jrollans.com is a Fediverse instance that uses the ActivityPub protocol. In other words, users at this host can communicate with people that use software like Mastodon, Pleroma, Friendica, etc. all around the world.
This server runs the snac software and there is no automatic sign-up process.
Understanding the existence of Facebook
LifeLog was a project of the Information Processing Techniques Office of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) of the U.S.[...]
[...]The objective of the LifeLog concept was "to be able to trace the 'threads' of an individual's life in terms of events, states, and relationships", and it has the ability to "take in all of a subject's experience, from phone numbers dialed and e-mail messages viewed to every breath taken, step made and place gone".
„The LifeLog program was canceled on February 4th 2004, the same day Facebook was launched, after criticism concerning the privacy implications of the system."
15 Years Ago, the Military Tried to Record Whole Human Lives. It Ended Badly
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#surveillance #military #facebook #meta #spyware #socialmedia
In 2010, #AaronSwartz downloaded 70 GB of articles from JSTOR. He faced a $1 million fine and 35 years in prison
➡️ Aaron took his own life in 2013.
#Meta illegally downloaded over 80 terabytes of books from LibGen, Anna's Archive, and Z-library to train its #AI models
➡️ facing no consequences.
Information is power, knowledge is power.
Beware and fight against those who want to keep you ignorant, unaware, and misinformed.
"The man I’m talking to runs a business called Ghost Metas. He’s one of hundreds of vendors, easily discoverable online, who specialise in disabling the flashing LED light embedded in Meta’s smartglasses that blinks when wearers capture photos, videos and audio. After Ghost Metas disables the LED, it’s impossible for someone to know they’re being filmed" #creeps #glassholes #meta
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/ng-interactive/2026/aug/19/meta-glasses-privacy-surveillance
RT @Dan_Jeffries1: Prediction: There's a 65% chance that the strongest model available to you by the end of 2026 will be open source. There's a 75% probability it'll be Chinese model unless Reflection comes out swinging like Tyson or Meta really goes hard into open source again to round out the percentages. Oh don't get me wrong. If it goes like this, closed source American labs will still have better models. You just won't be able to use them. You'll read about them on Lab blogs. Why? Because they scared the government and regular people so much that they can't release them and so those models will be locked behind closed doors. The only wild card here that keeps this prediction from being something like 75% is Elon and Grok and his massive reach and single handed power to raise capital, buy businesses and apparently train amazing models. He alone seems able to buck the trend on data center building and has enough power to say, yeah, I am not submitting to the "voluntary" testing regime. But he is likely to get tangled up in whatever non-voluntary one is coming and be a target for it too. So Elon is our wild card. As usual it seems like the entire American innovation system, from space to data centers to clean electric cars stems from one guy and that's just not a wonderful thing for us. We need a dozen daring doers to ensure the next American century. All this is incredibly bad for American AI. There is no current business model that does not involve selling lots and lots of tokens to 100Ms of businesses. The models are not yet strong enough to own to create a British East India style super…
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@OliDietzel: Prediction: There's a 65% chance that the strongest model available to you by the end of 2026 will be open source. There's a 75% probability it'll be Chinese model unless Reflection comes out swinging like Tyson or Meta really goes hard into open source again to round out the percentages. Oh don't get me wrong. If it goes like this, closed source American labs will still have better models. You just won't be able to use them. You'll read about them on Lab blogs. Why? Because they scared the government and regular people so much that they can't release them and so those models will be locked behind closed doors. The only wild card here that keeps this prediction from being something like 75% is Elon and Grok and his massive reach and single handed power to raise capital, buy businesses and apparently train amazing models. He alone seems able to buck the trend on data center building and has enough power to say, yeah, I am not submitting to the "voluntary" testing regime. But he is likely to get tangled up in whatever non-voluntary one is coming and be a target for it too. So Elon is our wild card. As usual it seems like the entire American innovation system, from space to data centers to clean electric cars stems from one guy and that's just not a wonderful thing for us. We need a dozen daring doers to ensure the next American century. All this is incredibly bad for American AI. There is no current business model that does not involve selling lots and lots of tokens to 100Ms of businesses. The models are not yet strong enough to own to create a British East India style super…
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#Grok #make #Meta #opensource #things #US #us #arint_info
https://x.com/OliDietzel/status/51e3509d-9e36-4f65-a444-221c9ef52f18
From the "Zuckerberg is a crappy human being" dept.
Maybe some jail time and and an end to META.
"Meta ran ads for an app promising to nudify female politicians"
One ad featured a pornographic video with deepfake closely resembling a US politician.
Presumably a a democratic politician, not a fascist one. META is a disease, facebook is the red swelling around the bite.
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https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/08/meta-ran-ads-for-an-app-promising-to-nudify-female-politicians/
Hook, hold, harvest and hide: Meta’s alleged strategy laid out in first week of landmark trial
"Meta’s business can be boiled down to four words that begin with the letter H: hook, hold, harvest, hide, according to a lawyer who is prosecuting the world’s largest social media company.
The owner of Facebook and Instagram “hooks” in users, “holds” them on its platforms for as long as possible, “harvests” their data and then “hides” the truth from the public, she argued.
“Meta’s business model worked especially well for kids,” said Megan O’Neill, a lawyer for the state of California.
Her accusation opened the blockbuster trial against the US tech company on Tuesday in Oakland, California, just north of Meta’s headquarters in Silicon Valley. California has joined 28 other US states in suing the £1tn ($1.36tn) company for allegedly designing addictive products that lead to children being harmed."
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/aug/22/meta-trial-children-privacy
#ChildSafety #OnlineSafety #DataHarvesting #News #HumanRights #SocialMedia #Facebook #Meta #Activism
RE: https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/117133173684311534
You can detect who is wearing these things because they'll be a creepy man or boy behaving creepily and wearing sunglasses indoors...creepily.
The patent illustration directly shows a male directing his surveillant gaze at a woman. Plain and simple, openly and unambiguously, Meta is in the incel-tech business
"Other social media platforms will also be held to account." But ultimately, user agency also has a role to play here.
CNBC: No more doom scrolling or Instagram Stories? A Meta trial loss could end the social media we know https://www.cnbc.com/2026/08/21/meta-social-media-lawsuit-trial-instagram-facebook.html @CNBC #Meta #Instagram #Facebook
In short, Fediverse Report says that launching Threads as part of the Fediverse is basically dead in the water. They have decided not to pursue it in 2026, and nobody is actively developing it anymore.
Well, good riddance, I guess. It was fun before it even started. Many of us saw this coming. I would not be surprised if they phase it out completely over the next few years. The Fediverse was never a real priority for them, it was just marketing hype all along. Just like some open source LARPing from the Big Tech corporates.
Direct quote:
"Threads’ integration with the fediverse is on maintenance mode, says head of Threads Connor Hayes in an interview by Alex Heath. Hayes said about the fediverse: ““It’s something that we’re supporting, it’s something that we’re maintaining, but it’s not the thing that we’re talking about that’s gonna help the app break out”. In October 2023, Mark Zuckerberg gave an interview with Alex Heath, who asked him about decentralisation and open protocols, with Zuckerberg saying he “always believed in this stuff“. With the fediverse integration for Threads now in maintenance mode, this must surely be a big blow for Zuckerberg’s belief in decentralised social networking.
Threads’ integration with the fediverse was never popular, especially from the side of Threads. In January 2025 the mastodon.social knew about 25k Threads accounts which had turned on federation. But while that number is already low considering the total number of Threads users, the interest in actually following an account on Mastodon from Threads was even lower: in January 2025, only 800 Threads users followed at least one account on mastodon.social. Threads deliberately made it difficult to follow fediverse accounts, and later updates deprioritised the fediverse feed even more. Regardless, it is not particularly hard to understand why a platform that now boasts about having 400M monthly active users is not putting in much effort to maintain a complex system that only a few thousand people at best make use of."
https://connectedplaces.online/reports/fediverse-report-147/
#FediverseThreads #Threads #Meta #Fediverse #ActivityPub #Protocols #Platforms #SocialMedia #Mastodon
Mom knows her child... or thinks she does.
📊 Meta KNOWS it better, through data, tracking, algorithms. They know more about your child than yourself, and use this knowledge to keep them hooked to their platform.
That's not normal.
#meta #dataprivacy #privacy #algorithms #socialmedia #children
AP: Meta defends its child safety efforts but critics say the social media giant falls short https://apnews.com/article/meta-social-media-addiction-children-teens-0fb522327e48ac0389f8b476916a938e @AssociatedPress #Meta
fighting #Meta and big tech, one distant cousin at a time 😈
#ArcaneChat #decentralization #android #Europe #European #signal #telegram #family #encryption #bigtech
Meta's new model wants "deep access" to your personal life...
https://odysee.com/@fireship:6/meta%27s-new-model-wants-deep-access-to:1
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#artificialintelligence #ai #meta #api #zuckerberg #surveillance
U.S. Textbook Authors Sue OpenAI for Copyright Infringement
If AI companies are allowed to “continually update their content by ingesting new editions of textbooks as they come out," instructors and schools may consider dropping textbook adoptions altogether in favor of “substitutes” that rely on the use of LLM models, the suit argues.
The post U.S. Textbook Authors Sue OpenAI for Copyright Infringement appeared first on Publishing Perspectives.
https://publishingperspectives.com/2026/08/u-s-textbook-authors-sue-openai-for-copyright-infringement/
#Friedberg #Hessen
Ich komme am 27.09. mit meinem Solo und lasse Hirn regnen. Ich schwör! 🧠
Ich mache in meinem Programm mobil gegen #bigtech und die #afd und ganz viel Werbung für @kuketz den #diday und #digitalesouveraenitaet
Wäre toll, das Theater mit #fedipower voll zu bekommen, denn ich werbe NICHT über #Meta 💪
Also bitte #boosten 🙏
#Fb #Insta #tiktok #bigtech #unplugtrump
#lachen #kabarett #musik #live #theater #comedy #musikkabarett #kleinkunst #reinheim
Wer sich in der Schweiz schon einmal betätigen will: Campax hat eine Petition gestartet, die ein Verbot von Smart Glasses fordert und der man sich anschliessen kann. Dort wird insbesondere das heimliche Filmen von Frauen und Kindern mit anschliessender Veröffentlichung ohne Zustimmung der Betroffenen thematisiert, beispielsweise in Badis und Umkleidekabinen.
#SmartGlasses #Überwachung #Meta
https://act.campax.org/petitions/smart-glasses-stoppen
Meta won't be walking out of this one unscathed,
Reuters: Ex-Meta executive says Zuckerberg put growth before child safety https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/former-meta-engineer-resumes-testimony-landmark-trial-over-social-medias-harm-2026-08-19/ @Reuters #Meta #Zuckerberg
What a delightful new generation, part cyber crooks, part bullies. The future is in good hands.
Futurism: Teen Boys Are Using Meta Glasses to Harass and Bully Girls at High Schools and Middle Schools https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/teen-boys-meta-glasses-harass-bully-girls-school @Futurism #Meta #privacy
What sort of screwed-up, fu**ing parents buy their kid perv glasses?
Teen boys are using Meta's AI Glasses to film themselves harassing classmates at school, following girls around and "rizzing" them or "ragebaiting" them with insults. In several videos girls plead with the harasser to stop filming.
You just know this would have been Mark Zuckerberg back in the day.
#men #abuse #boys #meta #smartglasses
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/teen-boys-meta-glasses-harass-bully-girls-school
I know we have a few #blind people here who use the #meta #smartglasses. I'm scratching my head over whether it's time to go for a pair, the market seems to have slowed down to the point where I'm tempted, and I hope to see the second generation go through a price drop shortly. My problem, of course, is that I don't want to go out and buy them knowing nothing, it would be a headache and I would never know whether the problems I found were my own idiocy or real ones. Here are a few questions which I would appreciate answers to. Boosts are very welcome. First, and sorry this is so simple, it's a religious question for me and I need people with real experiences to answer it. I'm told there is a power switch. Is it a real switch which you can feel slide back and forth, or is it a button? To put it differently, can I, who have no light perception, tell if the glasses are on or off without reference to the app? My issue is will there be any time where I believe the glasses to be off but when they will be actually on? Is this sort of failure possible at all? Secondly, I don't want to use the AI at all. I may use it occasionally, but the main point of these will be to show my environment to people, BME/Aira is the sort of thing. Do they work well for that? Is the non-ai use more of a gimmick or does it work well? I ask because all the tutorials I've heard/read focus on the AI. I don't care about the AI. Finally, I have hearing aids and send my iPhone audio to a transmitter through the iPhone's wired output (lightning, in my case). I want the calls I make to be routed to the wired output, not to the glasses. How is this possible? I have asked this before but the answers have been inconclusive. When I call BME with the glasses and a person answers, where does the sound go? Does it go to the glasses, or does it go to the iPhone's output? What happens if I disconnect a lightning cable and plug it back in? Does it switch to that output, assuming it wasn't there before? Again, I know the AI goes to the glasses, but I don't care. Thanks to anyone who has read this screed, and particularly to @JamminJerry for giving me the necessary shove to finally ask all this.
Und? habt ihr #Facebook, #Insta. #WhatsApp und die anderen #Nazibars endlich verlassen? Brav. Die wollen nämlich nur an die Seelen euerer #Kinder und sind da zu allem bereit. Dafür werden sie jetzt in den USA verklagt, mit einem Streitwert von 1,4 Billionen Dollar (US-Trillionen), mehr als die Mutterfirma #Meta wert ist.
If we want #surveillance to be curtailed to any extent we need to watch the watchers.
Report everything. Surveil them so closely that they can't scratch their butts without it appearing somewhere online.
Monitor their cars, planes, everything!
Let them know how it feels to be watched, quantified and reported on non-stop.
So, aside from possibly being able to visually identify them, does anyone have any ideas on how exactly one might be able to scan for or detect #PervertGlasses in the wild? With #Apple now sinking to a similar low as #Meta with their next model AirPods, these bloody things are gonna be showing up everywhere.
Boston Police Department: Officers Arrest Suspect for Recording Children Using Camera Sunglasses at the Boston Common Frog Pond
"...Upon arrival, officers spoke to a witness who stated that he observed an unknown male arguing with the suspect. Officers spoke with multiple witnesses who stated that the suspect was recording children in the playground by utilizing sunglasses with a camera installed in them. Witnesses further stated the suspect also used his cell phone to record the children.
Additional witnesses stated the suspect used the glasses to record a family who was attempting to change their children, who were wrapped in a towel for privacy. When the family attempted to move due to the suspect’s behavior, he followed them, scanning the children up and down with the camera sunglasses...."
ICE agents can't wear Meta glasses while they work, official memo warns
Smart glasses have become a recurring accessory amid the immigration crackdown.
#Tech #Gadgets #AI #Cybersecurity #Engadget #Meta #WorkplacePolicy #SmartGlasses #GovernmentRegulations #ImmigrationCrypeacks updates #CorporateRestrictions #WorkplaceTechnology #TechPolicy [Engadget]
@bitbear great insight. Forgive me here, but I think this deserves a poll.
The road to hell 👹 is paved with (please check that all that apply):
#microsoft #Meta #Instagram #javascript #slop #AI #docker #google #SocialMedia
| Frictionless convenience: | 0 |
| Microsoft Products: | 0 |
| Meta apps (Instagram, Facebook, etc.): | 0 |
| The Google Playstore: | 0 |
| Those really hard drugs: | 0 |
| TikTok (or other short-form videos): | 0 |
| Slop: | 0 |
| Docker containers: | 0 |
| Node.js, npm: | 0 |
| Javascript: | 0 |
| Smartphones: | 0 |
| "Network Effects" (large networks highly valuable): | 0 |
Procesul împotriva #Meta privind prejudiciile aduse minorilor începe marți în #California.
Statele cer despăgubiri de 200 de miliarde 💵#USD.
Finally.
Reuters: Meta faces 29-state trial that could reshape Instagram and Facebook https://www.reuters.com/world/us/meta-faces-29-state-trial-that-could-reshape-instagram-facebook-2026-08-18/ @Reuters #Meta #Instagram #Facebook
when recording the glasses should constantly yell 'HEY THIS WEIRDO IS RECORDING YOU' over and over again
LEAVING META
WITHOUT LEAVING YOUR LIFE 💎
After my posting about Meta over the past two days, one thing became very clear.
A lot of people would LIKE to leave Facebook, Instagram, or both. But parts of their actual lives are all tangled up in them.
So don’t make leaving a purity test. Start somewhere. Remove Facebook from your phone and use it only on your laptop, or better still, only on your desktop when you genuinely need it.
STOP POSTING TO META. STOP FEEDING THE TIMELINE.
Move conversations with real friends to your email, text, Signal, phone calls, Mastodon account, or wherever works for you, away from Meta.
TELL PEOPLE WHERE ELSE THEY CAN EASILY FIND YOU.
If you run a business, start putting your email address and/or website URL everywhere you promote your business so Facebook is not your only front door.
Download anything you actually want to keep. Then, when you’re ready, deactivate or delete what you no longer need.
Maybe you keep Messenger for Aunt Doris. Maybe you keep Instagram because your local café apparently believes websites were abolished in 2014.
Fine.
The point isn’t ideological cleanliness.
THE POINT IS REDUCING YOUR DEPENDENCE.
Every conversation you move elsewhere is one conversation Meta no longer owns the doorway to.
YOU DON'T HAVE TO ESCAPE THE META CAGE IN ONE HEROIC LEAP.
Just start opening the door.
#Meta #Facebook #Instagram #SocialMedia #Fediverse #people #DEPENDENCE #Messenger
I read all 233 pages of Meta’s $1.4 trillion lawsuit — here’s why Facebook and Instagram may never be the same
I read all 233 pages of Meta’s $1.4 trillion youth addiction lawsuit. From ending the like button to killing infinite scroll, here is what could change.
#Tech #SocialMedia #Meta #Facebook #Instagram #Lawsuit #Privacy #YouthAddiction [Tom's Guide Deals]
Everyone I know who has told me they still have a Facebook account, also says that they never/hardly check it.
I'm hoping Meta servers are filling up with dormant/rarely used accounts.
But you know me - my advice is just to delete your Meta accounts (including WhatsApp) and rely on other products.
I mean, texting still works for a start (as long as you're aware of the lack of privacy/encryption).
Der WDR richtet in Kürze seine Social-Media-Angebote neu aus.
Das Fediverse wird nicht mit gedacht.
https://presse.wdr.de/plounge/wdr/unternehmen/2026/04/20260421_fokus_auf_digitale_information.html
Ich möchte keine GEZ Gebühren an Youtube, Meta und Tiktok verplempern, wenn nicht wenigstens auch Mastodon oder Peertube bespielt werden.
Ich habe gerade schon hingeschrieben.
Vielleicht sollten wir alle mal dort anfragen?
https://www1.wdr.de/kontakt/index.html
#örr #wdr #journalismus #meta #bigtech #unplugtrump #fckbigtech #gez #freierjournalismus #facebook #insta
Meta Platforms is headed to court for a showdown with a coalition of state attorneys general over claims that the company deliberately designed Facebook and Instagram to encourage compulsive use among young users. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2026/08/18/tech/meta-trillion-dollar-social-media-trial/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #tech #meta #markzuckerberg #socialmedia #instagram #facebook
"For Meta, the stakes are especially high because the company is currently facing thousands of other lawsuits that accuse it of harming users."
#news #TechNews #meta #facebook #SocialMedia #SocialMediaLawsuit #SocialMediaTrial
Meta is facing another trial over social media addiction, the latest test for the platform that is facing thousands of lawsuits, including accusations of the impact its apps have on teen mental health. @Engadget has more:
Four states are suing Meta over its behavior towards children, and are seeking up to $1.4 trillion in penalties and product changes. Follow the landmark case, which is being compared to litigation against tobacco and opioid manufacturers, via this Surf search.
Das genau macht ein #Dashcam falsch und eine #Meta #Brille anders? Denn:
"In Deutschland ist der dauerhafte, anlasslose Betrieb einer Dashcam verboten. Erlaubt sind nur kurze, anlassbezogene und mit einem Ringspeicher versehene Aufnahmen."
Aber das ist dann ok?
"Vor Smart Glasses sind Menschen nirgends sicher. Man muss jederzeit damit rechnen, gefilmt und dann im Internet bloßgestellt zu werden«"
Brave new world
Sooo, #DanielleSmith’s #UCP don't care if #META #datacenters create blackouts in winter. Got it. 🇨🇦 🇺🇸 #Cdnpoli #ABpoli #Ableg #Cdnsecurity
Die Bundesnetzagentur sieht bei Metas Kamera-Brille kein Problem: Eine kleine LED zeigt schließlich an, wenn aufgenommen wird.
Perfekt. Dann können wir Überwachung künftig einfach mit einem Lämpchen legalisieren.
Gesichtserkennung, Daueraufzeichnung, Mikrofon, Social Graph – alles halb so wild.
LED an = Privatsphäre gewahrt. 🚨
Hope it can be improved even further :)
(https://prismo.zip/federation/actors/43aff374-1c8d-452b-b8df-002b07b80d73)