archchan

archchan , 5 days 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.

archchan , 15 days ago

Amazon had also appointed a former NSA director. Actually, it was Snowden's director.

archchan , 16 days ago

Ads have definitely added more load on electrical grids in aggregate than locally hosted and lightweight models, especially given that ads are fucking everywhere all the time. Websites, apps, the servers, even 24/7 electric billboards. I'm not worried about a few nerds using slightly more electricity sometimes for their own benefit and joy (it's still less power than gaming), as opposed to a corp that burns through power and breaks their climate pledges (Microsoft) for the benefit of their bottom line and nothing else. Corps don't get to have a monopoly on AI that was built with our data, only to have it fed back to us to pull more data and siphon more money.

So basically fuck Google and fuck ads.

archchan , 19 days ago

So... Mastodon integration instead I hope?

archchan , 21 days ago

arch-user

I mean...

archchan , 21 days ago

It's not just European elites who are afraid of upheaval. It's all of them. It's one of the reasons why they all have bunkers, why Zuckerberg is building another one in Hawaii recently. They know that we can actually do something about them because we outnumber them by a lot, so they build these systems of control. Governments, corps, elites have all become noticeably more brazen in the past several years.

archchan , 21 days ago

I admire your conviction. But in that case we also have to consider how your right to move about freely is being affected. If you feel like you need to choose not to travel when you want or need to travel, how will you reconcile? Do you weigh and choose the lesser evil? Seems like you just end up violated one way or another. I don't like it, not any of this.

archchan , 21 days ago

Pretty sure they already said it would be opt-in. This is just planned damage control. The fools have already shown their hand. Again.

archchan , 21 days ago

The Ad Algorithm

It knows when you are sleeping
It knows when you're awake
It knows when you've been bad or good
So consume for goodness sake

Fuck this.

archchan , 22 days ago

I've gone off the FOSS deep end so it doesn't stop when I see Windows used in the wild.

The longer I'm here, the more I recoil at the sight of people using products from Google so casually and thoughtlessly.

I'll feel visceral disgust when I see the soulless, dystopian corporate logos of Xitter, Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, etc that wormed their way into a universal presence on social footers of websites or promotional emails or search engines... and everyone's locked down devices, sucking up troves of data to map who you are, were, and will be. Even McFuckingDonalds has a clause in a policy saying they'll measure your intelligence.

The greater the intersect between emotions felt while enjoying a cautionary fictional cyberpunk tale and those felt while experiencing reality... well, anyway you get the idea.

Tldr I need a hug from a penguin or cocaine from a bear or something holy shit

You, reader, go. Hug a penguin. Spread love to the world. Believe in the change you want to see. Be good to each other. And don't let anyone or anything take who you are, were, or can be away from you, be it a corp, a government, or a bad day.

Have a good day

archchan , 22 days ago

Hahaha thanks. I like being extra and colorful like this. It's a good release in more ways than one

archchan , 24 days ago

I hate that Pixelfed isn't good enough to capture these users and I say this as someone who uses it over Instagram.

From the what I've seen (and I have been watching fairly closely), I think Pixelfed and the stretched-too-thin-can't-prioritize-and-somewhat-monarchial dev himself might just need more time to cook. I still have hope in him and his projects but I won't be holding my breath again. If good shit happens, it happens. And I do hope it happens because it should've been Pixelfed in this article like Mastodon was with Twitter or Lemmy with Reddit. Not whatever this new corp that came out of nowhere is.

archchan , 23 days ago

He's not even the FCC chairman anymore but this news still makes me want to punch Ajit Pai in the face.

archchan , 27 days ago

I choose to privately self-host open source AI models and stuff on Linux. It's almost like technology is a tool and corps are the ones fucking things up. Hmmm, imagine that.

archchan , 1 month ago

If consent mattered, governments and corporations all around the world wouldn't be pushing to expand the global surveillance apparatus.

Is this just another Tuesday now? Fuck me.

archchan , 1 month ago

That's a lot of effort just to play HuniePop

archchan , 1 month ago

World's most popular search engine, video platform, mobile OS, browser engine, email provider, map provider, shall I go on? Search results at this point are just becoming an astrix.

They're trying to suck up and present as much data as possible so people never have to leave Google's services. They want to be the internet. If you enabled people to be independent, private, decentralized, and open, then Google would be in trouble because suddenly individuals and communities would have all the power and data, not some corp that's hellbent on wasting your lifespan and brain space with ads or whatever other garbage decision they make on Tuesday to make their line go up.

archchan , 1 month ago

It's not going to get better. I nuked 10 and switched to Linux permanently around the Windows 11 launch. My only regret is not switching sooner, like around Windows 8 times.

archchan , 1 month 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.

archchan , 1 month ago

I don't use ChatGPT and host my own models ✅️
I don't use Reddit, I use Lemmy ✅️

I agree with the dystopian part. It's not a warm and fuzzy feeling, this feeling. A feeling that's too common for my liking these days.

archchan , 1 month ago

CorpOS

archchan , 1 month ago

I'm out of the loop. What is Roblox actually?

archchan , 2 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.

archchan , 2 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.

archchan , 2 months ago

Remember the NSA director back when all the Snowden stuff happened? Keith Alexander? He joined Amazon's board of directors in 2020. Not to mention Bezos is a particular fan of the DoD and was on the Pentagon's advisory board.

Why anyone would trust Amazon is beyond me. And I don't like feeling so damn watched just for walking down a street with a bunch of Ring cameras. I can't believe it's so normalized to constantly watch your neighbors with a corps eyeballs.

archchan , 2 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.

archchan , 2 months ago

pay for the service then

Gladly. So I donated to Peertube.

archchan , 2 months ago

That's why big tech pays the big bucks to be the "default"

archchan , 2 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.

archchan , 3 months ago

That's not how you're supposed to think about it. I'm paraphrasing, but ✅️ means "safe" and ❌️ is the shape of your asshole when a known evil corpo entity comes to fuck you.

archchan , 3 months ago

Mayhaps if you had more funnies in your mental, you wouldn't feel so illnessed by the manipulatious nature of their wordiness.

archchan , 3 months ago

I miss the OC porn and algorithms but it's whatever. I like Mastodon

archchan , 4 months ago

https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/00b873f3-1e13-4224-be44-b8d839f1f8e1.jpeg

archchan , 4 months ago

I'll pass on having evil corps like Google put AI in my car.

Comma.ai is open source and does exactly what you are describing as that "head unit", not too mention is widely compatible with many car manufacturers.

archchan , 4 months ago

Sending trained monkeys to murder scores of balloons.

archchan , 4 months ago

Some enshittified Lemmy alternative run by a megalomaniac who sucks Elon's dick behind Wendy's dumpsters and milks his userbase (but not in the fun way)

archchan , 4 months ago

Business as usual at Google.

archchan , 4 months ago

Google is already a pro at gaslighting even without LLMs trained on Reddit's garbage.

"Web integrity is for your privacy and security" my cute ass.

archchan , 4 months ago

Some high tech alien's porn stash is embedded in the fabric of our universe and that's the reason we exist.

archchan , 4 months ago

I'm surprised everyone didn't realize it right from the beginning before things got to this point. Better late then never, I - suppose.

archchan , 6 months ago

FYI the 41% of instances that block or limit Threads (from the source data which doesn't have every instance), accounts for 24% of the user base of the fediverse.

archchan , 9 months ago

Everything I want to play runs on Linux and the couple that don't are because of EAC, which I can't be bothered with. I've completely cut Windows out of my life.

archchan , 9 months ago

cough

archchan , 9 months ago

I did that as a beginner a few times but now I'm able to resolve everything I need to with the good old terminal.

archchan , 10 months ago

Just gonna leave this here: https://www.signal.org/

archchan , 11 months ago

Always have been, and they're in it for the long game. They've already acquired a stupid amount of control on the web and web standards with everything from Chromium to Youtube, not to mention it doesn't help that they basically control the world's most popular mobile OS. Google wants it all if we let them.