Notices by Modern Industrial (modernindustrial@mastodon.club), page 16

The PC party is a never-ending nightmare of terrible ideas, but there is some joy in seeing Ford get dunked on by literally thousands of people on a daily basis

"OMG can't trust Mozilla they're giving away your data AGAIN"

cool cool so let me switch from the most independent, privacy-supportive modern browser to...[checks notes] a browser developed by one of the world's largest data brokers

@z428 Warrant canary expiration on Spideroak (that was just renaming a webpage), a beta recommendation system in Firefox (that is optional and opt-in), and so on...

Seeing a lot of tech FUD lately - optional browser plugins, renamed web pages, all feeding giant privacy nerd conspiracy theories.

I need a good meme for "that's not what's happening".

@paul They were pretty explicit that they just renamed their 'canary' - it hasn't disappeared.

@ink_slinger @allan I feel like a lot of this stuff is biology digging any explanation out of the frontal cortex in order to reproduce.

The "selfish" one surprised me when I first heard it, too. My initial thought was, "so, you'll bring another person into the world, spend 20 of your best and precious years raising it...so you can incrementally support your social security payments?"

@ink_slinger Well, that second part is wild - never thought about it that way.

I read once that personality traits of family members are only loosely linked, and so you're essentially related to just random people vs folks with common values and perspectives. Since then, I've given a lot less weight to the idea of blood family as emotional support. There are certainly common interests that drive most to be decent people, but it stops there.

@thurloat Honestly, I'm so proud of this instance. It's really cool to see social media in action when participants actually care about the space.

I think I may just be an Onion retoot account now. This one hits close to home.

Young Girls Creeped Out By Older Scientists Constantly Trying To Lure Them Into STEM

https://www.theonion.com/young-girls-creeped-out-by-older-scientists-constantly-1828190853

@ink_slinger Just check the model before diving in with Linux. Some friendlier than others.

@ink_slinger I'd advise against a Chromebook unless you are okay with minimum functionality. Anything beyond the native ChromeOS apps is pretty clunky.

My recommendation is a two or three year old ultrabooks from eBay. my two cents.