pemptago

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[–] pemptago@lemmy.ml 8 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

It's available to whoever is willing to pay. Consent is given when users agree to privacy policies and ToS. Unfortunately, unless you're in the EU, it's legal, and when companies violate permissive laws or suffer a data breach, the penalties are often inconsequential. The original comment was vague and didn't specify the case. In the context of linux users vs MS and Apple, I'm leaning towards a distrust of big tech and "readily available for anyone" being inclusive of a multibillion dollar ad industry and the ecosystems developed around it. Though, technically not anyone can access every piece, so I guess we could dismiss it as a thing of the past.

[–] pemptago@lemmy.ml 20 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Data brokers getting a kick out of this one.

[–] pemptago@lemmy.ml 26 points 1 month ago

Came here to say this. Also

OpenDyslexic as an alternative font

Respect. Congrats to OP on launching. Will take a peak when I get the chance.

[–] pemptago@lemmy.ml 17 points 1 month ago (30 children)

People who are proud of getting a good deal via an app break my heart. Most folks I know like that are not strapped for cash. They just like the feeling of getting a bargain. They don't consider that the prices are artificially inflated. They don't need the sale item. And in the long run they'll probably end up paying more when the stores know their purchasing habits and have A/B tested them enough to know how to provide as little as possible while charging as much as a customer can stomach.

If a coupon requires an app, I don't by that item. Especially when it comes to groceries. When it comes to store cards, most let you use a phone number instead of scanning the card. So plug in a random number at checkout. You can often get a hit on the first try. Then pay in cash. Dirty up someone else's data and give these stores nothing on you. Seriously, if people keep giving in, it's guaranteed to get worse. First the store card, then the app, what's next?

[–] pemptago@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 month ago

I'm with you 100% up to the "little recourse," I think there's more options now than there have ever been. Open source (including linux and self hosting) are about the only tech-future things I'm genuinely excited about.

There's still a learning curve and progress to be made, for sure. However, anecdotally, I've seen programming and hosting become vastly more accessible in the last 15 years. Also, not everyone needs to self host, people just need to know someone who is willing and able to set them up.

Not saying it's a guarantee, but it's a possible way out, at least. And being here on lemmy, reading and writing about these issues is a good sign there's movement in the right direction.

[–] pemptago@lemmy.ml 31 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Tolerates decades of spam in his mailbox. Has melt down when one contains a black female politician.

[–] pemptago@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

infuencers are just rebranded shills

[–] pemptago@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 month ago

Yeah. My partner later said it was almost a deal breaker when I first told her.

[–] pemptago@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 month ago

I'm a fan of most of the movies listed, but didn't notice anyone mention one of my favorites, Moneyball. Don't let the baseball fool you. I don't even like baseball. To me it's not about baseball, it's about trying to succeed in a flawed system.

[–] pemptago@lemmy.ml 132 points 1 month ago (6 children)

Never have I ever read a single book or watched a single movie of the Harry Potter series.

[–] pemptago@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Yup! Migrated from VSCodium; wanted to learn a modal editor but didn't have the time or confidence to configure vim or neovim. It's been my go-to editor for 2+ years now.

[–] pemptago@lemmy.ml 38 points 1 month ago (7 children)

I went a little overboard and wrote a one-liner to accurately answer this question

history|cut -d " " -f 5|sort|uniq -c|sort -nr|head -5

Note: history displays like this for me 20622 2023-02-18 16:41:23 ls I don't know if that's because I set HISTTIMEFORMAT='%F %T ' in .bashrc, or if it's like that for everyone. If it's different for you change -f 5 to target the command. Use -f 5-7 to include flags and arguments.

My top 5 (since last install)

   2002 ls
   1296 cd
    455 hx
    427 g
    316 find

g is an alias for gitui. When I include flags and arguments most of the top commands are aliases, often shortcuts to a project directory.

Not to ramble, but after doing this I figured I should alias the longest, most-used commands (even aliasing ls to l could have saved 2002 keystrokes :P) So I wrote another one-liner to check for available single characters to alias with:

for c in a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z; do [[ ! $(command -v $c) ]] && echo $c; done

In .bash_aliases I've added alias b='hx ${HOME}/.bash_aliases' to quickly edit aliases and alias r='source ${HOME}/.bashrc' to reload them.

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