cpbsy

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[–] cpbsy@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

It's gaudy, fake, ugly, unsustainable and stupid.

Are you talking about the U.S. President?

[–] cpbsy@lemmy.world 24 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

From the article:

Key findings

  • In both democratic and authoritarian contexts, technologies are being deployed in ways that erode, and in some cases effectively dismantle, human rights.
  • Technology use risks facilitating or amplifying repressive practices and systems, and becoming an instrument of authoritarian governance.
  • Surveillance technologies are being expanded and entrenched with the purpose of exerting control over entire populations and/or specific groups of people such as journalists and human rights defenders.
  • The authoritarian use of technology is ultimately having a ‘chilling effect’.
  • Some technologies are disproportionately intrusive by design and should not be used.
  • Technologies’ use is often incompatible with the rule of law, lack redress and raise mass impunity risks.
  • A lack of transparency facilitates the authoritarian use of technologies.
 

... specifically, the thing to deliver alerts from your servers to your phone or whatever. I'm using Discord, because it doesn't depend on my own infrastructure, and I can make a private "alerts" channel on my private server. But I'd like to switch to something that's not Discord. I'm using alertmanager, FWIW.

[–] cpbsy@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Both things can be true.

I want to read a certain kind of fiction because it's different from my life.