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by sjw987 1y ago
I can't tell whether I'm being super paranoid but I've been burned by Google so many times on product sunsets that I've just removed all of my data from them. I managed to set up private self-hosted versions of an email
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by sjw987 1y ago
The internet became shit not when governments got involved, but when millions of people came online and pushed early enthusiasts into a minority. The invasion of normal people onto the internet was the seed for handing the web to a small se
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by sjw987 1y ago
I fully support your argument and can't understand why people in this thread assume the EU doesn't have millions of programmers who can bash out a chat app, one of which would rise above the others and get a critical mass of users
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by sjw987 1y ago
Why would the UX be terrible necessarily? If the EU or companies within did make a chat app and it got widespread appeal, it would just be exactly the same as WhatsApp. WhatsApp isn't special in any way whatsoever, besides having a cri
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by sjw987 1y ago
The population has allowed this to happen. The British people always take any new limitations with the classic stiff upper lip. We could very easily become Russia (without the military and natural resources), because the population has the
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by sjw987 1y ago
I completely agree with your argument. Some parents are awful at parenting, so much so it makes me question why they had kids if they clearly don't care about bringing them up properly. It's a no brainer that kids should have min
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by sjw987 1y ago
This time it might be given to Palantir instead, so there's that to look forward to.
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by sjw987 1y ago
The implementation bothers me. They've announced it'll take the form of an app on a smartphone. What do non-smartphone users do? They don't even know yet. I'm fine with a unifying ID, even a digital one. But why must it
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by sjw987 1y ago
I don't understand why this needs to be linked to a smartphone. No issue with a national ID, but should we really shackle everything to a phone? They're already lost on the questions coming in about those who don't have one.
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by sjw987 1y ago
It's extraordinary that this style of governance keeps coming around. We judged this sort of behaviour from countless other countries in the past. At the end of the day, everybody ends up wanting more control.
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by sjw987 1y ago
Market momentum probably. People "Google" things. People don't "Kagi" things or "DuckDuckGo" things. I question why Instagram is so popular. I don't use it but my wife does and she constantly runs int
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by sjw987 1y ago
Yeah. I had a laptop which is only 4 years old causing issues, took it to an Apple Store and they couldn't give a toss. Everything was pushing me in the direction of buying a new laptop (with a small discount relative to the new price)
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by sjw987 1y ago
Mass push back from whom? Most people don't care about this. They spend hours per day on a surveillance device, willingly contributing their data, personal information and media to monopolistic companies, including putting it into the
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by sjw987 1y ago
Personally I haven't noticed anything with Wikipedia, or Reddit (only ever used when searching for opinions through Google with "Reddit" on the search query). If you want to watch porn or view anything NSFW with websites that
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by sjw987 1y ago
The common user spends 7+ hours per day on their phone, has hundreds of apps installed which are all tracking and harvesting their data and personal information, regularly use at least 1 different type of social media or algorithm feeding a
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by sjw987 1y ago
And the sort of solidarity that unfortunately will never happen. Most people will just download the app and carry on. Very few people hold the very real concern about things moving in this direction. Your average phone user is already hosta
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Ask HN: Is it likely AI training models could start training on personal files?
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by sjw987 1y ago
I've found the divide between people who switched to using a phone full time and people who still use physical peripheral based computers (even for recreational activity) is generally linked with whether the person is a digital product
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by sjw987 1y ago
The constant news consumption isn't just an American thing. I live in Britain and have colleagues and friends who (admittedly) watch or read news first thing after waking up, and read news website articles constantly throughout the day
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by sjw987 1y ago
I think you're exactly right, and the groundwork is being laid today by the standards society is setting for everybody. People will assume a lack of phone or the presence of a phone but lack of usage / content on it, makes you gui
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by sjw987 1y ago
To me it reads that, since many people already believe this is more about tracking than safety, they are focusing on a device which is the perfect surveillance system, and which conveniently already accounts for 7+ hours of many peoples dai
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by sjw987 1y ago
I respect that opinion. I hold quite negative views of social media personally. I don't see how it could be built in a way that could suitably replace in-person socialisation. Perhaps the best idea would be a meet-up arranging app, but
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by sjw987 1y ago
Why do you want a better platform? I hope that people give up on things like social media entirely, meet up in person and socialise properly. Socialising just doesn't work large-scale on screens. It's like a partial parasocial rel
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by sjw987 1y ago
The original advertising for these removal and fix-up features confounded me. Google ads for camera/Google Photos features were marketing the ability to change the content of the moment being captured, remove things in the background,
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by sjw987 1y ago
I wonder at what point (if not already) Google will start scanning personal photos for generative AI training. It must be a tempting asset base for them. Personally, I've begun moving my photos off of Google in anticipation that this i
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by sjw987 1y ago
Sorry to hijack, but... I have weird issues with YouTube on my home PC. If I have a Chrome window with a YouTube video running to the side of my monitor, it always inevitably ends up freezing up the whole display. Ctrl+Alt+Delete and cancel
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by sjw987 1y ago
Is it alright to ask where you're planning on going?
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by sjw987 1y ago
Is it alright if I ask where you went? And how you were able to make that move?
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by sjw987 1y ago
Does anybody have any optimistic hopes for the UK? I've noticed a downwards trend in almost all manners of living here over the past 10 years, and can't really see what any government could do to change course.
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This is it. You rarely see a grown adult making the decision to cut down their own screen time (including on the phone), so there's next-to-no chance they do anything for their kids. Most people seem to be in a mass trance with smartph

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