@jameshjacksonjr @purism Until we do, if I had to buy a car today, it would probably be a used one from before this kind of tracking was built in.
"If it's free, you are the product" stopped being true once the rest of the companies saw how much money there was in selling customer data. Now you are the product regardless of whether you pay.
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Um...
Also, we would prefer not to be served by someone who is on or uses recreational drugs such as marijuana, cocaine, meth, fentanyl, etc, so if you could provide us with Brad's most recent tox screen, that would be great.
Um... Let me get the manager for you.
That would be great, thanks.
In case this might come in handy. 😂
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Hello.
Hi, table for two, please.
Sure, and your name.
Meg.
Great. And do you and your guest have your vaccination cards?
We do. Can you tell us who our server will be?
Um, looks like Brad will be your server tonight.
Great. Can you show us Brad's vaccination card? As well as the kitchen staff?
Um.
And also, can you provide me with proof that Brad/kitchen staff is not a carrier of HIV, Hepatitis A or B, or any other communicable diseases?
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To carry a smartphone from big tech is now to carry a passive surveillance device on your person. You are paying a thousand dollars to have your privacy violated. its why you should choose a device from @purism as you dont have to trust purism at all you can trust the code as it should be (i do trust purism by the way but just saying). so stay away from all things google and the all seeing i. https://edwardsnowden.substack.com/p/all-seeing-i
Pick a random consumer device lying around your house and imagine someone coming across it after 70 years of neglect. Part of the device no longer works. Would they be able to fix it? https://puri.sm/posts/beyond-right-to-repair/
Insightful. We can't repeat often enough that @mobian , @debian , @postmarketOS , @manjarolinux and others would not be where they are now, without @purism adopting a cooperative upstreaming policy. We would wager that everyone purchasing a (true) Linux device now, benefits from your investments. There is plenty to criticize and nag about you 😝, but you are doing the whole FOSS community a service that could not easily be replicated by volunteers.
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Get off Facebook. Get off every Facebook service. Block Facebook. Don't work for Facebook. Don't provide services to Facebook. Find every way you can to get them out of your life and support others in doing the same.
They are ethically indefensible.
https://gizmodo.com/leaked-facebook-docs-depict-kids-as-untapped-wealth-1847763431
I don't dispute that jails are hard to break into, but they are even harder to break out of. How many of us would choose to live in a prison in real life? Instead we make risk assessments that balance personal freedom and security, and the digital world should be no different.