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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bro, do you even crow?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  This crow fits my birdwave aesthetic. Total Corvus-core vibes.

  I’m in my intelligent avian arc. I’m such a feather-pilled birdcel.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Modern Windows in a nutshell⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  IoT is missing all the features I hate, but they can usually be installed manually if desired.

  I’m holding out till 2032 for Linux by which time I will be dead or ready to switch.

  I was one of those cool 90’s kids who hated Clippy, and I am still just as immature.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Modern Windows in a nutshell⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, purchase legitimately from Microsoft with a genuine Microsoft license key from Microsoft because software piracy is wrong and totally not justified in the face of abusive software monopolies.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Modern Windows in a nutshell⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I recommend Windows 10 IoT Enterprise LTSC, which is supported until 2032 and has never required me to update my fucking clock or calculator, never crashed my SSD, and never randomly encrypted my hard drive and lost the recovery keys! And, there’s no OneDrive, Copilot, Recall, Cortana, Clippy, or whatever else Microsoft’s cocaine addled executives have come up with this week to FUCK us.

  Since thats the standard for operating systems we’re working with now, I’d say this one is pretty good!

  Here’s how you can purchase your copy today!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tennessee man charged for allegedly raping unconscious woman outside church before she died⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Tennessee is overrun with rapists and murders! Better send in the national guard from three states!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My new laptop chip has an 'AI' processor in it, and it's a complete waste of space⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re right, it appears that NPU hardware was introduced in the iPhone 8, in 2017, and I say this typing away from an Apple device. Sounds like I’ll be busy this weekend with that rusty spork.

  However, it’s the recent generation of NPUs that provide the processing power needed to run the expanded scanning services implemented by these OS’s. That’s why Apple Intelligence requires an iPhone 15, and Microsoft is hawking Recall laptops.

  While I admit the pins-and-string-on-a-corkboard tone, I don’t think we actually disagree on anything here. Eventually, an open source platform will become the only way to avoid this kind of hardware enabled surveillance.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rockstar Games Working Closely With Remedy Entertainment on Max Payne 1 & 2 Remake⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “The past is a broken mirror. As you piece it together, you cut yourself.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My new laptop chip has an 'AI' processor in it, and it's a complete waste of space⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Microsoft, Google, and Apple are all quietly putting these and the software infrastructure in place in their operating systems to do on device classification of content: Windows Recall, Google Secure Core, and Apple Intelligence. These services are obsequiously marketed as being for your benefit, while are all privacy and surveillance nightmares. When the security breaking features of these systems are mentioned, each company touts some convoluted workaround to justify the tech.

  The real reason is to watch everything you do in your device, use the tensor hardware you may or may not know that you purchased to analyze the data locally, then export and sell that “anonymized” information to advertisers and the government. All while cryptographically tying the data to your device and the device to you for “security”. This enables mass surveillance, digital rights management, and target advertised previously unseen.

  Each of these providers already scans everything you upload to their services:

  Microsoft has been caught using your stored passwords to decrypt uploaded archives.

  Apple developed client side scanning for CSAM before backlash shut it down, and they already locally scan your photos with a machine learning classification algorithm whether you like it or not. You can’t turn it off.

  Google recently implemented local content scanning with SecureCore to protect you from unwanted content.

  I would rather saw off my own nuts with a rusty spork before willfully purchasing a device with one of these NPUs on-device. I fear that in the next 5-10 years, you won’t be able to avoid them.

  ** Do you trust the rising fascist regimes and their tech lackeys in America and the UK to use this information morally and responsibly?**

  Do you really believe that these features that no one asked for are and that you cannot disable are for your benefit?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it everywhere?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I can hear every sound referenced in this thread in my head.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨MD = oMega Dumbass⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  As a professional fartographer, is that your official fartographical ANALysis?