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without initially seeking my consent

That's just how SSH works. If you want to be pseudonymous, you should also generate a new key pair.

The industry has proved again and again and again over the past two decades that surveillance, manipulation, and profiteering is all they care about, and the public is wising up to this fact. "We're screwing you clueless people for your own sake" is no longer effective as a thought terminating cliche and can only create stronger animosity towards the industry.

Are there laws against clauses in the T&Cs that allow companies to arbitrarily change the said T&Cs? Are there laws against clauses that prevents consumers from suing companies? Unless there are, T&Cs absolutely are the get out of jail free card both on paper and in the real world.

you get to have cheaper purchases for your entire life with no downside

If you uncritically believe things like this, I have a bridge to sell you. You should praise me for it too, because that's the kind of thing you explicitly condone.

Leftists think this is terrible

Nah, it says more about your worldview than it does about your favorite bogeyman, especially when you ignore the entire article and start attacking a straw man.

It's jarring to read a bunch of LLMs rushing to defend a predatory industry.

If one needs brainpower to just use the redirection operator, it shows a likely lack of understanding of basic concepts in computing like processes and files. That should be concerning.

I suppose a lot of people use less rather than cat for looking at files though.

`alt + .` is much more versatile. You can use it to cycle through and insert the last arguments of previous commands.

The redirection operator is consistent and requires less typing though.

I guess the file is usually the last argument because it's the one that can be omitted.

Funnily, the 5th is the "right to remain silent." I think you're talking about the 2nd Amendment.

I know the recent presidency really lowered the bar, but Obama wasn't decent. Sure, he was good at speeches. Yet one of the first things he did was let war criminals off the hook. He went soft on fraudsters at Wall Street after they caused a global financial crisis. He prosecuted more whistleblowers than his predecessors combined. He sent drones to foreign soil and extrajudicially assassinated thousands of people outside of war zones, including many civilians. All of this is insane and did play a role for what came after. The world deserves better.

Those T&Cs contain clauses that allow companies to 1. arbitrarily change its terms whenever they want and 2. forbid consumers from suing them. They make a complete mockery of justice, and they might as well just write "haha, screw you" to save all of us time.

A war criminal is threatening us with a good time! It'll be a huge win for justice, peace, and human rights if that ever happens.

No, we the tech industry are key enablers. For the past two decades, we were obsessed with refining the methods of mass-surveillance and manipulation. We've brought about tremendous harm to society and it's time to start taking accountability.

Except it's just an excuse to make everyone surrender their phone numbers as one more way to tie people to their real identities. You try hard to paint one of the wealthiest companies in the world as some kind of victim, when in reality it's them that used Gmail as a trojan horse to make people create Google accounts so that they can spy on everyone online, and increasingly in the real world too.

Also contrary to your insinuation that I'm an entitled jerk trying to rip off a trillion dollar company, I de-Googled a long time ago. Because I know they're the company that lets their clueless robots brand desperate parents trying to cure their children as child predators, punishes them by taking away the key to their entire digital lives, and worse, doubles down and continues to defame them when proven wrong [1].

But it's not fair to fault people who still depend on Google. Lack of informed consent, reinforced by dark patterns and justified with "user-friendliness" BS is what drew people in. Peer pressure also forces people to create accounts when they otherwise wouldn't have. I just have zero tolerance for corporate cheerleaders who justify this sort of thing by blaming the victim in the most condescending way possible.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32538805

Haha, smart. But those quotes still don't justify me taking away your one year old ham sandwich.

Don't you think that "security" non-sequitur boogeyman is a bit too forced? You took my example, cherry-picked some words, and turned it into something else entirely. And too bad it doesn't even hold up because surrendering your phone number won't prevent securities fraud, which is what I was specifically referring to in my example.

The next aspiring trillionaire can take note of that argument when scamming people out of their retirement funds.

You're over-fixating on the misuse of macros and generalize that to make a statement about Vim [1], almost as if that's the only useful feature in Vim. There are more basic editing commands that are much simpler, quicker, and powerful. It's what is actually used most of the time.

Also, getting bulk editing perfect, including the edge cases, is inefficient regardless of the tools you use. For the majority of those cases, I would just combine simple search and replace (cgn), dot repeat (.), and undo plus skip (un) for the edge cases. Then jump back (N) to the edge cases and make manual edits. It's quick, provides instant visual feedback, and requires less cognitive work than trying to process it all at once. And that's the approach people likely have in mind when they mention dot repeat.

[1] Or at least stepping right close to it.

It's hard to catch some of these questionable things as a kid reading a fantasy book, who'd think fictional settings exist in a vacuum. And if it's like one or two isolated cases, the whole thing can be brushed off as pure coincidence. But with the Harry Potter series, there are dozens of these disturbing tropes with real world parallels. It's safe to say it's a pattern.

Sure, that's possible, but the question is, is that what's actually happening?

Nah, it doesn't even sound true.

That's a real stretch. She copied a modern day trope, not some ancient myth with unclear origin. Even if we bend over backwards to believe that she wasn't aware that the trope targeted a specific demographic, there's zero chance that her publisher failed to catch it too. And also the entire movie staff that chose floors with seven pointed stars for the bank. Also also consider that this trope is far from an isolated case in the whole series.

The portrayal was anything but sympathetic when Griphook was slaughtered by Voldemort right after betraying Harry and taking the sword of Gryffindor in his possession.

Also, notice how real world tropes are just portrayed as facts in the Harry Potter world.

To be fair, dementors are consistently depicted as pure evil that has no place in society. The funnier thing for me is how the Ministry is a militarized law enforcement body that functions as the legislative, judicial, and executive branches of the magical society.

But there are things you can't unsee once you revisit the series as an adult, like all the harmful tropes that's casually littered throughout the series. From unpleasant people almost always being portrayed as fat and ugly to house elves who have a frightened reaction to the idea of being freed from enslavement, and cunning, greedy creatures with long, hooked noses that run the wizarding bank. If that weren't too on the nose, that bank even had a seven pointed star on the floor in the movies. Oh, and Kingsley Shacklebolt is quite an interesting name to give a fictional black person. And that's barely scratching the surface.

Except Google is the very company progressively shutting out open source efforts out of the Android ecosystem.

The parent's take is a bit too literal, but at least it's her view on human rights activism. That view has demonstrably gotten more extreme post-pandemic.

But even if you don't take JKR's views as pro-slavery, it's still pretty ironic that the rhetoric of happy slaves is taken from literal slavers from history.

Also Psycho-pass explores the concept in depth.

Unfortunately, "preventing crimes" means mass surveillance and racial/political profiling, in practice.

FYI that's a direct quote from the book. I regrettably spent too much time of my childhood reading a series that ends with the protagonist thinking about ordering his unpaid servant make him a sandwich after a bloody battle.

FOSS fork of Android is useless without hardware capable of running them. Which means you need hardware manufacturers and telecom companies on your side.