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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 trackers, until the web is finally sold to any big publishing company, and, eventually, to an AI training company.

Browsing HN is a relief in times of Surveillance Capitalism

Edit: HN uses google tagmanager and analytics; amplitude and branch.io

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. By switching from Matrix to Session, by switching to Signal, where we are now, fewer 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 are destructive jobs, whose workers significantly contribute to the destruction of the conditions which render the planet habitable.

The planet would be better off if those folks received a UBI for staying at home

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 as bartender but it gets the job done

Yessir, Thank you very much

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 directly to a screen using a usb-c connector

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 intellectual activity.

A few centuries ago, the illiteracy rate was way higher. But it’s always been mostly been niche activity for intelligent people, that’s why the school used to focus on training that skill