There, I saved everyone a click. Now thank me for my service.

Product manager for proprietary malware peddler attempts to convince suckers that their malware does anything other than artificially restrict users and further the cause of vendor lock-in.

Article author struggles with clean links

https://www.wsj.com/tech/cybersecurity/u-s-wiretap-systems-targeted-in-china-linked-hack btw

The pioneers of this dirty business were overwhelmingly founded by ex-Israeli signals intelligence personnel,

That’s interesting. Must be a coincidence.

and related Clinton-era initiatives, like the failed Clipper Chip program, which would have put a spy chip in every computer, and, eventually, every phone and gadget:

“Don’t worry, guys we tried to backdoor all devices but failed, see?”

Meanwhile, Intel ME, AMD “Secure Processor”, and ARM “TrustZone”:

Just traveling between the different megaregions in the US often feels like traveling internationally, but without the hassle of passports and borders. They speak the same language and literally inhabit the same country, but everything just feels different. I can’t quite place it.

A bike rack maintains plausible deniability.

Messing with your plates or getting fake plates could land you in court.

I see they have the lobes for business.

Running software designed and compiled only for XYZ system is always going to incur overhead when translating or emulating to ABC system.

Game authors and publishers who only build for Windows are giving users a big middle finger and essentially saying “You must suffer through Windows in order to enjoy our product hassle-free lol”.

What worked for me (which may or may not work for others) was to wean myself away, at first with only playing games that were built natively for linux.

Then moving the line in the sand to only DRM-free native linux builds.

Then advancing to only open source games.

These days, I just don’t even play games and I find that it really frees up what kinds of things I want to do on my computers, such as daily driving exotic CPU architectures (and also I have so much more free time for actual meaningful pursuits like learning new skills).

It greatly raises the cost of exploring competing software for the average person.

Google are actually doing really awesome work with manifest v3. A pimp needs to smack their b1tches around every once in a while to remind them who’s boss.

Disable unused interfaces in BIOS.

Netinstall with only basic utilities.

Reduce Debian

Yes, 2015 was a wild year.

You bastard, I’ve been trying to keep on the dl here, but I just can’t resist:

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Drive around with a permanent bike rack in the way of your tail plate. No front plates.

WafflePwn’s brother (the kid who tried shoving a remote up his ass because of Warcraft account cancellation) actually documented a true and genuine freakout. The parents forced the older brother to produce subsequent videos as a means of making it look like they were just making candid freakout videos all along, in order to protect the younger bother’s shattered public image (and probably social life).

Ooh, a spicy one for a place like lemmy.

There comes a point where one realizes that those around you cannot be relied upon to leverage solutions. Psychopaths get ahead because they’re willing to play dirty. So much of the world can be summed up as large swaths of population being induced to behave or think certain ways by psychopathic manipulators.

If you even started using streaming services, I’ve got bad news for you.

Seeing how rapidly and how fervently the public, one’s own family even, can be turned into puppets of powerful interests. All it takes is the right messaging. The right conditioning. Television was just child’s play. Today we’ve got “smart” phones, baby!

You’ve consumed countless right wing podcasts?

Kaczynski was unironically right about a number of things, criminal activity aside.