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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meet the AI rapper funded by a far-right party— Advance UK has hired the mystery ‘collective’ behind Danny Bones, a white-nationalist musician and activist – who isn’t real⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  How come? Fascist AI slop is both fascist and AI slop, so I struggle to find any redeeming qualities.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Asus and Dell announce new mini PCs for Windows 365 | Goodbye local OS⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t know, I don’t share your pessimism. In my personal experience, most hardware isn’t unhackable. Apart from iPhone / iPad (where hardware and software are non-standard, and also made by the same vendor) I struggle to find any examples.

  I have installed Linux many times on Chromebooks, where there is some BIOS module that checks for OS “authenticity”, but that can be disabled. I have flashed ROMs on android devices many times too. It’s sometimes a bit inconvenient, but nothing remotely close to impossible.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Asus and Dell announce new mini PCs for Windows 365 | Goodbye local OS⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Someone will install Linux on them and use them as a cheap barebones computer. I’m sure with a bit of jiggery-pokery they can be repurposed to something useful.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨20 Years of Banning Phones. We Don’t Have That Long for AI.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The classroom runs on Chromebooks, Google Classroom, and code.org (AWS). Corporate infrastructure top to bottom.

  This is so dystopian. Get the kids hooked on XaaS while they are young, and you’ll have a customer for life.

  I’m so happy I live in a welfare state, and gee I hope we manage to make the switch away from the US big tech monopoly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨DI.DAY is a Movement to Encourage People to Ditch Big Tech⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m guessing that it was made by someone who speaks German.