Never have I saved a GIF so fast.

Ah, the grand circle of enshittification.

You’ve fallen for one of the classic blunders!

TPM was known to be a DRM Trojan horse in 2004. Then everyone forgot about that fact.

Sure, pushing Linux is just a new angle, but don’t think for a second that TPM has any purpose other than making your own computer trust a cabal of corporations over you, the owner. And if there is a critical mass of TPM standardized hardware, such that a “trusted” environment is the standard, it will lock you out of major use cases on all “untrusted” systems, including Linux.

And that deserves a lot of outrage.

Tech execs when the shortage hits: I just had a brilliant idea! Let’s just give untrained junior vibe-coding engineers the power of senior engineers, and even more AI tools. Problem solved forever, bonus please!

They have imagined a threat (there isn’t one) so they can imagine they are in danger or persecuted (they aren’t), so they can imagine they deserve a savior (they don’t), who they imagine Donald Trump to be (he most definitely isn’t one).

I’d say it’s a cult, but I doubt most cults even require this level of mental gymnastics.

The entire reason why there is a thriving global market for manga is that these off-books sites have existed for decades, and have raised a generation that treats manga as core culture. So they’re strangling their continued relevance in a blind enforcement frenzy.

The other big problem of publishers acting this way is that if we start buying more manga after this, the message publishers get is that this works, and to do it again and again. They’ve created an incentive for manga fans to therefore not buy more manga for now. Which is exactly the opposite incentive publishers wish for.

Oh, disagreeing with the post, huh? Looks like we found the AI troll, get 'em everyone!