Patrick Leavy
@patrickleavy.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
Save democracy - Switch away from Big Tech products at https://rebeltechalliance.org/ (where I'm a co-founder) 🌉 bridged from ⁂ https://mastodon.social/@patrickleavy, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact
RE: https://eupolicy.social/@johnnyryan/117359172218812304 🤦♂️ ffs you couldn't make it up 😔
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RE: https://mastodon.online/@iode/117348945973820689 I've just started using iodéOS and what they're saying is true - they block all that crap. And Google aren't even in the phone to begin with so it's a win-win!
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RE: https://eupolicy.social/@johnnyryan/117348111976098519 OMG great news! And congratulations @johnnyryan this has been a long time coming. You must have endless patience 😵💫
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RE: https://social.openrightsgroup.org/@openrightsgroup/117336385496326440 Wtf. Is the UK moving towards US style oppression?
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A bit of Friday fun with our anti- #bigtech #game Boulder Bros https://www.rebeltechalliance.org/boulder-bros.html Score over 300 or the "Dark money bros" get away! Works really well in mobile too.
Boulder Bros
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RE: https://neuromatch.social/@jonny/117325356932250166 Surprised. Not surprised. Meta = #surveillance after all. But holy fuck, the fact that this guy could so easily extract everything from Meta's new #AI product. Not only are #Meta callous and unethical, they're lazy and feckless too 😳
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@vicfroh/116745379378489966 This series of posters was amazing
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https://www.thenerve.news/p/cory-doctorow-ai-superintelligence-openai-anthropic-google-meta A useful perspective on the #HuggingFace #AI hack, from @pluralistic
Cory Doctorow: AI’s big beasts aren’t really scared of their products. They’re scared of their competition
The US giants would love to stop battling each other and be protected from China – and they might have hit on just the narrative to make that possible, writes our tech columnist
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Exclusive: US military had close call after using AI for false intelligence report, sources say | CNN Politics https://edition.cnn.com/2026/09/18/politics/us-military-ai-false-intelligence-china-ship "AI can make mistakes. Double check important data" 😳
RE: https://mastodon.social/@_elena/117304193008686352 Proud to be a fellow rebel with you! We are https://www.rebeltechalliance.org/
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@Bron1954/117273754450902809 I wonder whether historians will look back when all the corporations have been terminated and call the period we're living through the Corporate Age ?
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This is an important study for any #parents to see: #TikTok doesn't give a shit about child account guardrail settings https://peoplevsbig.tech/tiktoks-parental-controls-fail-to-protect-children-from-suicide-self-harm-and-eating-disorder-content/ They immediately show them #eatingdisorder and […]
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And another #Google #spyware device bites the dust: I've flashed a Pixel 8a with IodéOS 🥳 Thank you, @iode your OS is really great. My son already uses it - the advanced DNS blocker is amazing! A daily time limit control would be the icing on the cake 😊 This is such a positive boost to mental […]
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Another one bites the dust.... Another #Microsoft Surface gets flashed with #LinuxMint 🥳 It's an old one (pro-4) and was really sluggish with Windows. It's nice and fast with #Linux now!
RE: https://social.openrightsgroup.org/@openrightsgroup/117269151167251696 I'll try and get along to this. Important topic - we wrote about it here: https://blog.rebeltechalliance.org/back-door-surveillance-state/
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Mother Horrified When Meta's AI Scours Instagram and Facebook for Invasive Information About Her Young Daughters https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/mother-horrified-meta-ai-family This is gross. Please boycott #Meta
Mother Horrified When Meta’s AI Scours Instagram and Facebook for Invasive Information About Her Young Daughters
"It just kept going and going, and that pit in my stomach just kept getting bigger and deeper." The post Mother Horrified When Meta’s AI Scours Instagram and Facebook for Invasive Information About Her Young Daughters appeared first on Futurism.
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https://www.mullvad.net/en/blog/2026/9/10/another-way-to-leak-traffic-on-android-has-been-discovered/ @iode and @murena will you work on a patch for this? Given that Google aren't going to, this would really be a good look for your services!
Another way to leak traffic on Android has been discovered
A newly discovered leak in Android allows any app to send traffic outside the VPN tunnel.
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https://vivaldi.com/android/new/ Good news - #Vivaldi now supports extensions on Android! I've immediately installed Ublock Origin and Privacy Badger 😁
What's New in Vivaldi
What’s New in Vivaldi
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How to add a custom search engine to your browser: In the Search Engines section of your browser's settings, find the area to 'Add custom search', and paste in the search engine's URL with: /search?q=%s on the end. So for Uruky it's https://uruky.com/search?q=%s or for Mojeek it's […]
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#Events we're speaking at: https://www.rebeltechalliance.org/events.html One this saturday, one next month
Rebel Tech Alliance
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Not in the mood for serious tech changes? Have a look at our 'Other Alts' page and try out something less taxing! https://www.rebeltechalliance.org/otheralts.html (My personal favourite: LocalSend)
Rebel Tech Alliance
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Rebel Tech Alliance https://www.rebeltechalliance.org/ are presenting a workshop at the Love & Rage event this Saturday 11.30am in London. Free tickets here: https://www.tickettailor.com/events/extinctionrebellionukloverage/2328520 Brendan and I will show you how to escape #BigTech addiction […]
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Please, please, please if you're a parent - have a look through our Parent's Guide page: https://www.rebeltechalliance.org/parents.html Its organised by age group and the content in the Learn Together section could save their life. Please watch those videos/films and read those books together […]
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