Ya i mean i’ve been off social media and youtube for years and still get targeted advertising until i started using proactive privacy measures. So i would not bet against you.
I think you’re probably right too. A lot of this shit sounds scary but as we can see, these tech overlords are exceptionally well-funded but equally delusional about what they can accomplish.
Fuck these people
it’s tough because we need to get the word out to people to advertise events like No kings and share info on ICE, most ppl don’t have the time between working 3 jobs and raising kids to properly research open source options. Those of us who know better have to reach out to those who don’t using their medium.
I always use VPN at bare minimum so I’m not personally worried but I know a lot of ppl who are more into activism than tech privacy who I wanna keep informed.
I only have a need for RAG and it works well, wouldn’t say I need w copilot either. Everyone probably has some use case for this stuff but it’s gonna be different for everyone, the basic llm conversation model it’s really just a stepped up interactive Google
Off with their heads! GO self-hosted, go local… toss the rest in the trash can before this crap gets a foothold and fully enshitifies
Wow, so utter incompetence and petty infighting then?
honestly where the fuck r the unions? we need them
I would advise you look at past instances where general strikes were called, see what nurses did back then. And to be clear, i’m not saying i know the answer to that, just sayin that might be a good place for inspiration, whatever decision u make.
Well hopefully those planning curriculums learn from this. Until then, computers at school and books at home. Turning luddite home schooling is not gonna help