“taken the keys to hundreds of vehicles”.
Look! Actual action that has disruptive tangible consequences!! That’s how it’s done.
Now have every failed negotiation end in random components going missing from random vehicles.
“Oh it’s not theft, they’re on premises. We’re just really bad about remembering where we put what…gee I sure hope you came prepared with a generous contract!”
Yeah yikes. If it’s this bad already can you imagine the headlines about whatever poor bastards actually embark on the quest?
I’m sure we all kinda hope Musk himself goes so he can aggrandize himself as the first guy on Mars, and we can all promptly just leave him there and forget about him forever…if they make it at all, and if the crew doesn’t arrange an “accident” of their own that sees him jettisoned for being sus.
This is helpful, but the legal process is very much “the easy part” in my experience.
The hardest part is getting everyone riled enough to actually do something about it without getting singled out yourself, because everywhere is full of cowering servants who “don’t wanna rock the boat” and say things like “It is what it is.” and “I’ve only got a few more years.”
These days feels like you gotta grokk leaked psy-ops manuals from various intelligence agencies to form the kind of proper coordination to find yourself not just standing there alone, a pitiful “distruntled employee”.
That would at least be on par with what he’s suggesting to his former employees.
Or if the sprinklers weren’t enough. Jussayin’.
In Minecraft, I mean.
Exactly my worry as well!
Since Reagan pulled that dark-magic “You’re too important to strike” bullshittery with the air traffic controllers, it set a precedent that defying your bosses comes with “terms and conditions.”
And a “Union” had to step in last time they felt so entitled to human labor, too. 😂
FOSS release of Windows when?
Can you imagine if that entire code got released tomorrow, without Microsoft selectively cleaning it up first?
I remember WinXP getting decompiled a while back and people thought it was pretty wild. Can you imagine Win8+?
Bet we’d find a few comments like
#Yes it's a massive security hole but don't ask questions. LOL
I think we’d still be shocked at how much data collection it does. And probably how “I don’t know why it works but don’t touch it.” The code is. (It was written by people, after all)
I’ve always felt a lot of Windows’ “dependability” is really just slick presentation and the mystique of a black box that sounds solid when you knock on it.
But what bothers me so much, as a non-career-coder and DIY-computing learner, is whenever a corporate product breaks, everything is obfuscated with nonsense that is only meant for a company engineer.
At least good FOSS tries to tell you exactly where the issue is.
If Windows went FOSS I bet it would get a lot of human-friendly fixes…and MS would get a lot of new scandals lol.
but they deserved what they got.
The Ellen Ripley special?
This.
“Ah, behold! A gargantuan dwelling of the giants! We’ll just put our giant clumpy mud hive right up here until we reproduce infinitely unchecked, and then perceive them as a threat for daring to venture outside! Peace an’ love y’all.”
“Ah hah! Look at this patch of grass! The giants stomp around here regularly. We shall burrow and hide beneath it, reacting with furious hellfire should we be tread on!”
“Avast, ye, mammal! You are within like a kilometer of my turf! Your life is hereby forfeit!”
–Various kinds of wasps, probably.
I’m all for letting things be(e), but I get pretty pissed when creatures have the audacity to attach to or otherwise colonize your dwelling and then get mad and violent that it’s your dwelling.
Meme the change you wish to see in the world. :p
All those “active listening” skills to trick people into thinking you’re paying attention or care. Lol
Funny enough, not in the cynical, depressing way William Goulding postulated and many of us were forced to read in English class. :D
It’s nice when humanity isn’t the tragically disgusting thing we’re often forcefully told it is. (Usually as some way to justify State-enforced law and order via violence.)
Pico8 is not open source? TIL. That’s so odd.
Does it get any holier than practicing combat against the forces of hell? Lol
I’m running OpenSUSE Tumbleweed and finally completely dumped Win10 as it was BSODing itself apart during games anyway.
Constantly impressed with how many games “just work”, and not even just with Steam. Heroic for GoG stuff, Lutris, Bottles for classics I still got on disc…it’s awesome!
But you mentioned Windows Only VR and I got all excited…except I’ve got a Samsung Odyssey+ (WMR) and realized Monado is the only hope of it not being an expensive blackbox brick. :(
Thanks, I was about to suggest this too. Aegis is awesome. :) I can’t understand why most banks sms a code instead of using something like this. It’s insanity.
On one hand I have my personal firstname-lastname-dot-com I’m still hosting for years. I’m not a webdev but WordPress is awfully bloated and everything else needs a touch of webdev skills.
So it’s been at “coming soon I’m working on it welcome to sample example theme page” for years, but hey it’s indexing well based on age alone!
The other is a fun clever one I route through cloudflare to access all my home server stuff via HTTPS over TailScale. Never have to expose any ports to the big scary world wide web. :p
I like to think that glass is half-ass full.
I like a lot of these takes and explanations on behalf of the protestors, like that they throw paint to signify “What will be lost in the climate crisis” for instance. It’s clever.
But also, asymmetrical warfare is very much about winning “hearts and minds.” If all you do is petty vandalism to annoy and or sabotage other working class people, you just succeed in pissing them off while the actual culprits are still laughing their way to the bank.
Worse, it makes it much easier for them to get public support in crushing your movement by turning your own class against you. You’ve then raised awareness that “People dressed like this are a public nuisance that will get in your way” more than climate change.
Most average people don’t know what they can do to actively sabotage the oil industry. Myself included, I feel pretty damn hand-bound when a lot of issues are systemic, like unwalkable cities and forced commutes for instance.
What’s the call to action for everyone stuck on a blocked road?
You gotta educate your potential allies instead of merely resorting to performative shock for clout, then you gotta give them the tools to join your plight.
Many groups just shout “awareness! Be aware btw!”, and stop there to collect their nonprofit money.
Awareness is made. Cool. Now what? That’s what we want to see them answer.