it is a bit ironical to recommend #Signal, a centralized American service that runs on #Amazon, #Google and #Microsoft services and depends heavily on them spending millions each year just to pay to Amazon and then in an #European context recommend that as "digital independence"

Some people say it is a compromise, but the bar is way too low if you recommend Signal at the “digital independence day”. At this point It's about selling a feeling instead of actual accomplishment

#Europe #digitalindependence #diday #did #autonomy #freedom #Sovereignty

The future many of us knew and never bought into it. #amazon #gaming #enshittification https://mobilesyrup.com/2026/04/10/amazon-dumps-game-purchases-third-party-stores-on-luna/

Well, this really sucks, for a variety of reasons. Amazon is ending support for all of its Kindle ebook readers released before 2012. Yeah, that's old, but they're simple devices, and I've got several that still work fine. Even if the batteries die, they're relatively easy to replace (unlike a lot of newer devices). Now they're locked down and basically e-waste.
https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/08/amazon-to-end-support-for-older-kindle-devices-2012/
#amazon #kindle

Ah ah ah, DeepL qui communique sur le fait qu'a partir du 09 janvier 2026, ils utiliseront AWS pour améliorer la fiabilité 😭

@ueeu @go_european

#deepl #aws #amazon

Amazon: Ältere Kindles dürfen keine E-Books mehr herunterladen

Vom Store waren sie schon länger abgeschnitten, nun können sie E-Books auch nicht mehr herunterladen: Amazon fährt den Support für ältere Kindles zurück.

https://www.heise.de/news/Amazon-Aeltere-Kindles-duerfen-keine-E-Books-mehr-herunterladen-11247180.html?wt_mc=sm.red.ho.mastodon.mastodon.md_beitraege.md_beitraege&utm_source=mastodon

#Amazon #eBook #Entertainment #news

Amazon are killing off their old Kindles - notably the ones which still let you remove DRM from their ebooks.
I suspect that it is also because they can't connect to modern TLS servers.
A shame, although I was only using it for stripping DRM.
There are a few jailbreaks but the hardware and software is ancient, so I might have to repurpose mine as yet another semi-passive display.
#Amazon #Kindle #DRM

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Dear Customer, Thank you for being a longtime Kindle customer. We're glad our devices have served you well for as long as they have. Starting May 20, 2026 — 14 to 18 years after their initial launches — we are discontinuing support for Kindle devices released in 2012 or earlier. Here's what this means for you: * You can continue to read books already downloaded on these devices, but you will not be able to purchase, borrow, or download additional books on them after that date. * If you deregister or factory reset these devices, you will not be able to re-register or use these devices in any way. Affected devices include Kindle 1st and 2nd Generation, Kindle DX and DX Graphite, Kindle Keyboard, Kindle 4, Kindle Touch, Kindle 5, and Kindle Paperwhite 1st Generation. To minimize any disruption, we're offering a promotional code for 20% off

AWS has removed Bahrain's cloud computing instances from its documentation after they were bombed by Iran.

#Iran #USA #Amazon #WarOnIran #IranStrikesBack #Bahrain #EpsteinWar

#News: #Study reveals tropical #birds 🦜🪶are dying at alarming rates in the #Amazon 🇧🇷🇪🇨🇨🇴 due to human-induced #ClimateChange, heat stress 🥵 and habitat shifts. Demand corporate accountability #ClimateActionNow, be #vegan and 🌴🪔⛔️ #BoycottPalmOil https://wp.me/pcFhgU-a5w?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=Palm+Oil+Detectives&utm_campaign=publer

“Brazil's new climate plan prioritizes stopping all deforestation

President Lula is pledging to reduce deforestation to zero by 2030 and is calling for a reduction of greenhouse gases by 67% compared with 2005 levels.”

https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2026/03/17/brazil-s-new-climate-plan-prioritizes-stopping-deforestation_6751513_4.html

#Climate #Brazil #Biodiversity #Forest #Rainforest #Amazon #Bresil

SRAM. Static RAM. The stuff used for CPU caches, including AMD's 3D chips.

There have been mumbles of CPU prices spiking like DRAM....this may be part of why.

"Companies like Cerebras, Groq, and d-Matrix are designing AI inference chips that use massive amounts of on-chip SRAM instead of relying on external DRAM (HBM), which significantly reduces latency and power consumption."

nVidia bought Groq. Amazon and Cerebras just signed a deal. Cerebras’ WSE-3 chip includes 900,000 cores and 44 gigabytes of on-chip SRAM.

Wait for it...............

#ai #dram #memory #sram #datacenters #gpu #cerebras #groq #amazon #nvidia

#AI⁉️”#Amazon is holding a mandatory meeting about🚨AI BREAKING ITS SYSTEMS. The official framing is "part of normal business." The briefing note describes a trend of🚨incidents with "high blast radius" caused by "Gen-AI assisted changes" for which "best practices and safeguards are not yet fully established."

We gave AI to engineers & things keep breaking? The response for now?🚨Junior & mid-level engineers can no longer push AI-assisted code w/o a senior signing off…”
-L Olejnik
#Tech #USPol

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An excerpt from a tweet by Lukasz Olejnik discussing Amazon's internal meeting about AI issues affecting its systems. The tweet highlights incidents caused by AI-assisted changes, the need for senior approval on code submissions, and a significant recovery effort after a problem

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The image contains a text excerpt discussing Amazon's ecommerce sector, highlighting a meeting convened to analyze recent service outages linked to AI coding tools. It mentions a trend of incidents and contributing factors related to Gen-AI assistance.

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The image features a text excerpt discussing corporate policies regarding AI-assisted changes at Amazon. It mentions that junior and mid-level engineers will need senior approval for such changes and describes the review of website availability as part of normal business and continuous improvement efforts.

"When authoritarianism is on rise, you can count on the richest, least vulnerable men on the planet to be the biggest cowards."

Bradley Whitford

#BigTech #Oligarchy #Greed #FarRight #Authoritarianism #Cowardice #Meta #X #Amazon #Google

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"When authoritarianism is on rise, you can count on the richest, least vulnerable men on the planet to be the biggest cowards." Bradley Whitford

How US Big Tech is doing in our 🇬🇧 house:

#Google ➡️ Proton 🇨🇭

Google Maps ➡️ #CoMaps 🇺🇳

#Chrome / #Edge ➡️ #Vivaldi 🇳🇴

Stock #Android ➡️ #GrapheneOS 🇨🇦

#Windows ➡️ #LinuxMint 🇺🇳

#WhatsApp ➡️ #Signal 🇺🇸 (Non-Profit)

#Facebook / #Twitter / #Discord ➡️ #Mastodon Green 🇩🇪

#Amazon ➡️ Currys / John Lewis / HMV / Qobuz / Waterstones / local shops 🇬🇧 🇪🇺

#eBay ➡️ Vinted 🇱🇹

It can be done people! Slowly but surely...

#LeaveBigTech #US #BigTech

How big tech stole $35 Trillion from the public

Besides, techno-feudalism, I like the term because it describes the situation much better than capitalism.

#yanisvaroufakis #bigtech #google #amazon #facebook

All these people who claim they can't afford to pay for a privacy-minded alternative to #Google or #Microsoft all don't have #Amazon or #Netflix subscriptions, right?

The winter 2025 #Bulletin features five great articles on lax licenses, #Nintendo #DRM, and #Amazon #Ring: https://u.fsf.org/49n #FSF

"Protesters Demand Amazon Cut Ties With ICE and Palantir

Following Ring dropping Flock Safety, protesters demand Amazon go further and end its surveillance partnerships.

As backlash against Big Tech’s complicity with President Donald Trump’s authoritarian agenda grows, 200 to 250 people gathered on a rainy Seattle afternoon outside Amazon’s headquarters on Friday to demand that the company “dump” its support for Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection, which they illustrated by dumping ice onto the grass."

#ICE #Boycott #Amazon #Google #Tech #Meta #Microsoft #Apple #Fascism #Antifa #Surveillance #privacy

https://truthout.org/articles/protesters-demand-amazon-cut-ties-with-ice-and-palantir/

RE: https://fosstodon.org/@freesoftwarecaucus/116044319219626280

I volunteer with these folks in advocacy of #FreeSoftware. For those of us that don't want to be subject to the #privacy violations of #Google, #Microsoft, #Apple, #Amazon, #Meta, there is a lot we can be doing to build and support the ecosystem of privacy respecting #libre software.

There are thousands of folks, including those that built the Fediverse, doing this work every single day. We should all be doing our part to support them.

Not only that, we can all help our friends, family and fellow workers learn more about why Free Software is the better choice in terms of human rights, equality, user freedom and even our use of natural resources.

Please consider following and supporting the work we're doing to counter #bigtech. We can build a better #tech experience that is repairable and focused on serving users and communities rather than billionaire oligarchs.

Fuck those guys. Join us!

USians who have a problem with #ICE, a poll. Amazon is an ICE service provider. They're making millions in profit by providing ICE infrastructure.

Bezos is generally bootlicking and aside from that #Amazon has increasingly shown itself to be an increasingly enshittified company. I'm not going to try to list all the reasons.

I'm sure I could come up with additional answers but this will do.

#Boycott #BigTech #Tech #Fascism

Muito feliz porque hoje saiu o estudo que fiz para o Instituto de Defesa de Consumidores (IDEC), sobre os #datacenters e os impactos #socioambientais e #climáticos na #AméricaLatina. No estudo analisei casos onde grandes players da indústria (#microsoft, #google, #amazon), empresas emergentes nesta indústria, como a TikTok, entre outras, vem afetando comunidades inteiras na região (Chile, Uruguai, México e #brasil) pela implantação das grandes infraestruturas dos data centers e sua demanda intensiva de água, terra, e energia. Identifiquei que o comportamento da indústria possui caraterísticas próprias do que vem sendo chamado de #colonialismo de #dados. Nos casos estudados, vimos a resistência das comunidades contra estas grandes empresas que vem se aproveitando de leis e políticas laxas de regulação ambiental da indústria para se apropriar de terra, água e energia, trazendo com isso impactos negativos nos ecossistemas, biodiversidade e qualidade do ar, assim como também, um aumento no custo da energia e perda de acesso à água, entre outros aspectos problemáticos.
Também analisei as políticas de atração da indústria impulsionadas pelo governo federal e estadual e os pontos problemáticos da mesma, em contraste com a ausência de dispositivos e políticas de regulação da indústria. Finalmente levantamos 15 pontos com recomendações para evitar que o Brasil vire quintal de data center e estabeleça políticas públicas e medidas de cuidado da nossa #SoberaniaDigital e da natureza.

Leia e descarregue o estudo aqui: https://idec.org.br/pdf/idec_estudo-nao-somos-quintal-de-data-centers.pdf

Veja a live na Câmara de Deputados sobre a Formação relacionada ao tema e o lançamento do relatório: https://www.youtube.com/live/nzNihpbm4z0

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Arte com o seguinte texto em destaque: "Não somos quintal de data centers: um estudo sobre os impactos socioambientais e climáticos dos data centers na América Latina". Abaixo do texto há uma ilustração de uma pessoa tentando segurar uma parede sendo empurrada por uma grande infraestrutura com aparência de monstro.

Pra quem não quiser nem executar JavaScript do Nextcloud, também é possível descarregar diretamente o PDF (10MB) do relatório Contratos, códigos e controle: a influência das Big Techs no estado brasileiro, de Cugler et al., com esta ligação: https://my.opendesktop.org/s/JKSJbSoEsQ5Fq42/download/jul.%202025.%20Contratos,%20C%C3%B3digos%20e%20Controle%20-%20A%20Influ%C3%AAncia%20das%20Big%20Techs%20no%20Estado%20Brasileiro%20-%20Ergon%20Cugler,%20Isabela%20Rocha,%20Jos%C3%A9%20Carlos%20Vaz,%20Julia%20Veneziani,%20Camila%20Modanez.pdf

Alternativamente, também no CryptPad: https://cryptpad.disroot.org/file/#/2/file/WYa4QexNrCtCu8EckQj0IUrP/

#Brasil #SoberaniaDigital #BigTech #tecnologia #governo #gestãoPública #cloud #Google #Microsoft #Oracle #Amazon #RedHat