Wandering Adventure Party

@raineer and yet it is still probably an improvement over Jira...

@cstross won't Kessler Syndrome make space launch dead as a business long before that?

@gbargoud @cstross @tony it takes a special kind of creepy to weird even Epstein out.

@rogerb @angusm @cstross it's almost as if the British Empire they yearn so nostalgically for couldn't be made to work without the 50 trillion pounds it extracted from India over 200 years.

@JdeBP @cstross @GetCarter not paid enough, just like the human reviewers Big Tech hires to monitor for CSAM in poor countries like the Philippines and who experience PTSD as a result.

@cstross there are others, like Argo, or Streisand (linked in the README), but more annoying because they unnecessarily require you to have Ansible installed on your system.

@cstross you can run your own VPN, I’ve automated the process in https://github.com/fazalmajid/edgewalker

At that point, *you* are the VPN provider and in compliance. Until the next brain dead decision the parasites descended from thugs in the House of Drolls come up with.

@pluralistic @gbargoud @randahl @singlepenny well, in the French case, they were literally in bed with the president...

I hope you're right, but they have been in the lobbying game for a very long time (Beaumarchais, 1777) and even though entertainment is an economically marginal industry (at one point the Telcos made more from 2 weeks' SMS revenue than Hollywood did in an entire year), the star power means it is also the tail that wags the dog.

The fossil fuel lobby has managed to gut the EU 2035 ICE car ban, by the way, even though that guarantees the eventual death of the European car industry. Also, Germany shut down nuclear plants to restart coal-fired ones, so I wouldn't declare victory on that front just yet.

@gbargoud @randahl @singlepenny @pluralistic that is naive. The Europeans also have their own copyright lobbies, which are if anything even more rabid than US ones.

Just one example: France has a levy on all storage devices, funneled directly into the pockets of copyright collection agency SACEM. Thus the SD card in your digicam or the database drives in your hospital are taxed to fund Nicolas Sarkozy's wife Carla Bruni or Taylor Swift (with a hefty commission taken by the self-dealing scum at SACEM, of course).

@noheger I am not "upgrading" any of my iPhones, iPads or Macs to Liquid Ass, and am well on my way to switch to Linux full-time. Apple has jumped the shark, and people who make excuses for them are just demonstrating Stockholm Syndrome.

@graydon @cstross @mekkaokereke @sophieschmieg that's only 20% of the population, they wouldn't win elections without the support of tradwives.