A fellow Veritasium enjoyer I see.

With a specific mix of spiteful grumpiness toward windows and a naive optimism, born of youth and abundant nerd resource at university.

That and a stoic acceptance that shit breaks, but it also broke on win 95, 98, XP and especially millennium edition. Which is the timeframe I switched in.

Going full time was fully enabled by reliable virtualization. When I could run a win XP VM and expect no issues in a work day, I was about to ditch windows as my main OS. Over time, I used fewer windows only applications, now I barely need the VM.

It really doesn’t take many changes; just swap the perspective. Sing it from the point of view of ICE etc…

[Verse]
Some of us that work forces
Are the same that burn crosses
Some of us that work forces
Are the same that burn crosses
Some of us that work forces
Are the same that burn crosses
Some of us that work forces
Are the same that burn crosses, ugh

[Refrain]
Killing in the name of
Killing in the name of

[Pre-Chorus]
And now you do what I tell ya
And now you do what I tell ya
And now you do what I tell ya
And now you do what I tell ya
And now you do what I tell ya
And now you do what I tell ya
And now you do what I tell ya
And now you do what I tell ya
And now you do what I tell ya
And now you do what I tell ya
But now you do what I tell ya
Well now you do what I tell ya

[Chorus]
Those I killed are justified
For wearin’ the badge, I’m the chosen knights
I justify those that died
By wearin’ the badge, I’m the chosen knights
Those I killed are justified
For wearin’ the badge, I’m the chosen knights
I justify those that died
By wearin’ the badge, I’m the chosen knights, come on

[Verse]
Some of those that work forces
Are the same that burn crosses
Some of those that work forces
Are the same that burn crosses
Some of those that work forces
Are the same that burn crosses
Some of those that work forces
Are the same that burn crosses, ugh

[Refrain]
Killing in the name of
Killing in the name of

[Pre-Chorus]
And now you do what I tell ya
And now you do what I tell ya
And now you do what I tell ya
And now you do what I tell ya
And now you do what I tell ya (Now you’re under control)
And now you do what I tell ya (And now you’re under control)
And now you do what I tell ya (And now you’re under control)
And now you do what I tell ya (Now you’re under control)
And now you do what I tell ya (Now you’re under control)
And now you do what I tell ya (Now you’re under control)
And now you do what I tell ya (Now you’re under control)
And now you do what I tell ya

[Chorus]
Those I killed are justified
For wearin’ the badge, I’m the chosen knights
I justify those that died
By wearin’ the badge, I’m the chosen knights
Those I killed are justified
For wearin’ the badge, I’m the chosen knights
I justify those that died
By wearin’ the badge, I’m the chosen knights, come on

[Guitar Solo]
Ugh
Yeah
Come on
Ugh

[Outro]
Fuck you, you do what I tell you
Fuck you, you do what I tell you
Fuck you, you do what I tell you
Fuck you, you do what I tell you
Fuck you, you do what I tell you
Fuck you, you do what I tell you
Fuck you, you do what I tell you
Fuck you, you do what I tell you
Fuck you, you do what I tell you
Fuck you, you do what I tell you
Fuck you, you do what I tell you
Fuck you, you do what I tell you
Fuck you, you do what I tell you
Fuck you, you do what I tell you
Fuck you, you do what I tell you
Fuck you, you do what I tell you
Get on the ground, Ugh

Now I need to listen to Rage.

I’m weirdly conflict conflicted, I mean we are on the map, but it is incorrect.

But most kiwis are shoes off in the house.

Golf clap

So not an industrial automation engineer. Nothing but windows software.

Ignition for scada works on Linux, but nothing else does.

Maybe profit isn’t the only motive…

I don’t see how both these claims can simultaneously be true.

Sorry, my poor communications…I was referring to the social media companies, when I said they had been trying and failing for years. Not trying that hard mind you; moderation is a very expensive problem to solve, and they don’t want to spend money they don’t explicitly have to.

(it’s) actually about making citizens more easily identifiable online.

Maybe. That is speculation, probably a nice little side effect. But not the primary goal.

Independent social media sites however, don’t all have the resources to implement verification systems, so some will feel the financial burden of compliance a lot harder, and others

This is a great point; and there is an easy way to solve this problem. Not that the govt will care that a simple solution exists. If you don’t have an algorithmic feed a lot of the spread of misinformation is curtailed. If you are not allowed to host images/video etc directly than the moderation of them can be off loaded to 3rd parties.

What’s more, knowing that the platforms they’re using have their identities will make a great many people more hesitant to speak critically about existing power structures.

Another great point. I don’t have a good answer to this one, but there are anonymous leak avenues etc for serious stuff.

In any case, this ban is literally worse than just leaving the problem be.

I don’t really agree; the ban will do two things.

1/ it will show the social media companies that, Australia at least; has tools that they can use to reduce their power.

2/ show kids that this is really serious; it is not just your parents saying shit you can ignore.

Will some kids work out how to get around it; yep, 100%. Will it be a big portion; maybe, tech literacy is not as high as it could/should be.

Holding platforms accountable to a bare minimum standard of moderation against misinformation, bullying and harassment might be a starting point.

This would be great; but it is also too little too late. They have tried, and failed at exactly this for years.

And hey, if socmed’s really that bad for you, then us adults could benefit from this alternative, too!

It is that bad for you! Algorithmic social media is doing you harm.

I figure holding tech giants directly accountable for the specific harms they’ve caused

What if; the social media giants are in another country. Your country doesn’t have jurisdiction there and can do fuck all in reality.

Maybe fine them??? Sure, which they will fight in court until the end of time; all the while the harm continues.

I don’t know if a ban will work, or what extra harms it will cause. But there are no good options to tackle this on the large scales of whole countries.

Algorithmic social media is mind cancer; if you have a better suggestion for tackling this issue. Let us know.

Lemmy is social media; but there is no algorithmic feed, my views are not being manipulated by some engagement maximizing machine.

Teal’c is that you.

Miss, your shirt has a slur on it. Which one is it? Um, it’s all of them.

“Oh I know, I’m satirizing the propensity of westerners wearing clothes with words on them they don’t understand”

“But, but, they are all terrible slurs, doesn’t that make you a bad person? You could have picked any random shit!”

“Yes, but then you wouldn’t have said anything, I get much more of a reaction this way” (thinking smugly, I am so smart)

You are not; but they are not really assholes. They are optimising for some outcome that they want, with inferior tools/mechanisms. Depending on age, their brain runs on emotion most of the time, logic is a distant second place.

In saying all of that…they can seem like assholes in the moment!!!