We’ve seen that trend for decades already. Neo-liberalism was all about trickling up wealth created by work.
But you see that in all advanced economies: commoners budget are tighter and tighter as cost of life increase faster than wages. That’s the expected outcome of neo-liberalism.
Now politicians pretend the housing crisis is an anomaly and car makers wonder why sales are slowing down. AI is bad, but it only accelerates and amplifies what was already happening.
“Of course it can’t happen to me! It only happens to my idiot users, and I am not an idiot!” [expense blows out of control] “We’re going to have to let go more people for budget reasons. You see people use tokens, and tokens are expensive! We’ll have less people who will use more AI to replace them, I was told the last version improves further productivity!”
In developed civilized countries, you pay according to your ability to pay, because it’s not a business: it’s a common service, we don’t want anyone to go without.
Just like the Epstein billionaires class saw 1984 and thought it was a model for governance, they saw Matrix and thought it was an awesome way to run people’s lives. Of course, they take the role of the central computer while chips in our brains make us happy to obediently serve them.
And don’t forget all the suppliers of the other parts that don’t have any business with datacenters: motherboards makers (not sure they got anything), case makers, power supply makers, peripherals makers, etc.
All of the ecosystem could go down if the bubble lasts long enough.
It’s not like we don’t know the playbook already.
https://www.androidauthority.com/google-recaptcha-play-services-requirement-3664806/
Now you know brain implants will be used as an authentication system, to protect the children, prevent spam, and maybe they’ll manage to add something about terrorism in the justification.
Go full opensource. Sure that restricts the games available. But then no one owns the game, and no one will ever take it from you.
Mullvad, VPN provider, takes cash sent by postmail for payment.
So we have at least that!
CEOs are hard working geniuses who deserve their very high compensation, episode 84051
You do whatever you want, but out of curiosity: how is that helping with this issue in anyway?
pmOS does not have Google Play nor the Apple equivalent. GOS has the option of having a sandboxed Google Play.
Might want to check this page (note: not maintained by GOS):
https://privsec.dev/posts/android/banking-applications-compatibility-with-grapheneos/
That’s probably ok. Google doesn’t give a damn about protecting websites from bots. They just want to know what YOU are doing on the web.
We’ll talk about that again when all banks, online reservation, government websites all require the new captcha.
Oh, but you can still join us by phone to talk to an AI agent or wait forr 240mins of average waiting time for a human operator.
Per GOS: Samsung has almost all hardware requirements to support GOS except… they purposely cripple their device upon installation of a third party OS. One can only suspect they indeed make money with their spyware stack!
You’re wrong and I am going to harass you until you change your mind to prove it!!
Oh, wait…
Yes, you do. Because we live in an era where Uber driver or nurse pay is based on surveillance: the more desperate they are, the lower the payment offered for the trip or the shift. Because we’re facing surveillance pricing also, where surveillance is going to compute how much you’re ready or desperate to pay for something, regardless its cost, and that might be higher than your reighbour’s result. Because we live in an era where abortion is banned in multiple places and who know what else will be later, after one of your relative will have told you what will become a confession?
So yes, you do give a damn, and no you don’t talk over corporate surveillance networks as much as you can avoid them.
You don’t need to go that far. Arrest and jail the CEO, and tell the execs you’ll come back for them in 3 days.
I absolutely guarantee you the bad practice stops within 24 hours (or some smartass may try to hide it better, might warrant a few years in jail with the commoners, of course).
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The sad truth is we said exactly the same thing during Trump’s first mandate. Granted it was not as bad as this time, but on a general principle: “we know someone like Trump can happen once, so we need to assume it will happen again!”. And… as soon as Biden started talking, the EU went back under a cozy mama-wing, easy solution.
This time might be different… or not. Far right parties are getting stronger in France, Germany, already in power in Italy. They all somewhat allied with Trump and his goons. All the effort made to render the EU sovereign could be discarded just as quickly as they were put in place. Imagine Trump’s successort is someone smart enough to understand (or rather not too stupid to not understand…) the benefit of US military supremacy and protection, and you may see some EU govs happily reduce their military spending again: the US promised to have their back!
At this stage, I am less pessimistic than I am careful: the direction is somewhat correct. We (the people) need to make sure it stays that way.
But for Snowden’s case: I wouldn’t come back either. The minute he sets land in Europe, he becomes a bargaining chip in sode negotiations with the US! He could try his chances in Spain, until the next election, then it’s uncertainty all over again.
That’s (really) a political issue, not a company issue. Each company does exactly what it’s supposed to do: maximize profit for their shareholders. Even if they know it will end in a total disaster, they’ll keep doing that. That’s how the system works. Making sure the system works is the job of the policy makers.
Unfortunately, the policy maker is now in the companies payroll and so helps maximize the shareholders profit, there is no one left to look at the bigger picture and/or long term effects.