Never mind the fact that basically every big Linux distro plays nicely with secure boot these days, and has for a while now.

In my experience nicely is still pretty relative. It still seems to be the most common area things go wrong on my installs and place I have the hardest time working around...

and the bigger part, it's a solution to a problem that I've never seen happen in the wild, and really can't fathom happening on linux that doesn't involve a very dumb user running software from an unknown source as root.

That’s exactly what they want and I guarantee they will make it difficult for most employees so they do quit.

They've already explained that as their strategy... first thing they are targetting is removing remote work? Why, because they know some people don't want to work in the office, and that's a good way to get a lot of them to quit.

So you only stand for something if you get unemployment?

WTF Indeed, yes it's more impressive to stand for something if you are willing to sacrifice your whole life, be willing to live on the streets etc...

Fact is there's not that many people that can do that. There's no safety nets in this country, losing your job isn't just the possibility of having to move to a smaller house, it's the possibility of begging friends and family to stay with them, as the bottom rung of employment isn't even enough to afford a 1 bedroom apartment, and that's of course assuming only you are the one to pay that price, IE wife, kids who need college etc...

Godwin time here, as much as everyone wants to say they'd be the person who hid jews in their attic in ww2, reality is while you can applaud those who did, you can't really look down on those who didn't. The risks of completely ruining not just your own life, but the lives of those who you care the most about, to save complete strangers, is not a decision that is ever a given for anyone to make.

Pretty true, obviously most racist biggots don't see themselves as racist biggots. They don't see us as "open minded" they see us as close minded to their views.

Not a legal expert but from what I've read, the IP holders have the right to stop you in the event that you are "distributing". Simply put, the second it runs on PCs other than the creators, that is when it becomes a legal problem.

Again we are talking legal not moral or correct. The point is the second someone makes it available for download, the IP holders have the right to sue, and have a very high chance of winning. Really the only variable is whether the IP holders notice the distsribution, and whether they choose to pursue legal action.

Pretty sure that's not how copyright, and trademark works. I mean if he remade it with original characters etc... then he'd have a snowballs chance in hell, but far from a done deal (still would take enough money to have lawyers).

It's true... but with all things it's a matter of quantity of people you need to be loyal... IE one commander who agrees with the cause, vs 100 soldiers that could talk about it.

Plus, it's far easier to grow a concience on the field looking in the eyes of the children you are murdering, vs sitting in a computer or robot lab having no "need to know" what these robots do when they leave your office

So yeah that solves one fraction of the problem... IE bigger one being, a single mistake at one point in life, basically wrecks your ability to reform and become a productive citizen.

Suppression I can give you, gerrymandering doesn't have a play in the federal election... and as shitty as the electoral college is, we can blame 2016 on it, but not 2024 (due to the popular vote).

IMO we are probably on the brink of the last possible society that can on a technical level. I would say, nukes, and even drone bombs etc.... are unlikely to be utilized, simply due to collateral damage, infrastructure damage etc....

However, things like the boston dynamics spot etc... We're probably a decade away from when 1 person can control an army of perfectly loyal soldiers.

Yeah I would say more accurately, if you asked 100 people specifically about "have you ever heard of Mastadon, or Lemmy" you'll get 99% "huh".

if you ask the same people about crypto.. I'd expect closer to 80-90% to have at least heard of crypto... Especially now that we have a president about to lead a crypto scam.

Exactly my thought... Tate's U a scam, duh obviously... But god damn... that many suckers.

I mean, in terms of use... Name all the decentralized networks that the general public is aware of? Mastadon roughly 1 million active users, at a time when musk has let Xitter shit the bed to drop... to like 200 million users.

Meanwhile there's a bitcoin option on every ATM I go to in every gas station. Fact is if you ask around the table at thanksgiving, unless you have a very nerdy family.. odds are no one will be familiar with any web 3 items you name, other than crypto... and largely crypto will mostly only be known for it's worse applications. A speculative gambling investment that is popular to use to buy illegal goods with.

as much as this guy sounds like an asshole should ownership not mean u can modify your own property as u see fit?

That's kind of what emission standards are, is rules of that. You can modify your legally purchased firearm as you see fit, but if your modifications make it shoot in random directions, you can't use it in a shooting range.

Never said exclusively... a group warning of health risks etc... should be using every avenue they can.

Well I mean it's a disease agency. Missinformation on X is bad. Their job however is about getting the word out to people of what to do to avoid diseases. People don't switch networks to follow their favorite health agencies. So... if the job is to warn people about serious shit... it kind of is important to be where the people are currently and try and get the facts heard among the misinformation.

doesn’t matter what anyone likes to argue, people are going to die and the only way to stop is to negotiate

OK agreed there, but question, what if the only negotiation the other side offers is "We take all your stuff and you serve us".

Such a facepalm concept

Capitalists. We can't regulate businesses, if a corporation is opperating unsafe, harming the environment, spreading hateful messages etc.... the only check and balance we need is the free market, and the consumers voting with their wallets.

Consumers vote with their wallets, This is unspeakable... we need the government to regulate to make sure the consumers don't organize and vote with their wallets.

Umm... we are limited to "someone took the file". If it's leaked publicly we could call it activism. Or it could be Russia looking to have some blackmail to better control, in which case it won't be leaked unless Gaetz does something they don't want.

could end at trump... I think the name itself already has the connotations of horrors, to the extent that in 50 years, on the "mindnet" or whatever replaces the internet... the future Godwins Law will assume that any arguement on the mindnet will eventually devolve into people calling eachother trump.