Runaway as well, but without the mall.

“You are illegally parked on private property. You have twenty seconds to move your vehicle.” -ED-209

It’s a topsy-turvy world.

Vivaldi M3 on desktop, K9 on mobile.

…invade everyone’s privacy instead.

I came here to say this. I don’t really do networking so I don’t have much care for this issue, but the clarity of the explanation was enjoyable. Plus I learned a couple of little things too.

Or the classic: who | grep -i blonde | date; cd ~; unzip; touch; strip; finger; mount; gasp; yes; uptime; umount; sleep

If they were fake ads like in GTA and Cyberpunk, it could be fun, provided you could turn them on and off anytime.

Try asking it. 😆

Straight up 1984 Newspeak, where the Ministry of Truth is really concerned with lies, the Ministry of Peace is concerned with war, the Ministry of Love is concerned with torture, and the Ministry of Plenty is concerned with starvation.

The only thing I know about them is how well advertised they are, which is a turn off.

If it helps there used to be a satanic edition as well.

Not just spite. How do I know if my purchase decision is my own, or has been influenced by ads?

Somehow I missed the word “Advocate” in the title and had a brief panic there.

I hadn’t seen that particular one before, so thanks! I guess I was one of the lucky 10,000.

Funny coincidence for me, but I just learned this listening to a podcast called Behind the Bastards: The Ballad of Bill Gates. It talked about how one of the reasons MS became so big was because so many people shared MS BASIC back in the day, but then Gates worked so hard against piracy afterwards despite that fact. So basically just one aspect of what you are talking about.

• Someone thought it would be a good idea to troll open source community and make it look worse than closed source, so that closed source security can be popularised (“security” trolls in FOSS community I harp about love such ideas, beware of any Graphene/Chrome/Apple and Big Tech lovers just as example)
• Tying into the idea of making FOSS ecosystem look bad, it might be a concerted effort by closed source company/companies to propel themselves above, as FOSS development is shitting on closed source corporate model
• A different approach, it could be the first step in a series of steps to dismantle FOSS ecosystem, considering how much trust and transparency it has that attracts everyone enlightened enough

This is why it surprised me to learn that this was noticed/announced by an MS employee.

Yes, you should totally do that. DO IT.

Really, if people understood how to use hammers and plankton properly, we wouldn’t even need computers.

Mine was an obscure, short-lived distro called LibraNet. It was well done though, by just a father and son team. Unfortunately that was also why it was short lived, because the father passed away.

As for why I picked it, I didn’t really know much about how to choose a distro at the time, so I picked it based on the name, and its description of being easy to use and set up, which it was.