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ode , 10 months ago

17:40:13 [weezzee] IM HAXOR 😎️ 17:44:36 [weezzee] NOW ITS TIME TO WATCH THE MASK ON REPEAT AND MEMORIZE ALL THE LINES SO I CAN BECOME MORE LIKE THE MASK IN MY DAY TO DAY LIFE

ode , 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago)

<span style="color:#323232;">The law locks up the man or woman
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Who steals the goose off the common
</span><span style="color:#323232;">But leaves the greater villain loose
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Who steals the common from the goose.
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">The law demands that we atone
</span><span style="color:#323232;">When we take things we do not own
</span><span style="color:#323232;">But leaves the lords and ladies fine
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Who takes things that are yours and mine.
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">The poor and wretched don’t escape
</span><span style="color:#323232;">If they conspire the law to break;
</span><span style="color:#323232;">This must be so but they endure
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Those who conspire to make the law.
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">The law locks up the man or woman
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Who steals the goose from off the common
</span><span style="color:#323232;">And geese will still a common lack
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Till they go and steal it back.
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span>

www.onthecommons.org/…/“stealing-common-goose”/

ode , 11 months ago

‘No one’s spying on me, I’m not interesting’ is more pernicious than Nothing to Hide. Most adults can kind of sense the idiocy of the latter refrain. But ask the utterer why advertising is a trillion-dollar industry if their attitudes and behaviours aren’t interesting, or why a data broking industry even exists, and you’ll typically be asked ‘why care?’

What’s harder to work out is whether the utterance is a genuine failure to comprehend the nature of surveillance capitalism, or a grasping denial of its impact, as though they’re only 80 per cent convinced of their footprint’s worthlessness. It’s difficult to convince someone to turn down their data faucet when they barely acknowledge the faucet’s existence to start with.

ode , 11 months ago

but the argument I have nothing to hide except bank account passwords etc is hard to argue with

It’s simple to argue against: any and all data points are either potential threat vectors, or will in aggregate paint a better picture of the individual they pertain to, for the data’s possessor to use as they wish. A default-deny policy for data creation/access makes as much sense for individuals as it does workplaces.

ode , 11 months ago

Call me a cynic but I suspect the biggest ‘contributor’ to r/product will end up being product’s marketing department account, likewise with r/country and party-political apparatchiks. The move is elegant in a way: Reddit Inc can ruin true democratic operation of subs by turning subscribers into shareholders (which wards off repeats of mod activism) and simultaneously provide further cover to astroturfers (lots of points = Time and Effort™ = good faith actor).

ode , 11 months ago (edited 11 months ago)

Hi Shelley! How are you? I really hope you’re doing well. Shelley, we didn’t go to school together and you’re not my kris kringle, I’m at work and I need x. Ping me if you need anything. Also donuts in the kitchen.

ode , 11 months ago

Raise hell with your telecomms regulator. Choice of DNS (not to mention how web content is rendered) is solely your business, but it will only remain that way if you get vocal.

ode , 11 months ago

Alright guys the software has this defederate feature, now you do you but I suggest thinking of it like a break-glass-in-ca–

<Beehaw swings hammer>

ode , 10 months ago

Can I play this using a tile set on Linux without Steam?

ode , 1 year ago

How does a Star Trek virgin go about losing one’s card? There must be a generally agreed order of approach to all the series and films by now. (The breadth and longevity of it has kept me wary.)