Comment on 'We're done with Teams': German state hits uninstall on Microsoft
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 hours agoI’ve been calling for degoogling, the need to get rid of Microsoft and supporting FOSS and the need for open protocols in everything for quite some time, I don’t even know how long… and people would use the word “paranoid” or synonyms of it. Now? “You had a point” or “You were right.” - but I tell them that I don’t care about being right.
Yep, same here, exactly.
The Cambridge Analytica nonsense was the last straw for me.
These goons have been knowingly making people angier, more stupid, misinformed and emotionally supercharged for over a decade now, and it has literally destroyed society.
I too got called paranoid and overreacting for years, a decade… and now its more or less common knowledge everything I was worried was or could be happening… in fact was, and in fact did.
No apologies though from anyone who was demonstrably wrong and misinformed about all this for a decade though.
Now all the bigger problems enabled by their acquiescence to ‘the algorithm’ are here, and those are more pressing matters.
People do not understand that you can’t unscramble an egg.
It has been wild to watch sci fi dystopia from movies and books of the last 50 ish years just become reality, watch the vast majority of people just sleep walk into it.
sanity_is_maddening@lemm.ee 10 hours ago
The Cambridge Analytica debacle!!! That was such a low point. I don’t know how facebook was allowed to exist after that shitstorm, let alone grow. I mean, I do, the system rewards its consolidating power. But the people?? No class lawsuits? No boycotts?? I never used facebook. But I used to have an instagram account. They bought it and ruined it as expected and I had to leave. The same with whatsapp. I’m anti-social enough for it to be easy for me to quit these things, I suppose… Still, I’m so tired of the techno conglomerates destroying everything like slow moving lava consuming everything as it spreads. As I write this, I have to think of Pompeii. Surely, there must’ve been people warning them to get out of there for years and years. But some probably used magical thinking and said that the gods would spare them as long as they behaved or something in that line. As others probably in apathy masked as wise skeptcism said that people warned their great grandparents of the same and how they were still there. And then… well… Volcano did what volcanos do.
But yeah, I also have been witnessing the slow fulfillment of our fictional dark dystopias. All being neatly adapted into our daily lifes. While most people just seem to think that shit is normal as usual.
And soon enough… it is… Wielded into existence by a few through the apathy of the many.