Paragone
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- Comment on Microsoft is ending the Windows Update nightmare — and letting you pause them indefinitely 1 week ago:
Anyone who believes Microslop corp …
ROTFLMAO
& their machiavellianism means that probably they’ll make security-updates contingent on adding-in their new evil-malwares into one’s system.
( They burned me in DOS 6.20, when their corrupt illegal-copy of Stac Electronics drive-compression was sabotaging me, & I got the no-compression-enabled DOS 6.21, then they came-out with a compression-enabled-and-fixed DOS 6.22, which I wasn’t eligible for, of course…
It’s depressing just how much of the internet is scrubbed of evidence, stories on the evil of big-money establishments/incumbents…
so, instead of having books ( someone did have a book on Microslop-corp’s machiavellian evil actions-history, it’s gone, now: can’t even find what it was called, & it was a physical book ) & trustworthy-Journalism cataloging the history we NEED to keep in mind, for accurate-framing … all that is disappeared & we all live in the consent-manufacturing-process that the economy “needs” us to be processed in.
Never trust them.
For any reason.
Ever.
They WILL betray you.
Read “A New Brand World” ( the word-order is correct ), & read about a marketing-firm who had Microslop-corp as their highest-paying contract, by far, & … it was killing them: they had NO soul.
The CEO of the marketing-firm sent around an email, 1 day, which said ONLY:
“Ding dong, the wicked witch is dead.”
& EVERYbody knew that that meant the CEO had saved their company’s life by killing that contract, because the “culture” of Microsoft was extinguishing their viability.
That is evidence.
Steve Balmer was evidence, too.
All the companies whose work they stole, & litigated against the companies, while selling/bundling the same product, all those are evidence, too.
Ask Linus Torvalds about Microsoft, someday, if you want an opinion on them… I’m certain he’d agree, as he’s seen the same kinds of things, & more, for decades…
They will never be trustworthy, if their history predicts their future.
There was the time they gave people cloud-drive storage…
…but their ToS-agreement gave Microsoft copyright on all that we stored up there…
You truly can’t make up the consistency of machiavellianness that Microsoft has carved in Eternity’s eyes…
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- Comment on Europe takes first step to banning AI-generated child sexual abuse images 2 weeks ago:
Saw that & thought “Good”.
then realized there was an implication…
Shouldnt child sexual-abuse material be illegal no matter what the source that was generating it was??
IE all the underage hentai, whether human or AI generated, all the photo, all the video, shouldn’t it already be illegal, without having to do each source separately?
if they’re having to make each kind illegal as it gets invented, then they’re anchoring on the wrong thing.
It’s the child sexual-abuse nature that ought make it illegal, not what its source was.
( & yes, that too has implication, for some: is it illegal to describe/document one’s own abuse, when one is/was a child?
That, too, is solving the wrong problem.
Correct law takes real work to engineer properly.
The game Nomic was devised to gain people real experience with consequences-of-legal-regime-choices…
Unless people experience how something works, how’re they supposed to understand the consequences of treating it carelessly?
That is as true in physical-technology as it is true in law. )
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- Comment on Most AI chatbots will help users plan violent attacks, study finds 2 weeks ago:
To me, that means that they aren’t being built with the proper internal-hierarchy: no executive function that DECIDES whether to do something: it’s ALL situational-pressure/peer-pressure/social-context, to them, which … now becomes-obvious … is a mental-disability.
Interesting…
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