I was answering a technical question on Reddit last night when I realized that, while it might help the person asking it, I am also fueling Reddits profits, training AI, and supporting a big American corporation by providing free knowledge.

So I reconsidered and I deleted the answer I was writing.

I will use my reddit account read only from now. No more upvotes, no more downvotes, no more comments. AdBlock enabled using Firefox for all sites. I already use Linux instead of Microsoft. I don’t have Facebook or Instagram. I de-googled my online accounts and e-mail and moved my domains and e-mail to a Swiss company. I drive German cars. I will consciously start vetting my purchases to be not from the US or China. I will buy local as much as I can. When I build software, I will not host it on Google or azure or aws. I’m looking at nextcloud for my next pet project.

The list is growing, and every little item I can add to it gives me a little more satisfaction and peace of mind.

Why are they removing support though?

I am scared to Google “electroplay”.

Don’t forget the cleanest air in decades. The lockdowns definitely had their upsides, but we forget fast.

I assume you have heard of An idiot abroad?

It’s a comedy, I think a lot of the misery is acted, but fun nonetheless.

Exactly this. He made an offer publicly, which was accepted and legally binding. He overpaid substantially and proceeded to run the company into the ground.

And that’s how I met your mother

He looks more intelligent than most project managers.

He gets burned regularly this man. One could say he would be used to it by now.

Probably because they’re from the U.S. where SMS is still used extensively for messaging.

Because hexbear users would never do that, right? You’re fighting your battle on the wrong battleground.

In skateboarding the term is “poser”.

Friend of mine played enemy territory competitively. They turned the graphics all the way down so grass and smoke didn’t get in the way of their field of vision.

With someone else?

Remember that, in general, consuming almost always costs you something while producing can potentially give you something. This is true in a very broad sense.

Don’t take shortcuts doing DIY. Prepare, use the right tools. Don’t skip steps or do things “quick and dirty”. Clean up afterwards.

“Making money with other people’s content is shitty”

What reddit, xitter, meta and pretty every big corporation is doing right now with A.I.?

Nikki Hayley is an opportunist. She sees Trump potentially losing and is shifting herself into a position of plausible deniability. If Trump were doing better she’d be completely on his side like she was when she was his spokeswoman. She knows he won’t live until 90 and is positioning herself to become more powerful in the republican party.

Is anybody writing this down? Sounds like an excellent roadmap to me.

The problem with rcs is that it needs to work without a data connection like sms. For that to work, every single mobile operator needs to support it and route it. For that to work they need to work together. The problem is they don’t and there are different implementations, some don’t support it at all. Even when they do, the phone needs to support it. Google is now at a point where they have rcs capable messaging on every recent Android version. Apple is now also integrating rcs into iOS. They are circumventing the operator problem by enabling rcs over wifi or your subscription data. But that’s a workaround, because it requires data, while sms just requires a cellphone signal. Until operators start working together to enable and relay rcs messages, Google and Apple habe the monopoly by having rcs routed directly to their messaging apps over the internet instead of directly to the device like sms does.