I'm now at the point where, if I see a link to an article on Medium, I go 'mmm, yeah, maybe not'. Even if the summary makes it look like an otherwise interesting article.

It's because of Medium's aggressive paywalling; I'm now locked out from reading Medium articles. Also, I now realise that the point of using Medium is just to make money, so it's a clickbait flag.

Just in case anyone is thinking that using Medium makes your article more likely to be read. For me, it does the exact opposite.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tIYrjBEczE

Yelp alledgedly creating GoFundMe's on behalf of businesses listed on their website to collect "donations" during the Coronavirus crisis. The business i question are not told that this is happening.

Collecting "donations" on someone else's behalf without their permission and without telling them is one of the most reprehensible, shady business tactics that happens *all the time*. Brave browser, BountySource, and Gitcoin are all guilty of this, too. The money just accumulates and they scrape their fee off the top, and who's going to notice if the money just slips off into their bank account after a few years of going unclaimed. Absolute scum of the earth, these folks.

Crippling flaws with the laptops people pretend to like:

Old thinkpads: shit battery life

New thinkpads: shit keyboards, shit upstream driver support

Pine64: flimsy case, bad performance, questionable freedom

System32: giant bulky things charged at twice the price of anything else

Librem: giant bulky things charged at three times the price of anything else

Dell XPS: absolutely godawful firmware, they should be strung up in the town square for it, crippling bugs in every inch of the machine

Tonight we shred! on ANONRADIO!
anonradio.net 00:00 UTC/8:00 EST.

Then if the internet gods smile down on @snowdusk_ , it is the intergalactic wasabi mix @ 01:00 UTC.

#anonradio

Get Off Twitter

...You’re worried about losing your influence. How about using your influence for something good? How about using it to stick it to Twitter, if you really dislike Twitter so much? Maybe if you do it, and your friends do it, then it will cause a sea change. After all, who was ever “influential” by following the crowd?

As Gandhi said (in paraphrase), “Be the change you want to see in the world.” ...

Get off of Twitter.

https://nolanlawson.com/2019/05/29/get-off-of-twitter/