Notices by weilawei (weilawei@mastodon.online)

@DrALJONES Isn't this usually called treason? They have foreign case officers?

So, we got the NSA screwing with our cryptosystems, we got the Pentagon screwing with our healthcare, we got our politicians running guns for a genocide in another country..

Is it just me or does a significant chunk of the establishment seem to playing for the wrong team? Own goals? Safeties? IDC what you call it..

Airbus and Boeing, parts made with raw titanium stock that had forged certifications now?

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/14/us/politics/boeing-airbus-titanium-faa.html

#boeing #airbus #spiritAerosystems #qualityControl

"Sonos removes restriction on selling personal data & forces users to accept new TOS"

https://inv.tux.pizza/watch?v=WwFIIeV4sdw

#enshittification #sonos #privacy #dataBroker

Turns out that some 40+ members of the US military CAN recognize an illegal order.

"On June 5, Senior Airman Juan Bettancourt, who is in the same unit as Aaron Bushnell, publicly announced via social media he too made the decision to file as a conscientious objector over the genocide, while backing an Appeal For Redress (which allows active-duty troops to petition Congress with their grievances)."

If a government refuses to govern, it kinda forces people to replace it with systems that accomplish the original purpose.

If it won't house people, feed people, give them clean water and air, and provide medical care... it's not like people will stop doing those things.

What happens is that governments -choose- to give up their legitimacy. They basically abdicate the "throne" by refusing to get a handle on corruption.

"Unlike Google, XScreenSaver will honor deletion requests if you email us asking us to delete all _none_ of your user data that _does not exist._"

Really should be the default. This whole business of hoovering up and selling personal data shouldn't even be a thing.

The typical bug report threshold of an open source project feels like if you'd found a bug in your Ford, you'd need to go work for Ford for 20 years to establish that you had indeed found a bug, and then they'd say EWONTFIX anyway.

So instead I do the right to repair thing. I fix it, the fix works, and I use it. I might complain a bit on my own soapbox, but that's the amount of effort I've got in me.

Lol nope, I don't file bug reports. Not until projects stop demanding I essentially become a contributor first, and fill out an amount of paperwork that would make my government blush, because if that's the level, I'll do what I always do:

fix it myself, and don't tell the maintainers.

Some guy was complaining about people not using his formal bug report thing, and instead sending him some kind of message with a screeenshot or whatever it was.

My take on that is that's the users telling you exactly how many spoons feedback is worth to them, versus the pain of not having their problem fixed.

It's clear that his bug report process was too demanding to be useful.

What I want to know why does NYC "bus in" so many cops who don't live there to apply state violence to the people that actually do live there?

Getting state violenced by someone who doesn't even live there shouldn't be a thing.

Late stage capitalism bears more resemblance to Spaceballs than Star Trek.

it seems like all that's left is to compete for the most ludicrously bad idea.

@AnarchoNinaWrites Imagine if this was actually how cops and prisons worked. 🤯

#UBI would be infinitely simpler to provide if those resources weren't being stolen.

Fortunately, the list of criminals is short.

Do not want trickle-down. Just for the highway robbery to stop.

""And sin, young man, is when you treat people like things. Including yourself. That's what sin is."
"It's a lot more complicated than that—"
"No. It ain't. When people say things are a lot more complicated than that, they means they're getting worried that they won't like the truth. People as things, that's where it starts.""

#TerryPratchett

Welp, it was nice knowing you Pennsylvania.

"The Israeli army has been using Lavender, an AI system designed to produce targets for fighter jets and drones to bomb. Researchers have said the system is using various data sets, including people’s use of messaging apps, to decide on targets, which is leading to many innocent lives lost."

You don't think that this is coming home to be used on you, what with the NSA and their fancy little siphon rooms?

I have news for you, and it is not the good kind.

I literally never thought I would live in an America where more than half of the people are functionally illiterate. It blows the mind of 4-year-old me, who very much loved books and the adult version still does.

Israel murders honest journalists and then bans them.

Should tell you everything you need to know about that government.