i dont understand why go through so many hoops just to use shitty search engine, is using google really worth that?

at some point, if they manage to make everything so difficult to get that its just not worth the time, i wonder if some start to consider if they should turn their attention to striking back. For me, watching stuff is mostly letting focus on other things than how shitty the world is. If all of it was taken away from me, i dont know what i would do.

if world was better place, this could mean that people have more time to do things that are important to them and everyone’s life would improve. But as its now, it just means we are more expendable so that the pedophile class can pig out even more. Any technological advance will just make our lives worse as long as we live under the rule of the rich. Hell, even if they managed to cure cancer it would just mean it takes even longer for the fuckers to die out while we watch our loved ones wither away.

internet is going to collapse under rampant cybercrime at some point, all the slopcode will have everything so broken and vulnerable hackers will have choiceparalyze.

its not monopoly if competition doesnt want to compete and isnt prevented from doing so. steam provides better service, which makes it de facto choice. should i be mad that only option i have is good? it just makes me worried that what if valve goes bad one day, but can’t do much about that.

when peaceful change is made impossible, what else is left but violence? Surrendering?

you wouldn’t preserve media important to you from disappearance!

just dont make this too obvious to the companies that do this if its possible, otherwise they will try to hide their bots better.

Also, is there a “tos” for open source projects, kind of like what is acceptable behavior and what is not? Directly calling out ai generated “contributions” as malicious and unwanted would at least remove the facade from them as non hostile.

Like, if someone trys to add malicious code to the project, that is definitely gainst some kind of agreement, no? So add slop to it too.

more concrete reasons for telling people why they shouldnt use google search

my main use of my bank application is for verification for government stuff, as well as managing my money without having to get on my pc. it would be really annoying to lose access to it, as with it i dont have to use the verification number table which is physical table of numbers that has to be replaced occasionally and could get lost.

didnt they drop it like decade ago?

i recommend using portmaster, its kind of extra firewall since windows default is shit. At least you’ll be able to see if something you install is connecting to internet and maybe even block it, though if you dont pay you get only 15min history data. Maybe it wont help preventing infections, but it might help mitigate damage and potentially reveal strange traffic, though i wouldnt count on it too much. Better than nothing at least.

Or if there is some other program that does the same but is better then go with that, just dont rely on default firewall imo.

key word being pretend. They will say pretty words and maybe even “donate” to some tax evasion charity, but they will be quite contently sipping expensive wine in their expensive homes while others lose theirs.

why would he? he wont be the one suffering from it, anyone he knows wont be either. Its all the lazy poor people that just refuse to pull themselves up with their bootstraps. People like that dont understand even the concept of empathy.

i think it means they want attention, when my cat did this she wanted me to pet her or go to her so she would have me follow and show she wants to go out or have some food.

I assumed she just knew how cute she is and deliberately wanted to be even more cute so i would have to come to her, which i always did precisely for that reason.

the thing is, these ‘grifters’ have insane pull on our society, even across borders. That this is even happening is result of bigger problem that should be addressed. corporations should be SEVERELY limited in their power across the globe and results of not doing so is evident all around. I think way things are going, it will either lead to things getting even worse by forcing llm to everything or there will at some point be severe backlash which likely restricts llms badly and deprives us of their positive impacts too. Or the worse case scenario is llm usage increases and things get slightly less worse, but corporations gain even bigger grip on our throats via them.

i think people who worked on llms either thought their work would geniunely make world better, or they are “just following orders” people.

if too many people know about the site, it will draw attention of the corpos too. that is why i cant fathom why some video sites i have used even tell you to share the site with other people in social media or whatnot.

at least this would create quite nice case if someone has to defend oneself in court. Either one can defend oneself with it or its dismissed and it proves that law does not apply to the rich.

majority of the applications i use are installed via f-droid. I couldnt even use my phone if i lost them. For example the default camera is piece of shit that just turns the pictures black and doesnt even have good options, while the open camera has everything one could hope for.