Big Tech: Convenience is a Trap

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• jeena@piefed.jeena.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  That's what Richard Stallman has been preaching since the 80's

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  • foggenbooty@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I’m not a big social media user myself. Lemmy is pretty much it, unless I count watching videos on YouTube social media. I still feel a lot of the points he makes in the video.

    Richard Stallman is a household name to tech enthusiasts, but there’s a whole young generation that’s being brought up in a world where this stuff was already there. I’m lucky I remember not having the internet as a child and I worry about how this is effecting the people who are oblivious to it.

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    • solrize@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      lemmy.ml/c/stallmanwasright

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  • vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I mean, he worked (before going feral) in the place where much of what made our world different from the 80s was pioneered. Even if we hear about Berkeley or Stanford more.

    It’s a situation where you want to follow those having potentially the best inside information. About the culture of the people involved, about their ideas.

    It’s still unsettling how in Tolkien’s world Melkor is the weird one out, while the rest of Valar are good. Really seems to be inverted in tech.

    And also delay-tolerant not perpetually directly networked systems don’t have to be inconvenient. They are made that by directed effort.

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• kalkulat@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  That’s 18 minutes I don’t need to spend learning a minutes worth. (He starts out complaining about the lost time he’s invested…)

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  • tal@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    This is true of the overwhelming majority of YouTube videos I see submitted here. The information density is just abysmal compared to a page of text.

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    • Ulrich@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Harder to monetize a page of text

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    • atrielienz@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      And that is why I don’t click on or watch YouTube videos from here. Either I’ve seen the video already (as is the case with a lot of gamers nexxus vids), or I am not willing to give the amount of time it takes to watch the video when I could read a distilled version of it in a minute or so. I don’t care about your greeting (hey, this is [channel] here, back with another video. Today we’ll be talking about [insert topic], but first …[mindless garbage]).

      I know that newer gems love video format and want it for all the things but I do not.

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• firepenny@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Fuck, I rather be inconvenience then dealing with this shit. I’ll make my own way and have with self hosting.

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• roofuskit@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I have long said that convenience and security are opposite ends of the same line.

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  • frongt@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Not just you, that’s a pretty common principle.

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• zrst@lemmy.cif.su ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I’ve been thinking that MK Ultra was successful.

  They learned how to control people’s minds. While it might not have been as easy as they had hoped, they learned that by dictating the path of least resistance, they can control what most people are going to think and do.

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• grue@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Tangentially related: mrmoneymustache.com/…/is-it-convenient-would-i-en…

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  • OminousOrange@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Never thought I’d see an MMM article on here, but it’s definitely related.

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• blitzen@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  What is explicitly convenient about social media?

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  • Auth@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Once you’re signed in “everything” is there

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    • blitzen@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      “Everything”

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  • bent@feddit.dk ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    It’s really convenient for finding events in my city. I wish the places I frequent would use RSS, that would be even more convenient for me, but alas.

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    • blitzen@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      May I ask how you use RSS? In an app? (If so, what one). Something else?

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• Cherry@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I have been chatting through convenience with my kids.

  As an example music streaming. I have spent the last 15+ years paying for it, to generally accumulate a song or two extra per month. Switched from Spotify due to their warmongering. Tried an alternative. More expensive and the app is terrible for the car. Tempted lately to go back to an iPod and some sailing. At this stage it really does look like an option. It’s not the most convenient but balance out privacy, price and usability.

  I feel like I am going backwards as I simply don’t know what’s coming and I can’t trust the services I pay for in several capacities.

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• goatinspace@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

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