Today’s tech is powerful — but it’s not personal
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Big Tech or Big Brother? We've fallen out of love with Big Tech because our devices feel less like helpful tools and more like strangers in our homes.

The line between helpful tech and quiet surveillance is blurring — and our devices no longer feel fully under our control.

  • TeamAssimilation@infosec.pubEnglish
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    1 day ago

    Ive contributed to several projects, code and translation, but you can really expect every user to be a programmer, or every programmer to contribute to every piece of software they use.

    Besides, contribution is not a protection from capture, just look at MySQL.

    • 14th_cylon@lemmy.zipEnglish
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      1 day ago

      Ive contributed to several projects, code and translation, but you can really expect every user to be a programmer,

      i meant contributing with money. contributing code is nice, but that doesn’t help them to pay for electricity.

      • TeamAssimilation@infosec.pubEnglish
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        23 hours ago

        That’s donations, and I’ve donated to less projects that I’d like, because it would become costly very fast. Mainly things like Wikipedia or Jellyfin.