Submitted 2 months ago by moonleay@feddit.org to technology@lemmy.world
https://pluralistic.net/2024/08/17/hack-the-planet/
Let me save you the time and summarize the blog post - internet got worse, big tech is bad and the author is just ranting how bad it is nowadays. Nothing new, no idea how to fix it, just complaining about the modern world.
I’m not saying the author is wrong. It’s just I heard this many times before.
You didn’t read it. Also why is it when someone takes time to address an issue like this, there is guarantee a post like this to dismiss it in favor of basically doing fuck all. Like the implication here is that you’re trying to diminish the effort for what? What’s the reason when you didn’t even read it.
The entire second half of the column is literally how to fix it.
I think we have read a different blog post. There was something about Google’s antitrust thingy and that all big tech should be regulated but no straight solution were given.
Again, I agree withe the thesis but honestly, anyone who’s focused on privacy would tell you the same but in way fewer words.
BTW, similar issue was raised in The Age of Surveillance Capitalism. Pretty good read.
The author of this post, Cory Doctorow, literally coined the term “enshittification” in a prior blog post. I think he of all people is allowed to continue talking about the topic as much as he wants.
The article proposes restoring competition, regulation, interoperability and tech worker power as response; in case anyone was wondering.
And the solution for world hunger is to distribute food from rich countries into the poor countries. Here, I’ve fixed the famine issue. Do you get my point? It’s easy to say what to do but when it comes to the details, all those preachers fail short in giving the real solution to the real problem. As I said before, this is just a rant about how bad modern world is.
When software changes in a way the user dislikes there’s often no choice but to put up with it or stop using it because it’s proprietary. I think this could be fixed if people were to adopt the value of free software and began to ditch proprietary software.
There’s nothing wrong with proprietary software as long as it’s respects user’s privacy and doesn’t do crazy licensing stuff.
Just ratted on yourself and dipped, huh?
Great read. Great summation of the last 30+ years.
Longer than I wanted to keep reading, not dissatisfied that I kept reading.
The telephone jumped the shark a few years ago. Now no one expects using the phone for legit business. Now it’s email.
I ask everyone I give my number to to text me first so I can verify
The solution is to reject any monetization of anything online. Anti advertise. If a content creator has ads take a minute to talk about how the product is the worst. Maybe it started a fire from a friend of a friend basement and killed their whole family. Maybe it made someone you know infertile. If a marketing team acts like a celebrity to promote rampart, you do what we all did in the rampart ama no matter what it is. Reject anyone trying to monetize and capitalize on the internet until all the assholes that running ever other medium leaves.
If we all collectively did that (not happening), we’d remove the main funding for content hosting, which means we’d get more paywalls. That’s not what I want at all. Information should be freely available, we just need to make options to avoid the advertising. For example, I pay for Nebula, because I find enough content there that I enjoy, and my understanding is that the creators get a larger chunk per watch vs YouTube. That works for me, but it probably doesn’t work for the average person.
I would like to see pay-per-watch become mainstream. So I could, for example, load a balance into my browser and press a button to view content w/o ads by paying a small fee (like a couple pennies here and there). The browser would ensure that transaction isn’t traceable to me (protects my privacy), and they’d pay the content creator on some schedule to reduce transaction fees. The cost to me is whatever the creator would make from ads, and I can choose which content to pay for or not. It would also make it really easy to add a tip if I found a particular piece of content particularly engaging.
Amazon used to sell products, not Shein-grade self-destructing dropshipped garbage from all-consonant brands.
I knew it wasn’t just my imagination. Amazon has been filled with cheap Chinese manufactured knock-off brands in recent years, to the point where I may as well be using Temu or Wish for a bargain.
Five giant websites featuring screenshots of the other four.
Holy shit.
eager_eagle@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I watched it two days ago, that’s tragicomic.
RubberElectrons@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I know, right? Like how the hell do you get worried from such a silly movie… Unless he knew the us military defense systems were in fact that weak.
Nah, Reagan was just a wuss.
leftzero@lemmynsfw.com 2 months ago
The story goes that, after watching the film, Reagan asked the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff ”Could something like this really happen? Could someone break into our most sensitive computers?”, and, after looking into it for a week, the general came back with the reply “Mr. president, the problem is much worse than you think.”, which prompted Reagan into setting off a series of interagency memos and studies that led to the signing of classified national security decision directive NSDD-145, “National Policy on Telecommunications and Automated Information Systems Security.”.
So… yeah, things probably actually were that bad, or even worse (except for the AI bit, of course).
Kaboom@reddthat.com 2 months ago
The nuclear codes for decades was 00000000. That’s all you needed to launch nukes.
eager_eagle@lemmy.world 2 months ago
also, just imagine the threat was that defense systems could be invaded by your average citizen.
Let’s put resources to making them secure then, right? Nah, let’s just make it illegal to guess passwords. That will surely prevent bad things from happening.