I’ve been boycotting Amazon since 2004. Waiting for everybody else to see it too. … See it yet??? Everybody???

Tragic. Shows we never know when. And a little irony there too, in how we’ve lost the chap who contributed so much to preparation [and so recent too] for what to do if we lose that other chap.

They’re coming hard for van life too btw.

Nowhere to run, nowhere to hide. We have to mend this. And we can still mend this.

… I have no camera.

This new CAPTCHA’s prejudicial and exclusionary.

Not to mention grotesquely invasive.

And more time yet wasted tidying, sysadmining, dispensing with bureaucracy, eating, bathing, going to the toilet, socialising, travelling, and sleeping.

can haz dropping android, and going for a linux or hurd or bsd or ironclad kernel instead, and back to a more proper unixy userspace?

Stop calling it the popemobile because it’s undignified?

Okay, lets call it the pedomobile.

Where?

Oh! On the web interface? n_n I don’t use the web interface. It’s video, so I use a video player. I see no ads, ~ if I do [like ads read out by the podcast host], I skip ahead.

on YouTube’s TV app

That’s where you went wrong. Come to the free software community. We can mend bugs (like malicious features (like ads)) with free software, being free to use, study, share & change the software.

Nothing like free software

Far many more than someone.

Troubling, given how much the put-up-or-hack-up users-are-developers ethos having slipped as more and more come in enjoying the convenience wrapping, with their consumer mentality.

That is amusing if BSD do that. Being from there.

Them being armed will make it a lot more thrilling when you persist in asking them under what conditions are you lawfully obligated to comply.

War is good for business?

Yep.

Plenty bad reasons though.

Mostly around abuse of the vulnerable, data-mining, advertising/marketing/psyops/publicrelations, pedophilia, pedovoria, disempowerment, indoctrination, dumbing-down, wealth extraction maximisation, profiling, voter suppression, gerrymandering, insurance scams, etc.

Still struggling to conceive of even a single good reason…

… So it helps us detect the crooked politicians who would vote for such a thing?

If only all those agents hadn’t told us to not use the political compass, we might be less lost now. :3

Ahhh. Neo-liberal.

Gotta love that Orwellian marketing.

Neo-liberal. Neither new (neo), nor liberal.

Basically, same old fascist.

Yup.

Welcome to newspeak, USA-flavor.

Still drinking hair of the dog to nurse the McCarthyian redscare hangover.

Layers deep into the newspeak. Liberal, conservative, democrat… all these terms already many contortions and inversions distanced from original meaning. Soon, even “him”, “he” and “himself” too. Then even “is” and “not”, and then the CIA’s work will be done.

Armed thugs of the state break into every home, and install their bigbrotherware operating system, and kill anyone who flinches like they might be committing any acts of dissidence. There we go. Everybody happy. And of course, you wont own the software. You’ll be renting it. Like everything else. Own nothing, be happy. Maybe they care. :/

I wonder if that “this distro is not allowed in California” approach is even compatible with the various free software licenses.