That’s a fair point. Actively disabling it at the last minute, after everything had been underway, is significant.
That’s a fair point. Actively disabling it at the last minute, after everything had been underway, is significant.
Yeah, I honestly don’t understand why this narrative even needs to be played out.
I don’t know what angle there is by making Musk a scapegoat beyond, maybe, Ukraine trying to strengthen its supporting relationship with the US population, but it already has most of the US support anyway.
Musk has his issues, there’s no doubt about that, but not wanting to be involved is an ethical stance to take on his part.
Man, they’re attacking telescopes now. What a shitshow
100% agree. It flags infractions, you have people verify what was being flagged, due course follows.
It’s almost as if reality news is converging with Onion news. Each passing year it just gets worse.
From civillians getting bombed, to this, to soldiers expecting to die as they lay in trenches outside of their cities being burned.
And then you have the civillians inside Russia who are brave enough to protest against the war, but at what cost.
It’s depressing.
and requires a kernel level always on spy driver to watch the Chrome process to prevent tampering with it?
That would be one method, yeah. The attester supplies a kernel driver and uses that to generate the auth tokens communicating with it via some protocol or via scanning memory.
The driver is just chilling in the machine, perhaps even evasive to lsmod, such that the only way to detect it is to have your own driver monitoring for some specific signal before the attestor driver gets installed, and then using that signal to track its installation.
There’s always a way. But, as you say, with phones it’s not as simple.
GrapheneOS or some other ROM on an unlocked Android phone is probably going to be the only way of bypassing it.
Nothing new here.
Same old shit.
They’re gonna do what they’re gonna do.
There will be ways around it.
Be patient. It takes time to “get going”.
If you know how to program, you’re in a good spot. If you don’t know how to program, start with fundamentals.
SICP is good. It’s Lisp. You’ll probably never write a line of Lisp professionally, but it will help shape how you reason about solving problems.
Develop some solid fundamentals.
No, it isn’t fine.
And no, I don’t think I’m “very smart”.
but if it starts to be used to censor information and rate humans, that’s the line.
That line has already been crossed. Since it’s already been crossed, it’s inevitable that this will be used in that way.
So they should have… done nothing and given in?
Given in to what? The same dynamic that the majority of social media companies have imposed on their users?
One thing to remember is TPA users (of which I was one) were 3% of the website. 3%. Not a very large figure.
In this capitalistic environment, the dynamic is built off of the most a-moral “fuck you, we can get away with it” approach to business that operates within legal bounds that ultimately allow for a corporation to come out on top. Maybe they break a law, have to pay fines, whatever; as long as they can still profit and make investors/shareholders happy, they’re probably going to get away with it.
Yes, it’s fucked up. 9/10 times, it doesn’t matter what the media says and it doesn’t matter what the users say.
It sucks, but like Facebook, Twitter, Amazon, Google, Apple, etc. all of which have screwed their users over on multiple occasions, they’re still in business, chugging along, people are still using their services.
The alternative choice is Stockholm Syndrome.
By that logic, what’s the difference if, after all of this, still nothing changes and you still use their service?
We have Lemmy, kbin, Mastodon, etc. They’re a great alternative.
Yes, the communities aren’t as fleshed out, over time it will get better.
Reddit is thankfully more optional than a lot of other services.
You can stop using Reddit and go about your day to day obligations.
Services like Amazon and Google are a lot harder to give up.
I wonder what we could do to prevent things like this from happening in the future?
Maybe looking more into the political frameworks that exist, laws, and thinking realistically about what changes can be made in the near future, while also trying to understand the challenges that we would be faced against.
Maybe they’re not as smart as you’d like.
You think I want them to be smart? Lol.
Something controversial happens -> a lot of people get pissed off (understandably so) -> media milks the shit out of the event -> narratives - true, false, embellished, whatever get created -> mischaracterization for anyone who’s approach to handling the situation isn’t in line with majority rule, blah blah blah -> the bad guys (usually) walk away fine.
That’s a very common cycle.
I wasn’t happy with what happened, but it’s been 2 months at this point, and what I’ve gathered is that nothing is going to change.
And yet because I say that these protests are fruitless people get mad and go absolutely nuts on the downvote button.
Sorry, I was under the impression we could have an open discussion without making assumptions in bad faith about people who disagree with the rationale.
My bad 🤚
Its interface is pretty meh I’ll give you that
The mods and users knew exactly what would happen, either Reddit changes, or they double down.
They obviously didn’t know exactly what would happen, because if they did, they wouldn’t have bothered.
You’re listing two possible outcomes and pairing them as a single event, which doesn’t make sense.
Reddit was never going to change - that’s my point. They were definitely going to double down.
All good points.