Cue music: the internet is for porn

I downloaded porn from Microsoft.com once I’m pretty sure

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So, regularatory capture is now announced to fanfare?

Fuck me. If our treasonous legislature hadn’t been cutting funding for decades, there would be no problem to solve. This is a bullshit “solution” to an engineered problem.

The flag is a dumpster, and is on fire.

Yes. But actually, no.

This is about enterprise licensing, not retail (home users). But otherwise, yeah, that’s the basic idea they’re proposing.

When it comes to a consumer using Copilot, it’s all about having a new way to manipulate you into voluntarily handing them more of your personal data (which they will sell on the scummy as hell market created just for enabling surveillance capitalism).

Exactly this. He explicitly threatened to hunt down any ship that paid the toll.

Protesters have launched an effort called “Resist and Unsubscribe” targeting ten tech companies they perceive as exceptionally supportive of ICE. That list includes Meta, Google, and Amazon, but not Reddit.

That’s… odd. I seriously doubt Reddit deserves the exclusion.

Oh they allow alternative stores now, too; you can install Epic for example. I wonder if that’ll be subject to these new rules as well?

I’m more curious about Starbucks Exotic Coffee for Men

I’m not sure that would be necessary, actually. Android is derived from Linux, surely they can do a translation layer for the majority of API calls? I mean there’s no need for emulating anything, nor would it necessarily require layering an entire android install on top of Linux…? But my programming knowledge is limited, and somewhat rusty, so I’m not really sure.

Eh, if the constitution was half as great as people think, we wouldn’t have the problems we do now.

And don’t forget, without the flaws of the constitution, us couldn’t have give full fascist so early and quickly.

Fuck the constitution, we need something better.

So, all these posts are guns get mirrored by tonight, right?

Freedom of information request my ass…

I hear ya.

It pisses me off the way they market this shit as AI; just a god damn surveillance tool, hiding behind a fucking chat bot.

And, anybody reading who’s tempted to defend the technology, fuck off - it’s a prediction algorithm. A fancy one, but that’s it. There no steps or logic or reasoning. There’s nothing hiding in the “black box”. No steps taken to construct the response - just statistical analysis on steroids spewing out most likely matches.

The point is to make the bubble bigger, then they’ll pretend that’s why they have to exit consumer market.

The goal is the so called “thin client” - i.e. absolutely everything in cloud.

Edit: my phone can’t spell

Watch this not ever really even touch the mobile phone market. The only computer they want you to have access to is the one they fully control…

I can’t think of any situation where disallowing people from repairing their own property makes any sense.

I can think of one, but the issue is largely a thing of the past: old CRT TV’s or monitors. If you attempt to repair one without knowing what you’re doing, you literally could get yourself killed.

That said, I still agree with you wholeheartedly. I’d much rather mandate dangerous to repair products be labeled as such, but the design and construction of consumer products should never prohibit the end user from being able to repair their own property.

But the source code isn’t available. The source isn’t open. It’s not open-source, by definition.

The “spectrum” you refer to us about how free you are to publicly make use of the code, not whether or not you even have the code.

This situation does not fall inside that spectrum.

Lol, sorry, I should’ve added an ‘/s’ on my reply!

No, I got it, just was being way too sarcastic for text.

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Edit: I ain’t straight. Or gay, or bi, or pan. Fuck labels, man! I don’t fit into their tidy little boxes, and why should any of us?!?

Yeah, yeah, straight heterosexual intercourse is gay or something. I guess?

But the real question is - who fucking cares?

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