Their instance is chugging so bad rn (maybe a pi wasn't the best platform for it)
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in reply to @five's post:
the idea that grown adults should be okay with a fucking surveillance cop is just the icing on the shit cake
"Hey, you know what the folks in the anarchistic and highly independent 'maker' space like? Cops. And privacy intrusions. This is going to go swimmingly."
He out right says "I used to like to hide surveillance tech in everyday objects" while working at a company that makes small consumer electronics, and they're not sure what the problem is.
I can't even.
in reply to @five's post:
On the one hand I understand the idea of having a person who specializes in making tiny surveilance devices a member of your maker wearable community.
On the other hand, I also understand the desire to have any and all people who have ever been touched by money that was handed to them because they worked in any degree within law enforcement excluded from absolutely everything you might ever do, ever.
I understand the second desire a lot more because I share it.
I will never be buying another Raspberry Pi product for the rest of my life, because of this. They're diseased and rotten now. The Raspberries have gone bad, like so many sacks filled with apples when exposed to a rotting apple.
It's one thing to hire someone with a law enforcement background.
It's an entirely different f*cking thing to BRAG about them having been a cop. It's wild how they just can't read the maker culture.
I didn't think it was possible to get ratioed on Mastodon, a system where post metrics are hard to see across instances, but they're pulling it off
The failure in reading the room here is impressive.
Honestly I just wish more companies went the route of "you're a shitheel and you don't deserve to follow us" when it came to be serially harassed by ungrateful entitled fucks
Sadly this isn't one of those cases because SIB YOU NOT ONLY HIRED A COP YOU FUCKING BRAGGED ABOUT IT
like real talk, honesty time: RPi who the fuck do you think is buying and using your products consistently? Bonus points: and why do they buy said product????
"umm we're all adults here? 🤨" - yes exactly, Becky. That's why we don't live in this fantasy world where someone from a surveillance state has only the best intentions :')
"You're bullying a bully! 😭" - That's the two that now live rent free in my head. I'm gonna be thinking about those for a looong time :')
On one hand, I imagine being a social media manager sucks ass.
On the other hand, your whole job is being capable of handling very public conversation on birdsite as the mouthpiece of a large company. So you're signing up for the stress, and if you lay out a bad take it's going to get messy fast. That's the job.
Anyway this sucks. How useful have pis been in "developing" / poor countries anyway? That was a big marketing thing for a while.
lol so many people are clowning on them their fedi server is down right now
mastodon using so much ram makes for really high stakes ratios
in reply to @neckspike's post:
The idea of hosting anything on a Pi internet facing is deeply hilarious. My Pi 4 can't play back 720p 60fps H.264 if it's in the wrong bit depth to be hardware accelerated without constant frame drops, lol.
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