This is why shaming the idiots who say things like “what’s the big deal, it’s just a field in a text file” is so important. They need to be made to understand that solidarity is required to resist the tyrants.

What regulatory capture of the FTC does to MFer.

All this shit should be considered false advertising, at the very least.

Yeah, sorry, I wasn’t as precise as I could’ve been. I was really just trying to convey the motivations (i.e. that it was due to being mistaken for foreign as opposed to being targeted for using a VPN), not go into the details of exactly which aspect of the VPN (the entrance IP geolocation, the exit IP geolocation, or the company HQ location) would actually trigger the “foreign-ness.”

Due to the ongoing conflict in the Middle East, both affected regions have experienced physical impacts to infrastructure as a result of drone strikes. In the UAE, two of our facilities were directly struck, while in Bahrain, a drone strike in close proximity to one of our facilities caused physical impacts to our infrastructure. These strikes have caused structural damage, disrupted power delivery to our infrastructure, and in some cases required fire suppression activities that resulted in additional water damage.

Translation: servers got turned into charred scrap.

Those are the ones that would cause them to surveil you.

The issue isn’t necessarily “the government will target you for using a VPN;” the issue is “if your IP makes you look like you’re outside the US because that’s where your traffic exits the VPN, the laws against domestic spying won’t protect you properly because you’ll look like a foreigner.”

Frankly, the headline is heavily spinning it to be anti-VPN fearmongering.

^{chirp chirp}

I very much could be wrong, but I was under the impression that this was at least partly a jurisdictional thing, not a personal thing. In other words, that it was being on tribal land that made the difference, not necessarily being a member of the tribe. I’m pretty sure Native American tribe members don’t have some sort of blanket immunity to all state laws no matter where they happen to be; I think it’s that state laws don’t apply within reservations, despite the land the reservation is on otherwise counting as part of the state.

I wanted to upgrade my kids from Pi 4s to Pi 5s, but ended up just getting NUCs instead.

If by “complicates… basic PC ownership” they mean “infringes on your property rights as a computer owner,” then they’re finally catching on to what I’ve been saying for damn near a decade.

You should not accept having an abusive relationship with your operating system, and that’s what Windows has been since at least 8 (when they started infecting it with “telemetry”), if not earlier. Have some goddamn self-respect, people! Kick Microsoft to the curb!

The trouble is, librarians striking and thus preventing the libraries from functioning would only hand bookburning fascists exactly what they want.

If the shit ideology is the problem, how did Biden win? He has all the problems of both women.

I already addressed that.

Also your history gives clear evidence of your sexism, and apparently you’re so shameless about it, you don’t even recognize it.

Cite it, liar.

If I admitted to calling, I would be confirming that the phone number the guy’s office received a call from was linked to this Lemmy account.

As it is, who knows who might have called? The call (or ideally, the calls, plural) could’ve come from any number of people who read that message.

Somebody tell this guy about Mastodon.

The phone number for his executive assistant is 617-349-4280.

https://www.cambridgema.gov/Departments/citycouncil/members/jivansobrinhowheeler

The US was developing when cars were becoming more popular. It’s too far gone.

This is misinformation. US cities were built with extensive streetcar networks, so much so that the first suburbs were called “streetcar suburbs.” They were ripped out because of the misguided notion that they needed to be profitable (a double standard that only applied to rails and not roads, BTW).

They also had vibrant, dense, walkable downtowns, which were demolished circa the 1970s to “make room” for parking lots for car commuters.

Do not try to pretend that that was inevitable or irreparable, because it’s not. European cities, like Amsterdam, were also demolished in the middle of the 20^th century, and guess what, they were rebuilt for the car too! But unlike us, the folks in the Netherlands realized their mistake and demolished and rebuilt again to put back the the infrastructure you see there today.

We can fix car dependency.

These were decisions made nearly a century ago, in the New Deal era. That’s when the foundations for the “Suburban Experiment” were laid. That’s when the FHA was founded and created its first set of guidelines for developers to get loan approval, which “redlined” traditionally-developed areas and gave extreme preference to car-centric designs, like strip malls and cul-de-sac neighborhoods.

👆why are you booing him? He’s right!

There is nothing – not “being a large country,” not “being built for the car” – that makes the US somehow inherently car-centric. We chose this by being too fucking racist and classist to accept living near or riding transit with black and poor people.

There’s a reason why things like single-family zoning laws with large minimum lot sizes started popping up right after laws enforcing segregation got struck down, for example.

Upon further reflection, I think my previous comment may have been a little too harsh on it.

But I still think that, to be truly “excellent,” it could’ve made its point without muddying/confusing the definition of enshittification.

It’s not that “excellent.” It’s just ‘for the evulz’ mustache-twirling comical villainy, which ends up downplaying what’s actually important to know about enshittification, which is how self-serving and abusive it is. When companies enshittify products and services, they’re not just making them worse; they’re specifically making them more exploitative.

A lot of the examples shown in the video – cutting holes in socks, sawing off a chair leg so it wobbles, drying out a marker, etc. – are not enshittification. Enshittification is stuff like putting spyware in devices so that you double-dip on the purchase price and the value of the data, or turning products (as opposed to services) into a subscription. Stuff that extracts unearned value from the customer.

It touches on it in the latter part of the video, but for the most part misses the mark.

Your argument is just shit liberals tell themselves to try to excuse the failure of their ideology.

Why do you love enabling fascism by refusing to make common-sense reforms to help the working class?

It’s also telling on yourself that you resorted to falsely insinuating sexism on my part. Shame on you.