I’m starting to think there’s a wave of people realizing that the internet is government surveillance technology and trying to square the circle.

Hawk TUI, ncurses on that thing

Naziism and fascism are broadly a response to the same material conditions as communism and anarchism (to an extent).

Liberalism does not put forth a response to those conditions because it created them and has no internal process to relieve them (instead it externalizes them) or stop perpetuating them.

When faced with a choice between communism or fascism people generally don’t perform an in-depth analysis of what’s best for them or their cohort but instead attach to the group that provides some relief or aid.

That’s why it’s important to always help people around you when you can.

This is not true.

Especially nowadays network manager handles all that stuff. Nmcli or nmtui make it beyond easy and I haven’t messed with wpa_supplicant in about ten years.

I have been convinced.

I used to think like you, that it’s counterproductive, but if anything they’re not going far enough.

You can look at security failures as mistakes or conspiracies.

It’s very easy to see the Microsoft failures as conspiracies the more you learn about them because Microsoft’s material interests are aligned with the failures. To steal someone’s turn of phrase: “Microsoft gives you a foot gun for free but charges for bulletproof shoes”.

It’s very easy to see apples security failure as mistakes because the more you learn about them the more you see how apples material interests arent aligned with the failures. If I had to make a similar one liner, “apple sells you designer shoes with drop rated toe boxes. They might not be bulletproof, but you also don’t have a foot gun.”

Yes.

Just go ask the 196 mods.

That’s cool, but is there a subset of features or cpu bound operations or something that makes it worth going through the trouble just to run a faster(?) cpu with slower memory?

Now we just need open source directx and direct draw so all the visualizations work and we’re in business.

it's important to come to this recognition.

america and israel are a team.

i'll bite:

i went to the media bias fact check page for radio free asia, pushed control-f and typed "cia". there were three hits, as part of the words "politicians", "appreciate" and "social".

radio free asia was literally founded by the cia as an anticommunist us propaganda mouthpiece.

well, maybe they don't exactly use those words but they might basically say the same thing... what does mbfc's rfa history section look like?

Founded in 1951, Radio Free Asia (RFA) is a private, nonprofit international broadcasting agency of the United States government that broadcasts and publishes online news, information, and commentary to listeners in East Asia while “advancing the goals of U.S. foreign policy.” RFA distributes content in nine Asian languages for audiences in six countries. In the past, RFA served as an anti-communist propaganda operation. Today they continue to promote USA interests with a less direct propaganda approach.

well, that's glossing over and avoiding some important points, but at least they're admitting it's promoting "USA interests with a less direct propaganda approach". lets see how they score a source they described as literal government propaganda mouthpiece:

Overall, we rate Radio Free Asia as Left-Center Biased based on story selection and editorial positions that slightly favor the left. We also rate them High for factual reporting due to proper sourcing and a clean fact-check record. (11/28/2016) (Updated D. Van Zandt 09/03/2023)

oh, the US government propaganda outfit serving "content in nine Asian languages for audiences in six countries" is left-center and highly factual! Who would have known!

the thing that makes media bias fact check a bad source is that it relies on a one dimensional left-right bias continuum and another one dimensional veracity continuum.

anyone with their head screwed on straight, no matter their personal politics or country of origin can tell without a shadow of a doubt that rfa isn't a good source because it's a propaganda arm of the us government. when evaluated on the metrics of leftness or rightness under the rubric of mbfc though, it shows up as "left-center" and when put to the test of authenticity by mbfc it is determined to be highly factual.

media bias fact check is a bad source. it cannot, by design, communicate the reality of a source's bias because the way it evaluates bias is constrained by and i'd say warped into only what fits it's highschool-in-1999-ass rubric of bias and accuracy!

I’m not that guy.

You should definitely tell the police that people on the internet are making you feel bad though, call 911 asap!