Aaron Parecki

back in my day we called this spyware

#AI #privacy #Microsoft

I realize my inability to do sales holds back my career/financials a lot, but EVERY time I encounter an IRL sales person it's a nightmare and causes weeks of stress. I don't trust anyone who can manipulate people every day like this.

in general my approach to things like webservers and email is

a) own my domain names
b) pick companies to run my email/website/mastodon/etc
c) switch whenever I want

I really appreciate the convenience of using services like fastmail/gmail/fly/netlify/github/nearlyfreespeech/etc, and I know that if things go downhill I can always switch