One great thing about society is how it takes all kinds. We all have our long and our short strengths. And when we’re all thrown into the mix, we get here, on Lemmy for example. You’re obviously skilled enough to get here and communicate your perspective.
Whether you’ve found it yet, you have a role to play. If you haven’t found it, keep poking away. It will reveal itself. There’s lots to be done.
Good luck.
It’s an important life skill, being able to plant a thought in the mind of another and in a way that is likely to be accepted.
It crossed my mind since my last writing that, in the 80s, I got a money back guarantee for any counter-surveillance equipment purchased that didn’t reveal surveillance equipment in a Fortune 100 facility. It was that pervasive back then. And my perception is that morals and business ethics have not improved in the interim. Far from it.
Good luck and thanks for the valuable, respectful input.
Points well made and taken, thanks. No hostility perceived at all.
Reasonable minds can differ and frequently do. And it could be that people may think my suggestion is unrealistic or even silly.
There’s no shortage of miscreants out there who just like to mess with things, thrown wrenches into spokes, etc. And these types could well be behind the daily local issues.
But here’s an important point, and no offense intended. Corporations are like The Terminator. But instead of getting Sarah Connor, they purse profits. And regardless of CEO intelligence or accumen, every Fortune 500 company has a department that deals in these areas. They all have their skunk works and use them. It’s been this way for centuries. A primer: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrial_espionage
So whether they’re operating here atm or not, there is nothing paranoid about assuming they are. If they’re not, they will be. It’s what they do.
Thanks for the input. :)
Every account they lose hits them in the pocketbook. The bigger the fediverse gets, the more adherents, the greater the momentum it will have and the harder it will be to stop.
Nipping it in the bud is the best, easiest, and least expensive place to nip it.
The downvotes suggest their operatives are reading the comments.
I wonder if the owners of deddit, fb, tweetster, et al, might think it financially worthwhile to cause disruption in the fediverse, and even its ultimate failure.
By pwning the three branches of government and, therefore, the regulatory environment.
Ignorance makes her confident. But one can’t be so charitable about the company’s fraud.
I don’t see how the app could possibly function without access to your call logs and messages. /s
I’ve sat at keyboards beside people studiously working their own. My presumption was that we were working on the same project. Then they have their AHA moment, and show me how they’ve hacked into our host machine.
They didn’t do it for money or to cause disruption. They did it to see if they could, and succeeding was reward enough. Then, happy as could be, they set off in pursuit of their next accomplishment.
Ya never know what’s going through others’ minds or what motivates them.
It’s well established that Rdeadit* doesn’t make foolish moves. /s
I’m not saying they’re behind this. I think they are not. But I’m not ruling them out because of their acumen.
During the event a message flashed on my screen, “This website has been seized by Rdeadit for copyright violation”. That suggested two things to me. Rdeadit didn’t write that. Whoever did write it doesn’t understand how a domain would legally be seized.
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Indeed, I was. I’d lost the plot, thought the commenter above you had bought an inkjet. Thanks for the clarification.
Because people will pay a lot for it. Go figure.
Or you could just throw it in the trash, get a laser, and enjoy trouble free printing. No offense.
I’m still on the factory toner cartridges after 15 - 18 years. They’re refillable, as are the replacements.
Or they may be good for one print, depending on how frequently the printer is used.
Install a new cartridge, print one page, wait a year before trying to print again and you’ll need a new cartridge.
It’s a no-brainer why they practically give those things away.
I enjoy doing things that I’m not very good at, particularly in light how long I’ve been at it. But I do it for myself and my own pleasure. So I stay at it and continue having fun. Don’t be too hard on yourself as we’re all headed into the unknown. The only thing a boat’s wake tells is where it’s been.
https://piped.video/watch?v=2L22C5IJTfE
Have fun, amigo.