TCGs did it first. Shake your fist at Magic.

Hide your couch. Hide your chaise.

Who said anything about cops? My money is migrant-hunting vigilantes militias. Probably a lot of cops among their ranks tho.

It’s attention seeking behavior. They blatantly break small rules with (usually) small risks to get a rise out of people. My 5-year-old does the same thing.

Need to kick things up a notch. What we really need is for scientists to start talking about how bad slitting your wrists is. That’s how you get attention.

Yeah.

Arnold Palmer.

Not as hard as Arnold Palmer.

No carrot. Only stick.

A company’s purpose is to be profitable, ethics side is largely irrelevant.

Maybe so, but companies such as Proton’s biggest asset is their reputation…a reputation of being privacy-focussed. Without that they are nothing, and they know that. As a result, they try to live up to that reputation as well as possible.

Being as it was started by Sir Tim Berners-Lee (among some of CERN’s other founding fathers of the web) is just icing on the cake.

This but essentially just build SMRs or microreactors into colo plans.

Maybe not so great for the ones that are in the middle of cities, where space is at a premium…but a lot of colo’s are in unassuming spaces in suburbs or BFE.

Nah what we need is good privacy-focussed companies getting into the public IAM space.

You know how you can sign into stuff with your Google or Facebook account? And get a 2FA push to your phone?

Like that. Except by a company with a shred of ethics and morality. Like Proton.

I do also think that we all should have a cryptographically secure federally issued identity for official uses such as signing documents or signing into financial accounts and other things that must use your official identity, and not an online pseudonym. Like SSN but on a smartcard. Basically CAC or ECA but for general civilian use.

Dude your last sentence was the cherry garnish in a big cup of government Kool aid.

A just system wouldn’t have 98% of its convictions arriving out of plea deals.

A just system wouldn’t jail a dude for stealing bread from a company that steals money from all of its employees. Employees that are already so underpaid, that they qualify for food stamps, that largely get spent at the same damn company.

You think?

I’d think they’d want to push him off the front page first. Then push him out a window later.

No Grass, it has 3.

It’s a delicate topic. TikTok collects a ton of data from devices and infers a ton of data from watching patterns. This is really true of most of the modern web apps, but especially true of TikTok because the short-form means more content to churn through, and the algorithm is practically an IV drip of dopamine.

The much, much more important issues are user privacy and truth-in-media, and is something that just as well needs to be pointed at Meta and Twitter and Reddit and Google. TikTok is probably more critical at the present moment, because it’s run by a country our president-elect wants to start a trade-war with, and they’ve got quite an upper hand with all the data that we, the users, give them for free, via a propaganda machine under their control.

I bet the wave of stupid correlates to the popularity of yellow journalism or the prevalence of its practices.

Okay, so we’re roughly in the middle…Are we on the left or the right of Fermi’s bell curve?

This is for cold and archival storage right?

I couldn’t imagine seek times on any disk that large. Or rebuild times…yikes.

I’m already stockpiling popcorn.

Every day at 16:20, xeyes turns red.

Google knows me too well.

My kids now get Infoblox commercials in the middle of their Minecraft YouTube videos.