This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
Abandon all of these platforms and any others that associate in any way with Palantir or Thiel
Almost wish I could be part of the exodus, but I use none of these
Good
The problem is that millions do, and won't understand what the big deal is, and be sucked into the fucking psyop vortex.
I’m permaband from Reddit but I miss some local subs. I hope this encourages people to move away to something else.
Unfortunately probably a lot fewer will move than we expect. People seem capable of accepting all sorts of shittification in favour of actively changing their platform. Just look at how many still uses twitter, despite its literal nazification.
So no more bots on Reddit then right????
I'm sure the market will innovate and give us rentable biometrics.
The guy that said:
Finding things on their way to collapse was much easier than finding the next bargain.
I genuinely don't understand how is he still free and alive. He's as close to a real life devil you'd find. In his own words - he's working on societal collapse to gain more power. Can someone do something already?
Fucking never. Never ever. I'd sooner cut myself off from all technology and live in the woods than willingly give those creepy fucks my middle goddamn name. There is absolutely nothing good that will come from this company. The people at that company literally fucking movie villains. It's fucking crazy that absolutely anyone works with them, let alone world governments.
These large scale surveillance companies like Palantir, like Flock, they shouldn't exist. They should be outlawed. Our government needs probable cause and a warrant to surveil a suspect. If a normal civilian followed you around and filmed you, kept track of you at all times, they'd be arrested for stalking. But for some reason private companies can just watch every man, woman, and child in public and online, catalog all our movements, where we went, how we went there, who was with us, track what we do, what we read, who we know, how we spend our time, what we say, etc., and then permanently log all of that, use it to form dociers on us, predict our behaviors, or desires, ways to manipulate us, and then turn around and sell that data to governments, other companies and private parties. How the fuck is that legal.
Why in the fuck would you ever allow a private, profit-driven company to have that kind of power over your nation, let alone reward it with federal dollars, long term contracts and access to our law enforcement and military data and systems?
Worse, the founders and CEO are unhinged wannabe dictators trying to form their own sovereign techno-states. They're not even secretive about that. And our goverment is fucking funding these nuts and giving them every detail of the lives of our citizenry, our goverment officials, our military... how fucking stupid do we have to be, guys? I wish I could say it's just Trump but it's not. It's mind boggling.
I’m here because of this. 10 year old Reddit account deleted, app deleted, done over and out.
Fucking Peter literally creating the very monster he claims to hate.
16 And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:
17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
They're trying to force it to happen. They somehow think they'll be spared and only the people they hate will have to suffer.
They are trying to make it seem like they care about kids at the same time they released the Epstein files... While Trump is lying saying he is not guilty / not in them. They are trying to rile up their base even more and encite violence towards their political enemies. People have been calling for violence on Twitter and ramping it up. I am sick of leftist platforms censoring so much because its very scary.
compelled to use
I gotta say, a lot of the compulsion seems to be around "adult content" which is fairly easy to avoid in most cases.
I would be more interested in how these rules tend to target LGBTQ+ groups for censorship than how they slap a "teenagers" tag on anyone who isn't feeding them biometric data. This feels like another edition of "straight is normal, gay is sex" Christian orthodoxy being codified into the digital landscape.
Literally Spez right now...
(I'd post the uncensored image but IIRC Lemmy World is German-based and have strict laws against Nazi iconography)
He's wilfully given the data of users who have criticized Trump and ICE, AND he looks like a spitting image of Tintin...
While germany has strict laws against using Nazi iconography, there are a lot of exceptions that allow them in satire, arts, etc.
Couple of years back they even allowed swastikas in video games because the law recognised them as art.
It's a great way to kill those products. That's maybe the only upside.
Is it?
Most people won't care and continue using it anyways.
I won't, for sure, but most people are fucking idiots when it comes to this stuff
This compels me to learn deepfakes, which seems not too hard as long as you have sufficient hardware... Or if not then those Death Stranding like methods might still work :AyameHmm:
It's quite doable. If you have pretty much any not-prehistoric GPU, you can run quantized Z-Image turbo. If it's a not-ancient Nvidia GPU, you can run a 4-bit SVDquant version extremely quickly.
There may even be versions runnable on Intel IGPs or beefy CPUs these days, though I have not personally investigated this.
Or you can just use the Artbot through the AI Horde for a deepfake, with no corporate servers involved. It's crowdsourced inference, basically the equivalent of the Fediverse.
And I'm compelled to tell them to suck my ass.
Write it on a post-it and make a photo of it when they ask for your face verification.
If people cared about "the children" they wouldn't let them on the Internet until they were 21.
If people cared about humanity they wouldn't allow "the algorithms" to exist or let social media or news media exist they way it does now.
I don’t think that’s the solution though, kids (including teens to some extent) can be on the internet but it requires better parenting. It’s better to monitor what they are doing online until they are like 15 or 16, maybe 17 if you have a really good reason too. Limit screen time, be around to answer questions your kid has about what they might see.
Little kids though? Absolutely should be off the internet. Anyone under 10 shouldn’t be on the internet period in my opinion. 10-12 is kinda a gray zone to me where it’s definitely up to the parents and if they think their child is ready.
Also since they weren’t allowed on the internet till they were 21, those 21 year olds won’t know how to act on the internet. So now there’s 21 year olds roaming around who will need to figure all that shit out. They might get other aspects of being an adult but the internet will be completely alien.
It’s like when I saw people saying kids shouldn’t be allowed into the grocery store because someone was annoyed that kids didn’t know how to behave there yet. You just create a new and larger problem where adults don’t know how to act.
Thats going to finally break my reddit addition, and ill bet any amount of money im not alone.
the API fiasco forced me off, so im glad I had a 2 year start on federation
I have not experienced such on Reddit myself, but I am diversifying my use, just in case.
This place looks nice so I've created an account and set up a new bookmark.
Welcome!
Well anyways, lemmy seems fine
Once governments realise it exists, they will look to start blocking it.
"Compelled" *evil shojo laughing all the way to the delete button"
Complete anecdote, but without exception, every non-corporate Discord community I am a member of is evaluating something like Zulip or Element right now with the majority of the users ready to jump ship.
Peter fucking thiel has too much money and is backing everything, for example PayPal and stripe that are processing 80% of e-commerce payments
Those are weird places to mine data... are they specifically targeting young people?
Normalise it while they're young, so they fight it less when they grow up
