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Lennart Poettering does not deserve the hate he gets.

yes just be responsible and law-abiding and provide your full name and address and DOB to the state they will safeguard it and take care of you and everything will be fine

theguardian.com/us-news/2022/j

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People talking about F-Zero X on the Nintendo 64

:ffoxterrified: <- me, who played a lot of orginal F-Zero on the SNES

the number of instances that have defederated me because i federate with everyone who speaks the protocol (like email) is astounding

100% of the people on fedi who have been the most aggressively rude and threatening to me have been transwomen. is this due to trans overrepresentation on fedi or something else?

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@sneak @mike I’m guessing the android equivalent is avoidable at least?

The sad part is all of those things except cellular vpn blocking and degrading is mostly anti-fraud and marketing.

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Things that exist in Europe in just as great of numbers as the US:

* Pro-lifers
* Religious people
* People who hate trans people
* People who think queer people should just be quiet
* People who really believe giving up freedom can make them safer
* CCTV (actually, more)
* Doctors who gatekeep the fuck out of everything
* Medical insurance (yes, really!)
* Shitty infrastructure (though their trains are better, a lot of public transit is busses now...)
* Poor people

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"popular myth is that people who are Very Computer have computers that work. nothing could be further from the truth. the Very Computer are capable of generating much more novel and fascinating ways to make computers not fucking work and exercise this capability wantonly"

i did an experiment for the last year or so seeing if it is possible to live a modern connected life without being tracked by big tech and by extension the us military.

it is not. the experiment failed.

now even if you create an appleid inside the app store app (declining to use one during phone activation/setup), it signs you into icloud automatically without asking (in addition to just the app store).

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