The man chanting “this… is… necessary…”

Thats a tool song. I wonder if the reporter knew?

This is necessary. This is necessary. Life feeds on life feeds on life feeds on life.

https://genius.com/Tool-disgustipated-lyrics

The article reads like a Gibson novel. But it’s not a dystopian future. It’s now.

No, no.

Bow wow nownow now… now-now now now…

As the article explains, you will indirectly pay.

Any product that contains RAM or any service that relies on the use of computers at scale, is going to pass the operating cost (the cost of sourcing RAM) onto the consumer.

Thank you.

I imagine lots of developers will jump to fdroid.

Not sure what closed source apps who don’t want to pay Google will do though…

If you did that, I’d have to call 0118 999 881 999 119 725… 3

Why is TV so expensive in USA? People just taking on so many subs?

Only Beets by Dr Dre.

Everything is toxic at some dose.

I did wonder this myself. Can it enter the body via normal usage? And if so, in what dose? Enough for us to care?

I don’t make a habit of putting headphones in my mouth, but young children do things like that.

All that we’re sampled. So which were sampled?

They mentioned some brands, but not models.

Is there a way to find out which models are guilty?

Birds aren’t real.

If it flies, it spies!

I don’t like infinite scroll.

Voyager (lemmy) has paged scroll and it let’s me.know when I’ve wasted enough time.

Unlike say, Instagram…

I have one of those in my loft. Used to use it for OpenBSD development.

When i have 5 minutes to burn on a commute, I play chess puzzles on lichess.

soma.fm has a pretty diverse collection of stations for different tastes.

No ads too. Ads kill a radio station for me.

Well… catch_unwind, but i don’t think you can rely on it.

Ah yes. OpenBSD. Well known for bloat…

Come on.

This.