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The founding fathers were the rich that wanted all of the riches of the new found land for themselves and their rich friends.

So far, it's going exactly as planned.

pop ,

They're a fashion tech brand, They sell fancy stuff with little tech inside.

What sells big to the rich solely based on looks?

They've already got a market in phones but they thought cars would be easy with all the competition around who have decades of experience.

They thought wrong.

pop ,

You're accusing Cory Doctorow, the guy who invented the phrase "enshittification"

wow, what a genius. he's going to solve world hunger next. he's totally not "milking" nerds who think that word is the best thing since sliced bread.

pop ,

Exactly, We don't know what he does all day and it's creepy you have this weird imagination going through. Like seriously? He probably could be checking the balance that kagi sent him for this post.

Why are people so obsessed with internet personalities just because they say "nice" things you like? This is what every one of them does.

pop ,

Writing also need vast amount research, which also involves a search engine, which at some point in time you begin to get fed up with spam, and maybe just may be, if you're actually smart as people think you are, you begin to look for an alternative.

but I also don't know what to tell people who believe everything they read on the internet.

pop ,

If Jesus truly paid the price, what else is there to pay?

Sweet little "get the guilt out of any horrible thing you do" card christians made up, huh?

"I'm gonna do whatever the fuck I want, Jesus already paid for my sins."

pop ,

Yes, this is the "we're the good ones" flex. And anytime they do this, there has to be a big bad boogeyman elsewhere to blame without evidence or consequence.

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Those in power will always try to fuck us over any chance they get, that's why the populace needs to organize to bring them down a notch but there's this blind worship by the masses manipulated by superfluous marketing that is dragging us down.

Apple fanboys are in their league of their own. Their whole schtik is "I'm better than you because I own an expensive product, you poor peasant" and they'll defend Apple with every ounce of their deflection powers. And the worse thing is it is seeping into kids that they bully other kids with a different phone.

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pop ,

"you mean I should elect my son in law as the finance minister again? 🤔"

pop ,

my brother in hell, if I believed in religion, and my religion says giving some amount to it or someone else gets me express pass to heaven, i'd be donating like crazy too. I'd be donating more if I know I've done horrible things and need more "blessing."

The charity doesn't negate the bad things religion has done.

pop ,

Donald Trump is Genocide at home and abroad.

That will also probably mean the end of the USA (for good). and may be that'll mean less of "it's fine when we fund or kill people abroad"

And now start your deflection about how you're keeping the peace in the world and savior of the world. Forget everything about afghanistan, iraq, vietnam and countless other regime changes. I hope the bubble bursts and you get to see how people in war zones feel.

pop ,

I mean that's the point of self-curated feed. Do you want an algorithm or a team of strangers to find and curate what you should consume?

or maybe facebook, instagram, twitter is more up your ally.

pop ,

https://forum.affinity.serif.com/uploads/monthly_2024_03/RDT_20240326_080937642975742346103499.jpg.baab46a7701c530cc4a7519d7120bf9c.jpg

cough cough

pop ,

It's Lemmy. It's popular to think the us is some dystopian nightmare

ikr, i'd rather stay in reddit where at least my fellow brethren will defend our pride without question like a rabid mob.

the level of cluelessness here about how privileged most people living in the us are is mind boggling

There are privileged people living in even in hell holes like North Korea and Russia too, my guy. And everyone knows how US came to be and why it's insanely "rich and privileged", so it isn't the flex you think it is.

It's like Russian living in Ukraine, off of Ukrainians suffering and calling Russians privileged.

But you do. That's your education system with a large dose of propaganda for ya. Blame everyone else but yourself for all your problems.

Grade A patriotism.

pop ,

Better give inkscape more practice.

lol at the "no plan to change at the moment" crap. that ship has already sailed.

pop ,

Of course he's right but that doesn't stop generational propaganda from wearing off that easy.

There is somehow always a boogeyman that's making US suffer, it's never the US itself because it's the "greatest country" in the world and everyone is jealous. It can't be anything else.

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They didn't but open source enthusiasts hate it when developers even try to imply not wanting their contributions used without attribution, it's basically killing puppies in this community.

They'll only ever use it to make money themselves without anything in return just like the corporations who do the same but then they'll call themselves morally principled for reasons.

que a moron trying to explain why opensource developers should bend to their will about what "opensource" should be for them.

pop ,

Linux was not a serious project and a random hobby toy things.

Hello everybody out there using minix -

I'm doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won't be big andprofessional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones. This has been brewing since april, and is starting to get ready. I'd like any feedback on things people like/dislike in minix, as my OS resembles it somewhat (same physical layout of the file-system (due to practical reasons) among other things).

Try to be less condescending less time about other people's work.

pop ,

The US government believes its hegemony over global surveillance and propaganda is dying. And it has to ban apps as an act of coping over their failures. They expect their puppet states around the world to follow suit.

FTFY

Honestly, Fvck em' both.

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The thing is, its only good when the US Government is doing it. no need to tip-toe the actual reason. We know.

Ban it or not. it doesn't matter to the world outside. It's hilariously funny seeing it happen to the accuser what it has been doing for last decade around the world.

God speed.

pop ,

an authoritarian government that is provably responsible for (multiple?) genocide(s)

Yes, US has a history of it. As a matter of fact, it was built on a genocide of the native population and is currently contributing to one in the middle ea

pop ,

Lots of shady free VPNs out there from Chinese/Russian companies. Now instead of just letting people watch porn, they'll send their data to a shady/foreign entity. The apps will ask all the permissions, and people who don't know shit, will grant them.

Same thing will happen when they ban Tiktok.

Well done, You played yourself.

pop ,

Lemmy is just decentralized censorship.

It more like the opposite. Federated instances can keep all the federated posts without ever deleting them. Then also sell and monetize it.

anyone can start their own community instance and kill it on a whim.

Shutting down an instance doesn't mean it's censorship. If a library shuts down if it can't stay up, is that censorship?

It's a lot of work to set it up and sustain that type of situation, so it's not realistic for a rational person that does not have a severe internet addiction to waste their time and effort doing it.

Lol, freeloader says what?

pop ,

"Nestlé also p̶a̶i̶d̶ gifted/lobbied someone in congress, we can't be making the politician/billionaire look bad. We might lose our money tree"

People are fed so much clickbait/propaganda by their news, they end up believing ratings made by themselves.

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The U.S. is ranked around 45th which is disappointing considering the first amendment is supposed to guarantee freedom of the press.

Not really disappointing looking from the outside. Clickbait constitutions are good for propaganda for the populace. They tell you you're living in the best country in the world while the politicians propose death sentence for women who have abortions. Cause war crimes the world over while populace thanks them for their service.

"Disappointing" is putting it lightly to the amount of disgrace it has caused.

pop ,

Well, there's the death knell.

Like Microsoft, EA, facebook, twitter, reddit right? With the amount of corporate death nerds within their bubble have been predicting, there would be no evil corporations. and yet, here we are.

Stop overestimating when your intuition tells you what's a death knell.

Not that it was awesome to begin with, just a stepping stone to get people away from WhatsApp.

People can use Signal, XMPP, Telegram and also whatsapp depending on their privacy requirements. Modern smartphones are capable like that.

I used to use scp to transfer files off of remote servers 20 years ago. You don't see me recommending it every time dropbox gets mentioned. Cool down with self-agrandizing bs.

After default password disclosed online, 1200 inmates have prison issued laptops seized by guards, threatening their ability to make class deadlines (www.opencampusmedia.org)

Zhang, an electrical engineer in Boston, decided to post about trying to unlock his Justice Tech Solutions Securebook 5 on the social platform X. The thread went viral — also catching the attention of Washington corrections officials, who have used the device for college programming since 2020....

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I never realize what responses like this add to the discussion.

do you have any other community platform free from clickbaits? do you need a pat on the back cuz you think you're immune to clickbaits? what's the point?

pop ,

[Duplicate] question. Closed

pop ,

Sounds like F̶a̶c̶e̶b̶o̶o̶k̶ US Government is going to get some new spying features.

pop ,

Remember the call to stop genocide on Uyghurs. Every little interview, video, photo plastered everywhere, calls for justice, boycotts, sanctions. Xenophobic people were having a blast.

Genocide financed by the West?

Nothing to see here, It's all going according to plan. We support this and are proud of it.

See how the moral flip flops?

pop ,

Well, almost everyone blocks ads so this is the next iteration. Anyone with a few braincells saw this coming. In the future, the only way you're going to get actual/verifiable/trustworthy news is by paying for it. Like the good ol' times.

Who knew journalism is an actual job? not me. I want every website to be free.

The freely available ones are going to run by the rich to peddle ads and propaganda (yes they do it already but there are still free press floating around asking for donations, which will eventually dry out). The poor will be misled with mis-information and clickbaits and people will wonder why shitheads are getting elected everywhere.

Bots will be posting these on every social media (federated or not) and the freeloaders and "no advertisements ever" crowd that never contribute anything to a sustainable internet with free and accessible information for all will be complaining about "enshittification" all day long.

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X, Formerly Twitter, Claims Indian Govt Issued 'Executive Orders' To Act On Some Posts (www.outlookindia.com)

From what I've observed, many accounts which were critiqued to the current Modi govt have been withheld in the country. Accounts of farmer leaders were also suspended amid the ongoing farmers protest in the country. It's worth noting that India will see the general elections this year around May.

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India has fascist leadership and a millions of nationalists brigading criticism online. Those they can't shun with countless lies and bullying are silenced with the help of big tech. The subcontinent should never have become a single country.

The colonized states basically organized as one as a protest of the british colonialism. And the first thing they did was start a religious war among themselves. They were always trying to be a religious fascist state. And they made two of them after the partition.

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I’ll wait for confirmation on Android having some massive vulnerability that iOS doesn’t seem to have.

Attackers can supposedly target Android and iOS devices, obtaining a multitude of sensitive information, such as hardware information, GPS data, contacts, media files, and real-time audio recordings.

Least obvious Apple cultist.

pop ,

Good. Get a good taste your own medicine.

It's time how people in the US felt foreign entities meddling with their elections for a change, huh?

grabs popcorn

'China has a lot more to lose than Russia': U.S. considering sanctioning Chinese firms aiding Russia's war after measures were proposed by the European Union, U.S. lawmaker says (www.cnbc.com)

The provisions would mark the first direct penalties against Beijing despite long-held Western suspicions over its support for Russia’s military operations....

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China supporting Russian war crimes

You're not supposed to do that.

US supporting Israel's war crimes

Ship them moar weapons. ASAP

Passkeys might really kill passwords (www.theverge.com)

Passkeys: how do they work? No, like, seriously. It’s clear that the industry is increasingly betting on passkeys as a replacement for passwords, a way to use the internet that is both more secure and more user-friendly. But for all that upside, it’s not always clear how we, the normal human users, are supposed to use...

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But that's just Apple's ecosystem

Apple isn't the only one allowing redundancy, most popular password managers allow you to lose all your devices and still have passkeys securely stored in the cloud. And people who don't even know that password managers exists, aren't going to the early adopters of passkeys.

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People like this scare me.

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Also, I have read studies about social media risks. The studies showing harm are dubious

So the studies are only good when it conforms to your "good data" biases. got it.

Unfettered access is risky. Unsupervised access is risky. But cooperative, communication driven access becomes a very, very powerful tool for a parent.

Then why block facebook, oh so "communication driven parent"? Or you're kind of parent that buys themselves "#1 Dad" hat and start lecturing other parents on how your kid made it for you.

Was your dad also busting your ass as you read 100 different annecdotal "parenting tips" from strangers on TV? Was your TV in your pocket 24/7 for supervised access and did your parent supervised and communicated about every nook and cranny of the internet?

Technology has well surpassed what differentiated you and your parents. If you think you've got it all figured out, you might be in for a big wake up call.

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Do you know anything about cyber security or are just passionate because you get to talk about war. If China were to coordinate an widespread attack, do you think it is as simple as the attack will come straight from the computer in the CCP headquarters and you go in to save the day?

Do you have any idea of how many outdated, unsecured, vulnerable devices (most of them made in China) could be used around the world just to have a plausible deniability. Ever heard of phishing? It could have come from your friend's email and you could be the one that's spreading the worm. And it would take months to trace it back to China. These are not script kiddies you see on the movies.

Start Air gaping critical infrastructure from the internet instead of dreaming about hypothetical wars.

pop OP ,

didn't know that. thanks!

pop ,

what's wrong with the ml ccTLD? the circlejerk about it meaning marxists leninist that dumbasses decided to go along with?

is this middle school?

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    pop ,

    pull requests would work a lot better than blog posts.

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