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I would like to make the argument that the increased attention from Google will exert an enshittification pressure in code quality due to the sudden appearance and accumulation of …

Why wouldn’t you trust Zuck’s word? He seems like an honourable

The amount of problems remains stable, as a universal constant . Problems are neither solved nor created, only transformed. By switching from Telegram to Matrix, new problems arose…

There are many tools I wish I had never installed. I’m now installing them on a VM first

David Graeber argued that there are bullshit jobs, that keep people busy with tasks that are useless for their development or the society. He didn’t take into account that there ar…

That’s another reason not to pay for privacy

Yeah. I can no longer stand the smell of smoke no matter how far away. My wife hates me because we can’t sit on terraces to eat and drink next to smokers and traffic smoke

I dont browse signed in to my Google account, which I barely use. But Google has an open account on each of us, even if we block their servers at the firewall level

For me, it’s not only the price you pay. Having a username attached to each your searches is the opposite of privacy, no matter how much you trust their legalese wording

Sorry I meant to look it up on alternativeto.net but I got distracted because it would have taken me 3 seconds on my laptop. Damn mobile phones Hiddenbar. It might not be as shiny …

Yessir, Thank you very much

I like to think that it was Microsoft which destroyed Nokia from the inside in order to make Windows phone great at last https://slate.com/technology/2013/09/microsoft-nokia-deal-a…

There’s a FOSS alternative to bartender

I found about these new tablets shortly after buying an iPad mini. As much as I’d love to have an e-ink device, I don’t regret my purchase because you cannot yet plug those devices…

There’s no such decline in consumption. There’s always been a horde of illiterate people among the lower classes because decoding written letters is a very abstract and complicated…

Written letters are not an obsolete technology.

And Tesla, and Apple, and Amazon “There’s a class warfare and mine is winning” WB

I used to self host Nextcloud and securing it ended up being very complicated

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I beg you to please tell me how to uninstall a web browser altogether. I was dreaming of installing GrapheneOS but nobody in the forums was able to answer my question whether it wa…

I like having a huge mountain at hand on the horizon when I’m looking around. It is hard to find in most populations

Gemini because of the two opposite faces: one looking towards you; the other one, towards the NSA

Yeah a terrorist attack like the Maine in 1898 (or twin towers in 2001) can turn Americans into hawks. They’d accept whatever in order to revenge an attack against a vessel. Sounds…

The only exciting announcements from Google are the discontinuation of services

That’s why poorer countries are thriving in maths literacy according to a report by the OCDE called “computers and learning making the connection” or something like that