I was active on reddit for quite a while and by contributing and visiting the site making reddit money.
I have no desire to feed their greed and what they pulled with their API pricing was nothing but greed and shortsightedness.
I'm gone from reddit for good.
That's another viewing angle coming to the same result :)
But even before Fcbook purchased Whatsapp, it'd have been the worse choice than Signal.
Nowadays Whatsapp is a very bad choice in a lot of ways except for network effect, which is the only real strength of it.
Speaking of network effect: back when Signal was TextSecure, I could message a total of 2 (two!) contacts with it and the UX was far from being awesome.
Signal has come a long way. The UX is great and I can message a lot of my contacts on Signal now.
Your reasoning makes sense.
I just wanted to point out a way to use Kobo readers without privacy issues for people who already own them. I should've stated that more clearly.
People still looking for an ebook reader should consider leaning onto your reasoning.
Well, you don't need to give your Kobo network access to get ebooks on it. Transferring ebooks via USB cable works fine.
Their privacy policy might still be bad or they may have improved it.
Either way, they can't collect data if the device isn't online.
Well, the $4.8 billion from the headline is in conflict with
"This brings the total debt cancellation my administration has approved to $132 billion for over 3.6 million Americans through various actions," Biden said in a statement.
That could be a clue it's not been the first and only action of its kind.
Or did I miss the sarcasm in your reply? 😅
What about bad education?
Well, that must've happened before Biden if it now makes people think the global gas prices are a sign of US president dictatorship.
See? Now it makes sense! Or not...
Seriously, your translation was very helpful. I understood most, of that message, but the vacations made no sense and were a bit too far off from what was meant to be said.
Thanks for following that up!
At least the total coal energy use did stay almost the same due to the reduced share of it.
It's not the win one could've hoped for, but it's not horrible either.
Can you please link sources?
I'm interested in the total TWh of electric energy generated (now and then), because they may very well release more CO2 in total at 55% now compared to 70% 10 years ago.
Please show me in which of Orwell's writings he suggested that economies should be based off allowing financial criminals to commi their crimes against citizens, unimpeded.
I don't need to and I won't, because I never said so.
Please don't put words in my mouth.
The thesis of 1984 is that when totalitarianism takes hold, we will turn on those we love to protect ourselves.
I was thinking of 1984, too; obviously.
I see it in a more abstract way though.
The consequences of mass surveillance, which are the basis of repressive regimentation of people are what makes lack of privacy dangerous and in my book not desirable - even if it has certain drawbacks, because abandoning privacy just has way more and more severe drawbacks.
This is primarily the issue with libertarians. You guys are constantly applying a book you haven't read to every situation you don't like. It's weird and I think people see through it.
This is primarily the issue with people who think they know others because they've read one comment.
It's weird and I think people see through it.
Me too and I won't be going back.