merk @merk@chaos.social
22 years old hacker in the making; building stuff in Australia
auf zum 1. hackathon #telstrainnovationchallenge
just uploaded my first exercise #pcode
A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing.
With news of Unroll.me selling user inbox info to Uber, lots of people are repeating "if you're not paying for it, you're the product."
I've said before, and will continue to say, that that is the wrong formulation. Sometimes you pay for it and you're still the product – look at US ISPs. Sometimes you don't pay for it and you're not the product – free software.
The real question is whether a software or service empowers users, which can't be boiled down to whether you paid.
Hey guys, time for my #introduction,
I am Alex, 22 years old from Hamburg.
Currently learning #programming in my free time. Travelling through Australia and building a nursery.
Used to play a lot of #games back home, see what happens once I am back.
