ERR: 0CK5 @everlastingrocks@librem.one

Internet of shit: vendor goes out of business and you can STILL buy their cloud security camera in several stores as of right now, but you can't use it.
https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=20/06/26/163218

General-purpose OS, special-purpose OS, and now: vendor-purpose OS

https://drewdevault.com/2020/06/26/Vendor-purpose-OS.html

#blog

Student drops out of school because he's not allowed to perform all coursework without proprietary software.
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/libreplanet-discuss/2020-06/msg00000.html

Imagine using race to determine whether or not someone's racist

If only those who want to tear down monuments to slavery had their eyes open to goonerment goonsquad tyranny...

#dankmemes
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To disambiguate between the very different uses of the word "racism" in common use today, I now apply the appelations "objective" and "subjective".

Objective racism is discrimination based on race with no context. This definition is what most people learned in school prior to 2005.

Subjective racism takes into account cultural power structures and historical time periods chosen to push the speaker's narrative. This definition is what students in higher education learn today.

@bigl0af
We don't censor stuff. Where would you get that idea? Don't you know that it's fake news that we censor stuff?

IRONIC: Twitter Censors President Trump’s Tweet Of Michelle Malkin’s Speech on Tech Censorship

Twitter censored a speech about Big Tech censorship being out of control. This is 2020.

https://loomered.com/2020/05/16/ironic-twitter-censors-president-donald-trump-retweet-of-michelle-malkins-america-first-speech-on-tech-censorship/
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A new study funded by the government has revealed, shockingly, that the solution to all problems is to give more power to the government.

@everlastingrocks They do not trust me to run my own software. My "new" laptop has been in purgatory for 4 months because I refuse to sign the local sysadmin privileges user agreement from Infosec.

Mixed in this document is a requirement that all employees with local assigned-laptop admin access MUST get permission for every installed piece of software from the head of Infosec.

This is not how FOSS works not how software developers work. The rest of my department signed and disregarded it.

Obvious use-case: "Did you get that memo? Here's the URI."

"On your exceedingly great mercy rests all my hope. Give what you command, and then command whatever you will." - Augustine

The radical modernist, secularist side of the "political debate" espouse their "faith" when beneficial to them. It is a tool like claiming identity with the working class or the value of life (*limitations apply).

Every now and then they let their guard down and let slip what they really believe. Such is Andrew Cuomo's recent comment on a slight improvement in the mess he made in New York:

"The number is down because we brought the number down. God did not do that. Faith did not do that."

No siree, God had nothing to do with it and we should not give Him credit. Nope. Just solidarity rejecting big, heavy-handed government. That's our salvation. Come dance with me on this wide road to perdition...

https://www.lifesitenews.com/blogs/new-york-gov-cuomo-we-flattened-coronavirus-curve-god-did-not-do-that

> The stats also revealed that African Americans make up 28 percent of COVID-19 deaths — even though they are just 22 percent of the city’s population.
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> “The disparities that have plagued this city … are all about fundamental inequality are once again causing such pain and causing innocent people to lose their lives,” said Mayor Bill de Blasio … “It’s sick. It’s troubling. It’s wrong.”

Okay boomer.
https://nypost.com/2020/04/08/de-blasio-releases-racial-breakdown-data-of-coronavirus-deaths/

RT @aginnt http://sobr.org/g9v

Web 2.0 and mashups are over, now.
Tom Scott, 10 minutes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxV14h0kFs0

"but isn't it worth it if it saves one life?"

No. It fucking isn't! We have to face our mortality, and giving up liberty for pretend safety is no way to live.

Live free or die, because given a long enough timeline, the survival rate for each of us is 0 anyway.