Same for everybody as far as that goes

GraphemeOS + Fairphone anytime would be awesome. Fuck these walled monopolistic ecosystems.

Cloudflare, AWS, and other recent major service outages are what come to mind re: AI code. I’ve no doubt it is getting forced into critical infrastructure without proper diligence.

Humans are prone to error so imagine the errors our digital progeny are capable of!

Indeed. Seems every week Plex takes some action to enshitify their service more and more.

Utilities beholden to investor groups have been price gouging customers long before AI came along. We need governments that can competently govern and regulate.

Finamp is the official iOS Jellyfin music player. If only the would publish the latest beta version to the App Store! Apparently it’s so much better than the current release, but I refuse to sign up for test flight and the associated Apple terms.

Stiff competition, that. This guy is just playing it safe, saying what his bosses want to hear.

Privatize the profits, socialize the losses

Personal privacy is always worth the cost. The ‘subsidies’ can go away anytime, so better to not be locked into an expensive spyware platform to begin with.

Tech companies don’t innovate anymore. Their Wall Street string-pullers demand reliable profit growth so they kill innovation through buyouts and are left with stale products they can only make worse and/or charge more for. Layoffs are a direct wealth transfer from working class labor to wealthy shareholders and the street rewards execs for it every time.

And if you’re thinking AI is innovative, it’s got executives in a fever pitch for the same reasons - so companies can fire expensive labor and big tech can become even more monopolistic, shove more ads, push more propaganda, and control the internet. It’s fortunate it doesn’t work that well so far. Bubble can’t pop soon enough.

A key aspect of a corporation is to protect execs liability. Anything they do is the legal responsibility of the corporation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_liability

Also see Citizens United in the US.

Never believe a billionaire’s sales-pitch

The guy became a billionaire from a ‘hot or not’ college website…

They really don’t think past the next quarter or two. And even if they did they aren’t lacking on new ways to exploit people.

But the filthy wealthy gotta grow their wealth somehow!

You think everyone should comply? You don’t avoid fascism by staying quiet.

This is hilarious and to the extend everyone would avoid ice agents like the plague makes it even better.

You never have more power against an authoritarian than you do right now.

You have to resist, push back, fight etc. or you keep losing.

Good job. Keep speaking up!

People are good a justifying things to themselves. And when your invisible-friend-for-adults backs you up, well now you’re infallible.

Remember when Visa and Mastercard made a big deal defending the right to buy guns on their platform? https://finance.yahoo.com/news/visa-won-t-block-gun-180848343.html