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While helping my mum with something recently, I've noticed that her #GMail started featuring a banner that she ran out of space, and mails will stop arriving in less than a month. As expected, she never even noticed it. On the other hand, I had two thoughts about it.
Firstly, of course, #Google are shameless assholes (Microsoft's even worse, as I boosted at some point before). Mom's new phone came with Google Photos preinstalled in place of vendor's gallery, and of course it automatically started making backups of her photos and movies in the "cloud", or as I'd like to call it, to pedophiles. The photos finally filled up the free space, and Google started doing everything to convince her to buy more space. I honestly doubt she'd be able to figure out that she needed to turn these backups off and wipe them; if anything, I suspect she'd just start hopelessly removing photos from the phone, which might not have helped at all.
Secondly, it's that if such a thing happened to me, I probably wouldn't even know, because I'm reading my mail via a mail client. So I wouldn't ever have seen their banner. Well, unless they also send a mail about it, and my mom missed it among all the spam.
#GAFAM

Terecht punt wat hier wordt aangesneden.
https://www.ad.nl/politiek/langer-doorwerken-klinkt-leuk-tot-je-60-bent-en-niemand-je-nog-terugbelt~a7488e24/

Langer doorwerken klinkt leuk, tot je 60 bent en niemand je nog terugbelt
Omscholen, bijscholen, doorleren: ook dit kabinet ziet het als wondermiddel om de AOW-leeftijd te kunnen verhogen. Toch komen 60-plussers nog altijd moeilijk aan de bak. Wel gaat vast het mes in hun vangnet. Politiek verslaggever Hans van Soest schrijft wekelijks over Haagse zaken die ons allemaal aangaan.

National Park Service drops free admission on MLK Day, Juneteenth while adding Trump's birthday (David Klepper/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/national-parks-free-trump-birthday-juneteenth-mlk-225b10728a9df22d54407ecaec1e5e5f
http://www.memeorandum.com/251207/p10#a251207p10

„Es gibt viele Wege, Informationen ohne Text zu teilen“
Jacqueline Malchow über das Stricken als Werkzeug für Spionage und Selfcare – und warum Wolle ein analoger Schutz vor Überwachung sein kann.
https://taz.de/Historikerin-ueber-Stricken-und-Coden/!6147815/

Historikerin über Stricken und Coden: „Es gibt viele Wege, Informationen ohne Text zu teilen“
Jacqueline Malchow über das Stricken als Werkzeug für Spionage und Selfcare – und warum Wolle ein analoger Schutz vor Überwachung sein kann.

Great talk by @… of #GNU #Hurd fame, in a packed room, selling the the Hurd really well (in my not entirely unbiased opinion, of course) and starting with
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