Value’s been being stolen as long as authority has existed. Really cool to see the history of this!

They just released Riviera: The Promised Land on Steam for $35, so I don’t think retro games will maintain their value. Studios will just re-release them and charge full price again if the secondary market heats up.

You’re not the “bully class”, you’re defending the Bully Class (i.e. the wealth and power holders). The Bully Class uses force all the time, e.g. cops.

Does that mean I need to counter-obstruct obstructism I disagree with? That sounds like rapid escalation.

Activism is, intrinsically, against the status quo. If you are for the status quo, you can counter-protest, but the police are the ones whose “job” it is to employ pro-staus-quo force. If you are for a different change, it very much depends on what the movement you’re opposing is trying to do. It may well be necessary to obstruct it.

to have a outline/playbook to organize obstructionists in this climate is woefully tactless when masses are so easily enraged.

We are living in an age of capital consolidation unlike any time before. Our wealth disparity (and therefore, power disparity) is greater than even in the days of the Robber Barons. I think the masses need to be enraged. If you actually mean, “taking their rage out on the wrong people”, I’d agree, but that’s far more likely to happen due to political actors and news media (e.g. Jan 6th) than it is by local protests.

That said, there are many ways to get your message out. Websites, pamphlets, signs, heck we are Ad ridden everywhere. There is no excuse. Changing laws isn’t glamorous, isn’t fast, and isn’t easy. But the right way has no shortcuts.

The entire Civil Rights Era was riddled with forceful activism, and wouldn’t have been able to make the changes it did otherwise. The threat of, “if you ignore us this will go badly, so work with us” was a critical component of the movement. MLK wouldn’t have been given a seat at the table if Malcolm X hadn’t been in the background (and just look at what happened to them to see how the status quo protects itself).

That said, there are many ways to get your message out. Websites, pamphlets, signs, heck we are Ad ridden everywhere.

And protests too!

And all the ones you listed either require money to do, or require the complicity of the (big money) platform owners. If you have little or no money, and e.g. Facebook takes down your posts, your list leaves no other routes.

Second, (in the USA) your rights end when they infrige on anothers’. To impose my needs selfishly at the expense of yours is not only infringing your rights, but possibly accruing damages.

If someone is illegally detaining you or injuring you, that is certainly an infringement on your rights. But you don’t have a right to go to a specific place, or drive on a specific road. You don’t own any bridges, so their use can’t be stolen from you anyways. Don’t conjure up false rights in the name of your own convenience.

Disruption is an important tool, and often a morally justified one, but who and what you’re disrupting matters. Slave revolts are disruption, certainly. Germans who sabotaged rail infrastructure during WW2 were causing disruption. Taking disruptive, or even violent, action off the table entirely means you are taking the position that all of the actions of a given government and society are moral beyond the point where force is justifiable. And I don’t even get the impression you were talking about the same level as these, you seem like you’re just talking about people blocking traffic for a bit and whatnot. The threshold for that is obviously much lower.

What does is voting and education.

Putting movements in front of people’s eyes is education. Just like we don’t let children choose not to go to school, protest actions are sometimes about not allowing people to look away, by getting in their way. As the article is discussing, sometimes people react well to that education, and sometimes they don’t.

Personally, I preferred the first one. If you’ve played through 1 and are still itching for more, 2 is definitely a fine game.

Gonna be a cluster either way, but at least in that case it can’t end with him in power.

Ok, this definitely cinches the rumors

Unrelated, but I love your Netscape avatar.

Cute :)

Yeah, I definitely recommend self hosting content if you really want to ensure it’s available in the future. I’ve lost track of so many YouTube videos that I used to enjoy, now I grab them to have offline.

It is, but it’s also much more obscure, and definitely much older (2005), than most of the other games on here. I saw just now that there was a remake in 2018, which must have been PlayStation-only to have escaped my notice.

I personally always had a tough time with spotting bad intentions, and I started to always tell people

“let me think about it and get back to you”

That lets me get the distance and time to really assess the ask: does it help me, does it hurt me, does it hurt someone else, what does the asker gain from it, why would they want that, etc.

Generally, if someone is pressuring me not to take time to give an answer, I take that as a red flag. And for me at least it was tough to learn to ask for that time, but it’s such a huge help in avoiding people with bad intentions.

Neat list! Seeing Shadow of the Colossus was surprising.

The War Crimes That the Military Buried

So… all of them?

The Hanging Dumpsters of Babble-on

“The internet is the blue ‘e’ swirl thing on my computer’s home screen.”

Speaking as an infosec professional, security monitoring software should be targeted at threats, not at the user. We want to know the state of the laptop as it relates to the safety of the data on that machine. We don’t, and in healthy workplaces can’t, determine what an employee is doing that does not behaviorally conform to a threat.

Yes, if a user repeatedly gets virus detections around 9pm, we can infer what’s going on, but we aren’t tracking their websites visited, because the AUP is structured around impacts/outcomes, not actions alone.

As an example, we don’t care if you run a python exploit, we care if you run it against a machine you do not have authorization to (i.e. violating CFAA). So we don’t scan your files against exploitdb, we watch for unusual network traffic that conforms to known exploits, and capture that request information.

So if you try to pentest pornhub, we’ll know. But if you just visit it in Firefox, we won’t.

We’re not prison guards, like these schools apparently think they are, we’re town guards.

Schools literally, legally, are not companies.

School is not work. Work is compensated. Work is voluntary. School is neither.