Zitron knocking it out of the park, as usual.

I’m glad someone is pointing out that this is who Zuckerberg has always been.

Facebook literally started as a place to rate whether women on campus were “hot or not.”

He has always been misogynist heteronormative right-wing scum.

Also, as I noted elsewhere:

I also did not like something Newton said at the end of a (paywalled) blog about what he learned from the reaction to his piece about AI skeptics. Newton said, and I quote, that he was “taking detailed notes on all bloggers writing ’financial analyses’ suggesting that OpenAI will go bankrupt soon because it’s not profitable yet.”

Zitron deserves props for speaking Truth to Power, because I doubt this guy is the only one keeping lists. eBay executives were caught mailing dead animals to critics. Monsanto had an entire Department of Homeland Security styled “Fusion Center” for harassing and de-legitimizing anyone who criticized Monsanto or produced science that made them look bad.

I’d be way more worried about Musk and Zuckerberg themselves, if I were Zitron, we’re entering a Brave New World here. More power to him, he’s doing the right thing in the face of monsters.

Exactly. I have services running with staggered automated updates/reboots to keep things stable. Since at least one of them is always available, it’s like having no down-time but with actual stability and redundancy.

I have all my devices set to reboot once weekly a few hours after daily scheduled updates. I probably don’t need to do this, but I do. It’s a habit I got in with scheduling router reboots, and then started extending it to other devices. It’s nice to have some solid uptime, but I have three unbound DNS servers in sequence so they update and reboot on a staggered schedule so it’s like they never go down.

You never know when the odd cosmic ray is gonna hit and flip yer bits.

Lubuntu has more done to it to make it run on older/slower/less RAM hardware than Xubuntu. Xubuntu is better for modern but low powered machines.

For stuff that’s actually relatively old and low-power, I’ve had much more luck with Lubuntu.

If you want to bitch about the mods the community for it is thataway.

I do think it’s funny people think arguing with and jerking around the mods on the community they moderate is gonna do anything other than frustrate those mods more to the point they ban you.

Most stuff like that is usually part of an MDM suite (mobile device management) and is centrally managed. If, for example, your institution is using Active Directory to manage devices, they’ll likely seek out a service that ties directly into AD.

There’s not really a way to get out from under this control since it’s remotely managed and removing the management would also disconnect the machine from whatever remote network it’s tied to (schools, employers).

Shitty partners get advertised whole different stuff… With a partner the best decision is to start the relationship with respect for each others passwords and privacy, not snooping in each others phones, and ending the same way, not snooping on each other. If they can’t physically access it without “hacking” past your secure password/PIN, then they can’t really install stuff like that. I know people feel weird about this because they’ve been cheated on by partners, so pro-tip: find better partners.

How are you still “friends” with this person?

Oh yeah, there’s no doubt about that. It was over two years ago that economists were already crowing about how soon people would be running out of their “pandemic savings” and would have to buckle under pressure again. They never hide this stuff, if you pay attention to the right people, they’re right out there being super honest about what they’re doing and what they want.

They want to starve the citizens out, which is crazy when you consider the old statement “No society is more than three meals away from revolution.” They’d rather risk pushing us to revolution by turning the screws rather than give up any amount of power, control, or wealth.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/07/business/pandemic-savings.html

As far back as 2021 they were talking about people running out of “pandemic savings.”

Anything to reduce salaries.

“Nope, we’re making less money than ever, more cuts are coming.”

It certainly feels like every business in the USA is on team “make weird business decisions and excuses as a way to shaft worker pay and rights.”

The fact that 8 relatively short sentences are considered a “huge rant” speaks ill to your level of literacy. But you do you.

Don’t be sorry for having an opinion, and that’s a pretty mild one all things considered.

I did it all with a Pi powered magicmirror² which I prefer since it’s my bathroom mirror anyway.

Drink Verification Can.

also XMPP and Matrix/Element.

Also your choices should be impacted by your threat model. Not everyone needs to lock up like they’re James Bond.

Right, which is why I’m implying this could be a hit because it’s the right form factor aimed at a myriad of use-cases.

You’re telling me the messaging serving with a roll-your-own encryption that hasn’t been audited and doesn’t enable end-to-end-encryption by default, instead requiring you to initiate 1-to-1 “secret chats” isn’t secure or trustworthy?? Holy balls!

A little worried that with swapping those components like that, it’s trying to be too many things for too many different groups of people instead of one exact thing.

Isn’t that exactly what made Raspberry Pis a massive hit? Being able to be so many different things for so many different groups of people, at a reasonable price point, maximizing the groups it appealed to?

Once again, this means literally every government on the planet has lost the plot.

Just quoting myself here because yeah dude, all countries are guilty of this and it makes me ill. Just because I was born into a specific country doesn’t mean I have some fucking grand allegiance to it. The US is categorically the worst and most despotic country on the planet and it’s where I’m from, no argument. I’m from the tippy top of the worst of the worst. Sorry, not sorry, I don’t really have a voice in any of it.

You only seem to accept perfection as valid.

Am I, or am I the only one here dreaming of anything outside of what already exists? Like I said, we have a different opinion on centralization versus decentralization and I don’t think that’s going to change, and that deeply impacts how we both view these issues. You’ll just have to accept that when you say “centralize with democatic controls so no one can take advantage” to me that’s Utopian thinking. (Because once it’s centralized and a bad actor somehow does take over, then you can’t decentralize it quickly.) That’s acting like you already have the perfect solution. That’s not critiquing the status quo. Sure China is better than the West, but that doesn’t mean China can’t be better than it is now. And dear God, I hope that for China, because the West sure ain’t up to the charge of leading the world through climate change and mass extinction.

which when combined with democratic structures leads to no abilities for individual actors to take advantage of the system itself.

You know people keep saying that, and each time, surprise, there’s a despot at the end. Sorry man, we’re just on different pages here.

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