Lou Katz @lou@entropyservice.com

@pluralistic

And even if you buy the name brand ink cartridges, if you don't buy them often enough, they lock you out of your printer.

My Epson printer claims that it can't recognize the EPSON cyan, magenta & yellow ink cartridges that are in it. They're the same cartridges that have always been in it. I just don't replace them very often, because we rarely print in color.

So... I have to replace them, even though they're not empty, because the printer won't work until I do.

This week convicted felon Donald Trump moved to delay his sentencing until after the election. Remember, he's not running for president as much as he's running from the law.

@vkc There is a strong correlation between money and enshittification.

I have watched the open source world become increasingly tied to business compliance concerns, with all of the pain that brings. It's painful because there were those of us who warned against the very gatekeeping you are experiencing as a result of it.

This article would be good for washing hogs.

The r-party is trying to make the upcoming election about "issues". But there is only one single issue: Do we elect a criminal dictator or do we continue our US Constitution? That is the only issue, there is no other issue.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cgl2xjxlz3xo

Trump's 'doddering old man' attacks casting cloud over his re-election hopes: report https://www.rawstory.com/trump-old-man-2668981192/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

@gerrymcgovern
This is right in line with what I've been saying for about a year now:

"What they are calling "#AI" is simply "Deep database scrubbing" that infers links between dissimilar subjects and assumes there's a connection with no research, examination or proof."

There is no "intelligence" involved whatsoever. It's a total scam.

And all that time/energy spent searching through endless databases is an astounding energy hog. 😞 #Artificialintelligence is no match for #NaturalStupidity

Apparently JD Vance is now less popular than Sarah Palin was. That's quite an achievement. Or in Limbo-speak: How low ... can he go?

Yet another Linux md RAID array nuked by "helpful" firmware at next boot.

It's now too dangerous to use raw devices for software RAID. Too many firmwares consider an unpartitioned device as broken and try to fix.

https://lore.kernel.org/linux-raid/1ce73b33-9b9a-4525-91da-5dc57d070d03@plouf.fr.eu.org/T/#m63c1d91cbc760c569fce3f9a7728d400f8382889

#Linux

But privacy sucking chrome is there. Sheesh.

The 89th anniversary of Social Security is a good day to remember that Trump tried to slash the program in every year of his presidency.

The NY Times has stopped pretending to care about New York City beyond the big stories. https://hellgatenyc.com/nyt-endorses-ignoring-nyc/

@Viss

This is amazing work by @alshafei and team. You can search by company, country and funding entity, and learn things like:

"safeXai is the entity that has quietly resumed the operations of Banjo, a digital surveillance company whose founder, Damien Patton, was a former Ku Klux Klan member who’d participated in a 1990 drive-by shooting of a synagogue near Nashville, Tennessee."

https://www.surveillancewatch.io/

Pleased to announce the launch of Surveillance Watch, an interactive map and resource that documents the hidden connections within the opaque surveillance industry: https://www.surveillancewatch.io/

By mapping out the intricate web of surveillance companies, their subsidiaries, partners, and financial backers, we hope to expose the enablers fueling this industry's extensive rights violations, ensuring they cannot evade accountability for being complicit in this abuse.

#Privacy #Surveillance #InfoSec

@gandalf_the_blue @pluralistic
Ronald Reagan (and Margaret Thatcher) would not have happened were it not for Friedrich Hayek, Milton Friedman, and Ayn Rand. It began much earlier than the 1980s.

@pluralistic People still don't understand ALL the damage that Reagan did to the USA.

Page 150 of Project 2025 calls for local police to become deputized agents of Trump's agenda.

Image if your local cops were taking their orders directly from Donald Trump. Would you feel safe?

United States remains last for life expectancy among English-speaking countries https://www.upi.com/Health_News/2024/08/14/United-States-last-life-expectancy-English-speaking-countries/2831723640603/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Majority Of Voters Say Trump Lacks Mental And Physical Stamina To Be President https://www.politicususa.com/2024/08/14/majority-of-voters-say-trump-lacks-mental-and-physical-stamina-to-be-president.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Mitch McConnell issued this "dire warning" to republican state legislators...

"Let's assume our worst nightmare: The Democrats went to the White House, the House, the Senate. The first thing they'll do is get rid of the [Senate] filibuster."

Weird how he didn't have any problem eliminating the filibuster on SC nominations in 2017.