Well, as a general rule of thumb, if Orange Hitler says one thing, then the opposite of that is the right choice. So in a way, what he’s saying can be interpreted as a recommendation (only) if you invert the meaning of his whole expression.
“Ich kann wieder sehr viel lernen; vor allem, daß das Volk meistens viel primitiver ist, als wir uns das vorstellen. Das Wesen der Propaganda ist deshalb die Einfachheit und die Wiederholung. Nur wer die Probleme auf die einfachste Formel bringen kann, und den Mut hat, sie auch gegen die Einsprüche der Intellektuellen ewig in dieser vereinfachten Form zu wiederholen, der wird auf die Dauer zu grundlegenden Erfolgen in der Beeinflussung der öffentlichen Meinung kommen. Wer einen anderen Weg einschlägt, mag den oder jenen labilen Intellektuellenkreis beeinflussen, das Volk ist er nicht einmal an der Oberfläche zu ritzen in der Lage.”
– Joseph Goebbels, Tagebuch, 29. Januar 1942
His attitude towards humans in general (including Americans) is a disgrace. He only exists to accumulate money and power. Nothing else is of interest to him. The only people who are gladly supporting him are 1) companies and individuals who want more money/power themselves and 2) right-wing extremists who are gullible by definition (pro-authoritarian, want to follow a Führer blindly, hate outsiders of their own group). Hence the strategy to convert conservatives to right-wing extremists via manipulation and propaganda.
I used to be an adventurer like you, but then I took a cat to the knee.
Yes, even the term “sideloading” is already a discrimination. Let us “install” (not “sideload”) software from sources we want or trust. A smartphone is a computer, and there are lots of reasons to NOT use the Google-approved app store. Fight scammers by educating people, not by crippling core features of an operating system or alienating existing users.
Just throw it on the already existing mountain of evidence that he should spend the rest of his life behind bars.
I’ve always wondered where the line was, or how blurry it is, between “haha, look at us, we’re the PC masterrace and those are the console peasants” and actual chauvinism…
Same here. Built a new PC like 6 months ago when it was all barely starting (good timing) and my notebook and phone are also fairly recent, like 1.5 years old. Tablet as well fairly recent, 2y old, but that’s really only used for home media consumption so it doesn’t even matter in that case. So I should be good for the next 5+ years or so. Hopefully the AI bubble has burst until then.
Some of the better RPGs allow you to play as an evil guy (equally fleshed out as the good guy playthrough), e.g. Baldur’s Gate 3 (it even has a special evil background storyline called The Dark Urge) or (some of?) the Mass Effect titles.
Cult of the Lamb is also a great game where you play a cult leader. Although the game’s design is strong on the entertaining/funny side, it’s kind of dark also.
Stellaris is a grand strategy game where you can play anything, from a ruthless ruler trying to destroy the whole galaxy to a pacifist trader.
That’s the thing with the radioactive waste and it being still dangerous for many thousands of years… We humans manage to ruin the planet within a fraction of that time already. How could we ever manage anything correctly, let alone something that requires attention for tens of thousands of years. It’s like the ultimate technical debt. A burden we can’t handle, among many other problems we also can’t handle. Collectively speaking.
Arch on Desktops&Notebooks, Debian on Servers.
These are professional liars and manipulators. Nothing they say should be taken at face value. Watch what they do, not what they say. If they say A but do B, then A was never the intention. In the case of wars, A was likely just PR for B. Putin probably still calls it a limited special operation in order to better sell it to the Russian public.
Intelligence in Republicans is a Myth.
It’s definitely a form of Linux. Their own product Windows Server is just for small and medium businesses and mostly used for managing Windows devices (with Active Directory domain controllers) and various Windows application/terminal servers in an intranet scenario. It’s never really used for anything serious. Linux is basically the only relevant server OS these days, except for some specific use cases or specific preferences (I’ll count the *BSDs to that category).
Yes. Open source software is never really (in theory, yes (jurisdiction of the project/developers), but not in practice) dependent on particular jurisdictions anywhere, because it’s like open knowledge that can be instantly translated/compiled/packaged into a usable product. And this open knowledge can spread anywhere and also be modified by anyone anywhere at any time.
And this is important, as we’re seeing with the US now drifting into a fascist dictatorship that stopped being reasonable or sane and just does what it wants. Open source is an important defense against the appearance of criminal regimes, because it guarantees independence and always possible continuation of the software.
So for example even if the devs/maintainers of open source projects would be legally forced to add age verification code, it’s still open source and can be patched out rather easily (e.g. be replaced by code that just does “isAdult = true; return isAdult;” without any online spyware verification systems behind it, and the modifications can then be distributed by anyone, anywhere, anyhow and be applied by all users of that software.
This age verification stuff is only really broadly applicable within the context of proprietary software where users have zero control over what the software does and have to use it exactly like packaged (although there are probably workarounds even in that case). Worst case scenario is that they’ll realize this and as a result not scrap the whole idea or make an exception for open source, but instead try to make open source software illegal simply because it can’t be enforced there. But that would of course prompt such a major backlash world-wide that they won’t achieve anything with that except make themselves look silly. But you never know what those politicians and lawyers are smoking next…
Consequences? (… are only a thing for poor people, unfortunately)
Nazis canceln alles und jeden, der nicht auf Nazi-Linie ist. Am Ende canceln sie sogar Leben, aber sie tun dabei immer so als wären sie selbst die bedrohten Personen (Täter-Opfer-Umkehr). Währenddessen behaupten sie irgendwas von Meinungsfreiheit (natürlich nur solange es ihnen selbst nützt), während sie die nächste Diktatur inkl. Polizeistaat und Fusion von Regierung mit Wirtschaft und Religion errichten.
Bis vor einigen Jahren dachte ich noch, dass sowas ausgerechnet in Deutschland nicht mehr passieren könnte. Aber die Dummheit der Menschen findet immer einen Weg, insbesondere im Internet. Selbst im Jahr 2026 und mit dem gesamten Geschichtswissen und dem endlosen Wissensschatz im Internet finden Leute einen Weg, dieses Wissen gekonnt zu ignorieren und dunkle Vergangenheiten wieder zu remixen und neu zu etablieren.
Russia is doing everything they can to destabilize NATO, Europe and the US. With and without actual war. By helping to get Trump elected and by spreading mass propaganda in social media (to get European/US people to vote for their doom) they’ve reached a lot of their goal already. And they also know that the current war in Iran isn’t making USA look good, so they are supporting its adversary so that this war can drag on for longer. If it’s negative for the US or Europe, it’s positive for Russia. Plus, it serves Russia’s economic interests because they are also a major provider of oil and gas.
https://reports.exodus-privacy.eu.org/en/reports/gov.whitehouse.app/latest/
As usual: this can be interpteted as Malware. That said, many apps are like this these days: full of trackers and way too many permissions. Most people never know or care.
Mildly interesting: one of.the trackers seems to be related to Huawei.
EDIT: Someone decompiled and analyzed the app in detail: https://blog.thereallo.dev/blog/decompiling-the-white-house-app
Data gathering and analysis is still happening in the background. They just won’t show you these 2 things in the frontend.