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Sometimes I write intimate eschatologies or words about technology and math. Sometimes I make things by burning them with light or squeezing them through a small, hot tube. Sometimes I push water with a stick while sitting in a tiny boat.

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18+ xgranade, to random
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Some positive stuff on this list, but I'm really fucked up at the relaxation of rules against police engaging reckless high-speed chases, and the new "parental bill of rights."

> Beginning Thursday, officers can pursue someone if they have reasonable suspicion a person has violated any law.

https://fenetre.dev/@rochelle/112560339683595652

xgranade,
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I'd be happy to be wrong about all of the above, to simply not have understood the legal text well enough to form a reasonable reaction. I can only go off my layfemme understanding, limited as it is, which points to the above bill as being very fucked indeed.

mcc, to random
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Zero-dimensional chess

xgranade,
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@mcc What's the point?

SallyStrange, to random
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"The border will open when crossings decrease" = "The beatings will continue until morale improves"

xgranade,
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@SallyStrange @aud The truth obscured by the lie of bipartisanship is that just because both parties agree on a fascist action (whether through the Democrats not opposing it or actively taking the initiative) doesn't mean it suddenly stops being fascist.

xgranade,
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@aud @SallyStrange Really, you could replace every instance of "bipartisan" with "institutionalized" in most mainstream news articles and instantly get a more cogent analysis.

xgranade, to random
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Shorter version of my earlier thread:

Things in tech likely won't get better without at least one component of that improvement involving more people using Linux. That is a valid but incomplete and not universally applicable mitigation to many but not all of the valid problems raised with Windows and macOS.

You just don't have to be a reply-guy about it, though. Offer support where that support is welcome and asked for, and practice empathy always.

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Two things can be true at once:

• It's a dick move to reply to complaints with Windows / macOS with "just use Linux."
• The OS duopoly is bad, and causes real harm that is only getting worse; individual action is necessary but not sufficient to mitigate that harm.

xgranade,
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It is absolutely true that individual action fails as a model for social change, and that's at least doubly true for yelling at folks to go take on that change. At the same time, there's often no path to a systemic solution that doesn't at least partially pass through individual action.

In tech, issues as wide ranging as privacy infringements and DRM have been so widely disparaged as nerd problems that it's almost impossible to get any traction on systemic or individual change.

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So yeah, yelling at people to "just use Linux" is a problem, but I fully get the impulse (and have been guilty of it myself). I think it at least partially is rooted in a valid feeling that something needs to be done, even if the expression of that feeling is... suboptimal.

xgranade,
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By way of an imperfect and somewhat hyperbolic analogy, "just wear a mask" isn't the most helpful response to someone suffering in a society that does not have appropriate mask mandates, ventilation requirements, a robust vaccine program, and widely deployed UV-C scrubbers.

At the same time, it is demonstrably and significantly better if more people make the individual decision to wear masks, avoid poorly ventilated areas, get vaccinated of their own accord, and so forth.

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Relatively unimportant tech hot take I will hold onto even in my grave:

XSLT was a good idea, actually, even if it was implemented in brain-hurting ways.

xgranade,
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@kw217 Even there, I'd argue that XSLT exposed the verbosity of XML syntax, as XSLT was often in practice written by hand. Had XML even allowed for more of SGML's shorthand notation, I suspect XSLT would have been perceived very differently.

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There are industries where allowing outgoing telemetry will land someone in jail, or at least get the SEC on their ass. If Recall and Copilot can't be sufficiently disabled, can they claim "oh that's just Windows" when regulators come knocking?

xgranade,
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(Inspired by @noracodes's excellent thread on the subject.)

xgranade,
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@TimWardCam Given some of the security analysis that dropped just yesterday, I'm not so sure. That aside, though, I agree that it's more worrying for home users who don't have financial and/or health privacy regulations to incentivize their protection; that points to a regulatory gap that needs to be closed.

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> It doesn't matter if I make a dozen "how to disable recall" tutorials. The second YOUR data shows up on someone ELSE'S screen, it's in THEIR recall database.

this has nothing to do with microsoft recall! anybody you send stuff to can have it compromised. you message your high school friend, she gets caught at a protest, now cops have all that data

you can never control the data you give to somebody else, recall or not

xgranade,
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@whitequark Agreed, though that implicitly assumes people have reasoned and more-or-less explicit threat models at all. I'd be willing to bet that's not the case for a lot of people who are either privileged enough to not need to immediately care, or who do not have the technical expertise and/or community support to reasonably assess their infosec posture.

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Advice for folks curious about learning Linux after reading Microsoft or other tech news: if you have a Steam Deck, try launching its desktop mode. That is, for the most part, a traditional Linux desktop out of the box.

xgranade,
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(A separate mouse may be useful for this...)

xgranade, to random
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I'm sad that the "infinity gaming table" concept turned into a giant 1080p Android tablet with its own weird app store that only has a few dozen games in it, most of which are clones of popular but boring board games. Seems like there could have been a lot more potential to mainstream TTRPG assistants, and to make more unique and interesting boardgames easier to play with limited space.

https://infinitygametable.com/game-creators

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Started watching Extraordinary, and good grief why is Jizzlord the best character?

glyph, to random
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This is really bugging me now that I'm thinking about it. Screenshot-don't-link is common "don't boost bad people" advice… on Fedi it's less of an issue, because screenshot-with-caption is … fine, I think … but in general, how does one make Discourse About Crappy People accessible? If we can't figure out a way to accessibly talk about line-steppers without boosting their engagement, we leave potentially extra-vulnerable people out of crucial warnings about bad actors. https://toot.cafe/@matt/112549564106609279

xgranade,
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@glyph I guess that's an offshot of there not being an engagement-optimizing algorithm* that sees quote-tweeting as promotion and endorsement.

More generally, though, "don't link to line-steppers" seems like "don't feed the trolls"? Good advice, but has severe limitations?

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Me at 2 PM: I don't want to do anything today!

Me at 6 PM, after several hours of not doing anything: I'm bored

xgranade,
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@mcc @glyph Burnt-out Pixie PTSD-Nightmare Queers

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