Rather like the people crafting the submissions to your 5 day old account

Oh ffs. How does one draw a line from Dennis Richie, Ken Thompson, Steve Wozniak, Bill Joy, even Linus Torvalds to 'terrifying overlord'? The fact is that those people who were closet 'terrifying overlords' weren't actually nerds to begin with, because they lacked the essential quality of humility.

There's no "supposed to" here. Humans, (including governments) are inclined to do bad things; both law and technology are necessary to restrain those tendencies.

Arguably more like soft wired CPU logic, since the contents of the plugboards were not uniformly addressable words.

Absolutely. The real moral liability here rests with any organization still using SSNs as a form of secret or authenticating credential. Spend the legal fees to go after these people and the problem will be truly solved.

> Over the course of the next 5 days, they sent me 5 onboarding marketing emails and I could not opt out of any of them.

Such consternation, all for the want of an email filter.

Lol, I had a similar thought as well, but more along the lines of "We're coming for you next, JavaScript!"

But the effort is certainly an exquisite rearrangement of the deck chairs, no?

Right? Just gross...

I'm creating a new OS image for UniBone/QBone based on BuildRoot and a streamlined kernel. My goal is sub-five second boot time so you can get to using the host PDP-11 pretty much right away.

Lol. Unfortunately VCs and ever-so-ernest founders are impervious to irony. Best to just let them get their grift on and just be happy it isn't your money they're boondoggling.