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Ever since TV remote was invented, people don’t even lift their asses off the couch and walk over to the TV to change the channel. Unless a company adapts to changing tech landscape, they can be many things, but not a company for grown-ups.


Excuse me - if I bought your product and paid for it, in what universe am I not investing into you, and instead you are investing into me??

HP is a steaming pile of shit.


ABP has that stinky practice of marking ads as “acceptable” (basically those companies pay ABP to be on their “allowlist”).

As has already been mentioned - stop using ABP, and use uBO instead. It’s a lifesaver.



What’s going on with F-Droid Board of Directors and “Hans” ?
Sorry, living under a rock recently. Can someone ELI5 this for me? Thanks !
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I should have mentioned that I already have theluddite.org RSS in my reader, and I do enjoy your articles. Thanks !


Encountering mostly promotional articles in tech RSS feed
Here's something that appears slightly unsettling to me these days. Recently I unsubscribed from a bunch of email-newsletters from Tech sites (which used to end up in my inbox at a regular interval) - and instead switched over to an RSS reader (Feeder from F-Droid), and added the feeds from as many of those Tech sites in my reader as I could. My whole point for doing this was to ensure that I follow stuff on my own terms - and also I get all the feed in one place (one app) instead of those newsletter emails taking me to their individual Tech Sites. And in spite of being old school, I always thought RSS to be cool tech, just like Radio! Some of the tech sites I subscribed for newsletter are Android Authority, Ars Technica, Gizmodo, Digital Trends, Engadget, TechCrunch, TechRadar, PC World, Mashable,.. You get the idea. What I am noticing is that most of the feeds from these sites are blatantly "Promotional" in nature - e.g. "The best robot vacuums for hardwood will keep those floors looking spiffy" "The best home security camera ahead of Prime Day" "Get a Microsoft Office lifetime license for/an all time low price" "The best T-Mobile deals of October 2023" "Best early October Prime day tech deals" ....and don't get me started about ExpressVPN sponsored posts... Unsurprisingly, I do see that almost all of them carry sponsored/affiliated links. Seriously ?? I can't focus on just the tech news, and avoid these promotional BS ? Would love to hear if anyone else experienced this, and any workaround there might be.
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That lawsuit simply says : “acquire me, acquire me, O Holy Musk, acquire me…”



…worst platform for disinformation…

Is that a double negative, or am I hallucinating ?


If you have seen that StarTalk episode, do you remember what Neil DeGrasse Tyson’s response to that? He seems like good people…


Reputation is a perishable commodity. It is very hard to replenish it once gone.

Xwitter and Reddit understood it the hard way. Even if Unity goes back to exactly where they were before this ruckus - people will think twice before trusting them again.



Nope, I didn’t. But they all being A-holes, show no sign of digging their own graves like Reddit, X, and Unity did.

Guess they are supervillains then, lol.


Reddit, Xwitter, Unity…what next in the queue of “let me fuck myself” ?