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Care to share any favourites?

I use fWallet for my plane tickets

That’s a completely different statement

A right not being reserved does not mean it is waived, only that it is not exclusive. The last person to commit still has the right to commit, as does everyone else.

While that is a definition that’s used by some, I would argue The OSI’s Open Source Definition is more widely used within the field

If anyone is considering how to avoid this on their own site: https://indieweb.org/URL_design

I suspect my local bookshop would stock most of those under “society and politics”

I don’t have an answer for you that would help you find more good books, sorry.

I read Shock Doctrine by Naomi Klein right after Manufacturing Consent and I think that worked really well. It’s got some overlap in content that helps solidify concepts, but it’s a bit more modern and a much easier read (less dry)

Other recommendations

If you have any interest in economics:

• Debt: the last 5000 years by David Graeber
• the Defecit Myth by Stephanie Kelton

If you have interest in digital freedoms and copyright law:

• Chokepoint Capitalism by Rebecca Giblin and Cory Doctorow
• The Internet Con by Cory Doctorow

The ones near me don’t have buttons of any kind

Just in case you’re not just satirically listing things that are already awful;

Supermarkets increase their “retention” by limiting signage to keep you wandering and avoid “just get that thing and go” shopping. I don’t know how common this is, but when I was a kid the major supermarkets had long lists of what items were in each aisle, plus highly visible signs in the aisle to show exactly where each category was. Now days at the major chains those in aisle signs are completely gone, and the categories have been whittled down to a few major categories; most products aren’t represented on the sign at all e.g. you have to assume “cake mix/decorating” are in the same aisle as “flour”.

Unskippable ads on all pumps are absolutely a thing that are getting more popular. Mobil is particularly bad for it in my experience.

DuckDuckGo uses Bing’s results

Lojban

There is an actually moral alternative to opt-out that doesn’t have the poor-sampling problem of opt-in: ask for consent explicitly.

There are multiple ways depending on the version of electron the app was built against

Electron applications are notorious and prolific, and resolutions are very specific to versions and details of the program’s build process.

Steam can be a big old flashy boi

And they still maintain their SteamOS, although it is only supported on Steam Decks.

It’s not important, but there is no connection between the original Steam OS and there new one. The original was an Ubuntu derivative, and there new one is an Arch derivative.

These things are not related. Git uses the system default editor, which is exactly what a cli program dropping you into an editor should use. If that’s Vim and you don’t like that, you need to configure your system or take it up with your distro maintainers.

Avoiding spyware doesn’t mean you’re opposed to labor-saving technology

Neither does being a Luddite

They confined their attacks to manufacturers who used machines in what they called “a fraudulent and deceitful manner” to get around standard labor practices. “They just wanted machines that made high-quality goods,” says Binfield, “and they wanted these machines to be run by workers who had gone through an apprenticeship and got paid decent wages. Those were their only concerns.”