Funwayguy

To me it’s more like the Kia cars where insurance can easily roll over if a pathetically easy bypass is found. Most people won’t care until houses get cleaned out without evidence of forced entry. Domestic abusers also tend to love persistent access to these things too.

Overall not a fan.

I dumped Portainer on my home server when they did the ‘Fortnite’ graphical rebranding. Now using Arcane to manage my servers and edge nodes. Very much enjoying the CVE scan tools and in-place image updating.

Corporations spent hundreds of billions on LLMs to crator the value of skilled labor, justify mass layoffs, and launder stolen content, all to cut cost. Whether it’s legal regulations or basic human rights, in the eyes of sycophants, any perceived risk to their profit margin is deemed unacceptable including their own employees.

Smaller companies are themselves not meant to survive and intended to diversify legal risks and consequences (e.g. Alphabet and Meta split from Google and Facebook). This way they can be dismantled and sold once the legal baggage becomes unprofitable without risking the wealth that has long since been funnelled to its ‘legally distinct’ owners. The collateral damage to the now unemployed is simply one less thing off their balance sheet and is much easier to do when you have home turf legal corruption advantages.

So no, it’s not about generating stable wealth long term as it is about capturing any source of capital by any means necessary, legality and morals be damned.

The laws were never meant for children or whoever they put on paper, and they will absolutely not show their hand in its real purpose so soon. Let’s not forget that the US, UK, and AU are part of the Five Eyes and will absolutely share the linked IDs they’re collecting. AU openly admitted the law was not effective as did every expert on the matter, but won’t repeal it anyway.

A recent example of this covert repurposing was the GDID in Microsoft supposedly for (ineffective) DRM that was conveniently capable of de-anonymising Windows users at the whim of authorities.

It’s never been about what they say they’re doing, but rather what they could do to abuse that capability, and that’s what has people up in arms.