Andy Mouse

@nixCraft@mastodon.social The reason is the same as why the folks who were part of a pedophile sex ring on Epstein's private island are not getting charged and convicted. No, this reason has nothing to do with philosophy or the law.

@niomi@kolektiva.social yeah... isn't a horse at least a largely self-driving vehicle? Safer than a car, too. Try to make a horse crash into a tree at 120km/h because you fell alseep on it! @Hex@kolektiva.social

@benjamingeer@piaille.fr yeah because the recruiters are incompetent or don't care enough to engage. Imagine if you were hired by your future colleagues? A team interview would ask you practically useful questions and you would have equal opportunity to see you really wanted to work with these people. No managers, no CEOs, no mental constipation. But this won't happen because we are hired to make money for some asshat who couldn't give less of a shit about you or your colleagues, making something that nobody gives a shit about. And so nobody gives a shit, and the few folks who come with passion slowly (a) stop giving a shit, (b) burn out, or (c) turn traitor to become asshats themselves. Capitalism! Giving you the middle finger. Suck it. Don't like it? Do something! But if you do anything that gives people hope, better buy some guns and get ready to kill a fuckton of cops, and then soldiers. (This has happened in Europe many times. Either the cops or the military wins.) Meanwhile, do as little as possible and safely sabotage whatever you can. Or join a worker's coop! Where are those?? @david_chisnall@infosec.exchange

@cmconseils@mastodon.social OMG I love this 😁

@mstrife@kolektiva.social @blogdiva@mastodon.social @EUCommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu I'm less sure about this. Perhaps we underestimate the amount of people hired by government agencies to do script kiddie stuff.

@rbreich@masto.ai "You'd be surprised the friends you can buy with small change" (JJ Cale, Money Talks)

@johnnyd_cm@mastodonapp.uk It ain't what you do nor the way you do it. It's what people think of you that gets you fired - or hired!

@NotTheLBCGuy@mstdn.social It is 2500 BC. Greeks invent a scam they call "rule of the people". It is a democracy, meaning everyone can decide! Everyone except slaves, women, and, actually, literally everyone but a very small minority. The majority of folks needs to STFU and do as they are told - or else. It is now more than 4500 years later. The scam still works.

@LonM@social.vivaldi.net As a European, I will try my best to stick to non-European payment methods. I don't get the hype about this, why the f* would I want to use a system that give the cops closest to me the most information? @gugurumbe@mastouille.fr @vladcampos@mastodon.social @eunews@mastodon.social

@maxleibman@beige.party Not to mention that all conversation history is logged for all eternity and linked to your identity whenever possible. https://cyberplace.social/@GossiTheDog/116573709464476683

@herdsoft@gruene.social Yes I have started to look. I think the IT industry will go to shit, where capacity to create stuff will be locked into AI subscription models. Soon there will be 'certified AI' that will be required to use for certain projects. Just wait. Definitely high time to jump ship. @nixCraft@mastodon.social

@webmink AI fear?

@mstrife@kolektiva.social @blogdiva@mastodon.social @EUCommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu Actually, let me add some data to this point. In a recent investigation of the Monero crypto network, an estimated 80% of all the servers on the network are set up just to spy on the network. That's 13k servers - for a quite niche/obscure method of payment. https://probelab.io/blog/peering-into-privacy-a-deep-dive-into-the-monero-network-topology/ I really do think we ordinary mortals have a hard time grasping the true meaning of large budgets, and how easy big scale operations become with a lot of money. Big scale operations like setting up 13k servers to spy on a network can be hidden in a fraction of a percent of a budget. Just one surveillance project among thousands in an excel sheet. Imagine the resources and effort put into more mainstream things. In the Soviet Union, didn't half of the population work as spies for the government? 😁

@NfNitLoop@mastodon.social This. Not to mention each of those 500 members are identified with their phone numbers, and there is no real indication (except "we promise") that Signal isn't passing along group memberships to law enforcement to begin with. Just use email or whatever texting app you already have. Or use an actually secure alternative, i.e. one where you do not have to provide your phone number to use the service and there is not a single US-based company hosting all the communications. @micahflee@infosec.exchange

@gsuberland@chaos.social Very cool. Very, very cool. Hats off 🎩

@wasootch@mastodon.sdf.org

I don't know if we have people with enough information to resist. Resisters too are wanting authoritarian governments.

This is a good point and I think this issue was there with the Nazis. Disinformation has been a tool of the government trade for a long time and people didn't 'look the other way' for no reason. Just as the absolute majority of us do squat against oil companies burning down the world.

Why is that? What do we believe in that makes us stay at home, paying taxes for their subsidies?

This is part of the job of the resistance - to invest time disentangling the truth, and help people access accurate information.

@aral@mastodon.ar.al

@BenjaminHCCarr Huh! So if they drop developer verification, this may actually be useful sometime in the future.

@nazgul I think yes. There's always an incentive then to buy an even heavier car, as I'll be slightly safer when driving then. They should yield to the military industrial complex (that, after all, is the Founding Principle and societal backbone of the US) and let people buy decommissioned tanks with the guns removed. @davidzipper @ryansingel

@eff 🤐

@GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social so uh, why do we believe that 'opting out' will make any difference what-so-ever? All these shiny buttons we can press, saying 'privacy' on them. And we're banging away like monkeys, not grasping that the folks who built the machine with the buttons on it see us as... their monkeys.

@benlockwood@ecoevo.social Unions are the main thing that has made life better for people since the industrial revolution. It's the shit. The rest is just noise.

@edri@eupolicy.social Yes, it is a government, after all. Nothing good will be produced by it except by accident. EU sees that open source is the last loop hole out of corporate big tech. This is a hostile take-over motivated by the government's need for control, nothing else.

@NewsDesk@flipboard.social I wonder what else they are banning when doing this. I sort of doubt a group of power-hungry psychopaths (an authoritarian government) is doing this for the good of the people.

@IzzyOnDroid@floss.social Hmm. So I'm on a custom rom, downloading my apps though Fdroid and if not OSS, Aurora store. Does this impact me? I'll do keepandroidopen anyway, but just wondering.

@frej@fosstodon.org Ah, yes.. What a display of trust in law and order. Almost makes me feel peaceful myself - as if I can forget that it was the law and its emissaries who carried out the Holocaust and every other really heinous thing that ever happened to mankind. @GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social @noybeu@mastodon.social

@the_turtle@mastodon.sdf.org What Larry Ellison truly needs... Or rather, WHO he needs, is Luigi. @ErikUden@mastodon.de

@anarchistmemedistro@mastodon.social I'd argue policing is not a "job" any more than fenceposts are "workers" for keeping the cattle at their jobs.

@theeclecticdyslexic@mstdn.social Yes I thought so.. thanks for the info. Well, I wonder how many on stock Android go through the pains of donating to developers? I'd think most of them are "download and see if it works" and that's it. Then it will stop working, and they will use corpo spyware shit instead. It will be interesting to see what this move by Google does to donations to good open source projects. I'd guess Google is betting on that people will just give up on open source. I think people will double down on it, and donate more, because it because even more obvious that it's the only option to keep OSS alive. Maybe I'm naive. @IzzyOnDroid@floss.social

@tante@tldr.nettime.org Oh dear what an excellent summary of the AI business model!

"at the end of the day you are more divorced from the output you submit than before."

Et voila folks: the POINT.