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Well-respected by who? >(but unintentionally criminalizing open source) Why do you assume this was unintentional? Because she said so?

I can't be the only one who will never comply with these draconian, anti-privacy laws, nor the only one with the technical prowess to bypass them. Never used social media (unless y…

>No, that court case established that the government needs a warrant to get, specifically, historical cellphone pings from a 3rd party (the cellphone companies). Flock is gathering…

>I really wish MUDs were still a thing. They aren't as popular as they once were, but they are still out there. One of the hardest-core OG muds, Armageddon Mud (which was based on …

>I wonder if the login nags only happen on mobile devices. Nope, I surf exclusively on a desktop using Firefox and yesterday I got hit with the login prompt for old.reddit. Don't h…

We were around ~$11 trillion in debt in 2009. Now we are ~$40 trillion in debt. The FED balance sheet was less than $1 trillion before the crisis in 2008, now it is around ~$7 tril…

>but it is not, as far as I can tell, an organisation with an agenda of populace control that those powerful people suborn themselves to. They aren't suborning themselves to anyone…

Well I'm glad to be the first. I suggest you familiarize yourself with the WEF, which is an annual meeting of heads of state, titans of industry and other various unsavory billiona…

>None of this has anything to do with a purported green movement that seeks to end private ownership of cars. Modern cars allow autonomy of movement, even if you are tracked (excep…

>extort random citizens for petty crimes that in any other case nobody would ever care or know about. With the massive, byzantine web of local, state and federal laws everyone is v…

>Who desires the control? Can you name a member of this nebulous conspiracy? Every level of government, the World Economic Forum and every other organization that seeks to mandate …

As an aside, and as a life-long Long-Islander, it has long been considered an open-secret (whether it's true or not) by many that Cold Spring Harbor Lab has a small nuclear reactor…

My friend's dad got a 1200 baud modem when they first came out for some obscene amount of money. Back then Compuserve used to charge by your connection speed. I was mowing lawns to…

>"Young people know all about computers" was never true either. That's true, but only because not all young people owned or used computers. I was born in the mid 70s and got my fir…

>Most people in my generation didn't know the fundamentals of computing either. That's true of my generation as well, but computers weren't ubiquitous and used by everyone all the …

>I'm one of the greybeards who has the 2400 BAUD modem negotiation tone sequences emblazened in my neurons. Making the jump from 300 baud to 2400 felt like magic!

I submitted a few of my papers from grad school (long before LLMs or so-called "AI" existed) and they were flagged as being ~70% AI.

Maybe so, but here in the USA I can walk into a 7-11 right now and buy a prepaid phone with cash and no ID.

The ability of the government(s) to exclude you from every day activities required for participation in society (or survival) if you run afoul of their edicts is a feature of digit…

You aren't required to identify yourself to get a phone. You can get a prepaid phone with no ID. You are required to identify yourself for an electricity account because it is esse…

My library card has no picture on it. Me and 100 of my closest friends could easily share the same card.

>I have no idea who the customer is for this product. Everyone who despises Google, Apple and all of the social media companies and wants absolutely no part of them. I'm going to b…

>Well, on the right side of the border. Which border? The Israelis don't recognize a border, which is why they have illegally annexed the Golan Heights in Syria, are currently atte…