JFC, it’s a post about how M$ supports a genocide, and part of the response to the genocide is to BDS. What else is being on Linux in this context other than BDS?

Good news: it didn’t happen at all!

It’s nice that you’re hopeful, but green energy in capitalism isn’t enough. We need degrowth or a revolution to actually save not just humanity, but the planet as well.

While I agree with this article from a user perspective, it’s completely wrong from an admin perspective.

Admin for Windows is leaps and bounds better than Mac. Having to wait weeks for ABM to be connected by Apple, plus the fact that once you have ABM setup it requires third party systems to connect to it to actually do any administration (JAMF, Addigy, etc) is frustrating and laughable all at once. Then on top of all of that, getting devices into ABM means you have to wipe the device. It’s so antagonistic to management it’s insane.

Caddy took an afternoon to figure out and setup, and it does your certs for you.

It wasn’t his money.

Get IEMs and get foam tips.

I’ve seen it respond to a prompt for a PowerShell script to send emails from user accounts with a command that was depreciated a year ago. The script also didn’t have the proper connection commands included either, nor did it make clear that you would have to connect.

You mean pos mayor of NYC, Eric Adams? Yeah that checks out.

The benefit is you can only open up 80/443, rather than a port per service/app.

To the engineers.

I would but I had a terrible habit of getting snagged on things when walking around. I’ll take the worse quality of Bluetooth over destroying my port, my headphones, or my ears.

His foundation is a stack of lies. His desire is the same as it always was, control of what should be free.

His rockets suck and his cars suck.

Thankfully there are pcie cards that provide plenty of USB-C ports, but that we have to do that at all is annoying.

I’d like to see your script.

There are extensions for it.

Personally, I use syncthing to send my keepass database to the various devices I need it on.

Checking facts in a list of curated facts is not fact checking.

Most people do not actively have access to scholarly works, nor the aptitude to review it, nor the time to do so.

https://archive.ph/20231017195540/https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2023/10/big-tech-algorithmic-influence-antitrust-litigation/675575/

This article hedges itself so much.

It’s about money and power.

The owners of capital explicitly believe that they can dictate every aspect of your life: where you live, under what conditions you work, your access to food, how you spend your time outside of work.

They want you to have to spend time in social reproduction, unpaid, to meet their standards and account for their failings.

If you are forced to come in: if you live too far, too bad, sleep less, don’t see your family, drive further. Don’t get into an accident though, or be late due to traffic. Ensure you have a vehicle and you are keeping it in a state that will enable you to meet our demands of you being present for us to almost entirely ignore.

Oh we don’t provide lunch. I hope you brought lunch or are willing to pay for delivery or rush to get food in the half hour we allot for you to eat (unpaid). I also hope you spent time before work prepping that food, as well as your breakfast and dinner.

We expect you to be clean and presentable. Oh, you don’t interact with the public, let alone the C Suite? Doesn’t matter. Shower, shave/makeup, have a separate set of clothes just for the purpose of being here 5 days a week.

The chair we gave you uncomfortable, the lights too bright, the cubicle too small, the floor too noisy? Sorry, this is what was cheapest.

You want us to improve our ventilation system to account for the pandemic that got us to do remote work full time in the first place? What are you nuts? We don’t actually care if you live or die just as long as we can extract the maximum value out of you that we can before you go.

All of this for their ego and to ensure that the real estate market in commercial properties, which is over-leveraged and obviously no longer necessary in the current state of the world, doesn’t collapse.

Fuck them. Fuck them all.