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1. Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Thursday, 28-Sep-2023 15:54:33 JST Aral Balkan

   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/

   #RaspberryPi #spyCops #surveillance #acab

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Thursday, 28-Sep-2023 16:00:46 JST Aral Balkan

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     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.”

     https://petapixel.com/2022/12/09/raspberry-pi-under-fire-by-creators-who-are-upset-it-hired-a-former-cop/

     #RaspberryPi #spyCops #surveillance #acab

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Thursday, 28-Sep-2023 16:20:48 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Pixelcode 🇺🇦

     @pixelcode I’m talking about the “shut up and take my money” posts I’m seeing about the new, shiny Raspberry Pi 5.

   • Pixelcode 🇺🇦 (pixelcode@social.tchncs.de)'s status on Thursday, 28-Sep-2023 16:20:49 JST Pixelcode 🇺🇦

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     @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”.

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Thursday, 28-Sep-2023 16:42:07 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Pixelcode 🇺🇦

     @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.

   • Pixelcode 🇺🇦 (pixelcode@social.tchncs.de)'s status on Thursday, 28-Sep-2023 16:42:08 JST Pixelcode 🇺🇦

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     @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.

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Thursday, 28-Sep-2023 16:43:10 JST Aral Balkan

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     • James Veitch

     @veitch It’s cool, there’s no tribe and no one’s concerned about whether or not you’re a member of one.

   • James Veitch (veitch@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 28-Sep-2023 16:43:11 JST James Veitch

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     @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

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Thursday, 28-Sep-2023 16:53:59 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Matthew

     @matty What do you mean? They probably got a promotion and an OBE.

   • Matthew (matty@blahaj.zone)'s status on Thursday, 28-Sep-2023 16:54:00 JST Matthew

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     @aral@mastodon.ar.al I am getting unwanted flashbacks to whoever runs the soical media for Rasberry Pi just acting like a plain asshole and it's felt unreal. I hooe whoever that was got fired as they only made it much worse

   • Njord (njord@peoplemaking.games)'s status on Thursday, 28-Sep-2023 20:16:39 JST Njord

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     @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

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Thursday, 28-Sep-2023 20:16:39 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Njord

     @Njord Yep, still have a bunch of their boards in drawers. Sucks that we can’t have nice things.