@alberg becaise #Microsoft never intends to make a good #OS.

#Windows11 is dysfunctional by design because they need the #CottageIndustry of 3rd party shit-vendors and "managed providers" to keep shilling their #Govware!

@dramypsyd @letsgoat nodds in agreement

• I guess the laws need to specify any practice and not merely "person practicing" or some other legalese semantics that #TechBros seem to exploit as of now.

Problem is they have more money than sense and propably will stall #regulation with it as hard as they can, and I'm convinced they'd rather upsell a "solution" (i.e. "AI behaviour analysis" flagging people who are able and/or willing to self-defend as "dangerous") to the problem they cause or accelerate than stop unethical shite…

• Cuz that's what the #TechBro|s do: Create a "#CottageIndustry" around #TechnicalDebt (i.e. #Windows being unfixably insecure => 3rd party "#Antivirus") and then flex that as a force rather than accept they're wrong!

@GossiTheDog doesn't change the fact that I think the entire #CottageIndustry of #Scareware like #Antivirus & #AmtiMalware products shouldn't exist to begin with and instead #OS vendors - or at least those that charge for the privilegue of using their #Software like #Microsoft #Windows - should be obligated to keep their shit secure and maintain it.

• Unlike some nieche distro maintained by unpaid volunteers Microsoft has no problem to finance that!

Espechally since most good #Linux distros already offer that cheaper and better!

Inside The #CottageIndustry Of ‘#Experts’ #Paid To #Defend #AntiTrans #Laws

Their #purpose is to try and convince #judges that #genderaffirming #Healthcare is #scientifically #controversial, #unnecessary and #dangerous — and they're increasingly having an #impact.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/paid-experts-defending-anti-trans-law_n_65021a7ee4b01df7c3b6d513

... The appetite for growing one's audience means defederating will be suppressed.

#AttentionEconomy means the trolls and right wing assholes will be needed in order for one to assert one's better beliefs.

Those who do defederate will conserve the #CottageIndustry nature of #Mastodon

The 21st century has seen a return to the #CottageIndustry - a form of production that once saw workers labor far from their bosses and thus beyond their control - but shriven of the autonomy and dignity that working from home once afforded:

https://doctorow.medium.com/gig-work-is-the-opposite-of-steampunk-463e2730ef0d

The rise and rise of #bossware - which allows for remote surveillance of workers in their homes and cars - has turned "#WorkFromHome" into "#LiveAtWork."

17/