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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

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 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

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 was possible to uninstall the web browser altogether in a way that renders it impossible to be installed again in a whim.

I struggled to have a pixel delivered, for the 6th time, so I ended up with an iPhone, which has screen time.

My wife despises me when I ask her to manage screen lock codes for me, so I’ll ask a kind coworker I always meet on Tuesdays, to lock the screen time in my stead.

Were that to fail, I’m kind of doomed. I ducking spent around 12 hours yesterday scrolling between NH, Reddit, messaging, and other webs.

Another option is to get a signal capable feature phone, but those are also smartphones and quite expensive and outdated. For me, it’s either screen-time lock or grapheneOS without a web browser.

I know I’m missing on the good HN content but it’s still way too engaging.

I’d only allow “nautilus” and r/science and a few other websites whose engagement-interest ratio is higher

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 like shock doctrine at play

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

I graduated and went to Germany for seconds. Got myself a fancy laptop so I could thrive during the lessons, browsing Reddit. I wish I had known

Yeah embiggening your word-stock

nine months old, not 9 years old

it’s disappointing that people have to go such lengths in order to have a mobile device that is not conspiring against their wallet or ballot

Yeah but they spy on you privately. People love that they care so much about their privacy and people loathe apps that neglect them like signal.org