Some more examples of why piracy is a service problem

This is where we say switch to Linux, right?

I love that one of the prizes for hacking a Tesla is a Tesla. Like here’s one of the privacy nightmares on wheels that you’ve just demonstrated is full of holes. Enjoy!

Yes, this will definitely happen

To be fair, if you’re a W-2 employee, they already have your money from withholding. So it’s not like you’re taking dollars from the irs by not filing your return, it just means you don’t get your rebate.

It’s javascript. We’ll have gone through 275,760 new datetime libraries before then, it’ll be fine.

Did you order it using your Amazon account? I think they pre-configure them for you unless you say “this is a gift” when ordering.

I ran into this when trying to paste my generated password into the password field on some kind of financial site and I think it is still the most egregious case of security theater I’ve seen yet.

Anyway, you want the “don’t fuck with paste” extension, available on both chrome and firefox.

I will (and have been) doing my absolute to avoid buying any kind of physical device that requires an app to function

Same. It’s becoming more difficult every day.

Obligatory “there are now 15 competing standards”

For real though, this looks interesting. I am a long time poetry user, I’ve been mostly happy with it but I do think it could stand to be a little faster. I’ll have to try this out sometime.

We are not far from “please drink verification can”

Why the hell didn’t we subsidize our EV-building and clean energy industries like China did?

Big oil?

The author of this article seems confused about what is a browser and what is a search engine.

Go away! Batin’!

Our garbage trucks already have been for years… I learned that when I got an “overloaded bin” fine, with a video of my neighbor’s bin being dumped as “evidence.” I had to do a dispute and make them reverse it, not because I care about a dollar or whatever insignificant fine amount, but because, like… fuck off with that shit, you know?

Non anti-adblock-wall link (oh, the irony): https://archive.ph/GVLfj

Microsoft:

Well, can you just give me access to the database then?

That’s wild. I’m surprised I never heard of this. Straight up malware.