Re: Re: Taking a Stand in the War on General-Purpose Computing
  By: Mayayana to Charlie Gibbs on Thu Mar 18 2021 09:35 am

 >   On the bright side, Europe has been more advanced than
 > the US on that score, and Biden seems to be hiring people
 > who want to break up the tech monopolies. We might get
 > there. In the meantime, do you watch junk TV? Do you
 > eat fast food or junk food, or drink sodas? Have you
 > been suickered into buying designer water? Do you play video
 > games while being over 16 years old? If so then look in the
 > mirror to see your trout. There's no super-mind plotting
 > control over you. There are just confused, power-hungry,
 > driven people like Bezos and Gates and Jobs and Cook and
 > Schmidt. And there are their markets. Same thing. You
 > should regard it as a warning sign when you decide that
 > somehow you're the only person who thinks for themselves.

I am older than 16 years old, I happen to play games occasionally, and I don't
really get what is the problem I should be finding in the mirror. I suppose the
copy of Rogue I just compiled for OpenBSD is doing a hell of a lot of data
mining?

By the way, if you have a car, you are usually expected to know how to use it,
including basic maintenance. It is a mistake to think you need to be an expert
in a field to wade that field somewhat safely. You need to know _enough_, and I
don't think this criteria is bypassable via law enforcing. Making cars safe by
law only goes so far: if you put an idiot behind the steering wheel, he will
cause trouble.

Sticking to IT: spamming, phishing and scamming is illegal, yet we still get
tons of it. How do we defeat it? Teaching people how to deal with it.

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