For how often I see articles talking about the dangers of tech, I’m surprised at the lack of mention for watch_dogs. Sure, its just a silly little Ubisoft game series, but this game series predicted so much of today’s world. The 2nd game is basically propoganda against corporations hoarding so much data, exploring how each of them exploit the world they inhabit. If you haven’t played the game, I highly recommend checking it out just for the intro alone. It might not be real world events or actual statistics, but it sure broke down some of the major problems in the industry into something my 13 year old brain could comprehend when I first played the game.

  • setVeryLoud(true);@lemmy.ca
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    16 days ago

    And those same people will often also refuse to pay for services.

    It’s a pay or become the product world out there, site hosting ain’t free.

    • knightly the Sneptaur@pawb.social
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      12 days ago

      Site hosting should be (almost) free, because it costs (almost) nothing.

      I used to work for a popular web host and 99% of the business could have been rendered obsolete by p2p hosting infrastructure.