Trump will designate Reporters Without Borders a terrorist org, and terrorize their reporters using the state.

Apparently they just become fascist

Have you tried being in my own imagination land?

Literally no photo apps sync in the background. Apple is a trillion dollar company who wield a monopoly over their users computers and data, and you are defending them. Your defense enables enshittification, and capitalisms exploitation of consumers.

This is false. Apple OS’s contain numerous blockers and friction points that not only stop users from storing much of their data in other clouds, but prevent competitors from being able to develop them at all. Apple does this via elevated privileges/processes and proprietary API’s available ONLY to Apple’s own local apps and cloud servers, for example:

- If you backup your photos to iCloud, everything happens in the background with elevated priviliges and “just works”.

- If you backup your photos to ANY other provider, they run in a separate sandboxed process which doesn’t “just work” because the OS can kill it at any time, meaning users often need to leave 3rd party apps open for their photos to sync at all.

This is the same for every 2nd/3rd party service in comparison to Apple/iCloud across Apple OS’s. Nobody can develop a true competitor for anyone who purchased Apple hardware as Apple has access to a range of processes, services, and API’s which are not available to external developers. You can’t boot up an iphone and set Backblaze B2 or Amazon S3 as your authoritative cloud data or backup provider. You must use iCloud, or you get an inferior experience – not because of any technical limitation, but specifically because Apple designed non-Apple integrations to be inferior.

Maybe for the rest of our lives, however long that is…

Civil liberty and privacy advocates have been saying that surveillance capitalism and dragnet mass surveillance aren’t just a direct attack on our civil liberties, but were a trojan horse that would be used to attack and dismantle democracy if they weren’t heavily restricted.

Neoliberals and conservatives have spent the last 80 years building big brother FOR fascism, and the fascists used all the tools built by surveillance capitalism to stage their coup. Rather ironically, if the tens of trillions spent to build it went to social services instead, fascism 2.0 may have never materialized.

Every day I see posts by Liberals bashing Gen Z for being stupid, without any self-awareness that 50 years of neoliberalism created Gen Z and gave them a horrific future outlook in housing security, employment security, financial security, climate security… all the conditions necessary for fascism to flourish.

We’ve told them this would lead to fascism for decades, and they still think they are right; pointing their fingers and blaming everyone but themselves.

🤨… You ever heard of a place called China?

This is expected. A hallmark of fascism is state capitalism — a fusion of the corporation and the state — with corporations administered more like org units of the fascist party.

Many of us have been saying that this is the natural end state of capitalism all along, if it’s allowed to run its course.

It doesn’t matter that he has several hundred billion more votes than anyone. Money is speech bro. Legalized bribery is democracy. Well it was. Now fascism and dictatorship are democracy. That’s called Freedom™️!

Yes, and I’m saying that the fact this could even be viewed by Microsoft as something that is worth going to trial, and being argued in court = hyper-capitalist dystopian dictatorship.

In a sane world not “by and for corporations”, this tactic would not even be in the realm of plausibility.

Why yes … I am aware 1+1=2

They do this because they are mentally ill.

This would be no different to you ordering food in a restaurant, them bringing you the wrong meal, you refusing because you didn’t order it, then they tell you to go fuck yourself and charge you for it anyway.

If this argument is valid in your judicial system then you live in a clown world capitalist dictatorship.

Yup. I already had a vasectomy years ago, in my late 20’s. I wish I did it at 18.

At no point was I on-board with accelerating the collapse or forcing my own flesh and blood to experience it.

When you look at what humanity has done to the planet, especially in the last century, an extremely selfish humanity — deserving of the suffering they cause themselves in their confusion — was always self-evident.

We’re quite literally killing the planet to the extent that it will likely become unviable for human civilization within a century or so, most living species will be exterminated, and billions of people will starve to death … and every day most of us choose not stop the destruction because it individually grants us a constant stream of dopamine hits from consumption and consumerism; the consequences are out of sight, and out of mind.

We’re extremely ignorant, arrogant, dopamine-drug-addicted, talking chimps on a one way trip to oblivion. If it makes you feel any better, we never really stood a chance.

I would never trust a dev defined SemVer as more than a relatively useless indicator of compatibility. I make sure there’s proper unit and integration testing to prevent external dependencies breaking production. If it’s a major dependency I check the release notes every version.

Yes but the for-profit Mozilla corporation will selfishly maintain control of the golden goose to the bitter end, even if they destroy it. They offer no value without Firefox and they know it.

That’s why Firefox should be relinquished to a non-profit which is not associated with a for-profit company in any way.

Think about it logically. A non-trivial proportion of Firefox users are power users. We’re talking about millions of well paid IT professionals, programmers, academics, etc who trend older and wealthier. I don’t know about you, but if Firefox was truly non-profit and focused development on user-voted features, instead of for-profit SaaS services, I’d be willing to donate $100+ a year for the rest of my life out of principle. We’re not talking about some hidden open source library here. We’re talking about the only viable browser alternative to big tech. We’re talking about a product equivalent to Wikipedia or the internet archive in importance (both of which I donate to annually, and will likely continue to forever).

I do not donate to Firefox because of the Mozilla corporation and their for-profit influence over Firefox, and I never will as long as they are involved.