Full stack developer and privacy advocate. I like to keep the mentality, if you can program one language well, then you can program in any language!

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Cake day: June 15th, 2023

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  • OP I appreciate the reasoning.
    But I’d advise against it,
    and would recommend users to delete their Facebook account asap.

    Why? 4-5 years ago I already noticed the “illusion of free speech” on Facebook.

    The platform is a data farm,
    but I’m a data privacy advocate,
    so I regularly posted data privacy articles/tools.

    Which went against the best interest of Facebook, so they simply held back that content from nearly everyone’s feed, resulting in it getting nearly zero attention.

    But if I posted a dumb meme,
    it would get a lot of attention.

    I’ve asked around to friends back in the day who where scrolling online if they saw my data privacy posts, none did.

    So staying on the platform to advertise things that go against Facebooks best interest, will likely not yield good results.

    However deleting your account,
    is a great conversation starter that can easily be directed into WOM (Word of Mouth) marketing, to teach your friends and family about Fediverse tools.


  • Yes Fediverse software can challenge the tech giants,
    but we can and must expect them to fight against it as soon as it gets on their radar!

    They’ll likely will attempt to do so by:

    • Censorship: Keeping it out of the feeds/search results of their users.
    • Propaganda: Putting it in a bad spotlight (e.g. marking it as security risks on their own platforms).
    • Direct Attacks: E.g. DDoS attacks and/or bot user networks spreading bad content on the Fediverse platforms.

    We should already try to harness ourselves against the direct attacks.
    And help with spreading Fediverse software through WOM (Word-Of-Mouth) marketing,
    since the tech giants certainly will not help it spread themselves.

    The Fediverse is one of the few sparks of hope I have remaining lately,
    let us ignite these sparks together into something bright!









  • uBlock Origin Filters to get rid of Copilot + AI feed bloat on Github
    uBlock Origin => Open the Dashboard => My Filters => Add:

    github.com##.copilotPreview__container
    github.com##.AppHeader-CopilotChat
    github.com##li.ActionListItem:has-text(Copilot)
    github.com##li.ActionList-sectionDivider:has-text(Copilot)
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    github.com##div.pb-4:has-text(Copilot)
    github.com###copilot_free_global
    github.com###copilot-button-container
    github.com###blob-view-header-copilot-icon
    github.com##a[href*="/resources/articles/ai"]
    github.com##a[href*="/settings/copilot"]
    github.com##a[href*="/features/copilot"]
    github.blog##a[href*="/features/copilot"]
    github.blog##a[href*="/ai-and-ml"]
    github.blog##article.changelog-label-copilot
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    github.com##article.js-feed-item-component:has-text(LLM)
    github.com##article.js-feed-item-component:has-text(OpenAI)
    github.com##article.js-feed-item-component:has-text(ChatGPT)
    github.com##article.js-feed-item-component:has-text(GPT)
    github.com##article.js-feed-item-component:has-text(Llama)
    github.com##article.js-feed-item-component:has-text(Gemini)
    github.com##article.js-feed-item-component:has-text(Grok)
    github.com##article.js-feed-item-component:has-text(DeepSeek)
    

    Also disable + block everything under: https://github.com/settings/copilot




  • My coping mechanism:
    Block/filter out the news!
    (Except for positive/uplifting news)

    It does wonders for your mental health!

    Most news sources are for-profit,
    and they did some research,
    apparently depressing news draws more attention / clicks, which results into more profit for them, but it isn’t good for your mental health.

    Other news sources just drive an hidden agenda, and aim to manipulate you to believe whatever the rich guy that owns the news site wants.

    Also, try to have fun while humanity is sliding down in the background!

    Whether you’re depressed or acknowledge and then ignore the facts, will have zero impact on the final outcome which will apply to the whole world.

    So might as well aim to be happy in the meantime :)