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echo: rberrypi
to: MAYAYANA
from: THE NATURAL PHILOSOPHER
date: 2020-08-31 01:59:00
subject: Re: Spectre / Meltdown

On 31/08/2020 00:57, Mayayana wrote:
> "Ahem A Rivet's Shot"  wrote
>
> | > | It's a stupid design because it cannot be safe.
> | >
> | >   Yes. They eventually had to accept that. And they
> | > eventually had to swallow their pride and move toward
> | > web standards. But what's happening now is also not
> | > safe. Javascript is being used in the MBs per page.
> |
> | Yep it's what happens when everyone else is forced to play catchup
> | with someone taking insane risks.
>
>     You think MS is to blame? Javascript was being phased
> out, with close to 10% of people disabling it, a few years
> sgo. The same with iframes. What changed it had nothing
> to do with Microsoft. It was targetted ads and the spying
> that goes with them.
>
>
It is to be understood that the moment an initiative for freedom or
genuine popular expression occurs, within a decade it will be bought,
controlled infiltrated and destroyed by big business and the profit
motive, and political activists.

Allowing the people to have  free access to global communication was
intolerable. How would the lies of cultural propaganda and product
marketing be believed if everybody talked to each other and decided that
their product was, in fact, shit?

--
“There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn’t true; the
other is to refuse to believe what is true.”

—Soren Kierkegaard

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