Before computers I was an ignorant little shit who read fiction books and fumble-fucked around until I could figure it out. All my education came from teachers in school literally talking to me in class, me reading the textbooks, me reading sci Fi, and me running around like a little feral goblin outside.
“ethical hacker” is not defined as “someone who only hacks in fear of law”. That’s my point. Hackers with ethics do lots of shit. Some of them work within the law, some of them work sideways to the law, but your code of ethics and your legal code aren’t quite the same thing, and you assuming they are is surprising.
Girl Tech?
Bro.
Stares in old lady
Dude, do you want individual hacking to become illegal? Because people who are not hacking daily are prone to forgetting that some hackers don’t actually act maliciously.
Also, yes, some hackers are ethical and do care. Not you, obviously. But some.
This is just Amtrak. There’s a lot more rail lines than Amtrak.
Yeah I have an account over there too. It’s all the dang fediverse after all, and figuring out how to navigate this place is a pain in the ass - the only thing worse is trying to deal with the extremely creepy “oh nice!” bot traffic on reddit. Have you seen that shithole lately? It’s wild.
I’m adopting FOSS because commercial products are inevitably enshitified for profit. Fuck the billionaires, I like my money and my personal data and I am not ok with them putting their grubby, sticky little fingers in my personal shit. I was raised a private person and I like my privacy.
I’m not vegan but I reduced my red and pork to 0 because it’s unhealthy and I don’t really like eating things for breakfast that are as smart as small children. Ew.
I fucking hate cars and always have. They smell bad, they’re expensive, they take up huge amounts of time, and idiots on a power trip are always being assholes in them. Coal rolling trucks make me want to puke in disgust. It’s always a guy and he’s always a dropout moron on a power trip who’s gonna die of lung cancer at 56 while complaining about chemtrails.
Socialism is necessary because capitalism promotes the tragedy of the commons and I like my clean air and drinkable water. I grew up on stories about the wilderness, I lived running around in the woods, I value a healthy ecosystem rich in genetic diversity. I am also an absolutely enormous asshole at heart who is cheap as fuck and who hates litter, and homeless people are untidy, expensive, and dangerous. Sticking them in apartments to keep their shitty decisions out of my view is cheaper than cleaning up their feces all the time and dealing with begging and grabbing and crime, and it makes me able to ignore them more easily. Out of sight, out of mind, I get to live my life in peace knowing they’re not homeless anymore. Also their kids don’t deserve that shit even if their parents are depressed abusive junkie trash who couldn’t keep a job if it was “lay here all day long”.
Wait Greg is on here? I should have fucking known it!
BRB going hunting Greg Egan
Hunting down his ACCOUNT to follow it damn you
Don’t worry there’s women standing him and dissing men that I could do without too.
The thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as best I could, but when he ventured upon insult I vowed revenge!
Um-many decades later, I still remember my English teacher ranting this line over and over, putting emphasis on a different word each time.
Can we get a Vorkosigan series show? It would be cool
“how dare you take the only choice available to you” energy.
Individual members of any society or any military are not stand-ins for all the evil of that society or military. If they are, I guarantee your own membership on some groups - whether by choice or chance - would condemn you as harshly as anyone on earth.
There are no unflawed people or systems. Don’t become an abuser because you were abused.
Awesome analysis. Thank you!
A year ago: yes.
Today: nope.
Oh look, fake social media accounts used. Fantastic. No gaps here!
Awesome, who taught you how to organize your community and which community volunteered their HUGE amount of spare time and effort for your benefit?
Some of us had a fucking choice between dying homeless or learning to survive in the military, and you removed about it now is a weak-ass bitter excuse for venting your frustration at the wrong goddamn people.
When I was young and homeless and ignorant and had no self esteem
You took me in, gave me food, clothing, safety, training, community, challenges, a paycheck
From your patience when I screwed up I learned to keep trying
From your teaching I learned a path to survival
All you asked was a few years of work and maybe for me to take risks
But even then you taught me how to take risks as safely as possible
Oh wait
No
Sorry, that was the military, ha! Whoops, you didn’t fucking help one bit. You just sat on your ass whining with no solutions.
Oh well, maybe next time!
On the other hand, good fences make good neighbors, and paywalls are a way of drawing healthy boundaries. If I write a book I am not donating that book to the world free of charge to use as they please and train an AI to replace me. I would like to be paid for my work somehow. If I and a team of researchers and engineers and finance folks and HR folks and janitors work together to build a vaccine distribution system, we don’t get that for free.
Paywalls are a useful mechanism for ensuring that people aren’t abusing you and your work.
Problem isn’t paywalls. It’s that how you do things matters. If you hoard all the food and paywall it at high prices so you can buy fancy cars, that’s not ok. If you set aside food for a local community supper so that kids can’t use it for their trebuchet practice, that’s sensible.