Oh no. Not pornography apps. Whatever will we do. Aaah.

First-hand, no less.

Tolkien would be turning in his grave, and he didn’t even know about digital mass surveillance when he created the Palantir plot detail.

The irony that the firm is called “Palantir”.

How can you be nerd enough to name your surveillance firm Palantir, and not be nerd enough to have actually read what it did in the books?

Sauron fed Denethor false information when he used Palantir to scry the kingdom he was a stuert of. Or at least, Sauron twisted what Denethor could see through Palantir, only showing him the bad stuff or things in a bad light.

Palantir was completely compromised, and it’s what ended up driving Denethor mad.

This is why I bought some Chinese android ereader than an amazon Kindle.

I can, unfortunately. My younger brother bought a small CRT a couple of months ago because he’s getting into retro gaming. He hardly touches the thing, but I can hear it across the apartment whenever he turns the damn thing on.

No please. I want CRTs to stay in the past. The sound they make always gave me a headache, or just irritated me.

Wait, I thought Massive Attack broke up a long time ago.

They’re still a thing?

Wonderful news if it is, as they’re my number one band for cyberpunk sounding music (besides The Crystal Method).

There’s a snuff/gore fiction subreddit. XD

What? Don’t you guys have money?

Hmm… Here I am trying to think when the last time was when I gave EA money for anything…

I guess the Mass Effect Remastered collection. I got that through Humble Monthly, but I’m pretty sure Humble gave EA money for that. So I gave money to EA through Humble… That was quite a long time ago, though.

They looked at their calendar and thought “Oh shit!” when they saw they were overdue to start V for Vendetta.

Well, this is happening earlier than I thought.

Holy shit. An actual interrobang.

This is like finding a shiny.

Certainly more based on reality. OP could’ve also simply used a single word:

“money”

Ok, but it doesn’t say anything about “nay to ye zionists”.

And how do you know it’s not malicious in nature? I’d like to know what your definition of “malicious” is if you’re just fine with letting a Corpo run system look at everything you’re doing.

You consider actual, literal spyware as being merely telemetry?

The better option would be to not use spyware as an operating system.

Can’t agree on Discord being hot garbage, unless you’re specifically talking about how monetisation has creeped its way into it.

However, with Vencord I don’t have to see any of that shit, while also having a far more functional and feature rich client.

Of course, a FOSS, potentially federated alternative would be greatly preferred, but it must have at least the basic functions of Discord.