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How to smash the looms today - I've always loved tech. Now, I'm a Luddite. You should be one, too.
  • Understood.

    I think we're talking about two very different things. Apologies, language is a crude instrument. I should have made it more clear. I was referring to the right to freedom of movement. This concept is defined different ways in different countries/bodies of law. There's a great wikipedia article on it here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_movement

    From OP's text, I inferred that they clearly understood the luddites only smashed the technical kit of employers who the luddites felt exploited their workforce. I'm not certain that that concept of their operation would be grasped by a reader that had not heard about the luddites prior to reading OP's words.

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    How to smash the looms today - I've always loved tech. Now, I'm a Luddite. You should be one, too.
  • /* they took sledgehammers to the mechanized looms used to exploit them whenever those looms were owned by employers who were felt to be exploitative of their employees.

    The interesting thing is how one defines exploitative. I've seen ex-mining communities where the population moved in and grew with the industry but, since the mines closed, many had stayed in place eking by on very meager state benefits, and not traveled to find work as their forebears had. To be abundantly clear: I'm not making any judgement of right or wrong, I'm just suggesting that (at least for populations who have a right to freedom of movement) there are opportunities for a little more colour to be put on OP's canvas.

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    How to let my kids find quality games on Android? Right now they only find the pay to win / ad riddled games.
  • Fdroid --> unciv

    Civilisation clone. Really fantastic if she enjoys that sort of thing.

    https://f-droid.org/categories/games/

    Also I don't know anything about adblockers but I was lucky enough to have a device supported by www.divestos.org and I think the OS defaults to a DNS that ignores ads somehow. But I'm not sure! I just know I get WAY less spammy ads than friends do :P

    #divestOS #Fdroid

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    How to let my kids find quality games on Android? Right now they only find the pay to win / ad riddled games.
  • Fdroid --> unciv

    Civilisation clone. Really fantastic if she enjoys that sort of thing.

    https://f-droid.org/categories/games/

    Also I don't know anything about adblockers but I was lucky enough to have a device supported by www.divestos.org and I think the OS defaults to a DNS that ignores ads somehow. But I'm not sure! I just know I get WAY less spammy ads than friends do :P

    #divestOS #Fdroid

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    How Google Alters Search Queries to Get at Your Wallet - WIRED
  • Nice to see #Google hamstring themselves; they're seen as a #search engine benchmark, so this makes it easier for #DuckDuckGo (which uses #Bing to provide it's search answers, if I understand correctly) to edge up on them in the rankings... #DDG #searchEngine #Alphabet #surveillanceCapitalism

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    The War Thunder forum has once again been used to share restricted plane documentation - this time about the F-117 Nighthawk
  • Damn. I thought #kbin was where the cutting edge of information dissemination was, but #warThunder has a whole #wikipedia page dedicated to how it's absolutely crushing it. Who knew #MMORPGs were the future?!

    For those who haven't witnessed anything re. information classification or the functioning of militaries or governments or other great organs of state, I refer you to the screenwriter Jonathan Lynn's words immortalised by the character Sir Humphrey in Yes, Minister:

    "The Official Secrets Act is not to protect secrets but to protect officials"

    I regret deeply I cannot remember which episode. I also refer you to Yes, Prime Minister s02e02 (dailymotion link) which illustrates something about leaks, and their investigation and prosecution. Not to mention how the #press works in promulgating these things! I really can't recommend it highly enough.

    #socialMedia #memes #politics #leaks #military #journalism #war #democracy #totalitarianism #law #secrets #bureaucracy

    (boosts are most welcome, as I suspect most folks give little thought to such things beyond snap-judgements of 'right' or 'wrong')

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