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t3rmit3

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t3rmit3 , to Socialism in DSA vs. Establishment Stalemate Continues

Hey, even if it's a stalemate right now, the DSA legislators not losing seats this round proves that their districts back their (very outspoken) stances on Gaza. I wish we had more DSA state legislators here in CA, but alas...

t3rmit3 , (edited ) to Technology in Is social media fuelling political polarisation?

I'm sorry, are you suggesting that allowing wealth inequality is the best course of action, simply because it's more harmonious than combating it?

t3rmit3 , to Technology in Shopping app Temu is “dangerous malware,” spying on your texts, U.S. lawsuit claims

Uh, as someone who does malware analysis, sandbox detection is not easy, and is certainly not something that a non-malware-developer/analyst knows how to do. This isn't 2005 where sandboxes are listing their names in the registry/ system config files.

t3rmit3 , to Technology in Microsoft CEO of AI: Online content is 'freeware' for models • The Register

There is leaked Windows source code online... Is that also freeware for me to train an OS-building model on?

t3rmit3 , (edited ) to Technology in Stable Diffusion 3's Disastrous Launch Could Change the AI Landscape Forever

Hell yeah! Nothing good comes from their new model, nor the advertiser-friendly focus of SD3. They were good for pushing the open-source ecosystem forward, but clearly their Capitalist masters have come calling, and they're enshittifying.

t3rmit3 , to Technology in Elon Musk's SpaceX contracted to destroy retired space station - BBC News

If my brother were still there, I'd say, "yes, please".

t3rmit3 , to Technology in Elon Musk's SpaceX contracted to destroy retired space station - BBC News

Whales

t3rmit3 , to Socialism in Temperature rise ‘unprecedented in the instrumental record’

Capitalist class when they're ending the world: "All right, you've got this!"

t3rmit3 , to Technology in Cleantech has an enshittification problem

Cleantech is a very dynamic sector, even if its triumphs are largely unheralded. There's a quiet revolution underway in generation, storage and transmission of renewable power, and a complimentary revolution in power-consumption in vehicles and homes...

But cleantech is too important to leave to the incumbents, who are addicted to enshittification and planned obsolescence. These giant, financialized firms lack the discipline and culture to make products that have the features – and cost savings – to make them appealing to the very wide range of buyers who must transition as soon as possible, for the sake of the very planet.

The author focuses on the danger of startups dying out and therefore bricking your devices, but another major problem with startups is that they are VC-backed, and those VC investors are expecting the exact same unsustainable growth that the incumbent "market leaders" are chasing in their enshittification journeys. When the startups don't die, they will also 'have' to enshittify, to satisfy investors.

It's not enough for our policymakers to focus on financing and infrastructure barriers to cleantech adoption. We also need a policy-level response to enshittification.

Sadly, this is the impossible part. Policymakers (at least in the US) will never prioritize consumers over companies.

Honestly, the best we can ever hope for is a law mandating that it's no longer illegal to modify your tech if the company who operates it dies, or shuts down the backend server infra, but this will be opposed by basically every company out there (including if not especially video game companies, who won't want to potentially have to allow people to develop and operate private servers for defunct MMOs).

t3rmit3 , to Socialism in Chinese Tech Companies Push Staff To the Limit - Slashdot

China is not Socialist, it's State Capitalist.

Firing older employees in order to pay less to newer employees to pad the bottom line is Capitalism 101, unless someone thinks all the big US companies (Microsoft, Cisco, Meta, Tesla, etc) that have been doing this same thing this past year are all Socialist.

t3rmit3 , to Technology in Pornhub to leave five more states over age-verification laws

Yep, people sadly are bad at extrapolating how restrictions on something they dislike can be cross-applied to limit things they don't dislike, by others.

t3rmit3 , to Technology in YouTube is dedicated to making itself worse; destroys SponsorBlock with ad injection changes

People often decry accelerationism, but the reality is that the slow-boiled frog is the one that sits and dies. Chipping away at freedoms, consumer protections, product benefits, etc is all less likely to spark backlash than when they drop sharply in a short time.

That doesn't mean you should help to make things worse, but it does mean that you may want to reconsider constantly mitigating every bad thing that others are doing, rather than letting them shoot themselves in the foot. When people are being hurt, help them. When people are being inconvenienced, let them get angry.

t3rmit3 , to Technology in Opinion | Surgeon General: Why I’m Calling for a Warning Label on Social Media Platforms

The EFF's response is right on the money, as usual:

Communications platforms are not comparable to unsafe food, unsafe cars, or cigarettes, all of which are physical products—rather than communications platforms—that can cause physical injury. Government warnings on speech implicate our fundamental rights to speak, to receive information, and to think.

There is no scientific consensus that social media is harmful to children's mental health. Social science shows that social media can help children overcome feelings of isolation and anxiety. This is particularly true for LBGTQ+ teens.

We agree that social media is not perfect, and can have negative impacts on some users, regardless of age. But if Congress is serious about protecting children online, it should enact policies that promote choice in the marketplace and digital literacy. Most importantly, we need comprehensive privacy laws that protect all internet users from predatory data gathering and sales that target us for advertising and abuse.

This warning label announcement just feeds into the right-wing "tech platforms bad, full of librul thought, must protect the kids by surveilling everyone and blocking the harmful (minority-focused) content" agenda.

Keep in mind that this is not happening in a vacuum; many states have already put in place age-verification for sites they deem 'harmful' (and California is considering one as well, so it's not just braindead red states getting in on the surveillance action), and this directly makes the argument that social media spaces (and the speech on them) are harmful, and should be subject to government approval.

t3rmit3 , to Socialism in Israel Killed Hundreds of Civilians to Save Four of Its Own

"Israel uses the rescue of four of its civilians as cover to kill hundreds of non-Israeli civilians" more accurately conveys the intent here.

t3rmit3 , to Free and Open Source Software in Signal on Linux

Just because something is built out of love does not make it safe, and attestation is about safety. You wouldn't trust an un-attested surgical device, just because there's a really positive community around its design.

Signal is a life-or-death app for some people.

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