I think you are absolutely correct on every count and the point that I was trying to make here is that the same types of arguments are being made by the different people that there is nothing wrong with their product. It’s a problem that is being created by the user of the product, etc., etc. You can also see this with the petrochemical companies shifting the blame on the user and the plastics companies. Again, shifting the blame on the user instead of taking the blame in the production level where it should be.

The strategy is called delay, deny, defend period if it sounds familiar, it should.

I’d argue that there is appetite and that those skills have not been lost forever and while there are those that would have use only play and consume, to assume that this is the only thing happening is a bit of a reductio ad absurdum.

Guess I need to re-read my shit. Lol.

“If [cigarettes] are behaviorally addictive or habit forming, they are much more like … Gummi Bears… I’m certainly not addicted to them.”

-Philip Morris CEO

Kinda like cancer, till the US pulled out of the WHO.

It has always been and will forever be.

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They’ve left the door open to law enforcement for years. This is not new.

This article is from 2019 http://archive.today/kYbQV

…and if you believe that police really had to ask, I’ve got a bridge to sell ya.

For me, the cost benefit is about entertainment. I recognize there have been studies that supposedly show that games can help develop or maintain certain skills, but for me it’s more about learning the skill to experience the in-game reward. That’s just for some games. For others, that element exists but the game is telling a story too. One that is punctuated by struggle, maybe battles, and the overcoming which leads to power ups and more story.

So the cost-benefit is that it costs time, but it pulls you out of end-stage capitalism and puts you in flow state, engaging in another world.

I would suspect, though, that if you’re seeing video games through the lens of cost-benefit analysis, you might have trouble relaxing. People need rest.

I believe it, most especially in your specific case.

Maybe it’s about time for another essay.

I dunno, I did going in but what I got from it was his method of explaining it to people that truly don’t understand.

I’ve always liked this man. Today I love him.

I read inefficiencies of solar and immediately thought of this… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtQ9nt2ZeGM

This is not enshittification. This is a calculated attack. It’s class warfare.

I don’t know, I don’t hate where you found it and the article seems very good.

Thank you for posting I’ve already shared it.

Yes and I have read them but the problem is that if you get people to start running random powershell from sources they don’t recognize, and you can’t tell me that the average Joe knows what GitHub is, that’s not a good thing.

It’s already a threat vector that’s being exploited in the wild.

Add to that that even though it’s verifiable, this also makes this guy a target for supply chain attack.

This is bad all around.

At the very least he could have signed the scripts which he did not.

Let’s say somebody tries to run this at work and they actually succeed and they manage to get it to run so that means they have bypassed the restriction that keeps them from running unsigned scripts and so right there they’ve made their machine more vulnerable so there’s that too.

Look, I recognize what the guy’s trying to do and it’s admirable but he should use a signed installer or put something in the Windows store (ok maybe MS wouldn’t like that) or at least use some sort of modern cryptographic protections. This guy (The article author really, I don’t blame the actual scriptwriter so much) is having people paste code and run it.

Anyone that’s pasting shit like

& ([scriptblock]::Create((irm “https://raw.githubusercontent.com/corbindavenport/just-the-browser/main/main.ps1”)))

Into elevated powershell windows should be summarily fired and prosecuted.