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They wanted to make Free Software illegal and have all computers approved by the government. (tubefree.org)
submitted 12 hours ago by ozoned@piefed.social to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] ozoned@piefed.social 13 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

Cory was talking about years ago. The FSF helped prevent it, but this is the kind of meetings Microsoft is willing to have to lock down systems. I think the rest of the world is now aware of US Big Tech and hopefully will steer clear. But yeah, we almost were in deep trouble.

[–] 4am@lemmy.zip 6 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

We are still in big trouble.

  • AI datacenters. Buy up all the commodity parts, put consumer companies out of business by promising that AI shall become a more lucrative market than consumer computing could ever be. Users have to turn to cloud services, which all content produced is run though AI to gauge who you are and what you think. You rent it from them.
  • enshittification of OSes. AI scanning in every crevice. Cloud saving even when you don’t want it.
  • devices are all cloud connected now and IoT is just spyware. From TVs to dishwashers;; and you never know what might have a microphone.
  • ”Save the children” age checks; but in reality you have to scan your face to ID yourself. Now they have a facial recognition profile from an up close view, linked with your name age and location, correlated with whatever other data originated from your local IP.

We didn’t dodge the bullet, we just got shot.

[–] ozoned@piefed.social 4 points 5 hours ago

The AI stuff has real economic implications for sure, but it can't last. IMO anyway. I just try to stay focused on fostering the fediverse and staying away from all of that other crap. I think small local communities for social web is the real winner for us.

[–] wavebeam@lemmy.world 3 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah I get that, I just struggle to understand how this really could play out in a functional manner.

[–] ozoned@piefed.social 2 points 8 hours ago

Idk. How are they going to enforce age verification? Probably can't. Doesn't stop them from trying.