It might be that bad. Most ‘damage’ (as publishers see it) comes from distribution, not the download itself. Depending on how they acquired the books, it might be not be much of a problem.

Just waiting for the first decision made because of AI hallucinations.

With this government? You might get disappeared to a black site because a LLM “decided” that you probably are a terrorist…

It’s an elder scrolls game… It’s going to be modded into … Oblivion

He was flushing down evidence. Discriminating papers and the like.

And because he is a toddler incapable of distinguishing between himself and other people he thinks this is a general problem.

And they bought Paintshop pro and destroyed it

How the hell are we supposed to install it without a Internet connection? I worked in a company that was so hard on security that only certified machines were allowed access to the net, so virtual machines were not allowed to access the LAN and therefore the Internet. Generally not a problem as we just used them to test software on different OS versions, so no Internet required.

This change disallows all offline installs. What is their gain? Are they that keen on our data or are they planning to use the connection to a Microsoft account for something even worse than just selling personal information? I could think of a few reasons and none are nice…

Tech could make our life easier, if only the fruits of increased efficiency would go towards us all instead of the few rich people at the top.

Ha! That was one of the things I did in the Sims (don’t remember which version). Ended up dating the mail(wo)man.

Power corrupts. It’s human nature to test out the limits of what you are allowed to do. No limits? Then the only limit is your conscience, if you have one.

He who mostly works with his head is a office drone.

I would love to just use signal and nothing else, but I would loose contact to most of my friends and family.

I tried to convince them, without success.

Well it’s a fucking ghost, I would keep it, too.

At that size it’s either for children, hands or penises.

Well it helps, but if you live under an oligarchy they will find ways to stop uncontrolled social media.

You have to address the root of the problem or you will ultimately fail as soon as you get big enough to be a problem.

Damn, you’re thirsty 😁 But as a chubby guy with a beard I thank you for making my day!

How are you doing wiggles eyebrows?

Or you watch this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oy7TUtlPmqk

You, my friend, have to read up on super PACs

Oh, we could probably create giant trees with selective breeding and gene editing. But those trees would still need hundreds of years to grow (and that’s a good thing, since it would store CO2 while growing) and if there are problems with the gene editing we would only notice after decades.

Even if done “right” privatization is the wrong choice for a lot of things. Like everything that should be a service for all citizens: postal service, health care, water, electricity, …

When greed is introduced into these services people will suffer for it. Just look at all the examples of privatizations and show me where the outcome was positive for the people.