https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carmen_Ortiz

Ortiz said “Stealing is stealing whether you use a computer command or a crowbar, and whether you take documents, data or dollars. It is equally harmful to the victim whether you sell what you have stolen or give it away.”

So that was some bullshit, huh ?

generation “doesn’t want to deal with petabytes of hard drive bullshit just to watch a show”

/side eyes dvd collection

please download an oil change first

does this mean more steam support for android ?

I’m ready to make Schmidt live the life an AI tells him how to live before we let AI tell all us what to do

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all people are questionable. the love of money is envy manifest.

envy is the most destructive compound human emotion.

we have a lot of life saving technology medically that we use to snap people from the jaws of death so that the state can execute them later

WIN WIN WIN

The Ghost of Aaron Schwartz

enshitification is based on the ease of moving profits from users to creators then from creators to shareholders in a digital service economy all the while degrading the service for the users and then the creators as the profit fulcrum.

so enshitification might be a different thing than the reality around manufacturing items in an international environment which requires design decisions that later require revising because not all materials are available from everyone in the way a design is called for. and finding people that can assemble things while receiving a wage that they can live so that a company can make a profit requires compromises. and that is just two tiny points in not including shipping and workspaces and insurance et cetera

it is hard, yo. in a not a one part is inconceivable hard but in a it gets complicated pretty quickly type of hard.

What would stealing junk food be in that situation, then ?

No. No one gets “extra votes” for kids.

16

if you can get taxed as a worker at 16 you get to vote.

representative government is pretty good

let’s talk dumping the executive branch. those bums are worthless.

steam deck is locked to a steam account

it requires internet to verify that on first launch

otherwise it is a great device. If it could use apple’s messages.app then i would be so happy.

modal editing can be fun. it is a weird skill like driving a manual transmission.

that said driving a manual transmission in stop and go traffic on a hot day is a lot like editing in vi sometimes.

The real question is how to make everything a modal editor.

Federalist Paper 29

The founding fathers thought that standing armies make any leader a tyrant.

Just because there is a high priority present doesn’t magically make it ok to throw your humanity out the window… Why do I have to explain this!? Are you a sociopath?!

this is exactly the struggle of the early 21st century.

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