Until California makes a law about providing fake birthdays. This should never have got this far.

FUCK THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

There is a Defcon talk on libraries and the threat they face from government and capitalism: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJT6_OcY_dc

Archive.org is the largest digital library, a very new concept, that I know of and they are constantly being sued.

Tinfoil Hat Time

I’m pretty sure Pokemon Go was used, successfully, by law enforcement to look for the bodies of missing people.

• https://www.cbsnews.com/news/pokemon-go-body-river-wyoming-leads-woman/

• https://www.fox61.com/article/news/local/outreach/awareness-months/pokemon-go-player-finds-dead-body-in-new-hampshire-park/520-6577bd86-9e2d-4dbd-8f6c-de828dcf297e

• https://laist.com/news/pokemon-go-body

• https://www.cbsnews.com/boston/news/man-playing-pokemon-go-finds-dead-body-nashua-nh/

• https://mashable.com/article/pokemon-go-dead-body-discovered

• https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-san-diego-dead-body-pokemon-go-20160715-snap-story.html

• https://www.10news.com/news/pokemon-go-players-discover-body-at-marian-bear-memorial-park

• https://www.wnep.com/article/news/local/wyoming-teen-finds-dead-body-while-playing-pokemon-go/523-47e3fd94-be65-40bd-a201-6507ffcc0a52

• https://www.ksat.com/news/2016/08/26/pokemon-go-players-find-mans-body-in-new-braunfels-cemetery/

And the list goes on.

When the game was new I suspect that law enforcement were asked to provide lists of areas they would like to search but did not have the time or manpower to cover, and that these areas were used as points of interest in the game.

There is also the fact that the CEO of pokemon go’s developer/publisher was partly funded by the CIA when his company was building what would end up being Google Maps. I would be surprised if he didn’t keep a few contacts in the government given his career.

Maybe I’m paranoid, maybe a boom of people wandering around aimlessly would have found just as many bodies.

If libraries did not exist and you purposed them today, you would be labeled a pirate and likely used into oblivion by the 3 or 4 massive companies that “own” all media. It’s not strange that there is an overlap in the tools needed to preserve media in a robust, distributed way, and the tools used to distribute movies, music, and books.

It means stop using, investing in, pumping up the fucking AI bubble.

Personal computing is gonna be set back a decade because people are too lazy to write their own documents or make a 30 second search.

Sooo don’t buy in. Steam, Itch and GoG have covered all my gaming needs for a decade. Why look anywhere else?

You’ve never requested your data from google. I did a while ago and found a dozen recordings of my voice from my pocket despite having the voice assistant turned off.

No, because I run GrapheneOS.

I have an Xbox 360 controller that has been awesome, takes AA batteries.

By 2028 you’ll be at per-transaction certs!

Switched 10 years ago. Nearly everything anyone does on a desktop/laptop is browser based lately and while I missed a few Windows exclusive applications there was always a reasonable alterative.

My only regret is not trying harder to make the switch in the 00’s, I would have been ahead of the game and could have used it as a career path.

If you already bought them you can still install them*.

*there are instances of shitty publishers removing access to games but that is not the norm.

Bruh, install HL2, they added commentary!

The devs explicitly stated in the HL2 commentary that HL3 was not being worked on and that they had no plans on resuming development.

Your company implements ai tools, you make sure it is the most ‘disruptive technology’ they have ever seen.

TF is still using Windows for main? If you care about privacy you only use it as a host for the applications that can’t be ported away.

Ya’ll aren’t actively sabotaging this shit?

FAFO. If you don’t want to control your computer then you wont have control over your computer.

You know what doesn’t have onedrive? Every other OS.