Yes, I do. I’m a devops engineer and even “coding camp devs” have problems understanding what I do for a living.

I think you answered your own question. You asked about “retard”, not about R-word. Some snowflakes will get offended on behalf other people but normal people will just acknowledge rude language and move on.

Privacy means that no one can see your data, and only you can decide who can see it. Anonymity means that everyone can see your data but no one can match you with the data.

As for the question, yes, I would more than happy when people could understand the risk of giving up the privacy. But I’m afraid that not many people would understand the message carried by those books.

In a perfect world, data collected by companies would be used to improve user experience. But we don’t live a perfect world and nowadays if a company doesn’t provide yearly income from investment it goes under. And to keep the numbers up, companies screw its users.

Ok, but why? And to be clear, I’m not against what you wrote, just wondering about people’s motives.

Don’t want to be a devil’s advocate here but nowadays it’s left-wing weirdos that use publicly available data to cancel people they don’t agree with. Let’s keep personal political views out of this discussion.

As for the first paragraph, I vaguely remember reading about this. And this is a great example.

I use SMS and good old phone calls. You would be surprised how much people freak up when you call them. For work I use Slack, sometimes Teams. And on rare occasions, Messenger to talk to some family members.

edit Forgot about emails. I use it for more planned communications.

No need to duplicate my comment - https://lemmy.world/comment/12073034

TikTok is not the problem. The problem is “I have nothing to hide” mindset. People don’t care about privacy because “ignorance is bliss”. Some people are just not aware about risks of giving up on privacy and other put continence over privacy. Until the general perception of privacy changes, apps like TikTok will thrive.

I never had issues posting on Lemmy when using vpn. If Lemmy starts blocking my vpn I will stop using Lemmy.

Every machine is a smoke machine if you operate it wrong enough.

And my favorite: If you’re good at something, never do it for free.

I see there’s no point in continuing this discussion. Don’t want to support your claim? Fine, do your thing. I’m done entertaining you.

Could you quote (with a context) what I wrote that made me dishonest? I have a feeling that you are nitpicking few words from my whole comment and try to make me look bad.

Please, explain like I’m 5 how do I lack empathy for the people.

Why? Is it because I did the same thing you did but my response did not meet your standards?

I wasn’t talking about US immigration issues. I don’t live in the US and I wouldn’t express my opinions about it. I was talking about EU issues - rapes, stabbings and general increase in crime. And I’m not taking this out of my ass or nut case media (which is worse than my ass). I’m looking at statistics and try to be as unbiased as possible.

Yeah, because the US is the centre of the world…

I don’t like the left-right political spectrum.

Couldn’t agree more.

I think we have similar views on the problem. The difference is how we define “centrist”. I agree that parties painting themself as centrist tend to lean right. But I was talking about my views and opinions. I’m far from turning into right-wing nut.

Why not supporting illegal immigration, social handouts and calling a guy in a dress a man doesn’t make me a target for left-wing nutters?

As I said, I’m not from US and have no idea what border bill is. I was talking in a global context, not local, aka US. I know that nitpicking is a way to sway argument but in this case it’s a swing and miss.