Comments by "clray123" (@clray123) on "Mental Outlaw" channel.

  1. Well, yes, who do you think is making the laws.
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  2. I think it is - in countries like Russia, China, Iran...
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  3. I don't think it was his initiative/choice.
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  4. In short. I cannot come to your home and shit on your carpet. Good to know.
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  5. I think this is the putinian spin on it.
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  6.  @testacals  Because Linus' own balls are in a tight grip by the US secret service just like the Russian maintainers' balls are in a tight grip of Putin's boys?
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  7.  @Frizz-c8c  By that logic everyone is paying for the war because everyone is taxed (against their will) to fund the war expenditures. This principle applies the same for all the forecd military "protectors" (paid thugs) across all the globe.
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  8. Let's be honest, pwning your computer remotely forever is the ultimate conclusion of 50 years of Microsoft's promotion of computer illiteracy.
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  9. Flagged for misinformation, the legs in the marketing video were 100% faked.
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  10. maybe the decision was because of a few too many russian hackers?
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  11. States don't really have real-life issues, crazy people obsessed with power most definitely do.
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  12. Windows 11 is like the pandemic tracking applications - invasive and completely useless, yet the great majority of moronic human population happily and enthusiastically embraced them when ordered to.
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  13. Let me know when you find a software developer who cannot be "influenced" by a well-armed and criminally bent government. Or a government which is not inclined to inflict violence and injustice on its subjects "if need be".
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  14.  @Bedroomguitarist3  You are very welcome to ban US for their crimes.
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  15. I think it will mostly contribute to more nationalism and radicals in Russia.
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  16. I believe the folks who were banned were exactly the maintainers supposed to be reviewing the PRs. Not PR submitters.
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  17. As in "closed to war mongerers".
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  18. Yeah better trust systems designed by convicted war criminals...
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  19. No, this sort of escalation (e.g. against free media) is more typical for your Russian president.
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  20. The point of any government is interfering with your freedom. And they are holding all the guns.
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  21. ​ @cbialorucki  Microsoft has clauses on spying through your data right there in their EULA. Also don't forget the "Recall" feature and forcing new spying versions of their OS onto their users, not to mention their centralized authentication/authorization services that are designed to give Microsoft access to virtually any computer in the world which relies on it. Finally, don't forget that OpenAI is actually Microsoft. Microsoft is a much, much bigger problem for privacy and freedom than Google.
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  22. Actually, it DOES matter if it's owned by oligarchs, and quite carefully checked.
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  23. More like criminal-suspects-who-might-be-working-for-Putins-military-phobia. It's not like he banned all Russians as a matter of principle. But he made an ass out of himeself in the comment.
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  24. The only thing which could make Facebook VR "work" is if government forced us to use it like they did with the ole vax and masks. And even that only lasted for 2 years before most people caught on to their bs and flatly refused to comply.
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  25. It is not the coroporations it is the fucked up governments who make censorship laws. Every corporation must uphold the law or be fined into oblivion. And it is the people who vote for such fucked up governments. So overall, you/we only have ourselves to blame, not some mysterious coroporation.
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  26.  @PT-rg2vo  Who is "they"? In Europe, unlike in Russia/China governments have no power in banning culture. Individual perfomers or operators can of course "ban" material if they believe it would not sell well to the public. Or maybe you are confused because Russian performers were not "invited" to show off here for the same reason.
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  27. Do you think we should invite citizens of North Korea and Iran to take over the maintainer duties?
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  28.  @gramfero  It is not about "geographical location", more about "jurisdiction" as in which thug can force you, an innocent person living in a certain location, to do evil things by threatening you or your family.
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  29.  @gramfero  Sure, the CIA is one of the competing thug-hiring agencies out there. The point is, when you are "protected" by thug brand A, they do not want thug brand B to interfere with their thug business. Is that clear now why they are banning foreigners?
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  30. Self-host on an offline device. What I also like to do is encode even the cleartext password using an obscure algorithm which only I know (basically substitution of certain strings of letters for digits). So the final version of the password does not exist anywhere except in my head (and of course also in flight to whichever service needs it).
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  31. Any alternatives?
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  32.  @50-50_Grind  Except when 80% vote for the leader in the elections.
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  33.  @msromike123  The public should decide what is best for the public. I don't care a single bit about those who pretend to represent me, who deny me the right to decide (e.g. by banning technically possible direct democracy), and whom I have NOT voted in, in almost all of the cases.
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  34.  @msromike123  I should add that the whole "national security" argument is why we have WARS in the first place.
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  35.  @msromike123  The best deterrent is to respect other people and not make enemies of them. Now tell that to your so-called "leaders" and "representatives".
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  36. You mean the AI generated garbage/crap that is now flooding their servers?
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  37.  @MnemonicCarrier  The answer is "both", as they are two sides of the same coin.
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  38.  @50-50_Grind  Maybe, just maybe, he should not give a fuck, just like (almost) everyone else.
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  39. The only trouble with that vision is that the BRICs countries are most definitely not FREE by any definition of the word. So what we're seeing here is US discarding freedom to become more like all the other non-free countries, and of course nothing good will come out of that.
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  40. The broader picture is that with dwindling natural resources and increasing redistribution problems because of that all countries (which is really a placeholder for "rich people with means of applying violence") are hell-bent on controlling everything and everyone, and inventing various excuses such as "climate change" or external "enemies" to accomplish their goals. The golden age of individual freedom is ending, not just on the Internet. And the only thing we can do is oppose the wannabe new dictators.
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