Yes. Just like saying that Microsoft and Google don’t have a monopoly, or, for Americans, that modern automatic weapons are “not what the founding fathers intended”, or, of what I care about, that Artsakh is “legally part of Azerbaijan”.

Politicians use the salami strategy, always. They’ll always milk to the bone every such detail as, for example, the fact that E2EE itself is not compromised here. It’s only spyware on the endpoints which everyone is going to be obligated to install.

So fighting politicians we should never give up cards. Even if an argument is false, the very fact they have to fight it is good. Because otherwise they’ll be able to dedicate all their resources to fight the good arguments.

before these level 0 bureaucrats head straight for Dracula castle

Rather they are buddies with Dracula, so should at least play better than this

Them all at once.

The last sentence should have been enough for the person who pressed that button

I mean, it’s true. It can. Just defeats the purpose.

Your cattle is not your friend’s cattle. They don’t want their population under surveillance from potentially hostile parties. Regardless of how they treat their own surveillance.

Secret services are not wizards in business of giving out cookies and gifts, but when they are at least functional, they should act in this exact way.

Unlike some other secret services sharing their means of surveillance with Israel, the Commonwealth, possibly Turkey, possibly Arab monarchies and who not. Such a small thing between friends, right.

Apparently Dutch secret service can be bothered to do their fucking job on a case-to-case basis instead of compromising everyone to make some trash feel powerful.

I dunno

in what fucking universe

“BSD” is one thing, so can’t answer your question.

If you meant that Linux has a lot of graphical configurators to do things - GUI is not necessarily easier than editing config files, because config files can be clean and compact and examples well-commented, and documentation can actually describe how to use the bloody thing. It’s just that in Linux this is not the case. While GUI configurators can be hardly usable nonsense and yes, in Linux they mostly are.

And this difference in wide strokes is indeed common for all 4 BSDs against Linux for things that differ between operating systems.

The rest sucks just as badly.

No, we don’t. When people use words you don’t understand to ask and answer their own questions, the solution is simple - say that you are a newbie and ask your question in your words. Just ask additional questions when you don’t understand something. Politely, and not like “you nerds, nothing works, help me asap”.

EDIT: Who downvoted this? People really expect others to specifically limit their speech to what a random lurker can understand? And think that using words they don’t understand for interactions not involving them makes a community toxic?

There was a checkmark for adding the user to that group, IIRC.

Searching for a solution using Google is problematic, yes.

I’m thinking of changing my life (to require less of rot-affected computing) and moving to FreeBSD. Even Linux is hard in small ways, even if worlds easier than Windows. Would be OpenBSD if not for games.

Well, if you want my version, centralized DNS and centralized PKI reliant on bureaucracy are all wrong.

Identity providers should be a thing, and under one identity provider there should be ability to fix whatever domain name one wants, the act confirmed with cryptography. The providers themselves should technically be identified only by their public keys, and those should be listed in directories similar to yellow pages, changing very rarely preferably, where a key is listed against provider’s company name, phone, whether it’s paid or not, etc. Such directories being shared should be the only thing centralized here.

Our world has a lot of ugly, inefficient and vulnerable systems.

But the worst part is that common gaslighting or madness or whatever, where people act along unnecessary inefficiencies they themselves don’t need, like sheep watched by a shepherd dog. It’s obvious that various trash in governments wants systems vulnerable and centralized. But that’s what only they need, and only a handful of technologies they’ve rebuilt after that need. I don’t understand why the rest build bad systems where they don’t have to and don’t need to, or eve prefer bad systems where they have good ones.

It’s similar to the question of why people subject to genocide often don’t fight for their lives, at least until it’s too late.

Fool blocked.

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What’s not interesting is you offering your “reality-based arguments” (how about every socialist country in existence) to something you yourself imagined. Yes, I can believe that your imagination is the constant in all those conversations.

You are not being smart, and you are not being funny. Go away.

Ah. OK. Not a native speaker, thought that “hook up” means sex being involved, and getting said treatment from the judicial branch.

From the society - eh, some of us are so used to “the society” being in general their enemy, that we don’t even think that’s a problem.

Ah, and also a 16yo walking-kissing-whatever with a 19yo is more or less normal here.

You should have used the word “sheeple” to complete the impression from your second paragraph.

You don’t know shit of what I believe to be a political philosophy in the first place.

Attraction yeah, I understood it as the act requiring consent from that text.

Attraction - it’d be virtually everyone I guess in one way or another. Asexuality is not the same as complete lack of romantic interest or even inability to enjoy physical parts.

You should re-read the first paragraph of the comment you were answering.

Also you are writing nonsense exposing your ignorance of … really everything, but you know that yourself, judging by it starting with an attempt to snatch the word “libertarianism” from under me instead of actually addressing what I say.

Also you should be more modest, drop that pretentious tone and not enter arguments with leftist moonspeak.

Libertarianism is a socialist philosophy - false. Or more precisely, meaningless. When people mean libertarianism, they mean primate of liberty. That at some point people in favor of it hugely intersected with socialists is a fact that doesn’t necessarily invalidate libertarians who are not in any way socialist.

Libertarianism has nothing to do with the Libertarian party of the USA - true.

Without government regulations unions being powerless - false. Or more precisely, government regulations work the way governments want. Today’s governments are working in favor of corporations, not sitting idle, so the reality confirms that centralizing power is a bad idea. Or maybe you are going to tell me how you are going to persuade power working against you to work for you.