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[–] intrepid@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

In what sense? It's a competitor by design.

[–] intrepid@lemmy.ca 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

With this much complexity, why not just use TLS client certificates without PKI and managed by a password manager?

[–] intrepid@lemmy.ca 18 points 1 year ago

Your second point is especially interesting, considering the recent xz backdoor. The bad actors manipulated a poor burnt out maintainer for it. In comparison, I'm impressed with gorhill for his perseverance and mental strength. I would like to know how he avoids burn out with such negative influences.

[–] intrepid@lemmy.ca 20 points 1 year ago

Yes, it's from memory. But don't congratulate me yet. My guess is that it is just one third of Musk's most egregious lies.

[–] intrepid@lemmy.ca 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Israel probably knows that there are no takers for their delusions. But appearances are more important than the truth in this crooked world order.

[–] intrepid@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Holocaust denial is a post-Nazi (after 1945) phenomenon, isn't it? Or did the original Nazis ever do that as well?

[–] intrepid@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 year ago (9 children)

I think the Nazis were proud of what they did and owned it up.

But I agree that discrediting the discovery of the mass grave in Gaza is going to take more than the rhetoric of 'bullshit terrorist propaganda'. Israel at this point is leaning too much on people's sympathy when Hamas did the initial attack.

[–] intrepid@lemmy.ca 49 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Easy. He classifies his lies by his company:

  • Tesla: FSD, Cybertruck, Semi, Optimus and the spandex dancing man, solar shingles, solar farm, thermonuclear explosion proof glass, bullet proof chassis, battery-swap, range under full charge, share value, etc
  • Boring Company: Hyperloop, Not a flamethrower, Vegas loop, pods, tunnel bricks, etc
  • SpaceX: Martian colony, surface to surface starship, in-orbit refueling (to get to moon), in-situ methane production on Mars, etc
  • Neuralink: Telepathy, Brain backup
  • Twitter: Free speech
  • Musk himself: His net worth, The man who knows more about manufacturing than anyone else alive
[–] intrepid@lemmy.ca 34 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Sadly a very common and favorite strategy of genocidal autocratic regimes across the world.

[–] intrepid@lemmy.ca 32 points 1 year ago (6 children)

The fundamental problem I see here is the cloud. We were supposed to have easy self hosted applications and data on cheap always-online hardware. Instead, companies promoted cloud services with the intention of rent seeking through subscriptions.

If you look at the software that went from open source to source available, you'll notice that almost all of them are cloud applications. Why? The companies that created them were hoping to make money through the same subscription model. But then, big cloud players like AWS just outcompeted them using their own software.

Would this have happened if the FOSS ecosystem neglected the cloud hype and gravitated towards self hosting? Perhaps. But not as badly. We still haven't seen enough progress towards self hosting. It's still very hard for regular folks. Genuine efforts like sandstorm didn't find enough momentum. I hope this changes at least now.

[–] intrepid@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago

No. Just people fighting for the Darwin awards.

[–] intrepid@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I wouldn't call idiocy leading to ER admissions as 'blown out of proportions'. That aside, I still don't understand what you prove by consuming something as distasteful as tide pods.

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