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Join the crews working on it. Mark out and soften up a secret access point for a plucky freedom fighter.

I only feel sorry about the money that is now gathered up into the hands of an empowered monster instead of safely dispersed amongst brainless lickspittles.

Fuckin’ thing SUCKS

Yeah exactly, because although it’s possible to do more with technology sometimes, you’re actively de-skilling at the same time. When we invented the written word yes it legitimately made everything better, but also we lost oral traditions and the capacity to memorize large volumes of storytelling, songs, and histories. Now you can burn the books, and the knowledge dies. It’s a real risk.

Everything is like this. Every technology has a cost beyond its price, and making a decision of whether to use it or not will always be in error unless you think about what you’re losing in the process.

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Funny, I just noticed that sounds like “u suk”

I was too young to be in the thick of it, but I participated. It wouldn’t be until a decade later that the pieces started to come together for me. It’s weird to grow up gradually realising you’re from not one but two of the wickedest countries in history.

The maddening thing is that the anti WTO protesters said this would happen, then it did, and now that China is an economic power house the general policy on offer - rather than meet the situation we created on its own terms - send to be a return to mercantilism and a general retreat from the pax Americana.

eBay has a darker history than GameStop fwiw (Behind the Bastards did a couple episodes on that). I do think it could be a beneficial merger, pivoting to online sales should be a winner, especially with reused hardware becoming more attractive thanks to fkn LLMs.

I tried, I think I’m ready to drop it. Sorry about that.

I don’t know how to be clearer, that’s not your computer at that point. I would absolutely require my employer to provide their own device to implement this security solution.

We’ve been trained to see computing as a nonpolitical thing, but computation in “the information age” is every bit as political as iron was in the iron age, or, I dunno, sails in the age of sail. Stupid examples, I should be asleep right now. The point is that we should view news about all technology through a political lens.

I can’t do smart examples at half past three, so here’s this. If you were a medieval serf and the king had assumed direct mind control over your horse, you would have no difficulty seeing how that was an offense against the social contract and a clear signal that the divine right of kings was flawed. “My horse has been mind-controlled by the court sorcerer, now he won’t breed with the family mare… and yesterday I swear I saw him whispering to a guard!”

You’d just about tolerate that weird shit from a horse the king gifted you, but not your own. But this isn’t the age of horse. Good night!

If they’ve ceded that much control, there aren’t many ways it’s still their hardware left.

Is it your laptop, or theirs?

This last decade has driven home the fact that America isn’t a “rule of law” so much as “prevailing norms that mainly get broken on the quiet” type of country.

Isn’t it hilarious how capitalists are trying to force us all into literal ‘nobody wants to work anymore’ territory and we’re not even onboard

The maillard reaction? More like the melanoma reaction

The problem is cars themselves. Bad technology overall, imo

Humans don’t… Sheesh. Humans crash cars, asshole! Use the bloody lidar!

No no, you see other people did bad things, so the scientists’ attempts to make the world a better place are bad. That’s just how ethical philosophy works, I don’t make the rules

Computers have been good enough for years though, we just keep writing worse code. There is no good reason for a laptop with 8gb ram running Windows to need six seconds to rename a file, and that’s basically normal performance… especially if you have to have OneDrive on for work.

I hear the Neo is more repairable than a lot of macs, but the whole idea of “everything on one chip” still feels like an anti-feature.