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Welp. I got notified by my ISP that our email service will be switched to ... Yahoo.
Yahoo?! 
But our email address will remain the same, isn't that nice. I never expected that a large ISP like them would do this, but I guess this is where we are these days.
So, time to find a new email provider. Anyone have a recommendation for a service you have used and are happy with? Something reliable with a good privacy record? And I'd prefer to access it with @thunderbird rather than via web browser, if possible.
(NOT gmail, do NOT say gmail! 
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Viendo los cambios que trae Firefox 120 te das cuenta de lo rota que está la internet actual.
Estos cambios no deberían ser necesarios, y sin embargo, lo son más que nunca: copiar enlaces sin parámetros de rastreo, pedir a los sitios que no vendan tus datos ni te rastreen, auto-denegación de cookies innecesarias...
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/120.0/releasenotes/
Y Chrome yendo en la dirección contraria. Se viene un cisma en internet.
So Google is now preventing people from removing location data from photos taken with Pixel phones.
Remember when Google's corporate motto was "don't be evil?"
Obviously, accurate location data on photos is more useful to a data mining operation like Google.
From Google: "Important: You can only update or remove estimated locations. If the location of a photo or video was automatically added by your camera, you can't edit or remove the location."
It's enshitification in action.
Source: https://support.google.com/photos/answer/6153599?hl=en&sjid=8103501961576262529-AP
#technology #tech @technology #business #enshitification #Android #Google @pluralistic #infosec
DID YOU KNOW? You can actually design electric cars that can charge their batteries WITHOUT AN APP or any computers of any kind? Kind of like how gasoline pumps used to work? Sure, a battery pack with a microcontroller tends to be more efficient, but it is not strictly necessary. The electric motors of the car must be fully computer controlled, but these computers need not be tied to apps either.
Electric cars all being designed to become useless without an app controlling them is not inherent to electric car technology itself. It is a result of modern day #consumerism (capitalism) where every single business on the face of the Earth gathers data about you, and earns money from selling #ads to you. IT DOES NOT HAVE TO BE THIS WAY. This is what @pluralistic calls #enshitification .
And I can't wait to hear people argue with me about how gasoline-fueled cars are better and more reliable because their engines work just fine without apps or cell phones. Electric cars could be this way too, but due to the way businesses make money nowadays, they do not.
Tesla goes down across Europe leaving some drivers unable to charge cars
The app issues began in North America before spreading to Europe.Kirsten Robertson (Metro.co.uk)