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Until we find out otherwise. There have been multiple organ harvesting scandals lately. Informed consent has become a marketing concept, no longer a reality.

The leaders who mandate AI have no understanding on how to actually use it for productivity. They use it like a Magic 8-Ball to confirm whatever ignorance they have and believe the…

Only to the extent you use Micro-G, and Micro-G mitigates a large portion of the Google data harvesting. The built in App Lounge does not require a Google login to pull downloads f…

I moved to a Fairphone 6 with /e/OS a few weeks ago. I can do everything I need to, everything I want to, and with more control over my digital footprint and what data is being col…

Employees maybe are too collaborative? And management thinks dividing and conquering will give them an even bigger hand.

This is it, exactly. In any org, current management only cares about you working on their ideas. If they thought up the project, then they get the credit for it. Customer ideas, an…

The most successful businesses are often the most harmful forces in society. There's a lesson there.

Operates illegal business. Claims to be a victim of company protecting itself from the customer's illegal business.

It can fail 100 times and it won't count, and the one time this surveillance legislation passes it will become law. Thanks EU, nice show of democracy.

* enable developer options * confirm that you are not tricked * restart phone and re-authenticate * wait one day * confirm with biometrics that you know what you are doing * decide…

Rational market theory is dead. Markets are not rational and do not respond to situations in rational fashions like you suggest. People operate on hype, fear, and insider trading.

Yes, I want to see real, serious punishment for corporate crimes, on par with the life disruption experienced by people who see a jail sentence. It's almost always brutal - major i…

I desperately wish Stirling wasn't a webapp. Having to setup and launch a web server and browser to edit a PDF on my computer seems insane. We skipped the "foss, local app" stage, …

I've seen this tarpit recommended for this purpose. it creates endless nests of directories and endless garbage content, as the site is being crawled. The bot can spend hours on it…

ActivityPub is exactly that. Mastodon, Pleroma, Pixelfed, etc. What you're asking for exists.

Eliminate the 'light truck' exception to CAFE. Same standards should apply to truck bodies, retroactively to when CAFE began.

It sounds like they're telling us their product has no value. If AI can reliably perform language translation, then why would anyone bother learning a language? Checkmate, Duolingo…

I'm a long-time Google Fi customer and moderate another community about Google Fi. Some of the criticism about Google not being as customer focused is valid, but the two biggest pr…