Ah, the Torment Nexus is coming along nicely I see.

First of all, promoted.

Who says what is official?

Yeah the 'idk' part is the important one because as a generation we've been so dependent on devices for everything from entertainment to productivity that we have no fucking clue what to do AFK. This has been a bitter struggle for me lately. I feel my life slipping away from me click by click but whenever I try to go offline my dopamine system SCREAMS at me to dig up the tablet I buried in my car's trunk.

As a Mac user (among other things) I don’t get this type of virus because adblock. Also, fuck the CDN-style throw whatever at users and see what pays.

What a wonderfully succinct way of putting it.

Yes, that has been the norm in Europe. Most people here do not have AC.

Land of the free

Because war is a horrendous fact of life and when it happens it’s all hands on deck for survival’s sake. Whether or not draftees feel like going to war is immaterial, that’s the point.

No we couldn’t. That’s naive at best.

You are unable to care at that point though.

I don't give a fuck what Microsoft is doing with ARM, but I do wonder if releasing ARM laptops to the market will have an effect on Linux. It'd be great to get a Linux machine with MacBook-like silence, battery life and cool operation. Asahi is doing some work there for Apple's implementation. Anyone with some Linux development experience that can shed some light?

Ah, so you just get to install and uninstall applications at your leisure Microsoft?

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Exactly so they shouldn’t have bailed anyone out in the first place.

You were talking about data ownership, not intellectual property.

Oof. Was not aware of that one.

According to legend, Alexander the Great came to visit the philosopher Diogenes of Sinope. Alexander wanted to fulfill a wish for Diogenes and asked him what he desired. As told by Diogenes Laërtius, Diogenes replied, "Stand out of my light."

One day while he was eating a frugal dish of lentils, he was challenged by the philosopher Aristippus, who, for his part, led a golden life as he was one of the king’s courtiers. Aristippus scornfully told him: “See, if you learned to crawl before the king, you wouldn’t have to settle for rubbish like this vulgar dish of lentils!” Diogenes replied: “If you’d learned to make do with lentils, you wouldn’t have to crawl before the king!”

Big dick energy. Love this guy.

Your heart rate. Your step count. Your location. Your searches. Your browser history. Your call history. Your contacts. Your transactions. Your credit history. Your medical history. This is data that you didn't choose to create or share, but that you exhaust in the day-to-day things you do.

Surveillance capitalism has grown too unfathomably huge and ingrained to choose not to share this data; that would be akin to checking out of modern life wholesale in a lot of ways. Guarding this data takes not only the realisation that it needs guarding, but changing law and culture such that the parties that have to have all that data to provide you with services cannot take it from you to sell.

In Yanis Varoufakis's words: Techno feudalism.