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by akagusu 5y ago
I think people didn't understand the article but nothing it says can be considered FUD. The article is saying a privacy-focused decentralized software is using a central server even when you self-host the software and is collecting dat
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by akagusu 5y ago
These kind of policies don't have the Iran government as target, they target Iran citizens. By making the lives of Iran citizens miserable, the US government expects the Iran citizens to go against their government. If citizens put eno
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by akagusu 5y ago
People are stopping to eat meat because animal suffering (although nobody cares about human suffering when buying stuff made by modern slaves). If people stop eating plants because plants suffering what people would eat?
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by akagusu 5y ago
This is just a big corporation forcing people to buy stuff that otherwise they wouldn't buy.
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by akagusu 5y ago
This conversation is not about remote work but wage reduction. Before the pandemic, companies had employed remote workers and paid them based on business value, but now they want to pay us based on the location we live. They are creating a
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by akagusu 5y ago
Every big company IS intentionally trying to gatekeep their markets.
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by akagusu 5y ago
A service can be indispensable but a company is not. People believe this because they buy PR and marketing BS.
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by akagusu 5y ago
1. It doesn't matter the name you give to what is happening , if they can't access the internet, in practice they are blocked. 2. People use cloudflare not because it is the best product but because they have a good marketing and
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by akagusu 5y ago
Cloudflare does not host your website for free, a paid customer is paying more on its plan to subsidize your website.
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by akagusu 5y ago
Do you have numbers to show us your point or are you just repeating marketing BS?
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by akagusu 5y ago
Why people are still using and promoting Cloudflare when the company is repeatedly trying to position itself as an internet gatekeeper? There is already a consensus that internet gatekeeping is bad for people, so why people are volunteering
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by akagusu 5y ago
I saw a lot of comments arguing about technical requirements, but companies like Google, Apple, Facebook, and others, don't do what they do because technical requirements. They do because they want control. More control they have over
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by akagusu 5y ago
You don't own your device, you are just licensing it. When you pay for a device you are only paying a license to use the device, since you need a firmware to run the device and the firmware is licensed to you without any ownership tran
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by akagusu 5y ago
Drug dealers: blame our customers not us for selling drugs No one will ever accept this kind of argument from a drug dealer, but yet they happily admit this kind of argument from this and other countless companies that business practices go
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The State of Web Workers in 2021(smashingmagazine.com)
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by akagusu 5y ago
There is no such thing as work-life balance. There is life for the rich, and there is work for everybody else.
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Vendure headless GraphQL-based open-source e-commerce framework v1.1(vendure.io)
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Diagram as Code for prototyping cloud system architectures(github.com)
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FSF takes next step in commitment to improving board governance(fsf.org)
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by akagusu 5y ago
If you read a book and use the instructions to build a bicycle you are learning a new skill and this is obviously not exploitation of people's work. When you read a book and copy this book partially or entirely to create a new book or
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by akagusu 5y ago
For years people have warned about hosting the majority of world's open source code in a proprietary platform that belongs to a for profit company. These people were called lunatics, fundamentalists, radicals, conspiracy theorists, and
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by akagusu 5y ago
More sad than companies using this pattern is that people know it but don't care about it. It does not matter how many bad things a company can do, people simply doesn't care.
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by akagusu 5y ago
UI became user hostile because companies became user hostile. Software no longer serves the user, but is the user that serves the company behind the software.
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by akagusu 5y ago
Since the first comment of this thread was "What's a MUD?", I think MUDs are not a thing anymore. Of course it doesn't mean there is nobody to play it if you made one. I would certainly play.
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by akagusu 5y ago
You are right about companies looking for rent seeking. Rent seeking is a global trend unfortunately, and I'm pretty sure this trend will end bad for us.
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by akagusu 5y ago
Uncomfortable questions nobody asks because everybody is afraid of the answers.
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by akagusu 5y ago
The problem you never win and never will. Our economic system has a win-lose structure. Big companies like Microsoft make billions not because they sell lots of good products and services that everyone buys, quite contrary. They sell shitty
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by akagusu 5y ago
I use Debian for desktop and server since Woody, but recently I switched to Void for desktop because it is easier to build custom packages. It is 2021 and it still is a PITA to build custom Debian packages. Debian is a rock solid distro and
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by akagusu 5y ago
This movement is not about security. It's about control. This is a decision that benefits their business and it doesn't matter if they need to force you into something. The practical effect is they are forcing you to spend more mo
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by akagusu 5y ago
Tell me one tech company that does not use dark patterns? And I think the problem is not only tech, it's everywhere. People turned on the "money at all cost" mindset. They know their actions will do harm to someone but they s

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