All it costs to fulfill the average person's needs for digital services is a $5 per month VPS instance. It's even cheaper if you buy a single board computer and host your services at home.
We've been letting companies steal our personal data and sell it to the highest bidder and destroying democracy in the process all to save what? A coffee a month?
This is one of the worst deals in history.
Really sad about Argentina... But it was a great match. They tried until the very end...
So I have finally watched the video recaps of E3 conferences. Really it seems to me that it's more of the same thing every year.
But I'm really excited about Cyberpunk and Metro: Exodus. The new Doom is also quite interesting. Everything else was kind of meh for me personally, to be honest.
A recent paper finds that, as many suspected, Bitcoin's price has been manipulated with the token called Tether: https://nytimes.com/2018/06/13/technology/bitcoin-price-manipulation.html
Gargron said that if I get 100 boosts he'll verify my account SMASH THAT MOTHERFUCKING BOOST BUTTON
I'm looking for others with #type1diabetes on the fediverse. Just looking for a bit of a support network in this. I would very much appreciate a boost.
If you have it say hi/follow please.
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First the marshmallow test fails to stand up to scrutiny and now the Stanford prison experiment. Well, hopefully that means these particular fields will make genuine progress. https://medium.com/s/trustissues/the-lifespan-of-a-lie-d869212b1f62
More attacks on free speech in China: https://respectfulinsolence.com/2018/05/08/tan-qindong-traditional-chinese-medicine-big-pharma/
Basically a doctor was jailed for 3 months because he publicly criticized a traditional Chinese medicine drug that never had a proper trial and might be potentially dangerous.
I suggest reading the whole article, it's quite interesting. And yes, traditional Chinese medicine is a government-protected scam.
#Amazon treats its warehouse workers badly, pays very little tax and tracks its users. Its #Kindle platform will delete books that people have already bought.
Here are some updated ethical alternatives to #AmazonBooks, Kindle and #GoodReads:
https://switching.social/ethical-alternatives-to-amazon-and-goodreads/
Thanks to everyone who gave suggestions for alternatives, if you have any more suggestions (or feedback on these alternatives) please reply to this post.
#Kindle #Goodreads #Privacy #DeleteAmazon #DeleteKindle #DRM #eBooks #Books
An interesting article about the (failure of) first robots for home use: https://tedium.co/2018/05/24/80s-home-robot-history/
What I find particularly interesting is how back then companies like those were much more oriented towards Open Source-like approach in their products.
I wonder what would happen if those projects turned out to be successful.
Listening to Santana right now... The album is Santana 3. I just wanted to listen to a couple of tracks, but now I can't stop. It's sooooo good.
Maybe Google's patent pool is part of an anti-patent strategy, but we can't assume that the company has benign intentions.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/06/inventor-says-google-is-patenting-work-he-put-in-the-public-domain
Eating melon~Sweet sweet evergreen~
甘い甘いメロンを食べる~
Oh, so now we have trending topics here... That's pretty cool.
