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by holri 14y ago
Well he missed the main point: Posgresql is free software. And therefore for example no company can force you into their lock in for their profit and your loss.
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by holri 14y ago
No targeting does not work in my case. Not at all. The targeting does not get better. But I surf with JS disabled when possible (you'd be surprised how many sites actually work _better_ with JS turned off) and ghostery. I use duckduckgo and
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by holri 14y ago
No Linux is not a trap, because it is Free Software. Freedom is the contrary to a trap.
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by holri 14y ago
I did not say that it is possible to escape all of them. But if you limit the leaked data, their profile is useless. I do not get very well targeted ads. That is a good sign that they do not have a good profile of me. But I never used gmail
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by holri 14y ago
It is called a trap.
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by holri 14y ago
The power comes from combination. Even very small bits of information in your email, photo tags, searches can build a very precise picture of your personality if there are a lot of them. You can not control the small information bits that g
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by holri 14y ago
It is not about ads. It's about personal private data. For ads, anonymous targeting would suffice. No one can garantee that this personal private data is used for ads only. It is usefull for a lot of ugly things. And therefore it will (is?)
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by holri 14y ago
That is why todays homo egoisticus will die out in the end.
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by holri 14y ago
Since some inhabitants of one country think their country is the world I can imagine which one of the 194 countries you think of. The answer therefore is yes.
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by holri 14y ago
Another example: The advent of the car or plane did not reduce the live time spent on traveling but expanded the ways. People and their priorities and motivations for giving a slice of their live time to a particular kind of activity do not
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by holri 14y ago
no this is a fact
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by holri 14y ago
It depends. There are rumors that allegies of our days are caused by exaggerated hygiene. You have to wait of few hundred years to see all the consequences of technology in retrospect.
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by holri 14y ago
Washing Machines did not save time! This is because with the advent of these machines also our hygiene habits changed. We wash a lot more than before, and therefore there is no time saving but cleaner clothes. The same is true for computers
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by holri 14y ago
One difference is that each musical instrument has its own personality like each person/player. Classical, acoustic and electrical guitar are totally different. It is important that _you_ like the instrument. That is a matter of personal t
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by holri 14y ago
Any model that plays reasonably music. Does it matter if you learn programming on a i386 or i7, on a PC or a Mac? What matters is not the tool but the time, love and patience you put into learning to play music.
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by holri 14y ago
can you elaborate on that?
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by holri 14y ago
I ssh into the rpi from my Nokia N900 (has a hardware keyboard), and have a little text based python interface for controlling my heating. KISS.
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by holri 14y ago
"If the world ends, I move to Vienna. Everything happens 10 years later there." Karl Kraus
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by holri 14y ago
Very suited for the next week upcoming Document Freedom Day: https://www.documentfreedom.org/ Google is risking their credit in supported open standards.
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by holri 14y ago
Claws RSSysl http://www.claws-mail.org/plugin.php?plugin=rssyl
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by holri 14y ago
Yes, but I live to be happy not to get paid.
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by holri 14y ago
Nutrion advice is a fashion, not a science.
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by holri 14y ago
For example: http://freeyourandroid.org is a FSFE campaign.
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by holri 14y ago
Trust is an important factor in choosing software and justifiable so. Ubuntu is no longer trustworthy for a lot of people.
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by holri 14y ago
use a Nokia N900 with built in FM Transmitter
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by holri 14y ago
As always, nationalism is wrong. Beeing a hacker, activist or unconventional thinker has nothing to do with beeing american. There are enough counter examples, just study history. (for example that of the CCC and his members and fellows)
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by holri 14y ago
No single word about privacy?
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by holri 14y ago
Car 2 Car communication is already ready: https://events.ccc.de/congress/2012/Fahrplan/events/5095.en....
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by holri 14y ago
Not in Europe. Still shifting manually. To be in control.
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by holri 14y ago
Immanuel Kant: """ Laziness and cowardice are the reasons why such a large part of mankind gladly remain minors all their lives, long after nature has freed them from external guidance. They are the reasons why it is so easy for others to s

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