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waderoberts

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All ideologies are neurotoxins at sufficient concentration.

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mjg59, to random
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The "Recall can't record DRMed video content" thing is because DRMed video content is entirely invisible to the OS. The OS passes the encrypted content to your GPU and tells it where to draw it, and the GPU decrypts it and displays it there. It's not a policy decision on the Recall side, it's just how computers work.

waderoberts,
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@mjg59 @pluralistic the engineering effort wasted implementing DRM is a travesty rivalled only by advertising. None of it is defensible nor necessary, except in pursuit of the specious need to conjure artificial scarcity.

Neoliberal sociopathy is a hell of a drug.

dgar, to random
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Me: What are you drinking?

Them: Soy milk.

Me: Hola Milk, yo soy padre.

waderoberts,
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@dgar nut milk comes from male cows.

dgar, to random
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    waderoberts,
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    @dgar he also went to the future, 2015, which would be like going to 2054 today.

    dgar, to random
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    Sometimes, the road less traveled is that way for a good reason.

    waderoberts,
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    @dgar sometimes a thing exists solely to serve as an example of why it shouldn’t.

    dgar, (edited ) to random
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    After voting out the conservative LNP, the NSW Labor Government took office promising to create a vast koala sanctuary on the state’s mid-north coast – the Great Koala National Park. Despite the threat of koala extinction in the state, more than a year later the Great Koala National Park is yet to be established.

    Officially, the government cites consultation with stakeholders as the reason for the delay.
    Last year, NSW Premier Chris Minns' remarkable admission disclosed a further motive for the go-slow: the government is reluctant to create the new national park or end logging and land clearing that is destroying koala habitat until it secures another way to make money from the trees.

    In essence, it wants to exploit the forests for carbon credits.

    https://youtu.be/MDzW-f8y8F0

    #auspol

    waderoberts,
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    @dgar they’re a Möbius strip.

    dgar, to random
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    You can tell a computer geek from an influencer by the way they pronounce “bios”.

    waderoberts,
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    @dgar similar to asking a proletariat chemist to pronounce ‘unionised’.

    waderoberts, to TheMatrix
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    A quarter of a century on from the release of #TheMatrix, not entirely convinced it represented ‘the peak of [human] civilisation’, but on balance it’s been a net regression.

    dgar, to random
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    Mac users swear by their Mac.

    PC users swear at their PC.

    waderoberts,
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    @dgar Linux users fsck their disks.

    waderoberts,
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    @dgar first one, then the other, then the other.

    ajsadauskas, (edited ) to climate
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    If you care about the planet, please make sure you sit down before you start reading this post about ExxonMobil.

    So.

    The CEO of ExxonMobil just said this in an interview: "We’ve waited too long to open the aperture on the solution sets in terms of what we need, as a society, to start reducing emissions."

    https://fortune.com/2024/02/27/exxon-ceo-darren-woods-interview-pay-the-price-for-net-zero/

    Who's the most influential voice on climate change? Who's to blame for inaction on climate change?

    According to the CEO of ExxonMobil, it's environmental activists.

    No, really:

    "Frankly, society, and the activist—the dominant voice in this discussion—has tried to exclude the industry that has the most capacity and the highest potential for helping with some of the technologies."

    Oh, and the CEO of ExxonMobil also apparently thinks consumers are to blame for climate inaction:

    "Today we have opportunities to make fuels with lower carbon, but people aren’t willing to spend the money to do that."

    Gets better.

    He thinks unnamed 'people who generate emissions' should pay for it. (Rather than, say, major transnational oil companies.)

    "People who are generating the emissions need to be aware of [it] and pay the price. That’s ultimately how you solve the problem."

    https://fortune.com/2024/02/27/exxon-ceo-darren-woods-interview-pay-the-price-for-net-zero/

    Worth including a quick reminder here that Exxon-Mobil made a US$36 billion profit in 2023: https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/exxon-beats-estimates-ends-2023-with-36-billion-profit-2024-02-02/#:~:text=HOUSTON%2C%20Feb%202%20(Reuters),higher%20oil%20and%20gas%20production.

    Not gross revenue.

    Profit.

    So, remind me again. Who knew about climate change before most of the public?

    "Exxon was aware of climate change, as early as 1977, 11 years before it became a public issue... This knowledge did not prevent the company (now ExxonMobil and the world’s largest oil and gas company) from spending decades refusing to publicly acknowledge climate change and even promoting climate misinformation."

    https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/exxon-knew-about-climate-change-almost-40-years-ago/

    And just who, exactly, stood in the way reducing emissions all these years?

    "ExxonMobil executives privately sought to undermine climate science even after the oil and gas giant publicly acknowledged the link between fossil fuel emissions and climate change, according to previously unreported documents...

    "The new revelations are based on previously unreported documents subpoenaed by New York’s attorney general as part of an investigation into the company announced in 2015. They add to a slew of documents that record a decades-long misinformation campaign waged by Exxon, which are cited in a growing number of state and municipal lawsuits against big oil."

    https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/sep/14/exxonmobil-documents-wall-street-journal-climate-science

    #oil #BigOil @fuck_cars #Urbanism #UrbanPlanning #ClimateChange #environment #ExxonMobil #Exxon #business #economy #politics #capitalism #ClimateCrisis

    waderoberts,
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    @SNerd @ajsadauskas @fuck_cars projection is a tightly-coupled comorbidity of bad faith interlocutors.

    neurovagrant, (edited ) to random
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    just sayin’

    (US number, fyi)

    waderoberts,
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    @neurovagrant one of the most effective suicide prevention mechanisms is to create an environment in which one can, and would, actively choose to participate in when we’re at our most vulnerable.

    RickiTarr, to random
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    Carefully explaining to Creationists that The Flintstones was not a documentary.

    waderoberts,
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    @RickiTarr like Idiocracy [2006], it’s a predictive documentary: https://www.cracked.com/quick-fixes/why-flintstones-takes-place-in-post-apocalyptic-future

    mitchw, to random
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    Cory Doctorow @pluralistic: “The idea that creative workers aren't workers is bullshit.“ Why creative workers get screwed in labor negotiations (until very recently) https://pluralistic.net/2023/10/25/huzzah/

    “Creative workers are part of a class of workers who suffer from ‘vocational awe,’ the sense that because your job is satisfying and/or worthy, you don't deserve to get paid for it.” (1/3) 🧵

    waderoberts,
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    @mitchw @pluralistic the greatest trick capitalists ever pulled was convincing creative individuals that copyright and patents protect and serve their interests.

    jrychter, to random

    I'm going through the "Windows 11 on a new machine" setup. Coming from a Mac, this is such a soul-crushing experience. I have no idea why people say they "prefer Windows".

    Apart from the crapware that comes preinstalled (McAfee? Seriously?), I feel like I own nothing on the machine. I am being treated like ad-meat, and deceptive prompts try to trick me into agreeing to my data being used and processed for ad targeting. Dark patterns everywhere.

    waderoberts,
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    @stopthatgirl7 @jrychter @pluralistic advertising needs to become as socially acceptable as smoking. It indiscriminately pollutes the environment, and causes secondary harms to nonparticipants by incentivising data hoarding.

    Also, I consider Windows to be a toy OS, because the only legitimate reason anyone needs to use it is to play games.

    pluralistic, to apple
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    They seem nice

    (Watch my @defcon talk at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rimtaSgGz_4)

    (support @eff at https://supporters.eff.org/donate/j)

    waderoberts,
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    @pluralistic @defcon @eff my immediate reaction is this has to be parody.

    Regardless, my greatest concern with respect to Apple is their lack of competition, someone to keep them honest and challenge their self righteous projections as an aspirational social and corporate citizen.

    One mechanism would be to position quality and accountability as tangible peers to wealth as measures of success.

    waderoberts, to random
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    Apparently this is acceptable for 3.5 months worth of wear on AU$200+ work boots. #AscentFootwear #Alpha2

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    waderoberts, to ai
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    You too can aspire to become an #AI tool.

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