Synology is a Network-Attached Storage (NAS) appliance.
I don't think it uploads my data anywhere. If it does, it certainly doesn't upload everything, because I would have noticed the bandwidth usage, but I haven't verified that it doesn't upload some low resolution version of photos.
Except for when you're on the same project. Then it's like canoeing with mediocre people. When the alligator comes, instead of paddling for one, you are paddling for two.
I'd be interested to hear responses from among the 1.X billion unbanked people in developing countries.
I think the goal of Libra is to turn this population into sticky Facebook users. Facebook has saturated the developed world. Meanwhile, developing countries are too busy surviving to mess around on social media.
Libra gives them a way to transact in a stable currency, and Facebook starts to discover the currently grassroots social graph of small time farmers and craftsmen selling goods to their neighbors in villages with slow internet access.
> Pearson’s move to sell most of its stake to Exor, the investment company run by the Agnellis, upholds a tradition of dynastic ownership of media assets. Rupert Murdoch owns News UK, which publishes the Sun and the Times, the Barclay brothers own the Telegraph, and the Rothermere family controls the Daily Mail titles. Overseas, the Sulzberger family owns the New York Times, the Springers control huge chunks of German media and the Bonnier family owns a large publishing portfolio in Sweden. Newspapers have long been the playthings of wealthy media barons who are seduced by the access and influence they bring.
Just because press is foreign doesn't mean it's objective or independent of politics. News is a business, and just like any business, the owners make decisions based on their beliefs.
> However, I do not live in that context, I live in a society and inside my own head, and this is what generates an idea of contribution and happiness.
Right. This just happens to coincide with a shift in my life, where all the old contexts from my youth are meaningless, and I need to find new contexts.
So if there is no such thing as contributing, then the contributing you used to do only mattered because of a context you (or I) constructed to find important.
I don't think the right answer is to say, "Nothing is important." I think the right answer is to relentlessly seek for a new context to find important, to give meaning to our own life.
I've noticed a recent uptick in news promoting the cruelty of China toward its citizens.
I struggle to figure out how much is true, and how much is an alternate reality created by my government. (I'm in the USA, and anger towards China definitely benefits the Republican Party / Trump administration.)
Synology is a Network-Attached Storage (NAS) appliance.
I don't think it uploads my data anywhere. If it does, it certainly doesn't upload everything, because I would have noticed the bandwidth usage, but I haven't verified that it doesn't upload some low resolution version of photos.