The line between helpful tech and quiet surveillance is blurring — and our devices no longer feel fully under our control.

  • 14th_cylon@lemmy.zip
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    3
    ·
    edit-2
    1 day ago

    Always be ready to migrate.

    or be ready to contribute to the project you use, so they don’t have to sell out to google.

    • demonsword@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      4
      arrow-down
      1
      ·
      23 hours ago

      or be ready to contribute to the project you use, so they don’t have to sell out to google.

      that may happen despite your contributing or not

      • 14th_cylon@lemmy.zip
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        1
        arrow-down
        1
        ·
        20 hours ago

        you can also have car accident with or without alcohol, but that doesn’t mean that dui is good idea.

        • demonsword@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          1
          arrow-down
          1
          ·
          19 hours ago

          Yes, of course you shouldn’t drive under influence. Still, what a bad analogy. Two completely unrelated scenarios.

          • 14th_cylon@lemmy.zip
            link
            fedilink
            English
            arrow-up
            1
            arrow-down
            1
            ·
            19 hours ago

            your inability to understand it doesn’t make it bad analogy. in both cases, one of the outcomes is far more likely. and your argument is as stupid as drunk driver explaining “i can crash sober, so why try”

            • demonsword@lemmy.world
              link
              fedilink
              English
              arrow-up
              1
              arrow-down
              1
              ·
              17 hours ago

              your inability to understand it doesn’t make it bad analogy

              Wow how condescending we are today. I’m sorry I failed to appreciate the analogy that your big, beautiful smooth brain produced.

              Prick.

    • TeamAssimilation@infosec.pub
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      1
      ·
      21 hours ago

      Ive contributed to several projects, code and translation, but you can really expect every user to be a programmer, or every programmer to contribute to every piece of software they use.

      Besides, contribution is not a protection from capture, just look at MySQL.

      • 14th_cylon@lemmy.zip
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        1
        ·
        20 hours ago

        Ive contributed to several projects, code and translation, but you can really expect every user to be a programmer,

        i meant contributing with money. contributing code is nice, but that doesn’t help them to pay for electricity.

        • TeamAssimilation@infosec.pub
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          1
          ·
          18 hours ago

          That’s donations, and I’ve donated to less projects that I’d like, because it would become costly very fast. Mainly things like Wikipedia or Jellyfin.