Niclas Hedhman @niclas@angrytoday.com

2023

In our public primary school every pupil gets an iPad starting 3rd grade, with a +Microsoft 365 account+ so they can "get used to the applications that are prevalent in business". Good job, getting 8 years old kids hooked on Office products, paid by the public.

All iPads are replaced every 3 years because "they degrade in performance" to make sure "pupils have always a device with peak performance". Good job, getting 8 year old kids used to "e-waste is nothing we need to care about".

I can only shake my head in disbelief, to say the least.

Every single time! #infosec #supplychain

Wow, after 25 years of Unix experience, I learned that you can filter output in #less.

Press ampersand (&) and enter a regex to show only lines matching the regex.

Press ampersand (&) and then exclamation mark (!) to apply an inverse filter.

@lupyuen So they're basically turning your phone into a tracker. "Neat."

I still do wonder if it's legal in the EU to have other people's products (e.g. AirTags, Pixels, ...) use my data volume (which I pay for and which is limited) without my consent.

> "We need government!"

For what?

To form a collective and seize an illegitimate power of "arbitrary compulsion under threat of violence" that no member individually posses?

I don't have the power to violate the natural rights of another person.

An arbitrary group of people exerting supposed power (that none of them have individually), and calling it "Government", is a brazen, illegitimate, out and open criminal enterprise.

> we need government

Explain why we *need* that.

The Constitution isn't "ignored", it's "interpreted differently".

It is wielded as a weapon, because it is one. The same one they beat us with. It's not going to "save us".

It is fundamentally illegitimate. Was then, is now. The results are right in front of us. Undeniable and indefensible. Everyone can see.

Yet people continue to praise the club as it is raised to strike them.

We've "progressed" in #IT so hard that we've come back to full circle to #timesharing systems. ​​ Replace the "mainframe" with the #cloud and replace the terminals with #smartphones and #chromebooks. ​​

Soon the concept of a true #personalcomputer is going to be an endangered species. ​:seija_coffee:​

RE: https://makai.chaotic.ninja/notes/9rtto1lnmo

Does getting old make you more gullible somehow?

Seeing an IRC client implemented in the UEFI made me realize that we can bring back booting to ROM BASIC.

The 5 Stages.

1. The government does /some/ things okay, right?

2. I'm being charged HOW MUCH extra property tax this year?!

3. We can fix this if we just get the right people in office!

4. Nothing will change, it's FUBAR.

5. Government is an out and open criminal enterprise that must be abolished.

To your knowledge, how many times have you been infected with SARS-CoV-2? (Boosts appreciated.)