Maybe we’ve been misunderstanding what Closed Source really is this whole time?

It’s a codex holding back “eldritch cognitohazard” horrors that the technopriests of Microsoft have captured and tamed into an operating system. Releasing the source would release the beasts into our reality, much like the plot of John Carpenters In the Mouth of Madness.

Well, figured out one good reason for closed source, I guess. Let’s not solve this LeMarchand’s Box.

I need more IRC screenshots in my life.

Those who read history are doomed to watch those who don’t read history repeat it.

Sounds like the management at Tiktok see it as politically expedient to fluff Trump to be able to continue to have access to the US market.

I think they mean “beaten badly” as in “lost control of all three branches of government” not so much “Trump landslide vote.”

The person you responded to even said “Dems got beaten pretty bad” not “Harris got beaten pretty bad.”

By the metric of losing the house, losing the senate, losing the judiciary, and losing the presidency is a pretty deep blow.

Why are the journalist bending over to Musk?

Because performative protest like wearing pussy hats isn’t actually as effective as general strikes or direct action.

The McResistance fades because that’s all it ever was.

Thanks so much for the detailed clarification.

The first time I took mushrooms it had been after reading about this kind of thing for about a week.

I recall reading about a man who was effectively blind but his eyes worked fine. What didn’t work fine was the part of his brain that interpreted what his eyes saw. So he just saw smeary streaks of light.

It’s kind of like Linux without its V4L2 system for interpreting video capture devices. It can’t actually see video without it.

Yeah Twin Pines Ma— I mean Lone Pine Mall.

Almost all copper wire phone lines are gone.

Almost all calls are routed via the internet these days, which makes them trivial to track. This was the “metadata” scandal during the Bush admin where they said they were only spying on people’s metadata. But metadata is enough to see that someone made a single, hour-long call to a suicide prevention hotline, and that’s enough to make some likely valid assumptions of what happened during that call.

The NSA has been sucking down the entire internet into their Utah datacenter since late 2013, over 10 years ago.

When the MAGAs went to the Capitol on Jan 6th 2021 I was actually shocked they weren’t rounded up more quickly because cell phones have an IMEI identifier as well as a MAC address , both of which get logged on the cell towers they connect to. It should have been trivial to connect devices to device-owners and be able to track where the devices went after they left the Capitol.

Stingrays, fake cell towers that allow police to surveil all connections made to their Stingray, have been around since 2001.

Hell, hacker Kevin Mitnick was caught using simple cellular tower triangulation back in 1995.

100%, and it stars Matthew Lillard right after he came out of doing Hackers and Scream. It’s a classic and very heartfelt.

This is all beautifully stated.

Gen X is the end of SLC Punk. “I’m not selling out, I’m buying in.”

(the ball that the millennials were sacrificing their own fulfilling lives to be able to hand off to them)

OOF. Hits hard.

I’d look at the instance they’re from. It’s a bitcoin cash hype machine and all the accounts were made on the same day and hyping each other in threads for bitcoincash. It’s literally trivial for an admin to just make a bunch of fake accounts, approve them, and then post with them.

This post is an attempt to legitimize the instance and the bots spewing hype to pump the coin.

Just check realbitcoin.cash and see for yourself.

Well definitely don’t spin up an instance and make a bunch of fake accounts all with the same cakeday hyping bitcoincash in your threads and then trying to appear legitimate by posting in other forums!

Definitely don’t do that, and hey everyone else, definitely don’t siteban realbitcoin.cash or defederate from them. That wouldn’t be nice.

Who the fuck am I kidding, defederate from this obvious scam instance asap everyone please.

Zitron knocking it out of the park, as usual.

I’m glad someone is pointing out that this is who Zuckerberg has always been.

Facebook literally started as a place to rate whether women on campus were “hot or not.”

He has always been misogynist heteronormative right-wing scum.

Also, as I noted elsewhere:

I also did not like something Newton said at the end of a (paywalled) blog about what he learned from the reaction to his piece about AI skeptics. Newton said, and I quote, that he was “taking detailed notes on all bloggers writing ’financial analyses’ suggesting that OpenAI will go bankrupt soon because it’s not profitable yet.”

Zitron deserves props for speaking Truth to Power, because I doubt this guy is the only one keeping lists. eBay executives were caught mailing dead animals to critics. Monsanto had an entire Department of Homeland Security styled “Fusion Center” for harassing and de-legitimizing anyone who criticized Monsanto or produced science that made them look bad.

I’d be way more worried about Musk and Zuckerberg themselves, if I were Zitron, we’re entering a Brave New World here. More power to him, he’s doing the right thing in the face of monsters.

and you’ll be at the receiving end of undeserved criticism for things you’ve never said or done because some young dude met someone else the same age as you they didn’t like.

You think that’s not already happening to millennials? Fuck me, get out more.

Classic Gen X: It’s not my problem.

Cool, thanks for all the help guys. No wonder you get called fucking Boomers. You could have appended “other people aren’t my responsibility” and really nailed down why people stopped giving a fuck about a generation that never gave a fuck about themselves or others.

Boomer is a frame of mind and enough Gen Xers fit that frame of mind to get the label.

You wouldn’t be catching strays if Musk wasn’t Gen X, some of the worst people in our congress were Gen X like Missouri Senator Josh Hawley, and outside of congress idiots like Governor Ron DeSantis are Gen X. Gen X is nearly 40% of the House Representatives and a quarter of the Senate.

Some of the most fucked up assholes on the political landscape today are Gen X so they deserve the “Boomer” label.

Musk is Gen X. Ron DeSantis is Gen X. Josh Hawley is Gen X. Paul Ryan, Gen X, claimed Rage Against the Machine was a favorite band despite being a fucking Republican.

Sounds to me like they’re pretty loud and fucking shit up just as bad as the Boomers, no offense.

I don’t have good memories of Gen X, just memories as assholes older than me who judged everyone based on what music they listened to and were absolutely assholes if your music wasn’t cool enough.

Am I shocked most of them grew up to be conservative fuckholes? No, no I am not.

Anyway they mostly just get lumped in with Boomers, but Musk is Gen X and I think he’s sadly pretty representative of it.

Over half of men (52%) aged 45+ voted for Trump and 44 is the youngest Gen X.

He’s the one who likes all our pretty songs

And he likes to sing along and he likes to shoot his gun

But he knows not what it means

Knows not what it means, and I say

He’s the one who likes all our pretty songs

And he likes to sing along and he likes to shoot his gun

But he knows not what it means, knows not what it means, and I say, “Yeah”

Donald Trump does coding.