I’ll say it again: I’m concerned about the wildlife. the leopards are going to die of morbid obesity.

Because if anybody would have a relevant take on this, it’s Florida’s attorney general.

This shouldn’t be relevant but actually yea, ax has a good point. Plenty of people don’t really understand things that aren’t part of a big brand online.

there are several ways to do this. it depends on the software and the operating system the client is running on which make sense. There is also a way to fake it if you create a catalogue of commonly used apps with VPNs, then have the VPN client launch them with command line arguments, but thats not really a flawless way to do it, just compatible

The end game doesn’t involve having customers at all. The rich think they just wont need an economy anymore once their slaves die off and automation and AI replace them all.

They wont be able to help themselves though. They will get bored and start eating eachother.

I’m actually kind of shocked that these VPN clients don’t have little sandbox functions built into them where you can launch an app from within the client and the client keeps that app in a little sandbox that only has the clients own path to the internet. It would be an easy mode for this kind of thing.

It looks like we are going that way. Frankly it’s for the best. Tor has become a risk and that’s just not acceptable under this regime.

It’s possible dad was lying.

The goal is to train our replacements so the rich will have replacement servants ready when their slaves start dying off.

My understanding of that was Facebook just gave up on human moderation and let an AI do whatever it wanted. Still unacceptable but totally foreseeable.

Oh please understand I read your comment as intrigue and not hostility. I welcome the conversation, including any rebuttals that could prove me wrong.

I like it here on Lemmy. People complain about the tankies but overall it’s actually been very tame and friendly compared to Reddit and conversations like this are just a joy for me.

It solves a problem we don’t really have anymore.

This is actually pretty interesting. Russians are typically more tech savvy than you would expect. A factory full of them and this still happened.

The only flash drive I ever had fail me that wasn’t made by sandisk was a generic microcenter one, which was so cheap I couldn’t bring myself to care about it.

Well it’s heavier and slower than native code and due in part to being an oracle technology people kind of avoid it anymore. It’s kind of a legacy language at this point.

Surely not!

This is the golden age of misinformation and you are bitching about citations?

The planet is dying, we have pretty much given up on even pretending to do anything about it, and the rich are using the time we have left before mass die offs to get AI up and running early enough to perfect it.

Just a thought that occurred to me today. In better times I would dismiss it as nothing more than an amusing conspiracy theory but lately…

I can certainly understand holding grudges against corporations. I didn’t buy anything from Sony for a very long time after their fuckery with George Hotz and Nintendo’s latest horseshit has me staying away from them, but that was a single firmware bug that locked down hard drives (note, the data was still intact) a very long time ago. Seagate even issued a firmware update to prevent the bug from biting users it hadn’t hit yet, but firmware updates at the time weren’t really something people thought to ever do, and operating systems did not check for them automatically back then like they do now.

Seagate fucked up but they also did everything they could to make it right. That matters. Plus, look at their competition. WD famously lied about their red drives not being SMR when they actually were. And I’ve only ever had WD hard drives and sandisk flash drives die on me. And guess who owns sandisk? Western Digital!

I guess if you must go with a another company, there’s the louder and more expensive Toshiba drives but I have never used those before so I know nothing about them aside from their reputation for being loud.

Nothing. But this does it all in bull instantly for free.