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Condition1952··on DRM-free e-books are a big deal (2019)
Is it illegal to charge a URL on your country? You might want to try to share a Google search
Condition1952··on DRM-free e-books are a big deal (2019)
Those entrepreneurs are nagging you to look for films online because plastics accumulate forever
Condition1952··on Using Goatse to Stop App Theft
This is reckless and irresponsible. Think of the children. They don’t deserve to see such a picture
Condition1952··on Encrypting private data and private communications is now an ethical duty
It is actually a tragedy that privacy is so inconvenient and complicated
Condition1952··on Finland to vote against the EU mass surveillance and encryption ban directive
There used to be a website which would allow you to encrypt and decrypt data.

I was expecting some kind of Firefox addon to implement this kind of encryption to regular messaging websites

Condition1952··on Awareness at Death
There was a Reddit thread not long ago where commenters spoke about their near death experiences.

All coincided in that it was a pleasant experience

Condition1952··on 2023 Nobel Prize in economics awarded to Claudia Goldin
Caring for a baby is seen as an economic catastrophe, unless the baby is not yours
Condition1952··on World breaches key 1.5C warming mark for record number of days
iOS says we’re 10 °C above the average for my location
Condition1952··on The glass at McCormick Place in Chicago is a lethal obstacle for birds
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silent_Spring?wprov=sfti1
Condition1952··on Sonoma's log gets briefer and more secretive
it’s not yours, it’s granted to you under a license
Condition1952··on The glass at McCormick Place in Chicago is a lethal obstacle for birds
I looked out the window yesterday for a few minutes. I think I heard a chirp faraway among the natural traffic stream.

The silent spring is coming.

Condition1952··on Android devices with backdoored firmware found in US schools
So MacBooks could be compromised? We better find a laptop with a locked down computer operating system to be safe
Condition1952··on You've just spent $400 on a baby monitor. Now you need a subscription
You don’t need a baby monitor. You just need a laptop, Signal and a mobile phone
Condition1952··on Airbnb tenant refuses to leave for more than a year
The owner is still paying those utilities, aren’t they?

they should just stop paying

Condition1952··on Windows Copilot's is showing third-party Ads to Windows users
Sadly, the other alternatives are very expensive both in time or money
Condition1952··on Microsoft introduces AI meddling to your files with Copilot in OneDrive
I used to dislike Windows and Microsoft. Now my school administration is paying them tribute, probably due to effective lobbying practices. So I hate them now
Condition1952··on Microsoft introduces AI meddling to your files with Copilot in OneDrive
yeah. I have spent two weeks hashing thousands of pictures scattered around the informal backups and now I still have to deal with different size versions of the same image.

I wish the computer could rename them consistently in my stead and removed the lesser quality versions. I would prefer if it was a tool developed by anyone else but Microsoft.

Condition1952··on Generative AI could make search harder to trust
Please get your answers from Anna’s Library
Condition1952··on September was the most anomalously hot month ever
Global warming is not a belief. It’s just a theory, like gravity
Condition1952··on Tech doesn’t make our lives easier. It makes them faster
Somebody who helps you make right choices is called a mentor
Condition1952··on Meta (Facebook / Instagram) to move to a “Pay for your Rights” approach
“Don’t use this data in your behaviour dataset! It’s from a paying customer
Condition1952··on macOS Sonoma is available today
Those peasants are bound to suffer the wrath of planned obsolescence.

macOS could be a modular rolling release, but you need to milk the peasants from time to time

Condition1952··on macOS Sonoma is available today
It’s a matter of time that they get sherlocked
Condition1952··on EU tells Apple to open everything up to its rivals
I’m looking forward to downloading free and open source software from f-droid.

I don’t care about gmail because I don’t use it

Condition1952··on Apache Open Office as an unmaintained project?
He he he. I meant “you compose, you set margins, you print”.

WYSIWYP

Condition1952··on UK considers banning cigarettes for next generation
Starting from the duo Tatcher-Nixon, politicians have already barred the next generation from a lot of things like owning a home. So, why not cigarettes? Fuck tobacco btw
Condition1952··on ‘Who Benefits?’ Inside the EU’s Fight over Scanning for Child Sex Content
Does the CIA need to weaken encryption? Don’t they have backdoors or front doors into each operating system connected to the power grid?
Condition1952··on LaLiga “Talks to Google” About Deleting Piracy Apps from a Million Phones
There’s no such article. Downloading internet files for non commercial use, watching streaming videos is not illegal under any circumstances and implying otherwise is creating a misleading situation
Condition1952··on Apache Open Office as an unmaintained project?
A bit off topic but what’s an easy to use FOSS WYSIWYG text processor for Linux?

I’ve tried OpenOffice and I became frustrated.

Condition1952··on LaLiga “Talks to Google” About Deleting Piracy Apps from a Million Phones
Which is the article of the código penal which says something like “those who watch an internet streaming without paying money to somebody will be punished with fine or prison”?

If it’s not written down as illegal, it’s legal

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