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lmao betterhelp the therapy app startup is having an ftc action against it because it’s been sharing customer data with facebook to target ads

remember the days when you could put something in quotes and search it and get only results that contained that exact phrase? i miss those days

Wild how there's people who's moral code doesn't build on the principle that all the weakest members need to be raised up and cared for.

I get no one person can do that for everyone, but I feel like it should s be their foundation for morality. Else what's even the point.

As far as needing jobs at all I wish everyone's job was their special interest and they didn't need to worry about pay. Like, someone's job should just be liking dinosaurs or whatver

Android 14 introduces financed devices, where the financing entity has the capability to lock(!) the device in case of a missed payment 🧐 commonsware.com/blog/2023/02/1

a lot of policy discussions are hung up on first-order shit like "should we do recycling" and "what things should we recycle" rather than second-order shit like "the guys who say theyre doing the recycling for us are just taking the garbage 5,000 miles away and throwing it in a river"

Here is a new scam happening. Somebody want to rent my upwork (!!) account (that I do not have) and have access to my computer so that they can work as me for a 10% fee.

Don't do this.

Hi everyone, I'm a totally blind electronic musician. Looking for a audio, developer fluent in C++ d to help me with a very special open source project to assist blind people with electronic music production. If you can help me, or know anyone in your network who can please reach out and get at me. Thanks very much everyone :-) #electronic music :-)

tech companies: lay off employees en masse in an obviously coordinated action to depress the salaries of the people who actually do all the work

the government: what’s a “cartel”. I don’t know what that word means

I'm not much of a gamer so that part isn't exciting for me, but this seems to be more powerful and more portable than my current computing setup so I think it'll be worth it.

Also, the 4G adapter is exciting since I could potentially replace my Android phone with this thing. :x

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This past few months at the other site has me convinced organizations should 100% do whatever they need to do to build outreach capacity independently from social media sites.

Make a newsletter, a zine, a big Signal group, whatever you want. But it should be yours, so it can't just be bought or taken away.

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Whoa, this thing seems like a great alternative to the with beefier specs, a smaller form factor, and a built in keyboard.

Apparently it works more or less out of the box with ! I've been thinking of replacing my NUC with the steamdeck, but now I think I'll wait for this to come out and do that instead.

The specs might be better for too.

youtube.com/watch?v=QMW3JpsdND

It'd be neat if there was a front end for that looked like Tiktok but with the algorithm being on the client side with more control over how it finds content.

Wondering where to buy DRM-free ebooks, digital comics, magazines & RPGs?

Here's my list of over 300 ebookshops that sell books you can actually own, keep, and read on your favourite devices!

#DRMfree #ebooks #comics #magazines

libreture.com/bookshops/

@Are0h Honestly what gets me about capitalism is that as a society we seem to have decided that democracy is good, but only sometimes.
Democracy in voting for your local mayor? Good. Democracy in voting for your boss? Bad.
And no-one ever questions it.

Are there any alternatives to Google's spreadsheets that folks liked using? Specifically interested in self hosting, live collaboration, amd access control.

Hobestly wish HackMD had something for spreadsheets built in so I could write text instead of fiddling with a mouse :P

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