the American guy who has been pushing for chat control through Europe so he can get paid destroying all privacy and spying on all European citizens through his Palintir, you mean, and ultimately delivering all power to the US.
it takes a certain kind of evil to literally recreate Sauron’s Palintir. What is it Gandalf tells Saruman?, “There is only one Lord of the Ring, only one who can bend it to his will. And he does not share power.” He is literally following the script lol.
i’m not asking anything, i’m saying every system assumes 10% scumbaggery. its capitalism, baby!
obviously there will be a handful of people pulling that shit but every system basically assumes that 10% of the people using the system will use it unethically to their advantage. just balance around that, as the vast majority aren’t exploitive scumbags.
limit to one per customer per day like most tcg sellers do with pokemon and magic.
nah, at some point i just stopped buying monopoly.
not with todays boardgame prices it isn’t!
print and play boardgamers!
for the US, check the somewhat recent Joseph Gelfgatt case.
it’s amazing you think not unlocking your shit will get you out of jail.
or maybe you just come from a country where law and logic is just optional or possibly paid for.
and even then, unless you unlock it for law enforcements upon request. you will serve lifetime in imprisonment or until you agree to unlock it and whatever if any crime is within the locker to continue imprisonment. so safeguarding data really doesn’t matter in the end anyway because any sensitive data kept anywhere will be used against you either by the law or by criminals. which often times seems to be one and the same.
not an english word in sight. must have super potential for becoming a new standard to replace ms office.
the “lack of discoverability” is the only reason we’re talking about this problem in the first place. algorithms have utterly fucked the world and if no one stops them we’re beyond fucked so the fact that someone thinks it’s bad and is unwilling to try using a platform you need to curate your own content on (like reddit before it went to shit) is just people willingly stepping into the lions mouth.
nuclear is the current dream for capitalists. because fuel is controlled and power is a monopoly - nuclear is guaranteed to always be profitable whereas hydro, solar and wind tend to run at a surplus and collapse the market by going into the negative value. since power can’t be stored, they have no choice but to supply power at no cost. with nuclear, they control the flow of power production and can always keep supply at the breaking point of demand to keep prices high.
it’s only amazing as long as the government owns it. in my country we could technically have free power because of renewables (and almost did, but EU stopped us from doing it because it would crash the commercial power market elsewhere - EU bs even made power more expensive just to make it competitive and not to crash oil and coal markets). but because of surplus power generated from renewables, our current neoliberal government has been getting rid of solar and shutting down windpower and attacked hydro in favor of constructing nuclear power plants; on top of making it law that the government isn’t allowed to own or buy the nuclear power plants and also offered to fund private interests the construction of nuclear power plants.
the reason? power is a natural monopoly, and nuclear is fuel based. which means the supplier of power decides the supply and demand by artificially controlling the fuel flow - the idea is to never let power run at a surplus supply generated by solar, wind, and hydro ever again so there is no risk that privately owned power monopolies would be unprofitable.
the US is more likely to invade and destroy any country that make fusion viable than to let it compete on the energy market.
oil, coal and nuclear are clearly not winning.
we could solve the worlds energy problems today but they’d never be applied simply because oil exists. its literally why the US just attacked venezuela. They could have built another reactor or windmills or whatever the fuck else they feel they need if energy was the reason. but energy has nothing to do with energy and all to do with being a natural monopoly that’s making a small group of people quite wealthy.
ideological reasons. windows creeps me the fuck out. i’ve been using linux since the slackware days. sure i’ve been on win 3.1 and all the way up to XP as my OS because of gaming, but I have dual booted with linux since around 2003. I haven’t had Windows installed on any device since 2013 - and frankly, I am so fucking happy with fedora and the steam deck finally kicking the door down and making linux 100% viable for everyone.
But yes, I’m too old now and I really can’t be arsed to deal with the constant patchwork of the olden days and there is no way I would ever look back at anything since switching to fedora 2 years ago. It’s insanely good (finally). Not even mint could deliver an equally flawless experience after all these years in comparison. I actually just dropped mint from my last holdout device earlier this week, replacing it with Fedora.
The Year of Linux Desktop is finally here!
this is the type of dangerous overreach potential laws like chat control pose to people under fascist rules. we shouldn’t make it easy for them. people need to get the fuck off facebook and federate!
with open source we can also create jobs by hiring a developer to add functions we need to the software we use!
but this is really only true and a problem for the end user, and you can’t maintain an empire by refusing to collaborate with the larger userbase.
that’s how Adobe became an industry standard. They eventually claimed the larger userbase and businesses had to adapt or spend millions on training.