I have trouble being too angry at this, since millionaires and billionaires sit on multiple corporate boards at the same time, and no one seems to complain about that.
Arghblarg
They aren't putting up blocks to protect us. They just want their cut of the profits. I'm sure they will come to an arrangement that benefits Cloudflare and the AI behemoths, but still screws us all over somehow.
The billionaires know they've already f*cked everything, so now they're funding authoritarians everywhere to release the legal and regulatory valves, allowing them to just suck up one last big bag of wealth to fund their bunkers for what is to come. That's why the masks have come off lately, they don't care to hide their motivations any more -- they think it's past the point of no return, and they just want to grab what they can as quickly and brutally as possible before things really go into the crapper.
https://nypost.com/2022/09/24/how-the-worlds-billionaires-are-paying-to-escape-global-disaster/
There should be a concerted effort to uncover and document where they've been building their bunkers and hidden underground paradises so we can throw potatoes into the ventilators and shit in the water intakes when the time comes. Let their retreats become their tombs.
Thank you.
If you've ensured your home network's firewall is sane first, there's no big issue.
If you dual-boot to Windows occasionally to run that one stupid program that can't run under Linux, and you aren't downloading stuff willy-nilly from the wild internet, and you haven't previously installed all sorts of dodgy call-home programs, you can still be safe running while you're in Windows. Hell, I have a Windows 7 box that runs just fine from my home network to the internet, thankyouverymuch. I even download stuff from there gasp, but I check the files first! Imagine that.
Most people aren't knowledgeable enough to maintain proper security however so I guess I should just stop commenting on posts like this, as I always get flak from people stating it's impossible to run an OS more than 2 weeks old on the Internet without being instantly hacked :p.
But still... as others say, I totally agree -- move to Linux if you can.
Does it weigh a ton and have mighty ClIcKs that wake up the dead? If so, good find!
This sounds really nice. I'm using Devuan currently, but MX looks very polished and worth a try...
Big Bang Theory, and all 'reality' shows.
I was mad at first but on reflection I think you may be right, and hope this is subtle jiu-jitsu, so to speak. We'll see.
AI for pattern recognition (statistical stuff) IMHO is fine, it's different than expecting original thought, reasoning or understanding, which the new 'AI' does not do, despite the constant hype.
Palantir, which the US gov is now (let's not kid ourselves, has been for some time illegally) contracting, probably already has your face either from street cams, security cams in various company buildings, or from social media at this point, so letting you 'opt out' is probably just theatre to avoid angering people at airports.
They shouldn't cluster so closely together, it's a risk. Not that I'm suggesting anything.