Might pay to read up on the luddites.

They protested against manufacturers who used machines in “a fraudulent and deceitful manner” to replace the skilled labour of workers and drive down wages by producing inferior goods.

wikipedia

The game is rigged

I have no idea. But my gripe is the lack of a clear notice that “this is a paid article and you must be paid member to view it”, it just says words to the effect “sign in to view”.

Medium.com is absolutely rotten for this behaviour.

Not only putting the soft, “sign in to view” but then on some articles requiring a full hard paywall… But you only know this after signing in.

I’m not entirely against charging for well written articles; good writers deserve compensation, but don’t tease me, make me jump through a hoop only to find there’s another much higher hoop sitting beyond it.

If you’re on iOS 14 or higher, you can natively use a service that blocks ads via Encrypted DNS.

Sign up for NextDNS and create an adblocking profile. Then follow the set up instructions.

“in the cloud”

Well, the firm I work for won’t ever implement it then. Back to pandas, nothing to see here.

Is that why we are being told to “fear” AI? Because it can’t be easily monitised by those who worry about such things.

The banks have heavily invested in a cross platform chat app that’s (in its own words) bridging the gap.

https://symphony.com/insights/blog/tech4fin/symphony-and-solving-the-off-channel-communication-conundrum/

Just wait for the consumer version ready to be pushed by governments.