re: the apple silicon backdoor
What uncritical consumers don't understand is that even if you pay a premium for privacy and security it makes no difference. That's marketing bullshit. There will *always* be someone with a bigger wallet or bigger stick who wants your insecurity, and your personal information, more than you can justify the effort to the manufacturer(s). iPhone users should not be surprised about hardware backdoors with secret register values and undocumented instructions, as there has been far more sophisticated schemes found on both cheaper and more expensive equipment. If you are on an intel or ARM machine of this era it really ought to be the expectation, not the exception. People who have paid far more for far more luxury hardware than a mere apple gadget have been fucked like this. Not to mention actual professional grade hardware.
*an american parent, seeing an NES* finally. a V.C.R. ... with a gun. this will allow me to teach my Son to hunt
*a british parent, seeing an NES* we've already got a video. we dont need another video! we're paying out the nose every month for one video as it is!! and this one plays completely different tapes
falling behind an enshitification curve they themselves established. now that's that Nvidia promise
watching/playing etc something bad doesn't magically make you a Hitler. That's satanic panic US christocult logic. Engaging with art is just like... the point, to me. Why would I boot a game or play a song for the first time if I wasn't interested in what the people behind it were trying to say?
when people say x media is good "if you just turn your brain off"... don't know what's up with them but if something only works when you don't examine it then it's probably actually crap. You can enjoy media that's bad morally or technically while engaging with it. That's just what media literacy is.
are you worried that blocking makes you the asshole in this case? Well now the person you blocked has one less asshole to deal with. 2 problems solved babee
I used to make art for this site.
Helped a little with An Outcry, helping a little with Blanksword.
Starting to think I'm too disabled for real jobs, so let me know if you have a fake one that pays ok