They’ve also restored the ability to play audio files, like archived old podcasts and stuff. Which is nice.
Still, fuck the people that randomly decided to harm Internet Archive. It was really on the threat of being a digitalized Burning of Alexandria moment.
Getting rid of the advocacy part. That’s…not good.
So what does that mean in layman’s terms? They’re not going to have as much of a voice to sway heads about things like open internet, the flaws of copyright, the problems with privacy and surveillance.
No, because that’s how anyone treats autism anymore. It’s reality. But keep denying it…
…Does anyone even know what the hell Autism even is anymore? Two decades later, seems like it’s not. It’s just the ‘everything we deem not normal, someone is on the spectrum’ diagnosis.
A therapist, I kid you not, thought that because I had a conscience in my mind (an inner voice) felt I was on the spectrum. That’s how much bullshit this Autism thing has gotten. A totally normal thing that I was told, convinced a therapist that I’m on the spectrum. Just anything can be fucking autistic apparently.
Okay, then you be the sole worker then if you want this ‘responsibility’. See how far you get.
I believe that some technological ideas can work. The problem is that ideas that are under people like Musk, are doomed to always fail and will be seen as negative.
Elon Musk sucks.
I think we need to take our fear away from Terminator and apply it moreso to something like HAL. HAL is more realistic now than a cybernetic Terminator is.
But did anyone ever say that you HAD to subscribe to everything? No.
I must be one of the few people in a group who have a better control in what they feel they can subscribe to.
Adobe expects me to pay monthly for Photoshop? No, fuck you, I’ve got GIMP and a number of other paint and photo manipulation programs.
Microsoft expects me to pay for Office 365? No, fuck you, I’ve got LibreOffice and your older Office software still works as good. Your word processing program, Word, hasn’t really changed that much since 2007 or even 2003. Hell, maybe not since 1997!
I understand this video highlights some of the more draconian practices of subscription services and they deserve to be. But also, people really really need to learn about alternatives instead of feeling like they’ve got to subscribe to something that they never had to in the first place.
Also, no, you do not need smart-everything. Leave all of the smart-appliance shit for the richies who happily throw money down on that and let them waste their time and money on the susbcriptions involving them. You don’t need them, have some self-respect and know that the dumb versions of those smart things still are just as good and effective.
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If they vote Trump, then I’ll be secretly clamoring for them to be deported out of America.
The louder he gets, the louder the plausibility.
Meanwhile at Epic…
“Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh”
Meanwhile Hyundai over there is like: “LOOK AT OUR HYDROGEN POWERED TANK, GAIS! :D COOL SHINY THING!”
Do rich people really sit and think about the day the world will truly be uninhabitable? There’s no where else to go and all of their money combined cannot accelerate technological progression enough to not only try to explore space, but to colonize the exoplanets that’s out there and funnel resources to and from as well as from and to.
This is all we got and they’re happily ruining it because the ‘growth’ they’re thinking of is profitable growth.
I roll my eyes at the dishonest bad faith takes people have in the comments about how people do the same thing behind the wheel. Like that’s going to make autopiloting self-driving cars an exception. Least a person can react, can slow down or do anything that an unthinking, going-by-the-pixels computer can’t do at a whim.
“Freedom Fighter”
Man if there’s one thing I’m tired of with the psychopaths of trumpists, is the bastardization of names like Freedom Fighters, Patriots, Truthers, Brothers of Oath .etc
They all sound cool if they’re implemented right. But, they’re just screwed around to represent said psychopaths.
Make it your exercise routine. No chumps download shit by the megabytes, you’re going to go gigabytes and beyond! HUSTLE!
It’s always a funny situation when one big tech corp accuses another big tech corp of a practice they all know too well in how it functions.
These corps always love dumping dirt on eachother at any opportunity, while practicing the very exact thing that they’ve accused said other tech corp of doing.
Microsoft, you silly hypocrites.
Because they’re consoomers. Consoomers don’t like people who supposedly threaten their product that they shall consoom later.
And consoomers don’t want to make the hand that feeds them angry so they’ll buy into any and every lie that’s been pitched for years about piracy.
The mother looks like a Karen and her kids behave like little karens.
I’ll throw the first stone, yes, I’ve shamefully spent money on games. Mostly mobile games, where it’s far worse than Roblox and World of Tanks combined. I play 8-Ball from Miniclip and they shove ad after ad after ad at you to buy chips, buy chests, buy cues .etc
They have mini-games like Lucky Shot, where you have to hit the ball into one of the targets. Doesn’t matter how soft you hit it, it’s a bitch to get the ball into the target zone. They have a spinning wheel for chips, it ALWAYS lands on the lower valued number. Always. Like, all of these obviously rigged tricks and scams into the game. And you finally play a game or two and you’ll run into players with the best shit who’ll win games over you in seconds. Because they’ve got the better shit. It’s just hard to compete with the whales.
These mobile games like to make you feel special at first. But if you play it long enough, you will hit a wall. And when you hit that wall, it’s like dealing with a constant panhandler, only in the form of this game, where they want you to pay and pay.