@lily @terminaltilt I already pulled everything from the cloud.
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The worst part of this to me? The way I and many others were pilloried and mocked when we predicted EXACTLY THIS OUTCOME (not to mention privacy issues and the like) back in the early aughts when we criticized early cloud storage services like Dropbox.
But no one likes to hear, "I told you so." And no one who told us we were being alarmist or just stupid back then is going to apologize.
(20 years from now, this post copypasta with 'cloud' replaced by 'AI'.)
@lily @terminaltilt Lazy Eye Dr. Evil, what a dirtbag. All the tech bros are such garbage!
@lily @terminaltilt #Linux and all those thrift store PCs are looking real nice right about now.
One of my arguments for #LibreOffice now is : it can run on your computer without internet connection.
@lily @terminaltilt This fits with Larry Ellison wanting to watch everyone when they are on the toilet.
https://futurism.com/the-byte/billionaire-constant-ai-surveillance
@lily @terminaltilt Yup. Power is acting like power always does: Consolidate more power.
Pretty speeches and noble words of yesteryear never mean squat.
@lily @terminaltilt how long until "Installing software" becomes "sideloading"?
EVERY DATA CENTRE IS A US MILITARY BASE!
Nothing ever changes. In feudal times you gave 50% of your produce to the land lord.. essentially you had a land subscription to the land owner. The rich will always make their power work one way or the other to extracting wealth from the poor.
@lily @terminaltilt Yes that's where it's moving towards. Apple and amazon both want you to use their cloud, hough microsoft has went further to make it default for everything, even your login. As amazon has big cloud business....I'm sure Bezos is all for it. I recently moved my cloud to self hosted nextcloud. I do still have icloud...but that is more i device convenience on some files and Apple one for my wife and I to stream apple music and few other things it provides.
@lily @terminaltilt
Good luck with that. People can computer with 2 strings and a bit of sticky tape if they want to (yes I exaggerate hugely). The fundamentals are known. Mostly computing got physically smaller, which then allowed for more bloat. But a logic gate is a logic gate, even if you make it out of matchsticks, or bottletops or whatever.
@lily @terminaltilt looks like Bexos is eating all the pies now.
@lily @terminaltilt I think it's hilarious that they are still trying this shit when they haven't fixed or addressed the very fundamental issue at hand.
Internet access. It's not cheap, it's not easy to get, it's not available every where, especially at reasonable speeds and has more outages than there are back orders on insulin!
@lily @terminaltilt the current consumer RAM and storage shortage is conveniently timed for this too...
Can someone within earshot of Jeff please tell him to fuck off with this shit.
@lily @terminaltilt HOA fee for my background image!?!
@lily @terminaltilt A sh!tty landlord who keeps jacking up the rent, reads all your mail and won't return your furniture and oher posessions when you try ot move out.
@lily @terminaltilt And so we come full circle, back to the “dumb terminal” of the mid 20th century.
@lily this is I think where the important criticism of AI really lies - not a narrow focus on some specific tech, but refusing to budge on the older, more important battle over "the cloud"
