jabjoe@feddit.uk 8 months ago
Yep when Napster just linked people who shared files between them, it was the end of the world. So it’s fine when it’s bigtech / AI?
Yes, there are people who want to have authority and think that if they got to the very top - Google, Meta, whatever, or some government, - then their ideas about authority have become law.
In fact, of course, they are just jerks who’ll drop the soap at every step in prison for the rest of their lives when the problem is finally rectified, and it’s being slowly rectified.
What are you talking about? Things seem to be rapidly deteriorating to me. There are no problems being rectified.
The situation has been made possible by the enormous trust in progress and “technical fashion” that existed recently, that seems to be drying out.
Say, 10-15 years ago offline-enabled means of communication were a matter of toys for people with no clear idea of future.
Now people going to protests use them, and the dangers of mainstream Internet services and platforms are also common knowledge.
So there is some immunity being formed. It’s even better that this happens slowly. I would be worried if this were some fashion spreading rapidly, but now we can see one crowd using Briar, another crowd using Bridgefy, another crowd jumping on Jack Dorsey’s Bitchat, LoRa and Meshtastic growing in popularity, all those things picking different approaches to the same goal, which signifies evolutionary convergence onto a commonly understood set of problems.
People who were simping for corps no longer do. People who were simping for social media no longer do. People simping for Apple and Google and MS seem to be a rare kind now.
The response is happening.
I hope your right. It’s nice to see questioning of America tech gaint’s monopolies finally now Trump is making America not seaming a safe supplier. More Europe than the UK, but even here, it’s not as fringe to perceive the problem now.
Not enough yet though. Amazon for example has a load of the market, avoids tax’s and has loads of stuff that isn’t really legal in the market because it doesn’t meet the regs. Example, domestic socket EV chargers (granny leads) should be only up to 10A (as it consistent load and wiring quality varies), but most on Amazon are 13A and a few 16A! Hello house fire. Let alone fake CE marking and EMC emissions.
skisnow@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
My thoughts exactly. You can’t expect to have a successful file sharing system if you have to get permission for everything you distribute, you guys!
jabjoe@feddit.uk 8 months ago
Well, there are some very successful file sharing systems. That horse did bolt with Napster.