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  EFF is promoting the Fediverse! cross-posted from: feddit.org/post/35270153

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  Oh I see, you're just a troll who keeps lying and spreading FUD. Reported.

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  The correct solution here is for courts to throw out the policies on grounds of vagueness etc. and hold the companies for the digital stalking they do. If not in the regulatory-captured US, at least somwhere else where they still give a shit about consumer rights.

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  I use a mouse that doesn't require anything beyond the generic USB HID driver that comes with Linux in the first place. (Okay, okay, I could also use OpenRGB if I wanted to control the lights. But still, it uses fuck-all software provided by the manufacturer.)

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  > How quickly we accepted that it's normal to pay someone to go get our groceries for us. To drive us around when public transportation is available. To run errands for us. To bring us fast food. Speak for yourself! I have *delivered* more food myself than I've paid to have delivered to me, and that was a job I had in college (working for a restaurant directly, as it was long before the rise of third-party delivery) that I quit after one shift because it sucked. And even in the few...

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  I'm usually a big fan of the EFF, but it's wrong on this one. If you decentralize to the limit -- i.e., such that each user is running their own instance for themselves -- it becomes okay for the service to become liable for the user's speech because the user and the service owner are one in the same. In reality, (extremely) federated social media is the *only* kind that can survive without Section 230 and thus repealing it entirely would be a win for the Fediverse. (You could argue...

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  The headline writer misspelled "disproven." Why the fuck is even *Nature* giving more credence to this delusional shit than it deserves?

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  *Does he,* though? Think about it. ::: spoiler Tap for spoiler "How has compressing your work caused the rest of your life to be able to happen" is a bit leading, but a damn good perspective nonetheless. :::

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  I should ask a fast food chatbot to write me a client to connect to multiple fast food chatbots and have them ask each other questions.

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  What the fuck? When did Congress pass this, and why wasn't there a huge public outcry against it?

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  > At least while we're still able to ~~sideload~~ *install normally*... 😔 FTFY. Being restricted to a manufacturer's 'approved' list of apps is *not* normal, and should be called "cuckinstalling" or something similarly pathetic and offensive.

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  What regulatory capture of the FTC does to MFer. All this shit should be considered false advertising, at the very least.

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  And even if you don't fuck it up, the creditor is profiting off you anyway because of the transaction fee they charged the vendor.

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  https://www.weforum.org/stories/2026/01/davos-2026-annual-meeting-what-to-expect/

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  If by "complicates... basic PC ownership" they mean "infringes on your property rights as a computer owner," then they're finally catching on to what I've been saying for damn near a decade. You should not accept having an abusive relationship with your operating system, and that's what Windows has been since at least 8 (when they started infecting it with "telemetry"), if not earlier. Have some goddamn self-respect, people! Kick Microsoft to the curb!

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  Those are the ones that would cause them to surveil you. The issue isn't necessarily "the government will target you for using a VPN;" the issue is "if your IP makes you look like you're outside the US because that's where your traffic exits the VPN, the laws against domestic spying won't protect you properly because you'll look like a foreigner." Frankly, the headline is heavily spinning it to be anti-VPN fearmongering.

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  When your `Makefile` is so fucked up that you have to run it multiple times to get everything to build and link properly.

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  Back to the Future

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  *^chirp^ ^chirp^* ::: spoiler markup ___ `*^chirp^ ^chirp^*` :::

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  🙁 Booooo for satire getting my hopes up!

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  This is why shaming the idiots who say things like "what's the big deal, it's just a field in a text file" is so important. They need to be made to understand that solidarity is required to resist the tyrants.