@Athena looking back at about 3, almost 4 decades of messing with computers, I feel the average person never did, still doesn't, and likely will never really NEED a desktop.
And, frankly, to give most idiots access to the internet, with a mobile device, was a mistake.
All they did was deliver it unto the hands of fashy friendly corporations, and allow the ethnonazi to take it over.
FWIW YMMV #WLTDO #NGGYUNGLYD #AYBABTU and all caveats, ad nauseam.
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ASP, Intranet, and other mostly forgotten terms of trends harkening back to the ghost of Internet past. Yeah, how 'bout that?
But one of my favs, "BSOD", experienced an overnight resurgence in the lexicon over the breakfast table yesterday.
Even after most folks had long since forgotten this NT phenomenon's affectionate derision, it remained a commonly recognized "oopsie" not resulting from operator failure, yet regardless, one that evokes shuddering waves of guilt within the user.
Have you been Microsoft'd lately? Does your bum hurt? We've been telling you so for decades yet you just continue bending over and begging for it.
"What we've got here is... failure to communicate. Some men you just can't reach. So you get what we had here last week, which is the way he wants it... well, he gets it. I don't like it any more than you men."
#tallship #Linux #FOSS #AYBABTU @eloy
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RE: https://hsnl.social/users/eloy/statuses/112818128697453981
The Mrs. is going through some old boxes, and found the sticker that came with your Palm Pilot to teach you Graffiti -- which prompted me to remember my sole unique contribution to the All Your Base meme explosion.
#AYBABTU #AllYourBase #ZeroWing #PalmPilot
(Context for the uninitiated: https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2021/02/get-ready-to-feel-old-the-all-your-base-music-video-turns-20-today/)
More #AYBABTU
Even though it was a proprietary solution (with an open source base), I really miss #GigaBlast - last I checked there was still no word on why it went offline about a year ago.
> On any online space, you should consider who you give power to. Who has the control over who you choose to associate with?
I concur 100% with this assertion.
> All that the instances who sign the fedipact are doing is signalling to some of us that somewhere is safe for folk who don't want to engage with Facebook at all.
I don't think that's all, and actually, What those instances may (inadvertently) be signalling is that they will take it upon themselves to remove the Freedom of Association from the user themselves, without prior expectation or consultation.
I don't know where "Freedom of Speech" entered the conversation, but the notion of "Freedom of Association" has indeed been taken from those who have chosen to excercise those privileges belonging to the users themselves. Waking up and realizing that you can no longer communicate and share recipes with grandma, without evern having been consulted, is an affront to the Freedom of Association - it's inclusive of an even larger issue surrounding the reasons that *smolweb and single-user and self-hosted platforms are protective of such principles Freedom of Association.
Further, it serves to create an environment (especially when so many platforms now support migration ingress) where one's Fediverse accounts are considered ever more transient, as the realization that having an account on a silo based Fediverse instance is the antipathy of #Fediverse and #DeSoc philosophies.
It also erodes the trust between the average user and administrators that you thought you could entrust with respecting your freedom of association with.
> This is a Freedom of Association issue, ...
it is indeed, and a betrayal of trust for anyone who realizes that it is the overreach by someone else to decide that you should not have the Freedom of Association that likely brought most folks to the Fediverse in the first place.
I did a little non-scientific, anecdotal survey by contacting people I know on many of the instances that arbitrarily decided to remove those freedoms from their users overnight, and discovered that many have already migrated to other instances, or are contemplating it - the interesting thing? Many of my acquaintances had already decided to, or even configured their accounts to block #Threads; but to have someone else tell them what they're allowed, or not allowed to do, is a violation of someone's freedom to choose for themselves by despot personalities who dismiss the relevance of a right to choose for oneself.
It's a simple matter, to block instances, at the domain level, from one's own user account, and on most Fediverse platforms, there's actually an announcement utility (usually only used to beg for donations) whereby administrative staff can inform their user base of their own ability to control how they themselves choose to exercise their own preferences with respect to #Freedom_of_Association.
Ironically, when perusing the stats, it's the very largest (deprecated, monolithic silo oriented) Fediverse instances (in terms of the # of user accounts and MAU) that have chosen NOT to trample upon the individual user's Freedom to Associate with whom they themselves decide.
NOTE to Fediverse instance admins: Please take under consideration the trust that has been placed in you with respect to the freedoms all individuals are entitled to determine for themselves - reach out to your user base, deploy surveys, collect votes, whatever, but please don't just decide for someone else what you decide is good for people who are NOT YOU.
Subjugation and assimilation into the Borg Collective goes both ways folks.
#AYBABTU (All Your Base Are Belong To Us)
#tallship #despotism #dystopian #authoritarianism
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Really now, why do people stubbornly adhere to the belief that Government entities require warrants to determine anything about you - like, where you are at this particular moment or the GPS coordinates of your location last Tuesday at 17:42hrs UTC? ... And pretty much anything else you can dream up about yourself: The content of conversations with others, everything you've purchased at anytime, what you are likely to eat for dinner this coming Friday, your medical records; you name it!
All without a warrant, even for local law enforcement.
And why would they bother, when they can just buy it from the #privacy_mining companies that you already gave it to for free?
#tallship #industrial_surveillance #privacy_farming #AYBABTU #Subjugation
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RE: https://fosstodon.org/users/RTP/statuses/112018299149948961
This is really messed up stuffs...
I call it despotic overreach via subjugation through state sponsored industrial surveillance systems.... It has nothing to do with capitalism but rather, that thing that Thomas Jefferson gave us... you know, the thing.
Been to a grocery store lately? You've been complaining for decades now, that they artificially inflate the prices of items so that they can offer you steep discounts on a rotating list of them - If, and only if, you consent to being a "club member". Personally, I've consented many a times; Rite-Aid, Albertson's, Wallgreens, CVS,Von's, and many others, as Brittney Spears, Charles Manson, Joseph Stalin, and even John Rambo, another obvious #nom_de_guerre to combat what would follow as spam but worse, industrial surveillance and privacy mining (of course, you also need to use a fake phone number and a /dev/null email addy).
Have you tried to buy things at Jack in the Box or 7/11 or Mcdonald's lately? ... They have an app for that. Why do you suppose that is? They could just as easily and more efficiently deliver their content via PWS/webapps through your regular browser experience (they don't want to be counter-measured with uBlock Origin or integrated anti-tracking measures on the more sensible web browsers).
They're working really hard to deliver you to evil. I walked into a Smart & Final the other day and saw an unbelievable price for a 30 pack of Natural Light Beer - you had to use a "digital coupon" (just like you do at 7/11 to pay the regular, competitive price for an item). I asked the cashier where in their weekly rag the "digital coupon" was located, and she informed me that one needs to install an app to be eligible for the discount. Fuck that noise. Homey don't play dat.
China has WeChat ... Resistance is Futile.
When you install an app, it's a whole different ballpark of invasiveness, intrusions, data farming, and privacy mining, it's like it's your first day in #Pelican_Bay and you announce that you're going to drop the soap as you shower.
So the next time someone says, "Thank you for shopping at Walmart!", or synonymously, "Go Fuck Yourself", just smile, and offer, "Yes, there's an app for that".
What follows below in the #boost I've shared, that so inspired me to address this issue, is not a simple inconvenience - it's a new beginning :p In #Communist_Red_China, you do everything on your #WeChat app - you submit your elementary school homework, you buy stuffs at the local market, you inform on yourself and your friends to their state equivalent of the #Stazi, and you tell them exactly where to come and arrest, perhaps even disappear you. #Falun_Gong? Healthy? awesome! Now your a live organ donor too - you can thank #Meg_Whitman for that one.
You have been assimilated 🖖
All Your Base Are Belong To Us
#tallship #Sunnyvale_Syndrome #Industrial_Surveillance #Privacy_Mining #Data_Farming #Tracking #Despotism #AYBABTU h/t to @gabriel for bringing this to us via his #LibreSolutions_Network
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#AYBABTU 1984 style...
As it was, as it should be, and as it still is.
Look, that hackerboi is even smoking menthols and flickin' his ashes all over that kewl dot matrix printer.
Fuckin' weirdos.
Happy 20th birthday to one of the Intenet's original memes. ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US! Take off every Zig! #aybabtu #ayb https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2021/02/get-ready-to-feel-old-the-all-your-base-music-video-turns-20-today/
I love it 💗
The #Bat_Tricycle lolz, racing along at #Robin speed.
#AYBABTU #Batman #art
RE: https://mastodon.art/users/Gigawatt121/statuses/109342991029590098
@alex@gleasonator.com
#AYBABTU
Muahahaha!
https://youtu.be/8fvTxv46ano
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A hearty welcome goes out to all of the refugees coming over from the deprecated, legacy monolithic silo over at #Twatter.
With some easy listening music too...
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