Toxic and potentially risky ownership.

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Because the endgame of the way we are developing the technology is not Star Trek but I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream.

It’s an existential threat, a Great Filter.

Get mad at individuals seeking the path of least resistance in their complicated lives about an important but not urgent issue.

Issue is actually a structural issue.

Divide and oligarch wins again, good job!

They don’t have phone numbers? I will risk the known exposure through the phone system before anything Meta or LinkedIn. Basically if fb or insta is your contact choice, I am going to phone or sms instead.

Ah, someone should correct that article then.

TL;DR:

Njalla (Swedish pronunciation: [ˈnjala]) is an anonymous domain name registrar, hosting provider and VPN provider, established by The Pirate Bay co-founder Peter Sunde.

Hm now I wonder what to do about that, as they have had my number for a while now.

The essay being linked to was posted (authored?) by dessalines from lemmy.ml

You may have missed the sarcasm.

Oh!! Right. My personal solution in your situation has been to use Drupal to build the forum you want.

It has fine grained permissions, adequate security for private fora, the ability to build out groups and spaces that vary widely in access level, plus lots of features through addons, and all kinds of archival and repository possibilities.

I have used it to build courseware for university programs and it was surprisingly capable at managing users and supporting different formats of documents comments, and discussion groups.

Get a matrix server from etke.cc or a similar company. Hosting is around €25 per month and the server is mostly managed by them. You can federate it for easier admin but keep all or some of it private and by invite only. The encryption should be good enough for medical and business purposes.

Matrix is the chat and audio/video conferencing system underneath, but use the Element chat app (mobile, desktop, web) for the front end.

Immich FTW

Right, that list somehow reminds me that I need to go get a copy of Children of Men, very topical, sadly, and worth a rewatch.

It sets itself to autostart, and then hid the setting deep on a second screen. Opt-out plus malicious design, for one example, and the algorithm and pay structure for another.

I fucking hated spotify from the moment I first interacted with it, primarily due to the way the app worked, and its exploitative position as middleware.

Convenience be damned if it’s a net loss to society.

OK but no-one knows for certain.

Oh those display specs are usually pretty good. What is more of an issue is noise (cooling system) and power consumption. They are usually brighter than home units.

The retail industry generally uses NEC/Sharp and similar displays, but they are expensive as they are metal-cased and built to run reliably all day every day.

E.G. https://sharp.ca/en/product/business-displays-pnm502/

When you create the live USB installer, you can test it out before installing by booting from the USB stick.

You will probably need to have a way of establishing a wired connection, however, in order to install the Wi-Fi drivers.

I currently have it installed on a 2008 iMac and a 2012 MacBook Pro.

I also have ZorinOS On a MacBook Air that works great, and Debian on a MBPro 2014, and am about to install Fedora on another MBPro, 2013. Those are mostly server experiments, though.

Yes, I wind up with a lot of old macs that I am reluctant to recycle!