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Jeff "never puts away anything, especially oven mitts" Cliff, Bringer of Nightmares 🏴☠️🦝🐙 🇱🇧🧯 🇨🇦🐧 (jeffcliff@shitposter.world)'s status on Wednesday, 01-May-2024 01:13:02 JSTJeff "never puts away anything, especially oven mitts" Cliff, Bringer of Nightmares 🏴☠️🦝🐙 🇱🇧🧯 🇨🇦🐧 @Jessica @lxo
>? it's just code that tells the computer how to function
Since it's proprietary, you don't know that. You're making an unsubstantiated and probablistically virtually unsubstantiatable claim.
Also: there's been persuasive computing efforts since the 90s ( https://cacm.acm.org/issue/may-1999/ ), that genie is out of the bottle and is not coming back.
You either push to exert control your computer, or you let it slip to those who would control you with it
> but what about [bugs]
If a hardware makes their design #defectivebydesign and hides details of fixes from the user, that's on the hardware manufacturer, not the user.