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@deirdresm ads cost time and energy, bloated js adware prompts faster product upgrade cycles and ads create needs that lead to consumption. Pretty bad.

Here’s a paper on how many lives can be saved with an adblocker mdpi.com/2227-7080/8/2/18

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"There is no cloud. It's just someone else's computer."

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Tech Bro Hypocrisy #451: Consent

“If you make something freely available on the web, we can take it and do whatever we like with it.”

– Oh, so I can just take your company’s logo and the copy from your site and use it? Download your app and redistribute it?…

“No, those are protected by trademarks, copyright, and licenses.”

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#consent #tech #technology #techBros #BigTech #SiliconValley #peopleFarmers #optIn #optOut #hypocrisy #copyright #trademarks #licenses

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If we called it “applied statistics” instead of “machine learning” or “artificial intelligence” we’d probably get fewer people asking if the computer is alive.

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Jeg skriver om Fairphone og virkelighetsfjerne mobilanmeldere som tror at megapiksler er viktigere enn holdbarhet og produksjonsforhold. aftenposten.no/meninger/kronik

Unge kristne har problemer med å finne et parti som både er restriktiv i abortspørsmål og positive til innvandring. dagen.no/nyheter/ny-norsk-fors

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The Trial of Faith | My Utmost For His Highest utmost.org/the-trial-of-faith/

Yet God frequently has to knock the bottom out of your experience as His saint to get you in direct contact with Himself. God wants you to understand that it is a life of faith, not a life of emotional enjoyment of His blessings.

Note last line. That.

#devotional #faith

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