#Tech Enablement

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[kittypyuun]

Fem Donnie propaganda........ will I stop, probably not lmao

Source image for this came from @ckao03 over here! They also post good figure repaint stuff so pls show them love :D and transparent bonuses below the cut!

#kitart #rottmnt #rise of the teenage mutant ninja turtles #tmnt #teenage mutant ninja turtles #rottmnt donnie #rottmnt donatello #is she trans or cisfem? up to you so long as thats a she/her tech gremlin we're talking abt!! #if anything being a woman enables her crimes more /j

[archivistofnerddom]

Bad Batch AU Idea:

Fives survives. He reconnects with Echo after the latter is saved from Skako Minor, though Fives doesn’t join the Bad Batch when Echo does. He is happy that his brother and fellow Domino is alive and with a squad that will support him at this stage of his life.

Since Fives doesn’t have his chip in anymore, Order 66 doesn’t affect him.

He manages to get away from wherever he’s at and tracks down Echo and the rest of the Batch. When Fives does catch up with them, they’ve lost Crosshair, gained Omega, and fled Kamino. Fives is relieved to see them relatively in one piece, though he’s sad to learn about what happened with Cross.

But then, Omega’s there — and Fives immediately shifts into Chaotic Influencer of Little Sisters mode upon meeting her.

Hunter develops even more grey hair. Wrecker likes Fives a little too much. Tech impresses Fives with his Ludicrous Ideas and reckless flying. Omega loves that she’s gained another brother, as unexpected as it was.

And Echo is simultaneously so happy to have Fives with them and mildly concerned when Fives and Omega team up very quickly to prank him. (He winds up with bumper stickers all over his armor and glitter paint on his scomp, and no one will own up to doing that. Echo knows who did it and isn’t mad about it all. It means that they love him.)

#random bad batch AU idea #fives lives au #he joins the Bad Batch after Order 66 #and just chaotically vibes with Omega way to well #hunter doesn’t need any more stress but oh well! #wrecker and tech don’t seem to mind that he’s there #and echo likes having his twin around #guess who further enables omega’s feral chaos? it’s fives! #domino twins #tcw fives #tbb echo #tbb hunter #tbb tech #tbb wrecker #tbb crosshair #tbb omega #star wars #the bad batch #arc trooper echo #arc trooper fives

[phoenixcatch7]

Love how every zelda has a special interest and that special interest saves the world.

#Like whether it's piracy or history of light magic or ninjas or technology or art zelda ALWAYS gets super interested in the one thing #That'll save her and the kingdom down the line. Like oot zelda 100% idolised impa and demanded to be taught shiekah techniques #And disguise only for those skills to become vital during the 7 years link was gone. #Tp zelda had the most knowledge of light magic it's history and applications and spirits by FAR and all of those enabled her to save midna #And summon light arrows #If ww zelda was sitting pretty on an island instead of roaming the seas with a loyal crew and several cannons link would have been screwed. #If botw zelda had been allowed to pursue her fascination with shiekah tech or even science as a whole who knows what they might have manage #Ganon might not have been able to take them over at all. She might have learned to channel her power through artifacts or learned to mimic #The energy flow of the shiekah magic which is directly derived from hylia/the tf of wisdom! She wouldn't have been stranded at the mountain #When ganon attacked if she hadn't been forced up there on her birthday. She could have outfitted the champions with better weapons that #Would have been more effective against the blights. She might have unlocked the slate or the shrines. She would have been more confident #And thus less abrasive with link. They would have been able to bond sooner and faster. Link would have been more relaxed and ready. #The shiekah might have been able to rework teleportation instead of 106 years late. #I am salty about rhoam banning her. It never would have worked out well. #Never keep a zelda from her special interest okay!!!! #Like as soon as she and link got to do whatever they wanted the problem got solved within a few months. #Never tell a link to behave or a zelda she can't research #loz #legend of zelda #tears of the kingdom #Totk #loz totk #loz tears of the kingdom #Botw #loz botw #breath of the wild #Zelda #princess zelda #loz zelda #loz link

[givemewallywestorgivemedeath]

I think what would've made sense (and what I would've liked to see) would've been the speedsters pushing the invaders off-world/back in time and then pushing FURTHER, taking the fight to their home planet and ultimately undoing the damage not only to Earth but the rest of the planets that they've drained and enslaved. Like at a minimum. Ideally--yeah, the Iris-is-the-Empress plot would've been badass and tied a lot of older lore together. As it is it almost felt like Adams was leaving the door open to have the Fraction come back which is...optimistic, and I would've preferred a proper tie up. I'm also highkey disappointed the baby speedster wasn't Don.

Yeah my theories always ended with them taking the fight to their home planet and freeing all the speedsters because they mentioned several times that they have multiple speedsters enslaved on their home planet and I'm like??? You're just gonna walk away from that?

Because yeah, I absolutely agree. Leaving them alone solves nothing. There's still a world ending force out there conquering planets, killing millions in seconds and enslaving speedsters. They aren't going to stop and they'll be back.

So I'm just... confused on how this was the ending. It didn't feel like they won the war. It felt like they won the battle and went into hiding.

Sure, celebrate surviving and undoing the whole mess but then launch rescue missions at least. Set up defenses. Tell the GL's. Something. This isn't a victory.

#it felt underwhelming because they literally only defeated the scouting party #theres still a whole ass civilization out there causing genocide daily and enslaving people #and it just didn't really feel like an ending #as much as i loved what Wally did to the General it was still enabling them to continue on #without a battery they could've taken the ship. it would've been powerless. the JL could've taken it in seconds #then they could've deconstructed the tech. figured it out. set up defenses. launched a rescue mission #idk it just feels short sighted

[mudaxolotl]

guess who's nintendo account got hacked

#i get to call tech support this weekend 🙃 #my switch suddenly started saying 'checking to see if software can be played' when i start a game #basically i got hacked which is bad in general but i also cant play games unless im connected to wifi #tbh i shouldve enabled 2 factor auth from the start but live and learn ig #poast

[emp-blast]

haha lol what if i left some thoughts about a character that i hate in the tags of this post?? haha jk jk i won't do that haha...

do not read the tags 👁️👁️

#okay SO #i am having thoughts about chamberrrrr #so many thoughts #like how he's obviously the odd man out in the entirety of the valorant protocol #and how he has some sort of agreement with his double #but my suspicion is that it isn't 'let's not kill each other' type of deal #just because he has one voiceline where he says 'so i have to kill my double? so be it' #also that line on fracture he has #he says that he doesn't have anything to do with it. but in an awfully sarcastic tone #which makes me think that he is telling the truth. *technically* #i think he knows that his double did it. #taking it a step further i think he enabled his double to do what he did #WHY they did that is beyond me tho #idk much about val lore. i'm still relatively new #but i think the agreement is that they trade insider knowledge with each other #maybe chamber gives out schematics to his double while his double gives chamber radianite technology?? #because i do believe that omega earth (? idk what it's called) is more advanced in terms of tech #what i can't figure out is what chamber's double wants with alpha earth 🤔 #hmmmmm #also i need those two to have a disagreement. for angst purposes JSDJSJD #i may or may not have imagined their entire dynamic in my head all day today hahah🤪 #and i may or may not have assigned them a song. yeah totally didn't do that i promise <3

[thepig]

the civ 6 multiplayer game went just so bad for me btw. im languishing. REALLY fun though i was just playing with my heart. and lingering civ knowledge

#dolores #the modes sable enabled are pretty fun #i thought i wouldnt like mixed up techs and such but im digging it

[katamarigender]

Im in such a rain world mood right now its awesome. Literally one of the best games ever ^-^

#my stuff #if you enjoy challenging/punishing games or fun platformers and survival mechanics and cool worldbuilding i would highly recommend it #and if its too difficult (which is okay!) then i would recommend mods like: #unshaded citadel.. keepthatawayfromme and simplifiedmoveset are also good #theyre all on the steam workshop now i think which is really nice #unshaded citadel makes 1 section of the game a lot less stressful/painstaking #keepthatawayfromme prevents certain creatures from spawning (good if you are afraid of bugs since there's spider and centipede enemies) #and simplifiedmoveset makes certain movement tech easier to pull off and lets you enable wall climbing + breathing underwater #(makes a lot of platforming segments much easier to traverse) #and the new remix menu has a lot of tweaks that change the difficulty also! :) #anyways. play rain world!

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[hugepolecat3298]

i think one of the things that there is to hate the most about tech bros is how theyve like completely corrupted the idea of artificial intelligence like ai in everyones heads Used to be something that made games more immersive and fun that takes a lot of work to get right and it was impressive a lot of the time and now its just synonymous with soulless theft and disrespect for real human beings

#originals #someone reblogged a post saying that programming is a form of creativity which i agreed with and then thry mentioned ai and i immediately #recoiled because now you literally only see 'ai' used in reference to theft and machines used to enable theft until i realised they meant #what it actually fucking is which is making the people in the computer move and act in non pre determined ways which is sick as hell #i wish there was a way to distinguish between tech bros and normal people who just like computer software cause one time i went on a whole #rant about how tech bros will straight up mock you if you dont understand how to use a program and refuse to help and my normal friend #thought i was insulting him for some reason even though i said i thought it was a cool art form and now he never stops getting mad ab it #tech bros should be put in a large hole away from all civilisation and are only allowed to interact with themselves so everyone else can #enjoy computer and machine stuff without being condescended (i think that is a form ? probably) all the time for not getting smth #or disliking Literal Theft

[books-are-my-life-stuff]

In this house, we love and appreciate Anni Steven.

I've been a big fan of DPS playstyle with 6*EX support lately, and Anni Steven is one of the best sync pairs in terms of DPS, so he matches my playstyle preference really well. I like him a lot.

#personal #pokemon masters #i have now joined anni steven appreciation squad #'anni steven has bad sync nuke and bad attack stats!!' he's meant to be played in dps mode guys bring your 6*ex supports #also if gridded specifically for sync nuking his nuke isn't bad #sure it's not the best but he has tons of dps to back him up #'anni steven needs a lot of support and flying zone!' literally just bring halloween caitlin or leaf and he's good to go #one of his best partners is an eggmon; tech farfetch'd is one of the best anni steven enabler #you can even bring lodge serena and grid her with defense crush or smth #bad stats can be fixed with matching theme skills #also not all strikers need to sync nuke to be great--some are more focused on dps like og emmet #i will protect anni steven from slander #anyway kinda unrelated but i've been using lodge serena a lot #big fan of her debuffs--she's a good latias and tapu bulu check #and even if i gridded her with utility grid her nuke is still pretty good #lodge serena is pretty good

[ambientsoundtrackfan]

I find Jordan Peterson too funny to really offend me. I disagree with most of what he says and he absolutely blatantly is coasting off Jung and misreading european literature but I also just find him so insane and overdramatic. he's genuinely losing his mind in real time on the public stage. the worst thing he ever did for himself was try to be a public intellectual. I do think he actually cares for people but hes also kanye west level clinically insane and imo a poor scholar (outside of his niche field) he seems so tormented, its like seeing someone in pure agony I'm sure he was an amazing professor. its like he thinks he's Nietzsche but he has no talent or vision just the insanity and misogyny

#he's def a tech bros philosopher and on surface he seems like just another boring edgy classical canon defender #but then you realize this man and his family are living in a vortex of insanity and digital enabling #I think hes probably fine as like a normal jungian psych professor #but now I thinks hes completely degenerating and getting farther and father inside his head

[autisticcassandracain]

I really. Should sit down and figure out what to do with Shilo in my Fourth World canon

#Shilo norman is the fourth world character most aggressively screwed over except for maybe forager #It's hard for me to get a hold on him and that's because no two takes on him have been remotely the same #And I dont want to default to mr miracle v1 canon like i normally do bc shilo's backstory in that REALLY didnt age well #I like the source of freedom's take on him best I think but it completely loses his connection to scott and also fuck n'vir free #That leaves like. Mr miracle v2's shilo. Which is just. #Well. Choices were made #There's a reason most ppl have ignoreed mr miracle v2's take on shilo's personality and backstory and just kept him becoming mr miracle #I think my biggest problem with Shilo is that what I find interesting about him is not at all a character angle canon wants to explore #Ie I like the idea of Shilo as a mortal among gods #What does it mean to pick up a mantle that's shared with/was previously held by a god? #I rlly liked the initial thing in mr miracle v2 where rhey made him create his own tech for the suit bc he didnt have a motherbox #To me that's FAR more fascinating as a concept than what they ultimately ended up going with re: motherbox accepting him #Which I always found badly executed anyway like I think it was a really bad move to try and draw direct parallels between shilo and scott #I'm sorry a teen runaway mom leaving her newborn kid at the doorstep of an orphanage is not a betrayal!! Tf did you want her to do!!! #Anyway. Moving on #And then the source of freedom did away with the godly aspect of the mister miracle legacy entirely #And I rlly do like how cutting out scott enabled the story to focus on thaddeus brown and issues of race #The source of freedom is a very good take on shilo but still #I cant help but feel dissappointed nobody has rlly seemed to see shilo the same way as me ie a man among gods #Idk I still havent read all shilo comics im missing some notable exceptions so maybe I'll find it yet #But this lack of interest in framing shilo the way I believe would be the most interesting rlly does make it hard for me #To figure out what to do with him in my canon #My posts #Shilo norman

[mostlysignssomeportents]

“If buying isn’t owning, piracy isn’t stealing”

20 years ago, I got in a (friendly) public spat with Chris Anderson, who was then the editor in chief of Wired. I'd publicly noted my disappointment with glowing Wired reviews of DRM-encumbered digital devices, prompting Anderson to call me unrealistic for expecting the magazine to condemn gadgets for their DRM:

https://longtail.typepad.com/the_long_tail/2004/12/is_drm_evil.html

I replied in public, telling him that he'd misunderstood. This wasn't an issue of ideological purity – it was about good reviewing practice. Wired was telling readers to buy a product because it had features x, y and z, but at any time in the future, without warning, without recourse, the vendor could switch off any of those features:

https://memex.craphound.com/2004/12/29/cory-responds-to-wired-editor-on-drm/

I proposed that all Wired endorsements for DRM-encumbered products should come with this disclaimer:

WARNING: THIS DEVICE’S FEATURES ARE SUBJECT TO REVOCATION WITHOUT NOTICE, ACCORDING TO TERMS SET OUT IN SECRET NEGOTIATIONS. YOUR INVESTMENT IS CONTINGENT ON THE GOODWILL OF THE WORLD’S MOST PARANOID, TECHNOPHOBIC ENTERTAINMENT EXECS. THIS DEVICE AND DEVICES LIKE IT ARE TYPICALLY USED TO CHARGE YOU FOR THINGS YOU USED TO GET FOR FREE — BE SURE TO FACTOR IN THE PRICE OF BUYING ALL YOUR MEDIA OVER AND OVER AGAIN. AT NO TIME IN HISTORY HAS ANY ENTERTAINMENT COMPANY GOTTEN A SWEET DEAL LIKE THIS FROM THE ELECTRONICS PEOPLE, BUT THIS TIME THEY’RE GETTING A TOTAL WALK. HERE, PUT THIS IN YOUR MOUTH, IT’LL MUFFLE YOUR WHIMPERS.

Wired didn't take me up on this suggestion.

But I was right. The ability to change features, prices, and availability of things you've already paid for is a powerful temptation to corporations. Inkjet printers were always a sleazy business, but once these printers got directly connected to the internet, companies like HP started pushing out "security updates" that modified your printer to make it reject the third-party ink you'd paid for:

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/11/ink-stained-wretches-battle-soul-digital-freedom-taking-place-inside-your-printer

Now, this scam wouldn't work if you could just put things back the way they were before the "update," which is where the DRM comes in. A thicket of IP laws make reverse-engineering DRM-encumbered products into a felony. Combine always-on network access with indiscriminate criminalization of user modification, and the enshittification will follow, as surely as night follows day.

This is the root of all the right to repair shenanigans. Sure, companies withhold access to diagnostic codes and parts, but codes can be extracted and parts can be cloned. The real teeth in blocking repair comes from the law, not the tech. The company that makes McDonald's wildly unreliable McFlurry machines makes a fortune charging franchisees to fix these eternally broken appliances. When a third party threatened this racket by reverse-engineering the DRM that blocked independent repair, they got buried in legal threats:

https://pluralistic.net/2021/04/20/euthanize-rentier-enablers/#cold-war

Everybody loves this racket. In Poland, a team of security researchers at the OhMyHack conference just presented their teardown of the anti-repair features in NEWAG Impuls locomotives. NEWAG boobytrapped their trains to try and detect if they've been independently serviced, and to respond to any unauthorized repairs by bricking themselves:

https://mamot.fr/@[email protected]/111528162905209453

Poland is part of the EU, meaning that they are required to uphold the provisions of the 2001 EU Copyright Directive, including Article 6, which bans this kind of reverse-engineering. The researchers are planning to present their work again at the Chaos Communications Congress in Hamburg this month – Germany is also a party to the EUCD. The threat to researchers from presenting this work is real – but so is the threat to conferences that host them:

https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/researchers-face-legal-threats-over-sdmi-hack/

20 years ago, Chris Anderson told me that it was unrealistic to expect tech companies to refuse demands for DRM from the entertainment companies whose media they hoped to play. My argument – then and now – was that any tech company that sells you a gadget that can have its features revoked is defrauding you. You're paying for x, y and z – and if they are contractually required to remove x and y on demand, they are selling you something that you can't rely on, without making that clear to you.

But it's worse than that. When a tech company designs a device for remote, irreversible, nonconsensual downgrades, they invite both external and internal parties to demand those downgrades. Like Pavel Chekov says, a phaser on the bridge in Act I is going to go off by Act III. Selling a product that can be remotely, irreversibly, nonconsensually downgraded inevitably results in the worst person at the product-planning meeting proposing to do so. The fact that there are no penalties for doing so makes it impossible for the better people in that meeting to win the ensuing argument, leading to the moral injury of seeing a product you care about reduced to a pile of shit:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/11/25/moral-injury/#enshittification

But even if everyone at that table is a swell egg who wouldn't dream of enshittifying the product, the existence of a remote, irreversible, nonconsensual downgrade feature makes the product vulnerable to external actors who will demand that it be used. Back in 2022, Adobe informed its customers that it had lost its deal to include Pantone colors in Photoshop, Illustrator and other "software as a service" packages. As a result, users would now have to start paying a monthly fee to see their own, completed images. Fail to pay the fee and all the Pantone-coded pixels in your artwork would just show up as black:

https://pluralistic.net/2022/10/28/fade-to-black/#trust-the-process

Adobe blamed this on Pantone, and there was lots of speculation about what had happened. Had Pantone jacked up its price to Adobe, so Adobe passed the price on to its users in the hopes of embarrassing Pantone? Who knows? Who can know? That's the point: you invested in Photoshop, you spent money and time creating images with it, but you have no way to know whether or how you'll be able to access those images in the future. Those terms can change at any time, and if you don't like it, you can go fuck yourself.

These companies are all run by CEOs who got their MBAs at Darth Vader University, where the first lesson is "I have altered the deal, pray I don't alter it further." Adobe chose to design its software so it would be vulnerable to this kind of demand, and then its customers paid for that choice. Sure, Pantone are dicks, but this is Adobe's fault. They stuck a KICK ME sign to your back, and Pantone obliged.

This keeps happening and it's gonna keep happening. Last week, Playstation owners who'd bought (or "bought") Warner TV shows got messages telling them that Warner had walked away from its deal to sell videos through the Playstation store, and so all the videos they'd paid for were going to be deleted forever. They wouldn't even get refunds (to be clear, refunds would also be bullshit – when I was a bookseller, I didn't get to break into your house and steal the books I'd sold you, not even if I left some cash on your kitchen table).

Sure, Warner is an unbelievably shitty company run by the single most guillotineable executive in all of Southern California, the loathsome David Zaslav, who oversaw the merger of Warner with Discovery. Zaslav is the creep who figured out that he could make more money cancelling completed movies and TV shows and taking a tax writeoff than he stood to make by releasing them:

https://aftermath.site/there-is-no-piracy-without-ownership

Imagine putting years of your life into making a program – showing up on set at 5AM and leaving your kids to get their own breakfast, performing stunts that could maim or kill you, working 16-hour days during the acute phase of the covid pandemic and driving home in the night, only to have this absolute turd of a man delete the program before anyone could see it, forever, to get a minor tax advantage. Talk about moral injury!

But without Sony's complicity in designing a remote, irreversible, nonconsensual downgrade feature into the Playstation, Zaslav's war on art and creative workers would be limited to material that hadn't been released yet. Thanks to Sony's awful choices, David Zaslav can break into your house, steal your movies – and he doesn't even have to leave a twenty on your kitchen table.

The point here – the point I made 20 years ago to Chris Anderson – is that this is the foreseeable, inevitable result of designing devices for remote, irreversible, nonconsensual downgrades. Anyone who was paying attention should have figured that out in the GW Bush administration. Anyone who does this today? Absolute flaming garbage.

Sure, Zaslav deserves to be staked out over an anthill and slathered in high-fructose corn syrup. But save the next anthill for the Sony exec who shipped a product that would let Zaslav come into your home and rob you. That piece of shit knew what they were doing and they did it anyway. Fuck them. Sideways. With a brick.

Meanwhile, the studios keep making the case for stealing movies rather than paying for them. As Tyler James Hill wrote: "If buying isn't owning, piracy isn't stealing":

https://bsky.app/profile/tylerjameshill.bsky.social/post/3kflw2lvam42n

If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this post to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/12/08/playstationed/#tyler-james-hill

Image: Alan Levine (modified) https://pxhere.com/en/photo/218986

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