Spent the whole day looking for a rental property in #Ireland (things are so bad we’re looking all over the country). Might have one potential viewing.🤞

PS. If you’re thinking of moving to Ireland, don’t unless you can afford to buy a place. Renting here is hell.

@polychrome Now if only the people making the browses weren’t the same people who want all our data.

@ekaitz_zarraga Sadly, our puppy is a huskamute so we really can’t live in warmer climes. Or else I’d consider Cyprus, for example :)

Anyone who buys into the “you don’t need to own anything, you can just rent everything” bullshit should come to Ireland and try renting a house sometime. I promise you’ll sober up real quick.

Who do you think perpetuates that bullshit? That’s right, the assholes who own everything and do all the renting out.

@gerowen Not to defend a people farmer like Google/Alphabet, Inc. in any way but, in this case, I’m assuming those are cryptographically-secure (which I can’t tell by looking at them, I’d have to see how they’re generated) URLs so there’s really no chance someone could stumble upon them.

@ekaitz_zarraga I hear you. You gotta laugh or you’d just lose it given how ass-backwards everything is.

@ekaitz_zarraga It has only been a little over three decades, so, yeah, relatively new ;)

Node.js devs, imagine npm doesn’t exist. Instead, if you’re nice, you make a list of your dependencies in your README and everyone installs them manually. (Seriously.) Also, you can list names any way you like. So, if a library is called libclutter-1.0-dev, list it as clutter, libclutter, clutter-1.0, … and people will magically know you meant libclutter-1.0-dev (or, more likely, they’ll do an, e.g., apt search clutter to try and find out wtf you meant). Welcome to C/Vala development in 2021.

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Google: literally pays $15B to be the default search engine

Some folks: it’s not that bad, you can change it to a different search engine

Which part of that DEFAULT is worth FIFTEEN BILLION DOLLARS specifically because most people will not change it did you not understand exactly?

GitLab: no, we won’t let you customise the CSS…. but of course you can embed analytics scripts…

Hacker dude from the Interwebs: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/15199#note_666095150

;)

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@ekaitz_zarraga Ouch!

Apple is trying to redefine what it means to violate your privacy. We must not let it.

https://ar.al/2021/08/08/apple-is-trying-to-redefine-what-it-means-to-violate-your-privacy-we-must-not-let-it/

#apple #privacy

Apple: What happens on your iPhone?

#apple #privacy

@ekaitz_zarraga Maybe all of them.

The only legitimate use of privilege is to spend it to create the kind of world where you never would have had it to begin with.

Funny, everything about how I started out should have set me up for a life of quietly enjoying privilege – heck my friends at school were literally princes and princesses – and yet I cannot think of a single thing I despise more than privilege, inequality, and injustice. Only fools, cowards, or tyrants can love a system built at the intersection of all three.

I’ve spent more hours playing Assasin’s Creed Odyssey than probably any other game and Immortals Fenyx Rising is the perfect follow-up apart from a major dick move from Ubisoft: if they detect you’re online, they FORCE you to sign into your Ubisoft account.

(I don’t have one. I don’t want one.)

Well, joke’s on you Ubisoft, all you made me do was disconnect my PS4 from the network.

Of course, I SHOULDN’T have to do that just to play your fucking game.

#ubisoft #gaming #privacy #capitalism

…I’m seeing people say “just don’t use an iPhone.” It’s not that simple when everyday things like financial apps with two-factor authentication are locked into the two main platforms.

We need legislation to ensure critical services use open standards so you can use your Pinephone to buy lunch in the future.

It’s shocking how easily some folks jump to “just go live in a cave.” No, that’s not an acceptable alternative. We deserve to partake in modern life without sacrificing our human rights…

Regardless of whether Apple bows down to pressure on this, it shows you how they think. It’s their phone, not yours. Tim Apple is your daddy and as long as you live under his roof, you live under his rules. And he’s just made it clear he can enter your room whenever he likes and search your drawers. Might be time to think about moving out.

Problem is, where do you go? Do you move in with creepy uncle Google next door? No, he’s even worse.

And your banking app only works on iOS and Android…

“Centuries of grooming left millions of people – including my mother – believing that some families were inherently better than others; that their wealth and family seats were magicked into being by dint of that inherent superiority and not built off the back of the vicious and murderous exploitation of other people; that they were more inherently fascinating than anyone else; that their lives mattered more.”

https://bylinetimes.com/2021/07/27/englands-upper-classes-a-dangerous-cult/