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.

Musk is loud and dumb so he gets most of the attention for this sort of shit but Zuckerberg seems calculatingly evil.

One way to avoid it is to prioritize GOG copies if they’re available. Since GOG has no DRM they tend to generally be untouched.

Jokes on you I’m using it to be disappointed in myself.

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.

I literally had a friend breaking down over it and I suggested Fediverse alternatives and they looked at me like I had sprouted an extra head.

I even explained that US companies aren’t doing anything materially different than Tiktok (propaganda and spying on people), and they’re all bad. Still looking at me like I’m some kind of maniac.

Everyone bitches about corporations but so few want to actually stop sucking on their fucking teat.

More than just unions, people need to walk out. They can’t fire all of you in one day.

Four years is a great amount of time to plan for it and get people on board. You gotta start talking to people about it, first!

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Believe it or not, right to jail the pattern buffer.

You’d think at a certain point O’Brien would just start saving “copies” of the red-shirts and bring them back with the rest of the away team. Which would be doubly disconcerting if you think about it because their last memory would be beaming away with the away team since they wouldn’t have memories of dying.

True, but Tim Brenners-Lee is also on the board, and he historically has generally good takes on tech and politics.

People are often unwilling to go against the positions of the guy who created the World Wide Web.

This is just a reminder, the parallels between Trump and Hitler are many.

Trump hates drinking and smoking while Hitler also hated drinking and smoking.

If they represent what “sober” is, I’ll take any and all drugs mainlined into my veins till the end of time please and thank you.

…and I took that personally.

Clay Puppington is that you?

Yep, it’s Germany all over again, everyone’s just gonna roll over and let it happen, thinking “it won’t get that bad, I’ve got to get to work anyway.”

o7

It is, but uhhhh, unfortunately the US is looking pretty toast, looks like it’s about to start fucking with Europe for Russia, and China is already clearly making plans to follow Russia’s lead and re-take what they consider to be their territories, simply because they know Trump will let it happen.

With Europe literally having to cope with managing the US becoming an antagonist along with Russia, I’m not really sure we have a choice in the matter my friend.

lmao broligarchs is a new one to me and its fucking gold

Exactly, every time you turn around these guys were always ignoring evidence-based-anything. What they mean about “Law and order” is beating the shit out of innocent people and pinning charges on them. What they mean about “national security” is bombing the fuck out of wherever they can steal resources from. It’s why Trump brought up Greenland and Panama Canal, strategic resource allocation.

The only thing they know to utilize is violence and domination. They’re not clever fucking people, they’re just ruthless.

and whether we like it or not, China or India are bound to take its place. It was years ago now that a meme went around that said “The average human is a Chinese man with a cell phone and no bank account” alluding to the significance of their staggering population. India outpaced China in population since then.

Like it or not our time as a global economic, political and cultural powerhouse is quickly coming to a close.