> I would probably make the crawlers work an little harder for their supper I'm not sure this concerns me; https://pluralistic.net/2023/09/17/how-to-think-about-scraping/ My main concern is making them available to the historical record. > than Flickr which they will have a big old tap into already True also of Wikipedia Commons, and why not? Like the works archived there, most of the images on Flickr are public domain or under copyright licenses that explicitly allow and indeed encourage re-use.

Side note: earlier in the interview Ongweso Jr mentions tech writers mistaking Uber (and AirBnB, etc) for a brave new "sharing economy", where apps facilitate peer-to-peer exchanges among citizens, to unlock the economic value of underused assets. Remember that old chestnut? Called it. Back in 2015; https://web.archive.org/web/20200924182435/https://thedailyblog.co.nz/2015/11/12/guest-blog-daniel-strypey-bruce-crowdsourcing-or-outsourcing-who-benefits/ Intriguingly this article seems to have been removed from TDB. Maybe a good candidate for a repost on the new Ghost-based Disintermedia.net.nz? #Crowdsourcing #Outsourcing

What I have in mind is an organised, mass-participation campaign. Where we; * identify specific ways DataFarmers routinely violate our privacy * carefully design a way to do the same thing to public agencies, officials and politicians, which is annoying and hopefully embarrassing, but not otherwise harmful (especially for individual targets) * get dozens (or even better hundreds, and eventually thousands) of kiwis to join in. (2/?)

"Meta’s surveillance isn’t limited to your online activity. The company also encourages businesses to send them data about your offline purchases and interactions. Even deleting your Facebook and Instagram accounts won’t stop Meta from harvesting your personal data. Meta in 2018 admitted to collecting information about non-users, including their contact details and browsing history." #LenaCohen, 2025 https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/01/mad-meta-dont-let-them-collect-and-monetize-your-personal-data Isn't this illegal in NZ under the Privacy Act? #privacy #PrivacyAct

> This is why the sane fedi admins have all defederated bluesky. It is not a fediverse service. It is just another form of control Defederating other AP-federated services over ideological differences is not a fediverse service, it's just another form of control.