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We Just Can’t Win

Just use copilot to write a powershell script to disable all the crap Windows 11 ads.

Okay but that was very useful and generally beneficial

You wouldn’t believe it, but some people still think the solution is to install windows

It’s up to the authors how they want to license it.

Plus or minus some amount of piracy, sure

I mean, look what happened with TCP/IP.

A fucking disaster for humanity on a global scale

I feel like I’m looking at a scene from The Reanimator.

I mean, tell it to Jeffery Epstein. The man was pulling strings halfway around the world with his endless supply of blackmail and bribery.

“If this password doesn’t work, I’m going to break your thumbs.”

“Uh…”

“Yeah, its not the real password. Lets break his thumbs and ask him again.”

your full disk encryption will pay off one day

They day you fuck up your password one too many times and lock yourself out of your own computer.

check the IP logs

Its all encrypted? This guy uses VPNs and Tor?

Presuming that Mossad can be topped with a subscription to ProtonVPN or a Tor browser is adorable. Hell, presuming nobody in the intelligence services is familiar with Linux is even more adorable. “We’ve got everyone at the NSA fooled because we’re Arch users”. Yeah, sure buddy. What do you think these professional computer guys are doing in their own free time?

My employer keeps saying I can’t do this

America is the libertarian’s paradox. A government that’s often too small and too clumsy to effectively implement regulatory policy. But if officials do catch up with you, civil rights are a joke and the courts are a fig leaf justification for fascist violence.

Amazing that they weren’t using Signal

I wouldn’t rule it out. But you can’t do public comms over Signal.

it’s even more amazing they weren’t using something like Meshtastic.

Again, I wouldn’t rule it out. But if I’m on a public group that’s very likely compromised by the IDF, I’m not going to announce all the other protocols they need to block.

He’s just reporting one avenue that’s been closed to the protesters by a corporate entity that is now complicit in genocide.

blaming them on using WhatsApp is besides the point

WhatsApp admins are explicitly interfering with a public protest in order to satisfy a genocidal foreign government.

This is at least as big a deal as TikTok censorship of anti-China posters. It’s just on behalf of a US ally, so we’re defending it rather than threatening to interfere in their business practices in turn.

the shame is on the cess pool that is Meta

Who appoints WhatsApp administration heads if not Meta? It’s the same picture.

It doesn’t matter. The meme needs individual it can blame, and those individuals can’t be the folks in the other three images.

Can’t stop Zuck. Can’t stop Trump. Can’t stop the IDF. So we need someone we can scream at. That means we’re going to scream at you.

It’s just an exercise in scapegoating. Pretend random individuals who are insufficiently pure of deed are the root of all your problems. Ignore that the fourth panel is more properly “government contracts for police surveillance and military services”.

There’s going to come a point at which the Feds/States will lean on the ISPs to handle the censorship for them. We’ve had people all over the Nat Sec system staring at the “Great Firewall of China” and asking themselves “Can we get something like this over here?”

If you need my help cos you can’t figure it out, pay me

It’s so funny to see this on a sub dedicated to FOSS. Trying to imagine how many Pull Requests come with a bill attached.