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<p>[QUOTE="Arnox, post: 13884, member: 1"]</p><p>Well, kinda pressing X to doubt there, but I won't be a hardass about it. As to the source, yeah, looks like I was just looking in the wrong file. The repo does have a BCMA.xpi file though that isn't plain text. That makes me wary, and also, I didn't go through the entire bash file, but nevertheless, I'll leave it all up to the users and urge them to exercise a lot of caution.</p><p></p><p>Anyway, I'll move on.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>I guess for me, to sum it all up, I concern myself with results, mostly. I'm brutally practical and focus on quality and reliability. For example, even though Microsoft was definitely a very proprietary company, I still found their products to be the best of the best (at the time). Nowadays though, they're total shit and I don't support them anymore. The same principle can be applied to social media companies. Unlike Microsoft though, it's easy to see the major negative impact they have made on the internet as a whole ever since their inception.</p><p></p><p>So, I try to avoid stuff from the big companies, but not purely out of principle but mostly because their stuff is either shit, spyware, or usually both.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>I think we, ourselves, are the biggest problem facing humankind. It is through our decisions as a population that has led to these terrible companies becoming so large. If we, as a population, really wanted to, we could reign in this crap in a heartbeat. But we won't. And they know that. So, the change shouldn't start with the companies. It should start with us, as cheesy as that might sound. I already made a topic on this very subject actually how <a href="https://intosanctuary.com/index.php?threads/we-as-a-society-deserve-tiktok.1323/">we, as a country, deserve TikTok.</a></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Well, I definitely try to encourage that. lol One of the big goals of Sanctuary is to get people to ask more questions. Questions not just about what they don't know, but also, what they think they know. And yeah, sometimes, those questions don't lead anywhere, but they still need to be asked and there needs to be a good place to ask them.</p><p>[/QUOTE]</p>
[QUOTE="Arnox, post: 13884, member: 1"] Well, kinda pressing X to doubt there, but I won't be a hardass about it. As to the source, yeah, looks like I was just looking in the wrong file. The repo does have a BCMA.xpi file though that isn't plain text. That makes me wary, and also, I didn't go through the entire bash file, but nevertheless, I'll leave it all up to the users and urge them to exercise a lot of caution. Anyway, I'll move on. I guess for me, to sum it all up, I concern myself with results, mostly. I'm brutally practical and focus on quality and reliability. For example, even though Microsoft was definitely a very proprietary company, I still found their products to be the best of the best (at the time). Nowadays though, they're total shit and I don't support them anymore. The same principle can be applied to social media companies. Unlike Microsoft though, it's easy to see the major negative impact they have made on the internet as a whole ever since their inception. So, I try to avoid stuff from the big companies, but not purely out of principle but mostly because their stuff is either shit, spyware, or usually both. I think we, ourselves, are the biggest problem facing humankind. It is through our decisions as a population that has led to these terrible companies becoming so large. If we, as a population, really wanted to, we could reign in this crap in a heartbeat. But we won't. And they know that. So, the change shouldn't start with the companies. It should start with us, as cheesy as that might sound. I already made a topic on this very subject actually how [URL='https://intosanctuary.com/index.php?threads/we-as-a-society-deserve-tiktok.1323/']we, as a country, deserve TikTok.[/URL] Well, I definitely try to encourage that. lol One of the big goals of Sanctuary is to get people to ask more questions. Questions not just about what they don't know, but also, what they think they know. And yeah, sometimes, those questions don't lead anywhere, but they still need to be asked and there needs to be a good place to ask them. [/QUOTE]
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