More like the super healthy farmer is handing out organic food for free but people rather eat at McDonalds because it’s nearly packed and that’s where most people eat.
But… Blaming people who are being fucked over by forces generally outside their control is not really going to help their or our situation.
The whole premise of the comment is that it’s not outside of their control, they just chose not to be responsible for the agreements they make. If you have any better suggestions than blaming those responsible for the situation I’m willing to listen and maybe even change my mind.
Expecting or demanding “people” to just change is also not realistic. Even if they wanted to, time, effort, energy, knowledge, skills, and attention are all finite.
Is it more unrealistic than “we” deciding to change and find a better path forward than surrendering our digital lives to strangers? I’m able to self-host my own push server. I wasn’t born with that knowledge. I had to invest time, effort and energy to gain the knowledge and skills. If I can, so can others. I am not an extraordinary smart person.
Still, long before one starts to self-host entire platforms like NTFY or Nextcloud Push, there’s a ton of free to use services ran by idealists rather than capitalists. Or payed options with good terms. There’s so much between just not caring and being ones own sysadmin that I don’t think “don’t have the time” is a valid excuse anymore. It’s not just push messages, it’s everything - as you point out:
This is just one important issue or source of exploitation among a sea of others.
Sure. And most people I offered a free Nextcloud account to said the same. And Mastodon/Friendica-accounts. And so on. It’s like a technological mass depression, we can’t do everything we need to so there’s no point doing anything at all.
And today I’m running a custom ROM and no push services from Big Data while they’re literally getting robbed of their phonebooks by Meta.
PARIS: Urbanites seeking peace and quiet in the bucolic French countryside will have more difficulty in taking farmers to court over crowing roosters, mooing cows and stinking pigs in the future after parliament passed a new law, reported German news agency (dpa).
It’s been years since I saw all the movies I ever wanted to see from the beginning of cinematography up until that point. And now they only make shit movies, what’s a man to do but enjoy memes?
Have you tried holding the power button for like 20 seconds? Never seen a laptop that didn’t hard reset after that… You know what, never mind. Enjoy your browsing.
The most obvious one would be voting for politicians that want to shut that shit down nationally? Discussing it in a negative light, help out making anti-fur become the default stance? Talk to people you know that are pro- or on the fence?
Well you could always do like more and more people do and just check out? Take care of your own shit and wash your hands of the evils of the world - Don’t participate in “democracy” by voting.
Not caring at all is always easier than caring more than the average person.
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Turns out the Feds and other Governments have been spying on all push notifications the whole time and using it to even de-anonymise users on anonymous messenger apps.
And they placed a gag order on #Apple so they don't tell users.
There are some fundamental differences, like open source allowing your to check the integrity of the app for yourself and self-hosting instead of trusting somebody else to handle your notifications. I’m not a fan of the NTFY author having a company while residing where he does though, so many national laws that could put him in hot water and he wouldn’t be able to tell us.
I enjoy making the gaming experience my own, so back before portable radios was a thing (even as a mod) why not watch some lore-appropriate VOD’s while gaming?
Woman who threw bowl of food at Chipotle worker sentenced to work 2 months in fast food job (www.cnn.com)
Apple Confirms Governments Using Push Notifications to Surveil Users (www.macrumors.com)
French law upholds cows' right to moo in countryside (www.nst.com.my)
PARIS: Urbanites seeking peace and quiet in the bucolic French countryside will have more difficulty in taking farmers to court over crowing roosters, mooing cows and stinking pigs in the future after parliament passed a new law, reported German news agency (dpa).
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I enjoy making the gaming experience my own, so back before portable radios was a thing (even as a mod) why not watch some lore-appropriate VOD’s while gaming?