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Thanks for the replies - going to check that out when I have time.

It’s a cheap Chinese made, it prints when I turn it on and that’s like every two months for the last 3 years. So I guess it’s good. I also only use it to print from linux or my phone.

I got a cheap Xerox laser printer, the toner is cheap and lasts forever.

I think at this point they are trying to invent a new form of Alzheimer’s that’s caused by plaques just out of spite.

I agree with you on some points here. The problem is that these crawlers are hostile to the point of DDOSing sites

So the problem is not that someone archives your public accessible data, the problem is that in doing so either breaks your site or makes you pay for the excess traffic.

I think the web is now broken beyond repair. The commercialisation killed it and the tech monopolies are all that’s left.

So I think small invite only fully encrypted enclaves are all that is left, until someone comes up with a “new Internet”, that can resist the " Techbros", but for now I don’t see that.

Also I don’t see the Fediverse as a solution, it’s just under the radar for now, but if it gets bigger it will be coöpted and sunk.

I wonder what Bram’s stance would have been on AI.

Anyway, looks like it’s time to learn emacs.

Exactly, people don’t understand that an Army is formed by removing internal resistance to orders.

So basically you can point the military at to something to kill and they will do it.

It’s the Two Santa Strategy, they have been doing that since Reagan.

https://www.salon.com/2018/02/12/thom-hartmann-how-the-gop-used-a-two-santa-clauses-tactic-to-con-america-for-nearly-40-years_partner/

Sure, but seeing that “gentlemen’s agreement” called international law is about to end, it will ultimately come to this.

We should also not forget that something like international law never existed for “non-white” states.

Exactly, the invention of the “Corporation” under Capitalism served as a means to negate economic responsibility now they have invented AI to negate operative responsibility.

What Power? The only thing that is still left to project power are nuclear arms, and Germany has none.

That’s the first step, the next step is marking LGBT+ content only for adults. They can’t ban it yet so they will find another way.

Cuba was the original Epstein island under Batista.

The global crime syndicate that is capitalism never forgave the Cuban people for ending that.

She’s a Joe Rogan with a university degree.

It might be AI translated or translated by someone who isn’t proficient enough to do so. The German article is written in a more neutral to leaning against it tone.

“Schlappe” is a German “Newspaper” expression denoting someone or something failed, but from a standpoint of an observer that is mostly against it. It’s not a “positive” or neutral term of failure.

Merz is fully bought and paid for by the US.

When the fascists lose interest in Iran and turn towards Greenland, I wouldn’t count on Germany fighting on the EU side.

Sadly I concur, every EU country is better in that situation than Germany.

It’s a combination of AI and stupidity. If these people knew what they were doing we would either be better or worse off, it’s a gambit.

The whole mobile ecosystem is a giant hardware backdoor on every phone. I think it’s too late now to change anything on that level.

Well we couldn’t stop capitalism from killing us and now it’s killing us.

Maybe what comes after has a chance to not invent a species killing ideology.