fishinsee @fishinsee@librem.one

@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 https://www.mdpi.com/2227-7080/8/2/18

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

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.”

🤔

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

How do you drown a hipster?

Throw him in the mainstream.
#jokes #funny #momjokes #dadjokes

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.

Jeg skriver om Fairphone og virkelighetsfjerne mobilanmeldere som tror at megapiksler er viktigere enn holdbarhet og produksjonsforhold. https://www.aftenposten.no/meninger/kronikk/i/gWbEyL/vi-trenger-mobilanmeldelser-for-folk-som-ikke-bryr-seg-om-megapiksler

The Trial of Faith | My Utmost For His Highest https://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