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   翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Monday, 09-Jan-2023 18:40:21 JST 翠星石

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   • Aral Balkan
   @aral >developed a free tool they said helped people with dyslexia
   So a gratis tool that was nonfree?
   
   >they do design their tech differently so your health data stays on your own device.
   Sure it does.
   
   Of course they offer it for sale, just not in a way that is easy to notice.
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     Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Monday, 09-Jan-2023 18:40:22 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Ben Evans

     @kittylyst And, to be fair, Apple are by no means perfect (and no trillion-dollar company is your friend) but they do design their tech differently so your health data stays on your own device. In the West, at least, they’ve made it their differentiating factor. (If you’re in China, though, that’s a different market and they have a different set of principles they apply there. Surprise, surprise.)

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     Ben Evans (kittylyst@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 09-Jan-2023 18:40:23 JST Ben Evans

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     • Aral Balkan

     @aral An older UK person I am close to needs to use a heart monitor. The doctors advised us that the best-available tech is the Apple watch and the ecosystem associated with it.

     The alternative, non-BigTech solution was obviously inferior and had a horrible UX that even relatively tech-savvy seniors were clearly going to struggle with.

     "Give up your data to BigTech or have worsened healthcare outcomes" is already here - even on what's left of the NHS.

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     Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Monday, 09-Jan-2023 18:40:24 JST Aral Balkan

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     By the way, if you think the artificial lens bit is hyperbole, think again. Quite a few years ago now I was sitting at dinner with some CEO of some startup that had developed a free tool they said helped people with dyslexia read more easily.

     So, as I do, I asked him my favourite question: “how will you make money with this?”

     He looked at me like I was rather daft before answering, matter of factly, “well, we know what you’re reading.”

     Say no more, my friend. Say no more.

     #PeopleFarming

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     Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Monday, 09-Jan-2023 18:40:26 JST Aral Balkan

     Today, you can choose not to drive a Tesla if you don’t want Elon Musk, Inc. knowing everywhere you go.

     Tomorrow, you might have to limit where you live because you won’t live in a Google Home and reconsider having 20/20 vision again in exchange for the artificial lens company seeing everything you see.

     Privacy is not something you can “vote with your wallet” on. We either protect it as a human right or we lose it altogether.

     #privacy #humanRights #BigTech #peopleFarming #capitalism

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