Why are libs so obsessed with Tan Suits?

It looks like chatgpt can generate pictures taht aren’t real. This is obviously a problem because

Just the dumbest shit imaginable from the dumbest people, enabled by people who literally do not care. America.

Shared computer? Clear Browsing Data on Exit.
Personal computer? irrelevant annoyance.

Yea car-culture is garbage, but not sure what that has to do with metal-detectors and security theater grifting.

How does voting for capitalism get rid of capitalism?

An app that isn’t complying with any local law is the only app that you can’t actually lose. So if they do the right thing, humanity gains. Unless you want them to comply with the law?

thanks!

Why did she run the first time? Why was she selected as VP after getting zero votes in the primary? Why was she pushed as the only option after Biden finally dropped out? Why is she still being discussed?

The fact that this is happening is showing that real decisions are being made without the voters being involved and whoever is making those decisions will win either way.

Also can someone post the article, it’s paywalled.

Fascists coming to take arms, tale as old as time.

Almost all police are part of some form of union, and they have the ability to say “fuck you, we’re not going to respond to emergency calls if you don’t give us what we want”

So fun fact, when the police did that in NYC for a few weeks during De Blasio’s term everyone was better off for it. Then instead of taking that leverage and cutting the NYPD budget in half, they went ahead and gave them everything they asked for anyway.

No ethical consumption under capitalism, yadda yadda.

There is almost nothing you can buy that doesn’t have people like the Saudi Princes involved especially if you are talking about electronics. Though I am glad that people are bringing these kinds of consolidations to light.

Boy too bad that strategic mineral reserve the US built during the cold war was auctioned off for pennies on the dollar to well connected single-person corporations. Though obviously it was for the best since the US would have just used it for it’s war machine, but hey maybe it could have used it to build infrastructure.

America is a one-party state, of course. But in typical American extravagance they have two of them.

Isn’t the purpose of an immutable OS supposed to be for things like specific services that generally aren’t supposed to be logged into? For example a web-proxy, or log-forwarder or maybe some kind of LB front-end?

I didn’t think “daily driving” an immutable OS as a user who needs to invoke a shell was its purpose.

yea, ever since TPM was first making the conspiracy rounds in the 90’s there has been a huge misunderstanding of its purpose, let alone its capabilities. I 100% agree with the author that looking at the TPM as an evil blackbox is really just depriving users of a tool that can be implemented in an open source way to secure user privacy. The GPU however is impossible to implement in an opensource way by everyone except a small handful of semiconductor companies, and even then you would rely on proprietary microcode that woul take millions of manhours to reverse engineer if it were even possible. So if I were some megacorp who relied on Imaginary Property, the GPU that was exclusively created by a fellow megacorp is where I’d place my trust.

I also dont know why Win11 requires a tpm2.0, but since it does, and my current computer doesnt have one, I’m certanly not going to run it.

What use is the metadata? Or is that stuff like the album covers etc?

I’m also a bit concerned about this:

Second, there’s an obsession with audiophile-grade quality (lossless FLAC, etc.) that inflates file sizes, making it impossible to maintain a complete archive of all music ever produced.

Does that mean that this spotify dump is a bunch of 64kbs mp3s, or worse some kind of lossy spotify transcode?

It comes down to the hostile actor you are trying to defend against. If you are Jason Bourne and you have been burned by your agency so multiple nation-states are looking for you, then you have to go fully off-grid and live a quiet life without ever communicating with anyone in your prior life again. It doesn’t matter if you are using Signal, or SMS, or even a dial-up BBS. If you are communicating with people that are also under heavy surveillance, you cannot hide.

If you want to reduce your “digital footprint,” then not using google/facebook/other social media is the most worthwhile thing you can possibly do. Your phone doesn’t matter. Use iOS, never install any of the social apps, use Safari in incognito mode, and you’ll never be tracekd across websites again.

The idea of needing specialized transport as an individual beyond just walking is a failure of society. Replacing cars with “not-cars” isn’t really helping that aspect. You should be structuring society so that cars or “not-cars” have no need to exist for almost everyone.