Chewie

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What's the main reason you're degoogling? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

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What's the main reason you're degoogling? in c/[email protected]
What's the main reason you're degoogling? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

Absolutely. In a previous company, we migrated from on-site MS Exchange to Google Mail (ugh). Apart from it being a crap experience (it was a new service), and feeling like we were beta testers as things kept changing daily, so writing training material was a PITA, once there was an outage, and even though we had ~10K users on it, they basically said "get in line" when we were chasing for updates etc even though we were a paying customer!

Fuck them.

Papua New Guinea shuts down Facebook in test to stop 'pornography, misinformation, hate speech' in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

Not sure how Porn = Terrorism. Sounds like mission creep to me.... Oh well, I guess it makes a change from using Anti-Terror laws to stop people putting the wrong things in wheelie bins: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/3333366/Half-of-councils-use-anti-terror-laws-to-spy-on-bin-crimes.html

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Hardcore off-grid in a Manhattan apartment (archive.md)
 

A bit too hardcore for me, but can't fault his conviction.