More innovation from China, just kidding of course. I am starting to see a trend here.

can you elaborate on what “preservatives” are?

I understand and appreciate the skepticism to vaccines, I am genuinely curious to know the precise problem they cause though?

Do they make people autistic?

removed?

gay?

I love linux with XFCE

for mobile: graphene OS, or completely vanilla android ( lineageOS )

facebook metaverser, or is it too early to name that yet? Heh heh

Statistics and headlines like these aren’t worth the toilet paper I’ve finished wiping with.

To be frank, the OP seems to have no understanding of the underlying technology at play here.

I suggest to the OP to use umatrix webbrowser extension and examining what 3rd-party websites are contacted when you visit say… reddit, vs say… a mastodon instance.

You will see that visiting a mastodon instance does not contact any 3rd-party trackers or ads.

If this is not proof enough, then OP, you should realize that the whole point of the fediverse is to shed ourselves of the shitty ad-tech environment that arose during the 2010’s, there is not a centralized controller of a federated site like mastodon or peertube, so you can always spin up your own server that is completely free of tracking and just use that.

I hope that makes sense.

For me it’s hardcorehistory by Dan Carlin

this was also the first podcast I ever listened to

I saw a very lengthy piece in the German and Austrian news about the downfall of this free hong kong press. It’s a shame … the chinese regime is to fragile for any criticism, even online comments heh

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That’s my kind of people. let’s get r/trackers to do the same

I would say the Steam Deck.

less specifically, steve jobs said something like, voice will be the next evolution in human to computer interaction. I would love to be able to control a terminal with voice control, and control the entire computer with voice control. Open source, no doubt.

this is fucking sick!

couple different sources here in this wikipedia article https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xinjiang_papers

Both tiktok/facebook encourage conformity, discourage intelligent thought, reward mindless consumption, shortens attention spans. the companies spy on users with impunity, and the software is locked down and impedes the open internet.

There’s nothing inherently wrong with a service like this existing. facebook has pioneered this parasitic model, dominated the internet for years, the bar is so low that it cannot possible go lower.

Intelligent families will prohibit their children from unrestricted access to websites like facebook/tiktok/youtube.

All in all, it is a trend and will be replaced, and whatever replaces it will probably be an improvement.

unix shell programming stephen G kochan patrick wood third edition

This one was great, describes the kernel and shell, and it is well written and organized. It also has some lesser known bash tricks and shell variables.

I cannot afford this, you could buy a (albeit shitty) car for that price!

I wanted to get a pinephone, but that thing is made in China and owned by a HongKong company.

Due to lack of secure/reliable phone options, may just get a dumb-phone that has a hotspot. . . There’s nothing wrong with that. Besides, I already use an offline Garmin GPS ( works great ), I have a nice camera for photos, and use a laptop for most internet usage.

I may have a strong case of cognitive dissonance, but abandoning my smart-phone is starting to sound like a pragmatic idea.

Hello, use peertube dude.

edit: This is my preferred instance: https://video.ploud.jp/ free registration and uploads, but uploads require manual approval, imo it is a good approach

Is there any concrete evidence of that? IIRC they were involved, but not comprehensively involved in data sharing.

Oh shit, well I had no idea. Hell, I know in China you used to easily get a burner number, but now it is restricted… Well listen, that certainly changes the conversation.

Do you know if there are any pay-as-you-go phone plans in Europe ?

what is your username? let me know if you end up making an account on D* and I will befriend you, as well as send you over a list of interesting users to follow