Facebook gave Netflix all your private messages on Messenger in exchange for all your watch history, while Netflix paid them $100M+ for ads.

Meta will sell your data at a heartbeat for profit.

via Deedy on X

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/24520332-merged-fb

ROBINMG 🚀

A new focus of the channel is the one topic Jeff.pro subscribers requested the most during the past two years: How to start removing our publicly-available information from the Internet.

https://jeff.pro/the-time-is-now-to-start-removing-our-data-from-the-internet/

Everywhere we look around us, “big tech” companies have lost respect for the American people.

Their default mode of operations is to assume they can treat us however they want, because the way they see it, we have no other choices than to use the systems and services they build for us, however they want to, with no push back or resistance. (They’re wrong about that, by the way …)

Today, they acquire, sell and resell our data with zero oversight or consequence for the way they abuse it.

They are able to innovate and shift and move around regulations faster than the current federal and state legislators are able to implement new laws.

And they are influencing the “media” more than the old “media” itself, which is dying.

What’s the solution?

There’s only one way out — Americans need to wake up to the reality that “big tech” companies are in it for themselves, NOT to help people, and NOT for the good of the country.

Only then can we start on a path back to sanity.

Learn how to unplug from “big tech” systems and services.

Lower your data profile - learn how to remove your email address and other personal info from internet databases.

Helping freedom-loving Americans learn better ways to do their computing, since 2021.

Start your journey
in our technology forums -> forums.jeff.pro

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Hi frens, in case you ever go to post a message on the channel later in the evening and can’t … you should know that our ANTI-SPAM bot (we made it ourselves late last year), Whitaker, shuts down the chat room in the late evening and overnight hours, turns it back on in the early morning.

So if you see a status message like “sending messages isn’t allowed” in the evening hours, that’s usually because the ENTIRE chat room is shut down overnight … not because you were banned! unless you were a spammer, in which case you probably were banned 🤣

Our SPAM BOT, Whitaker (named for a certain former AG), is getting better all the time!! Jeff.pro already has the most spam-free TG channel of any you will see, more improvements on the way.

Recently unsealed documents from a class action lawsuit reveal that Meta utilized spyware to monitor user activities on competing platforms like Snapchat and YouTube. The lawsuit, initiated in 2020 by two Facebook users in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California against Meta (formerly Facebook), accused the company of anticompetitive behavior and misuse of user data.

In 2023, attorney Brian J. Dunne, representing the plaintiffs, submitted evidence detailing Meta's use of Onavo's software to clandestinely observe competitors, including Snapchat.

https://observer.com/2024/03/meta-facebook-compete-snapchat-class-action-document/

Net Neutrality Could Expand Biden’s Social Media Censorship To The Whole Internet

READ: https://thefederalist.com/2024/04/04/net-neutrality-could-expand-bidens-social-media-censorship-to-the-whole-internet/ • @FDRLSTT

Learn how to unplug from “big tech” systems and services.

Lower your data profile - learn how to remove your email address and other personal info from internet databases.

Helping freedom-loving Americans learn better ways to do their computing, since 2021.

Start your journey
in our technology forums -> forums.jeff.pro

@Jeffrey_Peterson | @jptchat | jeff.pro

AmericanCloud getting some love!

"But how does American Cloud keep itself and its 72,000-square-foot data center from being canceled by the services it relies upon?

“We own the security perimeter, we own the land, we own the building, we own all the gear inside of the building — all the power, cooling, networking, and servers,” Wagner said. Additionally, American Cloud has contracts with over a dozen Tier 1 network providers, so if one were to cut off the company, it has plenty of backup internet connections. And even if all of those cut ties, American Cloud owns dark fiber that it could use to create its own backbone."

THIS IS THE WAY!

https://www.theblaze.com/return/an-american-company-steps-up-to-fight-big-tech-censorship

@Jeffrey_Peterson | @jptchat | jeff.pro

This should be a informative event, but it’s not for Linux beginners.

For those who have grown to truly appreciate Linux, and are in it for the long run, you might find this event interesting. April 12 - 13, in Austin TX.

https://2024.texaslinuxfest.org/

A German state has said no to Microsoft!

https://news.itsfoss.com/german-state-ditches-microsoft/

If you’re one of the several hundred learners in the Linux for Beginners class run by this channel, your invitations for tomorrow’s Weekend Linux Workshop are being sent out to your e-mail now!

This week, learn about something we’ve never covered in Linux for Beginners classes: Init systems for Linux. What are Linux init (initalization) systems and why do they matter? What is Systemd? OpenRC? What’s the difference and why does it matter to you? The answers about these core system components are more important to the security, stability and independence of your computers than you may imagine!

Learning about the parallel technology world of Free and Open Source Software is a decision to take back control of your personal information, data and ultimately your Digital Freedom. We welcome you to the Linux for Beginners class and a new chapter of your digital life. You will like it! While everyone else is being abused by "big tech" with no end in sight, it's time for you to get used to winning in your technology world!

See you online tomorrow @ 5:00pm Eastern!

Little Professor. Generated random arithmetic problems for the player to answer, and tracks score.

It was a big hit! Some other, lookalike models emerged.

this would have made a great laptop station 🤣

rare to see, from around 1980

who makes these? i scored every single one!! 🤣

in 2005 Linus Torvalds messaged the Linux community about Git, a version control system he created over the weekend.

Happy Birthday, Git! 🥳

Digital Enslavement vs. Freedom

Learning to break away from the government/'big tech' technocracy is one of the most important, healthy things you can do for yourself, now and for your digital future. Linux is Digital Freedom!

Learn a little more each week by following this channel. And start your Linux journey in our Technology forums -> forums.jeff.pro