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an OnlyFans creator found and slept with FB employees to undelete her IG account(twitter.com)
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by beckman466 4y ago
wtf? how else are our Silicon Valley overlords supposed to check in on us, how else do they prematurely wear down our gadgets so we have to pay expensive money for their tech team to un-glue and then re-glue a battery inside, or to replace
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by beckman466 4y ago
excuse the long quote, i'm hoping to engage you in some of its critiques. "The failure of the open-source movement is ultimately a failure of imagination. Let’s back up a bit. When I talk about the “failure” of the open-source mo
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by beckman466 4y ago
please watch! fall in love with coral! https://youtube.com/watch?v=aGGBGcjdjXA
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by beckman466 4y ago
> A piece of proprietary software that collects data on basically everything on your machine and is unavailable on Linux? Nice! new slogan: "it's like Grammarly, but for code!" meanwhile, just like Crypto AG, Grammarly (so
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by beckman466 4y ago
> I think it’s very explicit that HN never intends to be a democracy really? any examples you can share?
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by beckman466 4y ago
gotta prepare for the climate crisis, as Douglas Rushkoff discovered, rich capitalists "are plotting to leave us behind" https://onezero.medium.com/survival-of-the-richest-9ef6cddd0... unpaywalled: https:/&#
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by beckman466 4y ago
> They put like ten thousand dollars in a bitcoin wallet and hide it on all your end users machines. The idea being that an attacker will cash out the wallet giving you a heads up you are breached before they move on to ransomware or wha
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by beckman466 4y ago
i prefer not to pay for my own exploitation and being psychologically mindfucked by propaganda. i don't want to give money to Hollywood millionaires and the expensive product advertisements that classify as movies today
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by beckman466 4y ago
like others have said, crypto doesn't meaningfully solve much of anything. we need more anti-crypto sentiments, not less. the really exciting, yet unexplored, leverage point that a new ecology of mutual credit currencies will likely ha
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by beckman466 4y ago
> And FUCK me for not having the steel to just take my code off of GitHub. I am part of the problem. as a user you literally are not the problem. the problem is the monopolization of technology by a small group of investors, which makes
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by beckman466 4y ago
> The problem is that we don't want to pay what it really costs to have such a great system what does that even mean?
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Other Networks: Taeyoon Choi on Infrastructure and Equity on the DWeb(deemjournal.com)
1 points by beckman466 4y ago|0 comments
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by beckman466 4y ago
> we will see the rise of a new blockchain economy, not one driven by greed, but instead driven by trust, not trustlessness. it sounds to me like he is talking about the holochain p2p app framework, and other projects like Ceptr, Hyperco
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Gatekeeping in the Tech Industry [2019](dellsystem.me)
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by beckman466 4y ago
same.
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by beckman466 4y ago
if only we'd expand the scope beyond the nuclear family, we'd be a much better society
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by beckman466 4y ago
anyone also heavily skeptical of anything web3/crypto might like: https://www.reddit.com/r/Buttcoin/
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by beckman466 4y ago
https://github.com/loomio/loomio
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by beckman466 4y ago
do the names Snowden, Assange or Manning ring a bell? there's also this Youtuber who got a 'home visit' from the US govt. for 'anti-American sentiments' on his channel: https://www.reddit.com/r/
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by beckman466 4y ago
> no, it's actually worthwhile. [...] Households account for like 43%[1] of gas consumption in Germany no it isn't. does Germany produce the smartphones its citizens use? does it mine the rare earth minerals inside those phones
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by beckman466 4y ago
> You would tell the Russians to continue the genocide? you would tell the Americans to continue the bombing in Yemen?
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by beckman466 4y ago
> ...Russia? Have you seen how they are pumped with propaganda? have you been to the US and/or UK? what do you make of the capitalist owned and capitalist controlled media? > Russia (and China) are big countries and dangerous one
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by beckman466 4y ago
> I haven't run my gas boiler in 30 days. No heating. No warm showers. > Sadly most people I have suggested this to think I'm nuts. there's probably thousands of times more gas used to produce all the commodities you bu
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by beckman466 4y ago
> So do you support taking action against the Russian military's genocide or not? of course. and OP answered with the same answer. please stop strawmanning, the joke is on you for not accepting the evidence. try to open your eyes to
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by beckman466 5y ago
> for the vast majority of people, most waking hours were actively spent on subsistence and survival until very recently in human history. have you been to India or another country with a similar wealth disparity in the global south?
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by beckman466 5y ago
> The NSA? No, I don’t think they’re for-hire. The United States of America, always an ally and at service to friendly right-wing politicians from around the world. "What was the sense at the time of the degree to which the United
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by beckman466 5y ago
> dystopias > soviet union what about the american imperialism covering much of the globe today? this world is a deep dystopia for a very large amount of people already... (and growing) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=
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by beckman466 5y ago
Edward Snowden @Snowden · Feb 1, 2022 This has happened year after year since the program began. Quote tweet: @CNN · Feb 1 An NSA watchdog has found the agency failed to follow both court-approved and internal procedures designed to prevent
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Declassified NSA oversight report shows illegal surveillance continues unimpeded(wsws.org)
11 points by beckman466 5y ago|1 comments

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