Enjoy owning your devices while you still can.
cross-posted from: lemmy.wtf/post/49143200
cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/71629767
This is unacceptable. And I’m sick of all the fucking workarounds to maintain basic privacy.
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So, this is the place where I’m going to be generally hanging out and trolling around, while my Pixelfed, Mastodon, and Blacksky accounts are going to be primarily art posting accounts, and I also have a Nooki account.
I’m also going to start to be active more on here than on lemmy.org, so I’m making this my primary Lemmy account now.
I’ll link the other socials I’m varying levels of active on below, plus my lemmy.org account which I’m demoting to my secondary account if that instance is going to be more unstable from now on.
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Goodbye device ownership, and the last vestiges of free speech will die with this bill as well.
So, OS-level age-gating is going federal, which will effectively kill your rights to device ownership and what’s left of free speech and expression.
Enjoy your free speech while you still have it because this is a clear attempt to erase that right.
SOPA never died, it just went into hiding until time to reemerge, and now’s that time, this is basically SOPA in a save the kids trenchcoat.
Things are getting bad out there.
Yeah, as the title goes, things are getting bad out there. The Mastodon post says more about it than I can atm.
Even alt mobile OSes are actively being targeted based on what’s been happening with GrapheneOS lately, and what’s stopping that apparent ‘war on GrapheneOS’ from extending to things like Linux or BSD on the desktop too?
So, SCOTUS just killed the Voting Rights Act. Greeat.
You mean the shortage that's purposefully engineered to price everyone out of the market and push them onto the cloud?
Suburbia, and by extension big-box stores. Hell, the entire fucking American economy is a huge scam just waiting to permanently collapse.
Insurance is nothing but a legal protection racket. The only difference is when you lapse on your protection money, the insurers don't go and blow your kneecaps out, although United Health has effectively killed people who lapsed on payments before or denied them potentially life-saving drugs.
Well, this shows where Adolf's allegiances lie.
Welcome to *Deus Ex: Mankind Divided*, because this is an idea pulled straight from that game.
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Oh hell no, Netflix better not be trying to EEE Blender or be trying to buy them out.
There's also going the Ageless route and making protestware.
Data brokers, easily. Also, bill collectors are one of the stereotypical scummy occupations alongside door-to-door sales and buy-here-pay-here car lots.
One more reason to be glad I left that shithole. Also, expect Redlib to finally be killed off soon.
This is why I recommend using dedicated cameras that don't connect to the web. Well, one reason, the other reason is because dedicated cameras will always outperform phone cams.
PeerTube or Odysee.
Ha.
How soon before alt social media is targeted like this?
Lawton, OK: We're not called the 'Shady 580' for no reason.
You can't, really, if your employer or school doesn't provide their own hardware, best you can do is pick up a burner box to quarantine their stuff to in order to separate it completely from your main system.
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More like we're known for a lot of petty crimes among other things, like, someone's going to steal anything that isn't tied down in your yard, and in some cases even *when* it's tied down, someone will just cut the chain or cable and make off with it.
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That presidency might actually turn into a dictatorship in a post-Voting Rights Act America. Trump basically bought himself a permanent autocracy in the worst case.
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Big-box stores are a scam, period. Their whole business model is driving smaller local shops out of business and becoming the only game in town, and then completely screwing that town over when they leave.
These Ugly Big Box Stores are Literally Bankrupting Cities
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Walmart already locks their computers and other pricey tech up in cabinets for anti-theft reasons.
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The nuclear bomb, easily.
.....Proprietary software is a very distant second place.
I'm personally running Artix with runit and things are fine so far, but as ChrisG pointed out, dinit is basically a drop-in replacement for systemd syntax-wise.
Also, I recommend enabling the unofficial [liquorix] repo in order to get a newer kernel with more frequent updates than what Artix provides in their repos, eg. the default and zen kernels in the Artix repos lag a bit behind the lqx kernel from the [liquorix] repo, and I still recommend enabling [chaotic-aur] as a convenience repo on any Arch distro.
I also switched to MATE from KDE out of concern that KDE could end up following GNOME's path after SDDM is deprecated, plus I just wanted a lighter and different desktop, that and MATE's default two-panel layout is completely usable from stock although you might wanna set the panels to auto-hide to maximize screen space.
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I suppose you could start firing up alt nets like Freenet or like meshnets and the like assuming the worst happens to the clearnet.
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Am I crazy for saying that DHH is a far-right plant and Omarchy is a plot to destroy FOSS from the inside?
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How soon before AI is forced onto every creator on YT?
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Damn, first legitimately good thing I’ve seen come out of that country in a while as far as legislation is concerned.
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Not gonna matter when apps and services start blocking Linux, or even worse, should this shit creep up the chain to the ISP level and should ISPs start requiring an Apple, Google, or MS OS just to get online to begin with.