This is China level surveillance state kind of shit!
I'm always on and off Linux, I use Kubuntu, but there are apps for work that I need, that don't have a Linux branch.
OMFG man!
People don't realize how huge this is! Just like how people have memory holed how Windows 10 spies on literally everything you do, and stores it in underwater data vaults in the ocean. Seriously!
What Microsoft does violates so many privacy laws, but they give the data for free to the government, so the government lets them get away with it, cuz it benefits them.
This will be yet another thing I can shake a person and slap them in the face to get them to try and take it seriously, and they'll just shrug it off apathetically. Then a year or 2 later they will start bitching about how much control big tech has. YOU FUCKERS SAT THERE AND LET THEM TAKE IT! You made people like me sound like crazy conspiracy theorists, even though it's factual and not a theory!
The year is 2024, I am using an old ubuntu repository to make black market meme's on an old power mac with a core duo I learned to repair by watching Louis Rossman videos. I will keep making Poland Ball and Troll face memes forever.
I already thought of the metadata scraping program as screenshotting, but if Intel is trying to embed processor-specific identification that still doesn’t work.
Phone pics might be it or some form of VPN-like solution for your own hardware.
The article seems to imply any Intel CPU, which a lot of phones have, so that probably wouldn't work. And even then they might not "allow" any images or other files without this identifier.
They are all qualcomm or samsung or other chinese brands, even apple makes their own cpus for their phones now.
This whole thing is a technology nothingburger. As a tech savvy person I wouldn't worry about this at all. I would be more worried about them passing laws to cut off your internet access if you visit unapproved sites or something like that.
Anything they try to add to JPGs will just be worked around in I would guess about a week. It's a very simple file format. You can't suddenly add a bunch of shit into the picture itself or the metadata without someone going SNIP take that shit right out.
Sadly, it will reduce the meme creation by 75% as many people will not have the drive or the skill to work around it. Maybe some meme creation sites would be a good workaround.
Or using a VM hosted in Sweden or similar country where the privacy laws are more strict. Any old shitbox PC or laptop can be used to run a VM client and a VPN client. Host them both over in Switzerland where privacy laws are more strict.
Did you think anonymity would last forever? At some point in the future, you’ll probably need to provide some kind of biometric footprint to do anything online.
The good news is, that won’t kill dissent, just push it back into the real world.
What they are actually doing is taking away what they were able to hide behind now that they got what they wanted . Now nobody else can counter them. It’s never a level playing field with the Left.
MS is one of the nastiest, most arrogant,dishonest, asshat, left leaning corporations there is.
Why on earth are people still using Windows?!
Back in 2015 when I saw the preview of Win10 at work, I went home and ditched windows altogether. I've been using Linux Mint since then and I can say that life is much EASIER, by not using MS products. The whole "it just works" trope from MS is a lie. Its actually more applicable to Linux these days.
Although I have to admit, the improvements made to Ubuntu make it really tempting to switch. Either one is a helluva lot LESS hassle and even run faster than the bugfest crap from MS.
... and it almost never 'crashes'. Especially not for any of the bullshit reasons Windows does.
... and it just works without a bazillion driver updates and installs.
... AND it doesn't need antivirus, because it has always been secure.
Never throw away old computers. Bring them back to life as meme generators.
"I have a fever and the only prescription is more JPEG!" - old PC
DON’T TREAD ON MEMES
https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2021/02/25/bokhari-microsoft-and-friends-want-to-destroy-online-privacy/
What the fuck!
This is China level surveillance state kind of shit!
I'm always on and off Linux, I use Kubuntu, but there are apps for work that I need, that don't have a Linux branch.
OMFG man!
People don't realize how huge this is! Just like how people have memory holed how Windows 10 spies on literally everything you do, and stores it in underwater data vaults in the ocean. Seriously!
What Microsoft does violates so many privacy laws, but they give the data for free to the government, so the government lets them get away with it, cuz it benefits them.
This will be yet another thing I can shake a person and slap them in the face to get them to try and take it seriously, and they'll just shrug it off apathetically. Then a year or 2 later they will start bitching about how much control big tech has. YOU FUCKERS SAT THERE AND LET THEM TAKE IT! You made people like me sound like crazy conspiracy theorists, even though it's factual and not a theory!
God damnit people! This is huge!
I agree man. Needs to be stickied, especially to warn our shitposters.
The year is 2024, I am using an old ubuntu repository to make black market meme's on an old power mac with a core duo I learned to repair by watching Louis Rossman videos. I will keep making Poland Ball and Troll face memes forever.
power mac... core duo... that's not how it works lol
Listen up Louise, I just need it to work.
Honestly here is what you do if you are worried. Make a badass meme.
Take a picture of meme with phone. Post it.
Or even more likely someone will make a tool that you click run on and it will delete whatever metadata they are trying to hide in the images.
I already thought of the metadata scraping program as screenshotting, but if Intel is trying to embed processor-specific identification that still doesn’t work.
Phone pics might be it or some form of VPN-like solution for your own hardware.
🙃
Post them at the library.
The article seems to imply any Intel CPU, which a lot of phones have, so that probably wouldn't work. And even then they might not "allow" any images or other files without this identifier.
Intel cpu's are in about zero percent of phones.
They are all qualcomm or samsung or other chinese brands, even apple makes their own cpus for their phones now.
This whole thing is a technology nothingburger. As a tech savvy person I wouldn't worry about this at all. I would be more worried about them passing laws to cut off your internet access if you visit unapproved sites or something like that.
Anything they try to add to JPGs will just be worked around in I would guess about a week. It's a very simple file format. You can't suddenly add a bunch of shit into the picture itself or the metadata without someone going SNIP take that shit right out.
I don't know why I was thinking my S9 has an Intel chip in it.
If it gets this way, the whole deep net type stuff will grow wildly in popularity.
People will learn to adapt.
What’s to stop me from making my memes on a random Linux VM and then trashing the VM?
Sadly, it will reduce the meme creation by 75% as many people will not have the drive or the skill to work around it. Maybe some meme creation sites would be a good workaround.
I my name was tied to some of the glorious memes I have made over the last 10 years, I would be so happy.
Or using a VM hosted in Sweden or similar country where the privacy laws are more strict. Any old shitbox PC or laptop can be used to run a VM client and a VPN client. Host them both over in Switzerland where privacy laws are more strict.
Sometimes I think I'm the only Bill Gates hater who doesn't use Microsoft :/
Use Linux
Did you think anonymity would last forever? At some point in the future, you’ll probably need to provide some kind of biometric footprint to do anything online.
The good news is, that won’t kill dissent, just push it back into the real world.
What they are actually doing is taking away what they were able to hide behind now that they got what they wanted . Now nobody else can counter them. It’s never a level playing field with the Left.
VPN
Lol, will be so easy to work around this.
Trolltrace is real...
MS is one of the nastiest, most arrogant,dishonest, asshat, left leaning corporations there is.
Why on earth are people still using Windows?!
Back in 2015 when I saw the preview of Win10 at work, I went home and ditched windows altogether. I've been using Linux Mint since then and I can say that life is much EASIER, by not using MS products. The whole "it just works" trope from MS is a lie. Its actually more applicable to Linux these days.
Although I have to admit, the improvements made to Ubuntu make it really tempting to switch. Either one is a helluva lot LESS hassle and even run faster than the bugfest crap from MS.
... and it almost never 'crashes'. Especially not for any of the bullshit reasons Windows does.
... and it just works without a bazillion driver updates and installs.
... AND it doesn't need antivirus, because it has always been secure.
Or don’t be an idiot and learn some coding? Before sharing turn it into a bitmap and use your own program to strip any identifying codes.