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by alexb_ 4y ago
Correct, and Google makes gigantic fuckloads of money doing that. It's no wonder Apple wants to do it as well. Apple having direct hardware access and aggressively locking in their customers makes this an extra degree worse for the con
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by alexb_ 4y ago
The moment that apple announced "privacy" as their focus I knew this was going to happen. They don't actually care about user privacy, but rather want exclusive rights to all of your data so that they can sell it for a markup
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by alexb_ 4y ago
Wind turbines also are not 100% reliable and take up a gigantic amount of space.
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by alexb_ 4y ago
Maybe I'm wrong for immediately thinking of the worst case scenario, but the moment I saw "Pay To Watch" I immediately thought about those garbage courses that will give you the "secret" to making gazillions of doll
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by alexb_ 4y ago
Maybe I'm reading the intent wrong, but no social media company will ever take this suggestion. This line in particular: >Let’s bring this back to community building. We still want our members to be happy, right? If it doesn't
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by alexb_ 4y ago
>Now imagine if this played out the other way around. Imagine that the monsters originally focused on maximizing energy by making children laugh as much as possible. Then one day, in a horrible twist, someone discovers that a child’s scr
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by alexb_ 4y ago
Effective altruists really are the type of people to tell someone that donated thousands of dollars to someone they know with cancer that what they did was a moral fault because it could have saved more lives somewhere else
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by alexb_ 4y ago
>Kiwifarms itself will most likely find other infrastructure that allows them to come back online, as the Daily Stormer and 8chan did themselves after we terminated them. And, even if they don't, the individuals that used the site t
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by alexb_ 4y ago
A lot of people see this as a left-wing issue, but this was actually pretty surprising to read: >In public, 43% of people say public schools are focusing too much on racism in the U.S. However, in private that number is ten points lower
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by alexb_ 4y ago
I despise anything that has touched cryptocurrency, which is why I don't like Brave.
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by alexb_ 4y ago
>When you get that first paycheck, it’s not paying for what you already did, because you already did it. It’s paying for you to continue doing what you’re now doing. It’s fueling your work. It’s providing you the freedom to continue that
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by alexb_ 4y ago
This is an extremely good article. The hard part of this is everyone can agree that "legality is not morality" and that what is legal is not necessarily moral. But this is used for the wrong side of the argument - since the Bill o
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by alexb_ 4y ago
Easy when it's a color change, but this attitude is horrible when it comes to anything functional. You stop being able to learn how things work because someone wanted to make a small tweak, and now you don't even get notice it&#x2
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by alexb_ 4y ago
95% of users have no idea what any of this is.
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by alexb_ 4y ago
>I can absolutely think of cases where I would have liked to know what services are available for specific products, like chair making, or a project I have in mind, rather than having to ask around to figure out who even does it in my ar
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by alexb_ 4y ago
>allow voting Voting should always have a paper trail. And there's also the problem of allowing the technologically illiterate/aversive to vote.
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by alexb_ 4y ago
https://wiby.me
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by alexb_ 4y ago
It's the best part for execs who think piracy cuts into legitimate game sales (it doesn't). And for those who want every single copy to come with a giant amount of bloat and spyware so that a fraction of a % of people who weren&#x
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by alexb_ 4y ago
"we, the tech community" lol. If it makes more money, it will be done.
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by alexb_ 4y ago
The normalization of Denuvo, as well as "anti-cheat" protection that involves constant monitoring of your environment, is a fucking travesty for privacy and games. The worst part about Denuvo is that cracking it is game-specific,
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by alexb_ 4y ago
There are plenty of people who daily drive linux that would disagree with there being "zero use cases"
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by alexb_ 4y ago
MAUI is less cross-platform friendly than you might think. I'm using Avalonia right now, which works well.
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by alexb_ 4y ago
https://archive.ph/bQTon
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by alexb_ 4y ago
"Eyesores" need a place to live too. And I said "look like me" for a reason: class is a bigger part of this than anything else.
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by alexb_ 4y ago
For one, rent can get more expensive, vs a fixed rate mortgage which doesn't.
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by alexb_ 4y ago
The conventional way to get a ROI is to actually improve what you invested in. Forcing a low supply is not improvement.
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by alexb_ 4y ago
A lot of what I've seen is people worried about "low quality tenants" (read: people who don't look just like me)
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by alexb_ 4y ago
If privacy is so obviously dead, why stay private? If the battle is You vs Team of Engineers Specifically Trying To Spy On You you are always going to lose. So why even try?
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by alexb_ 4y ago
If you're in any community that is popular/new enough to not use forums, but not large enough to talk outside of twitter, it definitely controls a lot.
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by alexb_ 4y ago
In what universe should I be charitable to the government?

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