Good for them! Hopefully this leads to a stronger labor movement nationwide.
Good for them! Hopefully this leads to a stronger labor movement nationwide.
I look forward to the day when my refrigerator stops working because the company went bankrupt, or because their server was down.
I pity the poor fool who sets up their smart TV instead of just grabbing an HDMI cable and plugging in their computer.
Posts like this remind me just how grateful I am for the Fediverse.
Edit: Thank you, kind stranger!
I remember when I used to be able to find dedicated message boards for bands that I liked. Now I’m lucky if there’s a subreddit where it’s just a bunch of people submitting poorly drawn fan art of the band.
Another day, another moment of being thankful for my dedicated .mp3 player.
This won’t affect me - seeing as I have no use for Instagram - but I do worry that some actual DECENT sites will adopt this in the near future.
The full article is well worth reading. It’s good to find a lucid, logical deconstruction of why, precisely, this will be a complete disaster.
c/fuckcars
Further justifying my commitment to avoiding Prime at all costs.
Good. Fuck Twitter.
This is basically “dog bites man” territory at this point.
A lot of it is familiarity. I begged my parents to cancel Netflix, especially since they complain about the programming (or lack thereof); I pointed out that they could try another streaming service for a month, and then if they really hated it, then they could just go back to Netflix. But they wouldn’t even entertain the possibility. They’re afraid of change.
And Netflix is making bank on that.
Absolutely horrifying, but not surprising. This kind of shit is exactly what we were worried about when facial recognition tech started to take off.
The sad thing is that most people won’t even give a damn.