligent glasses, or that's what Mark Shittlenuts wants you to believe, so you'll buy Meta's glasses and induct their slop-factories with everything you see, every waking second

https://mkultra.monster/tech/2025/08/04/zuck-glasses/

#blogging #meta #ai
cmdr-nova@internet:~$ · Fart Knuckleburger Wants to Sell You on the Idea of AI Glasses | cmdr-nova@internet:~$
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Here’s an article article about the failed Facebook iPhone killer 😂

“What was the point of a smartphone focused on Facebook Home when you can get Facebook Home on several different -- and superior -- phones?

I get that the First was a showcase phone for Facebook's new software. But consumers don't want to buy a showcase piece; they want a real product.”

cnet.com/tech/mobile/heres-why

CNETHere's why the Facebook phone flopped<b>commentary</b> The HTC First has a lot going against it, despite support from some heavy hitters.

The only thing worse than intrusive ads being a foot away on my phone are ads being an inch away from my eyeball.

Amazingly shocking how uninnovative Meta/Facebook is, created essentially by accident, #Instagram and #WhatsApp were acquisitions and everything else they’ve made has bombed.

#Zuckerberg didn’t use #Apple’s name the other day when laying out his vision for marrying superintelligent AI and his hardware. He might as well have

The #Meta Platforms chief is just the latest in Silicon Valley to put a bull’s-eye on the #iPhone’s role as gatekeeper to the digital world.”

#AI #artificialIntelligence
wsj.com/tech/ai/mark-zuckerber

TIL: Google Gemini is significantly better at reading the kinds of colourful graphs you see on server monitoring dashboards than are any of the other leading #AI models from #OpenAI and #Meta. Why yes, I do, in fact, resent that I had to learn this. Because #OpenSource tools don't make data visualizations #accessible to #screenreaders (even on the terminal) sometimes the things I #selfhost to get rid of big tech just mean I have to use big tech anyway to fix them when they explode. But never the less, Google is the only AI that doesn't tell me about the menus and other Windows I captured by mistake in my screenshot, doesn't make unhelpful recommendations, and actually provides the data without cluttering it up with Emoji. But I did appreciate metta telling me "This graph shows CPU use on the X axis, RAM use on the Y axis, network use on the Z axis, and time on the fake axis." I mean, open source UI is famously terrible...but I don't think it's that terrible...yet! Shhh, don't give the data visualization people any ideas!