Posts by The Central Scrutinizer

Anyone arguing for this nonsense is totally naive. In the politicians' case it's just sheer stupidity/bloody mindedness.

It's all part of the war on personal computing that is being waged these days - encryption back doors, DRM, endless data slurping, the list goes on. As the article states, the proposed law is so nebulous and ill defined, how on earth is it going to be enforced?

Those who would argue that it's just a minor quibble miss the larger point. It's called scope creep. If by some miracle this sort of thing becomes a requirement, you can bet your bottom dollar it will be expanded over time into something truly odious.

We don't need government permission to use our own computing devices as we see fit, free of spying and verifying every damn time we want to do something.

That should be the starting point for combatting garbage like this.

The level of stupidity being peddled by the senile cretins who are proposing these laws is truly mind boggling.

It's something this week, next week it'll be something else equally stupid and repressive. VPNs are already in the sights of some lawmakers. Cue that dumb as a rock woman in England who said that VPNs should now be banned. Then when she learns about Tor, that'll be the next "loophole" in the firing line.

It is not even remotely close to being a crime to try and protect your privacy and security online. People still bang on about how encryption is somehow evidence of wrongdoing, when it's just people taking care online. Now this OS level stuff comes along and some gullible people are saying "oh it's not that bad really". Do they seriously believe that or are they just suffering from a huge case of denial?

What's next, government permission to buy a phone or computer, where all the details are stored in a government database?

It seems that "1984" and "Minority Report" are not coming some day, but that the day has already arrived.

Funny but also sad video, because it encapsulates enshittification perfectly. Another string to enshittification's bow will be the new proposals by some idiot politicians to force age verification on us when we have the temerity to want to use own computers without asking for permission first.

Does anyone really think that the rule of law applies in the US anymore? Just read the news.

Aaaand.... the total lunacy from the current American government seems to have no bounds.

Hey Donald, the bots just accidentally nuked Nebraska!

Ah don't worry about it. We'll blame the Democrats.

AWS down for hours?

Win!

How cute. I know what I'd like to do to their algorithm. It wouldn't be pretty.

Sloporific....

"Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has decided Microsoft needs an engineering quality czar"

About 50 fuckin' years too late.

The first sentence was all I needed to read.

Suck the planet dry of water and electricity you mofos.

Go and get you know what.

Yeah, Snap is a steaming pile of merde. Never again.

What a meaningless word salad he vomited out. Did anyone actually manage to make any sense of that tripe?

The same old cliched arguments get trotted out bla bla. Let's just do everything in plain text and be done with it. Better yet, the politicians should submit themselves to encryption busting efforts and then we'll see how long the idea lasts.

autoplay videos should be hit with a very large hammer.

Boom

So you pay at least 100 bucks a month to play with high explosives without any sort of safety gear or protocols and if you happen to blow yourself up, it's all your fault.

What a great deal.

"since the entire point of crypto is to be able to commit financial crimes without consequence".

OK show us where that is explicitly stated in any manifesto or similar. You might as well say that the entire point of cars is to aid thieves in making a quick getaway.

Can't wait to hand over my credit card details to a shitty piece of software that will go out and buy random stuff for me!

My personal recommendation would be for chat gpt to fuck right off.

It's really easy, actually

Just kill chat gpt.

rm -r

I'll send my bank account details for the half million tomorrow.