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- Comment on Jeff Bezos is scared to have an open debate on economics 1 day ago:
Hydrofluoric acid
- Comment on ‘The tyranny of apps’: those without smartphones are unfairly penalised, say campaigners 1 week ago:
McDonald’s wants your IQ too. Seriously, it’s in their privacy policy.
- Comment on Larry Ellison wants to put all America's data, including DNA, in one big Oracle system for AI to study 2 weeks ago:
A post from the reddit thread on this that led me down an “dark” (double pun in this case) rabbit hole:
Larry Ellison is either independently coming up with, or stealing, an idea from an authoritarian freak named Curtis Yarvin. From an article about his ideology:
Each patchwork would be ruled by a “realm”: a corporation with absolute power. Citizens would be free to move, but every other realm would also be ruled by corporate governments with chilling impunity. For example, Yarvin says the tech overlords of the San Francisco realm could arbitrarily decide to cut off its citizens’ hands with no fear of legal consequences—because they’re a sovereign power, beholden to no federal government or laws.
In “Friscorp,” as Yarvin calls the San Francisco realm, an all-seeing Orwellian surveillance system would enforce public safety: “All residents, even temporary visitors, carry an ID card with RFID response. All are genotyped and iris-scanned. Public places and transportation systems track everyone. Security cameras are ubiquitous. Every car knows where it is, and who is sitting in it, and tells the authorities both.”
Yarvin is a thought leader who influences many of the most powerful people in the world (and also a couple elected politicians).
Larry Ellison basically floated the idea of an AI surveillance panopticon several months ago.
Ars Technica: Omnipresent AI cameras will ensure good behavior, says Larry Ellison
- Comment on Mexican President Threatens to Sue Google Over 'Gulf of America' Label on Maps. 2 weeks ago:
It’s the details that make up the whole picture.
As an isolated situation, the renaming thing may be stupid and not worth giving any credence. Energy can be spent resisting elsewhere in more useful places. However along with the rest of the actions of billionare corpos that kissed the ring, it’s part of the overall trend with devastating consequences. Bullshit details shouldn’t be ignored, but acknowledged as “they’re fucking us from all directions right now and waging war on reality, and we really should stop letting them”.
- Comment on Google removes pledge to not use AI for weapons from website | TechCrunch 3 weeks ago:
Anything that uses FCM doesn’t get push notifications. That’s most of them. Very few apps work fine, others I have set up to use UnifiedPush. Unfortunately Proton Mail requires manually checking. I’ve not had any issues with location.
I’ve had one app straight up refuse to work at all and others that throw up an “enable Google Play Services” at every launch (dismiss it and it still works), but it’s nothing critical so I don’t care. Most of my apps come from F-Droid anyway. I haven’t had enough time without the play store to see if other apps trip the play integrity api stuff. Even if it did I don’t care.
But apps can’t hijack my entire screen anymore, battery life is improved, naturally privacy and security as well. No more “update available” pop-ups on app launches or that pop-up to scan all apps that I kept having to decline. No more anxiety from waking up to a bunch of marketing notifications. There’s also just the plain satisfaction of being free.
Google has Android by the balls but I’m so jaded and done with this corpo hell world shit to put up with even their privileged system apps anymore, even if it’s less convenient. Maybe Linux phones will become viable.
- Comment on Google removes pledge to not use AI for weapons from website | TechCrunch 3 weeks ago:
It feels good to say that I’ve been rid of Google for a while. They can shove Play Serives and Store too.
- Comment on A TikTok alternative called Loops is coming for the fediverse | Users own their content, and Loops doesn’t sell or provide videos to third-party advertisers or train AI on them. It will be open source 4 months ago:
I really hope this gets a proper foss “for you” algo. Personalized content and people discovery features are lacking on the fediverse.
- Comment on Is it me or is everyone in hexbear insane? 5 months ago:
I was going to block them and lemmygrad at first but decided not to and instead tried to understand what all these people were about.
Now I’m a communist, have a hammer and sickle, live in China, and my favorite color is red. Death to America comrades! Get fucked libs /s
Seriously though, they’re not anymore insane than us. Maybe just a bunch of drunken commies at a bar who don’t really bother to distance themselves from the subjects of a century of red scare propaganda. In any case, it’s worth keeping an open mind and engaging in good faith.
Though as leftist as I personally am and have become in time, I’m not going to call anyone comrade or start using hammer and sickle imagery except in the context of history lol. Libs can still get fucked though.
- Comment on Google Chrome warns uBlock Origin may soon be disabled 6 months ago:
Google sneezes and your future is stolen by an ad that’s selling it back to you. Google is too big to exist.
- Comment on Fast-food chains battle for low-income diners with summer value meals 7 months ago:
Same as every other corp. A combination of every data point they can get their hands on to build a “consumer” profile on you.
It’s that last point, “Inferences”, that you should focus on.
- Comment on Fast-food chains battle for low-income diners with summer value meals 7 months ago:
The McDonalds app explicitly stated they will measure your intelligence. Needless to say, I deleted my account and uninstalled.
- Comment on New Samsung phones block sideloading by default 7 months ago:
I really hate the term “side-loading.” We shouldn’t need a word for the normal way we’ve been installing apps for the past 40 years. If tomorrow Apple decided they were going to start only letting you visit web pages they approved of, we wouldn’t call some sort of alternating system that let you see the rest of the fucking internet “side-paging”. We’d instead call the whole thing bullshit.
- Comment on TikTok pushed far-right AfD party on young voters in Germany 7 months ago:
Chinesecompanybytedancetries to fragilisewesterndemocracies episode 1937392 - Comment on Firefox added [ad tracking] and has already turned it on without asking you 7 months ago:
Just planting seeds.
- Comment on Microsoft is reportedly banning Palestinians in the U.S. for life for calling relatives in Gaza 7 months ago:
No, it’s standard corp level behavior that’s beholden to government censorship and propaganda when it doesn’t fit the narrative. You can substitute any big tech company in the US for Google. They all do this. It’s why the government is not a fan of TikTok, they don’t have that same level of control over the flow of information.
- Comment on Microsoft's Weather app now shows more ads 8 months ago:
Ads with a chance of rain
- Comment on OneDrive automatically backups folders in Windows 11 without users' permissions 8 months ago:
Microsoft is an abusive ex. It will keep abusing you because it knows no other way. You can waste your days trying to fight against it, trying to figure out how to disable and remove whatever new privacy invasive anti-consumer bloat Microsoft decides to roll out that Tuesday.
Or you can leave and switch to Linux and waste time there instead. Tux is all about that respect and is handsome to boot. He might be a bit sensitive and break down rarely so you might need to spare a few to make sure he’s ok, but it’s nothing a little love can’t handle. And he’s only going to get better and stronger as he grows. You might even look forward to receiving updates (wow, I know). A stark contrast from your abusive ex.
- Comment on Starbuck milkshake is like tobacco 9 months ago:
Why go to Starbucks when my milkshakes bring all the boys to the yard? They’re better than yours.
- Comment on The Toilet Theory of the Internet: Google is serving an audience that wants quick and easy results. That may lead to disaster. 9 months ago:
There’s a pattern of belief among the rich and powerful that is basically like, “people don’t actually know what they want. They think they do but what they actually want is different, even if they don’t recognize it.” When they say “this is what you want” they think they’re giving us the thing we actually want. They believe what they’re saying.
I find that to be equal parts fascinating and terrifying.
- Comment on [deleted] 9 months ago:
CorpOS
- Comment on „If companies were to do the right thing, they would lose the most valuable customers on earth, preteen kids” 9 months ago:
I’m out of the loop. What is Roblox actually?
- Comment on I diagnose you with dystopia 9 months ago:
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- Comment on can't stop won't stop 9 months ago:
I’d rather meet Nikola Tesla
- Comment on @pixelfed: Loops is a new platform for sharing short videos, and it's open source + federated Using #ActivityPub 10 months ago:
Stretched too thin is an understatement.
Between Pixelfed, Sup, Loops, FediDB, fediverse.info, PubKit, all that comes with developing those, his main job, and whatever else he has cooking, I don’t like being so heavily dependent on the whims of one dev. I have mad respect for him and everything he has done, but this situation is definitely limiting the growth of the platforms, contributions to those platforms, and his general decision making on what to develop and how to prioritize.
I try to be optimistic because in the end what he’s doing is a net positive, but we’re going to need more than one man’s raw coding talent. That’s why although I’m exited for Loops, I’m tempering my expectations and expecting a cap on the popularity and adoption of Loops like with Pixelfed unless something changes.
- Comment on @pixelfed: Loops is a new platform for sharing short videos, and it's open source + federated Using #ActivityPub 10 months ago:
It will also come with an open source “For You” algorithm. I’ve been wishing the fediverse do this since I joined and it took literally banning TikTok for it to happen in the span of a few months by dansup for Loops, who thankfully has a favorable outlook on the use of algorithms on the fediverse.
- Comment on YouTube Tests Showing Ads When You Pause a Video, Calls it ''Pause Ads'' 10 months ago:
pay for the service then
Gladly. So I donated to Peertube.
- Comment on YouTube Tests Showing Ads When You Pause a Video, Calls it ''Pause Ads'' 10 months ago:
I’d sooner stop using the internet than be forced to imprint that carefully crafted poison into my psyche. They will not steal my life with ads.
- Comment on [deleted] 10 months ago:
That’s why big tech pays the big bucks to be the “default”
- Comment on Google now blocks spoofed emails for better phishing protection 10 months ago:
I hate Google as much as the next fedizen but I think this one might just not have a catch. It’s nothing crazy, just that if you’re sending more than 5000 bulk emails/day to gmail users, you have to set up proper DNS records, which if you’re managing a private email server you should probably have done anyways.
- Comment on Homeowner baffled after washing machine uses 3.6GB of internet data a day 10 months ago:
Maybe unpopular opinion but I like connected stuff. I like what you can do with modern tech. I think it’s cool to have a coffee maker or something hooked up to Home Assistant so you can start a brew from your phone when you wake up.
What I don’t like is when I can’t control the tech. The only way I’d ever allow smart appliances is if the data never left my network and I took reasonable steps to ensure the IOT devices are isolated and secured.
