bearboiblake

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[–] bearboiblake@pawb.social 3 points 4 months ago

i'm a person with bills to pay, but if i paid those bills by endangering people, i'd be a bad person.

corporations exist to protect people from the financial and legal repercussions of their business activity.

they should not exist, and so, I will celebrate if Mozilla goes into bankruptcy.

we do not need them. control of firefox should be in the hands of a not-for-profit group, not a company.

[–] bearboiblake@pawb.social 2 points 4 months ago (4 children)

FWIW, banking apps work fine on GrapheneOS.

[–] bearboiblake@pawb.social 0 points 4 months ago (2 children)

if you didn't give a shit about what i say you wouldn't have gotten angry at what i wrote.

i know i was wrong to be so aggressive and hostile in my original message, and i apologise for that.

i don't think you're a bad person, in fact, i'm sure you are kind and loving. i don't want to shit on you.

but i do stand by what i wrote since. you're so determined to be angry that you won't listen to sense.

[–] bearboiblake@pawb.social 1 points 4 months ago (8 children)

GrapheneOS is pretty good, as a more private alternative to Android, though the downside is that it's only available for Pixel phones. I bought a used one on ebay.

[–] bearboiblake@pawb.social 2 points 4 months ago (6 children)

It sounds like a bullshit excuse, to me.

If they wanted to cover their ass, they could have changed their ToS any number of different ways than what they went with.

Let's not be naïve. All corporations are the enemy, including Mozilla.

[–] bearboiblake@pawb.social 11 points 4 months ago (3 children)

google does this kinda shit on purpose to reinforce their market position

[–] bearboiblake@pawb.social 0 points 4 months ago (4 children)

complain all you want, you have every right to do that, and while I could have worded it better, and i'm genuinely sorry that I didn't, but if the worst thing that happens to you is that you have to work for as long as everyone else, then you're very privileged, and complaining about it just comes across as selfish and entitled.

imagine if your family and hundreds of thousands of other people got rounded up and were being sent by train into concentration camps, but someone sabotaged the railway lines to disrupt that plan. then imagine someone on a thread about that story was complaining that the railway sabotage made them late to the cinema.

maybe you wouldn't write the most compassionate reply to that comment either. maybe you're a better person than me. i have no idea. but i still don't give a shit about your retirement fund, i never will, and i won't apologise for that. if that makes me a bad person, so be it.

[–] bearboiblake@pawb.social 0 points 4 months ago (6 children)

i care deeply for the common person. if we overthrow the ruling class you can retire whenever you want. until then, no, i don't care about your retirement fund. you're extremely lucky to be in this unfortunate position. I am not sorry for telling you this, because you need to read it, but I am truly sorry for causing you to suffer by reading it. sometimes, though, people do need to hear unpleasant truths.

if you really want to fight for your retirement, then join a union and get involved with activism.

[–] bearboiblake@pawb.social 2 points 4 months ago

I've been a paying subscriber to Kagi since 2023. Everything I wrote in my previous comment is still true. I'm glad that it works for you, though.

[–] bearboiblake@pawb.social -1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (8 children)

sorry, but i don't give a flying fuck about your retirement account. your country is literally falling into fascism and you're worrying about how that's going to affect your retirement plan?

people are being rounded up and put into camps.

your retirement plan should be to die fighting to stop it.

[–] bearboiblake@pawb.social 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

i'm disabled and i volunteer with disabled people, and we talk about these kind of things quite often - people will talk about how a thoughtless comment on the internet started a spiral of despair. there's one guy in that group of 30ish who tries to tell people how their words affected him. everyone else, they keep it to themselves, for various reasons - sometimes they're scared that if they share how they were affected by a comment, the person who wrote it will intentionally try to hurt them more. some people are scared of being seen as a "karen", some just don't want to bother people.

we all understand that, most of the time, people aren't trying to upset us. they're just being a bit thoughtless. i totally understand that it seems like an arbitrary imposition, but it's really not that hard to just be a bit more considerate of others.

if you think a word you like to say is more important than being considerate of others, then you keep doing whatever you want. but stop lying to yourself, your actions can hurt people, and blaming people for being hurt by your actions is karen behavior.

[–] bearboiblake@pawb.social 3 points 4 months ago

dude if you think for 10 seconds that sending chatgpt a pdf and giving it instructions that it won't make shit up i've got an exciting business opportunity for you to invest in

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