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You're thinking about about it all wrong. Treat it like a 3€ per month sub and a 2€ donation to one of the leading lights/centers of expertise for digital freedom and privacy. Or a €4.50 fee and a €.50 donation. Or €2.50 each way.

There's nothing truly vital in 2020s filmmaking that its counterparts weren't similarly adept at 50/70/100 years ago. The stuff that really counts like acting. editing and scene composition doesn't corrode over the decades because it's gold

I wonder whether it ever occurs to normies that surrendering PII in order to transact amounts to hidden cost inflation

Alfred emerged from the densest part of the eucalptus grove. All around him, his tiny bots unobtrusively kept pace. Every one was in violation of local law, containing not a single chip in thrall to the Department of Homeland Security. While Vaz continued to play Bollywood exec through the public net, these devices provided him with his own network and countermeasures.

Rainbows End (Vernor Vinge)

I don't have a reason to read anything into it. Public speaking is a nervewracking activity, and everyone who's done it can recall one thing they did in the spotlight that they would never have done outside it - a certain turn of phrase, a verbal tic, a gesture, a tone. A man with a long track record of awkward public behaviour, and a bad public speaker at that, tells an audience his heart goes out to them, and then gestures emphatically to that effect. I know that calls for shit-flipping and general hysteria on Lemmy.World, but that's because LW is for all intents and purposes the 'Reddit instance', not because Musk's behaviour was inherently offensive.

It would have been so easy for the ADL to pile on and call it fascist, given its own backgound. Whether they are right or not isn't important, what matters is they were slow to judge. Perhaps there's some political calculus in that choice, perhaps not. We know who took the easy option though: Ocasio-Cortez, leading from behind (like all politicians do) by working out her constituency's bias, then airing that bias publicly.

You're not sick of technology you're sick of not having real control of technology

Pure economy 🎨

• Always keep a live USB of your distro handy
• Don't ignore the terminal, you're doing yourself a major disservice if you do. Terminal is life
• The ArchWiki isn't just for Arch users

The government plan features a potentially controversial scheme to unlock public data to help fuel the growth of AI businesses. This includes anonymised NHS data, which will be available for “researchers and innovators”

'We are concerned that if data and weights are FOSS, people will develop their own tools, which will work for them by definition and not us, thereby increasing people's autonomy from us. So the data will not be publicly available'

Vendor Electronics Show

GUys I'm from ~~2040~~ 2035, here's Microsoft's logo

MS corporate comms army did a sik job getting across those inscrutable monolith vibes, I bet when it launched they all clapped (even though clapping is in performance reviews)

BONUS: heres Amazon, Faceberg and Nvideo too (yay diversity)

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