#RaspberryPi hired a surveillance cop then reacted poorly to people criticising them?
I already released (partial) VCE disassembler, which is enough for an interested reverser to keygen the <=RPi3 codec licensing algorithm.
Maybe I should just, ya know, post the serial algo code.
(fuck software patents/etc anyway)
re: question about police
@whreq It's deliberately limited - whenever discussing the role of police in society, their various hats tend to get conflated, and the most crucial "special powers" that they have tend to be justified by things that don't actually require them.
That's why I'm singling out those specific circumstances here, that those special powers are claimed to be needed for.
the qoto guy
And the same qoto guy who, lest we forget,
* sent a weird mass email to a bunch of fedi admins who defederated from him
* (a list which he openly compiled using a kiwifarms tool)
* insisting we only defederated from him because of something some troll did, which is drama I'd never heard of, which happened years after most of us defederated from qoto.
The whole man is a problem on this one, just him, by himself, as a person, the way he behaves, is enough to make me defederate.
fedi meta
I see the qoto guy is trying to organise a "united federation of instances," and I plainly can not put into words how bad of an idea that is.
I would go back to MySpace before I subjected myself to mandatory federation with anyone, I would be one of the top users on Ello before I subjected myself to a constitution of "bylaws" and "amendments" decided on by the fucking qoto guy.
@ben That admin is also the person who started that whole "united federation" charade as basically a poorly-disguised "anti-cancel-culture campaign"
re: question about police
@virgil And did they respond in time to be useful?
re: question about police
@lambda I'd consider that just as valid a response!
What I want to illustrate with this question is that there's a huge difference between "the protection that police are claimed to provide" and "what police actually do", and I would say that "how often are they actually needed in the first place" is also an important component of that.
question about police
So, if you're someone who sees police as "protectors of society", here's a question for you: has the police ever kept you, personally, safe from harm?
And I mean something very specific here: a situation where they prevented harm through "immediate response", in a way that bystanders or emergency services (ambulance, fire brigade, etc.) could not.
So *not* first aid, prosecution, moral support, or anything like that. But an actual first-responder situation where they were uniquely positioned to do so in a way that others couldn't.
This is mostly a rhetorical question, but also one that I am asking you to consider seriously, and that you can reply to if you have a genuine answer to it.
fedi meta, nerd culture
Brands beloved by tech nerds are really shitting themselves nonstop... makes you wonder if the whole culture is bad or something 🤔
Also in my understanding a lot of the time when tech companies hire people who had full careers in other industries it's because they're trying to sell to or otherwise cater to the people who make purchasing decisions in those industries - so this is effectively an announcement that raspberry pi is trying to get those lucrative security state contracts
re: capitalist propaganda, "poor people lazy and bad"
@tillianisafox @crash IMO it's much more insidious than that. I have so often been accused of "lazy begging" because I'm asking for donations on stuff that I've put a lot of work into, arguably more work than people would typically put into a paid job for the same thing.
You're not just expected to "do something for your money". You are expected to do it in the exact prescribed way according to established social norms, by either following the orders of someone else or being exploitative, and precisely nothing else.
capitalist propaganda, "poor people lazy and bad"
today someone told me that charity and mutual aid is bullshit because "you just give away the money and the person in need is just leeching off of you instead of being independent"
I said that I don't care. I see a person in need, I help them as much as I can. it's wrong to assume they are lazy just because they're in a poor position. not to mention that poverty is a cycle. (1/3)
This Raspberry Pi thing reminds me of the time when Ellen DeGeneres got very upset when people voiced their concerns about her having a jolly old time with notable war criminal George W. Bush.
No one’s saying you can’t be mates with a bastard. Just don’t get upset when no one wants to be friends with a bastard enabler.
Today's main character is the Raspberry Pi Foundation. A summary for those unable to see it now their server's on fire:
Pi Foundation: Check out @\TobyRobertsPi@mastodon.social, we're proud he spent 15 years (that he'll admit to) using our hobbyist/educational hardware to domestically spy on people for the UK government, now he makes ~quirky LED projects~ for us!
Stop booing us! Why are you booing us! Why do you hate LEDS!?
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