WofFS @woffs@mastodon.sdf.org

"People want more relevant ads" sounds reasonable, until you realise that "more relevant" means "tailored to influence your specific behaviour".

For example, showing you articles about the futility of voting if you're likely to vote a certain way.

🇩🇪 Bürgermails zu #Chatkontrolle und #TERREG erreichen Europaabgeordnete erst gar nicht, Ursache: Der vom Europäischen Parlament verwendete Microsoft-Spamfilter, den wir nicht einmal abschalten können.

Bin erstaunt, wieviele Holz-Schlitten offenbar in Berliner Altbauwohnungen lagern.

Perpetual reminder that there was a specific deal between Facebook and Google back in 2015 to allow WhatsApp E2E encrypted messages to be uploaded in plain text via the Google drive chat backup feature.

A recent source:
https://nitter.cc/ashk4n/status/1339346612376588288

I sometimes forget this is a thing as I have always ran de-Google Android ROMs.

Dear software developers: if you truly want your software to be used on anything besides Linux, don't assume that the bash shell is always located in /bin. On OSs like NetBSD it's not included in the base system and therefore won't be found in /bin. Thank you.

The greatest feeling of power come from

If you, for whatever reason, want to make sure your code does not get used by Google - license it under AGPL :) #LifeHack https://opensource.google/docs/using/agpl-policy/

I feel like awk is probably the single most under-appreciated tool in Unix today

Pandemiegerecht Kochen: Füge jedem Gericht genug Knoblauch hinzu, damit Fremde freiwillig 1,5 Meter Abstand halten. 🤓

@tomasino According to https://www.womenshealthmag.com/health/a19994654/how-much-farting-is-normal/ the average person has 0.5 to 1.5 liters a day. So, to make it easy call it 1 L/day.

This site https://www.simplyinsurance.com/average-us-life-expectancy-statistics/#section-1 says we live an average of 78.5 years or 28,672.125 days. So 28 kL of gas in a lifespan.

A weather balloon is 100 L so you would fill 287 weather balloons in your life. A hot air balloon is 4 kL, so the same would be 7 hot air balloons.

Showerthoughts:

is an antivirus a piece of malware that has monopoly on being malware on a particular machine?

the future is low tech

Der Zustand öffentlicher Toiletten ist warum Außerirdische keinen Kontakt zu uns aufnehmen wollen.

Try our app, it's exactly like our website down to the pixel except for how it accesses your contacts, location, microphone, pictures and camera and it's not always nagging you to try our app.