The Bard in Green @ thebardingreen @lemmy.starlightkel.xyz

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"The truth is paywalled, but the lies are free."

Scratch under the surface of every for profit privacy / anonymity service, you find shitty libertarian cryptobros who probably post racist memes on 4chan while whining about feminism in the man-o-sphere. That doesn't speak to the nature of people who care about privacy, it speaks to the nature of people who care about privacy and also want to do capitalism.

"embed the values, aims, and interests of mostly white, mostly male technologists working in mostly profit-driven enterprises."

This is the correct take, I think. Algorithms could (and can) produce much better outcomes than human driven systems. But when they're wielded by capitalists, that's not what they're built to do. Humans wielded by capitalists suck, but they also (often) have compassion, conscience and some awareness of the outcomes they might be contributing to, and so they don't always make decisions / take action exactly the way the capitalists would have them do so. Algorithms on the other hand do exactly what they're told to do, exactly the way they're told to do it, no matter who is telling them or why. A computer will NEVER have a problem sending children to death camps, if that's what it's programmed to do.

the person who saw the movie described it as “fun,” “silly,” and “Guardians of the Galaxy meets Fifth Element meets Mission: Impossible”.

I have a feeling I'm gonna be like "This was a good sci fi movie, but should it have been a Trek movie?"

I encrypt everything, with unique complex passwords, that I have a safe mnemonic system for remembering and retrieving.

I'm actually shocked Elon hasn't offered to impregnate her. Either it's an oversight, or he HAS and we just don't know about it.

dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/neuralink bs=5G

Japan having some anxiety about the next four years of American foreign policy?

Even if so, they may see that as a plus. Twitter survived the massive cutting / culture change that Elon brought to it (as a gross little shadow of it's formal self, but the vultures don't care).

I was once a Facebook using programmer guy like you, then I took an arrow to the knee did some work for Meta and got a close up and personal look at their internal culture. It beyond pissed me off and creeped me out. I just couldn't.

Now, people have to text me to invite me to events and parties and stuff. I don't know what's going on with major chunks of my friends group half the time. I have to get my news and gossip the old fashioned way.

Before my Meta subcontractor experience, I spoke like you. But after, I don't even miss it. Thinking about logging on to Facebook is like fingernails on a chalk board.

LinkedIn is a crime against humanity.

Username checks out.

My favorite ever SO experience was this time I found a dude who had had my exact problem four years earlier. The thread was the only google result for the error message I was getting that wasn't just random pasted log files, etc.

Two people who had no idea how to fix it gave him some useless suggestions, then crickets.

9 months later, he had come back and posted

I solved my problem!

dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/sda bs=5M

I wish I'd saved the link.

I'm hosting a minio cluster on my brother-in-law's old gaming computer he spent $5k on in 2012 and 3 five year old mini-pcs with 1tb external drives plugged into them. Works fine.

I think you're going to have more luck with a more right wing, more immature humor, more toxic masculinity kind of crowd.

Shrek is love. Shrek is life.

Oh, you ain't seen this shit yet.

Qubes wins that fight, as it is technically a posse. DOM0 is the sheriff.

Hopefully this shit backfires on the platforms like fuckin crazy.