( Horseshack voice: )

Oh! Oh! Oh! Mr Kotter!

YOU MEAN FILTER-BUBBLES DO THE SAME THING TO BOTH HUMANS AND AIs??

How Very Incredibly Surprising™, Oh, My!

/s

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Isn’t that interesting…

The anbility to prevent the getting-out of evidence of what the authorities do to the locals…

Just like the unconstitutional state-laws which criminalize capturing-of-video-evidene of police executing people…

“I wonder” if this would ever be abused by anti-accountability authorities…

( remember that the whole Christian religion is founded on a guy who was a kind of whistleblower, & had spikes hammered through his wrists, in his crucifixion, for his calling the legalists “hypocrites”…

I wonder how “Christian” he’d find them to be, if he returned, & saw what they’re doing? )

Human nature & demon nature seem … related?

or is that too harsh?

… perhaps … but wasn’t the Inquisition demon-law in the name of benJoseph?

hmm…

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IF you are in accounting, especially if you are in regulatory compliance accounting, or going into it, you NEED to know about a book named “Financial Shenanigans”.

I’m not intellectually-equal to it ( or to accounting, for that matter: psychology’s much easier to crack, for me ), but it is THE most important book for forensic-accountants to know.

The bullshit that they’ve been pulling, where “Between 2017 and 2021, Amazon had more than $25 billion in losses from its devices business, according to the documents. The losses for the years before and after that period couldn’t be determined.” didn’t produce criminal consequences…

You’ve got to be kidding, right?

Individual human goes to jail or prison for $2k tax fraud, but … big tech gets a free pass on that kind of “accounting”??

couldn’t be determined??

Either run a tight-ship or don’t be surprised when it sinks.

Economies are the “ships” that carry our countries, & have to be properly regulated, exactly as a tightly-regulated ship has to be, to keep it afloat longer.

It isn’t the sloppy mechanic-racers who win NASCAR, it is the ones who control everything correctly, with total right-regulation.

I remember when I’d read that Cisco switched to closing their books out daily, so as to always know the exact position of the company…

what an incredible degree of financial-operations integrity that was…

Anyways, “Financial Shenanigans” is THE book to dig into, if you want to know if the business you’re considering investing in is cooking the books… and you’re capable of understanding that stuff at the level it’s speaking…

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Conflict-of-interest is the root of all corruption.

This escalation will continue,

until big-tech forces the governments to kneel to the surveillance-capitalism biggest:

They will simply say something like:

"Either your government removes laws, regulations, accountability, etc, from us,

XOR we are hamstringing your country: we OWN you, we POSSESS you, & you will obey OUR rule."

I guarantee this will be happening between now & 2036.

Remember how they can ratchet-up a genocide, anywhere??

They’ve already done so, in some places…

( Facebook & … was it Myanmar? as 1 example )

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This is inevitable:

Once the people in China can only see the CCP’s version of everything,

& ALL stuff has been adulterated, either by AI or by some agency-or-other,

THEN dissent should die-down in the Chinese population:

Read Lanier’s “Foreign to Familiar” to understand how Tropical-Culture vs Nordic-Culture shapes people, & how old-cultures vs new-cultures shape people,

then read Hofstede’s “Exploring Culture” to understand the dimensions of culture that his Cultural Dimensions Theory digs into ( power-distance, uncertainty-avoidance, “success”-orientation, & other dimensions )…

& when you understand how we’re kind of “template” people, before being born into culture,

but once born into it, our entire meaning gets framed within whatever culture we were born into…

therefore, the CCP can simply remove most diversity-of-meaning from their completely-possessed-population, through a generation or 2 of that.

Tibetan, Uyghur, Hongkonger, Taiwanese, Indian, South-Korean, Japanese, the intent is consistent: "the destruction of " … others … “is the midwife of Chinese supremacy”.

I expect a similar kind of program to exist in all right-possessed countries, as the right is doing in the US, right now, with burning or banning books, eradicating proper education, suppressing libraries, etc, they’re just doing the same thing as what the CCP’s doing, only less-skillfully, is all.

No real difference in their deeper heart/motivation/intent, though: supremacism, crushing/destroying all “other” kinds.

Russia’s big on it, too, isn’t it?

Islamism…

The “Crusades” were good examples of this kind of idiocy?

The “Inquisition”?

The “Buddhist” genociding of Tamils?

So long as the “home” story is … “coherent”, & “justifies” all, then … kids grow up … believing, right?

There’s a book, & a Big Think yt video, on “Collective Illusions”, which is important!

Please invest in seeing that video, & see how it’s actually a delusion-mechanism in our minds…

…used by political-forces, yes, but they couldn’t use it if it didn’t exist, could they?

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Is his personal-information on the dark-web?

Is he saying that if his personal-information is on the dark-web, then it’s perfectly-OK for everybody & their robot to be using it??

XOR is he saying that there are 2 kinds of law:

1 for protecting his entitlement,

the other for disallowing rights from the lives he consumes, through his beloved herd/corporation/pseudo-person?

( obviously, he’s already answered the latter )

It also is true that ideologically-motivated-coding is an actual thing.

Imagine someone hating that their propaganda gets deleted by moderators, so they make it difficult for moderators to function that way…

while they, themselves, just so a SELECT on their DB to see the images, to delete all the ones they don’t want…

Remember, it isn’t only corporations who are committed to enforcing the Enshittocene, ideologues do, too.

Those comments are proven false by the dot-4 release of Lemmy, but I’m not accusing the Lemmy devs of being the way those post-quoted comments said.

I AM stating, bluntly, that deliberate torque on the use of ANY aspect of an app, is a thing, now, and need be considered as ONE of the possibilities.

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umm, Hoomin, that was in the 1900’s!

: P

Put Puppy Linux https://puppylinux-woof-ce.github.io/ on your older machines,

& Ubuntu/Kubuntu/Lubuntu/Xubuntu on your newer ones.

https://ubuntu.com/desktop

https://kubuntu.org/

https://lubuntu.me/

https://xubuntu.org/

or use UbuntuStudio, for a full audio-visual workstation…

https://ubuntustudio.org/

Problem Solved™

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Merely threaten … ball-less cowards.

They will remain owned, then, possessed-carrion, instead of owning their own autonomy…

The frog in the slowly-heating-pot is us.

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& Microsoft is sooo soft-in-the-head as to believe that we ought trust them, after this,

& the previous fiasco,

& the one before that,

& https://search.theregister.com/?q=microsoft+security+privacy&site=

( you may need to go through a few hundred pages there, to see it all )

This is their DNA: it isn’t going to change, now.

Power-consumption.

Also, the vibration produced by the 2.5" drives is less, but they’re more-sensitive to it, to begin with.

I’d not even consider spinning-platter drives, nowadays, though:

SATA SSD’s for a NAS strike me as being the sanest choice.

Samsung what are those called, Evo drives?

excellently-high MTBF, ultra-short ( compared with rotating-platters ) seek-time ( literally orders-of-magnitude quicker ), etc.

I don’t know of ANY reason to go with spinning-platters, nowadays.

( & I’m saying that as a guy stupid-enough to have not realized this in time, & who spent money on such a thing, when SSD’s really were the answer )

My experience is that USB storage sometimes breaks-connection for no discernable reason.

That if one REALLY wants to do USB storage, then put it inside the housing, and don’t use one of the external-connectors, use something you can permanently-fix, so nothing can even sneeze in its direction.

This mayn’t help you with your puzzle, but it’s bedrock and unchangeable, in my experience.

USB-storage is an unreliable joke.

ANY revision of it, that I’ve tried.

hth…

USB-storage isn’t reliable.

Period.

ANY fscking thing that bumps any connection, can break the dam link.

Then your kernel can re-label the device when it re-connects,

and you’ve got to reassemble your RAID.

just my experience.

use ANY other method you can, other than USB.

stick a SATA adaptor on there somewhere, if you can.

Get a different motherboard.

ANYthing, but not USB.

Reliability’s kinda high on my priority-list.

Try Samsung.

Nowadays I can’t imagine using SATA for anything but archival storage ( get the fastest NVMe you can for your operating-system, and be stunned by how much quicker your machine is ).

Last time I was digging into stats, the reliability-rate for Samsung devices was much higher than that of Western Digital,

and the off-brands … often are a bit of a bad-joke, for reliability ( Adata & Kingston, I’m looking at you, and will never trust such scum again ).

just my experience/opinion, is all.

SanDisk usb-keys work.

You really want to use the thing for read-only, though, if you can:

the writes it takes to kill some portion of a filesystem, vs the writes you get before corrupting things, on a USB driver, don’t line-up.

Use NVMe as your 1st-choice for storage ( future purchases, obviously ), the fastest you can get, and be stunned by how much faster the same motherboard is, with superfast OS storage…

I’d stick /home, not /usr, on the USB.

To me, such a thing should be the default, so that anybody wanting to quote an item would know, without having to succeed in contacting the source, whether it is possible.

This would enable journalism to do a better job, for 1 thing.

IF JBOD, && Linux, THEN yes you can know, through SMARTTOOLS, or something like that…

However, I can’t imagine how you’d get 2 separate PCIe

( presuming NVMe devices …

… no, this thing must be presuming SATA, NOT NVMe …

even in SATA, there’s no bifurcator for SATA, I don’t think:

SAS has expanders, which can take a single SAS channel & attach something like 128 SAS devices onto it,

PCIe has some kind of equivalent, and there is a PCIe card which crams loads of NVMe’s into it, out in the last year, but SATA??

Hmm… )

shrug

There was a youtube vid, testing multimeters, & there was a specific condition that produced wrong results in all the meters except Fluke, who had engineered to prevent that wrongness.

That was what decided me on trusting Fluke, in the future.

been years, no idea what channel it was on, sorry, but it should be findable for someone with patience, knowing that only the Fluke got it right, of the ones tested.

Do pay attention to the calibration-certificates, though:

Anybody paying for Fluke who ignores that their handhelds have no more than 2.5-digits of actual-accuracy, is foolish/incompetent.

( the cheap ones are sooo much worse… )