On te dit que Twitter est mort, mais X, ce sont 500 millions de comptes. Mastodon, quelques millions. Au rythme actuel, mastodon aura siphonné X ds 150 ans en étant optimiste.
On te dit que Twitter est mort, mais X, ce sont 500 millions de comptes. Mastodon, quelques millions. Au rythme actuel, mastodon aura siphonné X ds 150 ans en étant optimiste.
Je n’ai pas tenté le calcul pour connaître la date où Seenthis aura siphonné X, FB, TT, Snapchat, et Insta...
Elon Musk’s X follower count bloated by millions of new, inactive accounts
▻https://mashable.com/article/elon-musk-x-twitter-follower-data
We took a close look at Elon Musk’s more than 150 million followers on X aka Twitter. What we found is…concerning.
D’un autre côté, ses fachos, il peut se les garder.
Le problème est que ses fachos volent en escadrille et que celle de Musk se nomme Starlink.
▻https://seenthis.net/messages/1013541
« Quand on mettra les cons sur orbite ils ont pas fini de tourner »
voilà, c’est fait et la concurrence pousse au portillon.
Le problème c’est que ça reste un outil de communication de masse, et que les gens qui veulent toucher du monde continueront de l’utiliser, à la façon dont LinkedIn ou Facebook sont toujours utilisés par nos proches familiaux ou professionnels.
Microsoft waters down ’productivity score’ surveillance tool after backlash
▻https://mashable.com/article/microsoft-365-productivity-score-workplace-surveillance-backlash/?europe=true
Even in a world of ever-increasing employee tracking, Microsoft knows it went too far. The company announced Tuesday that, following widespread backlash, it will scale back recently announced additions to its suite of Microsoft 365 products. They let employers track employees’ digital actions in granular detail under the guise of workplace efficiency. Dubbed “Productivity Score,” the tool was announced via blog post in October, but gained notoriety in late November when Wolfie Christl, a (...)
#Microsoft #algorithme #ProductivityScore #écoutes #surveillance #travail
Facebook improperly gave users’ data to third-party developers, again
▻https://mashable.com/article/facebook-gave-users-data-5000-third-party-developers/?europe=true
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before : Facebook gave user data to third-party developers, even after specifically telling users it wouldn’t. In a Wednesday blog post, Facebook announced that (oops !) thousands of developers continued to receive updates to users’ non-public information well past the point when they should have. Specifically, Facebook said that, for an unspecified number of users, it failed to cut off the data spigot — like it promised it would back in 2018 — 90 days after a (...)
Uber and Lyft have coronavirus tips for drivers, but not health insurance or paid sick days
▻https://mashable.com/article/uber-lyft-ride-sharing-coronavirus
Uber und Lyft haben für ihre Fahrer vor allem Tipps auf Lager. Echte Hilfe um die Corona-Krise zu überdauern gibt es nicht, kein Geld, keine Ausstattung, keine verlässlichen Zusagen.
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Uber and Lyft are giving drivers tips on how to the avoid the coronavirus. What drivers aren’t getting: money to see a doctor or stay at home if they’re feeling sick.
Already there have been 62 recorded cases of the respiratory illness, and six related deaths, in the U.S. Worldwide the death toll is over 3,056 with China, South Korea, Iran, and Italy hit the hardest.
In response to the crisis, on Friday, Uber sent advice to drivers and delivery workers, including, “If you feel sick, stay home,” and, “Clean and disinfect frequently touched surfaces in your vehicle.” Lyft’s coronavirus site offered advice like, “Take care of yourself,” "Keep your car clean," and “Stay informed.”
Facial and voice recognition in cars sounds like a privacy nightmare
▻https://mashable.com/article/facial-voice-recognition-biometric-data-ai-ces/?europe=true
At CES, software company Xperi demonstrated it’s developing different interfaces that use facial recognition. It’s building one for the car that knows who you are when you get in, then monitors your emotion state and how you’re behaving. Even your body position is tracked, so if you’re sitting in an ’unsafe’ way the car can let you know. Some driver monitoring for your next drive @Xperi_ #ces2020 pic.twitter.com/wTPU80abdw — Sasha Lekach (@sashajol) January 9, 2020 Valeo’s head health (...)
#BMW #algorithme #biométrie #automobilistes #émotions #facial #reconnaissance #surveillance
Facebook wants to build a mind-reading wristband
▻https://mashable.com/article/facebook-acquires-ctrl-labs-wristband-reads-your-mind/?europe=true
Facebook wants to know what you’re going to do before you do it, and the company is well on its way toward making that (admittedly creepy) dream a reality.
Andrew Bosworth, Facebook’s vice president of VR and AR, announced Monday the acquisition of “neural interface platform” CTRL-labs. The stated goal of the acquisition is to build a wristband that “captures your intention” by reading electrical signals sent through your body.
It’s all in the ostensible name of “empowering you with control over your digital life,” and, coming from a company that has repeatedly misled users regarding matters of privacy and personal data, sounds a tad bit sketchy.
“You have neurons in your spinal cord that send electrical signals to your hand muscles telling them to move in specific ways such as to click a mouse or press a button,” he wrote in a Facebook post. “The wristband will decode those signals and translate them into a digital signal your device can understand, empowering you with control over your digital life.”
Because control over your digital life definitely equals letting Facebook decode and interpret your body’s electrical signals.
But wait, there’s more. Bosworth continued that the benefit of this technological breakthrough will be ... easier photo sharing?
“It captures your intention so you can share a photo with a friend using an imperceptible movement or just by, well, intending to,” he explained.
Google tells employees to stop ’raging’ about politics and fall in line
▻https://mashable.com/article/google-community-guidelines-politics/?europe=true
Google hired you to work, not to be a human being with independent thoughts about the hellscape world in which you now find yourself toiling away. The Mountain View, Calif.-based tech giant known for at one time secretly developing a censored search engine for China and helping the U.S. military make drones more lethal issued new “community guidelines” for its employees, reports Bloomberg, and you had better believe “don’t be evil” is nowhere on the list. Instead, the stricture implores (...)