Does YOUR juicer let you Share your drink to Twitter and Instagram? Is there an APP for your luddite juicer? Are you aware that seeing something in the form of a phone icon is an amazing retard aphrodisiac? Almost strong as seeing a celebrity use it?
Problem stems from word salad. Everyone spins their garbage. It doesn't matter which side is making the demand or law or restriction, it's a form of "protecting" something. Anything out of the mafiAAs is a good read.
Point is, if you keep shoehorning a word, it's gonna be all bent and weird and useless. If you keep flying a flag that says "Feminism" above your faction or your efforts, flying it over various groups and demands and splinters, everyone doing it to be safely nestled underneath a seemingly noble and virtuous word, the cacophony of associations is meaningless.
Everyone wants to be associated with X, X goes everydirection, X splats. If you're unaware of this pattern, you'll waste time having conversations about "No, X is about Y" like you're some culture authority. You can watch us do it right here, arguing about the meaning of the word "hacking/hackers", past contemporary and in between.
Justice, terrorism, rights, safety, protection.
Seriously, find any piece, opinion or official, press release or internet comments, Ctrl+F for the string have the right, those three terms next to each other, see how many of us are trying to make OUR agenda be the one associated with the higher road.
Yelling at whoever's nearby when the problem isn't is something children and stunted adults do.
Yelling at an irrelevant person when your car is towed. No, I don't mean literal "yelling", use your brain.
Yelling at an employee when the vendor did something wrong.
Yelling at the police when some teenager vandalized your stuff.
Yelling at whoever you CAN find when your target is ghosts.
I'm being nice to assume they're incompetent, since the alternative is being knowingly wrong outright. I imagine it's lawyers who will get flak from above if they aren't seen doing something, so much like a web browser shuffling the GUI around because an art developer wants his paycheck, here's a bunch of meetings and phone calls with cloudflare even though the actual effects on piracy will be between zero and fuck all. Because it's billable hours, because it looks nice on your quarterly report, because you can then tell studios "we prevented 100 billion dollars of losses. raise plz."
It's a scaled up version of typing loudly when the boss walks by.
If you're moving highly mission-critical data or trade secrets or something, sure. Or selling drugs.
Most of us are satisfied with basic concealment, because it's enough to beat automated snooping, whether it's the ISP or your government.
If you're on a list (the real kind) it may not be enough, but the rest of us will be casually safe against the casually invasive. If you've a determined actor, the genuine "someone is watching" that normies conflate with mass logging, you expect to take additional measures.
"Trolling" is a hell of an umbrella, even without people spinning it to their agendas. Over in a forgotten wing of the umbrella, trolling was, yes, an art. At times an impressive show of our cleverest indulging the inescapable human craving to display prowess.
Now we think the xbox tween screaming about cheaters is "trolling". We had several words to describe tantrums, but you wanted to sound internet-hip. Or worse, indulge a crusade. Either way, the word is now more scattered than "hacking".
There's no escaping the eternal september, but if the price of escape was people calling each other "fucktards" a lot I'd gladly pay it ten times over.
Those top the list, easy to use. I'm fond of RequestPolicy, it's the same as NoScript from the user POV: Decide whether or not you want to render the page's attempts to fetch outside resources. Take back an inch of control over what your computer does without you.
I'm in the USA, we just passed a law encouraging ISPs to pimp us out to the highest bidder. Controlling opt-in pages isn't enough anymore, so I added TrackMeNot, a noise generator.
It's a bad law because it's literally leaning on "I said so."
The power is ultimately in the owner's hands. Consider: Even under torture, access is technically only granted when the owner says. And so, like warrant canaries, this power will simply rearrange itself until it's out of reach again, until untouchable by infantile laws that are comparable to a child shouting about a supershield that blocks anything.
Immediate example: The key distributes itself (perhaps via deadman) to a random, unknown recipient on a custom list, with instructions to not contact the owner until the "Unexpected Duress" has passed. You no longer HAVE the access, $5 wrench or not, thoughtcrime or not.
It might even work with some trade/state secrets. Deal with it, law enforcement. "Because I said so." is what you say when your power is justified only by its own circular existence.
It really does traumatize workers, even in the high agencies.
Automation is fine, but not when it's equated with a verdict. It supplements. It does not substitute.
But hey, our military weapons make sure there's a human sanity check somewhere in the automation chain, so at least the important priorities are being supported.
Or so I'm told. inb4 drone autonuke mod gets hacked ggezpz
Strawman goes up. >You OWE me a job Strawman shot down. >No one owes you anything
Congratulations, you sure showed that plastic doll. If you're done playing around with things that have zero relevance to the very real problem at hand, you're welcome to help us address it.
>not even an offset worth mentioning It's totally worth mentioning if you want to pretend there's hope. If you have an agenda. If you're being contradictory. If you're oblivious, naive, or have been told otherwise by someone's whose judgement you think is accurate/valued.
We won't need three billion robot repairmen. See you all in the terrafoam.
That's the idea. 2% of users fund 70% of IAP gross, or whatever it is. 80% spend absolutely zero. Asspull numbers, but the idea is in line. That's not the important part anyway.
What's important is you fly a technically-factual headline to inflate the idea that "$40/yr is normal" and encourage it to catch on.
>affordable poison is not a sign of the well enough off I once heard that "doughnuts are the cheapest direct path for dollars to calories" but I bet buying raw sugar beats that. I bet sacks of sucrose will have no trouble making you plump and seemingly overfed.
We love making retarded assumptions. Most metrics are. We don't have time to actually deduce the value of a system or person or purchase, just give us a number thanks, preferably one that software can automatically rank and color code for me.
Imagine if "time spent in seat" was the single performance indicator used, everything else purely ignored. Imagine how hilariously gamed it would become. Imagine how much actual efficiency/productivity/results/w.e would be lost, not gained.
Now stop imagining because reality is only a few inches over.
Slashdot Mirror
Does YOUR juicer let you Share your drink to Twitter and Instagram? Is there an APP for your luddite juicer? Are you aware that seeing something in the form of a phone icon is an amazing retard aphrodisiac? Almost strong as seeing a celebrity use it?
I didn't fucking think so, bitch.
Problem stems from word salad. Everyone spins their garbage. It doesn't matter which side is making the demand or law or restriction, it's a form of "protecting" something. Anything out of the mafiAAs is a good read.
Point is, if you keep shoehorning a word, it's gonna be all bent and weird and useless. If you keep flying a flag that says "Feminism" above your faction or your efforts, flying it over various groups and demands and splinters, everyone doing it to be safely nestled underneath a seemingly noble and virtuous word, the cacophony of associations is meaningless.
Everyone wants to be associated with X, X goes everydirection, X splats. If you're unaware of this pattern, you'll waste time having conversations about "No, X is about Y" like you're some culture authority. You can watch us do it right here, arguing about the meaning of the word "hacking/hackers", past contemporary and in between.
Justice, terrorism, rights, safety, protection.
Seriously, find any piece, opinion or official, press release or internet comments, Ctrl+F for the string have the right, those three terms next to each other, see how many of us are trying to make OUR agenda be the one associated with the higher road.
Yelling at whoever's nearby when the problem isn't is something children and stunted adults do.
Yelling at an irrelevant person when your car is towed. No, I don't mean literal "yelling", use your brain.
Yelling at an employee when the vendor did something wrong.
Yelling at the police when some teenager vandalized your stuff.
Yelling at whoever you CAN find when your target is ghosts.
I'm being nice to assume they're incompetent, since the alternative is being knowingly wrong outright. I imagine it's lawyers who will get flak from above if they aren't seen doing something, so much like a web browser shuffling the GUI around because an art developer wants his paycheck, here's a bunch of meetings and phone calls with cloudflare even though the actual effects on piracy will be between zero and fuck all. Because it's billable hours, because it looks nice on your quarterly report, because you can then tell studios "we prevented 100 billion dollars of losses. raise plz."
It's a scaled up version of typing loudly when the boss walks by.
"pressure cooker bomb" might be hotter but I'm honestly not sure
Several. But they only apply to commoners.
Vending machines vouched for the dollar coin, it costs more to include a bill reader.
Bills are indeed easier to carry.
FUCK HATE SPEECH
If you're moving highly mission-critical data or trade secrets or something, sure. Or selling drugs.
Most of us are satisfied with basic concealment, because it's enough to beat automated snooping, whether it's the ISP or your government.
If you're on a list (the real kind) it may not be enough, but the rest of us will be casually safe against the casually invasive. If you've a determined actor, the genuine "someone is watching" that normies conflate with mass logging, you expect to take additional measures.
"Trolling" is a hell of an umbrella, even without people spinning it to their agendas. Over in a forgotten wing of the umbrella, trolling was, yes, an art. At times an impressive show of our cleverest indulging the inescapable human craving to display prowess.
Now we think the xbox tween screaming about cheaters is "trolling". We had several words to describe tantrums, but you wanted to sound internet-hip. Or worse, indulge a crusade. Either way, the word is now more scattered than "hacking".
There's no escaping the eternal september, but if the price of escape was people calling each other "fucktards" a lot I'd gladly pay it ten times over.
Those top the list, easy to use. I'm fond of RequestPolicy, it's the same as NoScript from the user POV: Decide whether or not you want to render the page's attempts to fetch outside resources. Take back an inch of control over what your computer does without you.
I'm in the USA, we just passed a law encouraging ISPs to pimp us out to the highest bidder. Controlling opt-in pages isn't enough anymore, so I added TrackMeNot, a noise generator.
inb4 "Unable to authorize disc play, please check your connectivity or consult your network's administrator."
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You are all now under arrest for having something encrpted [sic] that you will NEVER be able to decrypt.
It's a bad law because it's literally leaning on "I said so."
The power is ultimately in the owner's hands. Consider: Even under torture, access is technically only granted when the owner says. And so, like warrant canaries, this power will simply rearrange itself until it's out of reach again, until untouchable by infantile laws that are comparable to a child shouting about a supershield that blocks anything.
Immediate example: The key distributes itself (perhaps via deadman) to a random, unknown recipient on a custom list, with instructions to not contact the owner until the "Unexpected Duress" has passed. You no longer HAVE the access, $5 wrench or not, thoughtcrime or not.
It might even work with some trade/state secrets. Deal with it, law enforcement. "Because I said so." is what you say when your power is justified only by its own circular existence.
It really does traumatize workers, even in the high agencies.
Automation is fine, but not when it's equated with a verdict. It supplements. It does not substitute.
But hey, our military weapons make sure there's a human sanity check somewhere in the automation chain, so at least the important priorities are being supported.
Or so I'm told. inb4 drone autonuke mod gets hacked ggezpz
Strawman goes up.
>You OWE me a job
Strawman shot down.
>No one owes you anything
Congratulations, you sure showed that plastic doll. If you're done playing around with things that have zero relevance to the very real problem at hand, you're welcome to help us address it.
Obnoxious, but ultimately makes a point I nod my head to.
Moo you luddite cows, moo!
>not even an offset worth mentioning
It's totally worth mentioning if you want to pretend there's hope. If you have an agenda. If you're being contradictory. If you're oblivious, naive, or have been told otherwise by someone's whose judgement you think is accurate/valued.
We won't need three billion robot repairmen. See you all in the terrafoam.
guys pls stop hitting "Reply All"
We will not need 1 billion robot repairmen. We will not need 1 billion code monkeys.
There will be no new labor sector. Labor itself will effectively go extinct.
This has never happened before.
Automated censoring of "toxic" content has lots of false positives? I'm shocked, shocked I say.
So hey, I've been working on a crayola quip that I can't quite nail. Something to the tune of "I've seen crayons more toxic than that."
So it's Canada's fault our pharmaceutical industry is so poor.
I don't know why they're always in such a frenzy to pour more money into footing that bill. Weirdos, right?
That's the idea. 2% of users fund 70% of IAP gross, or whatever it is. 80% spend absolutely zero. Asspull numbers, but the idea is in line. That's not the important part anyway.
What's important is you fly a technically-factual headline to inflate the idea that "$40/yr is normal" and encourage it to catch on.
>affordable poison is not a sign of the well enough off
I once heard that "doughnuts are the cheapest direct path for dollars to calories" but I bet buying raw sugar beats that. I bet sacks of sucrose will have no trouble making you plump and seemingly overfed.
We love making retarded assumptions. Most metrics are. We don't have time to actually deduce the value of a system or person or purchase, just give us a number thanks, preferably one that software can automatically rank and color code for me.
Imagine if "time spent in seat" was the single performance indicator used, everything else purely ignored. Imagine how hilariously gamed it would become. Imagine how much actual efficiency/productivity/results/w.e would be lost, not gained.
Now stop imagining because reality is only a few inches over.
Walled gardens have little to do with authorship.