heroes. we should support them more.

I understood more than half of that. I feel so smart.

sure. you create a parental control firewall, and tell them they’re not allowed to see anything fun until they can get past it, and if they do, tipping off the programmeans youll look for countermeasures after a few days. here’s some good leads on the right white papers for a temporary fix. good luck!

set them up with something disposable (or at lewst that you can reinstall the OS on every couple weeks) that runs on an architecture other than x86 to avoid viruses; pi is perfect for this.

Corporate shit is corporate shit is corporate shit.

That’s a really fucking low bar. Remember to bring plenty of rope, emergency o2, and extra lights, should you go seeking it.

We need open search. Like Wikipedia for search, or something.

He does jaq off pretty constantly.

I dunno, 80 for a Hitachi seems a little low, but not too good.

Not sure I’d buy one used tho.

Two categories, broadly: any professional software, with deep features and professional quality.

I know theres audacity, but that’s really not an acceptable saw.

I know theres a few cad apps, but no professional I’ve ever met finds the good enough.

I know gimp, and I use it, but no artist I know does; they all pirate Photoshop. Literally every one.

I like having audacity to record audio. I like having gimp to fuck with shit. I like having various cad apps to bang out organizational tools to print. These things do generally fit my use case. But I still have to help people pirate everything else and god the DRM is do fucking annoying.

Abd here’s the more esoteric ask:

Not so much programs as features; Why aren’t we really going all in on shit we can do that they can’t? Features capitalists would never add, never support? Instead I find open source software always playing catch-up, and theres no reason it has to.

Innocence is no protection

Truth is no defense.

You don’t own shit til you steal it.

Capitalist nonsense. Basically, having those files is a legal liability. So why not just steal?

And they never ever ever will be. Its a condition of capitalism; give a man a fish, you’ve just fucked yourself out of one days fish sales. teach a man to fish and youve blown a customer for life, irrevocably shrinking your market share.

So, what youre describing is thieves, but not cool?

Nope. Only punish. Only take. They can only ask for fear, they do not want our love, except through fear.

Yeah. Fuck these execs. Steal everything they own. Burn the rest. Turn up the piracy and make local sharing networks.

own

There is nothing they want us to do less.

Okay so I can’t write for shit, but I’m officially putting out the call to all programmers who aren’t shit:

Reply to this commenr, and be friends, even if you hate each other. World needs saving. Truth needs saving.

You can get chatgpt to do this. Or write a simple script.

Til it gets taken down and dismantled. Yes.