If only it were that simple. I’d attribute it to lack of media literacy, lack of critical thinking, tribalism, propaganda saturation of the media, lack of proper education and understanding of the world we live in.

This is why I love EU’s GDPR. Reply to their spam with an official GDPR request to be removed from their records.

It doesn’t work all the time. But it works well enough.

By that logic we should be happy gazing at our own navels, shouting to the void, looking at empty pages.

Because it has the users Mastodon lacks.

Racial discrimination is fundamentally created by the innate fear of the Other. But it is supercharged by capitalism. Slave trade was created to create cheap expendable labor force to drive profits. When it was ended segregation and other discriminatory practices were instituted to protect the owners of businesses. These practices were systemic and we are still seeing their results.

Work inside all of the political institutions to bring about constitutional change. Abolish electoral college etc.

Here’s a novel idea. Don’t use these exploitative services.

That’s a really good idea. I’ll have to remember that.

Shhhhh, don’t give them ideas!

I would still recommend it. At least for production environments.

You mean those who are on a huge space station that gets blown to bits during the intro sequence?

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Don’t forget that porn is a huge chunk as well. Between bots and porn there’s little left.

It’s like they never learn. I remember WAY back when Windows NT was new. The NT in Windows NT stands for New Technology.

So if you print your book on this printer. A book that you have written and are about to send to a publisher. HP can take it and sell it. And you are paying them for the privilege.

That is a HARD NO from me.

Let’s Encrypt’s certbot allows you to setup a script to be run after acquiring the certificate. No cron job needed.

Please note that if you do this then some older devices will stop working. (cough Cisco cough)

WiFi enabled printer with Bluetooth and DRM for print cartridges and forced advertisements with sound always on.

Yeah, look at the curves on that guy.

It seems EA / Respawn have begun another little ban wave. Linux / Steam Deck players are getting caught in it. Hopefully the bans will once again be overturned.