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Last Notes npub13jszgr40d0pnyum0t845scy8uggn676enygvaf4ajzm2y9rqzd8sy75d7q Dave Rahardja The people who ban books are never the good guys. npub13jszgr40d0pnyum0t845scy8uggn676enygvaf4ajzm2y9rqzd8sy75d7q Dave Rahardja I am begging website owners to always provide a light mode. It’s an accessibility issue for me: my aging eyes are no longer able to view light-on-dark text for extended periods without severe ghosting/afterimages. npub13jszgr40d0pnyum0t845scy8uggn676enygvaf4ajzm2y9rqzd8sy75d7q Dave Rahardja My kid gave me the clown honk tone npub13jszgr40d0pnyum0t845scy8uggn676enygvaf4ajzm2y9rqzd8sy75d7q Dave Rahardja “A Dutch court has ordered X and its AI chatbot Grok to immediately stop generating non-consensual sexualized imagery and child pornographic material in the Netherlands, imposing a penalty of €100,000 per day on each defendant for non-compliance.” npub13jszgr40d0pnyum0t845scy8uggn676enygvaf4ajzm2y9rqzd8sy75d7q Dave Rahardja @nprofile…0hde It’s never about protecting children. npub13jszgr40d0pnyum0t845scy8uggn676enygvaf4ajzm2y9rqzd8sy75d7q Dave Rahardja @nprofile…63pg I’m not a lawyer. But intuitively, as the SCOTUS implies, copyright protects the work of humans. When writing a prompt to generate art, a machine is performing the vast majority of the transformation from the billions of works it ingested, not the human. Granted, *how much* human work needs to happen for something to be “transformative” (and thus grant the person a copyright) has been a subject of debate for decades, but generative AI is nowhere close to that threshold IMO. npub13jszgr40d0pnyum0t845scy8uggn676enygvaf4ajzm2y9rqzd8sy75d7q Dave Rahardja @nprofile…63pg @nprofile…a638 When you copyright a book, you’re not copyrighting the output of your typewriter; you’re copyrighting your work. npub13jszgr40d0pnyum0t845scy8uggn676enygvaf4ajzm2y9rqzd8sy75d7q Dave Rahardja @nprofile…eez4 Dachshunds and corgis seem to always win in asserting their body shape even when mixed! npub13jszgr40d0pnyum0t845scy8uggn676enygvaf4ajzm2y9rqzd8sy75d7q Dave Rahardja @nprofile…29up IMO the only material proven to hold digital data for decades at this point is tape, as evidenced by the tape reels they keep finding in storage warehouses whose contents are successfully read back https://www.tomshardware.com/software/linux/recovered-unix-v4-tape-quickly-yields-a-usable-operating-system-nostalgia-addicts-can-now-boot-up-unix-v4-in-a-browser-window npub13jszgr40d0pnyum0t845scy8uggn676enygvaf4ajzm2y9rqzd8sy75d7q Dave Rahardja Here’s the video. npub13jszgr40d0pnyum0t845scy8uggn676enygvaf4ajzm2y9rqzd8sy75d7q Dave Rahardja A man dressed in a Batman costume lambasted #SantaClara city council for not making a firmer stand against ICE during Super Bowl weekend. npub13jszgr40d0pnyum0t845scy8uggn676enygvaf4ajzm2y9rqzd8sy75d7q Dave Rahardja If someone decides to do the right thing after doing the wrong thing for a long time, and your response is “It’s a bit cringe that you took this long to do the right thing”, you deserve a block and a firm kick in your genitals. npub13jszgr40d0pnyum0t845scy8uggn676enygvaf4ajzm2y9rqzd8sy75d7q Dave Rahardja It’s finally happening. The Ouroboros is complete. npub13jszgr40d0pnyum0t845scy8uggn676enygvaf4ajzm2y9rqzd8sy75d7q Dave Rahardja I’m glad that European nations are finally calling out the Trump US as what it is: a military threat to their sovereignty. npub13jszgr40d0pnyum0t845scy8uggn676enygvaf4ajzm2y9rqzd8sy75d7q Dave Rahardja Getting tired of seeing posts on Mastodon by some European man scolding people that they should be more polite, or that if someone categorizes some people as “bad guys” then that makes THEM the bad guys, etc. npub13jszgr40d0pnyum0t845scy8uggn676enygvaf4ajzm2y9rqzd8sy75d7q Dave Rahardja #TodayILearned that Stevens Creek in Cupertino #sfba is *misspelled*. The creek was named after after Elijah Stephens—spelled with a PH—a blacksmith and trapper who settled in Cupertino in 1848. npub13jszgr40d0pnyum0t845scy8uggn676enygvaf4ajzm2y9rqzd8sy75d7q Dave Rahardja “Billionaires will leave if you tax them”: npub13jszgr40d0pnyum0t845scy8uggn676enygvaf4ajzm2y9rqzd8sy75d7q Dave Rahardja Our World In Data posted a wonderful infographic yesterday. npub13jszgr40d0pnyum0t845scy8uggn676enygvaf4ajzm2y9rqzd8sy75d7q Dave Rahardja I’m not a #finance expert but this seems really bad. Banks haven’t needed this much cash infusion since the 2008 recession. On Oct 31, the Fed infused $51B of cash into one bank (they didn’t say which), and on Dec 28, they infused another $34B of cash into another bank (again they didn’t say which). This is after five years of zero such actions. npub13jszgr40d0pnyum0t845scy8uggn676enygvaf4ajzm2y9rqzd8sy75d7q Dave Rahardja I was wondering how much oil use would be displaced if we converted every personal vehicle to electric, and it turns out… npub13jszgr40d0pnyum0t845scy8uggn676enygvaf4ajzm2y9rqzd8sy75d7q Dave Rahardja In more light-hearted news, my friends and I have been trying to make the ugliest possible configuration of a base Porsche 911 using the online configurator. Here’s my entry for Worst Spec: npub13jszgr40d0pnyum0t845scy8uggn676enygvaf4ajzm2y9rqzd8sy75d7q Dave Rahardja It should be abundantly clear to anyone who has spent any time on online social networks that in order to keep a functioning society that consists of good actors, there must be energy spent to kick out bad actors. Moderation and means to detect, block, and ban bad actors are ESSENTIAL, lest the worst in the group ruins the place for everyone else. npub13jszgr40d0pnyum0t845scy8uggn676enygvaf4ajzm2y9rqzd8sy75d7q Dave Rahardja Today’s invasion of Venezuela reminds me that any pro-human societal structure, be it socialism, anarchism, communism, constrained capitalism—what have you—must describe what the system must do in the face of BAD ACTORS WITH WEAPONS. A system that relies on people cooperating with each other will fall rather quickly, because there is no shortage of BAD ACTORS WITH WEAPONS who will invade you (or arise within your ranks) and take your resources and subjugate you. npub13jszgr40d0pnyum0t845scy8uggn676enygvaf4ajzm2y9rqzd8sy75d7q Dave Rahardja “Human intelligence is more than predicting words” was a completely uncontroversial statement 10 years ago. npub13jszgr40d0pnyum0t845scy8uggn676enygvaf4ajzm2y9rqzd8sy75d7q Dave Rahardja Someone recently cited “tall poppy syndrome” as an illustration of a person who resents someone who has more wealth than they do. The implication being: we shouldn’t resent rich people, but instead celebrate their wealth. npub13jszgr40d0pnyum0t845scy8uggn676enygvaf4ajzm2y9rqzd8sy75d7q Dave Rahardja Someone on the Fedi: Hey, here’s a good thing that happened! npub13jszgr40d0pnyum0t845scy8uggn676enygvaf4ajzm2y9rqzd8sy75d7q Dave Rahardja #meme #trolleyProblem npub13jszgr40d0pnyum0t845scy8uggn676enygvaf4ajzm2y9rqzd8sy75d7q Dave Rahardja @nprofile…favr I struggle to find applications in which AI slop is reasonably acceptable as “art” in our world, today. To me, the cultural context in which generative AI exists is so toxic, so abusive, so corrosive to humanity, that its stench overwhelms its output. npub13jszgr40d0pnyum0t845scy8uggn676enygvaf4ajzm2y9rqzd8sy75d7q Dave Rahardja The kids are all right. @nprofile…lzjh https://post.lurk.org/@rose_alibi/115784000877444904 npub13jszgr40d0pnyum0t845scy8uggn676enygvaf4ajzm2y9rqzd8sy75d7q Dave Rahardja “But they’re so much safer than human drivers” npub13jszgr40d0pnyum0t845scy8uggn676enygvaf4ajzm2y9rqzd8sy75d7q Dave Rahardja “Keystroke data from the laptop of a worker who was supposed to be in US should have taken tens of milliseconds to reach Amazon’s Seattle headquarters. Instead, the flow from this machine was more than 110 milliseconds, Amazon’s Chief Security Officer Stephen Schmidt told me. npub13jszgr40d0pnyum0t845scy8uggn676enygvaf4ajzm2y9rqzd8sy75d7q Dave Rahardja Post AI slop? Temporary mute. npub13jszgr40d0pnyum0t845scy8uggn676enygvaf4ajzm2y9rqzd8sy75d7q Dave Rahardja As #Christmas rolls around, I once again post this timeless illustration by Everett Patterson from 2014, titled “José y Maria”. Ever more poignant today. npub13jszgr40d0pnyum0t845scy8uggn676enygvaf4ajzm2y9rqzd8sy75d7q Dave Rahardja “Who is the fifth pig?” — a fold-in ad from World War II. npub13jszgr40d0pnyum0t845scy8uggn676enygvaf4ajzm2y9rqzd8sy75d7q Dave Rahardja Everything I Don’t Like Is Woke npub13jszgr40d0pnyum0t845scy8uggn676enygvaf4ajzm2y9rqzd8sy75d7q Dave Rahardja @nprofile…np83 The funny thing is that I suspect a large number of USians will initially not believe that other countries do it this way, and then when they finally admit it’s true, they’ll find ways to rationalize why the US way is better, actually. npub13jszgr40d0pnyum0t845scy8uggn676enygvaf4ajzm2y9rqzd8sy75d7q Dave Rahardja CHP Santa Cruz has been posting these notices constantly. It’s pretty bad. npub13jszgr40d0pnyum0t845scy8uggn676enygvaf4ajzm2y9rqzd8sy75d7q Dave Rahardja The folks around Alice’s Restaurant in La Honda #sfba have put up this poster in the restroom. The rash of deaths and crashes on Skyline/Highway 9 have spiked in the post-lockdown years, and the neighbors there are justifiably fed up. npub13jszgr40d0pnyum0t845scy8uggn676enygvaf4ajzm2y9rqzd8sy75d7q Dave Rahardja Fun fact: the word “football” used to refer to *any* game involving a ball, two teams, and goal lines, played on level ground. This word dates back to at least the 1400s. npub13jszgr40d0pnyum0t845scy8uggn676enygvaf4ajzm2y9rqzd8sy75d7q Dave Rahardja One problem with #capitalism, especially around publicly-traded companies, is that there is really nothing that prevents a group of rich people from buying up a popular company, saddling it with debt to the purchaser’s company, then bleeding it dry of cash, slowly ruining its products, and then selling the corpse for parts. This often nets the buyer a tidy profit, but leaves employees without a job, and customers without a product they love. npub13jszgr40d0pnyum0t845scy8uggn676enygvaf4ajzm2y9rqzd8sy75d7q Dave Rahardja This seems bad. npub13jszgr40d0pnyum0t845scy8uggn676enygvaf4ajzm2y9rqzd8sy75d7q Dave Rahardja If you ever have impostor syndrome, remember that in 2021 Zuck renamed the Facebook company “Meta” and then went on to lose 48 MILLION DOLLARS PER DAY for the next four years on “The Metaverse”. npub13jszgr40d0pnyum0t845scy8uggn676enygvaf4ajzm2y9rqzd8sy75d7q Dave Rahardja https://www.boycott-airbnb.org/ npub13jszgr40d0pnyum0t845scy8uggn676enygvaf4ajzm2y9rqzd8sy75d7q Dave Rahardja @nprofile…scce “"The Information's story inaccurately combines the concepts of growth and sales quotas, which shows their lack of understanding of the way a sales organization works and is compensated," a company spokesperson said in a statement. npub13jszgr40d0pnyum0t845scy8uggn676enygvaf4ajzm2y9rqzd8sy75d7q Dave Rahardja Holy shit, is #Flock speedrunning to be the shittiest company of 2025? npub13jszgr40d0pnyum0t845scy8uggn676enygvaf4ajzm2y9rqzd8sy75d7q Dave Rahardja Never forget that Elon’s DOGE was behind this. npub13jszgr40d0pnyum0t845scy8uggn676enygvaf4ajzm2y9rqzd8sy75d7q Dave Rahardja What’s a good *general purpose* #peertube server? npub13jszgr40d0pnyum0t845scy8uggn676enygvaf4ajzm2y9rqzd8sy75d7q Dave Rahardja Hahaha npub13jszgr40d0pnyum0t845scy8uggn676enygvaf4ajzm2y9rqzd8sy75d7q Dave Rahardja Someone made a Gmail clone where you can read the Epstein emails npub13jszgr40d0pnyum0t845scy8uggn676enygvaf4ajzm2y9rqzd8sy75d7q Dave Rahardja I wish English had a different phrase for “I’m sorry” where it means “I sympathize with your hardship” instead of “I apologize”. npub13jszgr40d0pnyum0t845scy8uggn676enygvaf4ajzm2y9rqzd8sy75d7q Dave Rahardja Trump has called for the LITERAL EXECUTION of Democratic legislators who reminded military personnel that they must not obey illegal orders. npub13jszgr40d0pnyum0t845scy8uggn676enygvaf4ajzm2y9rqzd8sy75d7q Dave Rahardja 2025 is the year we learn that a small number of large companies have become single-point failures for the Internet in the US. npub13jszgr40d0pnyum0t845scy8uggn676enygvaf4ajzm2y9rqzd8sy75d7q Dave Rahardja Went to a Second Harvest (local #sfba #SiliconValley food pantry nonprofit) fundraising event this morning, and I learned some interesting things today: npub13jszgr40d0pnyum0t845scy8uggn676enygvaf4ajzm2y9rqzd8sy75d7q Dave Rahardja Yes, it’s the same company that just recalled their hybrid Jeeps for spontaneously catching on fire. npub13jszgr40d0pnyum0t845scy8uggn676enygvaf4ajzm2y9rqzd8sy75d7q Dave Rahardja Another reason not to buy #Stellantis products. They knew about issues about debris in the engine for TWO YEARS before they issued a recall. They kept selling cars whose engines can self-destruct for TWO YEARS while being aware of the problem. npub13jszgr40d0pnyum0t845scy8uggn676enygvaf4ajzm2y9rqzd8sy75d7q Dave Rahardja This whole story is incredibly suspicious. Smells to me that there is an organized effort to take archive dot today offline, using “CSAM” as pretext. I am almost certain that there is a financial motive at play here; perhaps some group of paywalled content owners are resenting the fact that archive dot today is circumventing their paywalls. npub13jszgr40d0pnyum0t845scy8uggn676enygvaf4ajzm2y9rqzd8sy75d7q Dave Rahardja Stellantis called for a “mandatory work from home” day for a large group of their US employees, then laid off 400 people over zoom. npub13jszgr40d0pnyum0t845scy8uggn676enygvaf4ajzm2y9rqzd8sy75d7q Dave Rahardja Here’s something shocking: Westfield owed $558M for the San Francisco Centre, a mall on downtown #sfba #SanFrancisco’s Market Street, when they stopped making payments on their loan two years ago. The lending banks foreclosed on the property, which by now has a $566M debt on it, by bidding on it themselves on auction…for $134M, with NO competing bids. npub13jszgr40d0pnyum0t845scy8uggn676enygvaf4ajzm2y9rqzd8sy75d7q Dave Rahardja Word salad. Corporate gibberish. No user wants this. npub13jszgr40d0pnyum0t845scy8uggn676enygvaf4ajzm2y9rqzd8sy75d7q Dave Rahardja @nprofile…59g0 @nprofile…np83 I suspect at least 10,000 of those people live in the #sfba npub13jszgr40d0pnyum0t845scy8uggn676enygvaf4ajzm2y9rqzd8sy75d7q Dave Rahardja #FuckChuck #kakistocracy #complicit npub13jszgr40d0pnyum0t845scy8uggn676enygvaf4ajzm2y9rqzd8sy75d7q Dave Rahardja PSA: The picture of that guy drinking through a straw from a transparent plastic jacket filled with Tsingtao beer is AI-generated. npub13jszgr40d0pnyum0t845scy8uggn676enygvaf4ajzm2y9rqzd8sy75d7q Dave Rahardja Green Card holders are LEGAL residents of this country, and they are entitled to First Amendment rights of free expression, including the right to express political views that the ruling party doesn’t like. npub13jszgr40d0pnyum0t845scy8uggn676enygvaf4ajzm2y9rqzd8sy75d7q Dave Rahardja I’m done with Paramount/CBS. https://pouet.chapril.org/@dallo/115494024244036621 npub13jszgr40d0pnyum0t845scy8uggn676enygvaf4ajzm2y9rqzd8sy75d7q Dave Rahardja When a Republican endorses a Democrat, please take a moment to ask yourself why they did that. npub13jszgr40d0pnyum0t845scy8uggn676enygvaf4ajzm2y9rqzd8sy75d7q Dave Rahardja Ars Technica and Wired are on the list. Welp. Time to cancel. npub13jszgr40d0pnyum0t845scy8uggn676enygvaf4ajzm2y9rqzd8sy75d7q Dave Rahardja @nprofile…scce It’s really odd that the browser stores its state in a Desktop folder by default. npub13jszgr40d0pnyum0t845scy8uggn676enygvaf4ajzm2y9rqzd8sy75d7q Dave Rahardja @nprofile…6zuf BTW I believe the reason we have TWO companies in each space is because of what remains of US antitrust law. Companies need *one* strong competitor to claim “we are not a monopoly.” npub13jszgr40d0pnyum0t845scy8uggn676enygvaf4ajzm2y9rqzd8sy75d7q Dave Rahardja @nprofile…6zuf Antitrust regulation is needed to determine that a company has become too powerful, to the point that effective competition is no longer likely. At that time, the company must be broken up, as an countering force to the tendency to agglomerate as described above. npub13jszgr40d0pnyum0t845scy8uggn676enygvaf4ajzm2y9rqzd8sy75d7q Dave Rahardja @nprofile…6zuf Similar to winner-takes-all, first-past-the-post election systems, I think any market system that allows unlimited acquisition will end up with at most two dominant players in every field. npub13jszgr40d0pnyum0t845scy8uggn676enygvaf4ajzm2y9rqzd8sy75d7q Dave Rahardja GOOD JOB #NewMexico! This is how you do it. npub13jszgr40d0pnyum0t845scy8uggn676enygvaf4ajzm2y9rqzd8sy75d7q Dave Rahardja #TodayILearned that there was a Minangkabau (Sumatra, Indonesia) tradition of playing the “kalason”—musical car horns. npub13jszgr40d0pnyum0t845scy8uggn676enygvaf4ajzm2y9rqzd8sy75d7q Dave Rahardja My House representative Ro Khanna just introduced the “Ban Crypto Corruption” bill. npub13jszgr40d0pnyum0t845scy8uggn676enygvaf4ajzm2y9rqzd8sy75d7q Dave Rahardja @nprofile…p6ac This is correct. AI has nothing to do with it, but it is a convenient cover for squeezing employees (mostly middle management) out. npub13jszgr40d0pnyum0t845scy8uggn676enygvaf4ajzm2y9rqzd8sy75d7q Dave Rahardja Resist the urge to be cynical. npub13jszgr40d0pnyum0t845scy8uggn676enygvaf4ajzm2y9rqzd8sy75d7q Dave Rahardja #Australia sues #Microsoft for foisting Copilot #AI onto existing Office 365 subscribers, and raising their rates at the same time. npub13jszgr40d0pnyum0t845scy8uggn676enygvaf4ajzm2y9rqzd8sy75d7q Dave Rahardja Richard Smith performs “The Entertainer” solo on acoustic guitar. npub13jszgr40d0pnyum0t845scy8uggn676enygvaf4ajzm2y9rqzd8sy75d7q Dave Rahardja Tawny Platis on 65 years of female robotic voices in movies and TV npub13jszgr40d0pnyum0t845scy8uggn676enygvaf4ajzm2y9rqzd8sy75d7q Dave Rahardja Someone has made a website that lists food pantries in the US. npub13jszgr40d0pnyum0t845scy8uggn676enygvaf4ajzm2y9rqzd8sy75d7q Dave Rahardja “And for those who aren't insiders in the tech industry, it's vital that you understand that you've been presented with an extremely distorted view about what tech workers really think about AI. Very few agree with the hype bubble that the tycoons have been trying to puff up.” npub13jszgr40d0pnyum0t845scy8uggn676enygvaf4ajzm2y9rqzd8sy75d7q Dave Rahardja “Trump has repeatedly said that work on the ballroom is privately funded by himself and donors and will cost nothing to taxpayers.” npub13jszgr40d0pnyum0t845scy8uggn676enygvaf4ajzm2y9rqzd8sy75d7q Dave Rahardja Someone stole the Momotaro statue in Guadalupe River Park #SanJose #California, a gift from the sister city of Okayama, Japan. npub13jszgr40d0pnyum0t845scy8uggn676enygvaf4ajzm2y9rqzd8sy75d7q Dave Rahardja OH HELL NO. npub13jszgr40d0pnyum0t845scy8uggn676enygvaf4ajzm2y9rqzd8sy75d7q Dave Rahardja And this, children, is another reason why we don’t hold live-fire exercises over civilians and public infrastructure. npub13jszgr40d0pnyum0t845scy8uggn676enygvaf4ajzm2y9rqzd8sy75d7q Dave Rahardja You remember Davie504, the guy who got copyright-striked on YouTube for playing Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata? npub13jszgr40d0pnyum0t845scy8uggn676enygvaf4ajzm2y9rqzd8sy75d7q Dave Rahardja #TodayILearned that the English word “gun” likely came from a woman’s name, Gunilda (a Norse name, from the words gunnr and hildr, both meaning “war”). npub13jszgr40d0pnyum0t845scy8uggn676enygvaf4ajzm2y9rqzd8sy75d7q Dave Rahardja @nprofile…sxvw @nprofile…7xkg AI cannot be rational, because AI cannot reason. npub13jszgr40d0pnyum0t845scy8uggn676enygvaf4ajzm2y9rqzd8sy75d7q Dave Rahardja I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: npub13jszgr40d0pnyum0t845scy8uggn676enygvaf4ajzm2y9rqzd8sy75d7q Dave Rahardja Man, I feel this. Takeovers and social media clout-chasing are encouraging bad behavior, and it’s spreading everywhere. Car Week was full of teens with video gear trying to get people to do something outrageous. The crowds around the recent Slammedenuff Gatlinburg event was a disaster, and ended up causing a cancellation of the Sunday portion due to fears for public safety. Hwy 9 had a ton of deaths this year, I’m guessing because the road became viral on social media. npub13jszgr40d0pnyum0t845scy8uggn676enygvaf4ajzm2y9rqzd8sy75d7q Dave Rahardja Glad I ditched Spotify. npub13jszgr40d0pnyum0t845scy8uggn676enygvaf4ajzm2y9rqzd8sy75d7q Dave Rahardja Saw a Sora video of Bob Ross painting car parts and I died a little. npub13jszgr40d0pnyum0t845scy8uggn676enygvaf4ajzm2y9rqzd8sy75d7q Dave Rahardja @nprofile…gmna I’m tentatively glad that the watermarking tool exists, because it forces people to double-check every video they watch for authenticity, even without a watermark. We really can’t rely on a watermark to determine whether a video is authentic or synthesized. npub13jszgr40d0pnyum0t845scy8uggn676enygvaf4ajzm2y9rqzd8sy75d7q Dave Rahardja @nprofile…r5de What a disaster. npub13jszgr40d0pnyum0t845scy8uggn676enygvaf4ajzm2y9rqzd8sy75d7q Dave Rahardja As a society, we need to see through the phrase “stifling innovation” as a euphemism for “not letting me make a shit-ton of money at the expense of societal well-being.” npub13jszgr40d0pnyum0t845scy8uggn676enygvaf4ajzm2y9rqzd8sy75d7q Dave Rahardja “Age verification” is surveillance. npub13jszgr40d0pnyum0t845scy8uggn676enygvaf4ajzm2y9rqzd8sy75d7q Dave Rahardja #IAmNotALawyer npub13jszgr40d0pnyum0t845scy8uggn676enygvaf4ajzm2y9rqzd8sy75d7q Dave Rahardja @nprofile…s6x2 Taken in isolation, maybe, but I feel like there are enough other clues on the website that I feel comfortable calling this a parody and not psy-op. npub13jszgr40d0pnyum0t845scy8uggn676enygvaf4ajzm2y9rqzd8sy75d7q Dave Rahardja You scared, bro? npub13jszgr40d0pnyum0t845scy8uggn676enygvaf4ajzm2y9rqzd8sy75d7q Dave Rahardja I may just be getting old, but I simply cannot stand #Ferrari’s styling these days. These cars are technologically amazing, but MAN do they look fugly for the money. The 296 is probably the best looking one of the bunch, but that’s just being generous. For the kind of money they’re asking, I’d want something that looks better than this. npub13jszgr40d0pnyum0t845scy8uggn676enygvaf4ajzm2y9rqzd8sy75d7q Dave Rahardja Client-side scanning is so absurd, so dumb, so easily abused and bypassed by criminals, that the only practical targets that will fall under Chat Control are the masses of *casual users* who aren’t using encrypted services for anything nefarious.
