bigbugbag

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by bigbugbag 6y ago
Because facebook. Also security issues, lack of privacy, lack of proper encryption, censorship, etc. among a long trail of reasons. Also whatsapp founder quitting and leaving 850millions dollars on the table doing so over the way facebook m
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by bigbugbag 6y ago
Yes. you are missing the part where it's used for surveillance, for collecting personal data and exploiting it, for giving a false sense of security, and so on. Basically facebook being facebook and doing facebook things to the people
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by bigbugbag 6y ago
A messaging tool is by definition a social network.
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by bigbugbag 6y ago
The explanation is simple, twitter and facebook rely on ads to make profit. to maximize their profit they need to have people spend as much time as possible on their websites. The most efficient way is to infuriate people. Hence the busines
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by bigbugbag 6y ago
A forum is an online place or media where you have social interaction, hence a social media. You control idea by controling the language. It turns the internet is actually the social media and each and every thing online is de facto also a
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by bigbugbag 6y ago
"I'm used by Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram, and I feel down!" -- most of the planet.
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by bigbugbag 6y ago
As someone who clearly saw the shortcomings of facebook from the get go and as a consequence never bother to register, I wonder what are the upsides you mention. Facebook is mostly a birthday reminder feature hidden in a glorified walled ga
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by bigbugbag 6y ago
Because he had his facebook. When you outsource you usually lose in resiliency.
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by bigbugbag 6y ago
You misinterpreted something here. The phone data is partial data as it is from a single mobile phone networks out of the four. It has been since updated to 2 out of the 4 (the other two supposedly respect their customer privacy). These num
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by bigbugbag 6y ago
27% of paris inhabitants left the city overnight based on phone data from 2 of the 4 french mobile phone networks. I'm unsure of what the number would be if we added the other two phone operators and the people who wanted to leave but
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by bigbugbag 6y ago
Boogaloos have killed cops and are suspected to have open fire on crowds during protests. https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/06/17/facebook-shuts-down-g...
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by bigbugbag 6y ago
It seems you forgot the point that the probability of comet falling is increased by people wearing bike helmet. You might want to listen the "science vs" episode dedicated to guns for some actual science behind it and the role of
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by bigbugbag 6y ago
What are you suggesting in (II) ? that if she had a gun the would have left her alone? sorry but this is not how harrassing works. That if she had shot him she would have fixed the issue ? sorry but she would be in a very different world o
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by bigbugbag 6y ago
The US seems to fare better. In rural EU there is simply no police to answer an emergency outside office hours. Your call is routed to a station distant of over a hundred kilometers, if they sent you their response team not only would it a
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by bigbugbag 7y ago
To me this is a big failure where you advertise a larger competitor for free while not helping the clueless visitor trying to understand what your software does. I came to darktable website to learn what darktable does not that there is ano
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by bigbugbag 7y ago
Why would I use firefox when mozilla has repeatedly lied to me, pretended to care for privacy while making moves to invade it, removed support for features I relied upon, refused to consider linux as worth their time, forced telemetry surve
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by bigbugbag 7y ago
Examples that came as an afterthought after admitting this was not about Stallman and misrepresenting his words. She did not correct her misrepresentation but instead went on to publish in an appendix what had been dugged and nitpicked to p
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by bigbugbag 7y ago
you seem to assume there was assault from Minsky on Giufre, and I wonder where you get that idea. I'm part of the people who do not want sexual assault trivialized and for that to happen not making inconsiderate use of the term is impo
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by bigbugbag 7y ago
I've read the same emails and I agree with the previous comment. Despite english not being my mother tongue, it is clear what RMS is saying and there's no room for interpretating his words differently without misinterpreting or ch
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by bigbugbag 7y ago
> https://stallman.org/archives/2006-may-aug.html#05%20June%20... . Obsolete, already been updated in other comments: https://stallman.org/archives/2019-jul-oct.html#14_September... > https:
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by bigbugbag 7y ago
> They wrote awful words, and put them in his mouth, in order to support a narrative in which he said something which he didn't. Actually they did not do that, they simply parroted what had been posted on medium by Selam G.[0] in he
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by bigbugbag 7y ago
I disagree, it feels like a witch hunt because it is one. I read the original post that started this witch hunt and my baloney detector went off all along, in particular when I read the quote from RMs stating one thing and the author callin
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by bigbugbag 7y ago
Thing is here, RMS was talking about an accusation being misqualified in relation to Mens Rea and some person took offense and misrepresented his words to present him as saying something else[1]. Then again I beg to differ, the vast majorit
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by bigbugbag 7y ago
the implication is that he slept in his office. Common among hackers and people with a passion for computing, also 1970's
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by bigbugbag 7y ago
If you read the medium post the author admits she had no idea who Stallman is and that it was not really about him, and instead of admitting she was wrong on several point she went on and digged some stuff and put them together trying to pa
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by bigbugbag 7y ago
the headlines are just parroting what had been written in the call for removal of Stallman published on medium: https://medium.com/@selamie/remove-richard-stallman-fec6ec21...
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by bigbugbag 7y ago
RMS is being used because of cluelessness of the person who called for his removal: "This was not, actually, all that much about Richard Stallman. Stallman was just the last straw. This was really about all the times I have heard about
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by bigbugbag 7y ago
Yes, and the leak is from the author who first made the public call to remove Stallman while stating that she has no idea who he is. https://medium.com/@selamie/remove-richard-stallman-fec6ec21...
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by bigbugbag 7y ago
I've been solicited for sex by random teenagers and young adults on a regular basis in North Africa, eastern Europe and Asia outside of coercion and trafficking despite not being close to be famous or having significant amount of money
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by bigbugbag 7y ago
It's sad when people are blinded by anger and cannot read a sentence properly and understand what is meant. I'll repost here a comment found under the original source that started this misinterpretation of words: I want to point o

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