They’ve left the door open to law enforcement for years. This is not new.

This article is from 2019 http://archive.today/kYbQV

…and if you believe that police really had to ask, I’ve got a bridge to sell ya.

Just having the product listing with spec should be fine, but the way CPB doesn’t seem to care about civil rights, I suppose anything could happen.

Worst case, see if you can have a product listing with specs so they can visually confirm. Pretty easy solution. Heck, mine doesn’t even display spec, but would be easy enough to look up.

With any luck though, the TSA loses funding, amirite?

This has been the same in the US for some time. They don’t generally give you any funny looks unless you’re walking through with a 30 lb battery with an inverter attached to it or something.

I wouldn’t worry too much but your mileage may vary. Pun intended.

That’s so disappointing. I loved their games. 🥺

I appreciate your efforts and good on you for doing this but I don’t have time to do that with hundreds of people.

It’s just not ready for production yet.

I actually just went and checked to see if I had any messages and element x was complaining that I didn’t have a separate app that I needed to use to get push notifications which one would think element x would do on its own but it does not.

Once I installed it apparently there’s some extra shit that I’ve got to do to make that work too and it’s just stuff like that that’s just user hostile and not good.

I do like element and I love the idea of it but it’s just not compatible with most humans, apparently even myself, though I’d thought I had it all ironed out.

Yeah, it really is. I feel like if I have trouble getting it to work, my friends have no hope.

… I mean, I did get it to work but the struggle was real.

For me, the cost benefit is about entertainment. I recognize there have been studies that supposedly show that games can help develop or maintain certain skills, but for me it’s more about learning the skill to experience the in-game reward. That’s just for some games. For others, that element exists but the game is telling a story too. One that is punctuated by struggle, maybe battles, and the overcoming which leads to power ups and more story.

So the cost-benefit is that it costs time, but it pulls you out of end-stage capitalism and puts you in flow state, engaging in another world.

I would suspect, though, that if you’re seeing video games through the lens of cost-benefit analysis, you might have trouble relaxing. People need rest.

http://archive.today/3HLYf

The best part is if the third happens it doesn’t necessarily happen immediately. It might just happen while you’re sleeping.

Wheeeeeeee!

I believe it, most especially in your specific case.

Maybe it’s about time for another essay.

I dunno, I did going in but what I got from it was his method of explaining it to people that truly don’t understand.

I’ve always liked this man. Today I love him.

This is not enshittification. This is a calculated attack. It’s class warfare.

Yes and I have read them but the problem is that if you get people to start running random powershell from sources they don’t recognize, and you can’t tell me that the average Joe knows what GitHub is, that’s not a good thing.

It’s already a threat vector that’s being exploited in the wild.

Add to that that even though it’s verifiable, this also makes this guy a target for supply chain attack.

This is bad all around.

At the very least he could have signed the scripts which he did not.

Let’s say somebody tries to run this at work and they actually succeed and they manage to get it to run so that means they have bypassed the restriction that keeps them from running unsigned scripts and so right there they’ve made their machine more vulnerable so there’s that too.

Look, I recognize what the guy’s trying to do and it’s admirable but he should use a signed installer or put something in the Windows store (ok maybe MS wouldn’t like that) or at least use some sort of modern cryptographic protections. This guy (The article author really, I don’t blame the actual scriptwriter so much) is having people paste code and run it.

Anyone that’s pasting shit like

& ([scriptblock]::Create((irm “https://raw.githubusercontent.com/corbindavenport/just-the-browser/main/main.ps1”)))

Into elevated powershell windows should be summarily fired and prosecuted.

On Windows, all you have to do is open PowerShell as administrator and copy-paste this command:

& ([scriptblock]::Create((irm “https://raw.githubusercontent.com/corbindavenport/just-the-browser/main/main.ps1”)))

…said the Nigerian prince. Hahahahahahahahahahahaha

I’ve read enough.

No.

Edit: Oh my god, it gets even better, the script reaches out and downloads shit from the Internet too. What the everloving fuck!

I went with qnap. Synology, I think, can’t be trusted to stick with that policy reversal.