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I wouldn’t be surprised if it turns out they’re making a ban list for all these communities, but the ‘glitch’ was that someone turned it on before whatever PR move/manufactured scandal they were going to use to justify it was ready to go.

Or this was just a test fire to see how people would react.

I think maybe Multihop is the Mullvad equivalent?

It stopped working for me recently. It’ll play the first 5 seconds or so of the video and then just freeze up.

KDE linux definitely seems interesting, since I run Arch (btw) and KDE anyway. Unless they end up doing something weird with it lol.

I have a Kobo with KOReader installed and Calibre with the DeDRM plugin for managing eBooks and it’s pretty great! It’ll open just about anything you throw at it and is pretty customizable.

Pro Tip: corporations won’t just give you this, you sort of have to riot until you force the government make it illegal for them to not do it. And even then you’ll probably have to re-defend it every few years.

Source: am from Europe.

That’s only if he’s next in line though. If you pass a machete to someone who might one day eventually pass it onto him, is that as bad? I suppose at some point there’s an ethical cutoff lol

I guess then the issue would be: do you ever find out the result of your actions? If no, then I guess it’s sort of a “glass half empty/full” kind of thing, because you could just pass it on and assume the best and just go live your life quite happily.

Although if you did find out the result, imagine being first, pulling the lever and then finding out nobody else would have.

If we all collectively agree to just pass it on, then either:

• It’s infinite, and it just passes on forever, or…

• It’s not infinite and somebody at the end has no choice, in which case nobody in charge of a lever has killed anyone

So yeah, I say pass it on.

Yeah that was my first thought too. That seems like a way better idea than just entrusting it to the Library of Congress as the article suggests. For one thing, the internet archive isn’t just American stuff. For another, there’s no way the government won’t just bend over backwards as soon as a big corporation asks it to. Thirdly, it seems like a much better idea to keep it decentralized and to keep the corporations playing whack-a-mole with it than to just keep giving them one big, static target to aim at.

Also please begin the Github page or whatever with a description of what the app is actually for or what it does. I know that sounds super obvious, but the number of times I’ve seen links that are like “I made this app from scratch for fun, let me know what you think!” and then you click through and the app is called Scrooblarr or something and it has no indication of what it actually does is… more than it should be.

This sort of thing is exactly the reason why I don’t want things like TMP and Pluton built into my computer hardware. Microsoft is incompetent at best and outright malicious at worst, and allowing them to add “security features” directly at the hardware level is madness IMO.

There’s one either side!

Edit: also, I’m at “Newborn Paranoid” and definitely feeling the pull towards tech paranoid. Writing this on Librewolf in Arch (btw) lol.

Moving “Windows 11 increasingly to the cloud” is identified as a long-term opportunity in Microsoft’s “Modern Life” consumer space, including using “the power of the cloud and client to enable improved AI-powered services and full roaming of people’s digital experience.”

Intel and Microsoft have even hinted at Windows 12 in recent months, and Windows chief Panos Panay claimed at CES earlier this year that “AI is going to reinvent how you do everything on Windows.” All of this is part of Microsoft’s broad Windows ambition, detailed in its internal presentation, “to enable improved AI-powered services” in Windows.

Words cannot express how much I do not want to participate in this version of the future.

I don’t think they ever confirmed it, but I’m pretty sure for a while they were experimenting with blocking people who used VPNs too. There was about two weeks where reddit just didn’t work on my laptop and I couldn’t figure out why, until I saw a thread where other people were discussing it and someone said try it without the VPN. Sure enough, that did it. Then after a couple of weeks it went back to normal again.