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   snickerbockers (snickerbockers@freeradical.zone)'s status on Thursday, 26-Oct-2023 13:53:06 JST snickerbockers

   so there's this doc on netflix called "the social dilemma" my mom watched. It's about how abusive social networks can monitor users. if you're on fediverse there's nothing you could learn from it that you don't already know.

   Anyways, one of the key theses is the old line about how if you're using a free service then you're the product not the user.

   So now my mom is nagging me to move from Linux to Windows because she thinks Linux is spying on me. Windows is safer because its not free...

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     Alexandre Oliva (lxo@gnusocial.net)'s status on Thursday, 26-Oct-2023 13:53:06 JST Alexandre Oliva

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     the dictum was decent heuristics for some time, but it was enshittified.
     whether or not you pay for it, if it's *not* free (as in freedom) for you, and the supplier can change it from under you, you *will* be the product, by means of software #enshittification