Most of “AI” is a rebranded side effect of the surveillance technology.
Social Media platforms
Google’s YouTube Music is now testing “AI” radio announcers, mainly to mess up the experience of people who paid to get music without interruptions.
How does YouTube verify student’s educational status?
Sunday, September 28, 2025 • 2 min read
Identity verification is a multi-national industry that remixes data between educational institutions, advertisers, and governments.
Surprisingly, totally awful lack of ‘security’ on a call-recording application that sells people’s private conversations to unknown “AI” companies. Why in the world are such clearly malicious applications allowed on mobile application stores?
Wednesday, September 24, 2025 →
YouTube goes full speed towards disasters.
Moderation in a challenge on social media platforms
Monday, September 22, 2025 • 1 min read
All platforms (including Mastodon) are required to do certain levels of moderation to stay compliant with the laws and regulations.
Out-out from LinkedIn’s GenAI data mining
Thursday, September 18, 2025 • 1 min read
You should opt-out from the data mining of your posts.
Bluesky adds Saved Posts feature
Monday, September 8, 2025 • 3 min read
Overview of a new feature from Bluesky platform.
Problems with social media platforms
Monday, September 8, 2025 • 1 min read
Platforms are structurally different from each other, even when they compete with each other (with a similar set of features).
Many people seem to be considering to move away from GitHub, but even while their own repositories might move away from it, most of the Open Source software dependencies are still going to stay on GitHub. Largely because it is slow to move communities from one platfrom to another.