Tehdastehdas

Not just Ubuntu:

https://commerce.jolla.com/
https://buy.jolla-devices.com/product/sony-xperia-10-iii-sailfish-os/
https://docs.sailfishos.org/Support/Supported_Devices/

https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Devices

Quora is being recommended in some circles:
https://www.quora.com/How-are-there-so-many-scammers-and-intrusive-ads-on-here-lately/answer/Franklin-Veaux

Especially ages 46-62 now.

Meta’s business model is collecting, using and selling data from users of “free” services. Obviously they didn’t buy WhatsApp for charity.

Meta has been caught lying before. Even if there’s no backdoor right now, the next closed-source update can add one and take all message history. Would you trust Zuck?

My recommendations on Quora’s feed follow closely what I’ve said with an Android phone present, even someone else’s phone, as my presence is detected by Google from my voice and my /e/OS phone’s radio traffic.

https://www.quora.com/Is-Quora-listening-to-my-conversations-Why-do-suggestions-pop-up-relating-to-what-I-am-talking-to-my-friends-family-about-offline/answers/320063126

I highly recommend GrapheneOS, /e/OS, Jolla Sailfish OS Linux phone, or anything that doesn’t work for Google or Apple. My battery life (idling) went from 2 days with Android to a whole week with /e/OS, because spying consumes energy.

I don’t remember a time when the air outside my home in a car-dependent industrial city was fresh. Luckily my current apartment gets centrally filtered and heat-exchanged replacement air.

You can install phone Linuxes to many cheap devices:

https://docs.sailfishos.org/Support/Supported_Devices/

https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Devices

Buy pre-installed:
https://buy.jolla-devices.com/product/sony-xperia-10-iii-sailfish-os/

The worst damage to computers was done by U.S. Congress in 1972 when they fired ARPA IPTO that invented the Internet and the foundations of everything we now have in enshittified form. The direction was fantastic until then.

The sick sad history of computer-aided collaboration
https://www.quora.com/Who-invented-the-modern-computer-look-and-feel/answer/Harri-K-Hiltunen
(long story)

directed campaign on social media today to disincentivise leftist people from flirting

Is there a post about it? I only noticed the destruction of OkCupid as an attack against its liberal-skewed user base:
https://lemmy.world/post/24108120

Owned by Match Group, the same company that destroyed the dating site that matched compatible people too well.

“Destruction of OkCupid as an attack against its liberal-skewed user base"
https://lemmy.world/post/24108120

That’s impossible, the keys are not there.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homomorphic_encryption

Security is not so good there:

https://gitlab.e.foundation/e/backlog/-/issues/9201

https://gitlab.e.foundation/e/backlog/-/issues/9200

Andromeda Strain (1971)

A 2003 publication by the Infectious Diseases Society of America noted that The Andromeda Strain is the “most significant, scientifically accurate, and prototypic of all films of this [killer virus] genre … it accurately details the appearance of a deadly agent, its impact, and the efforts at containing it, and, finally, the work-up on its identification and clarification on why certain persons are immune to it.”

Not cumulative but anyway.

Why do you think those should be separate? That just destroys the network effect. Original OkCupid used to have everything. Amazon has everything. Facebook has all sorts of shit. They don’t split into niches.

BluRay looks sharper.

benefit humanity as a whole

The Borg from Star Trek fills that requirement. My headcanon is that the people from its home planet made an AGI with the given goal of “benefiting humanity as a whole”, and it maximised that goal by building the Borg - making humanity as a whole by connecting them to a hive mind and forcibly assimilating all other species to benefit humanity as a whole.

https://deadhomersociety.wordpress.com/zombiesimpsons/

a hopelessly mediocre imitation that bears only a superficial resemblance to the original. It is the unwanted sequel, the stale spinoff, the creative dry hole that is kept pumping in the endless search for more money. It is Zombie Simpsons.