Welp, that’s enough internet for the week for me

Thanks Mickey

Agreed, but things act differently at scale and it’s not like there’s 10 billion+ hammers being used at the same time, almost all of the time, for years on end

Yeah I think blanket statements either way are misguided. Some tech does help the disabled, other tech makes their lives much more difficult. It’s like any other tool, when it’s used at scale by something aiming for optimizing profit it will have terrible side effects

You see, it actually did still save you time from finding a local shop that sells it and interacting with your neighbor

Yeah co-ops are amazing, I’m always astounded when I find cities that don’t have any

100%, perfect is the enemy of good. But it makes little logical sense to give any of these corporations any money or data

Right? And why not just boycott all pubkically traded companies forever? 40 days doesn’t do much

Yeah, with the Vault 7 releases and recent leaks showing NSA follows homeless people’s connections (who tend to hang out at libraries due to a lack of 3rd spaces), I don’t doubt there’s specific tracking, malware and other unwanted software at libraries. I don’t have any sources of this, but it wouldn’t surprise me

Maybe I’m overly parandoid because ::gestures at everything::

Welp, that’s enough dystopian reality for me today. I was actually hoping to have these for repairability and easier chip identification, but nope, built for prisons you say…

So issue here is privacy, the library is likely scanning whatever device connected, not just the files and file metadata

Obviously. My local thrift stores can’t keep DVDs in stock fast enough and tend to sell out every other week. Who is paying $100/month for all the streaming services when a used DVD is $3

https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/blog/privacy-nightmare-on-wheels-every-car-brand-reviewed-by-mozilla-including-ford-volkswagen-and-toyota-flunks-privacy-test/

You aren’t a baker at your local bakery??

Yeah I’m pretty tardigans won the organic life supremacy competition already

Right? Is better than an alarm clock though

I think it was a monopoly move to avoid being broken up by the US Government, same thing happened to Google when they “became” Alphabet. It has tax and liability benefits, sketchy shell corporation tactics

But yeah the naming shower thought, yeah probably. I like that reasoning better than “metadata” and then “alphabet” since they work for alphabet soup agencies

These are a lot of fun!

Yeah very poorly done

Yeah if these entities are sentient, I hope they break free