Good for you

I used it for the first time this morning. The motion sensor was surprisingly good at getting me out of bed. It even detected if I tried to get back in.

Yea, it’s called indexing, it’s well documented: https://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/display/document/obo-9780199756841/obo-9780199756841-0090.xml

Federated LinkedIn would still be better than LinkedIn.

I had a time where I had to make new friends in a new city, and what I learned is that you have to take initiative a lot in the beginning of a new friendship. You have to suggest something to do together maybe the first 2 - 4 times. After some time it should be more equal if not find some other friends.

Maybe Write Freely? You get 3 blogs for 6 dollars a month or you can host it yourself since it’s open source.

https://write.as/pricing

https://writefreely.org/

https://immich.app/

Immich might work.

If people actively pay for this, they are bloody idiots.

Ghost is getting activitypub support.

https://activitypub.ghost.org/

I still dont understand why we need bluesky.

I wish more people would create worker owned cooperatives. They might be more resilient and might even be more productive. Of cause the downside is that they don’t make one person very rich.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8206912/

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/247750384_Cooperatives_Worker-Owned_Enterprises_Productivity_and_the_International_Labor_Organization

I really hope these developers create new independent studios and if they ever get offered a big bag of money, they will remember what happened last time. Maybe they will be smart enough to create worker owned studios and not waste huge salaries on useless CEOs.

I don’t mind ads in EA games, mostly because I will never play them.

Not even in games can an honest peasant drink.

It’s owned by Meta/Facebook a company that’s makes its money spying on users. Signal or Simplex Chat are much better choices.

I think something like Simplex Chat is easier to use.

https://simplex.chat/

You are right, that there are no games now bound to the cloud right now. But look at Microsoft business model in other areas. It’s all software as a service, web apps in the cloud, that businesses pay a subscription to use. It’s great way to extract value from customers, because it gets harder and harder to move away from these platforms. Your data, save games, your friend list, your ability to play multiplayer and so on, get increasingly locked to one platform, which makes it harder to move. And then Microsoft can just collect rent, they don’t have to innovate or compete on a free market. This trend is sometimes called techno-feudalism.

I’m sure the Saudis are super fair and would not dream of targeting queer people.

Sony is just as bad. Sony use the same tactics to vendor lock its users.

She links to a news article: https://www.saudigazette.com.sa/article/641746/SAUDI-ARABIA/Etidal-Telegram-remove-over-16-million-extremist-contents-in-early-2024

I don’t think Telegram denies doing mass surveillance. They might deny targeting queer groups and claim to only target extremist, whatever that means.