Thought for the Day: Big Tech is much more fragile than their billionaire CEOs want you to realize.
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@lauren Yeah! A practical example for you: "The Internet actually works w/o Google - but Google doesn't work w/o the Internet"
Practising this for over five years now. Established DNS-based digital self-defence on my home network by extensive adblocking and physically banning Google and other major TechBro enshittification actors.
It works. For more info, look up Pi-hole or similar technology. There is no right to surveillance capitalism, so you are entitled to digital self-defence. You OWN your end of the Internet connection.
@dazzr Not a practical solution for the world at large, only for extremely dedicated and single-minded techies.
@lauren Disagree. TechBro exploitation won't go away if we don't resist. We're talking kind of Internet hygiene. Start w/ adblocking and uBlock Origin. Just a browser extension. Work your way up to DNS-based filtering.
I neither consider myself extremely dedicated and single-minded. And it's not just techie, but also classic boycott, avoid and resist: don't use their services, block 'em, don't buy from Amazon.
I was techie enough to set up Pi-hole in my network. You'll learn while you go. Since years, it's just running. But you have to complement tech w/ personal attitude. Nothing most of us cannot learn. Even not very expensive - it' all FOSS, and the majority of expenses is now donations to the projects I have adopted.
Just don't do GOOGLE (and other digital parasites).
@dazzr I stand by my analysis. Utterly impractical for nontechie users who are just trying to get the basic stuff to work to pay their bills and deal with email. Most have no understanding beyond defaults and often get locked out due to such lack of knowledge -- which isn't their fault. I deal with them all the time. They don't even want to set up 2sv. They use the machines as they get them and have no interest in changes. There are always exceptions, but the general rule holds. Of course, whatever works for you is great for you.
@lauren if they weren't fragile, would they kiss up to Trump? They're held aloft by a bubble and it's a long drop.
It feels like they have access to the levers of power, but if they really did, they would be running things their way, not submitting to humiliating loyalty tests that threaten to alienate them from their consumer base.
Remember corporate feudalism (what they want) is bland smiles and functioning propaganda. What we're seeing is loud and crude, as a reminder who holds the whip.
And here I was thinking you were gonna say that big tech billionaires or just any billionaire is much more fragile than they want you to realize
@GhostOnTheHalfShell That is also true. It's a long fall down to the ground from the top of their golden pyramids.
@lauren Big Tech is on a shale foundation.
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depends on public money
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how and where are they fragile?what are their fragile points?
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A faulty software deployment can ruin the day quite a bit.
Customers who find an alternative for your services might not return.
Parts of big tech can become obsolete overnight.
@alterelefant And parts of it should.
@lauren We all just have to decide, "enough" in one go. And do it together. Poof. Gone.
