What then - THEY steal it?
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Cake day: July 6th, 2023
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Nuisance is the legal term.
It predates your story by at least five years, 2007, when a Silicon Valley engineer revealed that a backbone line had been spliced and all traffic was passing to government machines.
That revelation also inspired an outraged public backlash of ‘meh.’
51·2 years agoIt’s an important life skill, being able to plant a thought in the mind of another and in a way that is likely to be accepted.
It crossed my mind since my last writing that, in the 80s, I got a money back guarantee for any counter-surveillance equipment purchased that didn’t reveal surveillance equipment in a Fortune 100 facility. It was that pervasive back then. And my perception is that morals and business ethics have not improved in the interim. Far from it.
Good luck and thanks for the valuable, respectful input.
Points well made and taken, thanks. No hostility perceived at all.
Reasonable minds can differ and frequently do. And it could be that people may think my suggestion is unrealistic or even silly.
There’s no shortage of miscreants out there who just like to mess with things, thrown wrenches into spokes, etc. And these types could well be behind the daily local issues.
But here’s an important point, and no offense intended. Corporations are like The Terminator. But instead of getting Sarah Connor, they purse profits. And regardless of CEO intelligence or accumen, every Fortune 500 company has a department that deals in these areas. They all have their skunk works and use them. It’s been this way for centuries. A primer: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrial_espionage
So whether they’re operating here atm or not, there is nothing paranoid about assuming they are. If they’re not, they will be. It’s what they do.
Thanks for the input. :)
Every account they lose hits them in the pocketbook. The bigger the fediverse gets, the more adherents, the greater the momentum it will have and the harder it will be to stop.
Nipping it in the bud is the best, easiest, and least expensive place to nip it.
The downvotes suggest their operatives are reading the comments.
I wonder if the owners of deddit, fb, tweetster, et al, might think it financially worthwhile to cause disruption in the fediverse, and even its ultimate failure.
Yes, watching the implosion. But there’s nothing implosive about this move. Hence, ‘don’t sweat the small stuff.’
They’re not shooting themselves in the foot again. It’s just an administrative function, moving on with what remains of their business, like paying their electric bill.
And here’s a friendly observation. Telling others what they should do comes across as grandiose.
Don’t sweat the small stuff. It’s dead. Let it go.
22·2 years agoOP’s making anti-shitposts… Get him!
Good ol’ Elon… delivering the coup de grâce.
Is Pipe operating like a VPN, scrubbing viewer data from Youtube?
It’s the recognition that counts. :)
They’re TRYING to make a sale, here. Do you mind?
Ya know, us simpletons see a story like this, get a litle glimmer of hope that good things DO happen, might even happen to us! And we can have a romantic moment, believe that true love actually exists.
And then some smarty pants like you comes in here and dashes our hopes.
Well, thanks a lot.
Maybe because it says love of his life?
Are…
Are you serious?
These downvotes indicate that some of the assholes have now migrated.
Last time I was gonna by blades at the local store was about 10 years ago. I was sufficiently miffed at the corporatocracy’s price skimming and gouging that I hopped on the intertubes and bought about $20 worth of twin- or triple-blade cartridges from India. And there will likely be inventory on hand when I die.