pretty much. people think these things are promoted for no reason, or for votes alone when in truth its a powerful distraction and division tool.
pretty much. people think these things are promoted for no reason, or for votes alone when in truth its a powerful distraction and division tool.
do you think i want to use facebook or linkedin or the likes?
i use them with an adblocker. best balance to me.
i think ive seen that place on youtube before
exactly why i dont mind blocking ads.
not a business model i wouldnt mind not supporting and companies i wouldnt mind not depending on.
and it is used for nefarious political purposes that are undemocratic at best.
ublock origin has a few lists named “annoyances” or something that arent enabled by default.
enabling them gets rid of almost all of the popups and i cant live without it anymore.
this includes cookie nags and all the miscellaneous stuff they throw at you.
we pay with our data already
the internet is insufferable without it, and many people (including some IT people) seem to not even mind it. it blows my mind.
i used to buy plenty from aliexpress. its generally pretty damn good.
more sad than funny tbh, the internet definetly broke old people
… while making its story exactly the style they are making fun of in the most boring way possible. feels like watching a regular shonnen.
and the portable brain washing machine
its where you store all your porn?
nice. got it installed to test it out
you mean the user@machine:$ thing? how do you have yours?
… and you just changed a very important configuration file you intended to double check next
i have the horrible habit of using shutdown now because of my personal computers. a lot more fun.
i have different passwords but i type them so naturally it didnt even register.
“wrong password.”
“oh, i’m on the server, here’s the right password:”
“no wait”
this week i sudo shutdown now our main service right at the end of the workday because i tought it was a local terminal.
not a bright move.
also how they are used as backdoors nowadays