I did not know that, but that entirely makes sense.

I’m American; if we had a ‘pirate party’ type party, it would be considered a terrorist organization by our pedophile president and his cult of closeted christian racist theocrat morons.

But uh yeah… world economy and society broadly is hugely run by tech and tech companies, you’d think a more nuanced and informed discussion about tech law and policy would accompany that… but nope!

You can’t.

Windows will rewrite your boot partition, when it feels like it.

It can be commanded to do this remotely, also. Its called a Windows Update. And Windows buries itself below Ring 0 via Pluton/TPMv2.

It does this because the NSA likes being able to keep tabs on everyone.

The precise/exact way this works is hardware/setup dependant, and changes every 6 months or so, ish, but yeah this bootloader fuckery nonsense has been going on for years now, in dual boot setups, and there really is not a plausible explanation for this continuing as a persistent ‘problem’, other than Windows makes NSA backdoors into your entire system, or breaks shit while trying to.

Dual booting is dumb if you value system security and stability.

Howabout this:

All social media algorithms that direct content flow to users are required to be open source, in perpetuity, at least for viewing, so that actual unbiased folks can audit them. Maybe make a new liscense class for this, if need be, so companies can still own the code, but it just has to be publically reviewable.

Would you install blackbox code on your pc?

Well, would you let a blackbox determine what information is fed into your own brain?

Mandate systemic transparency.

In today’s episode of “fucking obviously, duh,”… fine-tuned digital brainwashing algorithms do in fact have generally ‘bad’ effects on the human mind.

Some say they may even be addictive and habit forming!

More at 11!

Yep. They’re gonna get big mad about that.

His latest video was exploring ‘anti-baking soda’ as a potential novel way to do CO2 capture at scale.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=fvxNmStSC3M

He also ‘got his start’ before Anti-SJW youtube was a thing. His first series that popped off, back in the day, the day being 2008ish, was "Why do People Laugh at Creationists?'.

I don’t know that he ever … explicitly collabed with Sargon or any of those guys, but yeah he did exist in roughly the same genre-space, around the GamerGate era of i dunno, 2013 to 2015, ish?

While he has covered Elon a lot, thats because he started calling bullshit on Elon’s nonsense since way, way before that was common… he’s been tooting his own horn a bit, following around 10 years of Elon’s trolls telling him he doesn’t know what he’s talking about, and well, it turned out he did.

He literally has a personal grudge against Elon Musk.

For all his faults, he is one of the oldest, OG youtubers, since damn near day 1, who is also still around, and hasn’t imploded.

His first vid is 19+ years old, so, 2007ish, and its calling out GWB as a war mongering liar.

All that being said, if you want a more recent youtube channel thats basically just mostly been tearing Musk to shreds, with science: Common Sense Skeptic.

By ‘more recent’ I mean they’ve only been around for 5 or 6 years, I think.

Zuck needs to be impaled, Vlad the Impaler style impaled. We need to make that a legal execution method, and then apply it to him.

If you think this is a joke, China and Vietnam literally execute CEOs they find guilty of massive financial crimes.

They’re more humane about it than impaling, but Zuck doesn’t deserve humanity.

Good troll, good boy.

See?

Laws are just made up too, just like money.

Hahahaahhah!

… then see my original point.

Go anywhere other than Best Buy.

Obligatory FUCK SPEZ

RIP Aaron.

If you own hardware that voids its own warranty when you open it up, you don’t own that hardware.

Same with cars.

Same with anything.

Updooted purely for dad joke lol

… exactly.

You’d have to be naive to… go to Best Buy, for repairs.

Yeah… people need to understand this as a basic way corpos and corps work.

Almost nobody ever willingly retires. Almost always, they’re forced out, and theres a PR campaign run internally and externally to make it look like they’re voluntarily retiring.

… chaos is a ladder.

Good!

Then you’re not going back to Twitter, so you’re not part of that category.

Honestly I personally, selfishly, hope Lemmy never gets anywhere near Facebook or Twitter huge.

Most people are fucking boring idiot assholes, full of actually boring and stupid ideas and opinions they only think are clever or notable because them and their social circle are broadly ignorant and hypnotized by marketing.

I prefer a smaller community where people at least tend toward not being idiots, and not being boring.

I don’t want to hear from a celebrity, as their celebrity self.

I don’t want advertising to be viable.

You are right; most people do not care about things that they should, if they actually believed half the things they say they do. Most people are enormously massive hypocrites about most things, whether theyre aware of that or not.

I am under no illusion that people, broadly, when freely handed the solution to a large chunk of their problems, will use it, if it means they suffer any kind of inconvenience whatsoever.

I am under no illusion that most people want what they claim they want; they just want to be popular, or be where the most other people are.

If Bluesky dies and the users go back to Twitter, they never believed in anything more than ‘I want to be part of the herd.’

What you identify as a lack of water, I see as a functioning primary filtration system that prevents microplastic infected water from coming in to the system.

Keep Lemmy Weird.

I also find it odd that you would likely describe all that as anti-social.

… having preferences for the kind of people you enjoy socializing with… is not anti social. You seem to be functionally saying that not starting a massive marketing drive, that in itself is anti social.

This to me is either completely insane, or you don’t understand what ‘anti-social’ means.

The corporate paradigm for social media… that is anti-social. ‘Demonstrates a chronic pattern of disregarding the rights and well-bring of others.’ They literally act as fine-tuned personalized, digital drugs to manipulate your thoughts and emotions, by exploiting your weaknesses.

This has been fucking obvious for at least 2 years, more like 4, really.

What this has been the whole time is naked power grab to establish a technate, a techno-oligarchy.

When, not if, this fully fucking detonates the West’s finances and economies, most of these people will still be very wealthy, most of our 401k/pensions/net worth will mostly no longer exist, and we will end up with a society of all but formal aristocracy, vs us ‘low income worker’ peasants.

That is their plan. They have been open about that for 20-30 years; they despise democracy, they think the world should be hard deliniated into haves and have-nots.

It doesn’t matter if the tech works or is profitable.

What matters is who will be on top when the dust settles.