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Raspberry Pi: spy cops are great, actually!
Folks: Ooh, shiny new Raspberry Pi is out! Shut up and take my money!
https://www.theregister.com/2022/12/09/rpi_maker_in_residence_police/
Oh, and it wasn’t an “oops, we hired a spy cop by mistake, we’re sorry” either. It was a “we hired a spy cop, fuck your feelings.”
@aral Sadly, @Raspberry_Pi dominates the #SBC market because all the #copycats fail at providing eben the most basic #documentation and #support to even consider them.
I have a #BananaPiZeroM2 and whilst this thing can on paper run circles around the #PiZeroW, one can't even force it's HDMI to output something else but 720p60...
Amd that't the problem: Lack of #competition with feadible #alternatives!
@aral Now I am *very* conflicted about whether or not I should get one...
@aral ^^^^
Good reminder (RPI, shitty behaviour).
@aral If you really think that people didn't care about that incident, then you must have been on a mission to Mars for a couple of months.
Raspberry Pi was hit by a massive wave of negative comments, including some criticism, but mostly hate speech and aggressive threats. Many Fediverse users and servers blocked Raspberry Pi, and they still sometimes receive cynical replies to random posts.
That's anything but “shut up and take my money”.
@pixelcode I’m talking about the “shut up and take my money” posts I’m seeing about the new, shiny Raspberry Pi 5.
@aral Also, I still do not understand why people are so aggressive about a company hiring a former police officer. Neither is that practice uncommon nor do I see a particular reason why the state would be so much worse as an employer than truly evil companies are, such as GAFAM, the oil industry, Chinese tech giants, car manufacturers etc.
Every time I asked I just received the same hateful replies and was blocked.
@pixelcode Here’s the thing: If you don’t see a problem with spy cops being hired by corporations that make the technology we use to communicate in a democracy and who write curricula teaching kids about technology, there’s nothing I can say to change your mind.
However, some of us are fed up with having to point out the obvious and have folks make us out to be extremists for taking a basic ethical stance against the normalisation of surveillance. That’s why you get blocked.
@aral I am truly shocked that you portray me as a defender of mass surveillance, when I have been advocating for privacy technology for years, communicated Snowden's revealings to the public and tried my best making people aware of the importance of privacy.
Interested in my own “basic ethical stance against surveillance”? https://forgoodeyesonly.eu/v0.2/#permanent-termination
If you believe I view you as an “extremist” for your work, then let met assure you: I would have to describe myself as a terrorist first.
Goodbye.
@aral odd. I don’t immediately see a problem with hiring someone who used to be a policeman. That being said I’m happy to jump on whatever bandwagon keeps me in the tribe
@veitch It’s cool, there’s no tribe and no one’s concerned about whether or not you’re a member of one.
@aral I was always waiting for them to say “we hired him to block all the stuff he used to do from happening again” but - nothing
@aral Yeah, I remember when they did that. It happened just after I'd set up octopi on my Prusa mark 3, and it really killed a lot of the associated joy, for obvious reasons
@Njord Yep, still have a bunch of their boards in drawers. Sucks that we can’t have nice things.