It’s the chemicals in the water…

Been here for over a decade at this point. The first five years were awesome. Then we got bought by PE.

I’d think so but they did once find my Reddit handle, so I’m not taking any chances.

Software company, decently big but not global, cornered a certain niche in the market. Can’t really divulge more without risking my employment.

Yup, I’m there now.

“Try not to suck any dicks on the way to the parking lot”.

Truly one of the pieces of our time.

Oh that’s right on the corner of FGSFDS.

“Hey ChatGPT, how many human corpses can 12 pigs who haven’t been fed in a week process”?

It would make sense if it’s a scheme to inject ads directly into the stream so adblockers wouldn’t work anymore.

The people pulling the strings have obviously decided that internet freedom is a threat to them and they’re taking (global) action to ensure their supremacy.

Lemmy isn’t monolithic. They’d have to hit every instance separately. The big ones like lemmy.world are a prime target though.

I doubt it, since all it ostensibly does is summarize info the user has released freely. How that info is stored and retained exactly might be up for debate though.

*Have been made long ago and are being constantly updated.

Snowden already warned us about this over a DECADE ago. Their scopes and powers will have increased exponentially. And that was under ‘trustworthy’ administration. I guarantee there’s a type of system in place that flags people before they do anything, just on pattern recognition alone. Of course, they can’t use that system as a legal basis for anything, so they don’t and use parallel constructions instead.

Anyone who thinks “this is coming” hasn’t been paying attention. We’re already there and beyond.

1. People who value their privacy (or “have something to hide”) have a need of a service that provides anonymity
2. This turns said service in the ideal place to start any and all surveillance because your subjects have already self-selected for being “interesting” (especially if you intend to go after low hanging fruit)
3. Therefore I must conclude that people using VPNs and TOR, no matter how legitimate their reasons, are in fact advertising that they have something to hide which current status quo is very interested in knowing…

Be glad he didn’t fuck you and beat your mom.

I do enjoy possession and full function of my prepuce, thank you very much.

Hmm, mine uninstalled without issue but I haven’t yet fully rebooted. Might still get an error at that point. Fingers crossed.

EDIT: reboot completed without issue. Guess I’ve been lucky. My main drive is not one of the affected ones and I didn’t write anything noteworthy to the affected ones when the update was installed, so should be all good from here out.

I am using three drives on that list. Uninstalled KB5063878 and blocked updates for over a month.

Paxton is like a can of RAID; toxic AF but occasionally useful against dirty roaches.