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Wait a second, this implies that mice are predators.

Ah, I only skimmed their bullshit popup warning, saw a bunch of mentions of "processing," and assumed they wanted to mine crypto or something.

Why the Hell does a solar inverter have a wireless data connection at all to begin with? Insanity.

If you're installing solar anyway, you're definitely running wires. So if equipment is "smart," at least fucking hardwire the networking, damn it!

Also what the fuck was that spammy website? It wanted to run shit on my computer to let me read the article. I thought Europe was supposed to prohibit that abuse!

I feel like🖕would've worked fine (assuming you don't otherwise make rude gestures at your mom).

Strikethrough is ~~double-tilde~~ double-squiggly.

That customer knew exactly what they wanted.

Even if something is violent, that doesn't make it stop being political.

They'll get there. They hate the idea of individual people being able to make things for themselves or having any other escape from consumer serfdom.

It's not even just surveillance! It is destruction of property rights generally, including the right to repair and the ability for individuals to own their means of production.

The law. It would become a criminal offense to use open source firmware.

And that's exactly what the tech oligarchs' true goal is.

This goes way, way beyond 'guns.' It is an assault on property rights and freedom of expression as concepts generally. It would fully outlaw Free Software firmware (which is what the entire 3D printer hobby, having started with the RepRap project, is based on!). It would cut the Maker movement as a whole off at the knees.

It's absolute tyranny in ways entirely unrelated to guns themselves.

Are we going to start fitting [CNC lathes and mills] with “you might be making a gun” detectors, too? Of course not.

I've got some bad news for you about just how fucked-up these proposed laws actually are.