This is literally me every single night at 2 AM. I tell myself I am just going to check the local feed for five minutes to see if anything happened on the instance, and then two hours later I am deep in some comment thread about a niche Linux distro I do not even use.

It is a sickness. I swear the scroll on this site is more addictive than the old one just because I feel less guilty about being here. My sleep schedule is absolutely cooked because of posts like this. Stop attacking me.

I do not care if they caught a few dozen criminals in Estonia, this whole thing is a privacy nightmare. The FBI basically turned themselves into a hardware manufacturer just to bypass encryption and spy on everyone. It is mass surveillance, plain and simple.

The fact that they just monitored 12,000 people without concrete suspicion for each individual is insane. Today it is cartels, but tomorrow it is whatever group the government decides is a threat. If you allow the state to build the tools for total surveillance, they are going to use them on more than just “bad guys” eventually. We should be terrified of this level of overreach, not celebrating it as some brilliant operation. It is a massive violation of the presumption of innocence.