“Already done” it was when most people were on social media. It’s a self-supporting censorship machine requiring no government intervention. Censorship is usually defined as government censorship, and a private business on their platform has right to do whatever they want about speech. And that’s fine when those private businesses are physical diners, rented spaces for events and so on. But if there were 2 or 3 owners of all the spaces you can rent to have a meeting, and those would have policy on speech, you’d have effective non-governmental censorship IRL. Same with the Internet.

Then platform owners do that censorship simply because they can and it’s convenient too.

Whatever governments order them comes much later and doesn’t change much. We already have censorship for 10-15 years, affecting all we do.

That’d be a Nintendo reference, yes? Though I think somebody else stole Wine code and was caught. No huge consequences obviously.

One can see which torrents you share. So when they can’t jail you for that - yes, but money makes laws.

Forgot they are dealing with Sony.

Proton’s big sell is that they can be trusted to be truthful about what is safe and what is not safe for your privacy.

Which somebody who can be trusted wouldn’t ever do.

Businesses sell goods, services, deals, not truth.

And privacy is not about trust.

A bit less than 20 years ago a new PC arrived in our home, and some of the letters on the drive inside it said “Seagate Barracuda”. And that drive lasted longer than the motherboard in that box (and the CPU’s integrated graphics started gradually failing a few years before that, so I was using a cheap discrete card).

Point is, I have good associations with the brand, sad that it’s become this bad.

Of course it’s biased. One company writing about another company is always biased. Imagine mods of one community collectively writing a post about another community, would the fact alone not be enough? Or admins of one instance about another.

It was common sense when I as a kid went online, writing all manners of awfully stupid things memories of which still haunt me today.

You’d be friendly and respectful with all people around you on the same forums and chats. But never ever would you believe them when they tell you what to think about something.

We live in a strange time when instead of applying this simple rule people are looking for mechanisms like karma or fact-checking or even market share to allow themselves to uncritically believe some stuff.

Everything satirical and absurdist I’ve read felt very realistic.

But again, that’s something most autists would sign under, I think.

They can surrender. Or what is the legal term.

192GB RAM? I can see how it’s convenient for really fast cached storage, or temporary, if we ignore the price.

Practically I’m not sure why people would need anything above 24GB. Especially with Apple prices.

I’ll do a reverse reductio ad Hitlerum and say that a lot of people who had substantial enough communication with Hitler considered him very intelligent. Just, well, unhinged, with an itch he couldn’t scratch, with murderous overvalued ideas … But misjudgements usually used to justify calling him a corporal limited in perception are big because a man shouldn’t have such power, not because the particular man who had was dumber than the rest.

Benefits - ape gets a grenade. Risks - ape doesn’t care about risks, because it throws the grenade far enough.

Oh no! We can’t live without overengineered pieces of silicon made via processes more complex than anything in history, with enormous computing power being used to display our porn and cat pics. We need more performance! And we need even more complex CPUs.

Everyone is different. I could live with things from year 2005. Except they were expensive and not everyone had them. I would want people to have necessities and simple, sturdy, cheap, weak tech to fulfill their needs and nothing more. Not lack some things and have far too powerful tools for other things.

The shepherd and the dog might be in agreement.

Cockroaches using the government to make oppressive laws. I think I’m still ancap.

You think wrong.

No, just pointing out that there’s difference between Russia’s mischief level (similar to Saddam’s level or frankly even US level in Iraq 2004) and the Nazi level (countries doing that are not being called mischievous by westerners, because their free uncensored media somehow magically by itself freely aligns with geopolitical policies of western governments).

And since the person I was answering is likely from a country allied with some of the latter, seems shameless for them to bring up Nuremberg.

It’s YOUR country and we are talking about YOUR country and no one else. Don’t look at others. Do not normalize that.

I don’t care what you are talking about. It’s pretty normal that you think you have the moral high ground. It’s also pretty normal that in fact you don’t.

The rest of your comment is your imagination, having nothing to do with what I said.

I said that if, say, WWII didn’t happen (something like Man in the High Castle, but moderate version), but some kind of Nuremberg trials did happen, with, say, Dolfuss and Mussolini and their crowd, but not Nazis as the accused, - that would be the correct analogy to Russia being accused in such a tribunal and half the US allies not.

That’s truth whether you like it or not. And you are not on the side of any freedom or rules-based order too, you are on the side that bombed Gaza for a year, and the genocidal (for real and not like Russia) Turkish state, and Saudi Arabia, and Gulf Arab monarchies.

I’m not a native speaker and autistic in addition to that, but Google says yes.

Chinese economy is even more capitalist if that’s possible.