Melon Husk has access to the innermost systems of the US government, without oversight.

Which of the systems has he and his team of cryptobros left in the DMZ?

Perhaps they could try giving an AR to every employee and putting up a banner that says “Murica! Patriot Freedom! Yee Haw!” on the entrance.

Those words are like a magic spell that short-circuits idiots’ brains.

Hey thanks. That’s something I didn’t even know existed, and it’s something I’ll have to look into before I make the switch.

This is by design. They’re trying to frustrate you, because they’ll then upsell you on the “premium” subscription later on that returns the “old ways,” all while mining your data. And if you continue to use the free stuff, they’ll just mine you harder with AI.

They’re angling for a rent-based economy where they’re the landowners and we’re the sharecroppers paying to use their stuff. The only way out is to de-google and start taking your privacy seriously.

And the owner wants to “automate” the US government with AI.

The idiots are in charge.

We get to join the idiots, because even when some of us want to, we don’t seem to have the ability to stop them.

Yeah, but you and much of the business world have intelligence and strategy. Elon is the guy who thinks he can just pay some Chinese gamer to play a game for him, then pretend he did it himself; that’s his version of “brilliant strategist.”

It’s no wonder he can’t figure out how to automate anything safely or correctly, because he doesn’t actually understand how to do anything himself, and he can’t just pay some Chinese rando to do it for him.

He has nothing to lose by competing. He owns a stake in Reddit, and he’s rebooting a competitor. He wins either way, and striking out on his own has a better chance of making him more money than relying on his stake.

If he fails and Reddit “wins,” he still has his stake to fall back upon.

That link I gave mentioned a Grub setting for ignoring SGX. Maybe try that after updating your BIOS, if that doesn’t work.

Sounds like the perfect use case for an email alias service like addy.io, though, if Revolt is something somebody wants.

I agree that federation would be better, though.

I wonder if it has anything to do with this:

https://askubuntu.com/questions/1418992/sgx-disabled-by-bios-message-on-ubuntu-20-04-booting

I’m not familiar with SGX, but it kinda sounds like a predecessor to Secure Boot? I wonder if that’s preventing some kind of startup.

Gods, we are so stupid.

The human species survived alongside countless others for tens of thousands of years. It has taken us roughly two or three generations to fuck it all up in the relentless pursuit of profit.

I’m rooting for them simply because I want to see Reddit and them fight. I’m not going to be switching, because I’m basically done with centralized ultracapitalist bullshit for personal use.

These people didn’t go away. Some of them are even probably here on Lemmy, watching for anyone with a weakness they can exploit to try to recruit them.

A bunch of them were arrested, but a bunch of them weren’t. Stay vigilant. Don’t tolerate these kinds of people.

US isn’t much better, since Trump thinks he’s “making the economy strong” by further strengthening Chinese tariffs.

GPU market was cooked in 2020 when crypto and WFH demonstrated that people will pay literally anything to get the latest hardware. Best thing we can all do is vote with our wallets and vote for politicians who will do something about it, instead of making it worse.

Man, it’s getting so hard to talk about video games, these days… 😉

I second this. I feel like NixOS embodies the idea of new beginnings, since it’s so designed that you can start over but have everything in one config. “Start new” as many times as you want!

Dunno why. I’m just talking about the guy who fights ghouls who live in mansions.

Quick, somebody make a placebo an “ebola vaccine” and convince Republican politicians that they’re not true Trump supporters unless they have an Ebola Party at the RNC.

You could call it “My Pillow.” That brand name should be coming free pretty soon.